General Chat / Live 8 Coverage

I were there in berlin! it was so great!

I'm watching an AOL rebroadcast of London. Mainly for Floyd and The Who. "Won't Get Fooled Again" = performance of the day.

On my way to work this morning, Green Day was playing on my favorite XM channel because of this concert. Fuck the Live 8.

I'm upset that AOL doesn't have (re)broadcasts for Tokyo and Moscow... no Bjork ... or, am I just missing something?

Edit: Not Moscow... Johannesburg... whatever...

Edit 2: Actually, both Moscow and Johannesburg... but that has nothing to do with my point, anyways... why are any of them missing? Stupid...

Yea Tokyo, Moscow, and Johannesburg were unjustly ignored, too.



The original Live Aid in 1985 was 100000000x better though.

The Who & Pink Floyd still have it.

i was at the philly show.

it was insane - so many people.
all that matters is i got up to the front for stevie wonder. jesus, he has to be the funkiest blind man alive.

the show was such a good time. and yeah, there was tons of music. i didn't watch the tv broadcast (obviously) but i'm sure they only showed half of what really went down.

now, someone direct me to a download of the pink floyd performance. what'd they play anyway?

Floyd played (in this order) Breathe/Money/Wish You Were Here/Comfortably Numb.

I was at the London Live8 and I have to say I would have preferred to watch the crazy frog then Pink Floyd, can anyone say boring? Go ahead and tell me I'm uncultured and don't know good music but watching a bunch of coffin dodgers play songs that seem like an hour long with next to no emotion was torture.

Robbie stole the show in London without a doubt, Stereophonics were good and Snoop Dogg provided some entertaining relief from the, "children are dying every threee seconds, make your voice heard, I'm doing well at remembering this speech that some guy has wrote back stage and re-arranged 20 times for all us bands to recite", speeches that everyone made. It just lowered the tone of the concert when after every act they show a video of all the suffering going on. Ok it's bad but we get the picture, they've shown us enough times. If they don't want our money this time then they should have stopped making us depressed and let us enjoy the fucking music.

And why The Killers only got one song was beyond me (go on someone say they are shit), they were the only reason I went.

I'm upset that AOL doesn't have (re)broadcasts for Tokyo and Moscow... no Bjork ... or, am I just missing something?

Bjork's on the global one. Only one song though.

Any place I can view the Floyd performance still?

I have the BBC video of the Floyd performence if like 3 of you want it I will upload it.

that would be much appreciated, chapel.

Bjork's on the global one. Only one song though.

Yeah... does anyone have a REALLY big picture of that? No? Probably not... but I want that for my desktop... everything I've seen from that performance was really creepy... in a good way... as is expected, of course...

Winamp has all the PF songs up to stream. (media lib, Winamp videos)

I really hate to be a cunt about this whole thing but I can't help but wonder how many they could have fed with the millions spent to put this thing together.

I'm pretty sure the idea was that the bands played for free. To support the aid society? Not positive though.

Yeah, the whole idea this time was the 'we don't want your money we want you' campaign. Geldof even went as far to say that charity will never solve the problem because all the money we give just goes towards paying off debt - which makes Live Aid and the past 20 years seem like a waste of time to be honest.

This time they wanted to get everyone to sign an online petition and make their voices heard by going to Gleneagles for the G8 summit to get the world leaders to cancel the debt Africa owes.

I really hate to be a cunt about this whole thing but I can't help but wonder how many they could have fed with the millions spent to put this thing together.

I'm with you on this one.

The bands played for "free". The but in this is the gift baskets they recieved in return. The value of one of these was roughly $3,000 US with some as high as $12,000 US. Now the content of these baskets were donated too, but still sort of seems at odds witht he idea, no? Hooray to the fist concert for a tax increase.

http://www.kentucky....ic/12023967.htm

The idea of the concert was not to raise money for Africa but to draw the attention of the G8 leaders to the problems in Africa. Therefore, the money was not such a problem. As TPM said, if it'd just been a fundraiser, all that money would just be spent on the debts that they owe us. So, basically, we would be paying to make our country richer which goes against the idea of charity.

So, I think it's better that the G8 leaders should do something about it rather than the billions who watched Live8. The G8 leaders are now pressurized to do something that billions worldwide want to happen.