Rock PING
I have recorded during a show and yes you miss the experience of the show....unless you have a tripod,
This made me break out laughing. What a sad generation. They could be stoned, baked or hammered. Instead they just use up bandwidth. Sad.
My son just went to a concert and he and everyone around him were filming. They do it for fun like tourists taking photos. It says “I am here!”
The quality is never that great. I do not believe viewing these replaces being there.
Afew concerts I’ve been to you can not have any type of cameras phone or regular. Two of the last ones were zz top and gov’t mule.
I’m going to my first concert in years next Friday - Muse in Oklahoma City. I might snap a pic or two on my iPhone, but I won’t waste time recording any video. I can’t wait to see the show. Gotta thank Glenn Beck for turning me on to them. Judging from the concert videos and I’ve watched them all, one of the best live acts ever.
Lovely sentiment to live (or die) by.
I don't have a problem with recording during a concert. Instead of a T-shirt they capture a moment. They'd be happier if the audience spent their money on merchandize for a memory but I'd rather have a moment in time I could revisit whenever I wanted to rather then a shirt I'll never wear.
I can't agree with comparing a concert to an illusionist act. The illusionist relies on mystery. Taken out of the moment can ruin the magic trick. A musician or singer creates an auditory experience you can enjoy even while looking through a tiny lens.
Seems these recorder types are really not experiencing the experience, purpose of the entertainment or able to communicate to others their lives very well. So what they attempt to do is document how important they are within their epoch...similar to taking pictures in front of a mirror.
Interesting points, these artists would be smart to not restrict nor encourage this; it’s a cheap version of marketing or a form of in channel advertising. I’ve seen many of these pirated flicks, all worthless. The only thing these artists should prevent is use of professional recording equipment, having undisturbed and fixed location well above the show floor.
Thanks to TV, the Internet, the cellphones and other electronic toys, people forgot how to experience the here now. The jerky amateur videos on Youtube are more real than the actual experience of being at a show. Virtual reality defeats reality.
Spoken like a true Rocker :)
At the concert venue I worked at one of the biggest pains for guest services was keeping audience members from recording. We would tell them before they came in, then the ushers inside had to get on them if they started. Same with pictures. Many times the guests seemed not to understand this was not our rule, but the performer’s.
Case in point, I went to a night launch of the Shuttle a few years ago. I set it to wide angle & just kind of panned it upward without looking through the viewfinder. The result was REALLY bad video, and the view in Hi-Def from NASA cameras put it to shame. The viewfinder isolates and removes the cameraman from the reality of the moment.
On the other-hand, I went to a lot of concerts in the ‘70’s and always brought along my trusty Sony TC-40, the same model recorder that went to the Moon on Apollo missions.
I usually smuggled it into the venues by hiding it in the small of my back. Its all glorious mono cassette sound, but I have a record of many great live performances that I still listen to to this day.