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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: vyper on July 02, 2005, 08:13:24 am

Title: Live8
Post by: vyper on July 02, 2005, 08:13:24 am: Anyone watching it? I'm... not impressed so far. Give me the Quo any day over U2.

Whats more, who in their right mind thought Sgt. Pepper was a decent song to open with?

(I'll be commenting more on me blog at //www.Intothemaelstrom.co.uk)
Title: Live8
Post by: aldo_14 on July 02, 2005, 09:03:54 am: I watched Richar dAshcroft sing Bittersweet symphony then turned off and switched onto me mp3s. It looks really quite dull and devoid of atmosphere.
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Post by: kasperl on July 02, 2005, 09:21:21 am: I'll take a look on the tellie once Green Day gets on. I missed what happened already, due to being stuck in the tech-support waiting room getting a CPU fan replaced. (Yeah, took 90 minutes....)
Title: Live8
Post by: vyper on July 02, 2005, 09:23:30 am: Elton John really picked it up - 2/3 songs were really good and got the crowd going.

Now we have Dido desperately trying to prove she can sing live...
Title: Live8
Post by: kasperl on July 02, 2005, 09:26:11 am: Well, I can only get half of the shows, due to Dutch TV doing a mix&match of all the concerts, and currently Duran Duran is on. Not something I care for, actually. I'm fighting with the AOL radio interface, trying to get music, but it only realy works when you're a subscriber, it seems. Anyone got a link for a working webcast?
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 02, 2005, 09:34:54 am: Try http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/thelive8event/
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Post by: vyper on July 02, 2005, 09:58:43 am: When someone plays rock & roll, call me.
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Post by: Martinus on July 02, 2005, 10:51:20 am: [color=66ff00]Muse was on in Paris but they (BBC) didn't stick around to cover it.

Gits.
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Post by: Fineus on July 02, 2005, 11:26:25 am: Because the BBC are a bunch of self interested tits who don't know real what they're doing.
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Post by: vyper on July 02, 2005, 01:37:25 pm: One Pint of Ale. Check.

TV and PC. Check.

Live8 USA. Check(ish - very soon).

G/f. Absent. Can' t win them all.
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Post by: Martinus on July 02, 2005, 03:03:53 pm: [color=66ff00]Heh, Sir Bob got Bill Gates to talk about how great it is to play fair.

Irony.
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Post by: vyper on July 02, 2005, 03:13:46 pm: He made his first mistake when praising Blair and Brown...
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Post by: Martinus on July 02, 2005, 03:28:25 pm: Quote
Originally posted by vyper
He made his first mistake when praising Blair and Brown...

[color=66ff00]Too true.

I have to admit that this doesn't have the same feeling of urgency as the original live aid, just seems like a big free concert with no strings attached. I doubt it will have any lasting effect, no doubt Bush and Blair held back on their original funding just so they could appear to bump the amount up as a result of the concerts.
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Title: Live8
Post by: vyper on July 02, 2005, 03:33:04 pm: Besides which, and please no flames anyone, it's not exactly in our best interests to have Africa on it's own two feet. It's a gold mine (literally!) and we'd be in real economic trouble.
Title: Live8
Post by: redmenace on July 02, 2005, 04:35:09 pm: This meake me really want to go feed the poor. :doubt:

I say, if these multi millionaires give up all they own and give it all to the poor and hungry in Africa, then maybe, I would be moved to help the poor as well. This, honetly, is a waste of money in and of its self and is just a means for these ****tard artists to get some super happy feeling that they are doing something about Africa. Sigh, I hate aristocrats. They always seem so two faced and retarded. And as for Green Day, who is the real "Amercan Idiot?"
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Post by: Fergus on July 02, 2005, 04:51:06 pm: THE WHO!
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Post by: vyper on July 02, 2005, 04:58:58 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Fergus
THE WHO!

ARE ****ING AWESOME

Rock and Roll Lives!
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Post by: Hippo on July 02, 2005, 05:32:21 pm: is there a web-based streaming video of it live?
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Post by: vyper on July 02, 2005, 06:15:37 pm: Not any more, it's over.
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 02, 2005, 06:27:12 pm: I missed The Who? ****. I'd have watched that.
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Post by: Mongoose on July 02, 2005, 07:21:02 pm: Pink. Floyd. Was. Amazing. :D
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Post by: Napier on July 02, 2005, 08:35:23 pm: Highlight of one in Canada for me was Deep Purple.
Highway Star, Smoke on the Water and Hush. Awesome.
P.S> Speaking of two faced: Bet ya U2 have new album comming out soon.
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Post by: Rictor on July 02, 2005, 08:50:15 pm: What, you didn't like Celine Dion? For shame.

I listen a bit over the radio, nothing really too great, at least in Canada.

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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Heh, Sir Bob got Bill Gates to talk about how great it is to play fair.
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A billionare, praising Tony Blair, surrounded by millionares, talking about ending poverty.

You couldn't make these things up if you tried.
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Post by: Ford Prefect on July 02, 2005, 10:06:27 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Mongoose
Pink. Floyd. Was. Amazing. :D

What'd they play? They're the only rock band I actually like.
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Post by: Ghost on July 02, 2005, 11:54:07 pm: Speak To Me/Breathe, Money, Comfortably Numb(yesssss), and Wish You Were Here, unless I'm much mistaken.

I <3 BT, otherwise me=not getting it.
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Post by: kasperl on July 03, 2005, 03:43:26 am: Well, the whole thing is pretty ironic in its own way, yeah. On the other hand, some of the protests at the summit do have a legitamate goal. As for Africa damaging the western economy, I'm not all that sure, you'd have a huge market for luxury goods coming up....