Lock up your phone

[JChampion]

I just got back from Nashville and had the pleasure of see Jack White live at the Ascend Amphitheater. I saw him the first night and it was great. Played everything I was hoping for along with my White Stripes fav “Hello Operator”.

The thing that I didn’t think I’d like is the locking up of your phone in a yondr bag with a magnetic lock. But…
It was great. No arms and phones in your line of site plus 4 waking hours of no interruptions or the need to check in on other things. Total attention to the show. I will admit, at concerts I do try to get pics and video of certain songs. But this, I found it refreshing.

[Flex]

Yeah, I've been to a couple concerts that did that. Loved it.

[gkbill]

Hello,

I am strongly in favor of this. Too many watch their phone recording the concert during the concert.

[matedog]

Phones never bothered me. If the show is hot, phones aren’t going to be a noticeable thing. Also it’s a great opportunity to get footage of a performer you might not otherwise be able to see. I’m for bootlegging*

*non profit bootlegging

[NoMoreHugh]

How long does it take an artist / Band to fathom out that concert goers are desperate for footage of the gig as a memory. There should be a £5 added to the ticket if you want a recording after the event sent to an order address. Youtube is proof of its popularity and that people are happy with any old shitty recording its the memory of the experience they want. What are artists trying to hide there is a big market out there waiting to be taken advantage of.

A greengrocer gets annoyed that every 5 mins he has a customer asking for a fork / spade to buy and hes been moaning for years that hes just a green grocer and he only sells fruit and veg- so start selling forks / spades you foolish idiot

[revbob]

Phones never bothered me. If the show is hot, phones aren’t going to be a noticeable thing. Also it’s a great opportunity to get footage of a performer you might not otherwise be able to see. I’m for bootlegging*

*non profit bootlegging

Matey at shows

[Flex]

Phones never bothered me. If the show is hot, phones aren’t going to be a noticeable thing. Also it’s a great opportunity to get footage of a performer you might not otherwise be able to see. I’m for bootlegging*

*non profit bootlegging

In the abstract this would probably be my position, but having been to several phone-free concerts the reality is the audience engagement and atmosphere is just so, so much more incredible without phones that it meaningfully improves the experience to a point where I think it genuinely improves the value proposition of the show. Going to a concert is part of a shared collective experience with the people around you and it lessens it when almost no one is fully engaged in what's actually happening.

At bob shoes, he's notorious about cracking down on phone use, but people are still able to get good quality audience audio recordings of shoes. Pretty much every single show of his post-pandemic touring is available online in good quality. Phone bans don't prevent documentation of the live sets.

[revbob]

I'll take a few pics but that's about it. I prefer to see a show live, not thru a phone/lens.

We got a video camera after my daughter was born. My wife was always wanting me to video stuff and I would but generally hated doing it. I always felt it removed me to so.e degree from the actual experience.

[Sparky]

The phone thing doesn't bother me too much, I enjoy seeing / hearing some of the songs played after I've seen a band live.

[Low Down Low]

I'll take a few pics but that's about it. I prefer to see a show live, not thru a phone/lens.

We got a video camera after my daughter was born. My wife was always wanting me to video stuff and I would but generally hated doing it. I always felt it removed me to so.e degree from the actual experience.

Same. Few pics or shots is fine, but when folk seem to want to frame and capture every single moment for posterity, i definitely question whether they can be enjoying or savouring the experience.

Another thing that perplexes me is when I'm watching Glastonbury or some other festival on tv and the place is full of people holding and waving flags. Again, not something that might bother me unduly, i just think, "hey, what's up with all the flags?"

[Kory]

I’m only of average height, so standing behind people that are blocking my view of the stage with their fucking phone drives me to murderous rages. Take a couple pics for posterity and then put it away for the rest of the show.

[matedog]

I guess I understand the critique in theory, but I’ve never been to a show that was good and remembered a phone being out sufficiently to disengage me from the show.

[matedog]

Phones never bothered me. If the show is hot, phones aren’t going to be a noticeable thing. Also it’s a great opportunity to get footage of a performer you might not otherwise be able to see. I’m for bootlegging*

*non profit bootlegging

Matey at shows

Ha. What’s the from?

[Flex]

I guess I understand the critique in theory, but I’ve never been to a show that was good and remembered a phone being out sufficiently to disengage me from the show.

It's more a "you don't realize what you're missing out on until you experience it" thing. First time I went to one of those no-phone shows I thought it was just going to be annoying but ended up realizing how much cell phone ubiquity detracted from the overall experience

My philosophy is increasingly if I just want to watch a live concert while fucking around on my phone and not caring if anyone else around me is into it ot not, I'll just watch a concert DVD at home and save myself the cash.

[revbob]

Phones never bothered me. If the show is hot, phones aren’t going to be a noticeable thing. Also it’s a great opportunity to get footage of a performer you might not otherwise be able to see. I’m for bootlegging*

*non profit bootlegging

Matey at shows

Ha. What’s the from?

The infamous What's Happening episode where rerun is forced into bootlegging a Doobie Brothers show.



https://youtu.be/nCwJRtXMEVI