? about full electric bands and backing tracks

[slewis]

Originally Posted by MikeBmusic

Rush = small-time??

Todd's tour consists of two girl singer-dancers plus a 'DJ', so no question he was saving money compared ot dragging a full band around, he's playing the usual <500 seat venues to less than full houses. Cheap Trick is, well ... Cheap Trick. They've never toured with any more than a 4-man band, but they tour a lot to 1000-2000 seat venues these days.

Mike, for the record, I consider all the bands I named/referred to to be big, very-well-known names, regardless of the size of venue they may be playing these days, and definitely was being sarcastic. I'd expect performers at this level to never use anything but live musicians in a performance.