Oh, I see. The planet Earth has been waiting around for 3 billion years--- just to be saved by Al Gore & the Red Hot Chili Peppers...
Posted on 07/06/2007 11:11:56 PM PDT by melt
San Francisco - Ever since rock music emerged as a popular art form in the 1960s its visionaries have dreamed about it changing the world. Now comes its chance to save the planet. On Saturday, hundreds of performers and politicians, thousands of fans and billions of viewers around the world will join forces in support of Live Earth. This precedent-setting event, subtitled Concerts for a Climate in Crisis, hopes to raise consciousness about the threat of global warming by holding round the clock concerts on every continent - including Antarctica, where Nunatak, a band made up of five British scientists stationed at a research station will perform for a small audience of their colleagues.
Most of the other concerts will be a little larger and feature stars who are slightly more famous in what the Hollywood Reporter called "one of the most ambitious global media events of all time."
The event was organized by former US Vice President Al Gore and producer Kevin Wall, who pulled together the huge Live 8 benefit with Bono in 2005.
The concerts will take place at Giants Stadium just outside New York, in London's Wembley Stadium, Shangai's Oriental Pearl Tower, Sydney's Aussie Stadium, the Nordbank Arena in Hamburg, the Makahuri Messe in Tokyo, Johannesburg's Coca-Cola Dome and on the Copacabana Beach in Brazil. There are also more than 7,100 registered local events for those who cannot attend the main concerts.
The artist lineup read like a who's who of rock 'n' roll stars from AFI to UB40, and is designed to appeal to everyone from 11-year- old teeny-boppers to former hippie grandparents, who can still remember the heady days when they really believed that rock would change the world.
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Oh, I see. The planet Earth has been waiting around for 3 billion years--- just to be saved by Al Gore & the Red Hot Chili Peppers...
It all comes from that celebrity mind set of having delusions of grandeur.
They’ll have their little gig - and we’ll hear them whine after a few months or a few years that no one listened to their “message” (as they continue to charter jet planes and buses - and buy several air conditioned mansions)
Um ticket sales are slumped and one Concert will not go on due to lack of sponsers.
Also due to some security issues that the media have been reporting some other concert venues may not go on as planned.
Al Gore loses again.
AlGore's sycophant bands aren't really rock and roll, and aren't worth listening to, either for their music noise, or their eco-message.
The only people that will be inspired with this insipid bunch have no decent sense of music OR grasp of science.
Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):
Other References:
It’s Gore’s way of getting back at Bush. If Bush is saving America, Gore is saving the planet.
COMMUNISM KILLS
They are afraid of Islamonazis in Turkeyl. But booga booga there is a temperature increase you should be aware of.
No, It’s a weak theory and even if not, “Live Earth” would not change a thing. It is to make people aware? Just who exactly isn’t aware since it has been shoved down our throats for some time. Perhaps some tribe in New Guinea hasn’t heard of it yet, but then you would need roads to need cars and thus no need for any of ManBearPig’s idiocy.
They lost me at “billions of viewers”.
I agree with # 4....THAT would be a REAL concert.
This sounds like it could end up Woodstock 2007.
Maybe algore3 could provide the weed.
I agree but with the typical followers of those folks, the concert would have to start early afternoon and end by 8:00 p.m. so we could all be in bed by 9:00 p.m.......
“thousands of fans and billions of viewers”
The gullible.
USE IT OR LOSE IT
In a hundred billion eons,
Or tomorrow, for all we know,
Who will save the Spotted Owl
When Sol begins its dying-sun Glow?
When oceans begin to boil away
What will tree-huggers do?
When all is Gone With the Astral Wind.
The Old Growth, as well as the New.
Who will care what happens to
The Whales or Snails who Dart.
When our sun turns white-hot,
And blows itself, and us, apart.
So much for the Ecko-Freak’s cause
When all around us float.
The dust of everything that was
That now are only motes.
So use and enjoy our Worldly gifts,
For Earth’s final fate,
Is to be mere cinder bits
Drifting around in frozen space.
I don't know about the rest of the gang but I was kinda looking forward to spending the weekend doing cracks about rock stars taking their private jets halfway round the world to tell the little people why they need to sell the second-hand Honda Civic and get back on the bus. But to be honest my heart's not in berating the rock colossi for their carbon footprints of clay. The way this thing's going it looks like, thanks to Al Gore, all-star charity galas will be joining the polar bears on his endangered species list.
I want to bequeath the wonders of this earth to the next generation, but I worry that my grandchildren will never know the feeling that you've totally demonstrated your tremendous concern and commitment to taking action just by going to a concert and staying until halfway through the George Michael set when he started doing stuff from the new album. I worry that my grandchildren will never know the thrill of being hectored by Bono and Bob Geldof, and that many already rare species will simply vanish from the earth - Seventies supergroups who've not yet had a long-awaited charity-gala reunion, hot young acts who haven't had the chance to cover "Imagine" with the lights down and everybody in the stadium holding disposable lighters, Eighties girl groups who've not yet reunited for a Playboy shoot, the last three celebrities who haven't duetted with Elton John, bald-headed Eagles doing the 50th anniversary performance of "Hotel California"...
On the other hand, if Cat Stevens goes down well, Jihad Aid might have legs.
Any chance for some Metal at that concert or it is all the Metrosexual rock and pop music that’s premering?
I've heard Metallica's name mentioned on TV promos. If I were planning to watch any of the concert (I'll catch the Cubs-Pirates on WGN instead), my money would be on Nunatak: Nunatak will play at least part of its set outside – in fingerless gloves, with temperatures plummeting to 14 degrees Fahrenheit.
I just knew there'd be a more edifying reason to watch the Cubs tonight than Live Earth.
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