7/3/2005

7 Responses to “Pink Floyd Reunites at Live8”

1. I watched it from the comforts of my home and it didn’t measure up to Live Aid.
   I was pretty geeked about it because I remember the quality of the 1985 Live Aid show and the Freddie Mercury Show in 92ish. Those hopes were quickly dashed within the first hour of the VH1/MTV production, not because of the concerts, but because MTV couldn’t have sucked worse. MTV just butchered the coverage. And to my surprise, the evil empire AOL came threw with the ability to stream performances from 5 different venues without idiotic “VJ’s” talking about how great something was while interupting the music or dealing with a commercial break every 5 or so minutes. Then cutting in to interview some fan in the crowd yelling “whoo!” or Jimmy Fallon talking about how great something was (which we could barely hear in the background but couldn’t see or hear). MTV/VHI/Viacom blew junks.

   I haven’t seen anyone in the media pick up on it yet, but there’s a real story about MTV’s actions yesterday and what it’s become. Not that I watch much anymore since I’m apparently out of the demo and not a sh*tty reality show fan (where’s 120 minutes? lol), but their coverage really couldn’t have been worse.

   As for the event? From AOL’s streams, it was enjoyable but not Live Aid. Seeing Roxy Music peform in Berlin was sweet. Snow Patrol in London, not to mention Richard Ashcroft singing “Bitter Sweet Symphony” while backed by Coldplay where highlights for me. The highlight was obviously Pink Floyd. I admit I got a bit teary eyed, lol. And once again, thank god for AOL (gulp, I hate AOL but they were a godsend compared to MTV) that I got to see the entire Pink Floyd performance. MTV cut in during the end of Comfortably Numb with a VJ talking about how cool it was.

   Anyway, just rants and raves

   Canester (89375f) — 7/3/2005 @ 10:41 pm

   
   

2. Didn’t watch it either but I’m sure there will be dvd’s of it soon. I had no idea about the pink floyd reunion or I would have checked it out. From all the noise about how bad MTV did it was probably a good thing I stayed away.

   I was 14 when MTV first appeared and grew up with it thru my teenage years. Whenever I scan through it now it saddens me, what a waste of a great channel.

   Curt (bf1f22) — 7/3/2005 @ 11:13 pm

   
   

3. Pink Floyd was pretty good. Dave Gilmour sounded exactly like he used to, so either he was lip synching, or he’s just a stud. Roger Waters sounded pretty bad though: he sang for Wish You Were Here and sucked, and for Comfortably Numb, which was better, but not great. They could all still play, however (as far as I could tell), and overall it was really good. MTV did cut away so viewers missed the last 30 seconds of Comfortably Numb, but whatever.

   There is rumor of a tour, in which case Roger would have to get it together to perform some of The Wall stuff.

   Matto Ichiban (c23229) — 7/3/2005 @ 11:42 pm

   
   

4. It was pretty awesome.

   Please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please go on tour.

   Angry Clam (f05866) — 7/4/2005 @ 1:41 am

   
   

5. Hah, hah! Patterico is a prog-rocker!

   (Actually, my all-time favorite band is King Crimson, from In the Court of the Crimson King (1969) through Three of a Perfect Pair (1984) — which (the latter) was I think the first CD I ever bought, about six months before buying a CD player.

   I didn’t start listening to them until 1980, which was after the break-up after Red (1974), but just before they re-formed in 1981 for Discipline, after Fripp studied under J.G. Bennett, the disciple of G.I. Gurdjieff, became a producer, and rose to the point where he could greenlight his own projects (with Daryl Hall, Peter Gabriel, &c). I was able to see the Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair tours live (several times each)… but golly, I wish I could have seen the Lizard and Lark’s Tongues in Aspic tours!

   Progressive rock is my all-time favorite rock’n’roll era, followed closely by the acid-rock era (CJ & the Fish, Iron Butterfly, Strawberry Alarm Clock, and let us never forget, the first three Pink Floyd albums: Piper at the Gates of Dawn — title from the Wind in the Willows, of course — A Saucerful of Secrets, and Umma-Gumma; who could forget “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In a Cave and Grooving With a Pict”? This was back when Syd Barrett was still the lead… the man I still think was the inspiration for Pink in the Wall, along with the more overt Wish You Were Here.

   Dafydd

   Dafydd (df2f54) — 7/4/2005 @ 3:51 am

   
   

6. I was there, and Floyd rocked. They took every body’s breath away. I was surrounded by crying grown men and woman. You sensed that there were 200,000 people there with every hair on their body on end. If there was ever another tour everyone who was at live8 would be first in the queue. Awesome

   ACE (0e2698) — 7/6/2005 @ 3:17 am

   
   

7. MTV destroyed the best moment. Gilmour is about to unleash the solo at the end of comfortably and MTV cuts to two idiodic bubbleheads jabbering about nothing. Floyd making history in the background and the camera is on 2 nobody MTV robots. What an abomonation. They should be put out of business.

   Chris (e808ba) — 7/6/2005 @ 8:06 am