JerryChicken wrote: ... The ones of my grandparents from the 1920s/1930s are few but are wonderful old photos of the whole family sitting on beaches in random resorts and there's always an old bloke in full three piece suit and (I kid you not) a bowler hat, with his shoes off and trousers rolled up, pipe in mouth looking for all the world like Jimmy Edwards, apparently he was an aging uncle of my grandparents who they dragged around everywhere with them....
Maybe we are related.
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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:Aye, and on an associated point, back in the day the snotty teenager's dream was to have a proper decent hi fi sound setup that could demolish buildings and faithfully reproduce the footsteps of a moth. However nowadays sound quality seems to have died a death, tinny mp3 sound via a tinny mono speaker or £1 headphones seem fine. A recording of a concert on a mobile phone seems fine to them*. I reckon many folk wouldn't even recognise their chosen music if they heard it on a proper setup!
Each of course to his own, but they don't know what they're missing and probably never will.
* (But there is an internet service which will match the proper recording of your gig to your tinny recording so you can end up with your video and a "proper" soundtrack. I forget what it's called but vbfg will deffo know)
Oh I'm definitely with you on that one, the actual sound experience of listening to music just doesn't seem to be very important at all now and the few remaining national high street electrical retailers just don't seem interested in the subject any longer.
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JerryChicken wrote:Boy, has he p1ssed off Elton John
Poor old Elton was booked to do the opening gig, promoted as such, ego stroked as a VIP, then Springsteen - according to the venue manager - actually rang up and asked if they could fit him in before Eltons gig, which fortunately they could as its ready a little before schedule.
I'm very jealous, hope its a good night.
I'd video it for you but not sure my phone would last 4 hours
I've videoed him once, last year at Etihad. Waitin' on a Sunny Day is our wedding song so its special to us.
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You've also got to factor in what people are actually recording. Gigs these days are far more of a visual spectacle than they used to be, particularly with regards to festivals and electronic music. Take a look at the visuals for Daft Punk's Alive 2007 tour for example; you can see why people would want to watch it more than once. That tour really raised the bar for all live acts.
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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:* (But there is an internet service which will match the proper recording of your gig to your tinny recording so you can end up with your video and a "proper" soundtrack. I forget what it's called but vbfg will deffo know)
vbfg thanks you for your faith and would like it known that he hasn't got even the vaguest idea what you're on about.
Sounds ace though.
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