well, i mean in the video, both bands play.. like two drums etc...
i mean, it doesn't sound like two bands are playing...
anyway, it's such a great song!!
2006-11-27 18:26:26 · 4 answers · asked by oddzilla 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
To coincide with the joint U2/Green Day recording of "The Saints are Coming", both bands performed a live version of the song during the Monday Night Football Pregame show of the New Orleans Saints - Atlanta Falcons game on Monday night September 25, 2006. This day was also the thirtieth anniversary of the formation of U2. This was to be the first game in the Louisiana Superdome since it was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and the song was being played to benefit Music Rising, a charity created by U2's The Edge in order to bring instruments and music programs back to New Orleans.
In the four song set, U2 and Green Day performed "Wake Me Up When September Ends" followed by a medley of The Animals' "House Of The Rising Sun", The Skids' "The Saints Are Coming" and U2's "Beautiful Day" as a seven-piece band, augmented by the Rebirth Brass Band, the New Birth Brass Band and Troy Andrews and Orleans Avenue. The lyrics of all four songs were customized by singers Billie Joe Armstrong and Bono to commemorate the trials, tribulations and successes that faced the city over the past year. Punctuating the 68,000 fans' first season-ticket sellout of the Louisiana Superdome in its 31-year history, the New Orleans Saints beat the Atlanta Falcons 23-3. The live version of "The Saints are Coming" was immediately made available for download purchase at Real Rhapsody [2].
The studio version of the song was released for digital download on October 30, 2006 and released as a CD single on November 6, 2006. The song also appears on U2's hits album, U218 Singles, which was released on November 20, 2006. The song was played for the first time with U2 alone on U2's re-debut of the Vertigo tour in Brisbane, Australia, on November 7, 2006.
A music video for "The Saints Are Coming," directed by Chris Milk, was released on video site YouTube on October 27, 2006. The music video shows the two bands playing at the Abbey Road Studio and at the Louisiana Superdome (though the footage from the live performance at the Superdome has been overdubbed with the studio version of the song), intermixed with news footage of the displacement of residents after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The second half of the video shows an alternate history in which George W. Bush redeployed troops and vehicles from Iraq to New Orleans to help victims of the hurricane, with the military personnel fulfilling the titular role of the saints. In the words of the director, this was done to "make a commentary on the Katrina disaster ... from the standpoint of how things can and should be done in the future."[3] The video ends with military support vehicles fading out as the camera pans to a sign that reads 'Not as seen on TV', alluding to the criticized response to Katrina while also parodying media deception on rescue coverage. Their are numerous errors in the depiction of military equipment – for example the United States Air Force has only 21 B-2 Spirit bombers, none of which have the capability of air dropping troops. The video had more than a million views on YouTube five days after its initial upload.
2006-12-04 04:02:47 · answer #1 · answered by East Bay Punk 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-10 17:34:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WELL, they use all this weird technology to merge the stuff together, and anyway, i mean, loadsa bands have extra instruments and everything anyway, so yeah, its kinda like, possible. look, just don't ask questions. LIVE WITH IT.
2006-11-28 07:02:24 · answer #3 · answered by jkhgfdsa11 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
how the hell did i miss a new green day song ****!!!!! i have no idea but this song rocks!
2006-11-28 18:55:28 · answer #4 · answered by JOhNe=mc² 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋