Recording Policy

[ds1984]

Useful advice : turn "off" the fucking flash from your camera.

In concert completly useless on you camera : if there is enough light on stage the picture will be ok otherwise not and all that your flash can do is to upset the musician.

If you can't turn your flash off put black rubber tape on it...

[ingridswing]

And if you want to film it, also tape the red and/or yellow lights with black tape. Otherwise you can be found very easily 

[IrisRose]

And know where the security guards are.    In Berkeley, when I tried to climb over a rail to get down to where Val was, the guard was righ there!   Nice about it, but right there.        And in Jacksonville, the blasted guard crouched in front of the stage, right in front of me the whole concert, until Mark made a remark about him.     I think he just anted a good seat within spitting distance.     

[Hoops McCann]

I just hide the recorder discreetly in my anus.

Bad idea once they start strip searching us. And these days they might as well...

Luckily, I've only been held up at the door once, but still managed to get a complete recording of the show. That is, after I realized that night that the VW arena in Manchester, New Hampshire is equipped with a back entrance. Definitely a night I will never forget.

[ds1984]

The tape or the camera?

Pottel did you remember this story that happened to a Gilmour fan caught filming one of the Gilmour 2006 US tour?

[dustyvalentino]

Bad idea once they start strip searching us. And these days they might as well...

We got searched at the Led Zep gig in London in 2007, but some people still managed to film it...

[Hoops McCann]

Bad idea once they start strip searching us. And these days they might as well...

We got searched at the Led Zep gig in London in 2007, but some people still managed to film it...

Well, of course, there always will be. (I was making a joke about the strip search. Obviously, that will probably never happen.) There's a venue is Las Vegas that has airport walk through style metal detectors and recordings from that venue still come up all the time.

Here's something else that is pretty strange...at one show I went to early last year, they were checking people with wand type metal detectors. Now, this venue is in Newark, NJ, the arm pit of this country, so no surprise there. However to my amazement, the security guy brushed that device right over some of my concealed gear that is almost all metal and it didn't go off. It still kind of baffles me to this day, although I have a feeling it was just "for show" and wasn't even turned on...or maybe the batteries were dead...

Ever go through that type of security for a concert in Europe? I'm guessing probably not...

[dustyvalentino]

Well yeah, the Led Zep thing was to that level, I remember re-assuring the security guard that my syringe and inhaler was because I'm diabetic and asthmatic. 

Worst I saw was in Houston Texas 1993, went to see the Dixie Chicks just after they had dissed Bush and were getting death threats. 

[Hoops McCann]

Damn. Wait a second. You went to see the Dixie Chicks? In 1993? 

[Pottel]

Bad idea once they start strip searching us. And these days they might as well...

We got searched at the Led Zep gig in London in 2007, but some people still managed to film it...

Well, of course, there always will be. (I was making a joke about the strip search. Obviously, that will probably never happen.) There's a venue is Las Vegas that has airport walk through style metal detectors and recordings from that venue still come up all the time.

Here's something else that is pretty strange...at one show I went to early last year, they were checking people with wand type metal detectors. Now, this venue is in Newark, NJ, the arm pit of this country, so no surprise there. However to my amazement, the security guy brushed that device right over some of my concealed gear that is almost all metal and it didn't go off. It still kind of baffles me to this day, although I have a feeling it was just "for show" and wasn't even turned on...or maybe the batteries were dead...

Ever go through that type of security for a concert in Europe? I'm guessing probably not...

yup, i have. u2 is just one example.

[dustyvalentino]

Damn. Wait a second. You went to see the Dixie Chicks? In 1993? 

Oops, 2003. I guess in 1993 they would be complaining about Bush Sr.

[IrisRose]

In 1993 they were still dissing their middle school principal.   

[Rollergirl]

I too think that the "more strict" comment is about photo, not audio. The reason they banned video recording is because of the thousands of video recorders and mobile phone being held in the air. It's disturbing to the band and the rest of the audience.
Audio recording doesn't bother anybody (unless you keep shushing your neighbour who screams hysterically I loooooooove youuuuuu maaaaarrrk every time he plays a note, but you would do everybody else a favour by shutting her up).

Having thousands of cameras held up in the air (and the thousands of flashes that go with them) must be very disturbing too....

[superval99]

I agree entirely, Nat.   Hundreds of mobile phones held aloft is just as distracting as video cameras, especially as many people still insist on using flash!    It's a difficult one, because it's not really possible to ban mobiles!   The best idea is to save the pictures 'til the end of the show, or a suitable break between songs.  Audio causes no problems as far as I can see.

BTW Nice to have a couple of new emoticons!  

[dmg]

They'll never stop the mobile phone brigade though, no matter how severe the threat from Mr Crockford becomes because people will take their phones with them anyway due to the fact that they are also quite handy for making calls!