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| - I really hate to give a 1 star. To be honest the venue, the volunteers, the library are all 4 stars but the security staff they employ are sub par and downright rude.
Me and a few friends went to see BlackBerry smoke perform at the hall on 3.21.15 and it was our first time to the venue from out of state. We loved the place, the fans were great and the people were great.
Cell phone cameras, have you been to a concert in the last 10 years? Every bar band, concert, venue or sports event has thousands of fans taking pictures and video. For the most part venues ignore this because it's not high enough quality that someone would pay for it so they look the other way. Bands look the other way too because people sharing pictures and video on social media means thousands of people are seeing them and hearing about them. Where artists and venues have a problem is when someone comes in with a $3,000 camera and uses that. That will produce a quality that might represent lost sales, makes sense right?
I've been to hundreds of concerts and scores of venues and never been to a venue where security was so overbearing and annoying that it actually detracted from the show. I know it was the venue and not the show because I've seen the same band at other venues and never saw security disrespect so many people. In about a 4 hour time within 60 feet of me I saw at least 50-60 times where security was barging in front of people making them stop their recording on their cell phone. Seeing security jump in front of people like morons at a respectful and mostly adult crowd was way more distracting than the random drunk. Because of this, I will never go to this venue again. I am not a person that holds out my phone the entire concert but I do like to get one song on my phone for memory, sharing with family and something to look back on in the future, not to make money.
The ironic part was security did not check bags, do a metal wand scan or stop anyone coming into the place. To me, I'd rather they ensure that someone doesn't have a bomb or a Rambo knife than a dang cell phone. They did no security checks just cell phone camera checks which was annoying. If u were trying to record I would have been upset, I actually got my one song recorded but every 15 seconds they were stopping someone around me for 4 hours, it was ridiculous and hurt the freedom and enjoyment of the show
Great band, great venue just get a new head of security and focus on keeping the public safe, the band safe and not on camera phones.
Wanted everyone to be aware of this because I didn't know before coming to this venue, had I known I would have waited to see them at a different venue
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