Live 8 London<\/a><\/p>\nClick on your favorite band.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re all there.\u00c2\u00a0 From Pink Floyd to the Who
to the acts you don’t even care about.<\/p>\n
Or, at the top of the page, click on "See shows city by city."\u00c2\u00a0 On the page
that comes up, featuring the performances from the three aforementioned
metropolises, click on the act you want to see.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re all right there at your
fingertips.\u00c2\u00a0 As of now, except for London, you’ve got to go to the act’s specific
page.\u00c2\u00a0 Where all their AOL Music stuff is.\u00c2\u00a0 But the Live 8 performances are
labeled, you can pick them out, you can play them.<\/p>\n
And they’re magical!<\/p>\n
It’s just you and the computer screen.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully you purchased good
speakers, if not, go to hifi.com, click on PC\/Multimedia and buy the MicroWorks II for $149.99, you’ll thank me.\u00c2\u00a0 ANYWAY, there’s this intimacy that rivets you.\u00c2\u00a0
It’s really like the sixties all over again.<\/p>\n
Like right now I’m watching Bruce Cockburn doing "Rocket Launcher" from T.O.
If you’ve never seen him live, this is your chance to be inches away, and to
feel the power of just one man and his guitar, speaking from his soul.<\/p>\n
Oh, I watched Bono and the boys do "One".<\/p>\n
Bryan Adams delivered on "Open Road".<\/p>\n
I know these performers were playing for the world, but watching them on your
computer screen, you think it’s only for you.<\/p>\n
The Internet is the best thing to happen for music since FM.<\/p>\n
Watch this stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 The music is ENOUGH!\u00c2\u00a0 You don’t need big-breasted women,
dancing is irrelevant, it’s what we believed in ALL ALONG!\u00c2\u00a0 And it bypasses not only MTV, which punted, which missed the boat, by selling out to lifestyle
rather than tuneage, but terrestrial radio too.\u00c2\u00a0 Neither of them have this power.<\/p>\n
This is a breakthrough.<\/p>\n
Live 8 is now Woodstock.\u00c2\u00a0 The political message is irrelevant.\u00c2\u00a0 Just like no
one foresaw Woodstock blowing music up, bringing tribes together not only via
the show, but the movie, no one realized that the ongoing airing of the Live 8
performances on AOL would herald a new era.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s like 1969 all over again.\u00c2\u00a0
The youth knew.\u00c2\u00a0 They knew the power of the Net.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the parents that were
out of it, who had no clue, who thought that old media, the CD AND VIDEO,
still ruled!<\/p>\n
And the fact that there are no CDs, no videos, and no ongoing TV coverage
make the point even bigger.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve got to go to aolmusic.com to GET IT!<\/p>\n
The revolution has finally begun.<\/p>\n
Last week it was podcasting.<\/p>\n
This week…Grokster is irrelevant.\u00c2\u00a0 The detritus of the nineties has been
wiped clean.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s no longer about how you look, how you market, how you dance,
but how you PLAY!\u00c2\u00a0 In one fell swoop AOL is reaching MILLIONS of fans, with no
interruptions, on demand.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally everybody has a rallying point.\u00c2\u00a0 They feel
like they belong.\u00c2\u00a0 The fact that old wave media is clueless, that there’s not
a big story on this on the front page of the paper tomorrow, is IRRELEVANT!\u00c2\u00a0
After the Woodstock movie kids knew it was about albums, not singles.\u00c2\u00a0 After
Live 8 music fans know it’s about the Web.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, singles still existed in
1970, people are still buying CDs, the old marketing ways have not died yet, but
they are en route to becoming MARGINALIZED! <\/p>\n
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