Is Anyone Watching Live 8?

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by dissention

Grr. I <3 them. I hope they rerun some of these performances.

http://music.aol.com/live_8_concert/live_now

[desertangel]

David Gilmour is seriously HAWT!!! What a freakin a** kickin outrageously great guitar player. He has great guitar face too. Sigh... I hate that MTV cut into their song.

Honestly, I found it very hard to watch much of this very long, very commercially interrupted broadcast. It was making my head hurt because it was cutting over here, there and everywhere way too much. Better if it would have been a mini-series and taken a little longer in between shots.

I tried to get my VCR going to tape PF and gave up because I didn't want to miss the performance. Turns out one of the menu settings was off. Hopefully the whole show will be rebroadcast on Emptyvee or EmptyveeH1. Now that I've figured out the VCR, I'd like to tape the whole thing so I can FFWD thru all the cra*. I'd imagine the DVD won't have any of that commercial cra* and will include full sets?! If so, then somebody's gonna make a lot of money because today's broadcast was sure a pain in the a** teaser.


Laura

[wondergirl9847]

Originally Posted by desertangel

David Gilmour is seriously HAWT!!! What a freakin a** kickin outrageously great guitar player.

Actually, even though, when he was younger, David was kinda hot, I thought Roger was kinda hot last night. I liked his bed-head hair and rolled up sleeves. What's wrong with me? LOL

Fantastic guitar player...one of the best. I'm listening to their set on the radio right now and taping it.

[SoundBoyBrad]

Since I was subjected to the ridiculously-pathetic MTV/VH1 "coverage" yesterday, I decided to check out AOL's page with ALL of the acts from LIVE 8. I was amazed at how organized it is and how I could find any artist's video performance from yesterday. However, I was a bit shocked that the ONLY group whose performances I couldn't pull up was Pink Floyd. It struck me as odd that they were the only ones whose performances I couldn't view. I'm sure it has to be MORE than just a coincedence... Has anyone else encountered this?? Does anyone else find this to be a bit odd??

Brad

[wondergirl9847]

They played the PF part on the radio this afternoon and talked to David Gilmour for a second. Lemme transcribe what he said:

Matt Pinfield:Originally, when you were approached about this, you were kinda shying away from doin' it, you didn't wanna do it the first time around, and they came back to you, correct?

David Gilmour: Yeah, I was pushed into it a little bit, kicking and screaming. Roger rang me up and said would I do it and I thought that it is a very good cause and I'd probably kick myself if I didn't do it, especially for my kids to be able to see something like this for once in their lives. Some of them are too young to have seen me before performing.

MP: Which is brilliant. How is your relationship with Roger right now? Is it gettin' better?

DG: Hey, we're getting on alright, you know, it's been very easy and relaxed during our rehearsals. It's like slipping on a comfy old pair of shoes that are far too unfashionable to wear anymore, but it's been pretty good.

MP: Do you think there's a future for Pink Floyd together as a band, for a future album?

DG: With this particular sort of regrouping, it's...no, I'm just very glad for us to have sort of a nice happy ending for us to be able to look back on. It's a one off.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by SoundBoyBrad

Since I was subjected to the ridiculously-pathetic MTV/VH1 "coverage" yesterday, I decided to check out AOL's page with ALL of the acts from LIVE 8. I was amazed at how organized it is and how I could find any artist's video performance from yesterday. However, I was a bit shocked that the ONLY group whose performances I couldn't pull up was Pink Floyd. It struck me as odd that they were the only ones whose performances I couldn't view. I'm sure it has to be MORE than just a coincedence... Has anyone else encountered this?? Does anyone else find this to be a bit odd??

Brad

AOL did an excellent job with the stream. I'm sure EMI, who bought the rights is probably hoping to cash in on Floyd's performance with the DVD and are holding it back to build interest.

[SoundBoyBrad]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

AOL did an excellent job with the stream. I'm sure EMI, who bought the rights is probably hoping to cash in on Floyd's performance with the DVD and are holding it back to build interest.

Yes, they really did an excellent job. I was honestly amazed with it, given the huge scope of the project. And, yes, that does make sense about EMI. Thanks!!

Brad

[desertangel]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

Actually, even though, when he was younger, David was kinda hot, I thought Roger was kinda hot last night. I liked his bed-head hair and rolled up sleeves. What's wrong with me? LOL

Sheesh... I so know what you mean. I was thinking to myself... "why is David Gilmour doing it for me right now? Is it the guitar? The songs?" I usually go for younger guys... Oh well... heehee.

Laura

[estranged4life]

at 7:00 PM CST there will be a 1 hour highlight show from Live 8 featuring Tim McGraw, Toby Keith & Keith Urban.