Prince was in line for the chocolate covered banana and missed his set.

drcoldchoke said:

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Where have you been hiding for the last year. P has been kicking ass.

Did any Jehovas Witnesses play Live8?

it's a crying shame he didn't play.

dag said:

yes, he has.

dag said:

Prince has performed for charitable and other causes, organised food drives and other charity-giving events, and is reported to have donated large sums of money to causes in the past.

This weekend he is reported to have attended a Jehovah's Witness meeting in Los Angeles with Larry Graham.

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/152084 (see Sensual Melody's comments)

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/152176

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langebleu said:

Fucking hell fire! Larry! i mighta guessed as much.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Ah how cryptic thanks for your pearls of eh no its went again, come closer to the terminal and I will try to connect to your thoughts again, you must let me know I believe you could help me oh wise one!

While your at it gonna connect to the Purple one and get the answer to the Question, oh go on otherwise it would be an awful waste of your superiority complex.

SPOOKYGAS said:

once again, if you must ask you'll never know. it's really not that hard to figure out what i meant. just read your initial comment, then think about what live 8 was really meant to be about.

don't ask again.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Is this whats called moderating?

Prince the man, not the musician, needs to sit down and talk to someone. Then we might have a real answer from time to time.

ChiveDavis said:

what for? when he does speak, it's passed off as jive-assed.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

it was political because it was timed to coincide with the meeting in scotland of political leaders from around the world for the purpose of addressing problems in africa.

i don't think it would have harmed prince to have joined in - not that the concert will solve the problems africa faces. in fact imo it would have lent credibility to some of the things he sings about on his albums.

but i can understand that he felt the conference was more important..
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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

He just has not met the right person to talk to. That is all it is. If only I could sit him down long enuf....we'd have sum answers.

i know why prince hasnt played live 8 because hes Prince dammit and he doesnt have to care about no one but himself.
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What Live8 was and is about
Doubling aid, cancelling debts, and delivering trade justice for Africa = Saving peoples lifes


Bob Geldof:More people die of hunger every year in Africa than die of Aids, TB, malaria, polio and conflict combined.

European governments give poor person in Africa 0.65 euros (£0.44) a year each compared with 848 euros (£572) for every surplus cow, he told reporters.

"Still 20 years on, it strikes me as morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus," he said.

Some 70 million people have died in Africa, he said. "We've got our own private holocaust going on now." "If 50,000 people a day died in Europe, leaders would "find the money to solve that particular problem".

He urged the public to send a message to leaders that they cared about the issue - and told the leaders they must be prepared to do something.

"We know what it costs. In the global economic scale, it is absolutely nothing," he said.

"We can't live like this. We cannot live like this. We just can't, not at the beginning of this century.

"We've never been wealthier, we've never been healthier, we know what it costs, we know what to do - do it. Do it."

For more information:
http://www.live8live.com/

http://www.live8live.com/list/

http://www.live8live.com/...ip=mandela



For more information:
http://www.makepovertyhistory.org

http://www.whiteband.org/

http://www.one.org

http://www.data.org
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An Open Letter to the G8 Leaders from Bob Geldof

Just so we're clear... The Live8 concerts that are happening this weekend will be a wonderful musical occasion. But despite the fact that the world's greatest popular musicians are playing, they are not the stars of the show. The 8 of Live8 are not 8 musicians or bands - they are you, the 8 leaders of the G8.

Everyone taking part in these concerts is there because the many generations watching will not tolerate the further pain of the poor while we have the financial and moral means to prevent it.

We are gathering for you the largest mandate for action in history. Just as people demanded an end to slavery, demanded women's suffrage, demanded the end of apartheid, we now call for an end to the unjust absurdity of extreme poverty that is killing 50,000 people every day in the 21st century. Live 8 is taking place so that you, our elected leaders, right now, in 2005, make the breakthrough demanded by, amongst others, the Commission for Africa in the battle towards making poverty history. You know what needs to be done, specifically:

On Aid: Deliver an extra $25bn aid for Africa and make plans to ensure this aid really will be effective at eradicating poverty. This must stand beside a further $25bn for the other poorest countries of the world. This is the absolute minimum required to begin to win the battle against extreme poverty.

On Debt: Confirm the 100 per cent debt cancellation from the G8 finance ministers' meeting and commit to 100 per cent debt cancellation for ALL the countries that need it and remove damaging economic policies that are imposed as a condition.

On Trade: Make decisive steps to end the unjust rules of trade, and allow poor countries to build their own economies, at their own pace. It is only through trade that Africa will eventually beat poverty on its own.

Let it be equally clear that, at the same time, African governments must be free from corruption and thuggery and put in place recognised practices of good governance, accountability and transparency towards their own people and to the world. Twenty years ago at Live Aid we asked for charity. Today at Live8 we want justice for the poor. The G8 meeting next week can take the first real step towards eradicating the extremes of poverty once and for all.

We will not applaud half measures, or politics as usual. This must be a historic breakthrough.

Today there will be noise and music and joy, the joy of exuberant possibility. On Friday there will be a great silence as the world awaits your verdict.

Do not disappoint us. Do not create a generation of cynics. Do not betray the desires of billions and the hopes of the poorest of our world. Are those 50,000 people each day to be allowed to live, or not?

- Bob Geldof, Live8 and all of its supporters.
URL: http://www.bobgeldof.info...dates.html

Shame on y'all. This is Prince 101. He does not do organized events like this put together by other musicians/celebs. That's not his style, never has been. What is shocking about this? I never expected him to participate.

I think he does stuff on the down low. I could be wrong, but he often speaks out about injustice and poverty and racism, when he doesn't have to even broach those subjects. I find it hard to believe that he does not back it up with giving. But then again, he complains about politicians and policies, but doesn't vote (it's a JW thing), so go figure.

Anyway, I don't think his non-participation in Live8 is a big shocker.

once again prince's doesnt give a rats ass about starving africans to him they are just stinky crusty ass people:-P
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he wouldnt care if they was eating roaches and with a big healthy bowl of shit on the side, for breakfast lunch and dinner and drank some piss to wash it down with hes gonna still gonna make music and shit.
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Sorry. Prince isn't socially or politically relevant, and hasn't been for decades.

I applaud the stuff he did during the Purple Rain era -- he constantly was donating really good seats to charities, as well as donating money to the "King Holiday" song and video effort (only real old-schoolers will remember that first dropping on BET with Donnie Simpson).

These days, his socially conscious rants seem limited to musing about Moors and Cinnamon Girls. Easy, shallow tripe that, again, has little real benefit socially or politically.

For him to have been a part of Live8 would have been inconsistent for him, for so many reasons (good and bad).

Puhchoolee said:

oh he just dont give a rats ass about nothing at all

Tiffypoo2004 said:

do you realize how fucking ignorant that shit sounds? seriously.

Tiffypoo2004 said:

I wouldn't say that. His constant suits against his fans suggest otherwise.


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before the show, i was pissed that he wasnt there..

but after watching it, i think it was a smart decision.

to me, it was just a bunch of celebrities, not all of whom are that well informed, blowing smoke up eachother's bums.

im glad he didnt participate in such a self serving event that while it did have good intentions, ended up being a waste of time and an embarrassment.

now give us a new album already.

thanks.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

hey am just keepin it real i dont know i might be wrong. but p just seems like the type who doesnt care

SPOOKYGAS said:

i did read the thread and those statements came from some things u said on the thread. those are the reasons u wanted p to play live aid...gloatin rights, record sales..all that shit. and it wasn't about that. it would've been incredibly shallow of him to do it for those reasons. and it would be incredibly shallow of us to want him to do it for those reasons

Tiffypoo2004 said:

no, you're not.

Thanks

I don't know why some of you even expect Prince to perform at these kinds of events.He didn't participate in the 'We Are The World' song.He didn't perform at the first Live Aid concert in 1985.There are numerous other charity shows he didn't perform at.So why the surprise when he decides to skip this one too?


and by the way...the purpose of Live8 was NOT to show off one's skills,and "blow everyone else out of the water".It's not about ego,or who's a better musician,etc.

You seem to forget that we don't even know if he was invited to perform there.

As Prince refused to take part in the first "Live Aid" event and also the "We are the world" project, I wouldn't be surprised if Bob Geldof did NOT call and ask him.

Furthermore, Sir Bob said that "Live 8" wasn't a cultural, but a political event to get (media) attention. And if you like it or not, the huge comeback Prince had in the U.S. last year didn't go all over the world, so other names like Bon Jovi might fit Geldof's purpose better.

And I bet no one of us expects Prince to call Geldof and ask if he may perform...