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Utah fans review Jack White’s cellphone-free show: ‘Ridiculous’ or ‘Friggin’ awesome,’ depending on whom you ask

Magna • There’s a scene in the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” where Paul Rudd’s character says that, since moving to Hawaii and becoming a surf instructor, he’s quit wearing his watch. Jason Segal’s character fanboys over such living in the moment, but Rudd quickly disabuses him of any grand-scheme-of-things mysticism:

Provo resident Michael Richardson could identify with that at Thursday night’s Jack White concert at Great Saltair. He wasn’t wearing a watch. But he found himself wanting one. Because even though he remembered full well that his smartphone was stowed in a lockable canvas pouch — like everyone else’s at the show — that didn’t keep him from trying to check it.