Videos Of The Day: Live Earth

I sort of forgot this was going on and had a crazy weekend so I totally missed it, but here's some performances from it:

The Foo Fighters:



The Beastie Boys:



The Police:



Spinal Tap:



Roger Waters:



Smashing Pumpkins:



Ludacris:

Torrent Of The Day: Roger Waters (5-22-2007) Phillips Arena, ATL

The Roger Show last Tuesday was awesome. Despite virtually the same show for the fourth time I've seen him, it still blows my mind. My favourite part was the rednecks booing the new anti-Bush song and the flying pig with political graffiti on it. Here's some phlogs from the show:













Roger Waters 2007-05-22 A Pinkish Night Over Atlanta (16-bit) (FLAC)

~ A Hoarders Inc. Production ~

Roger Waters

' A Pinkish Night Over Atlanta '


Location: Philips Arena , Atlanta , Georgia
Date : 2007-5-22
Recorded by : TYD
Edited and Mastered by : TYD
Arte by : Moonwall

Micro Track 24/96 w/ Cardioid Microphones>PC>down sampled from
24/48 to 16/44.1>WavePad>Eq.ed & Mastered> CDWave(tracking)>
Flac frontend (level 8, Aligned on Sector Boundaries) checked>and tested
with TLH.

Disc 1
01. Radio
02. In The Flesh
03. Mother
04. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
05. Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts 1 - 5
06. Have A Cigar
07. Wish You Were Here
08. Southampton Dock
09. The Fletcher Memorial Home
10. Perfect Sense part 1 & 2
11. Leaving Beirut
12. Sheep

Disc 2
01. The Dark Side of The Moon
02. Band Intros
03. The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick In The Wall part2
04. Vera / Bring The Boys Back Home
05. Comfortably Numb

Video Of The Day: Roger Waters

I'm excited about seeing Roger again tonight. Tickets are still available and buying one could be one of the best decisions of your life. Here's one of my favourites of his solo stuff:

Live Earth Initial Line-up Announced

Al Gore's Live Earth, the environmental verison of Live 8, has announced its headliners. It will be held in different major world cities simultaneously on July 7th of this year (the same day the Smashing Pumpkins drop their new album). Hopefully MTV will do more brilliant coverage of the event (like when they didn't show all of the Pink Floyd reunion). Much like Live 8 ended poverty, these are the musicians that will reverse global warming with music at Giants Stadium in New Jersey:

Kanye West
AFI
Kelly Clarkston
Akon
KC Tunstall
Alicia Keys
Ludacris
Bon Jovi
Sheryl Crow
Melissa Etheridge
Dave Mathews Band
Rihanna
Fall Out Boy
Roger Waters
Smashing Pumpkins
John Mayer
The Police

I have to say it makes me cringe to see Roger Waters and Smashing Pumpkins on the same bill as Kelly Clarkston and Fall Out Boy. Notable acts at the London Live Earth include Beastie Boys, Bloc Party, Foo Fighters, Genesis, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. If you are interested in cutting global CO2 emmissions and are a die hard Bon Jovi fan you can get tickets Monday morning here.

Humpday Randomness

Portishead just played a secret show at a small venue and played a new song. The excitement and anticipation continues to build. Settle down and watch this:



Menomena will be playing at the Drunken Unicorn on April 3rd. I just listen to their new album Friend and Foe and i liked it alot. Listen to: Muscle 'N Flo

In case you are one of the few who haven't heard the new Arcade Fire, you can listen to an offical stream here. Neon Bible comes out on Tuesday. I listened to an advance copy once and I didn't really care for it, but i'm going to wait until I buy the album and carefully analyze it before I give a real opinion.

Jean Pierre has some scorching hot video links for you to check out:

• El-P & Trent Reznor
• Pearl Jam
• J Dilla, Madlib, Madvillian
  

Shearwater just got signed to Matador and they're going to re-release last year's Palo Santo (#39 in 2006) as a double disc with new versions of songs. Here's a new version of: Red Sea Black Sea

Ben Gibbord (Death Cab For Cutie/The Postal Service) will be at Center Stage on May 12th doing a solo performance. Expect lots of high school girls and twenty-something guys crying. Tickets go on sale Friday.

The Virginia mini-hippy festival Floydfest made some artist additions.

Sean Lennon will be playing at Smith's Old bar on April 3rd. I think my favourite work of Sean's has to be the shout-out on Jurassic 5's second album. That's a helluva shout-out

Lily Allen says Victoria Beckham (former Spice Girl) doesn't care about poor people.

Dr. Dre continues to maintain that he will drop the fabled Detox album by the end of the year.

Here's another Marnie Stern track, cuz this album rocks: Precious Metal

Humpday Interviews:

• Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr)
• The Hold Steady
• Rob Crow (Pinback)
• Air
• Clipse
• Peter Bjorn and John

I didn't post the Releases of the Week this week, but the two you should defiently check out are:

• Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History In Rust
• Dr Dog - We All Belong
  

There is currently an American Express presale going on for Roger Waters tickets. Tickets go on sale to the public this Saturday at 10:00am so don't forget! To get you hyped up for the show, here's a documentary on Pink Floyd's 1980 performance at Earl's Court (3 short parts):

Torrent Of The Day: Roger Waters 2006-06-29 (DVD)

ROGER WATERS "TRIPPED OUT IN CORK" 2006-06-29 Marquee Showground, Cork, Ireland (NTSC)







Hop The Pond proudly presents:

HOP 008 Roger Waters- Tripped Out in Cork.
Filmed by "The Producer" and his accomplice at the Marquee showground, Cork, Ireland, 29th June 2006.

Linage:

Camera 1.(The Producer)
Filmed from the rear of the venue on a Sony HDR-HC1 HDV PAL camera shot in 1080i High Definition with Sony internal mic.

Camera 2. (His accomplice)
Filmed from the floor (approx 3rd row) of the venue on a Sony HDR-HC1 HDV PAL camera shot in 1080i High Definition with a pair of DPA 4063 mics.


Captured through Vegas 6 via firewire to an M2T file, then converted & rendered to 16:9 NTSC MPEG 2 (CBR 3).
Slight level adjustment with Cool Edit pro then converted to a 5.1, 48KHz 16 bit AC3 audio file with Vegas 6.
Menus,editing, conversions all done with Vegas 6, DVD authoring REEL DVD.

Trackslisting:

In The Flesh
Mother
Set The Controls For the Heart Of The Sun
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Have A Cigar
Wish You Were Here
Southampton Dock
The Fletcher Memorial Home
Perfect Sense parts 1 and 2.
Leaving Beirut
Sheep
Dark Side of the Moon
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Another Brick In The Wall (Pt 2)
Vera
Bring the Boys back Home
Comfortably Numb.

Total running time: 2:23:36

Due to there being no media available to play High Def Video at the moment this has been converted for normal DVD viewing in NTSC at 720x 480.

Ok, This was the 14th show on the current European tour, and what a show it was!! The venue was a circus type marquee tent on a tarmac carpark just on the outskirts of Cork.
Due to this being in a tent there were no pyrotechnics and a full over head lighting rig was used.
What also makes this show unique is a power cut half way through (at the explosion in Perfect Sense Pt2) causing the main mixing board and the whole PA to go down. All you hear at that point are the onstage monitors and the crowd finish off by singing the end of the song!! There's a 25 minute break while power is resumed and the mixing board reset then the band come back on and continue with the rest of set 1 and go straight into DSOTM (with Nick Mason!)

This is a 2 camera mix and respect has to go to my filming accomplice who got caught filming not once but twice and was subsequently removed from the venue half way through Us and Them, hence the last 45 minutes being a single camera, hey that's the chance us filmers take and the sacrifices we make to bring you this stuff!!

Roger Waters is a Golden God

With all of the Bonnaroo hype this week, the other big deal as far as I'm concerned is the Roger Waters tour storming through the US this summer. Caught him for the third time last September in Chicago and it was the best show I saw all year. Southeastern dates you need to know about:

• May 18th - West Palm Beach, FL, Sound Advice Amphitheatre (AMEX presale this friday, tickets go on sale March 10th)
• May 19th - Tampa, FL, Ford Amphitheatre (AMEX presale this Friday, tickets go on sale March 17th)
• May 22nd - Atlanta, Ga, Phillips Arena (AMEX presale next Friday(23rd), tickets go on sale March 3rd)

I can't find anymore info than that right now, but as soon as we get some, we'll post it. Until then, here's some Roger Waters torrents:

Roger Waters' opera 'Ca Ira 2006-12-30 (There Is Hope) World Premiere (SHN)

Roger Waters' opera 'Ca Ira 2006-12-31 (There Is Hope) New Years Eve Opera Night (SHN)

Roger Waters 1999-08-25 "The Germans Killed the Jews & The Jews Killed the Germans" (SHN)