drowninginflame Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 I don't even smoke and I think I need a cigarette after their set for Live 8 If they tour again I will be there. If it's anywhere ...California/new york/anywhere/london Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 QUOTE(drowninginflame @ Jul 2, 2005 -> 03:40 PM) I don't even smoke and I think I need a cigarette after their set for Live 8 If they tour again I will be there. If it's anywhere ...California/new york/anywhere/london I will be amazed if they ever tour again. But yes, they are one of the single greatest bands of all time, and I'd give a kidney to see them. But you know what? Personally, I doubt it would top the U2 show I saw @ Conseco Fieldhouse on their Elevation tour...managed to get myself front row right in front of Adam Clayton...Bono spoke to me, etc. I know some of you don't like U2, but I love them, and that was one amazing show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 Does anyone know if individual performances will ever be put online from Live 8? I'm watching some of them right now on the repeat, but I don't want to wait through like 6 hours of London performances in order to get to The Who and Floyd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiff Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 2, 2005 -> 07:56 PM) Does anyone know if individual performances will ever be put online from Live 8? I'm watching some of them right now on the repeat, but I don't want to wait through like 6 hours of London performances in order to get to The Who and Floyd. This repeat on ABC is only gonna be 2 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Credepopsup Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 (edited) That was a great concert. It was worth sitting through the first 8 hours to get to Pink Floyd. The rest of the acts were very good (except Dido), but Pink Floyd were that little bit special. Edited July 3, 2005 by Credepopsup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 QUOTE(Spiff @ Jul 2, 2005 -> 05:07 PM) This repeat on ABC is only gonna be 2 hours. I know about the ABC one, but I'm asking about individual performances online. If you go to AOL Music right now, they're replaying the shows from each of the sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drowninginflame Posted July 3, 2005 Author Share Posted July 3, 2005 Mariah carey and Dido looked amazing. I love Dido, she's beautiful. Pink Floyd were all smiles and Roger waters looked like he was gonna cry when they played wish you were here. I tivo'ed it, I think i am going to go back and watch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 Pink Floyd Animals Soldier Field June 19, 1977 15 years old Flying Pigs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Gleason Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 Blah to Floyd man, QUIET RIOT IS TOURING WITH FIREHOUSE!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubKilla Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jul 2, 2005 -> 07:29 PM) Blah to Floyd man, QUIET RIOT IS TOURING WITH FIREHOUSE!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Hudler Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 (edited) QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 2, 2005 -> 11:50 PM) I will be amazed if they ever tour again. But yes, they are one of the single greatest bands of all time, and I'd give a kidney to see them. But you know what? Personally, I doubt it would top the U2 show I saw @ Conseco Fieldhouse on their Elevation tour...managed to get myself front row right in front of Adam Clayton...Bono spoke to me, etc. I know some of you don't like U2, but I love them, and that was one amazing show. I saw U2 at the Hoosier Dome on the Joshua Tree tour. Easily the most energetic, emotional, concert I have been to. Awesome show! Thousands of people were still singing 40 in the streets of downtown Indy 30 minutes after the show was over. Edited July 3, 2005 by Rex Hudler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LosMediasBlancas Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 Tell me something, if Floyd is so great, why does everyone only want to hear them play their 2 or 3 'super hits' ? The most extremely over rated band ever, IMHO of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerhead johnson Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 QUOTE(Texsox @ Jul 3, 2005 -> 01:16 AM) Pink Floyd Animals Soldier Field June 19, 1977 15 years old Flying Pigs Tex, I actually have this 2CD set. It's a pretty decent audience recording. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jul 3, 2005 -> 01:20 AM) Tell me something, if Floyd is so great, why does everyone only want to hear them play their 2 or 3 'super hits' ? The most extremely over rated band ever, IMHO of course. Casual fan, versus involved fan. Concept albums are harder for some people growing up on MP3 downloads to get into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LosMediasBlancas Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 QUOTE(Texsox @ Jul 3, 2005 -> 06:14 PM) Casual fan, versus involved fan. Concept albums are harder for some people growing up on MP3 downloads to get into. Then they must have a ton of those kind of fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightni Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 Parts of On the Run from the Dark Side of The Moon album are part of the Bulls' intro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drowninginflame Posted July 4, 2005 Author Share Posted July 4, 2005 QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jul 3, 2005 -> 12:20 AM) Tell me something, if Floyd is so great, why does everyone only want to hear them play their 2 or 3 'super hits' ? The most extremely over rated band ever, IMHO of course. sorry dude they ARE wonderful. they have many awesome songs & albums for that matter. one of the greatest bands of all time. dark side of the moon, animals, wish were here are all flawless masterpieces Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drowninginflame Posted July 4, 2005 Author Share Posted July 4, 2005 QUOTE(drowninginflame @ Jul 4, 2005 -> 12:33 PM) sorry dude they ARE wonderful. they have many awesome songs & albums for that matter. one of the greatest bands of all time. dark side of the moon, animals, wish were here are all flawless masterpieces AND most people I know are waaay into them. Like I alot of people who enjoy thier music as the casual fan, but at the same token I know far more who own all thier records and are knowledgable and like myself were on cloud nine watching them play together again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LosMediasBlancas Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 QUOTE(drowninginflame @ Jul 4, 2005 -> 01:33 PM) sorry dude they ARE wonderful. they have many awesome songs & albums for that matter. one of the greatest bands of all time. dark side of the moon, animals, wish were here are all flawless masterpieces What are you sorry about? We happen to disagree, enjoy yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wise Master Buehrle Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/thelive8event/p...5#gallery-intro My new wallpaper. Still can't believe they did it. Downloading it right now cause I missed the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBAHO Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 QUOTE(YahtzeeSox @ Jul 5, 2005 -> 11:11 AM) http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/thelive8event/p...5#gallery-intro My new wallpaper. Still can't believe they did it. Downloading it right now cause I missed the show. Yahtzee we were listening to it on the radio in the car yesterday on one of the San Diego radio stations for a recap of Live 8. Pink Floyd sounded great, and since everyone else in my travelling group is about 30 years older than me , they all loved hearing them, especially my Dad, he's a big fan. You'll love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 I can now answer my old question...if you go to AOLMusic.com, all of the performances from ALL of the Live Aid shows are now available on Demand, pick your band, pick your song, and you can go straight to it. So very nice to not have MTV interrupting Floyd for words from their brilliant VJ's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxFanForever Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 I couldn't hear it very well when I saw it live between Breathe and Money. Did Waters apoligize to the fans and everybody or what? I couldn't tell exactly what he said when the second song was starting and he was talking. Anyone remember? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greasywheels121 Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1505406/0...?headlines=true MTV and VH1 will each offer five hours of uninterrupted performance footage with differing artist lineups on Saturday. VH1 will air its Live 8 highlights from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, while MTV's batch of highlights will roll out from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jul 8, 2005 -> 09:43 AM) http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1505406/0...?headlines=true This is literally them learning their lesson. Hell, this article was in my LAT yesterday. link Bruised by harsh criticism and soft ratings, MTV executives Wednesday acknowledged missteps in their broadcast of last weekend's Live 8 concerts and hinted that they might retool the program and show it again. Some kind of do-over is "not the craziest idea," said MTV Executive Vice President Van Toffler, who quipped that the Allman Brothers song "Whipping Post" best described his office's post-show morale. Ratings released Wednesday show that the eight-hour live broadcast of Live 8 performances that aired Saturday on both MTV and sister station VH1 had an average viewership of only 2.2 million viewers — less than the average audience for the Saturday afternoon airing of the 1999 film "Toy Story 2" on the Disney Channel. MTV's handling of the concerts — staged in London, Philadelphia and eight other cities — was faulted for frequent cutaways from key musical moments to go to commercials, offstage banter or less compelling performances elsewhere. "Knowing what I know now, I probably would have made the decision to go commercial-free," Toffler said. Unfortunately for MTV, its performance also was juxtaposed with a widely praised showing by AOL, which offered comprehensive coverage on its music website, AOL Music. Ken Ehrlich, who produced the Live 8 show in Philadelphia and is a veteran producer of the Grammy Awards, said the AOL event would be remembered as a defining moment in online music consumerism. "This is a template for the future," he said. "Not to negate the importance of television, but I really think the Internet generation has come of age and the numbers have multiplied to a point of real change…. AOL opened the door here and once it's open it ain't going to close." AOL bought the exclusive rights to the Live 8 shows for an undisclosed amount and then licensed them to MTV, XM Satellite Radio and Premiere Radio Networks. The shows also were carried across the globe by regional networks. Kevin Wall, executive producer of Live 8, said the combined television and Internet audiences probably topped 1 billion and greatly amplified the discussion of its cause: relieving debt and poverty in beleaguered nations in Africa. "MTV was a big part of it, not just on the air but in making the whole thing happen," Wall said. "There were disagreements creatively on some points, but you won't find anyone involved in this who has anything bad to say about MTV." That was not the case on the Internet, where irate viewers vented loudly about MTV cameras leaving key moments such as the Pink Floyd reunion. Critics weighed in too. But Toffler said the channel was hemmed in by decisions made in the four weeks leading up to the show, as the bill of performers was still taking shape. In retrospect, he said, MTV should not have placed such a high priority on showing so many acts, at the expense of airing complete sets by key artists. A combined average of 2.2 million total viewers watched from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday on MTV (1.4 million) and VH1 (762,000), according to Nielsen Media Research. Toffler said getting an estimated 18 million viewers to tune in for at least six minutes of the broadcast was "a brilliant success" for MTV and also for the "social cause." Two hours of Live 8 moments also aired on ABC during prime time Saturday and drew an average of 2.9 million viewers. ABC's concert was the night's least-watched program on the major broadcast networks. "It was a pretty horrible performance … [but] it was on Saturday night, which is a throwaway night for the broadcast networks," said Brad Adgate of Horizon Media Inc. As for AOL, its online broadcast of Live 8 was designed to promote a major strategic shift for the world's biggest Internet service provider. As its number of subscribers declines, the Time Warner Inc. unit is vying for a bigger piece of the $10 billion that advertisers spend online annually by offering free of charge many of the services once reserved for paying members. Video and music are key components of its efforts. Jim Bankoff, AOL's executive vice president of programming and products, said more people watched this event than any other streamed event on AOL, including the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Five million unique users visited AOL Music for its free streaming video from the concerts. At peak moments, the site was streaming 175,000 simultaneous video broadcasts, which AOL said was an Internet record. "It was a tipping point," Bankoff said. "It's the biggest step so far and a pretty big leap forward." Times staff writer Scott Collins contributed to this report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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