I like my rock stars rebellious--Jerry Lee Lewis marrying his teenage cousin, Sinead O'Conner tearing apart a picture of the pope, Ozzy Osbourne biting off a bat's head. It's not that I approve. Quite the contrary, I disapprove. But when dirtbag is part of the job description, be the best dirtbag possible.

Can you think of anything more conformist than singing for the fad of all fads in ensemble concerts organized by a politician? I would say that I've never seen anything as lame as Live Earth, but I didn't see Live Earth, and I did see Live 8, so I won't. A who's who of the music business serenading Mr. Tipper Gore must have caused Frank Zappa to roll in his grave.

It's important to remember that it's a music business. Al Gore used the musicians for his cause. And the musicians used Al Gore for their cause--sales. When the world's the stage, chart positions rise. When Madonna, Rob Reiner, and all the fashionable people speak for your cause, the discussion ends and the social pressure begins.

Sing for Bangladesh. Sing for Kampuchea. Sing for Africa. But sing for state-to-state wealth transfers? Sing for the dubious idea that people are causing significant climate change? No thanks. When George Harrison organized the concerts for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden in 1971, charity, and perhaps raising awareness, motivated. Now, with Live 8 and Live Earth, the purpose is politics.

The bad news is that music can't save the world. Even if the planet were in jeopardy, which it's not, concerts couldn't rescue us. But they could make people feel better. The good news is that musicians can save themselves. They can start by not marrying their cousins, decapitating live bats, and ripping apart pictures of religious leaders. This would make them worse rock stars, but better people. Start there, and then maybe lecture the rest of us on how we use too much energy and drive too large automobiles.

I wonder how much jet fuel and other vast amounts of carbon based fossil fuels were used for the comfortable transportation of the artists, politicians and the fans? Not to mention what the carbon footprint must have been to muster the power and other resources necessary for this stroke fest?

It was all worth it though when Madonna strapped on the black Les Paul a la Mick Jagger.

I like my rockers having fun. you know goupies, drugs parties carwrecks, ods all the good stuff. but rockers out to save the world that sux. David lee Roth said it best back in the day when he was asked if he was worried about a nuclear war, he said "man how can i worry about that with all these babes with halter tops running around!"

Fun? Fun?!!! Liberal do-gooders don't want FUN!!!! They thrive on doom, gloom and guilt and their reality that people $uck and are at the root of all that's wrong with the world.

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die from global warming!

As Happy Gilmore once said: "Gold jacket, green jacket, Global Warming, who gives a $hit?"

The concert reminded me of the "South Park" episode where Cartman tries to stop the Hippie Jam Band Festival. Specifically, there was a part where Hippies were listening to music while partaking of mind-altering substances AND complaining about "the corporations" ... but had no real plan about how to "save the world."

Now that the concert’s over the questions should be asked:

What has really been accomplished?

Has awareness been raised on this issue so a reasonable debate on the causes of climate change can take place or have we provided yet another excuse for the “enlightened” to get high and sing koom-by-ya by the global campfire?

What happens with all the money raised?

Will any accounting be done for the proceeds of this event?

Remember Live Aid in ’85? Lots of feel good but the money raised benefited the militants and the people the event was meant to help continued to starve.

How dumb are we that we need the likes of Al Gore, Sting and Madonna to enlighten us on the ills of the world and educate us on what we should do to make the planet a better place?

This is a hoot. A concert assessment from the U.K....

'Madonna, who closed the London show, was particularly harshly criticized. The News of the World tabloid, Britain's biggest-selling newspaper, detailed estimates of Madonna's carbon emissions from nine houses, a fleet of cars, a private jet and the Confessions tour, calling her a "climate-change catastrophe."'

Who exactly do these hypocrites want to save the world for? All the babies they're so proud of having the right to abort?

45 million since Roe. That's a lot of americans who could have been doing the jobs that illegal immigrants on welfare won't do.