A fascinating turn of events of the recent Carnegie comp video thats circulating. So what do you guys think of crowd sourced comps??? From @tom adams & @bernie b shakey: A couple days ago a so-called crowd-sourced Neil Young Carnegie Hall video made its way to YouTube…and went viral, or close to it. In less than 48 hours, the video, which captures the complete 1.7.14 show, generated an impressive 16,000+ views (and counting), but thats nothing compared to whats about to happen to it. You see, the video, expertly created by my Facebook friend Tom Adams, not only caught the eye of rabid Neil Young aficionados, but the powerful and mighty Wall Street Journal also somehow stumbled upon it. And the WSJ deemed the video so noteworthy they opted to publish a story about it (which Ive posted below). In a nutshell, Neils camp aint too thrilled with Toms amazing work: We find this sort of practice to be incredibly rude toward both the audience and the artist, says Elliot Roberts, who was quoted in the article (which Ive posted below). These days, the practice of people snapping photos and video at any event, not just concerts, is as common as a yellow taxi in NYC, as turkey and mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving, as Neil Young wearing a plaid shirt. *Snap!* People have a want, desire to make a digital copy of their life, their entire life - we record EVERYTHING now. *Snap!* Ironically, Neil made a now-famous Selfie Rant at the 1.9.14 show. But, hey, Neil this is the world we live in today, rightly or wrongly. *Snap!* So whats the harm in recording some video at a show, as long as you do so in a respectful, unobtrusive manner…and dont sell it for profit? And think of all the amazing amounts of wonderfulness this video has brought to peoples lives worldwide? Carnegie Hall seats roughly 2800 people, so over four nights thats 11,200 paying customers. So, consider all the people who wanted to be there, but couldnt, for various reasons. Toms video allowed my friend in Singapore to see Neil work his magic at an incredibly anticipated show that was near-impossible to get tickets to. I think thats GREAT! But, hey, im just a fan……Elliots a music mogul businessman protecting his client. I get it, I get it. There are two sides to this coin, and both sides can be argued fervently until youre blue in the face. But I know where I stand: GREAT work Tom Adams! I hope you win an Oscar for Best Musical Score!! *Snap!* You can read the full story here: *** A Historic Neil Young Concert, Captured by a Crowd Cobbling together a Carnegie Hall show for online–with some help By JOHN JURGENSEN Jan. 23, 2014 5:59 p.m. ET On Jan. 7, Tom Adams went to see a Neil Young concert at Carnegie Hall by himself. It wasnt until days later that he made a connection with a group of other fans who attended. Like him, they had all secretly videotaped the solo acoustic performance, part of a four-night stand by Mr. Young, in his first return to the famed New York venue since 1973. On Tuesday, Mr. Adams uploaded to YouTube a video of the entire two-hour show, which he had stitched together from footage captured by fellow concertgoers seated around the theater. Most of the video was shot by Mr. Adams, a video producer from Williamsburg, Mass., on a compact Canon camera perched on the railing in front of his $150 mezzanine seat (102, Row AA). All the videos were edited to match a single audio recording made at the concert, which Mr. Adams downloaded from an anonymous source on an online-sharing site. With most everyone who goes to a concert now packing at least a camera phone, more fans are taking the next step to pool their shots and produce so-called crowdsourced concert videos. Though the legality of most of these projects is murky, some emerge with at least tacit approval from the bands. In 2006, the Beastie Boys helped popularize the concept by handing out cameras to audience members, with the resulting concert film released in theaters. A few years later, Radiohead fans cobbled together their scenes of a show in Prague, which was enhanced by a high-quality audio recording supplied by the band. And Nine Inch Nails devotees have slavishly produced multiple collaborative videos of their own. Mr. Young views video recording as a scourge of the concert experience. We find this sort of practice to be incredibly rude toward both the audience and the artist, says Elliot Roberts, the singers longtime manager. Mr. Adams says hes sensitive to how disruptive hoisted phones and glowing screens can be, and that hes careful not to annoy other fans with his camerawork. The main reason Mr. Adams sought out other peoples footage was that there were holes in his own. During Mr. Youngs delicate cover of the Phil Ochs song Changes, he recalls, I got a little too adventurous with the camera and one of the ushers came over and told me to put it away. After that, he positioned the camera more discretely on the floor, aimed through railing slats. At home, he found fan-made videos of songs he was missing or wanted to supplement, then sent the users messages through YouTube asking their permission to borrow them. Then he wove the various clips into his own with editing software, making do with some glitches. During an anecdote by Mr. Young about a guitar with a bullet hole in it, the image is blurry and an on-screen message reads, Stay tuned...video will return shortly. Mr. Adams, 44 years old, says sharing the video with fans who couldnt attend the sold-out concerts (which some critics predicted will go down as a landmark in Mr. Youngs career), takes him back to his pre-Internet days of trading cassette tapes of the singers concerts by mail with like-minded fans. To avoid raising the ire of Mr. Youngs camp or coming across as a creep doing this for financial gain, Mr. Adams prefaced the video with a note encouraging viewers to purchase the singers official releases. He said he has already declined several email offers from people seeking to buy the video for bootleg concert DVDs. Write to John Jurgensen at john.jurgensen@wsj
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:32:33 +0000
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