You’d think we’d all have learned our lesson by now: if you say something even mildly embarrassing on the web, more people than your originally intended audience are eventually going to read it. Yet every week we find the wrong people saying the wrong things in the wrong places. This time, it’s the Velvet Lounge, being perhaps a little over-zealous in policing its video policies.

In June, local musician Lauren Heckman posted to YouTube a one-minute, soundless video of a Rashad show at the Velvet. The quality is pretty poor, but like most YouTube items, it was simply a captured moment the videographer wanted to publicly remember. Over the weekend, though, Velvet Lounge representative Rob Curtis ran across the video and took, shall we say, mild exception to it, leaving the following in comments:

The Velvet Lounge has banned all amature [sic] photography and video after seeing this and other crappy videos. Get caught making one and you will be kicked out. Our stage is professional, well lit sounds fantastic and this kind of crap does us an injustice. Shame on whoever posted this garbage. We currently allow nothing less than a GL2 with no auxiliary [sic] lighting. If your camera cost you less than about two grand and you don’t know what you are doing leave it at home.

Photo by flickr user furcafe.