Daft Punk - NYC 8/9/07 - Roll Call

That whole Mac thing is a separatist movement. ;)

Nah, but I have no issue with Bill. Aside of my disdain for WMP, he's good with me. Plus his corporate gangsta is to be revered. :eek: Granted there's far more viruses out there for PCs. But don't get it twisted, there's some potent ones for Macs as well. Seen it happen to a couple of Steve enthusiasts such as B.

Originally posted by sweetcell:

Well his brilliant leadership keeps my show budget flush

interesting - but one pays a premium for a mac. wouldn't your show budget would be higher if you used a PC?
:cool:

Full disclosure: Stockholder since 1989, the company has been declared dead at least a half dozen times since then, but like the energizer bunny….so using a pc would not only NOT save me money it would betray a brand I've been faithful to for decades and has more than handsomely repaid that loyalty….in fact meet the boat: The Benicassim, that ipod built <img src="http://homepage.mac.com/worldstagepub/.cv/worldstagepub/Sites/.Pictures/DSC00097/DSC00097.JPG-thumb_273_205.jpg" alt=" - " />

ive been using macs since 92/93. ive never had a virus and the only time i had an issue (with my titanium powerbook) i called apple, and they fixed it pronto. it was a failure with the design, and the laptop was coming apart. within a few days my mac was fixed. just recently upgraded to the powerbook (or whatever the new laptop is called) and i love it.

thinking i need an external harddrive - with all the music ive been d/l lately (legally - people!), can anyone suggest one?? if not, ill go stop in the apple store, and im sure ill pay the price, but for the amount of time ive had my computers, its so worth it.

ill never use a PC and only use them at work since i dont have a choice :(

Originally posted by xneverwherex:

thinking i need an external harddrive - with all the music ive been d/l lately (legally - people!), can anyone suggest one?? :(

If your looking for a desktop drive that you'll keep stationary I'd go with a La Cie drives, good GB/$ ratio and multi inputs (FW400/FW800/USB2) on several models.


La Cie

For a portable I'd with a Otherworld Computing "On The Go" drive, same methodology as the La Cie, but these are genuinely bus powered, at least on the latest Macbooks/Macbook Pros

Other World Computing


For the La Cie be sure to check their clearance section, and buy direct for best value, there are a ton of resellers including Apple Stores (brick mortar/online) but you'll get the latest versions, best price, no sales tax, and cheaper shipping direct.

For otherworld, they build their own drives, and guarantee for five years, solid apple centric company.

ritalin, anyone?

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
thinking i need an external harddrive - with all the music ive been d/l lately (legally - people!), can anyone suggest one?? if not, ill go stop in the apple store, and im sure ill pay the price, but for the amount of time ive had my computers, its so worth it.

my take: to to www.tigerdirect.com or www.newegg.com and scope out a deal there. although i'm assuming that macs can access (and reformat if required) a regular hard drive, right?

i bought a USB-2 external drive off eBay some 3 years ago and am thrilled with it. i've got everything, from music to pix to work files, backed up on in case my other computers crash.

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
thinking i need an external harddrive - with all the music ive been d/l lately (legally - people!), can anyone suggest one?? if not, ill go stop in the apple store, and im sure ill pay the price, but for the amount of time ive had my computers, its so worth it.

I just bought a Seagate FreeAgent 500 GB external drive for $129 at Best Buy. It was $40 cheaper than newegg. If they have any left, it's the most GB per dollar that I have found. Do not buy the Pro version as you pay for software that you likely won't use.

Originally posted by sweetcell:
ritalin, anyone?

although i'm assuming that macs can access (and reformat if required) a regular hard drive, right?

i bought a USB-2 external drive off eBay some 3 years ago and am thrilled with it. i've got everything, from music to pix to work files, backed up on in case my other computers crash.

Yes mac can reformat and use any drive, I was just pointing out drives that could utilize the additional ports availabe on most macs, since most people are already overloading their USB2 ports, though hubs are available.

definitely, firewire is faster so folks should go for that if they have FW ports.

thanks boys! and are you referring that i need ritalin? oh hell - im on this board all day at work, and do work in between. or is that vice versa?

That Daft Punk, eh…they sure are somethin…

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
and are you referring that i need ritalin?

i'm sayin' that we ALL need ritalin, given out inability to stay on topic. i'm first in line, believe me.

Originally posted by ixkpd-bk:
That Daft Punk, eh…they sure are somethin…

tell me about it. can't wait for vegoose!

for those who continue to ask themselves what the deal is, please read the LAists's review of the show. it won't make you "get" daft punk, but hopefully it was convince you that there is something to get (and seeing the show is the only way to get it!). a quote:

What followed was a performance that had the energy and emotion of a religious experience, not only living up to the hype, but shattering my concepts of how amazing a live performance by an electronic music act could be.

Just read the LAist review and this link was in the comments section:

60 minute vid of Coachella set

good audio on that one.

someone stitched together the entire show here, 1:15. audio isn't quite as good, though - but still decent.

sweet - did you take a break from packing to make this?

i think you did...

So when the hell is this band coming back? Ever since my friends went up for this show, I've been wishing I had gone with them rather than spend all of my money on V-Fest.

Holy shitballs, I found like professional video on youtube of the Punk's. Amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c14T6Af8zJg

That was linked rom that other link….. yeah, I would do anything to go to Vegoose.

God Fuckign Dammit!

SETH BRING DAFT PUNK1!!!

Take what you can get for now, book that trip to Vegas Oct. 26-28. Take my advice for what it's worth . . . .

Daft Punk Reveals Live Album Track List

August 27, 2007, 12:45 PM ET


Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
As first reported here earlier this month, Daft Punk's June 14, 2007, show in its Paris hometown forms the basis of "Daft Punk Alive 2007," due Nov. 20 via Capitol. The album will be available as a single-disc set or a two-disc edition that features the encore and a 50-page book.

The tour version of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" will be issued as a single from the live set, and a video, directed by Oliver Gondry, will feature footage shot by fans during an Aug. 9 show at Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Daft Punk played its first show in nine years at the 2006 Coachella Festival, and positive word-of-mouth in its wake was a huge contributing factor to the success of its recent North American tour.

Based on Billboard estimates, the brief run grossed in the neighborhood of $3 million and played to more than 60,000 fans. "We easily could have done multiples in some of these markets. We really underplayed," the group's agent, John Pleeter of CAA, tells Billboard. "The philosophy behind it, in as far as the show goes, was to tease the marketplaces and leave people wanting more."

"The thing we focused on is what you get out of the show: an intense experience of music, lights and robots, with a thin line between fiction and reality," Daft Punk principal Thomas Bangalter tells Billboard. "That is really the concept of this tour, which was not the concept of the stuff we were doing 10 years ago."



Buzz is also growing for the film "Electroma," an homage to low-budget science-fiction movies that builds on the robot motif. In it, two crew members fill the roles Bangalter and partner Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo play onstage. The movie is something of a cult favorite in France, where it has been playing to packed midnight screenings, and just premiered Aug. 17 in New York. Additional U.S. screenings will roll out through late September, and Vice will release it in January on DVD.

Still, amid Daft Punk mania, Bangalter and de Homem-Christo are being careful to retain the mystique they've worked so hard to build. For one, despite the overwhelming visual aspect of the recent tour, there will not be a live DVD to accompany "Alive 2007." ("That's the way we want to leave it right now," Bangalter says). For another, the pair won't put a timetable on when it will play more shows or return to the studio to begin work on a fourth album.

"The cool thing is that we're always trying to do something that hasn't been done, or ultimately, that we aren't doing ourselves yet," Bangalter says. "That's what we felt about the film and this tour. It is challenging to get back in the studio and work with ideas we haven't expressed before. Some ideas take time, but some just take a few weeks, so we'll see."

Here is the track list for "Alive 2007:

Disc one:

"Robot Rock" / "Oh Yeah" / "Touch It" / "Technologic" / "Television Rules the Nation" / "Crescendolls" / "Too Long" / "Steam Machine" / "Around the World" / "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" / "Burnin'" / "Too Long" / "Face to Face" / "Short Circuit" / "One More Time" / "Aerodynamic" / "Aerodynamic Beats" / "Forget About the World" / "Prime Time Of Your Life" / "Brainwasher" / "Rollin' And Scratchin'" / "Alive" / "Da Funk" / "Daftendirekt" / "Superheroes" / "Human After All" / "Rock'N'Roll"

Disc two:

"Human" / "Together" / "One More Time" (Reprise) / "Music Sounds Better With You" / "Stardust (Instrumental)"

From The Daily Swarm (08/27/07):

This is one costume party not to miss. The Daily Swarm has confirmed that Daft Punk will play one additional North American show on the Alive 2007 tour:

31 de octubre: Palacio de los Deportes, Ciudad de México

Tickets go on sale next week.

The Dia de los Muertes show in Mexico comes just four days after the duoâ??s only remaining U.S. show for the year, in Las Vegas for the Vegoose Festival. The only other dates on the groupâ??s calender are a series of shows in Japan this December.