My favourite Live 8 moment
July 3rd, 2005 by Bill
This likely won’t mean anything to anyone outside of Canada. And it may mean nothing to anyone who isn’t familiar with Ontario (where I grew up). But my favourite moment from Live 8 came from Neil Young.
He was coming off stage after the Canadian Live 8 show’s finale. The camera followed him as he was walking and the reporter asked him something like, "What did you think of Live 8?"
Neil replied to this effect: "I was confused. I thought they said Live Bait. This is Barrie, you know."
I laughed till I peed.
(By the way, Barrie is north of Toronto … roughly 60 miles / 95 kilometers, I think. So Live 8 Toronto was actually Live 8 Barrie.)
Tags: Live 8, Canada, Neil Young
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