When it just doesn't sound good...

LOL... I just had that experience with some friends playing in the park...

I said, "Love it! Bongo player has to lose the sticks though."

 

My drummer came up with a good response in a similar situation. She simply said - "it looks like you guys were having fun".

Seemed to do the trick - nothing else needed to be said.

 

We did one of those about a month ago at a friend of the band studio. It sounded killer in the studio and his playbacks sounded good. Listening to the live feed playback on Facebook, the sound wasn’t good at all. Those things are hard to get right.

 

The whole quarantine jam thing is fine- For the musicians. Face it, nobody really wants to hear them, no matter how good, but we do because it's usually our friends. My good friends have a smokin hot band, a huge following, and make great quarantine Jams, but their number of hits on youtube almost exactly matches the number of 'friends' on FB. We are just being polite.
Keep making them, gets our tech chops up, but they are in a different dimension from playing live.

 

"I saw bits and pieces of it, but my dial-up connection doesn't do well with your baud rate."

 

It depends, most people I will just say some platitude. Real friends I would tell them if there is a real problem.

 

"Hey did you see our FB-Live broadcast from venue X?".

Simply say, "I'm not one Facebook."

 

In your best drunk bar guy voice say "You're the best band I ever heard man".

 

i don't think it's difficult to say something positive or encouraging about someone else's honest effort(s). i also don't have any problem being forthright in a critique.

what do people do, and how are they supposed to think, when they give themselves more than two choices for a response?

 

I’m too grumpy to be nice.
Ya....i didn’t watch....Sorry.