Pink Floyd at Live 8
Hey its a big deal when Pink Floyd gets back together, including Roger Waters, and plays a live gig.
That happened yesterday in London at Live 8.
There was lots of speculation in the blog world about what they'd play.
Jackson's buddy Chris whittled it down to this list:
"Shine On"
"Comfortably Numb"
"Us and Them"
"Mother"
He got one right anyway. They did play Comfortably Numb. I knew that because they played it again on WEHM this morning when I was driving around.
Brad Feld saw the whole Pink Floyd set live on his computer via AOL and lived to blog about it.
Here is the actual set list according to Brad:
They started with "Breathe In The Air", then "Money", then “Wish You Were Here”, and finished with “Comfortably Numb.”
I missed it, and that's too bad, because I would have liked to see it.
My kids asked me last week what bands I'd like to see in concert but never have.
Pink Floyd is on that list for sure.
UPDATE: I got mp3s of the four songs on bittorrent. Here they are:
I caught the set on MTV as it aired, it was awesome. aolmusic.com is supposed to have song by song video clips up within a day or two of everything in the event, so you can probably catch it then.
Posted by: candice | July 03, 2005 at 11:35 PM
I missed it too, and I'm now sitting through the AOL replay waiting for the Pink Floyd part of the show because I can't get the replay to fast-forward.
Pink Floyd is at the top of my list of bands I've never seen in concert but would want to. I had a couple of PF bootlegs in college - really crude and scratchy recordings from the mid-70s - that I played to death, but unfortunately they went the way of a lot of my vinyls from my college days. And I missed the Wall shows at the Coliseum because I was away at college, which I never really got over.
Until a couple of months ago, it had probably been 10 years since I listened to a Pink Floyd album. Now, thanks to this blog and the iPod, I'm back listening to them as much as I ever did - in particular, Animals. Let's hope that David, Roger et al. can hold it together long enough for one more tour.
Posted by: JayR | July 03, 2005 at 11:45 PM
Well, having seen pigs fly with my own eyes, anything is possible, but I would not expect a tour.
Posted by: jackson | July 04, 2005 at 10:33 AM
If you had been watching live, you would have been dumbfounded to see on VH1 a pair of twit VJs start yammering during 'Comfortably Numb', and MTV cut to commercial. Is it any wonder commercial-supported broadcast is getting killed? where's the love of the music, where's the respect for a great band and a hugely popular act and the #2 headliner, and where's the respect for the fans? They might as well just pack it in and call it a day.
Posted by: druce | July 05, 2005 at 11:18 AM
That was really somethin'.Thank so much
Posted by: milad | July 11, 2005 at 03:09 PM
That was really somethin'.
I can't believe I was almost crying in the middle of "wish you were here"!
Thank you so much.
Posted by: milad | July 11, 2005 at 03:14 PM
Thanks for posting the live 8 Floyd stuff.
Posted by: Mike | July 19, 2005 at 04:27 PM
Man, I was so not looking forward to trying to turn Tivo of Floyd at Live 8 into an mp3. Thanks x eleventy billion.
Posted by: Zippy | July 20, 2005 at 07:20 PM
hi wats up im your number 1 fan and im happy 2 c u back together and wer do u get your next tickets and wen next are u playing
Posted by: phil kelly | October 02, 2005 at 06:19 AM
Please fix the link for "Money"- live 8 version. All three other links work- would like to hear how it sounded at Live 8.
Thank you.
Posted by: Jim NJ | December 08, 2005 at 06:12 AM
The link for Money above doesn't work; however here is one that does:
http://libsyn.com/media/fredwilson/02-pink_floyd-money_live_at_live8-sat-07-02-2005.mp3
Enjoy
Tom
Posted by: Tom Norton | February 03, 2006 at 09:27 AM