Mobile phones: can”t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em, can’t shove ’em up the arse of whatever raging shitwit has decided it’s a good idea to block your view of a gig by trying to capture 30 seconds of shaky, barely audible footage that will be uploaded to YouTube and never watched again.
These days, every second of every live show that’s been played in the last 10 years exists online, but it wasn’t always that way. Take Led Zeppelin. One of the biggest selling bands in history, onstage footage of them is relatively scarce – just a handful of professionally filmed shows and the odd, blurry if tantalising home video clip. Hey, that‘s 70s tech for you, kids.
