AT Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 12:12:21 Will wrote:

>Well, so far, I'm already pissed off.
>
>The concert started in London ages ago, but MTV and VH-1 just went on the 
>air with it in the >States...and, instead of having, say, MTV show the 
>Philadelphia performances and VH-1 show the >London performances, both 
>networks appear to be showing the exact same feed.  At least they >showed 
>the performance that led off London - Paul McCartney and U2 performing 
>"Sgt. Pepper's >Lonely Hearts Club Band," which sounded phenomenal - but I 
>can already tell that I'm going to be >verrrrrrry annoyed before the day's 
>over...
>
>If I've worn my Pink Floyd t-shirt today for naught, someone's in 
>trouble...

My wife is at the Barrie show north of Toronto. She's been there since about 
9AM where they were running the UK feed on the big-screen....and she was 
able to see all the opening ceremonies, et al.

Tom Cochrane, Bryan Adams and Simple Plan have played....Burton Cummings 
bailed out on the Cummings/Bachman Band performance....but Randy will carry 
on with The Carpet Frogs as the backing band. Singer Nick Sinopoli can still 
do a decent Cummings impersonation. Speculation is that Neil Young will 
close the day with a recreation of the 1985 charity single "Tears Are Not 
Enough"...as about a dozen principle voices from that original collaborative 
song are on-site in Barrie today.

Jaimie Vernon,
Also waiting for Pink Floyd's performance to see if Waters will tie Gilmour 
to the floating pig and send it drifting off into the English countryside. 
:-)