Live 8...anyone else feel like you're getting cheated?
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 8:45 am
So here I am with 2 TVs going, video recording, cavalcade of remote controls at the ready...30 minutes in and i've seen 15 minutes of commercials, 8 minutes of lame audience members being asked why they're there from even lamer MTVH1 commentators, 5 minutes of "Live" music (Black Eyed Peas) and the previous 3 hours of concert that6 has already been presented whittled down to a 2 minute montage of "highlights". If I hear an artist say they're there to "Make Poverty History" one more time, i'm gonna puke.
Uh oh...outta my way!
Seriously...I knew there was gonna be trouble when I saw the line-ups on the 5 different continents. Live Aid was 2 concerts...and they switched between the 2. The artist that was on in London was broadcast in Philly while Phily was setting up. then vice versa. Now, with modern on-the-fly editting technology, we're getting snippets and time delayed stuff. I loved the spontaneity and stitched together nature of Live Aid. They may as well have already pre-recorded these concerts in sound stages with canned audiences....mabye audience shos left over Live Aid.
Why SO MANY commercials?? They're not asking for donations for this concert...so you KNOW MTV ain't gonna donate it to the cause...It's going straight in to Viacom's pockets. It should be commercial free...cause seeing a commercial for Burger King or the latest action flick kinda...uh... undermines the caue that we're fighting poverty.
Alright....8 more minutes of commercials....
Uh oh...outta my way!
Seriously...I knew there was gonna be trouble when I saw the line-ups on the 5 different continents. Live Aid was 2 concerts...and they switched between the 2. The artist that was on in London was broadcast in Philly while Phily was setting up. then vice versa. Now, with modern on-the-fly editting technology, we're getting snippets and time delayed stuff. I loved the spontaneity and stitched together nature of Live Aid. They may as well have already pre-recorded these concerts in sound stages with canned audiences....mabye audience shos left over Live Aid.
Why SO MANY commercials?? They're not asking for donations for this concert...so you KNOW MTV ain't gonna donate it to the cause...It's going straight in to Viacom's pockets. It should be commercial free...cause seeing a commercial for Burger King or the latest action flick kinda...uh... undermines the caue that we're fighting poverty.
Alright....8 more minutes of commercials....