Great to tell people to put away their phones and not record because that really is obnoxious, but to actually confiscate phones is fascistic and shouldn’t be tolerated IMO. I mean who does he think he is?
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”
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
> I can't imagine a world that isn't connected
It was a glorious time when you couldn't get connectivity in flight or in national parks. The tether has never been tighter.
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#53Interestingly, 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…
Mobile tickets; There are a few ways that they handle this. They may have a seperate line for mobile tickets, and then hand you a printed out reciept and then they deface your phone.
When I used the mobile ticket with the The Killers at the UC, they gave me a paper copy of the ticket for the seat info.
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#54I want this for movie theaters too.
Holy shit. I haven't been to the movies in about 5 years. Back then we had Facebook but I don't remember ever seeing anyone on a phone during a show
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#55FAN! 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.
I too enjoy crummy-quality bootlegs of bands occasionally, but there are already enough of those videos of Jack White. He’s at the point in his career where he can ban phones without noticeably affecting the amount of bootleg videos of his performances.
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#56That'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.
Same here. Kick people out if they're violating your event's policy. This pouch thing is just weird and big brother-ish.
Sorry people are downvoting you just because they disagree with your opinion!
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#57FAN! 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…
> 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. Au contraire. The people on either side having a conversation about their weekend dinner party whilst Lisa Gerrard does a quiet solo piece are infinitely more annoying than any camera phone. Or a lady with big hair in the first 3 rows sitting on someone's shoulders and blockin…
Why does it have to be either/or?
Why not ask people not to talk disruptively and disallow people from sitting on someone's shoulders in addition to the phone ban?
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#58I was at the first day of Carolina Rebellion this past year. A band I had never heard of before, Highly Suspect, played and during it, the singer (politely) called out a female fan who was using her phone (in what manner, I'm not sure). Basically for similar reasons (experience the intimacy of the moment sort of thing). I thought it was pretty cool.
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#59Comics are doing this as well (Dave Chapelle, Joe Rogan, etc). Wholly supported. Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRf36vRAWF8
One of the reasons a comic might do that is to avoid being the target of a Twitter outrage mob over a recording of them doing an insensitive joke.
Or they do it because because they don't want to be called out on a bad set. (I've heard a venue guy from Detroit pointing out Chappel for that)
Found the article on the Detroit one: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/dave-chappelle-fans...
I could have sworn he had issues at a PA show as well, but that was recorded.
Hannibal Burress doesn't like it because he said some unverified bits about Cosby and got caught. (Unsubstiated at the time)
Re: Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the reasons a comic might do that is to avoid being the target of a Twitter outrage mob over a recording of them doing an insensitive joke.
It's mostly because they want to use their jokes for a special down the road, but if someone records them during a smaller venue with the same jokes, it'll ruin the special.
Not to mention it could be a bit they're still working on and fleshing out, so not only will it be out there already but it will be a potentially subpar version of the bit.