some people may find this controversial but when I am king all venues will employ snipers purely to shoot the people who ruin concerts by getting out their phone to record 2 minutes of crappy footage purely so they can upload it to youtube as soon as they get home... Now i'm old, i let the kids at the front jump around but my view is basically 100s of mobile phone screens. i liked concerts more when there were no mobile phones and everyone was enjoying the band not worrying about getting some grainy footage with bad audio to get some bloody youtube likes...
If the concert is that good you notice people using a device to record footage it really isn't very good at all.
Cinammon Girl you give me gig envy. Thanks for the posting the link.Mind you I was only 5 at the time.
Lol. I just think I was extremely lucky to have been around when some amazing music appeared. Had missed the Beatles and the Stones so enjoyed Black Sabbath, Deep Purple stuff followed by the 'West Coast' sound ie Allman Brothers. Then 'Prog Rock' appeared in all its pretentious glory. 😆 Not forgetting 'Pub Rock' and the inimitable Dr Feelgood.
My teens and twenties are full of happy memories of exciting times. 😀
Have to agree with BristolPablo. Far too many people do this so it becomes an irritant.
Wonderstuffs "last" gig
Was that the Pheonix Festival? Was there too. 🙂
Regina Spektor V festival didn't see her at this one but in Stafford on stage by herself making amazing music with a guitar and a drum stick
also Moby on a later special...
Nirvana - London Astoria 1991. Just before it all went mental for them.
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I was at the very first Knebworth Festival in 1974 featuring Tim Buckley, Van Morrison, Allman Brothers, Doobie Brothers, Sensational Alex Harvey Band etc etc.
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I win the "Crumbly" attendance record, then... 😀
Ah but Mr Woppit you were playing gigs! Us mere mortals just watched. 😀
Take a look at my contribution to the thread video.
Jack de Johnette I ain't...
Moi, absolutely smashed, crowd surfing at Funeral a couple of weeks back
Also I wasn't there, but Rage fans might be interested in this early footage, 21 years ago, surfaced the other day.
Magic Band, Shepherd's Bush Empire, 2003 I was right at the front, right in the middle...
Drumbo did a pretty good job doing Beefheart's vocals - got a hug from him at the end!
I bought the DVD they filmed, which is pretty rare now.
The security guards were taking the whole ticket and not giving back stubs then selling them on behind the gates, huge scam, so loads of people got to see this last gig.
i was 18 and still cant remember how we found the venue, back in the glory days before satnav, all we had was the tiny map on the ticket.
epic gig, never seen them since as it will destroy the memory of them at their height.
feeling far to young here!!
no video but Levellers in Sherwood Forest about 02 I reckon..