Ok, I must be getting "old": concert peeve

leopattie loves PJ

I went to the Seattle I and Portland shows last week, and just have to vent a bit about what has become my concert pet peeve....

The video takers.

The constant holding up of the camera, watching the entire concert thru the little viewer in the back.

I know, I know - we all want to see a picture or several from the show. Yes, I have taken some pictures at concerts!
But what happens to your actual experience of being at the show and just watching it?
Are we to the point where we can't just watch the show live and have the actual memories without video "proof" of the concert? Does everyone have to have their video for utube or facebook?

So this is the part where I offer up that it may just be a generational difference, hmm? Do I just need to get over the camera screen lights that are freakin' everywhere??

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

its not generational. my mom tries to film everything. it gets on my nerves. just enjoy the moment. but she does anyway.

if people want to film i dont care though. as long as they arent in my way!

Grandmas Jam

i think the derogatory term sluggo should be used more .... especially to people filming over my head.....i get it I'm short, thanks for letting everyone around me know that too lol

wolfbear

I agree, but, it is a rock concert so anything goes imo. I'd like to think that PJ fans are over the spilling beer, puking, pushing, being rude, holding up their arms taking endless pics/videos, but I don't think so. It's just one of many hazards at a show. Sometimes you're lucky and aren't subjected and other times not. Still great to be there though! I look at it as just all part of the experience.

blondieblue227

put down the camera and jam the hell out!

i agree
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PJ73

I agree, and I also agree that I'm getting old...

The video taking doesn't affect my enjoyment of the show, but I do find it an interesting phenomenon. When I saw U2 in 2005, I was behind the stage, and everyone in the front row spent most of the concert staring through their cell phone cameras. I was thinking, you know, they're right there! Enjoy the moment.

But maybe it's like that line from Clockwork Orange - "It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. "


PJ73

Hugh Freaking Dillon

It really bugs me when the people in front of me or near me have their phones out the whole time, texting their friends about how that last song rocked or how hot the lead singer is, yadda yadda yadda. That big bright screen is fucking distracting. WTF are you texting for? Go out for a beer after the show and chat about it.

My Dad was at a show last week where the guy sitting next to him was on his phone texting constantly. My Dad asked him to stop, because the screen was bright and distracting in a dark venue. The guy gave him a weird look, and a few mintues later the guy had switched seats with his woman and began texting again, like it was MY DAD that was the annoying one.

Sometimes, with regards to the talking, I just want to tell the person to STFU and listen to the music. What are you there for?

Luckily, the venue in my city (MTS Centre) employ their own photographers, and post pics of all shows on their website within days of the shows. And you can download them all. It's pretty wicked.

Eddieredder

I'm definitely getting old. Earlier this year we were listening to my iPod at work and a co-worker asked me for a good list of "classic" rock bands. By classic rock he meant Poison and Motley Crue era bands. The Who and Led Zeppelin were "really really old".

Its a technology thing and its generational. I didn't have a cell phone at my first concert. If I did it would have been huge. No texting. No camera. It would be weird and strange for the younger generation NOT to have these things.

Get used to it. Its going to get worse before it gets better. The day will come when people will hold their cell phones in the air with a virtual lighter application running.

doompony

Oh i dunno.....filming the whole thing may be distracting, but one song aint so bad is it? I remember coming home from Cat Power.. and I had managed to get all of Rambling Woman... and it was surreal to see it again. that said i wasn't holding it up (i was front row) and I wasn't watching through the viewfinder.. hence the camera drifting off in the wrong direction from time to time.



I do fucking detest talkers. I told a douchebag at Liam Finn the other week to shut the fuck up. never done that before.

stuartrdr

Hmm maybe I'll stop pulling my phone out to write down the setlist. I don't want to be a blight to others.... :P

Zod

I hate this too, but only because people hold the camera over their heads with both arms, thereby obstructing your view of the stage, and you can only watch it through their viewfinder on their camera.

its much more annoying when you're on the floor, because its harder to look around the obstruction, if your in the wings you can look over it.

analog camera's never used to have displays on them, so people had to look through the viewfinder, which prevent this from happening.

I'm a pretty tall guy.. and at the first seattle show, a guy 5 rows ahead of me who I couldn't see through in the first place, would hold his camera up for a whole song while videoing it. I wouldn't be able to see the whole middle of the stage.. its was annoying as hell.

They should go back to banning cameras

Who Princess

Eddieredder wrote:

Its going to get worse before it gets better. The day will come when people will hold their cell phones in the air with a virtual lighter application running.

My husband predicted they'd start making cell phones with that someday!

TDMize15

Eddieredder wrote:

I'm definitely getting old. Earlier this year we were listening to my iPod at work and a co-worker asked me for a good list of "classic" rock bands. By classic rock he meant Poison and Motley Crue era bands. The Who and Led Zeppelin were "really really old".

Its a technology thing and its generational. I didn't have a cell phone at my first concert. If I did it would have been huge. No texting. No camera. It would be weird and strange for the younger generation NOT to have these things.

Get used to it. Its going to get worse before it gets better. The day will come when people will hold their cell phones in the air with a virtual lighter application running.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH8QxlkfcOw

dustinpardue

I don't care what other people do. I don't mind the video people because those usually go up on youtube to enjoy again

surfanddestroy

It bugs me when they are right in front of me and all I can see is their darn camera.

I always take my camera to shows but usually always forget to use it, I just get into the moment and forget about taking pictures.

Spags

Unless you are in the front row don't bother.

Sprunkn7

Yeah, hate it. I'm 5'3 and when the person in front of me holds up the camera or the phone all night I'm pretty much screwed.

josevolution

I don't pay attention to anyone but the band on stage, besides from my vantage point i really don't get any one in front of me that can block my view ..

ZiggyStar

josevolution wrote:

I don't pay attention to anyone but the band on stage, besides from my vantage point i really don't get any one in front of me that can block my view ..

Yeah yeah brag brag

HIwide

Should this perhaps be the real reason for "cameras and recording equipment prohibited?"

weekapaug19

Eddieredder wrote:

I'm definitely getting old. Earlier this year we were listening to my iPod at work and a co-worker asked me for a good list of "classic" rock bands. By classic rock he meant Poison and Motley Crue era bands. The Who and Led Zeppelin were "really really old".

Its a technology thing and its generational. I didn't have a cell phone at my first concert. If I did it would have been huge. No texting. No camera. It would be weird and strange for the younger generation NOT to have these things.

Get used to it. Its going to get worse before it gets better. The day will come when people will hold their cell phones in the air with a virtual lighter application running.

several years ago at a U2 show (I think it was them) they told everybody to take out their phones instead of a lighter