I just looove being preached to by a bunch of multi-kazillionaires! Thank you, Brad Pitt. There are "sensitive young artists" with high ideals Who recognize the danger and stuff their ears with fame -Ten Hands
No offense (which is usually how I preface an offensive comment) but anyone who did NOT list Our Lady Peace as an act they would want to see in Barrie, you are incredibly lame. I've seen them twice and they put on an incredible live show. Maybe you just don't know who they are, or maybe you've only heard what's played on the radio which like most bands is not their best stuff. Shame on you
Is VH1 the only TV station televising stuff? I really wanted to catch Pink Floyd but I have no idea when I should be watching...
Anyone else notice that the sound quality it pretty half-assed? I was thinking it was my cable but I checked both MVT and VH1.
Pretty off-topic, but Jann Arden covered one of my uncle's songs once, but she completely f!cked it up. It was about a rural cross-dressing dude driving around town in his best dress, and it kind of lost its impact when sung by a woman.
I tried to watch, but the songs were always interrupted by the hosts and interviews with fans. It was too annoying and I had to turn off the television. It is ashame that this event was ruined for me.
Yeah, me too. I watched for a little while hoping to see some music but they kept interrupting it with interviews of fans saying how long they drove to get there. Why do we need hosts anyway? Just show the music. I finally had to switch over to a much more meaningful show....the Monty Pyton marathon on BBC. BTW, every time I switch over hoping to catch a decent act actually playing music, they're on a commercial. Seems like there are a LOT of commercials. Isn't this supposed to be a benefit?
Associated Press Best Live 8 Viewing to Be Found Online 07.02.2005, 03:52 PM In Berlin, Green Day proclaimed its majesty with a cover of Queen's "We Are the Champions" as R.E.M. performed "Man on the Moon" in London. And R.E.M. hadn't left the stage before Tim McGraw began singing "Live Like You Were Dying" in Rome. These were just a few of Live 8's thrilling musical moments that you couldn't see on live television. For the ultimate viewing experience, you needed America Online. Television seemed shockingly old-fashioned in how it followed Saturday's worldwide concert for poverty relief. AOL's coverage was so superior, it may one day be seen as a historical marker in drawing people to computers instead of TV screens for big events. Part of it was simply the way things were structured. Concerts held more or less simultaneously in 10 venues are next to impossible for television to get its arms around. And part of it was also MTV's failure to really try. There were as many commercial breaks as performances, and MTV's stable of correspondents spent more time talking about what a fantastic event it was instead of showing it. With a click of the mouse, America Online visitors could jump from a video feed of the London concert to one from Philadelphia, Berlin or Rome. The performances were shown in their entirety. By mid-afternoon, AOL had set a record with 150,000 people simultaneously viewing video streams, the most ever, according to AOL programming chief Bill Wilson. While AOL could be faulted for failing to fill in users with a comprehensive schedule ahead of time, it offered updates onscreen under an entry called "The Buzz." People watching Kanye West in Philadelphia, for instance, were flashed a message: "Brian Wilson is performing `Good Vibrations' in Berlin." Or they were told Snoop Dogg was about to take the stage in London. It was utterly addictive. It tied the event together and gave music fans a reason to stay glued to their computers. AOL's "global feed" feature offered a chance to catch up with performances that just took place, with little chatter or interruption. When Destiny's Child took the stage in Philadelphia to sing "Survivor," MTV was showing a tape of Coldplay from three hours earlier in London. MTV also suffered from a maddeningly short attention span: It missed the opening of a Black-Eyed Peas song because of an interview with fans, then cut off the end for a commercial. MTV simply had too many elements - interviews, personalities who needed their "face time" and all those performances - to give its broadcast any sense of coherence. Overall, the day's events were magnificent in their sheer breadth and diversity. Organizer Bob Geldof promised to deliver "the greatest concert ever, and it was hard to prove him wrong. Most acts seized the moment with magnanimity, realizing it could be the most-remembered moment from their careers. After backing Paul McCartney on the concert-opening "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," U2 cemented its status as the world's top rock band. It performed "Beautiful Day," "Vertigo" and "One" with ease and power. Green Day - whose crowd-pleasing leader Billie Joe Armstrong has a future in Vegas - had a powerful four-song set. And after being critically discounted in recent years, R.E.M. was intent on proving its strength. Carried out on a throne behind women spreading rose petals in his path, Will Smith gave a delightfully over-the-top show in his hometown of Philly. Madonna rose to the occasion with a stage full of singers and breakdancers all dressed in white. The day's oddest trend? Masks. R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe had an odd blue raccoon-like mask painted on his face, and Kanye West's violin players looked like they had black masking tape over their eyes. By ending with the desultory "Fix It," Coldplay missed a chance to make a powerful statement for itself; cameras were busy in Coldplay's set with no less than three peeks at singer Chris Martin's wife Gwyneth Paltrow and their baby in the front row. Dido also seemed to be swallowed up by the large stage, her voice not up to the challenge. The day also promised a reunion concert by Pink Floyd.
Watch the rest of it online with no commercials and no commentators!!! You choose which artist/city to watch http://music.aol.com/live_8_concert/live_now
This is all good, but how about next time they hold a concert in the country they are trying to help. Those people could use a break from their everyday troubles.
Have they even played an entire song? What director thought it would be a better idea to show the hosts talking over the music intead of, hmmm, THE MUSIC?!!?!!?!? You know they had production meetings and someone in charge actually had to say "People won't stay tuned in if we show all the bands and their entire sets; so instead we'll show snippets of music and focus more on our hosts and thier mindless banter. That will get people to stay tuned." The cut off Won't Get Fooled Again before the best part (the final scream) and my wife just called me into the den to see R.E.M. only they only shows about 3/4 of the song. Okay. I just saw the Pink Floyd segment. They played three songs in their entirety. So far so good. But they cut off the fourth song.... This coverage really SUCKS.
