TheRustonRifle#7

Exactly brother! Exactly. Unlike today, with posers [fake wanna be musicians] who hide behind studio gimmicks & revenue from merchandise sales, the true masters of their craft wanted to make their performance feel like a genuine awakening, something raw, true, & real that only the crowd assembled in that arena experienced the true meaning of. 

The kind of thing where a band kept playing encores because it just right even though their professional music guild frowns upon playing numbers on stage beyond 2 hours etc. etc. 

That's why I hate cell phones with cameras in them because copyright intellectual property concerns restrict a musicians capacity to extend live shows with a crowd anymore. 

How true SW1, I remember concerts where there were no pictures allowed to be taken let alone video. I can recall the Bob Seger concert where the security allowed you to take a couple of shots from one trip in front of the stage from a camera but you wasn't going to shoot up a whole roll of 35mm. It would be very hard to control that now because cell phones have cameras and video built in now. I would find it very annoying to sit beside or have someone in front of me who did nothing but mess with their cell phone the whole show. I have seen fights over less than that before. I was involved in a serious fight at the Yes concert of a dude with a T-shirt holding it up and blocking the view from the dude sitting in front of me. The fight rolled over on me and my wife and she was in a full leg cast. We all got booted too. I was livid because it was during the final two songs. Roundabout and Starship Trooper.

CC1 I hate to hear crap like that. I remember watching Ted Nugent and Aerosmith back in the 80's at the Hartford arena.  There was some dumb butt trying to impress a girl and kept showing his knife.  He was right behind me and two of my Friends.  Long story short, his butt, knife and stupidity were dealt with so we could all enjoy the show ;)