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Topic: Would you find a close-up photographer annoying during song? |
Don R Brown
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Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 1:44 pm |
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Question for you players who are or were in a band. How much would it bother you to have a photographer in your face during a song?
Prowling YouTube, I found this Norwegian band doing a Buck Owens tribute. Somewhere about :45 a guy comes up and takes a few pics of the singer and guitar player. Then about 1:25, he gets about 18 inches off the steel and appears to follow every move for the rest of the song!  Assuming this is NOT someone the band knew and had arranged to have take pics for them, how much would this bother you? I was half expecting the steeler to give him a left jab, bar and all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG_68WvDdZ4 |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 2:09 pm
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| Unless he had asked or arrangements had been made beforehand, I'd say it's rather rude and inconsiderate. (I'm sure the audience didn't enjoy looking at his sloppy ass in front of the bandstand.) |
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Hook Moore
From:
South Charleston,West Virginia
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 3:34 pm
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It's good publicity. The problem comes when no-one wants to photograph you.  |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 3:51 pm
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| If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 4:01 pm From where I sit............
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The price some of us had to pay merely for being
famous. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 4:29 pm
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It only bothers me if they stupid enough to use a flash. Then I would say something, or flip him off or something. In this video, there was a pro videographer. He came up right in front of me on stage and stayed for about the whole song (you can see an excerpt at around 2:30). He not only shot what you see, but he took video from other angles, including underneath the guitar. This was a promo film for the band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8uqdnd4osY
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 4:50 pm
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Just so long as I wasn't wearing a Kilt 
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Tim Whitlock
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 5:07 pm
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Happens so much in this age where everybody has a camera in their phone. I've gotten used to it and take it as a compliment when someone wants to film or photograph. As long as the person is respectful I usually try to have fun with it and mug or do something silly.
I'd have to say this guy got a little too intrusive with the steel player.
Nice playing by the way. |
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Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 5:25 pm
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The thing that bothers me more is someone coming up and wanting to carry on a conversation with me in the middle of my most intricate solo. (that's assuming that ANY of my solos are intricate).
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Ian Worley
From:
Sacramento, CA
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 5:30 pm
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| That's Bill Clinton on steel. No wonder the cameraman was so keen to take all those picture |
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Bud Angelotti
From:
Larryville, NJ, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 6:26 pm
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he didn't know what that instument was with all those strings attached to a table, but he liked it.
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 6:36 pm
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| Clyde Mattocks wrote: |
| The thing that bothers me more is someone coming up and wanting to carry on a conversation with me in the middle of my most intricate solo. (that's assuming that ANY of my solos are intricate). |
Hell... I don't like it when they try to have a conversation and I'm not playing.
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 7:06 pm
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When we were recording the first Blueground Undergrass album, live in the studio, the bandleader had contracted to have a three-camera film done of the sessions as well. There were several cameramen with Steadi-Cams around at pretty much all times, but what made things interesting was that whenever it was time for me to take a solo, one of the cameramen would swoop up and stick his enormous rig right up into the steel, actually between my face and the fretboard... eventually I asked him if he could please back off just a bit.
What was really interesting was that in the ensuing conversation we both realized that we had both dated the same girl at different times. Small world and all.
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Doug Earnest
From:
Branson, MO USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2014 7:39 pm
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It doesn't bother me. Hell, if I didn't want to show off I wouldn't be playing music!
It also gives you an excuse to set up straight, get your right hand in the correct position, try to put a smile on, look at the audience and act like you know something.  |
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Daniel Policarpo
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 3:04 am
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The perspective of the camera and foreground makes the photographer look a lot closer than he really is in the original video of the thread. Those guys are fantastic and they look sharp as hell, plus they got a young kid playing lead. One of the videos from that show pan out to show the valley they're playing in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6_i0V1_wmE
It's an amazing view! One day soon I'd like to take a trip to Norway and then mozy on over to Scotland. You folks have some great country. Pun intended. |
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 7:28 am
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I'm usually making a stooopid face so I'd rather they use posed pics of me. I have 8x10's and some wallet sizes available if needed.
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Joan Cox
From:
Eustace, TX USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 8:49 am
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| I hate when you are in the middle of a lead or intro or something and the guy with the camera keeps saying "Hey, look up and smile...you are always looking down...". Well, duh!! |
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 8:58 am
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And then there's always the chance that being right up close might actually capture something cool...
This is a closeup of my bar hand M. Sheehan took at a festival some years back. I don't know if it's visible here, but in the print you can see the entire festival crowd, stage, and park reflected in the nose of the bar. I just love this shot.
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Johan Jansen
From:
Europe
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 10:49 am
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| That's Bill Clinton on steel. No wonder the cameraman was so keen to take all those picture |
LOL! I hope Egil Skjelness, the steeler, reads this!  |
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Don R Brown
From:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 10:52 am
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| Ian Worley wrote: |
| That's Bill Clinton on steel. No wonder the cameraman was so keen to take all those picture |
I thought Bill played the hormonica. |
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 11:11 am
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| Don R Brown wrote: |
| Ian Worley wrote: |
| That's Bill Clinton on steel. No wonder the cameraman was so keen to take all those picture |
I thought Bill played the hormonica. |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 18 Jul 2014 4:48 pm
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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