Wow! That was great! Pink Floyd with Roger Waters just got done playing at
Live8!
MTV managed to show most of the performance with no commercials and no MTV VJs interrupting with interviews of frat boys sharing their thoughts on Africa. ("Will I get laid if I say that I care on live TV?") Correction: Then they cut off the end of the end of "Comfortably Numb" so Ahmet could tell us to "stick around." Is nothing sacred MTV? I don't need to be told to stay put or see commercials for AIDS/sexual assault/Big Dave's Fireworks/Kotex/Vonage, dammit I want to see the performance! This is Pink Floyd! Maybe if they had done this as a fundraiser they could have done more uninterrupted live coverage. AOL's live Internet feed was much better than MTV/VH1's ad-littered coverage.
MTV bleeped the heck out of their broadcast. Thanks, MTV, for at least not editing out "bullshit" on Money. ABC's replay of selected parts of the concert was heavily censored, including obscuring the "bullshit" in Money. One of these days I'll blog on my thoughts about censorship and otherwise modifying an artist's work. AOL's feed was uncensored.
The camera flashes were popping, so I how to see some good photos on Flickr (Search 1, Search 2, Search 3) maybe an audience audio or video recording via BitTorrent (Search 1, Search 2, Search 3, Search 4)? They just released the DVD of the first Live Aid, how long until the Live8 DVD is released?
Setlist:
Breathe
Money
Wish You Were Here
Comfortably Numb
(kinda surprised Roger didn't get "Each Small Candle" or one of his other two new songs in there...)
David Gilmour did all the vocal duties for the first two songs, Roger Waters did WYWH with Dave doing the scat lyrics. Roger and Dave split duties on Comfortably Numb. Roger spoke very little, but dedicated Wish You Were Here to Syd Barrett. Nice touch.
A great performance, couple of new backing artists. Good sax solo on Money, don't know the performer's name.
Good London camera work by whoever is filming this for broadcast including a fade to a zoomed-in view of the Battersea Powerstation's silhouette on the London skyline. A nice fade away to the London Eye. Great coverage of the band, closeups of the performance. Couple of really nicely composed shots of Dave and Roger.
There was an ad for Pink Floyd: Echoes about an hour after their performance. You could order it from them or just buy it on Amazon.
First time they've been back on stage together since 1987. 24 years later. Wow!
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