Live Earth notes part deux

Watched the whole end plus highlights
for another couple hours.
Some more personal notes...

Genesis -- yawn.
AFI -- disgusting.
Lenny Kravitz in Rio -- way cool!
Metallica doing Enter Sandman -- blitzed the stadium!
Black-Eyed Peas -- never before gave them even a minute of my time but they weren't bad.
Alicia Keys -- yowza!!!!
Kelly Clarkson -- eh.
Beastie Boys -- missed 'em.
Kanye West -- despise him, did not watch.
Melissa Etheridge -- turned her off.
Red Hot Chili Peppers -- total L.A. funky cool!!!!
Foo Fighters -- slight edge over Chili Peppers.
Madonna playing guitar(?!) on Ray of Light -- Surprisingly cool. I've never seen her play guitar before. She looks great.

Bon Jovi -- tis a mystery how they have remained so popular for so long. I can remember getting their Slippery When Wet tape way way back... saw 'em at the closing ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake and they rocked. They've actually gotten better since then! Part of the reason they brought down the house at Giants Stadium is 'cause they're from Jersey and man, probably ain't more Bon Jovi fans anywhere else. They coulda closed the show if it wasn't for The Police.

Smashing Pumpkins -- Holy freakin' cow. They destroyed. Made an earlier band, The Fallout Boys, look like the Fallout Little Girls. Monster sound even if without original members D'arcy and Iha. Holy crap. Corgan didn't have to pimp their new album but still they were the best of the night!! And to the new bassist, Ginger Reyes -- will you marry me?!?!?!?????

Roger Waters -- might as well listen to the CDs. Excellent stuff, he looks great, he was having fun, it's great music, bringing the kids from Trenton, NJ on stage was totally cool... but it just wasn't Pink Floyd which could have had such a commanding presence.

The Police -- whoa. First time I have heard them live aside from that CD they issued of an old show. Whoa! Freakin' blew away every great studio version of their tremendously loved songs. Right now they qualify as one of The Coolest Rock n Roll Bands In Existence... along with The Rolling Stones and U2. A-freakin'-mazing. And they don't have a half dozen extra musicians up on stage giving them a fuller sound, just these three guys. Stewart Copeland looked like he was gonna have a stroke only 'cause he was wailin' away on them drums and Andy Summers can still wail on guitar, and Sting... well, he's gone from soft rock wuss back to totally cool again. Only complaint is that Kanye person kinda ruined Message In A Bottle. Too bad. Still a great, great set of music!!! They've got to record an album and tour more 'cause they are incredible. If this current tour is just a one time thing that would be too bad.

All in all a great day of music. Some stuff I didn't care for but a lot that was new and cool or old and cool and I just loved watching this! It's so not every day or even every week or even every month that I sit and watch music on TV but this was worth it! I'm ready for the DVD set so long as it's intensive and not some yada yada yada compilation.

Zome Zilch Day Prog Rock

No music without a hike or a run today but I wanted to listen to sumthin'... decided on this before I delete the files.

Genesis

Selling England By The Pound

1973

Dancing With The Moonlit Knight

I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)

Firth of Fifth

More Fool Me

The Battle of Epping Forest

After the Ordeal

The Cinema Show

Aisle of Plenty

Back in December when I first signed up for a subscription music dealie, one of the first things I randomly chose to listen to was some old Genesis... and I mean old, not early 80's old, I mean way back to their early years. I didn't care for this or Nursery Crymes then but I told myself I'd give each another try.

What an incredible album this is... but I still don't particularly care for it. This is the opposite of one of them weird sitchy-ations (gotta say that word with a Bugs Bunny-sorta voice) ... anyway, one of them strange sitchy-ations kinda like the movie that stinks but hey, it's funny and ya like it... well, the music here by Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks, Steve Hackett, Phil Collins & Peter Gabriel is amazing but it just doesn't do anything for me. These are less songs and more stories told in elaborate music compositions. At one point I had an Ingmar Bergman-ish vision of this being played while prancing village to village throughout the English countryside in about 1647 if electricity had been invented by then. How far away from this kind of music they surely got over the years. Did people in 1973 & 74 really enjoy this? I'm feelin' pretty certain people today would just be like, "Uhhhhh?!"

256 kbps @ New Moodswings

raindrops weren't falling on my head

Coulda gone out in the rain. A run was out of the question but my hiking boots with Gore-Tex ain't afraid of a little mud. Twasn't poring, twas just a light rain all day. So why'd I not go out? WHY?!?!?!?? Sleep. Not all day but quite an extended naptime I had. I blew a day. [sigh . . .]

Listened to some blah music, though. Second time I've listened to this in about six weeks and it's all now deleted, more than likely to never be listened to ever again. Prog-rock just isn't my cup o' tea, thank ya very little. Genesis I like. Old Genesis -- no, thanks.

Genesis -- Nursery Cryme (1971)

The Musical Box
For Absent Friends
The Return of the Giant Hogweed
Seven Stones
Harold the Barrel
Harlequin
The Fountain of Salmacis

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