Roger Daltrey is not very impressed with the idea of the Live earth Concerts this summer.
The Live Earth event at Wembley will feature acts who support the idea of awareness of global warming. The WHO won't be playing but the line up includes Madonna and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Daltrey speaking to the UK's The Sun said,
"Bollocks to that! The last thing the planet needs is a rock concert. I can't believe it. Let's burn even more fuel. We have problems with global warming, but the questions and the answers are so huge I don't know what a rock concert's ever going to do to help. Everybody on this planet at the moment, unless they are living in the deepest rainforest in Brazil, knows about climate change... My answer is to burn all the f***ing oil as quick as possible and then the politicians will have to find a solution."
Fortunately for the rest of us Roger Daltry is not respeonsible for the worldwide response to the mpending disaster of Global Warming.
He also compared the 2006 Live 8 concerts to relieve African nations of their international debt, and the 1985 Live Aid concerts for famine relief with the Live Aid event.
The Who played both of these events but according to Daltry,
"What did we really achieve at Live 8? We got loads of platitudes and no action. Who were we kidding there? At least with Live Aid, Bob Geldof was willing to work the trenches and they did save a lot of lives. We could see what we achieved at the end of it."
What Roger Daltry fails to understand is that it is not just awareness of Gobal warming that the events are seeking to raise but also awareness that there is a need to take action and the consequences if we don't. Now the Live Earth events may not be the perfect way to do that but we don't hear Roger Daltry coming up with any other suggestions do we? It seems all Daltry is interested in at the moment is his current tour and keeping his bank balance up.
Check out the links on the left for info on line ups for the events. The Who wont be playing.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
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