Topic: OT: Anyone watching the LIVE8 concerts? (Read 4386 times)

Alex B · « **on:** July 02, 2005, 12:12:48 pm »

Anyone following the worldwide LIVE8 events?

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An estimated 5.5 BILLION PEOPLE can see LIVE 8 the greatest, greatest show on Earth

I am currently surfing through real time live concert broadcasts from London/Paris/Berlin/Philadelphia/etc.

(Using: Finland's national TV2 channel > TV card > MC11 > TV & hifi sound system. For the live video streams I have to use the web browser & integrated WMP)

www.live8live.com
www.bbc.co.uk/music/thelive8event
www.aolmusic.com
www.aol.co.uk
www.aol.fr
www.aol.de

bytestar · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2005, 01:17:46 pm »

I watch this by media center and yamaha RXV-560RDS Receiver

DJ_Hazelwood · « **Reply #2 on:** July 02, 2005, 01:55:45 pm »

Yes, watching for 3 hours now. And i'm prepared for a long night

Mastiff · « **Reply #3 on:** July 02, 2005, 02:54:25 pm »

Not particularly interested. They're only picking soft rock, pop and indie rock, like Coldplay, U2 and so on. Boooooring...

Pink Waters · « **Reply #4 on:** July 02, 2005, 03:04:42 pm »

the upcoming one will have Roger Waters Join Pink Floyd Again

Mastiff · « **Reply #5 on:** July 02, 2005, 03:06:58 pm »

I know. But that's really like Brian Wilson on the road again - tired, old men. It's the old boys team of rock'n'roll together with the politically correct elite of the younger bands. If I want Floyd, I'll watch The Wall again. Or listen to their good albums, like Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon. From The Final Cuts and on I haven't been much impressed with them.

Mastiff · « **Reply #6 on:** July 02, 2005, 03:11:40 pm »

Btw do you know what the headline of one of Africa's bigger newspapers today was? "Bob who?" They don't care much about it. And the one of these concerts that is held in Africa was only added to the program after a bunch of complaints about overlooking that Africa's more than starving children and slum...

The african's most common answer to all this is "Yeah, right. We have heard that one before! And we're still just as poor..."

Mastiff · « **Reply #7 on:** July 02, 2005, 04:06:16 pm »

OK, I did turn on for a little while (mostly because I was waiting for the news...), and two out of three isn't bad. Alicia Keys sings as good as she looks. Roxy Music still looks like a bunch of used car salesmen, but play good, Ferry's voice hasn't changed a bit in 30 years, and the sax is great. But the rest of Stone Temple Pilots and Guns'N'Roses? Pheeew! Gimme a break! The LSD prog was a great 70's tradition that should have been left for dead in the 70's when it started to smell bad...

But I still prefer the news!

Pink Waters · « **Reply #8 on:** July 02, 2005, 06:20:10 pm »

Quote from: Mastiff on July 02, 2005, 03:06:58 pm

I know. But that's really like Brian Wilson on the road again - tired, old men. It's the old boys team of rock'n'roll together with the politically correct elite of the younger bands. If I want Floyd, I'll watch The Wall again. Or listen to their good albums, like Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon. From The Final Cuts and on I haven't been much impressed with them.

Lol, you don't like the final cut ?

Shady Bimmer · « **Reply #9 on:** July 02, 2005, 08:36:28 pm »

These events are really more about what you make of them.

I much prefer good live performances to over-produced commercial releases that artists more often than not are not entirely happy with.

Yes, Gilmore & Waters, and Townsend & Daltrey look old and tired, but they can still perform. There's something to that.

I had plans to be in Philly but unfortunately I'm battling an unknown virus that has knocked me on my feet. The quality of the broadcasts on MTV and VHI absolutely SUCKED and were not much better than the 460kb/s AOL webcast.

Still, I made something of the event. Even Sir Bob himself admits he doesn't expect the concerts to actually make a significant difference, but the true purpose is education: How many of us actually knew that every 3.6 seconds someone (most likely a child) dies in africa of hunger or disease (primarly malaria)?

Me? I take an event like this exactly for what it is and I make the most of it. Performances such as the opening and closing were unique. The Black Eyed Peas performing with Rita and Stephen Marley was special (anyone that understands what Bob Marley was really about would agree). For me, it isn't about perfection (a more PC term for over-produced studio crap) but rather about the entire experience.

To each his own. That's what makes the free world what it is.

modelmaker · « **Reply #10 on:** July 02, 2005, 08:41:35 pm »

I never liked "the Final Cut" much either. But I do like Div Bell and Lapse, but my favorites are Animals, Atomheartmother, Wish You Were here and most definitely the Wall (saw it live in Duesseldorf-wow!).

Shady Bimmer · « **Reply #11 on:** July 02, 2005, 08:53:56 pm »

I meant to also mention:

If you've never been to any music festival then events like this probably don't appeal much. There's an electricity that infects you after your very first attendance that you never lose. Televised (or otherwise broadcast) versions just don't convey this.

I enjoy music, period. Closed-mind thinking is what almost kept South Africa excluded in the first place ("nobody is really interested in that style of music"), but Peter Gabriel helped to bring artists to Johannesburg for inclusion. I only wish he had been able to perform himself.

But as I said, to each his own.

Pink Waters · « **Reply #12 on:** July 02, 2005, 09:22:53 pm »

The Final Cut is not that ease to judge lol, I mean.. its a hard album... i know that may people does not understand neither its music neither its lyrics.

The Final Cut: its for me is the start point for floydans to reconsider things.. and the successfull floydan goes to roger waters albums afterwards

GHammer · « **Reply #13 on:** July 02, 2005, 09:52:43 pm »

I got tired of the save the world crowd somewhere in the 80s.

Where's Sam Kinnison when you need him?

Music festivals? I have pictures from many. Don't really remember being there...

Mastiff · « **Reply #14 on:** July 03, 2005, 05:08:11 am »

I have been to a couple of festivals. Not my cup of Earl Grey. For me concerts aren't really worth it, except for a couple of bands, like Kiss, Iron Maiden and Dire Straits. The two first because I like the stage show, the last because they usually had good sound (which is extremely rare on concerts) and they performed extreme versions of their songs. But all in all I don't go to concerts of the same reason that I don't go to the movies (exeptions here as well - Lord of the Rings and Star Wars - I just couldn't wait!): In my own home theater I get better sound, better audio and the ability to pause what I'm watching when I have to leave the premises so the beer can come out! Believe me, even if I don't play that loud, Kiss with the Aussie philharmonics sound a lot better in my basement than Kiss ever did in any of the concerts where I have seen them!

Oh, after a lot of nagging from a friend I watched a bit more of the concert yesterday. The Who? Well, they once said "hope I die before I get old", and unfortunately that didn't come true... Lacklustre, tired. Floyd? Better than expected, especially Wish You Were Here. Paul McCartney? Well, if you pull George Michael out of his closet you're really desperate!

Beatles never was my band, but he's not that much different from back then. But the Hey Jude ending realy reminded me more about Heal the World and Michael "I'm not wacko" Jackson than anything else. It's just like trying to recreate Mona Lisa: It may look like the original, but it doesn't feel like it! What impressed me, though, was Stevie Wonder. Tight band, funky, cool. Nuff said.

modelmaker · « **Reply #15 on:** July 03, 2005, 02:26:25 pm »

I still love McCartney, but I must admit that I'm getting really tired of Hey Jude. It has become his closing/encore theme song since he started playing songs from the Beatles catalog and is part of the end of every show (incl. the Superbowl last year).

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #16 on:** July 03, 2005, 04:31:42 pm »

I was suprised just how Good Floyd still was.
Waters really has lost his voice sadly (as was shown at Glastonbury last year?), but Gilmoure sounded really good to me

I don't think it'll make a difference to Africa tho.
I still believe the people that can most change things in Africa
is the Africans...
I also believe their way of life is often much richer than ours
people just don't understand it.

Pink Waters · « **Reply #17 on:** July 03, 2005, 06:04:56 pm »

Quote from: Mr ChriZ on July 03, 2005, 04:31:42 pm

Waters really has lost his voice sadly

believe me he do pretend that

.. have you listened to his flickering flame demo songs and last in the flesh live concert ?? his voice is still superb.

lambert282 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 04, 2005, 07:14:32 am »

I thought that no one could ever live up to the performance of Queen in 1985 but the one who came surprisingly close was Robbie Williams. For shear entertainment value his effort was surely the best.

Annie Lennox and REM were great too.

Though I am a McCartney fan I'm a bit tired of all the old performers (except the ones doing excellant new stuff like Duran Duran) and I would have preferred to see some of the great new acts driving the finale. Had Coldplay not had another gig I guess they would have been a good choice. Even Robbie's Angels would have been better than Hey Jude. However my choice for the finale would have been Peter Kay helping the crowd to sing 'Is this the way to Amarillo'. Priceless!

Alex B · « **Reply #19 on:** July 04, 2005, 07:39:01 am »

Interesting that people are concentrating on the artists' performances. I was more interested about this as a phenomenon. It was exciting to see so many simultaneous live concerts around the globe through Internet. It is a pity that the quality is not yet good enough. Even the highest broadband bitrate offered was too low quality for enjoyable video experience. I ended up watching the standard TV broadcast most of the time.

hit_ny · « **Reply #20 on:** July 04, 2005, 10:34:46 am »

Heh yes i agree, i was not particularly drawn to thte music as my tastes tend to be different. But it was nice to see people coming together for a good cause, i thought Will Smith getting people at the various venues to greet people in the next was quite cool. There was this feeling that every thing was so connected.

It was nice to see some of the older acts, that i liked many moons ago, almost a trip down memory lane. My only discovery of the show was Joss Stone. She's really young (18!!) and sings like she has been doing it for years. A white girl singing black soul music and pulling it off.

Pink Waters · « **Reply #21 on:** July 04, 2005, 11:18:16 am »

i missed some artists on the london concert and headed to the aol site that contains the rebroadcast.. but it sucks
you just pick the region you want to listen to without any playlists.. you just have to press play then skip then play then skip... you could take 2 days to go to what you want!

pank2002 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 04, 2005, 05:31:52 pm »

I was at a local festival and saw my favorite band and drank a fair amount of beers. I didn’t miss Live8 ... I didn’t know it had taken place until my dad spoke about it today.

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