I'm off to the Hyde park Live 8 show in London next weekend.

A friend has suceeded in getting 2 pairs of tickets, One has my name on it!

Anybody else going? - I'll ,hopefully,see you there! 

http://www.live8live.com/theconcerts/index.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/thelive8event/

Plenty of info here sir.

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Very difficult to pick a favourite as most of the acts were brilliant, but i've narrowed it down to 2!
Madonna or Pink Floyd.
But i can't decide who was best.
Rob.
P.S. edited to say i didn't go, i watched it on TV.

I think the most historical reunion was Pink Floyd...without a doubt. Their last concert with Roger Waters was in 1983!!! They were amazing...especially 'Wish you were here', my favourite Pink Floyd song.

Also The Who rocked!!! As always, 'Who are you' was outstanding...does anybody know if they also played 'Baba O'Riley'? If so, they didn't broadcasted it. Allas because personally I think that's the best song ever made. 

The opening in Hyde Park was also one I'll never forget: Paul McCartney and U2 with 'Sgt Pepper...'...awesome!  8) 8)

I still don't see the fuss over Pink Floyd.  They were almost impossibly boring...

The Who were amazing.  My favourite act was Velvet Revolver. 8)

Dunno...there was just no passion or energy from them.

As for VR...they're a well established band.  They're a merging of Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots.  But the style of music isn't as popular now, but it will come around again.

Now...why weren't AC/DC asked to play?  That would have been really amazing!  Now there's a legendary band that still sells records, and has passion and energy.  They're recording a new double album right now, BTW.

I wish they had shown the Audislave set from Germany too...they got a 9 song set according to AOL!  Including Killing In The Name, which is a RATM cover (Audioslave is the RATM band with a different singer) and Cornell isn't very good at singing it, but it's still a kick ass song, 'F*ck you, I won't do what you tell me!'  But he does do a brilliant acoustic version of 'Black Hole Sun' from his old band Soundgarden.

Saw it on TV, really enjoyed seeing Floyd and The Who, however VR were a huge dissapoitment, they can, have and should have done much better 
IMHO Wieland was a joke, while Slash was trying to play an outro solo he had to come along with a mike and a megaphone then stand right next to Slash thus drowning him out 

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VR are 3/5's Guns n' Roses so looking at it from that POV they've been at it for 18 years and have had more than thier fair share of hits.  8)

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  ...and you're calling Pink Floyd boring? AC/DC to me is one of most redundent bands that has ever existed, you can play most any of their songs out of the same 3 chords, I could never figure out why people thought they were so great, I eventually came to the conclusion that most music fans are simple minded and more than three chords in a song confuses them.
I never got into AC/DC, they had a couple of cool tunes before Bon Scott died, but after that it has all sounded pretty much the same, however, like someone else said, each to his own.

And the best I could manage was listening to it on a crummy radio.

Pink Floyd still sounded as good as I've ever heard them though.


As for AC-DC not being asked to play. I don't think the bands were asked. It was the bands that asked if they could play. And because of the speed at which the concert was planned and booked etc bands such as Status Quo couldn't make it due to other arrangements.

I was dissapointed though that Paul Mccartny didn't sing Mull of Kintyre just to help everyone on their way home.

Actually people in africa are saying exactly the same thing Paz. They dont want continual handouts, they want help to give them a chance to work for themselves. As it stands, although the debt has been cancelled, with the way things stand, no doubt its already rising again.

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sorry i was multi tasking Paz. Got mixed up, will fix it. Either way it was a good point you made.
sorry