How much of live performances today would you say are auto tuned, pitch corrected, or mime

I remember when they critical of Axl Rose for having teleprompters and bands these days are in singing. It's sad what has happened to music in the last 25 years

Those types of show though people aren’t going for the talent of the artist, they’re going for the “show”. Katy Perry lip syncing wouldn’t bother most people at her show, as most people wouldn’t even know, while a rock band crowd would definitely care.

That being said, I agree with your opinion on auto tune and lip sync

It's not just the vocals.

YouTubed a Rick Beato video yesterday where a music critic was slammin pitch perfect as being detrimental to our musical progression. His take was that starting with Pythagoras dividing up sound into precise scales, we as people had progressed to do away with anything else, until untrained (and largely ethnic) musicians started bending and slurring notes to achieve 'new' sound. And once we heard this off centered sound it so resonated us that the Blue's, Jazz, and Rock-n-Roll was created.

His take was that cultures all over the world had no concept of pitch perfect. To the point new musical conventions had to be developed in order to map out this music. As well as the altered timing of off-beat intervals. And that this was not just a (quote) black thing but found worldwide in non-westernized music.

He was selling the idea that our latest fad of correcting music was a part of what was driving down creativity, and sales, and it showed up in polling of younger generations lowered ranking of music's importance in their lives. Just one part of course. link

Saw Grand Funk RR several years ago and there were guitar sounds that obviously were not being played by Mark Farner. We moved around close to the stage and saw a guitar player behind the curtain. It was Farner’s brother.

The vast majority. In addition, most are playing to tracks whether that be backing vocals, strings or additional parts.

I dare to say 90% of the Bro Country acts from McGraw to Wallen are using pitch correction.

Saw ZZ Top recently. There was a big drum roll to kick off a song, but Frank Beard was wiping his forehead with a handkerchief when it was played.

Its too easy to get away with nowadays, technology has made it easy to hit a button for everything you need.

Generations are born and people don't know any better.

Thats why you have rappers who write down words and walk around thinking they are musical geniuses

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Saw Grand Funk RR several years ago and there were guitar sounds that obviously were not being played by Mark Farner. We moved around close to the stage and saw a guitar player behind the curtain. It was Farner’s brother.

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Was it being passed off as Farner's playing?

It's not like he's not an outstanding guitarist in his own right.

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Saw ZZ Top recently. There was a big drum roll to kick off a song, but Frank Beard was wiping his forehead with a handkerchief when it was played.

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Sad and lame. I would prefer chicken shite to chicken salad if that is all the chicken can produce that day.

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None of phish, the dead offshoots, billy strings, panic, etc or any of the other jam/grass/americana bands use prerecorded sounds on stage unless they are delivered via an instrument played by a band member. Authenticity is the reason they are popular live shows

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And I would just have to look into whether or not they are doing zero pitch correction of the vocals, then.

And, I concede that many bands will record their own sweetening "backing track" (if they're using them, whether vocals, instrumental or what have you) and that using one's own recorded material live isn't particularly dishonest. Depends on how much they rely on this stuff.