Irony: U2's 'Free' Concert At The Berlin Wall, Blocked By A Big Wall
from the u2,-tear-down-that-wall dept
Dementia writes in to point out the rather ironic situation of a "free" concert put on by the band U2, at the remains of the Berlin Wall in order to celebrate the demise of the wall... but MTV decided to put up a big temporary barrier around the event so those who didn't have free tickets could not even see the event. Yes, they erected a special "wall" to block out a free concert about The Wall. As Dementia noted with the submission, "you're doing it wrong..."Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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MTV was concerned
Did MTV "do it wrong"? Maybe. With the exception of the fans who came and did not see, and those who wish to make a mountain out of a molehill, U2 fans seemed generally ecstatic. Also, huge screens were erected outside the wall to permit those outside to view the concert, so someone was thinking about those fans too.
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Oh wait.
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Did MTV "do it wrong"? Maybe. With the exception of the space aliens who came and did not see, and those who wish to make a mountain out of a molehill, U2 fans seemed generally ecstatic. Also, huge screens were erected outside the wall to permit those space aliens outside to view the concert, so someone was thinking about those fans too.
There. See how easy it is to make up bogus, lame ass, spinmeister excuses?
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Making it opaque suggest there were more than just safety concerns involved (or someone really didn't think things through).
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Mr Bono pkease tear down this wall.
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Most ironic moment of 2009?
But why a WALL? There must be other forms of crowd control barriers that can keep people from rushing a stage fer Pete's sake!
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Re: Most ironic moment of 2009?
Stupidity (the wall -- not you).
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This is what you get...
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You, sir, are woefully underinformed, then.
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Yup, lots of others have said that as well, and I would have guessed otherwise based on anectodal stories. But look at what I said: "I don't recall ever HEARING about walls or fences being put up around Woodstock..."
The point being that even if there were supposed to be fences, Woodstock was successful in some part BECAUSE it ended up being open. That's how those of us too young to have actually gone get it fed to us by those that did.
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Olbermann reported it just like that...
Hilarious. I wonder if McGuinness persuaded MTV to do it.
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http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=CrkV1dGrxxs
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or he'd be on it himself.
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Wall envy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1990-0722-402,_Berlin,_Auff%C3%BChrung_der _Rockoper_%22The_Wall%22.jpg
Now, trying to get food at the Zoo station McDonald’s after the concert was quite a different story…
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thats the exact message that companies are trying to send...
"we own content and we get to decide who sees/listens/uses it and how... not YOU"
seems right in line with anyone else associated with music television or movies to me...
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Woodstock was originally for money. It had a fence. The promoters expected 10 to maybe 50K people. Profit was the motive, from tickets food & beverages sales. The fences didn't last long when the huge crowd showed up.
Chances are U2's fence didn't last either.
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Those of us old enough to remember the days of "festival seating" (another form of "freedom") know better.
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Even with festival seating there walls and fences. It wasn't exactly "freedom".
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I guess so, if you consider cattle in a pen as also having "another form" of freedom.
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Meet the new boss...
Funny how corporations sometimes do things the same way as authoritarian governments.
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Don't you guys know anything about Masnick marketing? Geez!
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And they could have used something other than a fence with white tarp over it... like an open fence...
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Berlin Wall
http://www.newsy.com/videos/reminiscing_the_fall_of_berlin_wall
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MTV, you are way past your due date... you have become irrelevant.
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Heh heh. "A few years back" = 1985. I wish I "screwed up" that often.
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So, you're saying that was MTV's only other mistake? Sounds like we have some kind of fanboy in our midst, because nobody else here is saying that.
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Did you try to watch their coverage? It was solely MTV 'VJ's strutting their stuff in front of a crowd, instead of any of the music, except for tiny snippets every once in a while.
It was just ads and talk tv.
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My (fair-use! personal!) VHS from the original Live Aid broadcast also featured way too many VJ shots, though.
Anyway, reading further down the comments, it appears that this whole item is (another) overblown re-blog of a story that is too good not to pass on, facts aside.
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A little research could have been done
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