Reality Check by Dave Whamond for March 15, 2024

Wow! I didn’t think anybody did that anymore.

I never understood why people would record a concert unless they were in the front row. Just try to find it on the internet so you get a better quality of video.

This live performance was pre-recorded for your convenience.

where is the fun in that?

You can says that to tourists too.

There once was a time when cameras used to be banned at live events.

went to see McCartney a few years back, and everyone around me had their phones out during entire songs…

But how will anyone else know that I was here for this concert?

Who knew!!

Ralph’s look speaks volumes here. I would likely have the exact same look if I were there at the concert. Enjoy the moment personally and let it move you. Don’t detract from it by recording every single moment of it!

Omg. How stoooopid is this generation ?……..LOL

Like sitting across the table texting each other! OY

At the Who, I mostly saw the butt of the chick on the shoulders of the guy in front of me.

Amazing, isn’t it?

I have a terrible memory. Sometimes I like to record for memories.

See Free Range today

What I find sad is that if people see someone in trouble, rather than helping them out, they’ll start to film it instead so they can post it online.

Sigh…

They all put their phones up in concert.

No Zoom, man, no Zoom!

guy’s a freakin’ genius!

No if you go to concerts, at least since about 2001 from my experience, you quickly realize that there a lot of the people in the audience think that THEY are the show and not what’s going on, on the stage, sad, but true !

ROCK OFF …!

That is when the girl points the Phone’s camera at her date and says “who are you, again”?

It works for sporting events too!

Great social commentary, Dave!

Ralph is thinking……“And they call ME squirrely !”

After living in Marin County, the land of psychoanalysts, I had a vision of a charismatic pop psychologist giving a public lecture. There were thousands of people in the audience with their phones extended outward and upward in their right hands.

All of them were chanting, "Seek Help! Seek Help! Seek Help!

Very scary.

I read that the younger generations are more into experiences than things but they seem to spend most of there time recording on their thing (a phone) rather than experiencing what they are at

I just Bob Dylan for the umpteenth time in Clearwater last night and he was brilliant as usual Bob has a no cell phone policy for his shows. When you walk into the venue, you have to deposit your phone in a lockable bag which you keep in your possession and then they unlock as you leave. It worked really well. The beauty of it was that without phones, people were actually talking to each other in the lobby, and paying very close attention to the music. At first I thought it was just Bob being his usual curmudgeonly self, but it turned out that it was a much more enjoyable experience.

Yeah, but, but, but everyone else in the crowed would think I was a freak.

Redundant at Dead Shows!!

Redundant at Dead Shows!!

Oh, AND Phish!!

Yeah. They’re idiots