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PrintableHighlight performances were John Legend - Jennifer Hudson - Sting/Roots - Beyonce | |
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It was a decent telethon, very classy, and very few bad performances. I liked how Wyclef changed the tempo at the end too. At this point in history, we have a choice to make
To either, walk the path of love, or be crippled by our hate -Stevie Wonder | |
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utopia7 said: Highlight performances were John Legend - Jennifer Hudson - Sting/Roots - Beyonce
Yep. And Stevie, Mary J. and Shakira were great too. 
Note to Alicia Keys: Why are you hollering? Please stop yelling during your songs. There is a certain way to yell while singing, and you certainly don't do it right.  "You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
"Water can nourish me, but water can also carry me. Water has magic laws." - JCVD | |
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Haiti if you liked it you shoulda put a ring on it. | |
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WaterInYourBath said: utopia7 said: Highlight performances were John Legend - Jennifer Hudson - Sting/Roots - Beyonce
Yep. And Stevie, Mary J. and Shakira were great too.
Note to Alicia Keys: Why are you hollering? Please stop yelling during your songs. There is a certain way to yell while singing, and you certainly don't do it right. I was surprised he sang "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and he SANG it. The choir is from the church he attends in Los Angeles. BTW, the snippet of A Time to Love he sang is a fitting song for the situation in its own right At this point in history, we have a choice to make
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midiscover said: AHA! Some of these performances are confusing as hell
 WTH was Alicia doing? How is "Like a Prayer" appropriate for this situation?I guess anything with a 'Gospel Choir" behind makes it appropriate lol very off  | |
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WaterInYourBath said: utopia7 said: Highlight performances were John Legend - Jennifer Hudson - Sting/Roots - Beyonce
Yep. And Stevie, Mary J. and Shakira were great too.
Note to Alicia Keys: Why are you hollering? Please stop yelling during your songs. There is a certain way to yell while singing, and you certainly don't do it right. woah I was on the phone with a friend and she said the exact! things just screaming at the air  I called it hollering-to-help-Haiti | |
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utopia7 said: WaterInYourBath said: Yep. And Stevie, Mary J. and Shakira were great too.
Note to Alicia Keys: Why are you hollering? Please stop yelling during your songs. There is a certain way to yell while singing, and you certainly don't do it right. woah I was on the phone with a friend and she said the exact! things just screaming at the air I called it hollering-to-help-HaitiThat's a nice way to think about it. But she yells every time she sings now, like she's losing her voice or something. "You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
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utopia7 said: midiscover said: AHA! Some of these performances are confusing as hell
WTH was Alicia doing? How is "Like a Prayer" appropriate for this situation?I guess anything with a 'Gospel Choir" behind makes it appropriate lol very off It really was a waste of a choir.
CH!!She was feeling it though | |
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When I first started watching, I thought, "Oh geez, this is going to be a mess." Alicia started off screaming and off-key. She was terrible! Stevie sounded bad (as in not good) IMO. When John Legend sang "Motherless Child," I was very impressed. I think he did it very well. And then Mary J was there and goodgawdamighty, lawdamercy, takemetotheriver, chile! She SANG that song! Took me straight to church! At the end of her song, all I could do was shout out, "WELLLL!" Considering when she first started singing, she couldn't. I have come to admire and respect her as an artist. Girlfriend has come a lonnng way and has great voice now. I also thought Christina Agulera (sp) did a great job. She has a lot of "bottom" in her voice. I like her. But what in the hayell is Brad Pitt doing with that Rip Van Winkle beard? He looked like Rumplestiltskin or somethin! Shave that shit off yo face, boy!
But all-in-all, I enjoyed the show. I did try to dial in to give a donation, but I could never get through. I did it online. | |
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missmad said: how did u know it was a wig?
like Sinbad said "you can't be bald on Wednesday, and have hair down to your back on Friday" 
plus I have no clue why, but she persists in finding the cheapest wigs possible like she goes shopping in downtown Brooklyn and gets them on the corner for $9.99. Same with her clothes. She needs a real stylist! Bey, let me upgrade you..... | |
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trueiopian said: 728huey said: lastdecember said:
In all fairness, Live Aid came as a result of Band Aid and USA For Africa, and Bob Geldof assembled Band Aid after watching a BBC report on the plight of starving and suffering Ethiopians during their famine, which was ongoing at the time. This Haiti relief telethon, as well as the Indonesian Tsunami telethon and the Hurricane Katrina telethon, was hastily assembled at the last minute right after the natural disaster, and also while the relief effort is still very much ongoing. So the tone of the telethon is going to be very different than what Live Aid was, which came several months after the initial Ethiopian relief efforts. Now maybe during the summer, they could have a Haitian relief concert which could be louder and much more festive, and it could celebrate the survivors of the earthquake and stress the long-term reconstruction of the country.  The so-called famine in Ethiopia was a genocide achieved by the Derg military and the money raised by Live Aid never went to the cause. Mainly the "We are the world" people, Ken Kragen and others (lionel included) poorly constructed their half. Bob Geldof got it through eventually but the workers initially were dropping food from planes because they were not allowed to land in those countries, which led to the food being stolen and sold in that country, which, is going on now with alot of the orginazations in Haiti that are popping up everyday, some are puppets of the corrupt govt there. The best bet for anyone that has or will give to the releif of Haiti or other charities, work with the Red Cross, Unicef or the Organization for World Hunger, they do the right thing and are organized properly, others are thrown together by peeps not knowing what they are doing. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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728huey said: lastdecember said:
Its a somber event, its that simple, what were people expecting?? Light shows. dance routines, antics etc...this is why something like LIVE AID could never work today, people would be too concerned with "why sing that song" "thats too slow" "why is she wearing that" etc... I think people need to look back on LIVE AID and how that worked, guess in the 80's we were all more concerned about more useful things.
In all fairness, Live Aid came as a result of Band Aid and USA For Africa, and Bob Geldof assembled Band Aid after watching a BBC report on the plight of starving and suffering Ethiopians during their famine, which was ongoing at the time. This Haiti relief telethon, as well as the Indonesian Tsunami telethon and the Hurricane Katrina telethon, was hastily assembled at the last minute right after the natural disaster, and also while the relief effort is still very much ongoing. So the tone of the telethon is going to be very different than what Live Aid was, which came several months after the initial Ethiopian relief efforts. Now maybe during the summer, they could have a Haitian relief concert which could be louder and much more festive, and it could celebrate the survivors of the earthquake and stress the long-term reconstruction of the country. Well thats the thing, though LIVE AID was in the planning, it still had none of that "what am i gonna wear" "why sing this why sing that" crap "or they sound like shit nonsense" Live Aid for its time was groundbreaking because all of what they were doing had never been done, all planning aside, to link up all those feeds and switches, may seem SIMPLE today, but that shit was never done and the technology was not there then to do that. Look at that crap of LIVE 8, that joke that MTV and VH1 did, by putting on a show and then while bands performed i had to listen to Sway and Kennedy and some other useless hacks at the networks talk over the artists. This of course led to a harsh backlash and forced Vh1 and MTV to re-air the show and parts with NO VJ's giving their opinions which no one cared about anyway....I mean SWAY??? his opinion on the world is about as relevant as Kim Kardashians. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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mcw00 said: Does anyone know who was playing the red guitar when Sting was performing?
Jazz guitarist... ...Mark Whitfield. Music for adventurous listeners tA  Tribal Records"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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All-star Haiti telethon raises $57 million, so far
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer Sat Jan 23, 4:18 PM PST Organizers for the all-star "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon say the event raised $57 million — and counting. "The public has set a new standard of giving for a relief telethon with 'Hope for Haiti Now,' and the donations continue to come in," Lisa Paulsen, president and CEO of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, said in a statement released Saturday. The group is helping to oversee the funds gathered from the event. The two-hour telethon aired Friday night on the major networks and dozens of other channels, including MTV, Bravo, and PBS, and was also streamed live online. Stars like Brad Pitt, Beyonce, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and more used their presence to encourage donations for Haiti, following a Jan. 12 earthquake that killed an estimated 200,000 people. The total released Saturday includes money raised by phone, text and the Web. It does not include donations by corporations or via iTunes, where people are able to buy performances of the event for 99 cents each, or the entire album for $7.99. Those funds also go to Haiti relief. The "Hope for Haiti Now" CD is the biggest one-day pre-order in the site's history and the new song "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)" by Jay-Z, Rihanna, Bono and the Edge, debuted during the telethon, is the No. 1 single on iTunes. People can donate via text, phone or through the "Hope for Haiti" Web site for the next six months. Among the organizations who will receive funds from the telethon include Oxfam America, UNICEF, and the Clinton-Bush Haiti Foundation. | |
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banks said: All-star Haiti telethon raises $57 million, so far
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer Sat Jan 23, 4:18 PM PST Organizers for the all-star "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon say the event raised $57 million — and counting. "The public has set a new standard of giving for a relief telethon with 'Hope for Haiti Now,' and the donations continue to come in," Lisa Paulsen, president and CEO of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, said in a statement released Saturday. The group is helping to oversee the funds gathered from the event. The two-hour telethon aired Friday night on the major networks and dozens of other channels, including MTV, Bravo, and PBS, and was also streamed live online. Stars like Brad Pitt, Beyonce, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and more used their presence to encourage donations for Haiti, following a Jan. 12 earthquake that killed an estimated 200,000 people. The total released Saturday includes money raised by phone, text and the Web. It does not include donations by corporations or via iTunes, where people are able to buy performances of the event for 99 cents each, or the entire album for $7.99. Those funds also go to Haiti relief. The "Hope for Haiti Now" CD is the biggest one-day pre-order in the site's history and the new song "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)" by Jay-Z, Rihanna, Bono and the Edge, debuted during the telethon, is the No. 1 single on iTunes. People can donate via text, phone or through the "Hope for Haiti" Web site for the next six months. Among the organizations who will receive funds from the telethon include Oxfam America, UNICEF, and the Clinton-Bush Haiti Foundation. the album and video went up officially on iTunes a few hours ago, great sound quality work, all songs from the show are included for 7.99 the video is 1.99 "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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theAudience said: mcw00 said: Does anyone know who was playing the red guitar when Sting was performing?
Jazz guitarist... ...Mark Whitfield. Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal RecordsThank you! | |
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Sorry, I can't read through this whole thread if it was already mentioned but what was the name of the song Sting performed? Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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JackieBlue said: Sorry, I can't read through this whole thread if it was already mentioned but what was the name of the song Sting performed?
I believe it was Driven To Tears. Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal Records"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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theAudience said: JackieBlue said: Sorry, I can't read through this whole thread if it was already mentioned but what was the name of the song Sting performed?
I believe it was Driven To Tears. Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal RecordsThank you. Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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JackieBlue said: theAudience said: Thank you. Here's the clip: Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal Records"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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