All things Live 8

I know it's a bit late to talk about it but what the hell. Couple of days back I got the videos of Pink Floyd and The Who's performance at Live 8. God bless the Internet!! It was amazing watching Floyd reunite after over two decades. Since years I have said it's impossible for Roger Waters and David Gilmour to put aside their differences. For once am glad to be proven wrong. Thanks Bob. Even if they do NOTHING as Pink Floyd again I think it's an amazing way to end a brilliant career. I kinda wish they didn't do Money. Would have preferred Us And Them. But I guess Money is kind of apt for Live 8 (not that Us And Them isn't apt). Thank God no Brick II. The last 3 acts at Hyde Park were a real treat for me. Floyd, The Who and McCartney playing Beatles covers. My 3 favourite groups! Worth staying up till 5 AM I say.

Aside from the music Live 8 was quite an eye opener in some ways. All of us know about the problems in Africa but we don't really give it too much thought. Why should we anyway with our relatively comfortable lives? But seeing some of the African footage made me think.. Like one of my friends said "you feel bad even wasting food now"... We have so much in urban india.. but of course we love to grumble.. "people in the states and Europe have so much more" and so forth.. Somehow now I don't feel so bad about being stuck on MTNL dialup while the guys at LG drag their asses and delay procuring the charger for my Reliance phone (which I use for the net).

It's a pity some fanatic idiots decided to shift the focus of the G8 summit from the environment and the African situation to terrorism. Even if the African debt isn't cancelled I feel Bob Geldof has achieved something. He has brought the world's attention to the plight of the people in Africa and am sure he has raised a lot of money for it too. And of course got Floyd to play together hehe. And put up a hell of a rock show.

So, thanks Bob! You rock!