Live Earth on the BBC

[Afghan Dave]

What a pile of cr@p. If you don't have digital you were forced to watch the live coverage miss at least a third of Metallica's set and the end of Spinal Tap.

We did get to watch all of James Blunt though   C*NT!

I thought the Foo Fighters & and the Pussycat Dolls were the only ones who turned up and made a real performance. Funny but I had zero expectations of these two but credit where it's due.

Chilli Peppers were good as usual but workmanlike going on so early.

[noodleplugerine]

Was impressed by the playing by both Chilli Peppers and Foo Fighters.

Was very unimpressed by Madonna etc.

What was the blue Gibson with the sharks fin wholes Grohl was playing?

Edit: Found out - Gibson Trini Lopez.

[plastercaster]

Was very unimpressed by Madonna etc.

Yeah, but I loved her having Gogol Bordello on.
The sight of two gypsys dressed like pirates prancing about by all these uber slick dancers cracked me up.

[Dreichlift]

Annoyingly I just missed Metallica, but loved Spinal Tap "Hello Wimbledon!".


What got me though was the whole point of the concert was to raise awareness of Global warming yada yada yada. How many of those interviewed actually commited to making a change or said they already do something? About all I heard was the Pussycat Dolls will use less hairspray but they think the terminator is doing a good job in California and one of the guys in Blackeyed Peas has a hybrid car that he'll be driving when not in his Hummer. Way to go save the planet  :roll:

Aside from a few highlights very disappointing

Oh and Shakira was wearing far too many clothes

[badgermark]

The Foo's were the only ones with a good sound. And having the sheer amount of people singing along with My Hero was awesome. Put on a good show too, Dave Grohl was built for a gig that huge.

The Chili's were disappointing. They are even using a 2nd guitarist live now.

[hunter]

Guess I gotta jump in for Madonna, as

-Her show and the quality of the whole dancing etc was awesome
-Her guitarist with his rig of white orange amps got an extra podium and didn't have to hide in the back
-She made an effort to learn play guitar and had a reasonably cool Les Paul and an uebercool white rockerverb 50 where she did some sweet feedbacking supported by an extra dude who was operating the volume/gain on the amp, I thought that was quite remarkeable
-Her version of "La isla bonita" was the shitee, and I loved this song ever since I've been 13

But one thing, this dress with padded shoulders and high heels just do not go with playing a distorted Les Paul, it doesn't compute period.

[WezV]

Funny how madonna was going for a look courtney love perfected in the 90's.

I wasnt sure - was she was doing the Dolly Parton thing or not? - tuning open so you can play with one finger!!

Gogol Bordello - did make that set a lot of fun.  And the guitarist also got me wondering where you can get white tune-o-matics and tuners from

It looks like Dave grohl had been visiting the gibson custom shop  - a matching blue trini lopez and firebird . . .  Very nice!!  And they always put on a great show

[apmaman]

I agree with the BBC being idiots. Cutting off spinal tap to see some Rhianna in Germany.

Im sure there will be on the website for watching again like on Live 8.

[Muso]

The only band I was interested in "the police" I didn't get to see must of been on way too late or something. Sound quality was pretty bad to my ears for all the bands I saw though.

[Kilby]

I agree with the BBC being idiots. Cutting off spinal tap to see some Rhianna in Germany.

Im sure there will be on the website for watching again like on Live 8.

Well Saturday night is camp night these days.

What with Graham Norton, Maria, Joseph, Grease, dancing on ice, strictly ballroom, soapstar super star, stars in their eyes, pop idol and even Dr Who

Personally I'm surprised that anything other than Kylie, Madonna, George Michael, Elton John and the Scissor Sisters was shown !

Oops that was the Dianna gig wasn't it

Rob...

Even though I have to say that I am not macho enough to watch Sky 1,2 or 3 and I do quite enjoy the Scissor Sisters now and again

[_tom_]

You can watch it all on www.msn.com :D I'm watching Bon Jovi at the minute, sounds great. Also just been watching John Mayer, great tone and nice strats, but so boring! Saw Foo Fighters last night and thought they put on the best show of the lot.  

I have to say I wasnt really bothered that they cut off Metallica, I thought they sounded a bit cr@p. They were only going into Enter Sandman anyway!

edit - the guitarist playing with Roger Waters with the tele has such good tone! This isnt helping gas :lol:

[sambo]

+1 on Foo Fighters... they were excellent. and the blue firebird was damn cool.

speaking of metallica, few friends of mine are seeing them... today i think it is...?

at wembley/wembley arena (cant remember which).

[dave_mc]

i kinda, er, forgot about it.  :lol:

[sambo]

:lol:

thing is though... surely televising the event in the first place is a bit hypocritical... they could have been even more 'pro-earth' if they'd said;

"No- you can't sit at home and use energy by watching it on TV... these famous acts will only be viewed by people at the concert"...

if you see what i mean

[dave_mc]

then i'd have had to catch a plane. or make some kind of hovercraftmobile...

that'd be cool.