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Best Live8 act so far

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#32 02-07-2005 11:32pm
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Cremo wrote:

erm what's the difference between this thread and this one
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2995958

this one is for like the cool people! :mad:

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#33 02-07-2005 11:35pm
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Nah , sure it wouldnt even compare to the origional Live Aid at all. Most of the bands were just dreadful nobodies and it isnt going to have a fraction of the impact as Live Aid.

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#34 02-07-2005 11:38pm
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Citizen_Erased wrote:

Why , are you there ? I couldnt say something like that about something I say on tv (within reason)

(ihopethatwasntsarcasmotherwiseimgonnalookdumb)

umm nah it's just ahh read some of my other forum post about pink floyd and you'll see why

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#35 02-07-2005 11:44pm
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danniemcq wrote:

umm nah it's just ahh read some of my other forum post about pink floyd and you'll see why

rar! you minx! :P

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#36 02-07-2005 11:50pm
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Oh my god, I cannot believe I just saw Pink Floyd! I love that band so much!
They were f*cking amazing!!! They haven't played together in 24 years, and only rehearsed twice this week, and they knocked the **** out of every band there today.

I really REALLY hope they get back together. From tonights show, it looks like Nick Mason is the only one who is showing any begrudgery. Well, **** him, he's not an amazing drummer anyway.

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#37 02-07-2005 11:52pm
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pink. goddamn. floyd.
my life is complete.

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#38 02-07-2005 11:59pm
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Tar.Aldarion wrote:

rar! you minx! :P

hee hee yeah!

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#39 03-07-2005 12:02am
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Anyone else think Pink Floyd are the most over-rated band in history?
I didn't think there was anything special about them at all.

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#40 03-07-2005 12:03am
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Definitely Floyd. Also Green Day, Madonna and Robbie. Peter Kaye ("Is this the way to Amarillo?", Lennie Henry and the crowd ("who gives you extra" ) .

What;s the story with Project Eden? I wanna see Neneh Cherry!!!

Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

Come on, now.
I hear you’re feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.

Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship’s smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re sayin’.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I can’t explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

Ok.
Just a little pinprick. [ping]
There’ll be no more --aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?
I do believe it’s working. good.
That’ll keep you going for the show.
Come on it’s time to go.

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship’s smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re sayin’.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

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#41 03-07-2005 12:04am
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they were all amazing but the finale was fantastic, as it should be. it was brilliant when madonna came on with that woman though, it was pretty humbling to be honest...

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#42 03-07-2005 12:04am
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The Who were much better at the 9/11 gig, but then again Entwhistle was still here then.

Anyone else think Hey Jude was a nice sing along to end on but shouldn't have been done as an end for a meaningful event? All You Need is Love would have been better, McCartney did it at the Queen's Jubilee so I don't see why he couldn't here.

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#43 03-07-2005 12:05am
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Anyone else think Pink Floyd are the most over-rated band in history?

I agree Themselves and the Rolling Stones.

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#44 03-07-2005 12:07am
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when did greenday play?! I wanted to see them so bad! I had three web links going at once!

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#45 03-07-2005 12:07am
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Thought the Stereophonics were good,but Pink Floyd were great.

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#46 03-07-2005 12:08am
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Pink Floyd without a shadow of doubt were heads and tails above everyone..amazing

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#47 03-07-2005 12:12am
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DEFINITELY Paul McCartney - playing Hey Jude, Get Back, and Sergeant Peppers with U2

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#48 03-07-2005 12:14am
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Le Rack wrote:

when did greenday play?! I wanted to see them so bad! I had three web links going at once!

They played in Germany at maybe 3 this afternoon or so

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#49 03-07-2005 12:16am
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Pink floyd showed all these girly bands how to play. Everything sounded dull and weak in comparsion.

I thought Sargeant Peppers rocked, but when they played it after the Floyd set, it wasn't worthy of being on the same stage.

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#50 03-07-2005 12:23am
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Didn't see anything past about 7.30pm but the BlackEyedPeas were the only thing that grabbed my attention up to that point.

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#51 03-07-2005 12:42am
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OFDM wrote:

Anyone else think Pink Floyd are the most over-rated band in history?
I didn't think there was anything special about them at all.

what in gods name are you talking about

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#52 03-07-2005 12:44am
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Pink Floyd are one of the best bands in history, I can understand why people might not LIKE them but how you can call them 'over-rated' is beyond me?

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#53 03-07-2005 1:09am
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OFDM, I'm afraid that Music has called and said it's not for you.

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#54 03-07-2005 1:25am
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pink floyd by a mile
absolutely amazing, wish you were here was pure class, and comfortably numb excellent also.
rte2 was about 15mins behind bbc1 at the end, so i watched em on the beeb, then flicked back to watch it again on rte
slightly disappointed by the who, especially since evertime pete townshend went to do his really cool windmill move it flicked to an overview of the drummer...wtf was up with that ???
not as good as i'd hoped tho.

also excellent kaiser chiefs, green day (minority dragged a big tho), velvet revolver, u2, sterophonics and more i cant remember

funniest thing was during linkin parks set it showed a view of the crowd - a group of white chicks screaming along with the song, standing right beside a group of black chicks who had the best 'damn fool white girls' look ever

hey jude at the end was a bit of a let down, shoulda picked something a bit better than that....long and winding road was really cool tho.

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#55 03-07-2005 1:42am
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I was expecting the Keith Floyd backlash. Perhaps "over-rated" is the wrong phrase - more like "over-hyped".

I hadn't really heard them before tonight and didn't think their songs were all that amazing tbh. I'm not saying they're rubbish, they just didn't blow me away.

It's a bit like people hyping "Lost" and then finding the first 3 episodes are not that great.

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#56 03-07-2005 1:45am
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pyure wrote:

drummer...wtf was up with that ???

The drummer was either Oasis's former drummer Alan White or his brother former Pete Weller drummer Steve White (not to be confused with the more-famous and more-talented American drummer Steve White).

Neither of the White brothers are up to much drumming wise.

[edit]Just realised you were talking about the "windmill move" but the drummer was crap anyway...[/edit]

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#57 03-07-2005 12:42pm
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ofdm,
if you had any of their albums and listened to them, you would realise how magical they were last night.

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#58 03-07-2005 12:52pm
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ODFM - If you haven't even heard any Pink Floyd albums then please do us a favour and keep your opinions to yourself. You can't form a valid opinion when you haven't a clue.

Pink Floyd proved themselves as probably the greatest band to have graced the planet last night.

U2? Biggest band in the world? they are wannabes compared to the Floyd.

My life is now complete.

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#59 03-07-2005 1:20pm
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OFDM wrote:

The drummer was either Oasis's former drummer Alan White or his brother former Pete Weller drummer Steve White (not to be confused with the more-famous and more-talented American drummer Steve White).

Neither of the White brothers are up to much drumming wise.

It was Steve White, and he's not crap! He's a bit more 'song-serving' than the average drummer, and just because he doesn't go rolling around the kit every nano-second doesn't mean that he's crap.

The best drummer I've seen play with The Who was Simon Phillips.

It was nice to see Townshend actually play the electric guitar instead of just standing there strumming a semi-acoustic and relegating duties to a session-man.

But I think it ceased to be The Who after John Entwhistle died. His contribution to the band live was always sadly unrated and overlooked.

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#60 03-07-2005 1:27pm
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It would have been amusing if it was Alan White as Zak Starkey (drummed for them on their last tour) was playing with Oasis at the City of Manchester stadium at the same time.

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#61 03-07-2005 2:09pm
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DublinWriter wrote:

It was Steve White, and he's not crap! He's a bit more 'song-serving' than the average drummer, and just because he doesn't go rolling around the kit every nano-second doesn't mean that he's crap.

He's limited in his ability. He played "Who are you?" wrong and he's not capable of replicating Keith Moon's dynamic playing.

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