Well, I guess I'm guilty of lip-syncing in my past. In the late '60s when I lived in Dallas (for a few years) I sang with the Dallas Civic Chorus. One of our regular gigs was to do the Nat'l Anthem at the beginning of the Cowboys' football games, then in the old Cotton Bowl. Because it's hard to sing in a large stadium with all its reverb, we recorded our singing, so when we stepped up on the risers and our conductor raised his baton, it was all lip-syncing. Once when the tape was cued too early we really had to jump in fast. After the game, someone would always compliment me on the singing, but I had to be honest and tell them our secret.

But I much prefer to listen to live recordings rather than studio-polished over-dubbed stuff. And the same goes with video.

Cheers, S. in Seattle