r/Concerts:

u/TooFartTooFurious

Same. Been doing it 15 years. Wouldnt recommend.
u/TooFartTooFurious

OK, exceptions for different-abilities and physical limitations aside whats your point? Edit: Other than jumping to pretty broad judgement of what was a reasonable take by me.
u/TooFartTooFurious

As someone who works in the concert industry Im mostly past getting annoyed by anyone who has their phone out to record the concert. Now I get to muse on what causes people to have it out THE ENTIRE TIME and how they use the phone to experience their own life as it is happening to them. A few months ago, at the venue I manage, we hosted a rapper with a fairly young, affluent fan base. I kid you not, 40-50% of the crowd had their phones outfilming the showfrom start to finish. Some of them were ONLY experiencing the show through their phones. Watching it there but hearing the PA. Sure kids, or whatever. I just think that when you reach a point at which your phone is how you experience a live event you could do better. For yourself. Put it away and live your damn life. Nobody is going to care about your fleeting Insta story or your multitudinous video posts, attempts to share shaky video that mostly features the ceiling of the room or the backs of other peoples heads. Its cringe. Regardless of who is doing it. Its cringe. Its exemplary of the paradoxical turn weve made AWAY from immediacy in so many odd cases. The phone as go-between for your experience of an in-person event thats crazy man. Its usually the smartphone that creates immediacy, putting so so much of the world at your fingertips. It really is fascinating to me that anyone would choose to buffer their own, immediately available life experience through a slab of glass, plastic and pixels. It is so very foreign to me.
u/TooFartTooFurious

I agree as long as were talking about the seat behind me.
u/JC_Everyman

PHISH
u/JC_Everyman

I think Ric was slamming H at that point