I'm with Brian, too.
Here's my philosophy:
With a perfect mix in the room, perfectly placed and perfectly configured microphones, and perfectly set levels on your microphone preamplifier, no EQ, compression, normalization, etc will be needed (or at least very very little). However, this is almost never the case... Although we can set up our microphones and make a recording of exactly what it sounds like where those mics are sitting, that recording may not be a great representation of the music that was played. The microphones may be placed in a location where the sound isn't great (at the back), where there are vast differences between the sound levels of different instruments (drums and keys at the stage lip), where there is something being recorded in addition to the music (drunk loudmouths, loud clappers, loud talkers, A/C vent, fans), or where the sound and mix is simply different than what you are hearing (sound engineers create the mix in the room to be listened to at head level, not 15 feet in the air...the lack of all those heads disrupting, diffusing, and absorbing certain frequencies means the mix and sound is different 15 feet up than it is at head level...sometimes better, sometimes worse, but almost always different in some way).
A recording made in the live environment may be a great, or even perfect representation of what it sounded like in the location that the recording was made, but that may or may not make for a great representation of the music was played and how it should be heard. And this is where we often find ourselves wondering how much post-production we should do to a recording. This is a personal choice, and I don't think you should do anything where the result is overly noticeable, but I'll accept some post-production on a recording if it improves the listening experience without killing the music. That's the trick. I don't see this as being that far from mixing AUD and SBD, or multitracking....nowhere in the room did a live show sound like the results of an AUD+SBD mix, but we make such recordings all the time and when done well we like the results because of the improved listening experience, without killing the live feeling of the recording.