Monday, July 04, 2005
I don't know if any of you bothered to try and watch MTV's/VH1's godawful commercial for itself, masquerading as coverage of the G8 concert, but I have come to the conclusion that if Jesus was to come back next week, and MTV got the exclusive rights to cover it, they'd break away for commercials and vapid commentary from their VJs as often as they could.
From the beginning of their so-called "live" coverage (which was ALL on tape except for the Pink Floyd portion -- more on that later), you really saw virtually no one perform an entire song -- UNLESS that group just HAPPENS to be a current favorite on MTV and even THAT wasn't a guarantee.
Who the F@#$()%#@)%K are the Black Eyed Peas? And more important, who Freakin' CARES? Buncha screamin' nachschleppers with no talent who got to perform for what seemed like ALL DAY.
This was supposed to be about groups around the world trying to get a mesage to the G8 leaders. MTV, being stupid, thinks that nobody in the US would give a darn about bands in places like South Africa or Russia, so we get "highlights" of those acts (read: 30 seconds of various groups before cutting to a commercial, or worse, the talentless VJ nitwits who can't even be bothered to PRONOUNCE the names of many of the bands correctly.
At least they waited 3.75 songs into the Pink Floyd show to cut away to their VJs, who informed the world that (SURPRISE) you're listening to PINK FLOYD, TOGETHER AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1983! WE KNOW THAT, YOU FREAKING CLODS! SHUT UP AND GET BACK TO THE MU...OH, DON'T GO TO A COMMERCIAL...YOU...YOU...
I don't even like Pink Floyd and I was mad. Good thing half the Beatles are dead. God knows how many times they'd cut away from THAT reunion.
That's another thing. You don't cut away from Paul McCartney. Ever.
Imbeciles.
They didn't even bother to show anything from the Canadian stage, unless they did it during the six hours in the middle when I gave up.
No Neil Young, No Gordon Lightfoot! No Barenaked Ladies! No point in watching!
Couldn't they have stopped trying to make money for ONE FREAKIN' DAY? A friend of mine speculated that the reason you didn't see any performance all the way through is because they want to put them on DVDs and make you pay for the privilege, and raise money for world hunger. Well sorry, but they said they didn't WANT money for this one. They wanted your name. I gave them my name and I barely got anything worth watching.
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Roger Waters sure looked like he was having a good time, didn't he?
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We saw a wonderful fireworks display this evening at the Glendale Peacock Park or whatever it's called. But there was hardly anybody there. Time was you had to pull up a piece of the field at nine a.m. to have it when the fireworks started at 9 p.m. But we showed up at 7:30 to an EMPTY Glendale Library parking lot and had no trouble finding a place to sit in the park.
Does EVERYBODY go to Tempe now?
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TT
From the beginning of their so-called "live" coverage (which was ALL on tape except for the Pink Floyd portion -- more on that later), you really saw virtually no one perform an entire song -- UNLESS that group just HAPPENS to be a current favorite on MTV and even THAT wasn't a guarantee.
Who the F@#$()%#@)%K are the Black Eyed Peas? And more important, who Freakin' CARES? Buncha screamin' nachschleppers with no talent who got to perform for what seemed like ALL DAY.
This was supposed to be about groups around the world trying to get a mesage to the G8 leaders. MTV, being stupid, thinks that nobody in the US would give a darn about bands in places like South Africa or Russia, so we get "highlights" of those acts (read: 30 seconds of various groups before cutting to a commercial, or worse, the talentless VJ nitwits who can't even be bothered to PRONOUNCE the names of many of the bands correctly.
At least they waited 3.75 songs into the Pink Floyd show to cut away to their VJs, who informed the world that (SURPRISE) you're listening to PINK FLOYD, TOGETHER AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1983! WE KNOW THAT, YOU FREAKING CLODS! SHUT UP AND GET BACK TO THE MU...OH, DON'T GO TO A COMMERCIAL...YOU...YOU...
I don't even like Pink Floyd and I was mad. Good thing half the Beatles are dead. God knows how many times they'd cut away from THAT reunion.
That's another thing. You don't cut away from Paul McCartney. Ever.
Imbeciles.
They didn't even bother to show anything from the Canadian stage, unless they did it during the six hours in the middle when I gave up.
No Neil Young, No Gordon Lightfoot! No Barenaked Ladies! No point in watching!
Couldn't they have stopped trying to make money for ONE FREAKIN' DAY? A friend of mine speculated that the reason you didn't see any performance all the way through is because they want to put them on DVDs and make you pay for the privilege, and raise money for world hunger. Well sorry, but they said they didn't WANT money for this one. They wanted your name. I gave them my name and I barely got anything worth watching.
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Roger Waters sure looked like he was having a good time, didn't he?
------
We saw a wonderful fireworks display this evening at the Glendale Peacock Park or whatever it's called. But there was hardly anybody there. Time was you had to pull up a piece of the field at nine a.m. to have it when the fireworks started at 9 p.m. But we showed up at 7:30 to an EMPTY Glendale Library parking lot and had no trouble finding a place to sit in the park.
Does EVERYBODY go to Tempe now?
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TT
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