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...nice retro feel to it, this revolution; very Woodstock. But I think I know why Metallica was so upset - take it from me, none of us content providers live much like rock stars...
...proud that last week's mass display of public indignation rid them of a President who was none-too-bright, unreliable after lunch and, if the testimony in Joseph Estrada's Senate trial is true, had the moral scruples of a two-bit Tondo hustler. But as with Woodstock II (or III), the sequel to 1986's People Power revolution is an echo with a hollow yet distinctly nasty tone. Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos cast presidential no-confidence votes with their feet - an act that doubled as an impromptu referendum on their constitution and all the institutions that comprise...
...hundred thousand people to try and figure out. The video montage was a rambling, random stream of images - the earth from space, soccer star Pele, AC/DC in concert, Freddie Mercury blowing kisses, wildlife shots, etc. At first I thought I was having somebody else's acid flashbacks from Woodstock '69. Then, when the Orquestra played their entire medley over again, I decided I was either trapped in my own private version of "Groundhog Day" or I was imprisoned in a South American take on the Teletubbies...
...outsiders. It's a party for Brazilians and if the rest of the world wants to join, the more the merrier. "Our primary goal was to create an event for Brazil and open that up for the rest of the world," says Garcia. "To them, this is their Woodstock." Garcia's "people" (note to self: get a job where I have "people." As a lowly music critic I am people-less) give me my press passes and three T-shirts. They tell me that I'm required to wear one of the T-shirts each day of the concert...
...Daniela Mercury, Carlinhos Brown, Tom Ze, Nacao Zumbi). The organizers have billed it as one of the largest concerts in history, with five stages, more than 150 acts scheduled and more than one million attendees expected. One report boasted that the megaconcert would be "roughly the equivalent of five Woodstocks." I just hoped that meant they weren't going to charge five times as much as they did at Woodstock '99 for bottled water...