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phones at shows?

DeathInFire
Wed, 19/11/2014 - 02:52

i'm sure this topic has been brought up before but i searched and couldn't find a thread for it. i'm curious as to what your general opinion is of people filming or taking pictures during shows?

for me personally, i used to take a lot of videos to try and "re-capture the night" but i got tired of it after a while. sure, maybe a picture or two but i'd rather buy a shirt from the show and have it be a memory of a good night rather than watching 10 seconds of it on my phone. i don't really care if other people are doing it but i just feel like something's lost that way.


Symbolic692's picture

I used to record a a few songs each show and I like having that to look back at but unless you have a nice video recorder the quality is shit. Now I don't do it very often but I don't care what others do at shows, if someone wants to record let them. Although if you're right in front of the stage not headbanging and recording the whole concert on your phone that is a little annoying give someone who's living the moment the spot.

slayerslayer's picture

simply , NO . dont fuckin do it . there will always be some arsehole , in this digital age, that will record it at the expense of everyone elses experience. and youll be able to look at it on whatever your favourite uploaded video site within 48hrs.

btw im the arsehole that bangs into you while youre making that perfect bootleg vid , on your phone.

Lyx's picture

this

meaningless's picture

cchheerrrssss..hehe!

minejumper's picture

I salute you.

Rotten's picture

I take a couple of pics - but that's it. I'm there to watch a band live, not through my screen

MaxPerv's picture

I saw Doug Stanhope last night. He was fucking great...
He threw out this group of people in the front row who were filming him, and he cracked the shits warning them several times, then they argued "Awww fucking hell, Come on!" and he just lost it and had the whole group of five escorted out of the venue before he would continue. It was classic!
His act was great.... I've listened to his live recordings so many times, but seeing him in the flesh was the ultimate! No phone needed!!!

MasterDeath's picture

When I attend the concert with my gf, we usually go to the 1st row and she takes some pictures while I protect her. If we're not in the 1st row she doesn't take pictures and we just enjoy the concert. It's nice to have some pictures from the event though, so we can look at them in few decades and remember the good times. But when I'm alone on the event I use the max from the mosh pit and the concert in general, I never take photos. You enter the area with more than 2‰ in your blood and leave with 0‰, sweaty as fuck with the dalmatian look-alike body.

MasterDeath's picture

Haha! We will meet again!

RavenEffect's picture

MOSH OR DIE!!!! Cheers fellow Moshmonger!

MasterDeath's picture

MOSH OR BE MOSHED! Cheers dude!

dubtribe's picture

I only take one pic of every band at a gig, mostly at the first song they play, so I can enjoy the rest of the show ... that's it. Just for me to remember ( you have to do this at a certain age hehe )

SAATANANVITTU's picture

If you take pictures & film all the time, I think it is a bit as if you weren't really there since you only see the show through the screen. A few pics and a short video is okay though, for a memory, as long as your camera/phone is not in front of someone else's face and you don't use others' shoulders as an arm rest. Texting during a gig is another thing though... I saw Cancer and a girl in the front row barely raised her head from her phone a few times. Same happened with Venom. If you don't give a shit about the gig and would rather text, give your spot to someone else.

MasterDeath's picture

I absolutely agree with you! Now when you mentioned Venom you remembered me of one tall dude who was photographing/filming the Venom concert. I was behind my gf and that guy started to lean on me, I thought he was trying to get some photos so I let him to take one or two. I was wrong then, he was filming the show and someone pushed him (while people were running around moshing) on my girlfriend and he scratched her face with his elbow. I punched him, grabbed his arm and told him to go film somewhere else. He left immediately. I have never and will never bother another person during the concert. Except the ones who are asking for it.
We took only 2 or 3 photos of Cronos in red leather gear haha. Great Venom show!

SAATANANVITTU's picture

Well, I think he got what he deserved. This girl during Venom was standing somewhere behind me and my boyfriend, and she was looking at Facebook on her phone for the whole show. When the bombs went off, she looked up for a second and went like "whiiiuuuuu" which was pretty comical but I think she should've just stayed home!

MasterDeath's picture

whiiiuuuuu hahah, yeah I saw these kind of people many times. Texting, taking photos, immediately put them on facebook and chatting with people how awesome is the concert... Plain stupid.

Daniel Sodomaniac's picture

Hahaha that made me laugh hahaha, thank you for that :)!

SAATANANVITTU's picture

Hahaha it was pretty funny, but yeah, there are a lot of people who'd really want to be at the gig so it is pretty selfish/stupid!

Nater90's picture

I think I want to cry....I'd kill to see Venom live, That's fucking pathetic :|

PForx's picture

I never do that. I fucking hate it when people are standing in front of me, filming the band. It blocks my view, and they become super pissed if you even slightly bump into them (because your stupid cell phone recording was sooo great, and not at all shaky to begin with). And why aren't they just watching the fucking band?! I just want to take their phones and throw them in the pit. And if there is no pit, I'll fucking start one and then throw their phones in it.

satanachist's picture

against that and I hate when I see people doing that, holding cameras or phones on concerts, especially those in the first rows

Daniel Sodomaniac's picture

I hate it, ok take a few photos but people who tapes a whole 5 min song or more should be hunted down and destroyed.

meaningless's picture

ur lucky with 5mins..i can remember a Morbid Angel show..i think 2 years back, in Ljubljana as a girl infront of me was filming the WHOLE Morbid Angel gig....god damn it...ppffff

kertalaaki's picture

+1 This

Judas Priestess's picture

I never bother recording at shows, I don't like to hold my camera up for very long. I'm there to watch the show LIVE not tape the entire thing to watch it only a few times after. I usually take a few photos of each band that I'm interested in but that's it. I feel uncomfortable taking those few pics anyways and typically get it out of the way during the first song, but I like to have some sort of physical memory of the live performances.

I hate those people that have their phone/camera in front of them the entire time of the concert. Why even bother paying for a ticket just to record the whole time when you can stay home and watch someone else's crappy videos haha.

joecubbie's picture

I take pics during a new song or a song I don't like and that's it. I think it's good to have a couple pics from the show because then what would be the purpose of actionshots haha? The people who tape the whole show are idiots because why would you be paying $$$ to watch a live show on a 10 inch screen?

VoiceOfTheSoul's picture

I can't fucking stand it.

During Carcass a few weeks ago I almost lost my cool and slapped some guys phone out of his hand. I don't have a problem with snapping some quick pics or a short video, but after that I lose my patience with some fuckers arms in my view for more than 15-20 seconds in the middle of the song

Satan's Finest's picture

I have been so close to doing that so many times when someone starts recording...

judascrust's picture

i go to shows to support the bands and hang out with my friends, no big deal....i don't care about impressing people with pics/videos to prove where i was on any given night and if something happens worth remembering, i'll remember it haha.... no one i know would care anyway and the few who might are probably already standing next to me or playing at the show so there's my 2 cents on that :/

Plague's picture

A few pics are fine, and maybe recording 1 fave song, otherwise pointless to be watching the whole show through ur small screen. I'd rather experience the show, not save it for later.

Hárbarðr's picture

I hate it, i never take any pictures, let alone film it, even in the smallest shows there's some zine dude taking professional pictures that you can check a couple days later, and even if there weren't any, i want to actually "live" the show, that's why i'm there.
And for a memory, tour shirts work fine.

Freese's picture

welll said...!

usually there are even more than enough photographers, keeping you off from headbanging, especially in the first row(s) :(

Hárbarðr's picture

Yes, that sucks! But here they usually leave after the first couple songs, so it is not so bad :)

meaningless's picture

on some shows..i take the camera with me..to make some pics. i never do it with the phone...i never took vids with the handy or the camera...it drives me nuts. I dont mind ppl takeing some pics, no matter if using a camera or a phone..but this vid's...god damn it...
but i have noticed - as smaller the gig is...less phones u can see vs. more maniacs u can see!..thats why i rly prefer the small club gigs over big gigs..

Freese's picture

i made really different experiences...
i was at gigs in small clubs with definitely about half of the people having their phones up in the air,
that wouldn't really matter if it was open air and in the afternoon, but
in a small club with only dim light it ruins the show in most, might even all cases, espescially when there is some special thing going on on stage or when the singer or band members get off the stage to perform in the audience, then the musicians get blinded by a furious flash light attack and the stage or even the whole club turns into a football stadium...

that are the moments when i am in urgent need of a mosh pit to forget about my rage... haha

Nater90's picture

I only take a few pics, Don't do videos.

BeefCakeAssThrash's picture

I have a small camera with me at festivals. I only sometimes take a shot or two during bands I really like and I love making pics of backdrops when the band hasn't taken the stage yet, because I think it has something atmospheric haha. Also, I'd rather have some fun pics of me and some friends at the festival when we're waiting for bands, for instance.
I'm generally annoyed by people taking pics of every fucking movement or filming the entire set..

RavenEffect's picture

There has been a few shows that I REALLY Wanted to take a picture but I just got caught in the action that I completely forgot. It's way cooler that way because, let's face it, if you want to look at show pictures you're going to check out the band's/promoter facebook or some local magazine that covered the gig with a professional Photographer whose pics are WAY better than yours.

I think it's fine to bring a camera to take pictures with your friends before and after the show or, if you're lucky to catch some band member that doesnt mind taking a pic.

oldmate's picture

fuck phones. I dont get it. Watch the band.

too many people watch the band via the phone. your not going to enjoy some fucking clips of it. Enjoy the show, get a tee for memories and keep the phone in the pocket!

I like what metallica do. You can get all their shows as mp3. smart move by them thats for sure!

Vombatus's picture

Absolutely hate it (a pic or two at the beginning is quite acceptable probably). But technically I don't care what others do as long as the screen aren't in my line of sight. If someone behind me is stupid enough to films for half an hour, couldn't care less.

Is it really important ? You usually have professional photographers and sometimes even video excerpts all over the internet a couple of days later with good quality, so why waste your time with your shitty iphone annoying everyone ? Enjoy the moment, not the memory.

minejumper's picture

Fuck recording, fuck taking 1000 pictures, 2 or 3 pics are ok, almost all bootleg videos are shit, If I want to see a video of the concert there is almost always some made by the band or the band crew which have way more quality than almost any bootleg, and about pics...vivid memories and personal anecdotes are way better, my regular memento is my ticket and that's almost always good enough for me, I rather remember how much of a good time I had in a gig than regretting how much time I wasted like an idiot trying to take thousands of shitty pics and even shittier videos.

mad_submarine's picture

My phone records as good a sound as a box with bees. I rarely even bother to take pictures of the band, maybe unless it's someone I really really really like.

cmorales88's picture

I say if you can get good shots, take pictures!
But don't stand there and record a 5 minute song when you're just gonna delete it later (especially if their standing right in front of me) >_>

Yoschi29's picture

I don't take videos but if I really like a band I take some pictures of them with a small digicam. But at our local pub where also bands play live (mostly metal bands \m/) I'm one of the photographers, means I take pictures with my DSLR of the first few songs, after that I put away my camera and start enjoying the show.

Pan's picture

It's a weird situation. I can honestly say that I hate it, and will usually never do it, but sometimes photographic memory is nice.. Maybe one or two pictures for memories, but usually before anyone goes on stage and if I'm not blocking anyone's view . . . like a "I was here at this concert!" but otherwise I get as close to the band as possible and get beat up in the pit. You're in an environment where it is okay to hit and be hit and you do not get arrested for it, why not take advantage of it?

DevilzForce's picture

''does that phone fly?''
-uhm...no?
''it will in a bit if you don't put it away soon....''
-oh.....

there you go ! my personal answer to having a phone up in front of me the entire fucking time while i'm trying to enjoy the show i paid good money for ;)

Satan's Finest's picture

Might have to steal this for when I'm being tempted to slap people's phones out of their hands.

kereealazer's picture

A few pictures are fine, maybe a quick video from your favourite song, but put it away after that. I hate when people just have their phones out the whole show. I hope the pit gets real and they drop and lose it. You should be watching a show if you're there not through the damn phone camera. This is even worse at not Metal shows because there is no pit so all the people have there phones out. I hate it.

DeathRipper's picture

Like others have said, a few pictures are fine, but when someone's just standing there is annoying.

TStorm's picture

Same here, maybe a couple of pics, perhaps one song recorded. But whenever I do record/take pictures, I will make an effort to walk toward the back of the venue (if its a club with relative freedom of movement) to not get in peoples way. So usually, I'll only be taking pictures of some opening acts and when I'm up front for the main act I usually wont get my phone out.

What really pisses me the fuck off is when theres people standing in the crowd on their phone, not even taking pictures but just going on whatsapp and stuff. Theres a fucking band playing! What the hell are they thinking??

torventor's picture

A few pics yeah sure. But film tor more than one song? Get the fuck outta here. Only thing worse is some fuck knuckle that decides to put his girlfriend on his shoulders. Then said fuck knuckle wonders why his missus copped a can of beer to the back of her head....

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