Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
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Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#2Eddie Vedder does this as well (not full on with pouches, just asking people personally to put it away and waiting until they do).
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#3Sounds good in theory, but is this really jut about stopping bootlegs?
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#4Sounds good in theory, but is this really jut about stopping bootlegs?
Knowing Jack White, not necessarily. He's all about authenticity, and being in the moment. Mobiles (for me) tend to ruin this at a live show.
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#5Comics are doing this as well (Dave Chapelle, Joe Rogan, etc).
Wholly supported.
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#6That's great for them. But I won't be buying a ticket for any of his shows. After seeing what happened at the bataclan that makes this a stupid and dangerous idea.
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#7That's great for them. But I won't be buying a ticket for any of his shows. After seeing what happened at the bataclan that makes this a stupid and dangerous idea.
I guess you don't use planes either? After 9/11 it's a stupid and dangerous idea.
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#8That's great for them. But I won't be buying a ticket for any of his shows. After seeing what happened at the bataclan that makes this a stupid and dangerous idea.
how exactly would having your cell phone handy prevent another bataclan?
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#9FAN! FUCKING! TASTIC!
Sorry, I'm aware that yelling is not appreciated, but this is a really cool idea.
There's hardly anything more annoying at gigs than those dunces in front of you recording some ultra-shitty video that nobody ever looks at.
Those small screens are a real distraction and phones also don't really serve as substitutes for lighters used, when Led Zeppelin started with Stairway to Heaven.
A rant about this specific song is reserved for another comment.
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#10Personally, I'd kinda like to see venues Faraday-cage the concert areas, so people can't get online from them. That way, people could still take photos and video, but wouldn't spend the entire concert on Facebook. (Thinking of this due to a favorite venue of mine, the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, that has basically zero cell phone reception from the floor.)