Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe blasts fans who film shows on their phones

Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe has blasted audiences who spend shows filming through their smartphones and says he plans to turn the tables by sitting down and filming the crowd.

Speaking on the ‘Kyle Meredith With...’ interview series, Blythe said: "I'm not asking for sympathy, like, 'Poor Randy, he feels bad.' But, yeah, the relationship is missing. And I want a relationship with the audience.”

"I haven't done this yet, but I'm going to," he continued. "As the phones come more and more and more, I'm going to walk out one day at a particularly phone-driven show and I'm gonna bring a stool, and I'm gonna set it down in the middle of the stage after a song or two, and then I'm going to turn on my phone, and I'm gonna point it at the audience, and I'm gonna sit there, and I'm gonna sing a whole song.

"I'm not gonna move. I'm gonna do what they do. And then at the end, I'm gonna say, 'Did you people enjoy that? No? I didn't either. So why don't we be here together? Put your fricking phone down.'"

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Expounding further he said: "The memories that you're going to have, because you're experiencing this show through this digital filter or whatever of a crappy cell phone video…

"You're not Steven Spielberg. Sit here and enjoy the show with me. Be here with me, because that's how it was when I started going to shows. Except for — thank God — those people back in the '80s who were photographer nerds.

“The weird people, there was always one or two with a camera who would take pictures, and thank God for them, 'cause they documented things. But everybody else was present. And people are missing it nowadays by viewing a show through a tiny iPhone screen. Be here with me."

Asked if he would follow the likes of Tool with a ‘no phones’ policy at shows, he replied: "I thought about it. My band probably wouldn't be down with it. I'd be totally great if they were no cell phones. Because these things, they are warping the shape of our reality in a horrific way across the board."

He added: "I'm not a Luddite, I am not anti-technology — clearly we are using it right now — but I think it would behoove us to step back and examine our relationship with technology and see what is being taken from us, the human aspect. And I'm just gonna discuss music here — it's certainly removed that human aspect, in a lot of ways, from shows at times.”

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