--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I watched a little of it. Enough to remind me of how little of this
stuff is music anymore but corporate contrived sound pieces. The
choreography, especially Madonna's, looked like it was a high school
cheerleader routine. Of course I'm arrogant because I'm a classically
trained musician who created dumbed down pieces for some of the rock
groups I played in. Thus I know how the scheme works. Ironic to watch
Chevrolet sponsor the show on NBC which BTW had a lower bitrate feed
and
thus poorer sound than Universal HD (also a part of GE owned NBC).
Very interesting. I was disappointed that the bands were mostly Top 40
Music group. I didn't see a single Jazz artist there much less musical
artists from the underground scene, any underground group. It's the
same ole, same ole. I'm a musician also; I specialize in the Free
Jazz. Heaven forbid if Live Earth had shown one of us performing! ;-)
Peace,
Marc
Robert Gimbel wrote:
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Reuters) - The Live Earth global pop
concerts on Saturday broke a record for an online entertainment show
by generating more than 9 million Internet streams, Microsoft Corp.
Web portal MSN said.
As the last two of the nine Live Earth concerts got underway,
MSN product manager Karin Muskopf said the number of streams had
surpassed the previous record held by 2005's Live 8 global concerts to
fight poverty.
We have exceeded any other online entertainment event, Muskopf
said. It's really exciting to see the enthusiasm for the concert.
An Internet stream is when a person watches on a computer.
People can stream an event more than once -- by switching it on and
off -- so 9 million streams does not necessarily mean 9 million people
watching, MSN said.
Live 8 was the first major multi-venue event successfully
streamed live with Time Warner Inc.'s AOL portal on the Web. AOL said
5 million people had logged on to the event on the day of those shows,
but it did not say how many Internet streams of the event there had been.
MSN said it would not be able to immediately determine the
number of people who logged on to Live Earth.
Control Room, producer of Live Earth and Live 8, said it found
that the on-demand streams in the days after the Live 8 had the most
impact, especially after clips were passed around by e-mail.
Live 8 was streamed by users more than 100 million times in the
six weeks following the shows.
Live Earth is predicted to be three times bigger with organizers
expecting more than 80 percent of the viewership will be on-demand in
the days after the event.
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