>>126842167 (OP)The answer is obviously yes. A song tends to wear out its welcome in the process of recording it, because it requires an annoying amount of precision to get it right. Depending on the genre, you may be really limited to playing the song in a certain way over and over again, and this will have predictable effects. The audience can help with that though, assuming you've written a song people love. Standing on stage and having a lot of people sing your song is a pretty powerful drug even if you're really fucking bored. Ideally you're playing a kind of music where you can improvise some, change the key, etc., so you're less likely to get over it quickly.