Live Earth Notes
MTV further asserts it’s lack of substance by running the following shows instead of a single snip of Live Earth coverage.
Here’s the 2:00 line up that eMpTyVee feels supersedes global warming.
MTV: America’s Top Model (marathon)
MTV2: Wild Boyz (apparently a marathon too)
VH-1: Lindsay Lohan’s Most Shocking Moments
VH-1 Classic: Top 100 One Hit Wonders (#’s 60-41)
Bravo on the other hand is broadcasting performances and PSA’s from 8am-midnite with no commercials (that aren’t for Bravo). Viewership is estimated at 2 billion people world wide. Times, and the 18-34 demographic, are different then Live Aid in 1985 but dang, not a single one of their hacks is on scene to commentate.
Also, just to tick myself off, I go over to the narrow puke buckets at Fox News to see what they are saying about an issue the Republican party as a whole thinks is a propaganda based illusion. All they could point out was that many musicians are driving up in gas guzzling buses (true with a couple of exceptions, can’t debate a fact like that) but glossed over the energy saving measures in place to offset it. However, while CNN (who’s too incompetent to be saddled with a partisan label) had someone reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa and Giants Stadium. Fox didn’t even put their woman-on-the-scene inside Giant Stadium. Fox also completely didn’t mention that a bunch of bands here in the States like Dave Matthews, Pearl Jam, Neil Young are all using bio-fuel while on tour instead of gas. They also scoured Madonna’s investment portfolio and apparently she’s got money in some polluters and questioned why she was able to perform at an environmental benefit. That’s the difficult questions they try to answer.
Grumpy today aren’t I? First weekend since early April that hasn’t been packed with activity and I keep thinking we’ve got somewhere to go and that we’ll be late getting wherever it is.
In the spotty times I’ve been able to see the coverage I saw: Duran Duran do a nice set (threw a little ‘I Wanna Take You Higher’ into ‘Notorious’, Corinne Bailey Rae had a phat horn section, Metallica did Sad But True (Lars with a stripped down drum kit), Porter stopped playing Star Wars to listen to David Gray sing ‘Babylon’, KT Tunstall did good versions of the 3 songs she always does, and I saw the Chili Peppers do one of their newer songs and the groove was pretty solid.
That’s it for this quick post.
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Quick update; The Sundance Channel is running it to. Foo Fighters did a defining version of Best Of Me.