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General Discussions => Tribal Funk Affliction => Topic started by: Rujah on June 02, 2005, 03:49:09 pm
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yea, so pink floyd was good the other night...
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I am just glad I hit the first Bonaroo....no DEA, no rain and no idea what it was going to be like...just all out never before seen FUN!!!
That being said I only need one of 2 bands to play it and I would go again...Biscuits or Breakfast.
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Bo Bice played with Trey. They sang Van Halens, Panama.
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Bo Bice was at Bonnaroo ?
Thats too funny.
I think Fonzie had his jacket on and the boat was swinging around for the Big jump even before I checked this fest out last year.
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Lord, I hope not!
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Bonnaroo has been labeled as one of the largest significant cultural music events in HISTORY.
Who said this? And why would anyone believe it? Bonnaroo is quite the impressive marketing machine but it is far from a significant cultural music event. Do people really think that Trey playing with Bo Bice is a groundbreaking moment?:)
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If this says anything the 4 song reunoin prompted me to pick up th phone and call all the people I happen to know who wouldnt want to miss them to remind them that they were playing. I havent done that i god knows how may years. I too have seen Roger Waters and Pink Floyd sans Waters and Waters blows them away. But I got exactly what I expected A band I love playing together for the first time in a LONG time and they sounded prettyy damn good for a band that hasnt really been in the same room for 20years.
But I was filled with emotion seeing htem on stage again. I got chills. It just goes to show you never sa never. Hell we have seen Cream reunite and Pink Floyd in the same year.
Who cares about egos. These guys helped to shape what it means to be rock n roll. The music sings through all the bull ****.
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Yeah, really big **** apples and some medium sized oranges.
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Pink Floyd is just one of those bands, that when they were in their prime, affected more than a particular culture, but affected the entire music culture. Dark Side of the Moon was on the Billboard Charts for what...like 15 years or something like that. Anyone who was around in the 70\'s owns Dark Side of the Moon, not to mention many music fans who werent alive in the 70\'s. Nothing against Phish, but anything they ever do will not have as wide and diverse impact as Pink Floyd. Not that theres anything wrong with that, Phish is awesome. I just think Pink Floyds music appealed to so many more heads than Phish. But they are 2 completely different things, PF and PH is like apples and oranges.
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Neither was Phish PHISH when they got back together on Jan. 1, 03, and that was only after 2 years, not 20.
yeah well that\'s true. man is it ever true.
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Neither was Phish PHISH when they got back together on Jan. 1, 03, and that was only after 2 years, not 20.
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Well it\'s all about the big picture. As i posted before the folk in charge of Bonnaroo have said w/o Phish proving this type of thing can be done there would be no Bonnaroo. Bonnaroo has been labeled as one of the largest significant cultural music events in HISTORY. It has brought our "jamband" scene to light in the mainstream and due to this the small bands like say The Breakfast will have an easier time getting seen by alot more people. As PF was revolutionary in the 70\'s Phish was in the 90\'s. They just made their impact felt differently.
As for Phish reunion in 20 yrs. I\'ll watch for sure. PF WAS a great band but what I saw was not PINK FLOYD but Pink Floyd.
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So if Phish reunites 20 years from now, do you think anyone will give a rats ass?
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Pink Floyd is one of those bands that totally revolutionized the music scene back in the`70s. The bad feelings they Waters and Gilmoure had for each other in the 80s, I think even their biggest fans expected pigs to fly (no pun intended) before they played on stage together again. To think that Gilmoure Mason and Wright havent played together since `94, and Pink Floyd havent played together since the early `80s, and the fact that they are pretty old, they sounded great.
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I\'m sorry, but nothing Phish has ever done has ever affected a fraction of the # of people that Floyd has, and chances are more people watched that 4 song set last night then the total # of people that give a rats ass about what Phish did. Now, I\'m sure that there are things that happened in music in the past 20 years that were bigger than last night, but it surely didn\'t come from 4 geeks from VT.
PF had their day and them getting together for 4 songs was cool but why was it cool? Because it was hyped to no end. They played 4 songs everyone knows and played them as shitty as they played them in \'94 they just happened to have the original bass player(who played great actually). So how was this significant other than for all the "kidz" who nvr saw them? oh yeah it WAS PINK FLOYD ooooooooooooooo. pffft. When was the last new song written by them?
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I\'m sorry, but nothing Phish has ever done has ever affected a fraction of the # of people that Floyd has, and chances are more people watched that 4 song set last night then the total # of people that give a rats ass about what Phish did. Now, I\'m sure that there are things that happened in music in the past 20 years that were bigger than last night, but it surely didn\'t come from 4 geeks from VT.
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leith,i wouldve prefered shine oh you crazy diamond parts 1-9,one of these days and fearless but whats got to do with the price of rice in china?
1 thing yo uneed to realize is that roger waters likes live performances to be as "album version"as possible.
another thing you need to realize is that your a horses ass.
reemergence of phish bigger than the reemergence of pink floyd??
im gonna go ahead and bite my tongue...
Yeah but see YOUR choices do not make sense in the time that was allotted them mine does.
Now sit down for some schoolin\' Wah.
The thing is Wah you are just wrong again. Anytime you attempt to throw down knowledge non Breakfast related you show your lack of said knowledge. David G. is the one that likes the songs to be "album perfect". I have seen the David led PF 3 times and each time blew compared to the 2 times I saw a solo Roger Waters show.
PF show=laser show w/ an actual band playing.
Roger Water Solo= OMG psychedelic as hell w/ stretched out jams and a WAAAAY better setlist than PF were playing.
Now let\'s see. The reemergence of 4 middle aged brits who had their day and played a tepid 4 songs or the Emergence of Phish 4 dudes from Vt. that shook an entire scene upside down and showed the world that fests could be done. Sorry Wah but it has been admitted by the Bonnaroo folks and others that throw large festies that they would not exist if PHISH HAD NOT PROVED IT COULD BE DONE ON A REGULAR BASIS.
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im gonna go ahead and bite my tongue...
gotta love the "new" more member friendly wah....
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leith,i wouldve prefered shine oh you crazy diamond parts 1-9,one of these days and fearless but whats got to do with the price of rice in china?
1 thing yo uneed to realize is that roger waters likes live performances to be as "album version"as possible.
another thing you need to realize is that your a horses ass.
reemergence of phish bigger than the reemergence of pink floyd??
im gonna go ahead and bite my tongue...
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dude, it was a 4 song set. what kinda setlist are you expecting?
Well I would have rather had Young Lust, Any Colour..., Have A Cigar, Comfortably Numb
Yeah I know the songs they played are their best sellers but sheesh, at least play them w/ some freakin\' conviction.
i thought they were dead on.
by far and away the diggest thing thats happeend in music in the past 20 years
Well figures you would think they were dead on. As for the biggest thing in music in the past 20 years,hmm I think the emergence of Phish may be a bit bigger @ least in the music scene I\'m interested in.
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i thought they were dead on.
by far and away the diggest thing thats happeend in music in the past 20 years
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dude, it was a 4 song set. what kinda setlist are you expecting?
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Well other than the fact that all 4 were together I found the performance rather average. Maybe it was the retread setlist or the fact that Nick was not in top form. Anyone notice how little Richard was seen? I found that odd.
I also noticed the absolute glee Roger had the entire set while Nick and David shared more than one wry glance @ each other over his antics. I would not get excited for a reunion tour of any sort.
yeah, i wasnt impressed. i think if a reunion tour happened, they\'d probably rehearse a little more.
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Well other than the fact that all 4 were together I found the performance rather average. Maybe it was the retread setlist or the fact that Nick was not in top form. Anyone notice how little Richard was seen? I found that odd.
I also noticed the absolute glee Roger had the entire set while Nick and David shared more than one wry glance @ each other over his antics. I would not get excited for a reunion tour of any sort.
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http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3351482
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how is it
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http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3KXCFXJS9TY3C37VTDZOPPQQ1E
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Anyone else notice it was Roger who encouraged the others to stand together for the bow?
was at dinner when they played. freddie, thanks for the hookup. Glad I didnt have to sit through a bunch of talking heads during numb. Set was exactly what I figured, playing was excelent, Rodger looked great, never thought I\'d see it.
As the one sign said, "pigs have flown: PInk Floyd reunited, Hyde Park, London"
btw, wtf the videos all 4x3? Are they recording 16x9 and just only broadcasting a downres, or was it actually shot 4x3? Cameras on stage can do it. Was suprised at that.
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i watched the webcast.
unbelievable.
i think my post with the download should really be in its own thread.
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had tears in my eyes. awesome.
I went through that experience back in 85 seeing Led Zep doing Stairway, a song I never thought to see/hear live (well, live through the telly at least). And of course, Ozzy got back with Sabbath at the same show.
Nice capture, to0, freddie.
Anyone else notice it was Roger who encouraged the others to stand together for the bow? Reunion tour next year? Odds anyone?
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got back from the pool about halfway through Money and was able to catch the rest. had tears in my eyes. awesome.
the coverage was as horrible as i expected though.. thanks vh1, for having 2 of your **** tools on the screen during ComfNumb. i really enjoyed hearing how excited they were about pink floyd much more than i would have enjoyed the actual performance.. :rolleyes:
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Thanks for the link, freddie - it was rather good, wasn\'t it?!!
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less than 5 minutes ago,epicness confirmed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
quickest turnaround in the history of music
http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2OWXKB88P2V4B0D44AM8RE4Q2S
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Did anyone save this?!
I missed it!
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Damn, delfunk beat me to the punch!
Roger looked like he was really enjoying it too and I don\'t remember ever seeing Gilmour look so happy - usually he looks miserable.
Setlist for those interested;
Breathe, Money, WYWH - dedicated to Syd by Roger, who also took the second verse, Comfortably Numb - as it should be played, not like the trainwreck the Scissor Sisters made of it.
Have put a video in for the end.
BTW Townshend and Daltrey were very good too. (Can\'t call them the \'oo, without Moonie and the Ox) They did Who Are You and Won\'t Get Fooled Again.
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****, Pink Floyd sounded awesome.....I know it would be asking too much for them to tour again.
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Damn, got a reply in under a minute.....you guys are good! Thanks
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they should play "Alan\'s Psychedelic Breakfast" for twenty minutes instead of Breathe>Comf.Numb>Wish You Were Here :)
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I heard around 5:45, I think that is right
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Anyone know an exact time Pink Floyd is playing at Live 8 this afternoon??
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just the news i wanted to hear: :D
(06-27-2005) EMI to Release Live 8 on DVD
Monday June 27, 2005 @ 03:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
Bob Geldof
Giving away free tickets for a charity concert makes little sense, especially when raising awareness isn\'t nearly as beneficial as raising funds.
Live 8has just announced it\'s teaming up with music giant EMI for a worldwide deal for the Live 8 performances happening on July 2. According to the agreement, EMI will provide a large financial contribution to the Live 8 organization in exchange for the worldwide DVD rights to its concerts in the UK, Canada, US, France, Germany and Italy.
The concerts include performances by Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi, Coldplay, Sheryl Crow, Deep Purple, Dido, Green Day, Jay-Z, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Linkin Park, Madonna, Maroon 5, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, REM, Scissor Sisters, Sting, Joss Stone, U2, Keith Urban, Velvet Revolver, Robbie Williams, Brian Wilson and Stevie Wonder.
"We are very grateful to EMI for their financial contribution which helped to make the July 2nd concerts happen everywhere on the planet and thus nudge the world a little closer towards our shared aim," said Bob Geldof. "I hope this will be the biggest selling DVD of all time. It deserves to be."
Geldof isn\'t the only one excited. EMI Music Canada President Deane Cameron is just as keen. "On its own, the Toronto area show already boasts an astonishing line-up of artists," he said.
For further info on artists performing at the concerts, go to the Live 8 website.
http://www.interference.com/u2132410/index.html
I would think this will probably be 3 different dvd\'s(3 venues) to get the most donations for the fund. Which would be nice if each is complete. I would rather that than a "best of Live 8" w/ bits from each venue.
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Geldof has allready said that \'Floyd\' will only do 3 songs.... Breath,Cumfy Numb and wish U were here.... this could be worse than imagined...
Bean
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1669554,00.html
Heres the link to back up my post.... Hey maybee Clapton will sit in for these 3 tunes hahhahahahha LOL
Bean
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just the news i wanted to hear: :D
(06-27-2005) EMI to Release Live 8 on DVD
Monday June 27, 2005 @ 03:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
Bob Geldof
Giving away free tickets for a charity concert makes little sense, especially when raising awareness isn\'t nearly as beneficial as raising funds.
Live 8has just announced it\'s teaming up with music giant EMI for a worldwide deal for the Live 8 performances happening on July 2. According to the agreement, EMI will provide a large financial contribution to the Live 8 organization in exchange for the worldwide DVD rights to its concerts in the UK, Canada, US, France, Germany and Italy.
The concerts include performances by Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi, Coldplay, Sheryl Crow, Deep Purple, Dido, Green Day, Jay-Z, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Linkin Park, Madonna, Maroon 5, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, REM, Scissor Sisters, Sting, Joss Stone, U2, Keith Urban, Velvet Revolver, Robbie Williams, Brian Wilson and Stevie Wonder.
"We are very grateful to EMI for their financial contribution which helped to make the July 2nd concerts happen everywhere on the planet and thus nudge the world a little closer towards our shared aim," said Bob Geldof. "I hope this will be the biggest selling DVD of all time. It deserves to be."
Geldof isn\'t the only one excited. EMI Music Canada President Deane Cameron is just as keen. "On its own, the Toronto area show already boasts an astonishing line-up of artists," he said.
For further info on artists performing at the concerts, go to the Live 8 website.
http://www.interference.com/u2132410/index.html
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The Most Important Concerts in History
LIVE, Coast-to-Coast on XM!
July 2nd, 2005, starting at 9AM ET
Exclusive Satellite Radio Broadcast of Live 8
The list of musicians is staggering; the reach is amazing. Major artists of all genres from around the globe are coming together in this historic musical event to influence the world to end global poverty. From concert settings in Rome, Paris, London, Berlin, and Philadelphia, XM is there to bring the Live 8 shows to the XM Nation, coast-to-coast, as they happen. Join XM on July 2 on XM Channels 200 and 201 as we span the globe to bring you access to this incredible event. Press Release.
Hear All of the LIVE 8 Shows - LIVE on XM!
XM Public Radio\'s Scott Walterman and XM\'s Red will be stationed at XM\'s command center in Washington DC to serve as your guides on XM 200. They\'ll reach out LIVE to XM hosts on-the-scene in London and Paris. XM Classics\' Paul Bachmann and 20on20\'s Michelle guide you through the concerts set in Berlin, Rome, and Philadelphia on XM 201. With hosts stationed around the world, XM is honored to bring you Live 8, coast to coast!
fitzy - do you still have XM?? if so, any chance you\'re recording (i\'m sure others are, but...)??
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Bart: [sighs] Oh, how can someone with glasses that thick be so
stupid? Listen: you don\'t have a soul, I don\'t have a soul,
there\'s no such thing as a soul!
Milhouse: [smug] Fine. If you\'re so sure about that, why don\'t you sell
your soul to me?
Bart: [pause] How much you got?
Milhouse: Five bucks.
Bart: Deal.
don\'t know the exact quote, but it goes something like this
Bart: what if you die in the ocean?
Milhouse: ohh...it can swim, and it\'s even got wheels incase you die in the desert it can drive back to the graveyard
CLASSIC
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Bart: [sighs] Oh, how can someone with glasses that thick be so
stupid? Listen: you don\'t have a soul, I don\'t have a soul,
there\'s no such thing as a soul!
Milhouse: [smug] Fine. If you\'re so sure about that, why don\'t you sell
your soul to me?
Bart: [pause] How much you got?
Milhouse: Five bucks.
Bart: Deal.
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I will purchase your soul at a reasonable and fair rate.
okay...letter to p.o., plane fare to Paris, ticket to event, puffy black kangol top-hat, and pocket cash is all i need. give me your addy ill send my soul priority mail
that\'s a bit steep....didn\'t Milhouse get Bart\'s for like 5 bucks??
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MTV, VH1 to show Live8
MTV and VH1 will telecast eight hours of the Live 8 concerts on July 2, the networks said Wednesday. The performances, featuring artists U2, Coldplay, Madonna, Dave Matthews Band, Jay-Z and Destiny\'s Child among many others, are being held in eight cities to raise awareness of poverty in Africa.
The telecast is a repeat performance for MTV, which showed the Live Aid concerts two decades ago. Like Live Aid, the Live 8 performances are being organized by Bob Geldof.
America Online, which owns the U.S. rights to the concerts and will beam them on the Internet, is also negotiating with ABC for a prime-time telecast on July 2 following the cable TV coverage.
MTV, VH1 and MTV\'s college network mtvU will be on the air with the same feed from noon to 8 p.m. EDT that day, switching back and forth from different sites and also presenting packaged reports, like a look back at Live Aid.
Related networks CMT and VH1 Classic will air concert highlights the next day featuring artists geared to their audiences.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050622/ap_en_mu/tv_live8;_ylt=AiDlI8d5l4mqbo2Lt0eXndP9Jpcv;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
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One of these days -> set the controls... -> Free four -> Echoes -> Wish you were here
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I will purchase your soul at a reasonable and fair rate.
okay...letter to p.o., plane fare to Paris, ticket to event, puffy black kangol top-hat, and pocket cash is all i need. give me your addy ill send my soul priority mail
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songs: embryo>careful with that axe>embryo,intrstellar overdrive>echoes
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im GOING to Paris to see Jamiroquai even if i have to sell my soul
yeah, i\'m very interested to see what they do. we had some Jamiroquai talk on here a couple months back.. i didn\'t even realize they were still a band. kinda went downhill (on this side of the globe, at least) after TWM...
broadcast info is supposedly gonna be announced by the end of the week. this is coming up quick!
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I will purchase your soul at a reasonable and fair rate.
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or maybe they could throw us all off with my dream (in my dreams)set
shine on you crazy diamond
dogs
echoes
braindamageeclipse
that would be a long one
A look at the Live 8 concert lineups announced Tuesday by organizers:
PARIS:
Andrea Bocelli
Craig David
Calo Gero
Jamiroquai
Kyo
Yannick Noah
Youssou N\'Dour
Placebo
Axelle Red
Johnny Halliday
Manu Chao
Renaud
im GOING to Paris to see Jamiroquai even if i have to sell my soul
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Pink Floyd rebuilds the wall
After two acrimonious decades the band has reunited - at least for four songs
PETER HOWELL
TORONTO STAR
Pigs are flying, The Dark Side of the Moon is warming up and Pink Floyd is to perform live again.
Nobody could have guessed it, most of all Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright, the members of the legendary British rock band that is more popular today than ever, four decades on.
As far as they were concerned, their years as a four-man act were in the past tense. They\'ve had 24 years of feuding to prove their point. That all changes July 2, when they reunite for the Live 8 series of anti-poverty concerts.
The whimsical chronology at the back of Inside Out, drummer Mason\'s newly published personal history of Pink Floyd, lists three events for the spring and summer of 1981, a momentous year for the band.
April 12 was the inaugural launch of the U.S. space shuttle. July 29 was the wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.
In between, on June 13, was "the last live performance by David, Nick, Roger and Rick" ? the first of five shows at Earls Court in London concluding the brief tour for The Wall album, released two years earlier.
At the time, the date meant nothing, to either the group members or their legions of fans. In the years since, however, it has become tinged with as much meaning and regret as Aug. 29, 1966, the day of the last official concert by the Beatles.
And all of sudden, the alignment of the stars looks positively cosmic. Earlier this week, on June 13, 2005, the four Floyds announced they are once again thinking Pink.
They have agreed to reunite July 2 in London\'s Hyde Park as part of the Live 8 concert series in cities around the world, Toronto or Barrie hopefully included, meant to raise awareness of global poverty as world leaders meet that weekend.
Pink Floyd joins an all-star line-up that also includes U2, Coldplay, Paul McCartney, Elton John, REM and Madonna, to name just a few ? and that\'s just on the London stage.
Of all the big names that organizer Bob Geldof has sweet-talked, cajoled and bullied into participating, none top the coup of persuading guitarist/vocalist Gilmour, bassist/vocalist Waters, timekeeper Mason and keyboard player Wright to bury the hatchet and reform Pink Floyd, if only for a moment.
A bitter feud over proverbial artistic differences is what kept the group members at odds for nearly a quarter century. That\'s despite their continuing acclaim as one of the greatest rock bands of all time, the creators of such mega-selling discs as The Dark Side of the Moon (35 million copies sold, and counting) and Wish You Were Here. They\'ve also been hailed as innovators of rock spectaculars, complete with flying inflatable pigs, crashing planes and eyeball numbing lasers.
For 20 of those fractious years since 1981, de facto bandleaders Gilmour and Waters hadn\'t even spoken to each other, a silence broken only last weekend at Geldof\'s urging.
The bombastic Waters left the band to go solo in 1983, declaring that his departure meant Pink Floyd\'s demise. The soft-spoken Gilmour disagreed. He reassembled three-quarters of Floyd in 1987, successfully touring and recording with Mason and Wright under the band banner for the next two years and again in 1994, despite threats of legal action by an enraged Waters.
But lately, even Gilmour\'s version of Pink Floyd has seemed colder than the lunar backside. Following the conclusion of The Division Bell tour in October 1994, titled for the group\'s new studio album, band members retreated to their mansions, houseboats and aircraft hangars to count their many millions and live like wealthy British gentlemen.
Gilmour told Britain\'s Mojo magazine in a 2001 interview: "I feel no need to go out and do a big tour again ? if ever, at my hugely advanced age." (He was 55 at the time.)
All that has come out of Pink Floyd in the past 11 years has been a greatest hits album or two, a couple of live albums from shows past, the odd solo album and Mason\'s new book remembrance Inside Out, which he purposefully subtitled A Personal History of Pink Floyd, to avoid collegial hassles.
As recently as April, when Mason spoke to the Toronto Star in New York during a one-man promotional tour for Inside Out, it seemed getting three Floyds to make music together would be difficult, let alone adding Waters to the mix.
"Maybe I\'m an optimist," Mason said of the chances of reforming the quartet.
"I wouldn\'t say `never.\' I\'d say `unlikely.\'"
Then he added an important qualifier to that statement:
"You know what? If Roger and David decided they wanted to do something together, it would happen tomorrow."
That\'s essentially what happened last weekend, during telephone-shuttle diplomacy by Irish rocker Geldof, who has a history with the band. He played the wastrel Pink in Alan Parker\'s 1982 movie version of The Wall, and knows all of the players personally.
He reportedly first persuaded Waters, rated the toughest sell of all. Waters in exile had heaped scorn upon his former mates, dismissing new Floyd creations as "clever forgeries."
In an interview with this paper in 1992, while promoting a solo album, he raged at being unable to put Pink Floyd to rest.
"I own 25 per cent of the shares (in Pink Floyd), so unfortunately I can be outvoted. I have no control over my past work, and that really bugs me," he said.
"If I could stop it, I would ? but I can\'t. And that\'s so galling. I still haven\'t quite emotionally let go of the back catalogue, and I probably never will."
Whatever Geldof said to Waters, it worked. Geldof then worked his magic on Gilmour, Mason and Wright, with Gilmour being the last to agree to the Live 8 performance. But even he now seems excited by the reunion, if only for the attention it will draw to a worthy cause.
"Like most people, I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the Third World," Gilmour said in a posting on the band\'s website (http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk).
"It\'s crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. (Whatever) squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention then it\'s got to be worthwhile."
It\'s credible coming from Gilmour, 59. A recent story in Britain\'s The Guardian told of the many millions he has quietly given away to charities, including a homeless shelter.
It\'s expected the band will perform four songs at the Live 8 spectacular, including at least three from 1973\'s The Dark Side of the Moon, a study of paranoia and despair sparked in part by the 1968 ouster of band co-founder Syd Barrett, whose increasingly drug-addled state had become a major liability at live shows.
Barrett, a virtual hermit for three decades, isn\'t expected to attend the July 2 reunion. But it wouldn\'t be surprising if his former bandmates tip their hat to him by playing the title track to 1975\'s Wish You Were Here, an album inspired even more directly by their ex-leader\'s tragically damaged life.
Whatever the Floyds choose to play, they will be performing before an international audience that has only grown larger in their absence. Many of Pink Floyd\'s most eager fans weren\'t even born when the quartet wrapped in 1981, and many of today\'s biggest bands are disciples of Floyd, including Radiohead, Coldplay, Sigur Ros and The Secret Machines.
Some may argue the brief reunion show, which will be broadcast globally, is nothing but hype aimed at goosing sales of Pink Floyd\'s back catalogue, which can be expected to fly off store shelves with renewed fervour.
Waters has an answer for them. In his own statement on the Pink Floyd website, he discussed the reunion with typical directness.
"It\'s great to be asked to help Bob raise awareness about Third World debt and poverty. The cynics will scoff ? screw \'em! Also, to be given the opportunity to put the band back together, even if it\'s only for a few numbers, is a big bonus."
That last statement is surprisingly enthusiastic, considering Waters\' long-held antipathy towards his former mates. Could it be he\'s realized that after years of trying to reinvent the wheel, it\'s time to just rebuild The Wall?
Could the July 2 show kick off yet another phase of the four-decade Pink Floyd saga?
Waters, 61, seems to be coming around. He made a surprise appearance in April at Mason\'s New York bookstore promotion, and the two have rekindled their friendship in recent years.
Mason, the band\'s unofficial historian and peacemaker, noted that Waters has always been reluctant to cut all ties with the group. With typical British reserve, Mason explained how the feud was bad, but maybe not all that bad.
"Roger wasn\'t in a bad state. We just didn\'t talk to each other, because we\'d fought each other and it looked like we were heading to the courts. We were pretty pissed off with the amount of money that each other had spent on lawyers. We had no interest in talking to each other."
Mason also spoke of how much work can still be accomplished, through faxes, notes and intermediaries, by people who aren\'t personally in touch.
"I would say we tend to work quite well together, even for people who aren\'t necessarily speaking to each other." He said the members, "even Roger," absolutely share "a great sense of responsibility towards the (band\'s) heritage.
"If we\'re doing a sort of best-of album or something like that, Roger will take an enormous interest in what\'s being done and whether he\'s happy with it and whether it should be modified or whatever. I think we all share that sentiment."
And so they\'ll finally share a stage together again in two weeks\' time, and possibly more often in the future.
A reformed and reinvigorated Pink Floyd would come as music to the ears of Mason, who has long wished his bandmates would settle their differences and get back to work. He\'s itching to get out and tour, especially this summer when the Floyd could face off against such other rock heavyweights as the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney.
He\'s confident Pink Floyd could "knock the socks" off fans with the new digital technology that wasn\'t available when the band last toured 11 years ago.
But Mason, 61, is also bracing for the thought of being swallowed up once again in the colossus known as Pink Floyd, which the band once celebrated with the tune "Welcome to the Machine."
"I can feel myself coming up with an analogy," he said, smiling.
"It\'s like a flying saucer that descends and I climb aboard it."
A flying saucer with pigs, wings and a whole bunch of other unbelievable things.
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i\'m sorry, but... four songs???
then again, i\'m pretty sure that\'s how Live Aid was set up, now that i\'m thinking about it.. bands didn\'t get full sets.. just played a few songs each..
so 4 songs.. if one is WYWH, and the other three are from DSotM as the article states, that really only leaves Brain Damage for Roger to sing. if that is the way the four songs go, then you could guess this would be the setlist:
Time
Us & Them
Brain Damage
WYWH
other possible from DS: Money
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Geldof Welcomes Ebay\'s Live 8 Ticket Sale U-Turn
By John-Paul Ford Rojas, PA
Bob Geldof has welcomed a decision by online auction site eBay to ban the sale of Live 8 concert tickets from its website.
The company initially resisted calls to act despite intense criticism that it was enabling people to cash in on what was supposed to be a charity event.
But last night eBay bowed to pressure. Announcing the u-turn, managing director Doug McCallum said: ?The bottom line is that we?ve listened carefully to our customers over the last few days.
?Overwhelmingly the voice is that they would like us to take down the listing so we are going to do our best to do that.?
Today organisers will announce details of an Africa Calling concert focusing on artists from the continent to be held at the Eden Project in Cornwall on July 2 as part of Live 8.
Last week Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn criticised the main British concert, saying there were not enough black artists on the bill and it was too ?Anglo Saxon?.
Musicians Youssou N?Dour, Peter Gabriel and Midge Ure, together with other African artists will reveal details of the line-up.
They will be joined by the director of world music festival womad, Thomas Brooman, Eden Project chief executive Tim Smit and sustainability director Chris Hines.
Earlier, asked if there was any chance of clawing the money back from eBay deals that had already gone through, Mr McCallum said: ?We of course only benefit by a very small amount of money from the total proportion of sales.
?We?ve already offered to donate that money to the Live 8 concert organisers and have done that quite a lot earlier so we certainly aren?t profiteering or in any way profiting from these sales.
?The sales that have closed already between buyers and sellers who are members of our community we cannot reverse.?
Reacting to the decision, Geldof said: ?It was a sort of example of corporate arrogance that it thought it could operate outside the morality of its audience.
?I am glad it?s stopped and well done for taking them down but it was despicable and they should have thought about it before they did this.
He added: ?They miscalculated this country very badly and, magnificently, the country won.?
More than 100 pairs of tickets won in a text lottery were being advertised on eBay and attracted bids of thousands of pounds.
Geldof had accused ticket sellers of ?sick profiteering? and called for a worldwide eBay boycott.
Before last night?s u-turn, eBay argued it was a ?fundamental right? for people to sell what was theirs ?whether they paid for it or won it in a competition?.
The ticket line for the concert in Hyde Park attracted more than two million text messages.
An audience of 150,000 will get to watch the show, which will feature the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Madonna, Coldplay and Pink Floyd.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4691395
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heard people were offerin 10 million pounds (15-18 million us greenbacks--i think) for tickets to this show, and 2 million peeps went into the drawin for tickets.
matty- I don\'t know who you\'re talking to, but that is fuckin absurd! and I thought people paying $500 for a Coventry ticket was a rip off, pffftttt.
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heard people were offerin 10 million pounds (15-18 million us greenbacks--i think) for tickets to this show, and 2 million peeps went into the drawin for tickets.
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I\'ve been hearing rumors for weeks now, but didn\'t believe them. Turns out they\'re true. Mason, Wright, and Gilmour are getting back together to play Bob Geldof\'s Live 8 in London... WITH Roger Waters. First time since \'81.
Confirmation (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/12/pink.floyd.reut/index.html)
**** Yeah! It\'s about time Gilmour stopped being so damn uppity and sore about Waters. I remember going to see Roger\'s solo show a few years back and it blew me away. Waaaay more like the Floyd of the 70\'s than what Gilmour and Co. had been traipsing around with in the 80\'s and early 90\'s. Roger even mentioned missing his former "cohorts" @ that concert. Good to see some sense out of those guys finally. Even if it\'s a one off it should be great. I mean it\'s truly Pink FUCKIN\' Floyd!!!!!!!!!!
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Will be interested in the Pink Floyd set - maybe RW will give the band an edge after all these years. Anyone going to predict wha the might play?
A whole thread could probably be devoted to predicting/discussing the upcoming performance.
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Will be interested in the Pink Floyd set - maybe RW will give the band an edge after all these years. Anyone going to predict wha the might play?
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hopefully the whole thing will be broacast live, as Live Aid was.. if not, we\'ll definitely see it on DVD soon after.
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There will probly be a huge compilation made of the concert, hope we can get our hands on a full recording of their set.
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This is going to be great! I can\'t wait to here this on recording if one becomes available.
I would love a recording for my collection too.
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This is going to be great! I can\'t wait to here this on recording if one becomes available.
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Epic!!!
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oh good lord...
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I\'ve been hearing rumors for weeks now, but didn\'t believe them. Turns out they\'re true. Mason, Wright, and Gilmour are getting back together to play Bob Geldof\'s Live 8 in London... WITH Roger Waters. First time since \'81.
Confirmation (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/12/pink.floyd.reut/index.html)
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so maybe I\'m missing something, but if they are not charging for tickets, how are they planning on breaking even, let alone making a profit? Free concerts= major security needs, not to mention the rest of the crews and paying the bands, etc.
I believe the sole purpose of this is to raise awareness, not money.
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Stevie Wonder and 50 cent? lol
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so maybe I\'m missing something, but if they are not charging for tickets, how are they planning on breaking even, let alone making a profit? Free concerts= major security needs, not to mention the rest of the crews and paying the bands, etc.
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A look at the Live 8 concert lineups announced Tuesday by organizers:
LONDON:
Mariah Carey
Coldplay
Dido
Keane
Elton John
Annie Lennox
Paul McCartney
Muse
Razorlight
REM
Scissor Sisters
Snow Patrol
Stereophonics
Sting
Joss Stone
Robbie Williams
U2
Velvet Revolver
Bob Geldof
The Killers
Madonna
The Cure
BERLIN:
a-ha
Bap
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Lauryn Hill
Die Toten Hosen
Peter Maffay
Brian Wilson
PHILADELPHIA:
Will Smith (host)
Bon Jovi
Maroon 5
Dave Matthews Band
Sarah McLachlan
Rob Thomas
Keith Urban
Jay Z
Stevie Wonder
50 Cent
Kaiser Chiefs
P. Diddy
PARIS:
Andrea Bocelli
Craig David
Calo Gero
Jamiroquai
Kyo
Yannick Noah
Youssou N\'Dour
Placebo
Axelle Red
Johnny Halliday
Manu Chao
Renaud
ROME:
Irene Grandi
Faith Hill
Jovanotti
Tim McGraw
Nek
Laura Pausini
Duran Duran
Vasco Rossi
Zucchero
looks like it may be hitting canada as well:
Ottawa eyed for Live 8 gig
Concert would follow Canada Day bashes
By JESSICA HALLAM - Ottawa Sun
OTTAWA - This year\'s Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill could be followed by Live 8 on July 2.
Although unconfirmed, it was reported yesterday that Parliament Hill will be included in the group of venues that will host Live 8 concerts to bring awareness to worldwide poverty.
"Together we\'re looking at where\'s the best venue and, as more people jump on board ... figure out what the best combination of possibilities are," World Vision spokeswoman Sharon Marshall told the Sun last night.
"Today the number of incoming calls into the group organizing has increased and the enthusiasm is increasing," she said, adding World Vision, the charity group trying to organize the event, is in heavy negotiations with artists, venues, sponsors and the Live Aid organization.
She wouldn\'t confirm reports that Bryan Adams, the Barenaked Ladies, Jann Arden and Our Lady Peace would be included in the lineup."
The concerts are being held just days before leaders from the world\'s richest countries meet in England for a G8 conference.
London, Paris, Berlin, Philadelphia and Rome were already confirmed as venues earlier this week by Bob Geldof, who founded the hugely successful Live Aid concerts in 1985.
The Live 8 concerts will all have free admission and the artists will be donating their time. Corporate sponsors will cover other costs.
This year\'s concerts fall 20 years after Live Aid, which raised millions of dollars for famine-stricken Ethiopia.
Marshall said that the difference between Live Aid and Live 8 concerts is its purpose. The purpose of this year\'s events has evolved into a political statement, from that of a simple fundraiser.
"It\'s a coalition ... to cancel the debt to poor countries, to create fair-trade rules and to find ways to end child poverty," she said.
City Coun. Diane Deans would like to keep the Canada Day celebrations alive with the Live 8 gig.
"It just keeps that many more people in the capital for another day," said Deans.
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I think that was what I was reading. That it is Pink Floyd w/o Roger. I believe that his manager states that "there was no way he would get back with them. These rumors have been like this for some time." I\'ll try to find the article and post it.
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I doubt that Roger is part of this. Without him this event does not interest me.
I am curious how they are going to distribute tix for this free event.
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It only says Pink Floyd correct? I mean it does say nothing of Roger rejoining so could this be a reunion? I look @ it as I have since he left. The rest of the band is decent but w/o Roger it\'s rather a pitiful shell of a band going by the name Pink Floyd.
this is kind of what I was thinking... the way its worded sounds like the division bell band is getting back together, not that roger decided to make amends with the pig farmer. Either way its cool to see david interested in playing again, but it would be pretty sweet if roger was there too.
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dont know if its true but I doubt we will see a Pink Floyld reunion
It only says Pink Floyd correct? I mean it does say nothing of Roger rejoining so could this be a reunion? I look @ it as I have since he left. The rest of the band is decent but w/o Roger it\'s rather a pitiful shell of a band going by the name Pink Floyd.
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i could only imagine how many people would show up to this show
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There have been rumors of a Pink Floyd reunion for years. It probably will never happen. But, if it does, you can image what it would be like...
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dont know if its true but I doubt we will see a Pink Floyld reunion
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I heard that all this was were rumors. That the band did not intend to play together again. I\'m glad that it was wrong. Pink Floyd returns!!!
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Holy ****!!!!
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Live 8 Preparations Underway 2005-05-31 14:22:29
After months of speculation, Live 8, the long awaited follow-up to 1985?s Live Aid, has confirmed its performance schedule. According to benefit mastermind Bob Geldof, Live 8 aims to raise awareness for poverty in developing countries and will be timed to coincide with Scotland?s G8 summit. Boasting free admission, Live 8 will unfold simultaneously in London, Philadelphia, Paris, Berlin and Rome, featuring a who?s who of music-icons. In a press conference held this morning, Geldof told the Associated Press, ?We don\'t want people\'s money. We want them.? Geldof, a Scottish musician himself, will perform in England.
Highlights include U2, Paul McCartney, Coldplay, The Killers, Velvet Revolver and The Cure performing at London?s Hyde Park, Dave Matthews Band, P. Diddy, Stevie Wonder, Will Smith and Bon Jovi at Philadelphia Museum of Art, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Duran Duran at Rome?s Circus Maximum and Jamiroquai, Placebo, Youssou N\'Dour and Andrea Bocelli at Berlin\'s Brandenburg Gate.The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd have also signed onto Live 8. At press time the group?s performance location had not been announced. 1985?s Live Aid raised money for Ethiopian famine relief and helped turn the ?music benefit? into a popular trend.