BRAIN: Re: Fwd: Brain Surgeons camphone pictures

[Paul Mather]

Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> On 22-Feb-2005 13:06, Jon Jarrett wrote:
>
>>         Any live video of that gig would have to be quite carefully
>> treated before the venue's centre-stage sign with scarlet
>> lettering forbidding taping, videoing or photography (ahem) wasn't
>> really
>> really obvious ;-)
>
>
> Natch, I would never encourage violating a venue's taping policy! :)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> ps - Hmmm, wonder if the Mean Fiddler has some set-in-stone taping
> policy?  Eh, well, I'll be able to buy the Mule gig from muletracks.com
> anyway!

Almost all of those venue prohibitions are just boilerplate done as a
courtesy for the bands (most of whom tend to be anti-taping).  I've
routinely seen "no taping allowed" on tickets I've bought to shows of
bands who explicitly allow taping.  So long as the band's management
hits the venue with a clue bat, there's no problem.  I know several
Euromulers have been vocal about the need for HardHead to do exactly
that, because the taping scene is not as big in Europe as in the USA,
and that the European venues being played might not be hip to the
concept.  Certainly, fans that have declared they are going to the
European shows have expressed a concern about taping rights, and so
there's a good chance something will get done about it.

If not, as you say, there's always Muletracks to fall back on!

Cheers,

Paul.