Bob Dylan demands a phone and smartwatch-free show

[PTK]

Back in the day my band played a gig and some friends were recording it on a tape recorder. Immediately after we finished you could hear them carry on their conversation as if nothing had happened. "So I saw Cammy on the bus and he was wasted, haha!" A fitting tribute to our musical prowess :-D

This happened to Bob Dylan when he was just starting out, and the memory scars him to this day.

 

[Happy Tree]

Him and me both!

I went to see Queen & Adam Lambert in Tallinn. VIP ticket. I hired a car just so I could park in the VIP parking area. The best part of the concert was when I got there a hi-viz lackey told me to go back and I flashed him my VIP lanyard. "Very good, sir. This way." The seating area was far from the stage and poorly placed but I could go up to the inner circle right at the front so I stood there resolutely not filming anything to soak up the experience.

I got to see Brian May and his guitar in the flesh, but the performance itself was pretty poor I must admit. No reaction to speak of from the stoic Estonian crowd and it was all phoned in. Even the gravity-defying delay solo was lacklustre. Oh well. I got a couple of pics of the guitar. I'm kind of glad I have no video memory of that day.

 

[xenon]

Was at The The last night and they asked that people keep their phones in their pockets, just then the inevitable monstrous beanpole that was plotted up right in front of me whips his out, camera on ready to record, he held it like that for about 15 minutes waiting for the moment he wanted to record. I waited around 10 seconds after he pressed the button and barged the cunt, he nearly dropped the phone, the shot ruined, my work done I retired to the bar.

What and Mr gig whilst you’ve got a drink?

 

[xenon]

Fuck it my hands are too cold to edit that.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Missed the gig?

Never heard a single tune by The The before last night, was OK. Is as far as I will go…

 

[Aladdin]

Is he banning earplugs?

Eta..

 

[PTK]

Is he banning earplugs?

Eta..

As the great man himself wrote:

"There ought to be a law against you comin' around
You should be made to wear earphones"

 

[isvicthere?]

I wish I had gone to that.

During the day I thought we were quite a long way from the stage. However, when I saw an aerial view photo a week later, I realised we were really close to it.

 

[abe11825]

Is he banning earplugs?

Eta..

That'll be next year's round of tour!

 

[ska invita]

 

[Elpenor]

June Tabor and Oysterband agree with Bob

 

[maomao]

I went to see Mudhoney on Wednesday and got a few snaps of my mate in the moshpit and a ten second clip of my favourite song. Don't think I ruined anyone's night.

 

[PTK]

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June Tabor and Oysterband agree with Bob

It is a conspiracy against the public by Big Singer.

 

[PTK]

I went to see Mudhoney on Wednesday and got a few snaps of my mate in the moshpit and a ten second clip of my favourite song. Don't think I ruined anyone's night.

That is not for you to judge, though, is it?

 

[Elpenor]

It is a conspiracy against the public by Big Singer.

The ushers were telling off those who took pictures and videos.

I didn’t myself

 

[hash tag]

Seeing Bob tonight. I've been told we are all being given pouches to seal our smart devices in. Not sure how this will work in practice. I suspect people will delay entering the auditorium until the last possible moment in order to squeeze the last possible use out of their devices. This could lead to chaos.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Seeing Bob tonight. I've been told we are all being given pouches to seal our smart devices in. Not sure how this will work in practice. I suspect people will delay entering the auditorium until the last possible moment in order to squeeze the last possible use out of their devices. This could lead to chaos.

Fuck that nonsense. I'd just turn my phone off and tell them I'd left it at home.

 

[belboid]

Seeing Bob tonight. I've been told we are all being given pouches to seal our smart devices in. Not sure how this will work in practice. I suspect people will delay entering the auditorium until the last possible moment in order to squeeze the last possible use out of their devices. This could lead to chaos.

Bob Dylan attendees tend not to be teenagers who cannot di without their phones.

 

[skyscraper101]

Fuck that nonsense. I'd just turn my phone off and tell them I'd left it at home.

Right. What are they gonna do frisk everyone? Pouches ffs. Treating fans like untrustworthy children.

 

[belboid]

Right. What are they gonna do frisk everyone? Pouches ffs. Treating fans like untrustworthy children.

they're gonna throw you out of the show if they catch you. And bloody good job too.

 

[PTK]

Seeing Bob tonight. I've been told we are all being given pouches to seal our smart devices in. Not sure how this will work in practice. I suspect people will delay entering the auditorium until the last possible moment in order to squeeze the last possible use out of their devices. This could lead to chaos.

Is this the electronic equivalent to going for a wee beforehand "just in case"?

 

[Saul Goodman]

Right. What are they gonna do frisk everyone? Pouches ffs. Treating fans like untrustworthy children.

They can't legally search you, and I'm fucked if I'd be handing my phone over to a complete stranger.

 

[Sasaferrato]

good idea. lots of clubs do this nowadays - well, sticker over camera lens and told you'll be asked to leave if you take pictures/video/wave it around on the dancefloor.

can imagine Dylan is also a fan as it stops his terrible performance going viral and harming future sales.

I've been a Dylan fan for 50 odd years, seen him a number of times but wouldn't go now.

I'm absolutely convinced that he is trying to find the point of awfulness where people stop buying tickets. He must be nearly there.

That said, I listen to his music probably at least monthly.

 

[skyscraper101]

They can't legally search you, and I'm fucked if I'd be handing my phone over to a complete stranger.

Smartwatches too.

It’s not only the principle of it that’s so absurd but the sheer hassle of tens of hundreds of people having to surrender and retrieve devices. I mean who doesn’t have a smartphone these days. Dylan’s lost the plot.

 

[belboid]

They can't legally search you, and I'm fucked if I'd be handing my phone over to a complete stranger.

Don’t go then. Simples.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Smartwatches too.

It’s not only the principle of it that’s so absurd but the sheer hassle of tens of hundreds of people having to surrender and retrieve devices. I mean who doesn’t have a smartphone these days. Dylan’s lost the plot.

There's a simple solution. A few signs and an announcement that anybody caught using a camera will be ejected from the venue, and enforce it.
But fucking about giving someone my phone and queueing to retrieve it? Nah.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Don’t go then. Simples.

Don't give them your phone. Simplers

 

[JimW]

Big Singer

It's a massive stitch-up

 

[krtek a houby]

Subterranean phone sick blues

 

[belboid]

Don't give them your phone. Simplers

“Guests maintain possession of their phones at all times“

You don’t. No one wants to steal your phone.