#259603 - 02/07/2005 03:48
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I will likely be glued to the TV tomorrow watching coverage of the Live 8 concerts. Anyone else? Anyone actually going to any of the shows? If the lineup for Philadelphia wasn't so awful, I'd totally be there, but somehow, Will Smith and Bon Jovi just don't seem worth driving 5 hours for...
Anyway, the lineup in London is obviously phenomenal, but the one that I'm really eager to see is the Pink Floyd "well, it's not really a reunion" reunion. I've read all sorts of stories, from "we're just doing this for Bob," to "the hatchet is buried, we're a big happy family again," so who knows if anything will come of this in the future. Heck, until the last chord is played, I'm pretty skeptical that all four of them will show up... Nonetheless, it's cool that an event like this has at least for the time being brought them together for the first time in 20+ years.
So, what's everyone else looking forward to seeing?
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#259605 - 02/07/2005 04:18
Re: Live 8
[Re: bonzi]
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According to this: http://www.pinkfloydonline.com/history4.htmlThey last all played together live in 1993, so not quite 20 years yet.
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#259606 - 02/07/2005 04:26
Re: Live 8
[Re: andy]
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Registered: 13/09/1999
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Phew, just 12! 
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#259607 - 02/07/2005 05:31
Re: Live 8
[Re: bonzi]
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Registered: 30/01/2000
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Like I'm sure many of you did, I text for tickets and was disappointed not to get any. I just have to console myself with V at Stafford in August and U2 a couple of weeks ago down in Twickenham.
I dealt with an online shop for the U2 tickets which was a complete farce. I had to end up getting the tickets from the ground on the day. They claimed all the standing tickets had been stolen so they upgraded us to a hospitality box at the back of the ground. Free buffet but NO BEER! This did eventually get sorted out but not until the concert had started and so marred proceedings a little.
I'm not an avid U2 fan but they but on an excellent show.
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#259608 - 02/07/2005 06:04
Re: Live 8
[Re: andy]
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They last all played together live in 1993, so not quite 20 years yet.
Strange, as I was on the consert they had in Oslo summer 1994...
Stig
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#259609 - 02/07/2005 06:19
Re: Live 8
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They last all played together live in 1993, so not quite 20 years yet.
Strange, as I was on the consert they had in Oslo summer 1994...
Stig
I think the important distinction that's being lost here is that the "all" referred to upthread is the lineup including Roger Waters, which definitely hasn't played together in over 20 years.
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#259610 - 02/07/2005 07:38
Re: Live 8
[Re: adavidw]
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Not wishing to sound like a miserable git I'm letting the myth box record it, and i'll watch it later so I can ff past the boring bits.
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#259611 - 02/07/2005 08:40
Re: Live 8
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Registered: 16/04/2002
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Too Right! Although Sky+ in my case!
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#259612 - 02/07/2005 08:54
Re: Live 8
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Code:
Sat Jul 2, 2005
1 Live 8 2 - BBC TWO Sat Jul 2, 2005 (01:00 PM) 3 hrs 25 mins
2 Live 8 1 - BBC ONE Sat Jul 2, 2005 (04:15 PM) 5 hrs 25 mins
1 Live 8 on THREE 7 - BBC THREE Sat Jul 2, 2005 (07:00 PM) 5 hrs 5 mins
2 Live 8 US 1 - BBC ONE Sat Jul 2, 2005 (09:50 PM) 5 hrs 50 mins
Sun Jul 3, 2005
1 Live 8 on THREE 7 - BBC THREE Sun Jul 3, 2005 (12:00 AM) 3 hrs 5 mins
That should do it....
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#259613 - 02/07/2005 10:17
Re: Live 8
[Re: srhodes]
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Registered: 14/04/2002
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I'm not an avid U2 fan but they but on an excellent show.
My boss went to the Cardiff show this week, said it was very good value - something like 4 hours in total.
Funnily enough he will be seeing it twice - he was given these at the last minute but had already got tickets for the October MSG show and asked me if I wanted to go  (not U2, just NY which should be fun, never been before)
Gareth
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#259615 - 02/07/2005 13:48
Re: Live 8
[Re: andy]
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According to this:
http://www.pinkfloydonline.com/history4.html
They last all played together live in 1993, so not quite 20 years yet.
The 1993 album and shows most emphatically did not include Roger Waters. Neither did the 1986-1990 period.
And when Roger Waters did a "Wall" show at the Berlin wall, those did not include David Gilmour.
I would, however, like to see documentation on any other possible points in time that Roger and David may have played together since Final Cut. But I was under the impression that there haven't been any. Thus the reason the Live 8 thing is a Big Deal for Pink Floyd fans.
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#259616 - 02/07/2005 17:57
Re: Live 8
[Re: tfabris]
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Ah, I see! (Obviously, I am not that much of a fan; I just noticed that I have Pink Floyd listed as the author of "Amused to Death", rather than Waters  ) I suppose that expecting Syd Barret would be too much (he isstill alive, isn't he?)...
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#259617 - 02/07/2005 18:17
Re: Live 8
[Re: bonzi]
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I suppose that expecting Syd Barret would be too much (he is still alive, isn't he?)...
For some undetermined value of "alive," yes. Then again, there are those that would argue that Keith Richards is also alive...
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#259618 - 02/07/2005 19:53
Re: Live 8
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Registered: 16/04/2002
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Pink who?
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#259619 - 02/07/2005 20:45
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Isn't he in the scissor sisters?
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#259620 - 02/07/2005 20:47
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[Re: bonzi]
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Registered: 21/05/1999
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I suppose that expecting Syd Barret would be too much (he isstill alive, isn't he?)...
..and living somewhere around here (Cambridge) by all accounts.
Rob
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#259621 - 03/07/2005 06:27
Re: Live 8
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I had set my receiver to record the whole show, but I had obviously not cleared enough space because it stopped just before Pink Floyd and when I noticed it had stopped, they were midway through Comfortably numb....  ARRGHH! So, Andy, would it be possbile to get the Pink Floyd part from you in some way? Stig
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#259623 - 03/07/2005 06:57
Re: Live 8
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I suppose that expecting Syd Barret would be too much (he isstill alive, isn't he?)...
..and living somewhere around here (Cambridge) by all accounts.
Yeah, you used to see him wandering around town all the time, quite sad really.
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#259624 - 03/07/2005 08:39
Re: Live 8
[Re: RobotCaleb]
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If anyone is interested I should be able to supply an MPEG2 PS file, or an MPEG4 cut just of the floyd in action. We watched/listened to it last night on analogue TV which, in this country is probably the best way to watch it.
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#259625 - 03/07/2005 11:00
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I watched the clip that l0ser linked to. The sound wasn't too bad (according to my ears...), but the picture was a bit low quality.
Andy, I'd like a copy at least of the Pink Floyd cut, is possible..
Stig
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#259626 - 03/07/2005 12:51
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[Re: StigOE]
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Let me have a play with bitrates and I'll get back to you.
EDIT: Actually, you're going to Amersfoort aren't you? I could probably make a high quality version and burn it onto a disc.
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#259627 - 03/07/2005 13:05
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[Re: andym]
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Yes, I'm going to Amersfoort, so if you burn a disc, that would be excellent. Or if you're bringing a laptop, we could transfer it some other way...
Stig
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#259628 - 03/07/2005 13:08
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I also have a strange suspicion that the "limited edition" / "special edition" DVD "collector set" will be available in the shops very soon.
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#259629 - 03/07/2005 13:15
Re: Live 8
[Re: andym]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/04/2002
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Loc: Yorkshire UK
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We watched/listened to it last night on analogue TV which, in this country is probably the best way to watch it.
Who on earth at the beeb came up with the idea, faced with two programmes of uncertain length, live8 and Wimbledon, to swap them between one channel and another in the middle: Should have been 4.15, eventually happened at 6.15, I was watching bits of it on Sky, whose people obviously had no idea what was going on. I have odd bits between REM and UB40, unless that was Annie Lennox serving at Wimbledon, and nothing after the middle of Mariah Carey.
Mrs. Boxer being the persevering type, won two tickets, the boxette coulsn't go, so she gave them to two old school friends who phoned us mid evening absolutely hysterical with the excitement of it all.
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#259630 - 03/07/2005 13:31
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Registered: 17/01/2002
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Being a program scheduler is a unenviable task, for every person who thinks you've made the right choice there's someone else that thinks you're wrong.
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#259631 - 03/07/2005 14:12
Re: Live 8
[Re: andym]
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Registered: 16/04/2002
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Loc: Yorkshire UK
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Being a program scheduler is a unenviable task
Somewhere in Monty Python, John Cleese casts aspersions on the role!, but I have the complete MP on VHS, so finding it would be a long job.
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#259632 - 03/07/2005 14:45
Re: Live 8
[Re: andym]
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Registered: 24/01/2002
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Loc: Providence, RI
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If anyone is interested I should be able to supply an MPEG2 PS file,
Ooo ooo me me me. I was tempted to try to come up with tickets and fly just for this, but my travel luck has been poor recently, plus I'm trying to be less fiscally imprudent.
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(Was that nice concert with fantastic lighting somewhere in Italy realy more than 20 years ago? Sigh... 
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