hugEDhog wrote:
Why do they prohibit cameras in enclosed venues? Smartphones are good enough if you’re near the stage but if you’re far out there you need a zoom lens. Your thoughts.
Lawyers. Music companies hire good lawyers.
The band, promoters, record company, music publisher, and probably other parties want to reserve the right to exploit the band's licensed public image. It's not the 1970s any more, when no one worried if you walked in with two Nikons and four lenses. Bags weren't searched. Bands took a liberal view of photographers and said, "Sure, take all you want! We know you love us. Show all your friends."
Bands sell their own CDs, downloads, posters, logo clothing, key rings, and other trinkets, both at the concert venue and on their Internet sites. They LICENSE their personal appearances, logos, photos, and everything else (lyrics, sheet music, recordings, etc.). So they don't want someone with a PROFESSIONAL quality camera or audio recorder or video camera draining off their potential income.
MOST musicians don't make a lot of money. They have to tour constantly to build their brand, because the pittance they make from Spotify, Reverb Nation, Apple Music, etc. is not a sustaining income. Only the very top tier of musicians get wealthy from their craft. Their record companies get most of the proceeds from CD and vinyl sales.
One way an international touring band knows they have "made it" is by the amount of fake merchandise sold in the streets outside concert venues. I would rather buy "merch" from a band's web site, where I know they are making something from it. If there's a $15 T-shirt for sale outside a venue, I know it's fake. The real merch table is inside. They sell a better quality shirt, but it probably costs $60. The same shirt on the band's website probably costs $30.
Mexican child prodigy sister rockers The Warning have an incredibly good video of their two show, sold-out, August, 2022, concert at Teatro Metropolitan, in Mexico City. The introductory scenes of the film show people lined up in the street waiting to get in, and there are dozens and dozens of street vendors selling every form of "fake logo merch" that's conceivable. The band laughed it off, but they would much rather sell you better stuff on their site.
Today, people with cell phones can make photos and videos that are "good enough" to satisfy many fans. A day after a concert, the Internet is flooded with crappy audio on videos of last night's concert. If the band had the show professionally filmed, and recorded all the audio straight from each microphone to a digital track on a computer, for professional mixing in post-production, they may take MONTHS to churn out a top notch concert video. But it'll be worth the wait!
If you like classic rock, watch the first 30 minutes of this, and you'll quite possibly watch all 22 songs. It was professionally recorded and filmed. It has absolutely headphone-worthy, high quality audio and video work on it. The performance is top-of-game. The light show is unreal. (Daniela's stage announcements are in Spanish, but they sing 20 songs in English.) Don't miss their remake of *Enter Sandman.* And don't miss
23. It's one of the performances that won Paulina the Drumeo 2023 Rock Drummer of the Year award.
This was released in full on 08/29/2023, exactly a year after the concerts. It’s been viewed over 1.9 million times since:
https://youtu.be/7hbBa1-1p7M?si=WXsGgxEGJXYfsPgANow, wouldn't you rather watch something that good, than some crappy cell phone video made from the 14th row? I would.