ahh, very true. but it seems like every show i go to i either get the security guy who hates his job or they just dont care. at the shoreline amphitheater, me and a friend could have walked in with a laptop. no pat downs, no nothing. i know that'll most likely be different at a place like the san jose event center, but im not expecting any ridiculously hard. i can probably hide a recorder in my shoe with no prob.
nah, aching necks are no big deal, its the aching feet!
I went to Shoreline for the Eagles in 1994 with My Sony TCD-D10PROII wrapped in a blanket. Security asked me to shake out the blanket to make sure I wasn't hiding anything inside. I pulled the D10 out and was about to turn around when the guy was like, "Is That a TV? you're allowed to bring that in."
a TV? wow, thats just insane. it looks nothing like one.
i knew security there was pretty bad, but i didn't know it was that bad!
alright, so an update here. i received the MD recorder from Will a few days ago and i decided to take it to a local show to test it out. aside from recording in LP4 mode (ouch, quality took a hit there) and poor microphone placement, it came out pretty decent. here's a sample of one of the bands i recorded:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/rhbn1ithe place also had horrible acoustics, so that had to be taken into account as well. the only thing i have to complain about it is poor stereo separation which i blame on mic placement. the levels were also kind of low because i was afraid of getting tons of distortion, but now i realize i probably could have had them a bit higher (because when they were, it sounded much better).