The weekend concert was...

Here's an admittedly poor video from today's concert.

I wish I had something better to link in here but the "official" word from the venue, at least when my daughter researched it and when we saw the signs at the facility as we entered, was that cameras and video recorders were not permitted.  Too bad most of the rest of the crowd apparently ignored those rules.

Shheeeesh,  I do wish that the facilities, promoters and others that are involved in fixing those rules would get with the program already.  Fan captured photos and videos are FREE VIRAL MARKETING for them so it's pretty stupid not to allow fans to take pictures and non-professional video recordings and yet there are still lots of facilities where cameras are supposedly not allowed.

Worse yet is that there are people like me and many millions of others that have iPhones or other smart phones or even "dumb" cellphones that snap pictures and video, albeit poorly, but you get the idea.

I could have taken along a traditional digital camera and might have done so if not for having seen the rules in advance saying they weren't allowed.  The last show that we (my daughter and I) went to that had those rules was the Dave Matthews Band concert some weeks back.  Again, I saw plenty of compact digital cameras pulled out and used there, along with cell phone cameras, but again the rules were supposed to have been no photos/no video.  Yeah, that's going to be easy to enforce at most concerts in the modern era.

Anyway we enjoyed the show, even with having been exposed to Hanson and the Back Street Boys as the opening acts.  I wish the show had gotten started earlier (for the main act at least), and really would rather have had someone other than Back Street Boys involved in the show, but oh well.  My daughter enjoyed Train even though I headed us out to the exits early since it seemed the show was wrapping up soon and since we had left the pup at home by herself (in her crate) for the afternoon.