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Phones, camera, iPads etc at gigs pisses me off. And I'm 6'2. My gf is under 5' so can barely see over people's heads, when they're holding the fore mentioned items aloft throughout the gig - not just during the first few songs that the hired pros tend to work through - she has no chance.
As already mentioned, I'm sure the band would rather interact with a crowd of faces rather than a sea of camera phones and people staring up at the tiny LCD screens on them. Also, you think you're doing the bands justice by recording their stage show on your iphone/piece of shit compact camera, compressing it/adding some dodgy filter then posting on Facebook etc? I think they'd rather be represented by photography and videography carried out by professional people using professional equipment and shot from the distance/angles that only these people get to shoot from.
Lastly, how many times are you really going to watch the grainy, blurry, tinny sounding videos you spent the whole gig shooting instead of watching the gig you paid to attend?
TLDR: photography from the crowd is antisocial for everyone. The rest of the crowd, the band.
That said - whatok, don't go the way of all the press photogs I know, doing nowt but whinging on and on about crowd sourcing images until you find yourself out of work. Accept that the world is changing and try to change with it.