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    The best audience-shot concert vids!

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      admin last edited by

      Amateur concert-video footage is getting better and better all the time. Some could easily, easily, easily pass for official, pro-shot concert-films. Although I don't see it having a significant impact on DVD sales, it's utterly remarkable how great so many of these vids are! One trend I'm seeing is the compiling of amateur videos of complete concerts from various sources -- and synching them with soundboard audio, etc. This particular one is among the best: PAUL McCARTNEY @ MOSCOW [2011]:

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        Lenny Kravitz - Where Are We Runnin'? (live @ Vienna 2011):

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          Timbaland & Justin Timberlake - Carry Out (live @ Vegas 2009):

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            Paul McCartney - Junior's Farm (live @ Montreal 2011):

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              Doyle Bramhall II & Gary Clark, Jr. - She's Alright (live @ MSG, NYC 2013):

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                Death to the bootlegging "industry."

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                  Los Lonely Boys - Heart Won't Tell A Lie (live @ Brooks, CA 2009):

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                    The Rolling Stones & Taylor Swift - As Tears Go By (live @ Chicago 2013):

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                      This may be the best amateur concert-video I have ever seen. Madonna - Frozen/Open Your Heart (live @ Sticky & Sweet Tour):

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                        Los Lonely Boys - I'm A Man (live @ Brooks, CA 2009):

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                          The audio AND video are superb! Complete show! Rolling Stones @ Washington, D.C. [6-24-2013]:

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                          • oobu24
                            oobu24 last edited by

                            I am actually preferring audience shot vids. They really make you feel as if you are there...with all the singing & carrying on. LOL.

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                              admin last edited by

                              Same. One of the most common quirks I have with pro-shot/telecast concerts is that the audience is virtually absent from the audio-mix. Makes no sense.

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                              • oobu24
                                oobu24 last edited by

                                Audience absent...yes from the audio but not the close ups of low cut shirts on good looking young ladies. I think maybe we should be thankful for no audio from them! I remember watching that private gig in Vegas & the young ones up front didn't even know the words. :

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                                  Madonna - Dress You Up [live @ Paris and Barcelona - Sticky & Sweet Tour 2009]:

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                                  • beatlesfanrandy
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                                    I have read they are now designing clothes for performers that somehow mess up the circuitry of the cell phone camera, and you cannot see the facial features of whoever is wearing them. I have a harvested (meaning from multiple sources) audience shot video of Paul McCartney Out There in L.A. from last year and you cannot see his facial features at all, unless the camera is being pointed at the big video screens. I think the days of good audience shot video bootlegs are over. The sound is still OK though.

                                    Wings Over America - Cow Palace SF - June 1976. New World Tour - Anaheim Stadium - 4/17/93. Driving USA - Oakland Arena - 4/1/2002. US Tour - HP Pavilion - San Jose - 11/08/05. An Evening with Paul McCartney - The Joint at Hard Rock - Las Vegas - 4/19/09. Up & Coming Tour - Hollywood Bowl - 3/31/10. Walk of Fame Star Presentation - Hollywood - Feb. 2012. CBS-TV taping - The Night That Changed America (with Ringo!)  - L.A. Convention Center - Jan. 2014. Out There Tour -Dodger Stadium - Los Angeles - Aug. '14 and Petco Park - San Diego - Sept. '14. Petco Park - San Diego - June 2019.  Got Back Tour - SoFi Stadium - Los Angeles - May 2022

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                                    • oobu24
                                      oobu24 last edited by

                                      ^ oh I disagree. I have seen a few youtube DVDs where Paul's face is very clear. Some are shot from up front & a few songs are from further back...but with the cameras getting better & better...I can only see the quality going up. That is of course unless they block the cameras somehow.

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                                        beatlesfanrandy last edited by

                                        oobu24:

                                        ^ oh I disagree. I have seen a few youtube DVDs where Paul's face is very clear. Some are shot from up front & a few songs are from further back...but with the cameras getting better & better...I can only see the quality going up. That is of course unless they block the cameras somehow.

                                        This clothing is a new technology, so time will tell. But something seems to have affected all the cell phone videos in the DVD I have.

                                        Wings Over America - Cow Palace SF - June 1976. New World Tour - Anaheim Stadium - 4/17/93. Driving USA - Oakland Arena - 4/1/2002. US Tour - HP Pavilion - San Jose - 11/08/05. An Evening with Paul McCartney - The Joint at Hard Rock - Las Vegas - 4/19/09. Up & Coming Tour - Hollywood Bowl - 3/31/10. Walk of Fame Star Presentation - Hollywood - Feb. 2012. CBS-TV taping - The Night That Changed America (with Ringo!)  - L.A. Convention Center - Jan. 2014. Out There Tour -Dodger Stadium - Los Angeles - Aug. '14 and Petco Park - San Diego - Sept. '14. Petco Park - San Diego - June 2019.  Got Back Tour - SoFi Stadium - Los Angeles - May 2022

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                                        • Nancy R
                                          Nancy R last edited by

                                          beatlesfanrandy:

                                          oobu24:

                                          ^ oh I disagree. I have seen a few youtube DVDs where Paul's face is very clear. Some are shot from up front & a few songs are from further back...but with the cameras getting better & better...I can only see the quality going up. That is of course unless they block the cameras somehow.

                                          This clothing is a new technology, so time will tell. But something seems to have affected all the cell phone videos in the DVD I have.

                                          Is his face just "whited out?" That is just from the bright lights they have on him. If it's something else, I have no clue.

                                          Omni, Atlanta, GA May 18, 1976, Feb. 17, 1990

                                          GA Dome, Atlanta, GA May 1, 1993

                                          Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA May 12, 2002

                                          FedEx Forum, Memphis, TN May 26, 2013

                                          Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA Oct. 15, 2014

                                          Infinite Energy Center, Duluth, GA July 13, 2017

                                          Bon Secours Arena, Greenville, SC May 30, 2019

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                                            admin last edited by

                                            That only works when the brightest spotlight is on the artist, and even then the footage is still decent. And I don't see that many artists being willing to pay for an entire wardrobe of such fabrics, etc. Also: Paul McCartney is keenly aware that these audience-shot vids only promote him. Pretty much every gig he's played since '07 is documented somewhere on YouTube, and yet he's still putting asses in the seats today. This technology has been around since the '90s, when the "industry" was fed up with the paparazzi, following the Princess Diana tragedy. If a celebrity wore that certain fabric, the flash from the camera would render the photo unusable. Then a funny thing happened... ...celebrities remembered that they need the paparazzi.

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