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  1. Originally posted by treasure:[..]
    I agree 100%. My best 4 minutes ever at a live show was Springsteen in Gothenburg 2012. He played a rare outtake from The river called "Where the bands are" a complete stranger Swedish girl beside me took my hand and we jumped up and down together singing our hearts out for 4 minutes in complete oblivion. Bruce always says that In concert means that he and The E street Band and the audience are all in concert together. I'm not a big fan of IEM bootlegs for this reason - the crow is part of the song IMO
    I was there as well My magical moment was the mass euphoria when Jungleland started. I'll never forget that night.


  2. so you think european stadiums are better? stadium is stadium and sound is monstly crappy ... sad but true. and it is mostly the same with multifunctional arenas.
  3. Originally posted by ahn1991:[..]


    No I don't like the idea of headphones, but I seriously don't think that's what they were talking about when they were saying that everyone would be able to get the "best sound". It probably has something to do with their speaker setup.
    mmh... I'm not sure if you're aware of the O'Herlihy interview, where he's talking about an app that broadcast the concert to your smartphone so you listen to the show in your earphones while you're in the stadium, and he's not being vague or ambiguous about it at all.

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    What I want to insist is that it's not replacing the current sound, for what they said, nobody will force you to use the app and personally -if I ever go to another show (c'mon u2, 2016!), and if that app is ready by then, and if that app is cheap enough for me- I don't think I'd be really interested in using it, in my case because I think it would break the feeling of the sound coming out of the band playing in front of you and I'll feel like I'm just listening to a bootleg... or who knows, maybe it actually just enhances the sound when it's combined with the speaker system sound...

    ...but in any case, I just digged that interview back because of the bootlegs, the bootlegs!
  4. They should say "Here's an app where you can record this show in excellent quality. So leave that alone, you can listen to it again at home (heck, we'll send you some pics and vids as well !), now put your phones away and live this moments with us."
  5. Originally posted by BelgianBono:They should say "Here's an app where you can record this show in excellent quality. So leave that alone, you can listen to it again at home (heck, we'll send you some pics and vids as well !), now put your phones away and live this moments with us."
    This.
  6. I was not aware of the interview. I thought we were talking about the comments made on Fallon.
  7. Just read this article courtesy of Lance Schart: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20150508/ISSUE01/150509841/how-your-smartphone-threatens-pro-sports-teams-bottom-line?X-IgnoreUserAgent=1

    I'm torn as I'd really like to have much less people holding their phones and tweeting instead of enjoying the shows, BUT I also want to enjoy live streams of shows further away and "live" the moment while not being able to be there... Aaahhh Opinions on this? Would you like venues to quash wifi and internet connection during the shows?
  8. I don't think venues should actively try to quash wifi, but I also don't think they should actively promote these sort of activities. That being said, I think that no matter how good streaming technology gets, you can never emulate the feeling of actually being at a venue in an event.
  9. Originally posted by ahn1991:I don't think venues should actively try to quash wifi, but I also don't think they should actively promote these sort of activities. That being said, I think that no matter how good streaming technology gets, you can never emulate the feeling of actually being at a venue in an event.
    Nobody doubts that But the part of me (aka wallet) who cannot travel to Vancouver, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles etc makes me crave for good streamings and twitter updates, while the concert-addict makes me want that everybody in the audience just enjoys the show and forget about their phones and apps for 2 hours!
  10. The best happy medium would be for the venue itself to provide some sort of official stream. Obviously they would have to find a profit from it, but I'm sure that's possible... maybe?
  11. No matter what they do, in this day and age a big % of the attendees pay more attention to how the upload of their selfies goes than the concert itself.
  12. I think all of this comes as a byproduct of the mass availability of data in our current society. Because information can be so easily accessed, there is a huge de-emphasis on a person's ability to remember things. Companies and schools are saying that memorizing facts is not as important as being able to navigate the resources to find what you need. In business and academics, this is fine. However, this principle has invaded every aspect of life, even pleasure. Before everything could be easily recorded, information was passed on through oral tradition, by talking about it. This required the ability to accurately remember and recall an event from your own mind. If you think about it, this can only be done by truly experiencing an event. The events you remember best are those you actually took part it. This is coming in conflict with an age where oral tradition has lost its worth. People are looking for concrete proof that an event actually occurred. They want to see a picture or video to prove that you were actually at an event.

    Now we live in a society where people spend more energy memorializing an experience than actually experiencing an experience. That's because they feel that without some sort of concrete proof, their experience cannot be validated by others. But attempts to validate an experience to others comes at the cost of experiencing it for yourself. So now the only memories you had of that concert was how you couldn't decide what filter to use for that picture of Bono.
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