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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: Jim on June 18, 2005, 10:31 AM
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Well the lineup for the Live 8 is pretty disappointing other than Pink Floyd putting there differences aside for a good cause. I am really shocked about this one. Hopefully a final tour is in the near future. Fingers crossed. These guys are all in there 60's now. But, the drummer (Wright) said he would love to still complete with the Stones, McCarthney, etc. As someone who has seen Waters and Floyd several times each, I can say that well both are good, Floyd is amazing in concert.
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To say I was floored when I heard this "reunion" announced is a true understatement. As much of a control freak as Waters was near the end of Floyd, it just wasn't Floyd without him. I didn't get into the stuff either he or Gilmour/Mason/Wright did on their own post-TFC (I found TPACOH rather masturbatory and the two "Floyd" albums were like soft-rock easy listening for the most part), but all you need to do is put on DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, or (the greatest album of all time) The Wall and it erases everything after TFC from your memory.
While I don't think this will be a permanent reunion or even a harbinger of a tour with the 70's lineup, it will be nice to see/hear the four of them on stage together again, and it's for a wonderful cause, which makes it even better. Is the show going to be broadcast this time around, or is MTV doing yet another "Real World/Road Rules Talentless Reality Whores" marathon that day instead?
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The American list for Live8 sucks balls.
USA
Will Smith (host)
50 Cent
Bon Jovi
Dave Matthews Band
Jay-Z
Kaiser Chiefs
Keith Urban
Maroon 5
P Diddy
Rob Thomas
Sarah McLachlan
Stevie Wonder
London
Annie Lennox
Bob Geldof
Coldplay
Cure, The
Dido
Elton John, Sir
Joss Stone
Keane
Killers, The
Madonna
Mariah Carey
Ms. Dynamite
Muse
Paul McCartney, Sir
Pink Floyd
Razorlight
REM
Robbie Williams
Scissor Sisters
Snoop Dogg
Snow Patrol
Stereophonics
Sting
Travis
U2
UB40
Velvet Revolver
London is getting Pink Floyd and Cream in the same year... that's so unfair.
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Linkin Park just joined the Phili crowd of performers. Too bad I can't go. >:(
Kevin
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Up here, looks like Toronto has been confimed for Live 8.
Tuesday they will confirm the line-up but rumors are:
Dan Aykroyd to host.
Jann Arden.
Our Lady Peace.
Bryan Adams.
The Rolling Stones are there but to busy with other commitments from what I read.
Just have to wait till Tuesday like, I can make it. >:(
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I couldn't believe it when I heard it either. Of all the bands and all the reunion shows, this is one I *never* would have thought to happen. I have a feeling - and maybe this is way off base - that this one-time reunion might be a "test". If they can work through their differences and get through this show without strangling each other, it stands to reason that they might be able to stick together for a reunion tour across the world. One can only hope. :)
John
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I couldn't believe it when I heard it either. Of all the bands and all the reunion shows, this is one I *never* would have thought to happen. I have a feeling - and maybe this is way off base - that this one-time reunion might be a "test". If they can work through their differences and get through this show without strangling each other, it stands to reason that they might be able to stick together for a reunion tour across the world. One can only hope. :)
John
JohnH, great to see my fellow prog head around these parts!
Yeah, I was pretty stunned when I heard the Pink Floyd reunion was happening. I was also suprised it wasn't breaking news on some of the radios stations I listen to. Wish I could see it.
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The American list for Live8 sucks balls.
USA
Will Smith (host)
50 Cent
Bon Jovi
Dave Matthews Band
Jay-Z
Kaiser Chiefs
Keith Urban
Maroon 5
P Diddy
Rob Thomas
Sarah McLachlan
Stevie Wonder
London
Annie Lennox
Bob Geldof
Coldplay
Cure, The
Dido
Elton John, Sir
Joss Stone
Keane
Killers, The
Madonna
Mariah Carey
Ms. Dynamite
Muse
Paul McCartney, Sir
Pink Floyd
Razorlight
REM
Robbie Williams
Scissor Sisters
Snoop Dogg
Snow Patrol
Stereophonics
Sting
Travis
U2
UB40
Velvet Revolver
London is getting Pink Floyd and Cream in the same year... that's so unfair.
Man, how did London make out with all the good acts?
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Historically, I think England in genral produces better bands, so it's no wonder they have all the good bands. :P
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Here's the update for our Live 8:
Hosts: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Green.
Bryan Adams
Jann Arden
Bachman Cummings Band
Barenaked Ladies
Blue Rodeo
Bruce Cockburn
Celine Dion (by satellite from Las Vegas) Hold me back!
Gordon Lightfoot
Motley Crue
Deep Purple
Our Lady Peace
Simple Plan
Sam Roberts
Tragically Hip
Great Big Sea
African Guitar Summit
Tom Cochrane
DobaCaracol featuring Kna'an
Les Trois Accords
Tegan & Sara
Get your tickets or just sit a home and watch it on TV.
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Wait, this crap will be on TV?
Kevin
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Up here so far. :P
“Greatest Hits” recap to air in primetime after over 12 hours of worldwide coverage -- CTV Plans Historic Day of Rock 'n' Roll as Broadcaster of Worldwide Live 8 Concerts, July 2 (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/show/CTVShows/1119365363100_114773261)
CTV to broadcast Live 8 Canada Concert (http://digitalhomecanada.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=443&Itemid=51)
Tuesday, 21 June 2005
At a press conference today it was announced that CTV would be the host broadcaster for Live 8 Canada concert slated for July 2nd.
The network will broadcast over 12 hours of live coverage including segments from additional Live 8 concerts around the world.
CTV plans to broadcast from the beginning, going live early on Saturday, July 2 when the first act takes to the stage overseas, and continuing until the last act finishes at Live 8 Canada, sometime around 8 p.m. ET. CTV also plans to air a "Greatest Hits" recap in primetime following the conclusion of the live broadcast with highlights from the most memorable performances of the day from around the world. In addition to Barrie, Live 8 concerts are scheduled for London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Philadelphia and Cornwall, England. Tokyo and Johannesburg have also been mentioned as possible locations.
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Bah! I don't get your Canadian TV down here. My dad will though.
It's bad when prisoners get a better cable package than I do. ::)
Kevin
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Just read this on Pink Floyd.com (http://www.pinkfloyd.com):
It has been confirmed that Roger Waters will join Pink Floyd to perform at the Live8 concert in Hyde Park on 2nd July.
David Gilmour made the following statement:
“Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world. It’s crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention then it’s got to be worthwhile.”
Pretty cool to read something like that. I saw Pink Floyd in Montreal in '94 and the show was fantastic. It's certainly been a while since they performed together live, but it certainly has the potential to be a great show. I'm just encouraged to read that musicians who are as well off as the members of Pink Floyd are coming together to do something like this for charity. They certainly don't need to perform for money anymore.
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MTV and VH1 will air these concerts live, or so says my radio.
Kevin
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Just read this on Pink Floyd.com (http://www.pinkfloyd.com):
David Gilmour made the following statement:
“Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world. It’s crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention then it’s got to be worthwhile.”[/i]
This is awsome! Thanks.
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The American list for Live8 sucks balls.
USA
Will Smith (host)
50 Cent
Bon Jovi
Dave Matthews Band
Jay-Z
Kaiser Chiefs
Keith Urban
Maroon 5
P Diddy
Rob Thomas
Sarah McLachlan
Stevie Wonder
London
Annie Lennox
Bob Geldof
Coldplay
Cure, The
Dido
Elton John, Sir
Joss Stone
Keane
Killers, The
Madonna
Mariah Carey
Ms. Dynamite
Muse
Paul McCartney, Sir
Pink Floyd
Razorlight
REM
Robbie Williams
Scissor Sisters
Snoop Dogg
Snow Patrol
Stereophonics
Sting
Travis
U2
UB40
Velvet Revolver
London is getting Pink Floyd and Cream in the same year... that's so unfair.
Man, how did London make out with all the good acts?
Well...to balance it out...they do have to put up with Madonna.
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Oh my god it looks like hell has froze over. Man Gilmour got fat. But its great to finally see these two together after all these years.
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Spoilers apply. Scroll down for the set list:
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Wish You Were Here
Comfortably Numb.
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Here's the update for our Live 8:
Hosts: Dan Aykroyd and Tom Green.
African Guitar Summit
Barenaked Ladies
Blue Rodeo
Bruce Cockburn
Bryan Adams
The Bachman Cummings Band
Celine Dion (by satellite from Las Vegas) Hold me back!
Deep Purple
DMC
DobaCaracol featuring K'naan
Gordon Lightfoot
Great Big Sea
Jann Arden
Jet
Les Trois Accords
Motley Crue
Neil Young
Our Lady Peace
Sam Roberts
Simple Plan
The Tragically Hip
Tom Cochrane
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Live 8 on the internet. :)
Pick Your City (http://music.aol.com/live_8_concert/live_now)
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Floyd sounded great as usual. Especially for not playing as a band since 94 or since 81? with Waters. Waters voice was a little disappointing but Gilmour rocked. Vocally and musically. It was great to hear Comfortably Numb with both Gilmour and Waters doing vocals. I would love to see them finally do a Wall Tour since they only played a few gigs back in 80 due to it being too costly. I dont expect that to happen but I gotta believe a reunion/farewell tour has to happen in the near future. And f**k you MTV/VH1 for cutting Comfortably Numb and babbling aimlessly then cutting to commercial during one of the best guitar solos in history. They hyped this for weeks and seemed that most people were looking forward to this act the most and they cut it. Other than that everyone looked pretty happy and comfortable on stage.
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MTV/VH1 ******* sucks ass, those ******* morons cut Pink Floyd, the Who, and Paul McCartney. They ******* cut half of the "end poverty/starvation" show so they could air their god damn fast food commercials. ******* idiots.
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PS. Before they burn in hell, I hope they get fined a bazillion dollars for airing that Snoop Dogg performance. Nothing better than seeing crowd shots of little 12 year old girls smiling in between close up of Snoop's "mother**** the hoes" or whatever. MTV = Stupid ****heads.
Now that I think of it, they clipped every single performance I was interested in seeing. The Who, Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Green Day, etc - all clipped by those ******* morons.
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I hear that. I made a special point to watch Pink Floyd's performance, and halfway through "Comfortably Numb" they cut to a couple of ******** talking.
What a ******* joke that was. I hope Bob Geldof has some unkind words to send their way.
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I've watched Live8 as much as possible from 2PM until the end. I recorded almost all on DVD.
I was waiting for Pink Floyd as much as anyone else in this thread. I read they would be on near the end and thought... "Crikey, they'd really be doing something special then."
I skipped much of the present-day bands, acting as if they're up there on status like PF, The Who, Paul McCartney and Madonna and what else has real class and status.
In Berlin were some real morons on stage, but... ah well.
I was wondering what the Who were going to do, but that was PHENOMENAL!
Granted, it's the titles of CSI and CSI:Miami so they took a fairly safe 2 numbers to keep in touch with the young crowd, but MAN! It still shows older groups out-perform those new ones.
I also liked Robbie Williams, as he is always great with the audiences.
But then, Gilmour, Water, Mason, Wright... Phew... I mean... On 1 stage... God, as said in the audience: PIGS CAN FLY!
If they'd played all numbers all day, I'd have been in pigs-heaven. And how wonderfully precise and great their skills are still, even though they are not that active anymore performing, and also, for the first time in over 20 years, it sounded like only yesterday they last performed together.
Gilmour hasn't aged in his voice, what a great voice still and nothing indicated he was 20 years older then he sounded on The Wall or TFC.
Waters, as evidenced from the In the Flesh tours and prior to that, has suffered in his voice, but still, all together, what a sight, what a way to re-unite.
One could only hope for more, but realistically, you have to agree it's not likely.
It did look that Roger was more moved with the reunion than Gilmour, as it was Roger who voiced his feelings during the performance, and also gestured Gilmour for the hug afterwards.
A great moment in music-history, and a profound day for human history.
Let's hope the G8 listen.
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PS. Before they burn in hell, I hope they get fined a bazillion dollars for airing that Snoop Dogg performance. Nothing better than seeing crowd shots of little 12 year old girls smiling in between close up of Snoop's "mother**** the hoes" or whatever. MTV = Stupid ****heads.
Now that I think of it, they clipped every single performance I was interested in seeing. The Who, Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Green Day, etc - all clipped by those ******* morons.
It was always nice to see MTV cut away to speak with yet another fan who traveled to see the show. Ummmm...yeah. That's what people do MTV. People can actually travel the globe. It's possible in this modern age of planes, trains, and automobiles.
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I'm glad I watched it on BBC
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I don't have cable TV (but I am on the net via cable modem,) so I only got to see the ABC performance and they only showed one song from each performer. For Pink Floyd, it was "Money" which was a bummer for two reasons: 1, Waters did't sing and 2, "Money" is my least favorate Pink Floyd song of all time. I love every other peice of music they ever recorded.
Incidently, they censored "BS" by faking an audio mistake. Quite amusing.
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Is there anyplace to download the performances, now? There's a few of those artists I wouldn't mind watching. Is MTV replaying the thing a thousand times just like every other big event they do?
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I think AOL.com has them. If anyone can get video of the Pink Floyd performance let me know!
ABC's coverage only showed them playing Money....and the cut to commercial at the end of the guitar solo!!! ********!
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I caught a few fragments of this.
You know hell has frozen over when Maroon 5 :-X does Neil Young's "Rocking in the Free World". :o To my surprise, it wasn't completely unlistenable, but the very notion is blasphemous. >:(
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Aye.
Had they tried to touch "Cowgirl in the Sand" or "Cortez the Killer" my head would have exploded.
Why couldn't they cover something off of Landing on Water?
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Been checking out the Floyd sites for the last week and it looks like our hopes of an official Floyd reunion wont be happening :'( Gilmour has no interest going back on the road at his age. Mason and Wright expressed interest but Gilmour holds the final key. Waters will be back out touring next year. Unfortuneately Waters Live show does not even come close to the PF experience. I am not that impressed with his band at all. Even if they toured without Gimour it would be a major disappointment. Maybe someone will offer a ton of money for charity for a new tour, but it does not sound promising.
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Just a quick reply on seeing some news last night. PF was offered 175 million for just a U.S. Tour. They did not mention for how many shows it would of been. Either way Gilmour said not interested >:(
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Good news in the form of an email I got today:
Dear Friend:
This is a big thank you to all 1.5 million of you who joined together as ONE to do something extraordinary.
From the 500,000 letters you sent to President Bush to Live 8 in Philadelphia to the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, you called on eight men to do more to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty, and they heard your call. In Scotland this past Friday, overcoming the shadow of a tragic day in London, President Bush joined G8 leaders in an unprecedented deal to cancel debts and double aid to Africa (http://link.theonecampaign.org/track.cgi?27-1290-1937145-6702-http://www.one.org/InTheNews.aspx).
For African nations fighting poverty and corruption, this means a $25 billion increase in aid and wiping out 100% of their debts. With this funding, Africa can halve deaths from malaria, put millions of children into school, and 10 million people across the world will have access to lifesaving AIDS drugs. Behind each of these numbers is one person, one life that will be changed forever.
For the first time ever, everyday Americans like you joined together to take a seat at the negotiating table, asking the world's most powerful leaders to do more to help the world's poorest people. Because you signed the ONE Declaration, wore the white band and forwarded emails to friends about ONE, you made a huge step toward making poverty history. We've come so far and still have far to go.
Keep the momentum going, email 3 friends about ONE today (http://link.theonecampaign.org/track.cgi?27-1290-1937145-6704-http://www.one.org/ActionEmail.aspx).
This agreement is a real victory for Africa - but promises made of words will only become promises for a generation if we keep watching, asking and acting. Much more needs to be done in Washington DC to turn these commitments into lifesaving programs, and the world must take new steps to make trade fair. More meetings will take place this year in New York and Hong Kong where a comprehensive debt-aid-trade deal can be reached and end global AIDS and extreme poverty in our time.
We can be that great generation. As ONE, let's keep up the positive pressure and make 2005 the year we joined together to make history.
Thank you,
The ONE Team
P.S. You can learn more about the details of the G8 deal by checking out the ONE.ORG G8 page (http://link.theonecampaign.org/track.cgi?27-1290-1937145-6705-http://www.one.org/g8countdown.html).
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Just a quick reply on seeing some news last night. PF was offered 175 million for just a U.S. Tour. They did not mention for how many shows it would of been. Either way Gilmour said not interested >:(
They've got to do a US tour. They have to. It's only right.