Jam music and improvisational rock are all about being there, experiencing it live in the moment, with all five senses absorbed in the music and atmosphere. When one can only engage the singular sense of hearing on a CD, the re-creation always falls short of the experience itself. The Steve Kimock Band must have had this dilemma in mind with Live At the Gothic Theatre: by allowing fans to experience a recorded concert with their eyes as well as their ears, Kimock & Co. could theoretically expand the audience beyond the walls of the theater.
All of this theory, however, rests on a tricky variable
