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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”

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Post by Posibyte »

k1ns wrote: post #17
beat wrote: post #10

Personally, 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.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but would this not be a massive security concern? No calls in or out in the case of an emergency seems pretty frightening to me.

While I wholeheartedly agree, the devil's advocate within me likes to remind that we had been mobile phone-less for years with no major concern.

Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

problems wrote: post #19

What's with the incessant need to tell other people how to enjoy an experience? I'm reminded of this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/1314/

The main problem is that your way of "enjoying the experience" is detracting from the experience of those around you.

Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”

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Post by INTPenis »

A suggestion. If entertainers ban phones at events they should at least record the event themselves and publish the video for the participants or everyone.

I noticed at the Mark Twain wards for David Letterman when my hero Bill fucking Murray came out a woman was literally watching him through her phone. And I was watching the whole thing on youtube at a much better angle and quality.

Of course my video was probably uploaded much later than her visual phone proxy experience but it occurred to me that these events should make the recordings available.

The ticket stub could have a url that will become active after the event with the video. Or if they're feeling generous, put it on youtube for everyone.

Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”

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Post by k1ns »

Posibyte wrote: post #21
k1ns wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but would this not be a massive security concern? No calls in or out in the case of an emergency seems pretty frightening to me.

While I wholeheartedly agree, the devil's advocate within me likes to remind that we had been mobile phone-less for years with no major concern.

A very good point, my age is showing. Personally, I can't imagine a world that isn't connected (even when I was a young kid, my dad had a pager and my mother had a brick cellphone for work).

Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”

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Post by jasonkostempski »

I've heard of a few artists doing this over the past year or so. I think the banning is ultimately useless and enforcing it adds more invasiveness to the already overly invasive process of getting into a venue. A simple reminder before the concert starts that you're an asshole if hold your phone up is as far as this should go, works fine in movie theaters.

Maybe phones should have a feature to take pics with the screen off, more like a disposable camera. They should have that feature anyway.

Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”

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Post by amatern »

Interestingly, Boston Calling won't enforce this rule: http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2018/01/24/going-...

and also - Pearl Jam has released information on their upcoming tour - the tickets themselves will be SmartPhone only (from their Fan Club site, Ten Club):

Ten Club Mobile Tickets: No will call. No physical tickets. In order to distribute tickets more efficiently, Ten Club will be delivering all Ten Club tickets directly to your smart phone. Mobile ticket delivery requires an iPhone or Android smart phone. Instead of scanning a physical ticket at the gate, members will access tickets through their smartphone and scan directly from the screen of your mobile device. Step-by-step instructions on how to access your ticket on your phone will be sent to all Ten Club ticket holders via email when they are ready for mobile distribution. We plan to have this delivered to you by early July.

Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”

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Post by [deleted] »

k1ns wrote: post #17
beat wrote: post #10

Personally, 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.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but would this not be a massive security concern? No calls in or out in the case of an emergency seems pretty frightening to me.

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Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”

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Post by toastercat »

CaptainZapp wrote: post #9

FAN! 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…

I disagree. I often watch and enjoy crummy-quality bootlegs of bands I could never see live. Sometimes bootlegs even capture of the intensity of a live performance better than a professional multi-camera setup ever can.

Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”

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Post by problems »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #22
problems wrote: post #19

What's with the incessant need to tell other people how to enjoy an experience? I'm reminded of this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/1314/

The main problem is that your way of "enjoying the experience" is detracting from the experience of those around you.

How so? Texting someone isn't distracting to anyone around you... unless I'm missing something?

Are you really that easily bothered by other people that them enjoying something in a different way than you detracts from your experience?

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