I spent a lot of today, in between runs with my dog, watching Live Earth. There are several hours left of the broadcast and I highly advise you to tune in. Cat Stevens just got off the stage in Hamburg.
This global show is totally freaking awesome. It ROCKS. Practically every top musician in the world seems to be performing. The production quality is superb with HD feeds from Toyko, London, New York, and Antarctica, among other venues. Excellent little mini-documentaries about various aspects of the climate crisis from the Live Earth Film Project are interspersed. You can see them all here.
A huge shout out to producers Kevin Wall and Al Gore, the musicians, the live audiences, global viewers, and the enlightened corporate sponsors like Intelsat, NBC, Uni HD (where you can find the HDTV signal), Phillips and Smart.
The next job is to get the regressive Republicans — who basically want to carry on with their “heckuva job” Katrina approach to environmental management — completely out of government. We need competent management again in this country.
I did not detest Kelly Clarkson — as I normally do when I hear that song in the supermarket or wherever. In fact, she sang her guts out.
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Metallica sounds like they still practice 18 hours a day in a garage.
…and I never really liked her before. But she is one fantastic entertainer. Anybody know who the mustached man and fiddler were?
Haven’t you seen them around? Seriously, she was the star of the day so far, in MHO. Christ, a Mom of three putting on act like that at age 49. Gives us all hope.
I thought it was really cool the way she pretended to play the guitar.
I think attendance here was 140,000. Not exactly a carbon neutral event.
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One event, 140,000 spectators in the stands, God knows how many watched on TV. PGA AT&T National at the Congressional Country Club near Washington DC drew 37,613 (and millions on TV.) And how many viewers around the world tuned into Wimbledon?
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What was Live Earth’s global attendance? I’m guessing Saturday’s US sporting events attendance plus viewership kicked its ass worldwide.
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Sorry, progressives.
get two billion viewers?
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You’re funny.
2 billion? Where’d that number come from? Please link.
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US viewership was pathetic. So was the UK audience.
Those conservatives beat us again by making the planet uninhabitable. They’re so much better than us.
And motorcycles even more.
BTW, by Cat Stevens do you mean the no-fly-listed Yussif?
forget to Muslim-bait if you’re a conservative. Five times a day, facing Ann Coulter’s co-op apartment.
How can some of you sympathize with these hypocrital “entertainers” whose carbon imprints are hundreds of sizes larger than ours. And fawning over an aging Madonna, who is probably the biggest phony of them all? If you need a guilt fix, go hug a tree.
Has coverage of all the venues. Not to be missed is Melissa Etheridge’s song, not least for her rant halfway through.
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The Beastie Boys were also crazy good in front of an anemic crowd…depressing to see so much grey hair there, though.
i watched live earth from tokyo, when visiting family and colleagues. watching it on and off starting in australia and japan in the afternoon over there and then move around the world through the time zones, into the wee hours of the night and into the next day, really gave me an impressive and unexpected sense of global community. at 1am I got to see Al in DC introducing Garth Brooks at the beginning of the US concerts. what fun.
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i went to earth day 1990, and it made a big impression on me.