The fact that everybodys bringing a camera to the show, is that improving concert photography?
I guess you could call that concert photography. But they’re using that as a memory, and I don’t do that. I don’t use my camera as my memory. I use my brain as my memory. I don’t want to have a picture of me by the Eiffel Tower just because I was by the Eiffel Tower; it doesn’t make sense to me. And that’s what people are doing now. “Oh, I want to take a picture of my friend next to this pig.” Well, just remember your friend next to that pig. Why do you have to take a picture of it? How do you feel about people bringing cameras to shows? It’s disturbing to me, because they’re not concentrating on the music. They’re concentrating on the happening, the event of it, rather than the music. The standard—shoot only during the first three songs, and then out—I’m assuming is the Crosby, Stills, and Nash photo policy. It is. Some of these pictures in your show, like Hendrix burning his guitar, are things that didn’t take place during the first three songs. Are we missing out on moments like tha
