[Ads-l] "Live recorded"

[Laurence Horn]

Reminds me of the old notice on TV shows that were "Recorded before a live
studio audience". Although in this case, it's doubtful that anyone would
have suspected canned audience applause.  (Maybe they could throw in some
mistimed canned applause between movements just for verisimilitude.)

LH

On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 6:38 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Dan. I don't have a problem with the expression, just wondered if
> there was an equivalent I was missing out on.
>
> Mark
>
> On Sun, May 8, 2022, 4:38 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Like it or not, "live recorded" is the industry phrase used to contrast
> > with "studio (recorded)", eg, a "live (recorded) album" v a "studio
> album".
> >
> > On Sun, May 8, 2022, 2:36 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From the WRTI app, for radio station WRTI 90.1 in Philadelphia and the
> > > surrounding area; the descriptive crawl under NOW PLAYING (and still
> > there
> > > as I write this):
> > >
> > > The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert
> > > Join us on Sunday afternoons to hear our very own "Fabulous
> > Philadelphians"
> > > in live recorded concerts from Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center.
> > >
> > > "Live recorded" is a preposed adjective phrase corresponding to
> "recorded
> > > live". But it looks like an oxymoron, which causes me to wonder if
> > there's
> > > any equivalent suitable for colloquial speech?
> > >
> > > Mark Mandel
> >
> >
>
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