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

theboxerorthebag

that is hilarious!! I would need a picture of that.

norm wrote:

chiquimonkey wrote:

they all of the sudden dropped their instruments and started cabbage patching.

this would be the only time i would allow cameras! :ugeek:

chiquimonkey

norm wrote:

chiquimonkey wrote:

they all of the sudden dropped their instruments and started cabbage patching.

this would be the only time i would allow cameras! :ugeek:

wouldn't it be AWESOME? a girl can dream lol

random pic here and there i can see, but the constant viewing thru a camera escapes me. i'm too much of a spaz during the show to take a decent pic anyway

Tuolumne Mama

Doesn't anybody jam out anymore??? How the hell can you hold a camera while you're jamming?? I have my priorities and taking in the music in its entirety is one of them. I even miss the encore shot which is usually considered apropos in most venues. All that money to go home and watch it on tv instead of joining in with everyone else. I don't understand it!

Red Mosqito

whoprincess wrote:

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!

I believe the application is already available on the iPhone if I'm not mistaken.

RM

SurfingSasquatch

I remember saying to my girlfriend at the first encore break in Seattle 2 "What ever happened to holding up lighters for an encore?" as I surveyed the thousands of lit up lcd screens all around me. Bring back the lighters I say! Lighters are way more rock and roll! I was the only one with a lighter lit and I thought I might get jumped by security so I put it out. Did we all forget about the power of the flame?????

Red Mosqito

soulsinging wrote:

leopattie loves PJ wrote:

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??

This doesn't make you old, it makes you sane. I went to a Brand New show and ended up stuck behind a guy videotaping the whole thing... I guess he needed to capture the "memory" of a show he didn't actually see because he spent the whole damn thing standing stock still and looking through a viewfinder. I see that around here too... people with 500 pictures from one show... like it's more important to accumulate STUFF like more photos, videos, and bootlegs, to show off to your friends than it is to accumulate memories of being at a great show.

BINGO!! Myspace, Facebook, Twitter or whatever other social networking site that's out there are to blame for this annoying trend we're seeing now at concerts. Every time I go to a show nowadays all I see are these kids taking picture after picture all throughout the show or standing there filming every second of the concert without regard to those around them whose view they might be obstructing which is really troubling to me.

And this is coming from someone who does "get it" when it comes to being chill about these things at shows as I have been known to bring my camera to a show from time to time to snap a couple pics of my favorite musician or to capture that "special moment" on video so I do feel I understand where folks are coming from. But seriously??? all throughout the show do you need to be taking pictures...and that many?? I didn't pay my hard earned money to watch an entire PJ concert through your fucking iPhone/Blackberry/Digital camera view finder for crying out loud so get a clue folks,lol!!

When I see this happen at shows I wonder to myself if we live in a day and age where it has become socially acceptable to live our lives in these virtual environments rather than in the real world (and I'm not referring to the MTV reality TV show btw!).

RM

doompony

i don't see anything wrong with calling someone so they can hear. you don't have to hold the phone up since chances are it'll be pretty fucking loud anyways. i was front row at a powderfinger gig years ago and wanted to ring my friends in oz during a certain song. i held my phone down low, trying to hide it from view but bernie saw it, came over, picked up my phone, yelled HELLOOO or something into the phone, then gave it back to me with a big grin. so, apparently he was okay with it.

vinyltree

I agree, The Facebook generation is killing everything that is pure and true. What happened to going out to coffee to talk to someone. Now I go out to meals with people to watch them text the whole time. I talk to kids these days that have no personalities because they never develop them sitting in front of computers all day. Ya, leave you camera at home and take in the show...... smoke a j and get lost in the moment.

blondieblue227

Red Mosqito wrote:

When I see this happen at shows I wonder to myself if we live in a day and age where it has become socially acceptable to live our lives in these virtual environments rather than in the real world (and I'm not referring to the MTV reality TV show btw!).

RM

yeah like in Wall-E. the best kiddie movie i've seen in years. it has a really good message.

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redeye

leopattie loves PJ wrote:

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??

i agree, im getting old to...

Enkidu

I'd seen this thread before I went to the show last night. I get there, a short woman in front of me, hooray. She fucking videos the whole show. One hand with the camera, the other one with a cell phone. And she kept holding the camera up over her head. I thought about grabbing it and tossing it at one point but I didn't want to get kicked out of the show. Plus the guy with her was big.