# Live 8 Concert **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846 "2005-07-02T17:57:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/41 "2005-07-02T22:55:45Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > They said we’ll be able to rewatch this, right? I can’t seem to skip forward through it. I want to see Audioslave in Berlin, and maybe more of Green Day… their set seemed energetic. I think that they’re supposed to keep the performances online through the summer for free, on-demand streaming access, if I understood them correctly. I thought I heard something earlier today about being able to download them permanently for a fee, but they said that they won’t be making it available for sale through normal commercial channels. I only caught a replay of one Green Day tune, and I’d like to see the rest of that set, too. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/42 "2005-07-02T22:58:31Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Not until Paul McCartney. I finally had feed problems during, “The Long and Winding Road.” My feed finally settled down about halfway through the Floyd set, and I didn’t have any trouble at all after that. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/43 "2005-07-02T23:01:20Z")
Nice end of the London feed, with Hey Jude! ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/44 "2005-07-02T23:22:47Z")
MTV sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/45 "2005-07-02T23:27:44Z")
Never mind – found out it was the Kaiser Chiefs; the BBC is running the Philadelphia show from start to finish, and kicked off at midnight with the beginning of the US show. ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/46 "2005-07-03T02:19:54Z")
> [@brianjedi](#): > > Lowlights: > > - Toby Keith. WTF? Ack! I was at work and missed it. I taped the whole day because I thought this would happen. I’m too lazy to rewind the tape and find it. Can someone send me a link? ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/47 "2005-07-03T03:07:32Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Yes, but concert watched you! I applaud you, sir. That was beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/48 "2005-07-03T03:15:52Z")
Is it possible that licensing/royalty fees prevented MTV from broadcasting more than a fraction of the performances in their entirety? (Or to put it less charitably, did they decline to do so on the grounds that it would cut into their ad revenue?) ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/49 "2005-07-03T03:47:52Z")
I can’t be the only person who finds Bob Geldof’s voice insanely sexy. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/50 "2005-07-03T06:53:15Z")
I was there today (Philadelphia). Awesome. Very good time despite the heat and I think the city has acquited itself well. I suppose if anyone has any specific Qs about how the show was or what it was like you can ask in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/51 "2005-07-03T11:31:39Z")
I was unable to see any of it. All I wanted to see was Pink Floyd. So tell me, what songs did they play and did Roger and Dave have a punch up on stage or did they get along politely? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/52 "2005-07-03T12:02:11Z")
I watched, fully expecting a band-brawl, but they played Money, Comfortably Numb, and…er… Breathe, I think. Didn’t get to see Comfortably Numb _or_ Breathe, thanks to the shitty ABC coverage. ---
**Author:** ![Phish\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@Phish\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phish_Head)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/53 "2005-07-03T12:05:41Z")
> [@1920s Style "Death Ray"](#): > > I was unable to see any of it. All I wanted to see was Pink Floyd. So tell me, what songs did they play and did Roger and Dave have a punch up on stage or did they get along politely? 🙂 **MTV** showed _Breathe, Money, Wish You Were Here,_ and _Comfortably Numb_ ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/54 "2005-07-03T12:07:53Z")
Yea, and that was their set, although they started talking again towards the end of it (the MTV VJs). ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/55 "2005-07-03T12:08:40Z")
The TV station I’m watching now is promoting a highlights package to be shown after 60mins tonight, hopefully they’ll have PF on that. I would like to see Comfortably Numb in particular. It is a song whose major strength is the counterpoint between Waters’ dry voice on the verse and Gilmours incredibly uplifting and pure vocals on the chorus. The various solo/post-waters’-PF versions don’t campare IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/56 "2005-07-03T12:11:05Z")
> [@Phish Head](#): > > **MTV** showed _Breathe, Money, Wish You Were Here,_ and _Comfortably Numb_ Thanks. About time you became a member isn’t it **Phish Head**? This board could do with some more jam-band fans :). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/57 "2005-07-03T12:45:50Z")
> [@DarkSideoftheFloyd](#): > > I can’t be the only person who finds Bob Geldof’s voice insanely sexy. :dubious: Actually, yes, yes you can 😉 Another low - **Mariah “the queen diva” Carey**. After her first song the classic “Can I get a mike stand ? I know I said I didn’t need one but I lied.” shortly followed by the immortal words “I’d like to sing you my new song…” 😕 In London at least Madonna and Robbie Williams saved the day, they came on - got the crowd bopping with well chosen songs and left us wanting more - Coldplay in contrast were just dreary. Uncontested High Point - Like **Hippy Hollow** I remember Live Aid - the moment when David Bowie introduced a video shot, IIRC, by a couple of Canadians of two or three starving children in Ethiopia accompanied by The Cars ‘Drive’, the audience in tears afterwards … well I was in tears again yesterday when Bob Geldof introduced the same video, stayed on stage watching it then “I don’t think we clap after that do we? That child had 10 minutes to live. Two weeks ago she passed her agricultural exams …” the most beautiful young African lady came onto the stage “… don’t let them tell you it doesn’t work!”. The cynical may say this was overly sentimental, exploitative even - and it’s true Madonna should have left the poor lass leave the stage earlier - but it was human and powerful. ---
**Author:** ![da\_pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@da\_pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/da_pope)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846/58 "2005-07-03T15:32:02Z")
Pink Floyd did Breathe, Money, Wish You Were Here, and Comfortably Numb, in that order. Roger was having a difficult time singing on pitch until the second verse of comfortably numb, even his backups were shaky. Although he mimed most of the words to the songs as David sung them, had a smile on his face, and looked like he was having a genuinely good time. David was all serious, although I caught a couple of grins between him and Nick. Rick Wright got 0 camera time until the last song, as if the camera men/producer thought he was just a sideman. After the set, they all came stage front and locked arms, (from left to right), David, Roger, Nick, Rick. It looked like everyone was happy with each other. Not the best set, I wasn’t impressed with the song choice, and it was very rough around the edges, with some missed cues by all, nick losing his place once or twice, and some really bad vocals. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-8-concert/310846.md?page=2)