Music in the News

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I totally agree to you Heineken.
1st amendment is saint.
And The Hustler couldn't be published without it. ;D

[LivingDeadGirl]

Anyone catch any of the Live 8 concert this past weekend? I got bits and pieces of it...Jayzee & Linkin Park were pretty cool. Also saw Green Day doing We Are The Champions...I like them & all but I'm not really sure about that choice . I missed U2 dammit...but I did see The Floyd who were awesome! Got goosebumps seeing all the guys back together again.

[Bartwald]

Sadly, I saw nothing of Live8. But I'm hoping to be able to download the performance of Pink Floyd and REM at least.

[LivingDeadGirl]

Floyd was great! I've heard there's already some bootlegs of it floating around on Ebay.

[LivingDeadGirl]

Today VH1 and MTV aired most of the concert commercial free and with full sets. I taped the good stuff (ok, well what I thought was good anyway...) so if anyone is interested in a copy just let me know and I'll make one for you. Some of the performances I got:
U2, Floyd, REM, Green Day, Velvet Revolver, McCartney, The Who, Coldplay, Linkin Park, Audioslave, Black-Eyed Peas, Elton John, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Rob Thomas...there's more, I just can't remember 'em right now. There's about 3 of 4 hours of stuff.

[Bartwald]

livingdeadgirl said:

Today VH1 and MTV aired most of the concert commercial free and with full sets. I taped the good stuff (ok, well what I thought was good anyway...) so if anyone is interested in a copy just let me know and I'll make one for you. Some of the performances I got:
U2, Floyd, REM, Green Day, Velvet Revolver, McCartney, The Who, Coldplay, Linkin Park, Audioslave, Black-Eyed Peas, Elton John, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Rob Thomas...there's more, I just can't remember 'em right now. There's about 3 of 4 hours of stuff.

Sounds great! I couldn't find most of these anywhere on the net so far, so soon - if I find nothing in several other places - you can expect me knocking at your virtual door asking for the tape...

[Pulpmariachi]

Yeah. I saw Pink Floyd play and even after all these years, they still sound really good.

I'm not a big fan of Madonna, but I must say she does know how to entertain.

[LivingDeadGirl]

Green Day have denied reports that they will star in the movie adaptation of their album American Idiot says Ananova.

Frontman Billy Joe Armstrong says even though the band will write the script and produce the film they will not make an appearance.

Armstrong says "I'm going to be involved in some of the writing and production for the movie, which will be like a mix of The Who's albums and films, Tommy and Quadrophenia. You won't see us appearing in starring roles because we're not actors. We will leave that to the professionals."

[Pulpmariachi]

Interesting.

I think that would be a schizophrenic collage of a movie. Loud, fast, big. Like the album. Wonder how this'll turn out.

[Quorthon]

So some Disney boy-band (bleagh!!!) was mobbed in Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis over the weekend. They were doing a show and all the teeny-bopper kids there to watch rushed the stage. Supposedly, they were ripping at the group's clothes and jewelry and stuff. Stupid lame boy bands...

[LivingDeadGirl]

Waters Goes Opera

ROME (Reuters) - Roger Waters delighted rock fans when Pink Floyd played their first gig together for 24 years at July's Live8. On Thursday he was hoping to win over classical fans with his first opera, 16 years in the making.

The singer, bass player and songwriter on classic albums like "Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall," said he wanted his French Revolution opera "Ca Ira" to have the same impact at its world premiere in Rome as his stadium-filling rock anthems.

"It's a different form but the intention is the same, still just trying to create an emotional response, communicate a feeling," Waters said in an interview with Reuters at the end of the opera's dress rehearsal in Rome's Music Park.

"I am writing for other voices that's why it's different. I can't sing this stuff."

Waters has been working on the opera since 1989 -- the bicentenary of the French Revolution -- when friends Etienne and Nadine Roda-Gil, both now dead, asked him to set their libretto about the historic events to music.

He met French songwriter Etienne in 1968 when student revolts shook Paris. The rock star, whose career began amid the psychedelia of the 1960s, plays down the era's myth, but says he still believes in revolutionary change for the better.

"I'm not sure that those days were particularly heady, but there was in the late 60s a notion that by making a lot of noise one could change things."

The desire for change is still there, he says, although young people's idealism is these days in danger of being subverted by religious bigotry -- but despite the dark edge to much of his work, he is an optimist.

MORE FLOYD?

He seemed to have little but pessimism, however, toward the rest of Pink Floyd over the last two decades, and at one point unsuccessfully sued the others to stop them using the band's name.

They put their differences aside to play the Live8 concert organized to campaign against world poverty. Waters says he doubts the band will get back into the studio, but does not rule out future concerts if the others agreed.

"(A reunion) is very unlikely. But it always was very unlikely. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy Live8, I did. I thought it was great and I'd always be up for doing something else."

The foray into opera does not mean the young-looking 62-year-old is too old to rock. He is working on two new albums and plans to tour in 2007. But for the meantime he hopes to see "Ca Ira" performed again after the two shows in Rome this week.

"We had a letter yesterday from the mayor of Paris saying we've got to get this thing on in Paris," said Waters, who put on one of the world's biggest gigs in 1990, a version of "The Wall" performed at Potsdamer Platz, after the Berlin Wall fell.

"I can't think of anything I'd like to do more," he said, relishing the idea of a bigger stage for his classical work.

"Next summer, I can see it now, in the Place de la Concorde, open air, you know, the same sort of thing, in French obviously."

[Quorthon]

A member of the Death Metal band Mortician was arrested in Poland, I think, yesterday. Apparently he went berserk on a cabbie then stole the car.

[slayrrr666]

I had heard about this. Here's a Blabbermouth.net article about the incident:

MORTICIAN vocalist/bassist Will Rahmer was arrested by the Polish police after threatening a taxi driver with a knife and stealing a taxi cab following the group's performance in the Polish city of Zielona Gora on Sunday (Nov. 13).

Rahmer reportedly called a cab after MORTICIAN's concert in Zielona Gora (which the other MORTICIAN members performed without Rahmer) and requested to be taken to the Berlin airport so that he could fly back to the United States. He allegedly went berserk in the car and threatened to stab the driver of the cab with a small knife. The taxi driver escaped and called the police. In the meantime, Will stole the car and drove himself to the Polish/German border crossing in Swiecko where he was subsequently picked up by the authorities.

According to the report, Rahmer was placed under arrest and is being held on several charges which carry a maximum penalty of 3 to 15 years.

Interesting, but reports say that they will continue the tour, with other band members filling in along the way.

[Quorthon]

Why didn't he perform with them? Did he quit the band or something? And then just decided he wanted to up and leave?

[Bartwald]

Crazy! I heard nothing about it!