Live 8 Coverage

Ok, before I start my appologies if this is in the wrong forum. I had my choice of three (cinema, music or this). This one wins.

Anyway, is anyone watching this? It's horrrible. VH1 and MTV are both showing the exact same thing w/different commericals (more on that in a minute). They could at least show different acts since most people have both channels and then we could flip back and forth between the two. Speaking of acts, I've seen more interviews w/the people in the crowd, who I could give to shits about than I have of the actual concert. I wasn't sure at first if the bands were doing full sets or just a couple of songs. Well, turns out they are full sets but we are only seeing one song and sometimes not even the entire song. The showed the first verse of Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer" then went to commercial and nothing else from them. WTF? Next, here's clips of Elton John, Coldplay and U2 performing, but we won't show the whole thing. Black Eye Peas came out w/members of the Marley family. Too bad we didn't get to see the whole song.

MTV is so missing the point w/their coverage. People want to see the acts, hence the reason we are watching. Oh, I also mentioned the commercials. This whole thing is to bring awareness to the poverty in Africa but our big corporations here in America have decided to capitilize on the popularity and get their commercials shown.

Big company: "Sure there's poverty in Africa and people are starving. But let's let the people of our country want to go to Taco Bell and eat."

Smart, people. Smart.

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Originally Posted by The Real Gonzo

Bon Jovi's... Elton John, Coldplay and U2... Black Eye Peas came out w/members of the Marley family

People want to see the acts

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No we don't.

XM is doing a great job, a channel just covering the whole thing, then 6 other channels for the bigger shows.

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Originally Posted by Wildkat

XM is doing a great job, a channel just covering the whole thing, then 6 other channels for the bigger shows.

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Which channel? I've got my trip to work in a few mins, might as well listen to that.

PS. Fuck Brad Pitt.

I'm not saying that people want to see those groups in particular but as a whole. They just showed Audioslave and I got to see the first two verses and then they go to Brad Pitt. Hello, don't care about him.

I wish I had XM. That would be sweet. Are they playing the entire sets? If you could record it, and I'm sure people are capable of, then that would be even better, you'd have something no one else would. Assuming they didn't tape it either.

Doh! I totally forgot it started today. I haven't listened to the coverage yet,, but with a channel dedicated to each live location of the show, I see no reason why they wouldn't play whole sets. Should be commercial free too.

P.S- Get XM. Really cheap to get now and it's fucking awesome.

Channels 40-46 are the ones covering the shows. They are playing entire sets, and with some talk between sets. They are also already playing songs from other sets to fill gaps between bands.

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Originally Posted by The Real Gonzo

I'm not saying that people want to see those groups in particular but as a whole. They just showed Audioslave and I got to see the first two verses and then they go to Brad Pitt. Hello, don't care about him.

I wish I had XM. That would be sweet. Are they playing the entire sets? If you could record it, and I'm sure people are capable of, then that would be even better, you'd have something no one else would. Assuming they didn't tape it either.

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Im sure the whole thing will be on torrent spy before the day is over.


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Thanks for the link.

For those of you keeping score:

Madonna 2 full songs
U2 1 full song
Will Smith 1 full song
Everyone else part of a song.

jay-z was awesome.

Whats with poor people in Africa? We give them billions and billions of dollars every year but the place is still a festering cesspool of corruption, tribal warfare, and AIDS.

Why doesnt Bono and Susan Sarandon bring attention to the corrupt, evil leaders stealing all this money instead of just making us feel bad for "not doing enough?