30 years ago, Dave Gilmour was a pretty boy hippie. Now he's a bald pale man with neckflaps. You'd think everyone got old or something.

If they really wanted to impress me they would have brought Syd.

from showbizdata.com :

MTV'S LIVE 8: MORE BLATHER, LESS MUSIC, SAY CRITICS

Tuesday, July 5 2005

MTV's coverage of the Live 8 concerts was being assailed by TV critics Monday, even as they bestowed high praise on America Online for its Internet presentation. As Beth Gillin put it in the Philadelphia Inquirer: "If Live Aid helped launch MTV as a media powerhouse two decades ago, Live 8 not only dethroned the music channel yesterday but made it seem quaintly old-fashioned. The Internet left cable in the dust. To put it bluntly, MTV sank and AOL soared." Los Angeles Times pop music critic Robert Hilburn called the MTV broadcast "beyond embarrassing. It was pitiful." He added: "I was warned long ago to avoid overkill as a critic, but bear with me this time. Add 'pathetic' to the list." Particularly galling to the critics were the cable network's frequent cutaways from live performances to its hosts and/or commercials. Jim Derogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times commented: "Cutting confusingly between cities, interrupting constantly for inane commentary from idiot VJs, and running a full slate of commercials ... MTV's coverage was an endurance fest. Thank God for the digital video recorder's ability to fast-forward." (Barry Garron of the Hollywood Reporter exempted Jo Jacobs of MTV UK from his criticism of the announcers.) The Associated Press's entertainment writer David Bauder said that by contrast, "AOL's coverage was so superior, it may one day serve as a historical marker in drawing people to computers instead of TV screens for big events."