Using SMARTPHONES during concerts

Linkin Park
#12

You know, for countries any band visits all the freaking time, it is not a surprise the crowd is not that energetic. They’ve seen them live a bunch of times so it is understandable.
As for flashmobs and crowd interactions with the band with phones/led lights, it happnes almost everywhere, the photos and videos just don’t always capture it.

Plus, crowds vary from country to country. You have the crazy ones from Brazil, Italy and Russia, the typical always-hyped-up Germans etc. They’re all having fun in their own ways.

It annoys me as well when people just shoot all the freaking time but you can’t really tell them how to enjoy the show. That’s their way of having fun in the end.

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#13

But Mexico haven’t seen them live a bunch of times so I don’t understand them.
And even if LP was in a country a lot of times, it doesn’t mean something like people don’t have to enjoy the show. I like LP shows and even if any show would be my 50th show, I would still enjoy it as much as possible.

#14

It’s not about not enjoying it, it’s how they enjoy it. It’s different… for every band, not just LP.

For example, as far as LP is concerned, 2 shows in my country; first show (and first time they ever played here) it was nuts. Show was sold out, people went crazy. Next year and 2nd time around, barely half the people showed up and the crowd wasn’t that energetic. People still went nuts but not like the first time, the hype wasn’t there.
2 years ago, in Italy, it was the craziest and most passionate of a crowd I’ve ever experienced in any of the concerts I’ve been. It was so different from my country, people react differently. Same happened in Germany.
It really varys from place to place.

#15

In my country (Israel) we barely have bands visiting here…
so Linkin Park came for one show only and we were 20,000 people in the crowd…
it was 2010 and 80% of the crowd didn’t even touched their phones, and it was AMAZING.
but since 2011-nowdays… I went to few more concerts(Europe and america) and I could actually felt the difference between a crowd with and without smartphones…

#16

Smartphones or not, crowds vary from place to place. Even more so from continent to continent.

#17

Well, again,

#18

Here’s an article I saw a while ago that caught my attention:

From my own perspective, when I’m at a concert, I have my camera on-hand, but I don’t have it out for the entire show. I might take a few pictures here and there, but I’m not glued to it. Hell, I don’t even own a phone.

Sometimes, even the talent onstage can’t help it, like when I saw the Honda Civic Tour in 2012:

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/420006_4275853851158_2076067847_n.jpg?oh=72efb09787f8d929bdab26fbdc5013a7&oe=57342C62

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#19

Hey guys!
I tell you what: I watched some shows on Youtube and looked at the band during the concerts, while the crowd had been bouncing and singing along or otherwise - standing like a huge pack of flamingos with their smartphone-heads up!

The feeling about the show DIFFERS! It seems to me like it’s easier for the guys to play, when the crowd is active - like responding to them. Feels like they can give over 100%, when they have a proper respond, like they get charged from the crowds energy and charge the crowd with their own.

I think, LP rocks us, so let us rock them! I would like to ask one of them about it during the next live chat.

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#20

GLASSJAW put a note on their posters saying ‘please no phones’… So there was a discussion page in Kerrang magazine a few weeks ago between Asking Alexandria and Shikari… one for one against - its interesting bands have really different opinions and feelings about this too - yeah it would be interesting to ask LP in a chat!

I guess I like to take a few pics and maybe a video clip, but its all way too much fun - there is no way I could stand still with a camera the whole way through!!!

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#21

Agreed.
But I would like to hear more opinions…
I’m still waiting for an actual explanation why is that so common the lots of people using their cameras and smartphones the whole concert.

#22

Because they want to make “memories”.

#23

Sometimes they wanna prove to their friends that they actually went :joy:

You just want to always have a part of that concert with you and taking a photo is probably the easiest way to do that.

#24

Last concert I went to I took about 5 10 second videos of various songs and a couple pictures, and that was good enough for me. I kept my phone at body height, too, so it wasn’t in the way

#25

Best thing to do.

I wanted to take a bunch at the m&g but realized I wouldn’t enjoy the moment and the guys would much rather speak to me than a phone. We weren’t allowed to even take our phones out anyways lol.

#26

Personally, I never really record anything at a show; it’s more important for me to experience the moment firsthand. I totally get why others might feel differently there and decide to record what they see, though, because I take photos and videos constantly in my life where possible … just not at shows.

Besides, if I ever want to see fan-shot video footage of a show that I attended, typically, plenty of other people will have uploaded recordings that I can watch. Really no need for me to record anything at all. :slightly_smiling:

EDIT: forgot a comma.

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#27

agree with @minuteforce

#28

I have never been in a concert I want to but I can’t

#29

And ppl wonder why I rarely have pics of the concerts I go to…

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#30

Yeah man, I get what you mean but for some people going to a concert is an experience that they want to cherish forever. Of course when they record the whole thing it gets out of hand though. I thinks they are okay in moderation though.

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#31

I think people should not use Smartphones during a concert constantliy. One or two pictures are ok.
People don’t need to record everything, a week after that show YouTube will explode of Videos from that show and exactly the same on Instagram with Videos…

One or two pictures are okay but not the whole show.

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