One of the unwritten rules concerts Bob Dylan that star does not interact with the audience. Never. There is no “Hello, Barcelona”. There is no “you are a great audience”. The songs have nothing to offer. Up until a few years ago, the Minnesota singer-songwriter still took the trouble to occasionally mention the names of musicians who had accompanied him on stage, but that too has stalled. Dylan fans who come to his performances take it for granted that there will be no parliament, and in fact almost prefer no parliament, because they know that if the artist is speaking, something is horribly wrong.
The last time Bob Dylan addressed the public in the middle of a concert was on April 16, 2019. Konzerthaus of Vienna. He had just started singing ‘Blowin’ in the wind’ (he had barely finished the first line, so most of the audience still didn’t recognize the song) that he interrupted the performance after seeing it. a spectator shooting with a cell phone. The singer took a few steps back and nearly fell when she bumped into one of the monitors. Then she turned to the microphone and spoke: “Take a photo or not take a photo. We can touch or pose. OK?” He then spat out the “Laughing takes a lot, crying takes a train” version and left the stage never to come back.
The scene is remembered today as one of the most painful episodes of Bob Dylan’s long crusade. against the presence of cell phones at concerts. A crusade that reached the highest level of warfare The tour that brings the 82-year-old singer-songwriter to the Gran Teatre del Liceu on Fridays and Saturdays Barcelona where the audience is forced keep your devices in special cases before entering their location. Despite the controversy the measure created, it appears to be an improvement over the anti-mobile strategy employed during Dylan’s previous visit to Liceu in 2018; to use phones.
lock microchip
On this occasion, the author of ‘Stuck again with the Memphis blues in mobile’, A company called Yondrmakes neoprene cases where viewers need to put their phone on vibrate or silent mode. Equipped with covers a microchip that prevents it from opening unless they are opened with a machine. In Liceu, Yondr staff will be responsible for activating safes at the entrances and opening the safes at the exit. In addition to the concert area, an area for cell phone use will be established for those in need.
The ‘Yondr method’ started to be used in erotic cabaret shows in 2014 to prevent the sharing of ‘performance’ images on the internet. They quickly adopted Comedians like Chris Rock, David Chapelle, John Mulaney, Kevin Hart and Amy Schumer, tired of seeing recordings of his monologues on social networks. and gone Jack WhiteHe is a declared enemy of modern technology and a fierce militant of the anti-mobile cause, who introduced him to the music world on his 2018 tour.
Bob Dylan, who is now following in his footsteps. The success of the initiative lies in the fact that a significant part of its audience grew up watching concerts at a time when the mobile phone was a science fiction tool. Besides, no one wants to see Dylan angry. The old bard has to say everything before he can speak.
Source: Informacion
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