When taping, there's simply no replacing a confident attitude (and by that I certainly don't mean cocky...quite the opposite). By confident, I mean being 'situation aware'.
Agreed. There are times when my heart beats a little faster but I just keep my game face on and enjoy the show.
With a majority of the crowd these days taking out their cell phones, video taping, and then uploading on Youtube...well, I am a small fish in a very large pond
Very true...and a lot of the bigger phones look quite a bit like some of the smaller recorders.
I've realized that the more grey hair I have, the less security seems concerned about me.
And the more that kids in the lot hide stuff when I walk by.
Right on both counts.
My dad went grey early...looks like I'm on course to do the same. Ha! Maybe it'll help me out in the end!
Someone PM'ed me regarding this stealth discussion business and it led me to make several conclusions. Obviously, I'm not going to post a PM publicly but I will post a digest of my thoughts on the issue. Then I'm done with it.
1. Some venues have really stringent security with wands, pat-downs and so on. Public discussion of stealth techniques is bad! You people talking about this are fucking it up for the rest of us! Security measures such as these are more the exception rather than the rule. Besides, if any such measures as those were employed, nothing that's been discussed in this particular thread would make any difference - the taper would almost definitely be busted if he/she were limited to the techniques mentioned so far. You'd have to be far more creative than has been discussed in ANY thread I've seen to get by that level of scrutiny.
2. Some of these security guys seriously know their business. They're pros...they're big, scary and thorough...and they're out to get us tapers! Also, public discussion of stealth techniques is bad! You people talking about this are fucking it up for the rest of us! Think about it. These 'security professionals' know about discreet body miking. It's part of their job to know about such things...they use them. Additionally, don't you think that professionals can figure this shit out for themselves...with or without our help? If a bunch of tapers can figure out how to sneak gear in then it stands to reason that these crack security teams can figure it out, too.
The pat-down/metal detector types of venues, generally arenas - some clubs, typically only care about tapers as much as the band and their management do. They're far more worried about fights breaking out and liquor being brought in. The smuggled liquor undercuts in-house alcohol sales and helps to fuel angry drunks, which leads to fights. Tapers don't cost a venue jack shit.
3. (again) Public discussion of stealth techniques is bad! You people talking about this are fucking it up for the rest of us! Try googling "stealth concert recording". Anybody can search the google. if they do then they'll probably run across this:
It's the 2nd search result.
http://curefans.com/index.php?topic=4255.0Check out the 10th post down...user "rjl".
I spend quite a bit of time on TS myself but there
are other sites that discuss taping. Stealth taping. Openly.
4. (and again...) Public discussion of stealth techniques is bad! You people talking about this are fucking it up for the rest of us! Security personnel have procedures that they follow. These procedures are just as likely to uncover a pipe bomb as they are a recording rig. The notion that these guys are actively patrolling TS in an effort to discover some carelessly posted super-secret jedi trick is hilarious.
I couldn't care less if stealth gets discussed openly or not. I just think it's funny when people get so bent out of shape over something so petty. If such info weren't already completely accessible to pretty much the whole world, I would readily concede the point. If it's TS policy not to discuss stealth, that's totally fine by me...although the only attention that any moderator seems to have paid to this convoluted thread was in the form of participation.
I do have one question for those who are so worried about the security goon squads keeping tabs on us. How do you keep your gear from falling out of your panties whenever you have to crotch it?
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Just joking...sorry...I couldn't resist!)