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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
Fuck yeah. About time somebody as the BALLS to enforce 1990s art/music etiquette. I am SO FUCKING SICK of going to shows and have to look over the tops of several hundred cell-phones recording the show and snapping pictures endlessly. Its like, "Dude, really, is it THAT fucking important for you to get a grainy, shit-sounding 45 second video clip of each song?" I admit, I have relished in some epically great YouTube bootlegs of some great live shows, but honestly, those are one person out of the several hundred recording. In other words, professional kind of bootleggers who would have pulled it off in the 1990s just the same. Propz to The Stone for sticking to their guns and telling phones/cameras to FUCK OFF. Lets respect the show, lets actually ENJOY the MOMENT rather than live for recording it. Lets treasure OUR ACTUAL MEMORIES rather than wasting the opportunity to develop some memories by trying to record every damned thing. When I first started going to shows in the 1990s, simply put, if you took a camera out, THEY'D CONFISCATE IT. Even worse if you were trying to video/audio record the show, they'd kick you the fuck out for that, if not worse! Bands used to get seriously offended at bootlegging, and further, I think everybody trying to be the concert photographers absolutely KILLS the mood. Fuck that. The Stone is setting a great example, I only wish other venues would follow.
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I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said. In the past few years I've seen Dylan, Cat Power, The Nels Cline Singers, Fred Frith, Springsteen, Television, The Breeders, Kurt Vile and of course Sonic Youth, Chelsea Light Moving (before they had the name) and my man Lee R. & The Dust, and there's nothing, nothing more wretched than the PUTRID OCEAN of cellphone cameras in front of the artists - well, assclowns yelling completely stupid requests, mysoginistic bullshit and constant shout outs to the performer ("Bob! Bobby! Dylan!" - yeah, asshole, I forgot who was on stage) come in at a close second.
On his tour with St. Vincent, David Byrne would address the crowds before the shows started to ask them exactly what you express: don't experience the whole show behind the lens of a tiny crappy screen; live in the moment and cherish it (David and Annie did allow taping, though). Recent Prince shows, from what I've read, are truly zero-tolerance events: pull a camera and you're OUT of the venue, period.
Having said all this, and acknowledging the right The Stone has to implement whatever policy in this regard suits it best, I was just hoping for some recordings because I will NOT have any chance whatsoever to attend those shows unless I suddenly win the lottery or get a truly sweet loot from robbing a liquor store or something. An ideal alternative would be that, with the permission of the artists involved, The Stone itself could offer professional-quality lossless recordings for sale via their website and the profits would help both the venue and the performers. Am I asking too much? Yeah, OK, probably...