Back in high school my good friend Drew and I would film and interview local bands in Chicago. We’d go to places like the Fireside, the 3rd Floor, the Underdog Loft, VFW’s, and several other places all over the Chicagoland area with our Hi-8 camcorders and shoot away. After a set we would sometimes literally drag the band over to an area where we could interview them. Drew would then take the footage, edit it together nicely and copy it to dozens of VHS tapes. We’d then take those tapes to shows and sell them to fans like us. It was such a great time in my life.

What got me thinking about this was when I cam across Veokami, a site that collects video of live concerts taken by fans on their mobile devices. It’s a moden version of what we were doing, but pulling video from multiple sources of the same concert. It is a fantastic idea and site and I truly hope it takes off.

Bonus: Here is a video I took of A.F.I. performing File 13 at the FIreside Bowl on Nov. 25 1997.