I've had this on for an hour or so. There's been some unbelievably bad music up to this point. I'm trying really hard to stick it out for a while, but admit to switching to CNN when Black-Eyed Peas took the stage.

I'm suprised that I have lasted this long, and I just started watching about 15 minutes ago. The sound quality through my sat feed is piss poor, thin sounding sizzle with no bass. Nice camera work, though.

I can't believe you would consider turning that on to view in the first place.

Black-Eyed Peas

:puke:

Carl

I'm recording all of it to my dish dvr and watching it later so I can fast foward through crap I don't want to watch.

I can't believe you would consider turning that on to view in the first place.


:puke:

Carl

Hey, I'm just an old tree-hugger from way back.

Someone mind telling me where this show is? Twelve channels and all I can find are informercials, sports, and Roseanne reruns!
Tom

Hey, I'm just an old tree-hugger from way back.

Isn't that just to keep from falling to the ground, when your sense of balance has temporarily deserted you?

Isn't that just to keep from falling to the ground, when your sense of balance has temporarily deserted you?

Now, now- that NEVER happens. Almost never.

I've had this on for an hour or so. There's been some unbelievably bad music up to this point. I'm trying really hard to stick it out for a while, but admit to switching to CNN when Black-Eyed Peas took the stage.they sounded dis-jointed to me

Someone mind telling me where this show is? Twelve channels and all I can find are informercials, sports, and Roseanne reruns!
Tom

It's on Bravo here.

Cable? :lmao: Ah, more proof I saved money by sticking to over-the-air TV. TYVM.
Tom

Chili Peppers are making me homicidal.

I guess I miss all the news. Live Earth? This sounds like another live concert deal with a mix of bands playing for a cause?

Well, yeah, that's what it is alright.

Chili Peppers are making me homicidal.

What, the band or the ones you eat? They give me heartburn, but never made me want to kill anybody! :yikes:

I've had this on for an hour or so. There's been some unbelievably bad music up to this point. I'm trying really hard to stick it out for a while, but admit to switching to CNN when Black-Eyed Peas took the stage.

Well.. ya gotta remember who organized this, and I'm sure had to make sure the music was "Tipper Approved"...

I don't think who organized it has a damned thing to do with the bad music.

Live Aid ended hunger in Africa.

Farm Aid ended farmers' financial problems.

Will Live Earth keep Earth alive?

(The thing is, last I heard Earth is already good for over a billion more years, until the sun burns out. Maybe Live Sun will be next?)

OK, I've got errands to run for a couple of hours, but I'll ask NICELY that this thread about MUSIC remain free of arm-chair socio-political commentary while I'm gone.

Otherwise, Mods/Admins, tank it.

I guess I miss all the news. Live Earth? This sounds like another live concert deal with a mix of bands playing for a cause?
www.liveearth.org

OK, I've got errands to run for a couple of hours, but I'll ask NICELY that this thread about MUSIC remain free of arm-chair socio-political commentary while I'm gone.

Otherwise, Mods/Admins, tank it.

The event *is* socio-political in its very nature. The concert music is just there to sneak in the message on the sly. It'd be kinda like talking about music performed at an Inaugural Ball and not mentioning who the President was.

It'd be kinda like talking about music performed at an Inaugural Ball and not mentioning who the President was.
Now there's a thought...


Carl

Some of you oldtimers will remember when promoter Sid Bernstein tried to get The Beatles back together for a reunion concert, and the plan was that everyone was supposed to bring a can of food with him to donate to reduce world hunger. Thank goodness The Beatles were more in touch with reality than that.

Interestingly enough, there were several rock acts this year who said the whole idea of holding a concert for this socio-political matter was crazy.

I'm not going to comment on the music other than to say that I guess some people like it.

www.liveearth.org

Goes nowhere. It's OK though, I really was only less than mildly interested. Toze it's all yours.:thmbsp:

I've been watching it on the Bravo channel and the sound is really lousy. I just noticed that it's on Universal HD and what a difference in the sound. it's like night and day. Metallica is playing right now and although I never really cared for the band they are playing much better than anyone else I've seen so far.

Is this signal sent out in multichannel?

Cable? ... more proof I saved money by sticking to over-the-air TV...


...and brain cells.

If I "Tivoed" (sp?) this thing, I'd be inclined to fast forward it to the end when I sat down to watch it. Black-Eyed Peas - isn;t that the group that Morissette sent up with that "Humps" u-tube deal?

Try this link:

LiveEarth (http://liveearth.msn.com/about/factsheet)

Roger Waters could be worthwhile

But, AFI??? Fall Out Boy????? I guess I need to get out more............

I was just watching the venue in Japan on MSN. When they panned the audience you could see it was filled with oriental types.:scratch2:
:D

After watching quite a few bands on there, and hearing a lot of out of key singing. It makes me wonder, do that many artists always sing out of key and they just make it sound right in the studio? Or is it the enviroment that makes it so hard to hear and hit the pitch?

I've noticed this at a lot of live shows in person, but never really thought about it much..

I've noticed this at a lot of live shows in person, but never really thought about it much..

Either a poor monitor mix, or lack of talent, or both.:yes:

I did get to see Spinal Tap play Big Bottom.:guitar:

:thmbsp::thmbsp::thmbsp: John Mayer :thmbsp::thmbsp::thmbsp:

It's so great to see someone under the age of 65 wearing a guitar more worn out than his jeans and playing that old style lead. You know he lives for the music.. Told the wife any more, you want to hear great guitar like that, you gotta dig in the archives.. Reminds me of a modern day Clapton, or Seager, or Melloncamp

:guitar::guitar::guitar::rockon::rockon::rockon: MELISSA ROCKS!!! :rockon::rockon::rockon::guitar::guitar::guitar:

I'm watching the Foo Fighters right now and although I'm not familiar with their music. They are really tearing it up. A VERY good band!

Watching right now on Sundance. I'm lost. Can't identify with any of this horseshit.

I have seen that Foo Fighters live, it was a very good show. I do not get Bravo and have not found the concert anyplace else. No real loss, concerts on TV were never my thing.

It's here on Bravo and two different feeds on Sundance

There's also a feed on the Sundance channel. A little better sound quality.

I don't get Sundance either. Oh well!

Looks like one on CNBC also.

Damn, CNBC was changed for Lifetime about two months ago.

Damn, CNBC was changed for Lifetime about two months ago.

You might be a winner on that one- reruns of Mary Tyler Moore probably have better musical entertainment.

Cat Stevens?!

After watching quite a few bands on there, and hearing a lot of out of key singing. It makes me wonder, do that many artists always sing out of key and they just make it sound right in the studio? Or is it the enviroment that makes it so hard to hear and hit the pitch?

I've noticed this at a lot of live shows in person, but never really thought about it much..Poor live sound mix
Also pro tools does wonders in the studio

There's also a feed on the Sundance channel. A little better sound quality.
switching from Bravo to Sundance now

I was waiting on the guitar solo from Madonna....Damn!!

I'm watching the Foo Fighters right now and although I'm not familiar with their music. They are really tearing it up. A VERY good band!

Both my wife and daughter are big fans of the Foo Fighters, so I've heard quite a bit of their music---so far they have been the best thing I've seen or heard on Live Earth.

Madonna is FIT!

And I can almost listen to her music.

Alicia Keys is doing it.

Big bottoms make the world go 'round.

Roger Waters doing "Money" right now on Bravo

I watched Roger Waters on Bravo. The overall sound was fine, except the level kept going up and down.

I'm watching The Police right now and the sound is fine. Andy Summers hasn't aged well, though. He looks alot like the late Jackie Mason. Don't believe me? See for yourself:

http://www.sibelius.com/assets/93.jpg
Andy Summers

http://www.cbsnews.com/images/2006/08/25/image0e79c587-bbfa-4608-a3e8-6b0a2d070f59.jpg
Jackie Mason
Oy, vey!

What happened to Duff, the female announcer on Bravo? She used to be on MTV and was semi-hot, now she looks like a big donut...My friend had 4th row tickets to The Police (in town the other day), she wanted to take me but I respectfully declined, after seeing them on TV my worst fears were confirmed...medleys and speeded up Vegas Versions of the songs, 1982--for sure....2007--forget it, don't want to taint my image of what it was like......

Andy Summers hasn't aged well, though. He looks alot like the late Jackie Mason.

He's Keith Richards age, what do you expect?

And was that Lenny Kravitz up there or O.J. Simpson?

Maybe it's this horrible on purpose so it will effectively "drive individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve global warming".

What happened to Duff, :para::para::para:

Overall this hasn't been too impressive. But The Beastie Boys rocked. :yes:

Damn! I was hoping this was a thread having to do with someone finding a recording of Earth from 1969. Earth is Black Sabbath before they came up with the darker image and name..

I don't know of anyone playing this global warming money maker that I would give a red cent to see or hear. IMHO

Guess we are getting old, we watched a movie on DVD, then put on another DVD - Andrea Bocelli - Under a desert sky, now there were some real musicians, great guitar, harmonica and accordion player as well as the whole orchestra. And we didn't have to worry about sound as the DVD player runs only the picture to the TV, the audio goes to the CR-2020 and the Polk 7Bs.:D

I saw a bit of it at a friends place, it was on at least 3 channels here. I couldn't stomach it long enough to wait for any of the better bands to come on. It wasn't the music that turned me off, it was the scrolling ads and other crap taking up the bottom third of the screen, the big logos in the top two corners of the screen and the ad breaks in between every song!

Did every channel broadcasting it do this?

Some of it was good but most of it was unbearably bad. There was a real terrible supposed R&B singer from England called Joss Stone who I couldn't believe how bad she sounded. There is nothing that turns me off than someone trying to sing R&B who does not have the chops. I decided to change the channel at that point. I don't know who she is but I pray I never hear her again. :thumbsdn:

Alicia Keys is doing it.

Big bottoms make the world go 'round.:thmbsp:

:guitar::guitar::guitar::rockon::rockon::rockon: MELISSA ROCKS!!! :rockon::rockon::rockon::guitar::guitar::guitar:

Amen. The highlight of the whole thing as far as I'm concerned.

Forget Global Warming. The real crisis is that most new bands suck.

Well if you didn't get it, or didn't get enough, Sirius Radio is going to rebroadcast "the best of".... No times given as of this afternoon....stay tuned from what I've read here it won't take long.

These poor band members must be pretty upset that their much bally-hooed audience of 2 Billion turned out to be more on the order of 3 Million.

Amen. The highlight of the whole thing as far as I'm concerned.

I've never been a big fan of hers, but that was BY FAR the coolest live act I have seen for years and years.. I wished more artists would stand up and say what they really think like she did. Nothing like doing it to music too!!!!

I found the whole thing kind of phony, to urge the conservation of energy while they were wasting so much on needless lighting and special effects and big screens, displaying multiple images of the same thing as they were watching live. I would have been more impressed with a bare bones setup like at Woodstock(The original). It seemed like a lot of waste.