(OT) Phones at concerts

[Indabuff]

What's your opinion on people having the phone in the air to record or stream concerts?  No in between.  Yea or nay.

[TheAud]

So long as people don't hold them up in front of the person behind them more than a brief time here or there, it's fine. 

I question some of the videos people take, but whatever floats your boat. 

Attending concerts is a somewhat serious hobby of mine so I like to take a couple representative videos along with some pictures to document the show for me. I actually go back and watch them from time to time and one day (when I have time....) want to learn how to piece together videos and make montages of various concerts over the years. 

[PerreaultForever]

Kind of a moot point since your tickets are on your phone (unless you are some sort of luddite) so you're going to have it with you regardless. I never record anything, I'm an in the moment kind of person. 

[Weave]

They don’t bother me.  You do you and I’ll do me.

[That Aud Smell]

Not a binary choice for me. Generally speaking, I don’t mind them. There have been a few situations where I found someone’s use of their phone to be obnoxious.

Now, idle conversations on the other hand — those need to stop forever.

Edited Friday at 09:24 AM by That Aud Smell

[steveoath]

***** hate it. Enjoy the moment. Fortunately the gigs I play if phones are held up, someone is likely to kick it out their hand haha. 

[LGR4GM]

8 hours ago, Indabuff said:

What's your opinion on people having the phone in the air to record or stream concerts?  No in between.  Yea or nay.

Nay. You're there to experience a moment, to feel it. All your favorite artists already have music videos, no one wants yours. Live in the moment instead of worrying about a video you'll only watch 1 other time. 

[Demoted]

People pay big money for tickets just to watch the concert through the phone.

[SwampD]

3 hours ago, steveoath said:

***** hate it. Enjoy the moment. Fortunately the gigs I play if phones are held up, someone is likely to kick it out their hand haha. 

I hate it when I’m watching a show but love it when I’m playing. I usually try to get the footage (we need to come up with a new term for that.)

[Jorcus]

I guess it beats people blowing off fireworks or smoking so much that the arena was pretty much like building a fire in a chimney without opening the flue. Annoyances change with the times. 

[Hawerchuk]

11 hours ago, TheAud said:

So long as people don't hold them up in front of the person behind them more than a brief time here or there, it's fine. 

(when I have time....) want to learn how to piece together videos and make montages of various concerts over the years. 

I feel the same. If you want to take a short video or a couple pics, no problem at all. But doing it for all or most of the show is pretty annoying.

If you have a Mac computer, iMOVIE is a great and easy program with a very small learning curve to splice and collage your vids and pics together all in one movie. Give it a try.

[shrader]

I’m going to be up close on the floor for a Pearl Jam show next month. I’ll snap a couple shots at times, but I have zero interest in taking a video at any point. 

[Mango]

I don't mind people using their phones to take a quick picture or to use them to replace 'tapers'. But I do hate looking out into the crowd and everybody watching the concert through their phones.

We (including myself) have become too reliant. Even addicted. A few months ago I realized that I wasn't even getting through a 30 minute episode of something without picking up my phone to aimlessly scroll. We have now turned off the captions and when we sit down to watch something put our phones in the other room. TV was meant to be watched and heard, not read and glanced at. 

It has been really good for us. We talk more and get way more involved in what we are watching. 

[mjd1001]

5 hours ago, Mango said:

I don't mind people using their phones to take a quick picture or to use them to replace 'tapers'. But I do hate looking out into the crowd and everybody watching the concert through their phones.

We (including myself) have become too reliant. Even addicted. A few months ago I realized that I wasn't even getting through a 30 minute episode of something without picking up my phone to aimlessly scroll. We have now turned off the captions and when we sit down to watch something put our phones in the other room. TV was meant to be watched and heard, not read and glanced at. 

It has been really good for us. We talk more and get way more involved in what we are watching. 

Ok, we don't go to concerts that much anymore. Maybe 1 or 2 at an arena every 5 years, and on average 1 to 2 per year at Artpark.  But I have this argument with my wife all the time.

She insists on recording as much of the concert on her phone as possible.  I mean its not a big argument, she can do what she wants, but I always ask her why?  There are hundreds, maybe thousands of other people who record the concerts and post them you can watch online, and more importantly many professionals with better locations record the bands we are seeing that, when she watches them after are much better than her recording.  I want to know from her, isn't the point of going to the concert to see and hear it live...to have the memory of that? not the memory of watching it through your phone screen? 

The kicker is, I don't think she ever re-watches any of them.  She downloads the clips from her phone to her computer, transfers them to a portable hard drive, and those drives are packed away in a closet someplace.

I guess to each their own.

And as far as your point about not being able to get away from the phone, an examples were were talking about:

-We have season tickets to Sheas for the musicals/plays. I go to some of them with my wife (some we give the tickets to family members) and I noticed last weekend that so many people are on their phones leading up to the show starting, and then when it starts, there are still some people that have to finish that text, have to read that social, have to finish that game that they have their phone open a minute or so into the show.  Then intermission, those who don't get up to take a walk (like me) or go to the restroom, I'd say more than 50% are on their phones.  When I got back from my walk, just the 2 rows in front of us, there were people my age (middle age), a younger couple, and a LOT of senior citizens. More than half on their phone. Even the 80+ year old woman, she's on her phone, not talking to the people she is with but scrolling away.

Again, to each their own. 

[PromoTheRobot]

I want to be able to capture some moments of a show. I don't record all of it like some folks.

[Pimlach]

I don’t think about this. I enjoy the show my way.