Films and recorded music can be wonderful, but live performances alway have the possibility of being something more. Live performances can make a connection between audience and performer that just isn't possible in a recording. Even a recording of a live performance doesn't do it - in fact, for me, "live" recordings don't satisfy like a studio recording.

I have to say that I don't usually make that connection when I'm doing a serious song, but I do feel that "click" of connection often when I do the silly ones. I make a deep, spiritual connection with seventh graders when I sing "A Chat With Your Mother" (The F-Word Song). I make a connection with everybody when I can get them up to do "Singin' in the Rain" with me, with motions and hip undulations...

And once you've made that connection, you crave it.

-Joe Offer, singer of camp songs-