Pink Floyd at Live 8

[Troy.McClure]

What did people think? I thought it was AMAZING, they sounded so good, its unbelievable that they havent been playing together for years! I wish they would reform and tour :o

[dcfc_1928]

I agree - "Wish You Were Here" & "Comfortably Numb" were the highlights of the day for me.

:)

What did people think? I thought it was AMAZING, they sounded so good, its unbelievable that they havent been playing together for years! I wish they would reform and tour :o

[Slash/ED]

Yeah wish you were here was my highlight of the night, brilliant stuff.

[hamish]

Still on a natural high after the Floyd. Great to see Roger Waters back, smiling and looking in such good form.

Amazing to see so many youngsters singing the lyrics - there's hope for music yet.

[Drumcondra Red]

Still on a natural high after the Floyd. Great to see Roger Waters back, smiling and looking in such good form.

Are you sure its a natural high???

[hamish]

Are you sure its a natural high???

GUTY Drumcodra Red :D
Didn't I read a post of yours also rejoicing at Floyd???

Keep the good vibes going man ;)

[carrickharp]

Brilliant, definitely the highlight of the show :) .

[Peadar]

Pink Floyd, The Who and Paul McUpMyOwnArse were dull rubbish and should have stayed at home! The gig ramped up nicely towards the end with the crowd rocking only for these OAP's to come on and kill the atmosphere stone dead. Even Peter Kay got a better reaction from the crowd.
Pete Townsend gives me the creeps!
While we're on the subject, what was all the hype about the Killers for? Are they supposed to be good or something?
Shíte!
Travis were fairly good.
REM were ok but Stipe seems to have lost his voice.
Snow Patrol were good.
Snoop Dog was shíte.
Madonna was good.
Robbie Williams was excellent!
Joss Stone was good.

[noby]

Pink Floyd, The Who were dull rubbish
Joss Stone was good.


Mmm, I think we'll agree to differ.

[Peadar]

Thought The Who were great, thought Pink Floyd were great but they're not really known for rocking a crowd

If they really had to be there then they should have been on early in the afternoon. They killed the concert but perhaps the were on late to disperse the crowd.
I'd nearly go to a Robbie Williams concert, he was so good!

[Dublin12]

Robbie Williams was absolute muck imo boring rubbish,he was out of it during the day while being interviewed and made a bit of a cnut of himself on live TV.,he was more concerned about getting his h0le :rolleyes: .Pink Floyd were amazing though,Razorlight and Velvet Revolver were good.

[Peadar]

Robbie Williams was absolute muck imo boring rubbish.

The majority of the crowd, it appears, would disagree with you on that. :rolleyes:

[Babysis]

:) Im not a pink floyd fan, and would not have bothered to watch them - I heard them because it was on in the pub when i got there. They were ok IMO I guess its like all of the bands, it depends what your musical taste is.

As much as it pains me to say it :rolleyes: , I agree with Peadar on robbie Williams. Much like Madonna, Im not an obbsessive fan(I like a good bit of what they have done) but everyone was raving about him, and he is a born entertainer.

I think i would have changed the running order, and Pink Floyd should probably have been on earlier. :o

[Peadar]

Unless, of course, people were there to see them.

Purely out of curiosity, in the same way that people go the Natural History Museums to see Dinosaurs! :D

[noby]

The whole day was leading to the big anti-climax that was the long and winding road, so it was as well to put pink floyd in near the end to slow the tempo a bit.

Plus, it's 11.00 on a monday morning and pink floyd are on the radio, so at least some good came from it.

[Lionel Ritchie]

The majority of the crowd, it appears, would disagree with you on that. :rolleyes:

The majority of any crowd anywhere lap up pub rock lowest common denominator sh i te like that shaved ape Williams. Jeeeeeeeeeeeesis Peadar :rolleyes: .

[Peadar]

Jeeeeeeeeeeeesis Peadar :rolleyes: .

I'm simply talking how entertained the crowd were, Lionel.
You can't deny that they all sang along, and he got them going.
He worked his socks off for that crowd, which is a lot more than can be said for the dinosaurs.
Just a pity that Freddie Mercury wasn't with us. :(

[paul_oshea]

I think i would have changed the running order, and Pink Floyd should probably have been on earlier.

have to agree with teh majority on this thread, the more musically eclectic, i mentioned it on a thread on off topic, but the majority of people there enjoyed robbie more than anyone, these people going for the simple reason it was a free concert, not the real reason that is. The majority of people who appreciate(d) music were blown away with the likes of the who and pink floyd ( im not a pink floyd fan ), there really really was something special with the latter. anybody watching on the tv was like my god its floyd etc, and i was watching it in a pub as well.

peter kay imo was quality. "!eh shutup ********" he must have been rotten. but was quality, the best comedian on it, that little britain thing was ****e. how do some people get away with outputting scouring muck??

[hamish]

Pink Floyd, The Who and Paul McUpMyOwnArse were dull rubbish and should have stayed at home! The gig ramped up nicely towards the end with the crowd rocking only for these OAP's to come on and kill the atmosphere stone dead. Even Peter Kay got a better reaction from the crowd.
Pete Townsend gives me the creeps!
While we're on the subject, what was all the hype about the Killers for? Are they supposed to be good or something?
Shíte!
Travis were fairly good.
REM were ok but Stipe seems to have lost his voice.
Snow Patrol were good.
Snoop Dog was shíte.
Madonna was good.
Robbie Williams was excellent!
Joss Stone was good.

Jesus Christ, Peadar, you're in right form lately???? :eek:

Pink Floyd were brilliant - that dinosaur slag is itself a dinosaur -the NME was using that in the 1970s. They got a better reception than Snow Patrol or Madonna or Josh Stone and many young people knew Floyd's lyrics which seems to indicate that good music from original bands still remains good music. What the fcuk has age got to do with it?
Madonna was good? Snow Patrol were good? Travis were fairly good? Ah Jesus, you are kidding. :eek:
Josh Stone has a great voice but her anaemic white soul is bland and her backing band sound like a bunch of session musicians having a studio work out. She needs better material and got a woeful reception. I really felt sorry for her.
The timing of Floyd was excellent and their music brought the later stages of the concert to a lovely solid conclusion. The positive and loud reaction to Floyd seems to indicate that they upped the atmosphere rather than diminish it.

Madonna was her usual BS self - great backing choir to her tuneless warblings (that'f id she wasn't lip synching as usual which Dave Fanning said she did for all her Slane gig.

Thought Williams was his usual, cheeky self and he knows how to work a crowd for sure - charisma he really does have.

I'm convinced you're taking the p!$$.

Maybe, young man ( :D ) the shock of seeing performers who can play their instruments and can sing came as a shock with all the over rated $h!te that's around these days. LOL :D

You're definitely taking the p!$$, Corky Boy.

[hamish]

Thought The Who were great, thought Pink Floyd were great but they're not really known for rocking a crowd, thought Paul McCartney was poor.

Don't mind him - he's only trying to rise us Conor 74 - McCartney's set wasn't that great - he seemed tired and kinda distracted.

[Iorfa]

Wish you were here was amazing. Reckon they'll be touring together soon enough following the reaction to their set. All their albums in HMV on Oxford St. have sold out today!

[Dublin12]

I reckon they'll be playing Slane next year :cool:

[Lionel Ritchie]

I think it'd take Floyd to get me to go to Slane ;)

[Dublin12]

I think they were made for each other,could you just imagine it :cool:

[Lionel Ritchie]

Indeed I could. I could probably even bring myself to put up with the expensive warm beer, hordes of sunburned gob****es and event junkies with glo-sticks that would surely turn out for it and all. Would be great though.

[Roadend]

I thought the Who were the best band all day, no other guitarist came close to Townshend, he was head and shoulders above anyone else. Funny to see Pink Floyd back together considering how they hated each other's guts.
It was good to see Ashcroft out there too, one of the few that day who can actually sing.
Williams will always get a good reaction because he's a master at working the crowd. He has to be as it disguises his awful karaokee music.

[Peadar]

I thought the Who were the best band all day, no other guitarist came close to Townshend

Who'd want to get close to that dirty pervert?
I was worried for the poor little African kids on stage.

[Roadend]

I tee 'em up you drive 'em home ya? :rolleyes:

[paul_oshea]

as well as playing to 200,000 at a time...

....yes like all bands, but they never have done, bar yesterday, and in fairness never will do :rolleyes:

[Lionel Ritchie]

I have a live CD of Maiden playing to quarter of a million in Brazil where dickinson gets the crowd (yep 250,000 people) to sing the intro to 'fear of the dark'.

It makes Freddie Mercurys 'day-oh' gag at wembley look pretty easy by comparison. :cool:

[Peadar]

that dinosaur slag is itself a dinosaur -the NME was using that in the 1970s.

So you expect me to get excited about a band who were referred to as Dinosaurs before I was even born? :confused:

I know age is against them but I've never seen any band concentrate so hard on trying to remember the words to their songs and how to play their instruments.

[paul_oshea]

I know age is against them but I've never seen any band concentrate so hard on trying to remember the words to their songs and how to play their instruments.

they hadnt played together in 20 years!!

[Lionel Ritchie]

So you expect me to get excited about a band who were referred to as Dinosaurs before I was even born? :confused:

I know age is against them but I've never seen any band concentrate so hard on trying to remember the words to their songs and how to play their instruments.

I sometimes get excited about gregorian chant stuff from eons before I was born, by trad stuff we haven't a blind clue of the age of and by mozart from over 200 years ago. your point?

Yeah they've it a good bit harder than Robbie Williams who could'nt play a triangle and doesn't need to remember words as the backing track is never wrong. :rolleyes:

You do know Robbie is about 32 dont ya? getting old like

[noby]

So you expect me to get excited about a band who were referred to as Dinosaurs before I was even born? :confused:

I know age is against them but I've never seen any band concentrate so hard on trying to remember the words to their songs and how to play their instruments.


As straw-clutching goes, that takes the biscuit.

You like Williams; you dis-like floyd. Can we not just leave it at that?

[Peadar]

mozart from over 200 years ago.

At least when Mozart died, he stayed dead!
These boys should just rest on their laurels.
The sun has set on their musical careers.

[hamish]

So you expect me to get excited about a band who were referred to as Dinosaurs before I was even born? :confused:

I know age is against them but I've never seen any band concentrate so hard on trying to remember the words to their songs and how to play their instruments.

Whether you get excited or not is up to you Peadar - so what if they have to try and remember the lyrics and they do have a big backlog of music so not surprising really and they hadn't much practise time, apparently. Anyway, it was you who introduced the dinosaur tag.

I just found their musicianship, those beautiful guitar sounds from Dave Gilmore and those great songs thoroughly enjoyable. It's a cliche but it's the music that counts in the end, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. :D

I didn't know you were THAT young, by the way, enjoy it - it passes awfully quickly and you may even end up a "boring old fart" like me - another old NME term. LOL :D

Fine, if you don't like them but I always laugh when people slag off a band 'cos their over thirty, forty and god forbid, fifty.

It's the music - it's the music - it's the music. :p :D

Good music is good music and the age tag is irrelevant.

[Lionel Ritchie]

At least when Mozart died, he stayed dead!
These boys should just rest on their laurels.
The sun has set on their musical careers.

Why? coz they're in their late 50's early 60's? give me a break.

I know the world has become more and more youth obsessed but please.

Will you want Robbie to rest on his laurels when he's 60 -or will you popping along to Butlins to watch him haul his fat ass about.

[Peadar]

Fine, if you don't like them but...

It's not that I don't like them but I felt there was such hype about them and people saying how amazing their set was when, quite frankly, for me, they combined with The Who and 'Macca' to drain the atmosphere. Like flesh eating zombies who sucked the life out of the crowd.

My points are based on their performance last Saturday and in the context of the Live8 concert.


Will you want Robbie to rest on his laurels when he's 60

If he's still alive.


or will you popping along to Butlins to watch him haul his fat ass about.

If I can get tickets.

[noby]

Why? coz they're in their late 50's early 60's? give me a break.

I know the world has become more and more youth obsessed but please.

Will you want Robbie to rest on his laurels when he's 60 -or will you popping along to Butlins to watch him haul his fat ass about.


60??? Try 45. By 60 he'll be the Dickie Rock of the Cruiser circuit.

[town73]

any word on a live8 DVD?

[hamish]

[QUOTE=Peadar]It's not that I don't like them but I felt there was such hype about them and people saying how amazing their set was when, quite frankly, for me, they combined with The Who and 'Macca' to drain the atmosphere. Like flesh eating zombies who sucked the life out of the crowd.

My points are based on their performance last Saturday and in the context of the Live8 concert

So what if there was hype about the original set up coming together (not forgetting Syd Barrett). Goes with the territory, doesn't it? I'd say the likes of Pink Floyd couldn't give a $h!te about the hype as they've seen it all, done it all and they're probably too stoned to notice, in any case.

I disagree with you regarding draining the atmosphere but I might be wrong, you might be right, I might be right, you might be wrong. At least, we enjoyed the bands we liked so we're all happy in the end.

Anyway, Peadar, I'll fight for your right to diss the Floyd, Corky Boy. LOL :D. I'll bet you have at least one of their albums in your collection, though - come on, admit it. :p

I though that some of the new bands were good, some of the old bands were good and vice versa.

In fact. i was amazed at the poor response that all bands obtained throughout the afternoon - did anyone else notice this or was it just me getting bad vibes off the telly?? It seemed to perk up a bit as the light faded.

Just heard that Dave Gilmore has stated that they will be donating all the extra sales income from CD sales to the cause which is good. Obviously, they made a hoard of new fans from the performance and are not pocketing the profits. I wonder how many other bands are doing this?

OK.OK, so they don't need the money - before anyone brings that up. So what.

God, you're a cynical bunch.

[Peadar]

In fact. i was amazed at the poor response that all bands obtained throughout the afternoon - did anyone else notice this or was it just me getting bad vibes off the telly?? It seemed to perk up a bit as the light faded.

The BBC put mic's on the crowd later in the evening so the noise was picked up on TV where it hadn't been earlier.
That said, I think the fading light adds to the atmosphere anyway because people become more focused on the bright lights in front of them.

[hamish]

The BBC put mic's on the crowd later in the evening so the noise was picked up on TV where it hadn't been earlier.
That said, I think the fading light adds to the atmosphere anyway because people become more focused on the bright lights in front of them.

On yeah, I remember Ross saying that the crowd was miked.

Ah Peadar, cut us a little slack will ya, surely the crowd were also more focused on the music too. :D Personaly, I find it more enjoyable when the light of the day dims and you haven't the distraction of some fat birds - or blokes - showing off their excess blubber, beer bellies, cellulite and ground level ar$es in outfits their kids should be wearing and traipsing about all over the place, usually in front of one's view of the stage. :eek: I fcuking HATE that.

BTW, you didn't confirm how many Floyd albums you have. LOL :D

[Drumcondra Red]

any word on a live8 DVD?


Wooo chill out, it took 20 years for live aid ffs!!!

[Peadar]

BTW, you didn't confirm how many Floyd albums you have. LOL :D

Had to think for a while because I know I have none but also certain that I don't even have any of their tracks on a compliation.
Does Fleetwood Mac count?

[hamish]

Had to think for a while because I know I have none but also certain that I don't even have any of their tracks on a compliation.
Does Fleetwood Mac count?

Yeah, when Peter Green was with them. Not too gone on Mac2.

[hamish]

How did Fleetwood mac become so popular? They were just the Corrs without flutes...unless you count Peter Green as one... ;)

A good band from the 70s that could rock, although they didn't like the touring scene and became almost reclusive, were Steely Dan. They could belt out some great stuff.

Yeah, Fleetwood mac during the Peter Green era were nothing like the later version. Steely Dan - I think I read somewhere they might be touring again - not 100% sure TBH - think Becker and Fagan have a Waters/Gilmore thing going, if you know what I mean.

The Doobie Brothers could rock too except that Michael McDonald put too much of that soft soul into their music for some albums. but some songs are awesome, they really "rawk out". I think they're still in action.

BTW, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter played with Dan and Doobies.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Yeah, Fleetwood mac during the Peter Green era were nothing like the later version. Steely Dan - I think I read somewhere they might be touring again - not 100% sure TBH - think Becker and Fagan have a Waters/Gilmore thing going, if you know what I mean.

The Doobie Brothers could rock too except that Michael McDonald put too much of that soft soul into their music for some albums. but some songs are awesome, they really "rawk out". I think they're still in action.

BTW, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter played with Dan and Doobies.

Becker and Fagen have been working together again off and on since 1993

[hamish]

Becker and Fagen have been working together again off and on since 1993

Didn't they bring out a new album in the last few months???

[hamish]

Martha Kearney has just mentioned Pink Floyd's "Dark side of the moon" - it's her favourite album.
Nuff said. If martha says it's number one, then it's number one. :D :o