Roger Daltrey Calls Live Earth Shows 'Bollocks'

Wasn't Bob Geldof behind the Live 8 which was the same fuckin stupid thing, but it was awareness for poor countries, not global warming?

Admittedly, I know very little about this sort of thing, so by all means correct me if I'm wrong, but won't that do the same amount of damage that we're doing now, only much more quickly?

Also, the objection to an energy-consuming concert would carry more weight with me if he didn't make his living doing the same thing. At the very least, the energy consumption of the Live Earth concerts are for charity, whereas Who concerts (again, please correct me if I'm wrong) are not as much so.

The Who do a fairly large number of charity shows, more so than you would think. None of the charities they work with are in support of environmental issues to my knowledge.

While I may agree with Roger that this concert will not make a dent with those influential enough to make changes that would help fight global warming, his solution doesn't seem to offer an amenable solution. Remember that The Who played Woodstock, which was supposed to change an entire generation's way of thinking, but all it really amounted to was a great concert in the mud with really bad acid and no water.

I don't know, i think raising awareness of the issues is a good thing.

Maybe by doing something like this concert, they could come up with alternatives to power the shows, get people to bring their own fuckin' baggies,wipe their asses with Seventh generation Toilet paper





,...anything.



And hell , if that don't get the ball rolling in the right direction, do what Jolly Roger and his bros have been doing all along, namely turning them amps up to 11 and to hell with the world......

Not really...

Here's the interesting part: Once all the oil is gone the atmosphere will be bad-- for a while. Then the weather will do its damage, with acid rain-- for a while. But once it's gone from the air as a result of being scrubbed out of the sky by way of precipitation, it's gone for good. Things will get better. The earth will begin to heal. It's mended all the rest of the damage we've done to it so far-- Nuclear waste stops being radioactive after a time, even plastic eventually decomposes. Petroleum based greenhouse gasses will break down too, given time. The ozone layer can heal too-- static electricity is a BIG producer of ozone. Electricity in general helps a lot too. Ever smell your hairdryer after you turn it off? Own an Ionic air filter? That smell- it's OZONE. In fact, several species that are dying a slow extinction due to the climate change and filthy air might just survive a quicker consumption of the chemicals that are killing them. In short, it will get worse-- for a while. Then it will get BETTER. The air will clear, the climate will cool.

The big advantage to Roger Daltry's idea is that change is forced to take place QUICKLY. None of this waiting while tha matter is bandied about in a committee. No waiting for it to work its way through congress. Hell, with the warmongers we have in the oval office right now, it might just be the best possible idea. He wants to keep fighting, let him come up with a non-petroleum-fueled fighting force. He wouldn't be able to waste time once the oil's all gone. The only two choices would be to bring our boys home or adapt to a war without oil.

My mistake, thanks for correcting me.

And thanks to you for the correction as well.

the who kicks ass...thats my comment

Let me guess who wasn't invited to this particular shindig...

Something this moron obviously doesn't know, the live earth concerts are being fueled green. by alternative energy. off site wind turbines etc.

It's kinda like when people say they are raising awareness about breast cancer. That's not what they mean; people are pretty aware of cancer. They're raising money for it, and they just didn't think about the wording of the tag line very well.

I too might be wrong, but I don't think so ,when I suggest that "more quickly" still refers to many many years (at the very least on the nuclear waste ceasing to emit radiation - that's not happening any time soon) - and I know plastic doesn't break down significantly in decades and decades.

Now I do agree with the need for alternative fueling and think it would be stupendous for a big concert to be held using Earth-friendlier energy sources.

The answers to climate ghange are yet to be ironed out as far as I'm concerned. What I know for sure is that The Who are the single biggest group of sell out phonies in the history of Rock and Roll! They are an absolute joke. "Bollocks" to you Roger! Go write another "Rock Opera!" Die already - You're too OLD.

OMG !!!!
Someone has expressed free thought and an alternate view.

So isn't there more than a bit of truth in his statement, if all the oil is gone, THEN something will be done. It is an insightful commentary on politicians today.

Touche Roger.

Actually, Townshend wrote "Tommy" (and almost the entire Who catalog). You could admonish Daltry to go sing in another rock opera if you need to berate the man, though.