Live 8

[johnsemlak]

Is there any particular reason Philadelphia was chosen as the site for the concert in the US? I guess that it was chosen in Live 8 because it was the same venue for the Live Aid concert, but why was it chosen originally?

 

[BOZ]

I thought the Pink Floyd reunion came off well - I only saw "Money" and "Comfortably Numb" but both sounded great.

*drulz* tell me more! i wish i hadn't missed it!

 

[Dark Jezter]

I was watching it for a while... and I just got sick of all the propaganda crap that MTV was telling me. When did MTV sell out to corporate america.... basicly they are just a huge marketing tool so all the prebubecent kids can gobble up the capitilistic crap they advertise.

I heard some celerbities saying how they need to focus on free trade so that african farmers can export their produce without paying high tarrifs. WTF? since when is there high tarrifs on food? And second doesn't africa have more of the need for food themselves? To me it sounds like its more of a corporate sponsorship for free trade. So then the corporations can go in and exploit the people.

With that said I'm all for letting africa off the hook with its debt. But damn me to hell if we let corporations go in and exploit the children of africa. I know I live in america and all... but damn... capitalism is the worse thing in the world. So many people will sell out their neighbors to make a buck.

Hehe, your post reminds me of a recent episode of South Park where the boys meet up with a bunch of "college know-it-all hippies" who came down to South Park from Denver...

Stan: Hello, we are selling magazine subscriptions for our community youth program. Would you like to help young people like us by purchasing a subscription of your choice?
Hippie Driver: Oh wow, you guys shouldn't be doing that. Don't you know what you're doing to the world?
Kyle: Wha... what do you mean?
Guitar-carrying Hippie: You're playing into the corporate game! See, the corporations are trying to turn you into little Eichmanns so that they can make money.
Stan: Who are the corporations?
Blonde hippie girl wearing psychadelic Phish t-shirt: The corporations run the entire world. And now they fooled you into working for them.
Stan: Are you serious? We never heard that.
Hippie Driver: We just spent our first semester at college. Our professors opened our eyes. The government is using its corporate ties to make you sell magazines so they can get rich.
Kyle: Ugh! Those dirty liars!
Kenny: *unintelligable cursing*
Potato chip-eating Hippie: This is a really nice town you have here. That's why the corporations are trying to use you to take it down.
Stan: Well... Well what do we do?
Hippie Driver: Just hang with us for a bit. We'll fill you in on everything you haven't been told. [Man 2 resumes eating chips]


*Later in the episode, after the hippies have started a massive music festival in South Park*


Stan: So it seems like we have enough people now. When do we start taking down the corporations?
Pot-smoking hippie: Yeah man, the corporations. Right now they're raping the world for money!
Kyle: Yeah, so, where are they? Let's go get 'em!
Other Hippie: Right now we're proving we don't need corporations. We don't need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other.
Pot-smoking Hippie: Yeah, we'll have one guy who like, who like, makes bread. A-and one guy who like, l-looks out for other people's safety.
Stan: You mean like a baker and a cop?
Other Hippie: No no, can't you imagine a place where people live together and like, provide services for each other in exchange for their services?
Kyle: Yeah, it's called a town.
Hippie Driver: You just haven't been to college yet.

 

[Celebrim]

"Well they're not aiming to raise $ from the general public. They're trying to get the G8 leaders to deliver an additional US$25 billion in aid to Africa."

Err... where do you think the G8 leaders get that money from? Dare I suggest that they tax the general public?

Yeah, charity is when the IRS comes and demands that you chip in your $21.95 to pay for the Madonna concert and Mr. Mugabe's new Mercedes. We've got so much more enlightened in the past 20 years. Speaking of the past 20 years, that first Live Aid concert was so successful, that the population of Africa actually decreased... Or was that not the intention? I get confused, because to be honest, the sight of multi-millionaires telling a crowd of drugged out hippies and teens that capitalist system sucks causes so many wires in my head to get crossed, that I completely forget that the purpose is supposed to be humanitarian.

Maybe someone should tell the Rock stars about the law of unintended consequences, but then again, no one ever said rock stars understood much of anything but music - and some would claim many don't even understand that.

"I heard some celerbities saying how they need to focus on free trade so that african farmers can export their produce without paying high tarrifs. WTF? since when is there high tarrifs on food?..." [emphasis mine]

Is there a class of people out there that understands less than rock stars? Let me guess; you've got a liberal arts degree, n'est pas?

Ok, enough of that. Let's talk about the only thing that mattered about that concert.

Pink Floyd getting together was cool.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Oh, I don't know. I found Green Day singing the "Sieg Heil" line from Holiday in Berlin pretty hilarious.

 

[Joël of the FoS]

I don't get it.

Yesterday night, I had a post on the main board telling people where to go for signature. Then I got all kind of weirdos coming in and telling me that political post are not allowed on EnWord.

I replied that it's superceding any political party in power, and that a humanitarian cause was over politics. If it should be moved elsewhere, then let it be moved and sorry for posting on the wrong board.

The said guys nitpicked beyond good faith to show me it's political (everything is true, when viewed at a certain angle), or added crude comments about the use of it / on the poor choices of African people. It was nauseating.

So today I found my thread deleted, while this one here is still there ?!?

Why wasn't my post simply moved to here instead?

Joël

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The message was: 25 millions is not enough

Hey,

More than 25 millions people signed the live 8 petition. Did you sign ?

They do not want you to send money, they want you to sign an online petition so that G8 countries will do much more then now to help Africa.

Sign now : http://www.live8live.com/list/

If you already signed, thank you!

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,

Joël

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Horrible post, huh ?

By the way, I was polite with the people answering the thread yesterday, not a bad word or anything. It's just today that I let my frustration go into words.

 

[Joël of the FoS]

*drulz* tell me more! i wish i hadn't missed it!

Breathe
Money
Wish you were here
Comfortably numb

That was quite cool indeed. Roger was in a great mood.

 

[Turanil]

Sign now : http://www.live8live.com/list/

If you already signed, thank you!

I feel the need to post before this threed is closed!

(BTW: I signed)

 

[Darrin Drader]

Man Floyd is looking old. I guess its inevitable, the march of time and all that, but still, kind of depressing. I kind of hope they reunite long enough to record an album together.

So I wonder if they're going to release the Live 8 concerts on DVD. I'd happily pay for the whole thing just to get Floyd's entire performance. Does anybody know if they played more than just the 4 songs?

 

[Joël of the FoS]

Does anybody know if they played more than just the 4 songs?

Nope, that was it. It lasted nearly half an hour.

Really the surprise for me was to see Roger W smiling wildly. It was quite refreshing to see him in this mood

Joël