Some countries didn't get the Dual Disc that included a great interview with Ed and the making of The River.

Leigh.

Oh my God, it's the Middle Ages!!!




Ahem...Dead Sea Scrolls? Ever heard of them? I really wonder how you'd explain those...

No that for sure. I have been asking for it all over where I live, but no one have heard of it.

aLIVEinNORWAY: sorry, I mean the dvd side of the disk of SFBM.

I don't know if they brought out this in Norway too, but in The Netherlands they also brought out Songs From Black Mountain as a so-called DualDisk.
You have one disk, but one side is the audio-cd, which contains the whole album and the other side is the dvd-side.
The dvd side contains an interview with Live (far out the biggest part is an interview with just Ed) and acoustic versions of "The River", "Mystery", "Love Shines" and "Get Ready", performed by Ed.
Further it contains the making of "The River"- clip and "The River"-clip itself, with all Live members.

I hope you can buy this in Norway, because it can't be copied, there is a safety-something on it.
And it's in my opinion really worth it to have and watch it.
(If you are really interested in what Ed wants to tell about life, humanity, spirituality and nature and if you love acoustic music).

But if you want it and are really unable to receive it another way, I'll try to find a way to copy it for you.
But I'm afraid I can't promise you.

GvB.

This post has been edited by GvB: Nov 14 2006, 8:54 am

i'm sorry but i think you need some atention...

i just can't keep reading this, but let me tell you something

IF YOU DON'T LIKE LIVE OR ED OR JESUS OR HITLER, THAT'S WELL, because i can tell some things about religion, or christianity, but that's not the fact, you have your preferences and your thoughts, buuuut, as you can say all of that things, i can tell: MAESTRO, EN VERDAD ERES UNA PERSONA SIN GUSTO MUSICAL, SIN NINGUN FUTURO EN ESTE MUNDO CON TANTAS DIFERENCIAS, EN DONDE LA DIVERSIDAD ES TAAAAN GRANDE Q TE APLASTARA COMO CUCARACHA Y TE REVOLCARAS EN TU PROPIA SANGRE!!! jajaja, can you understand my piont? I can't understand your reasons, or your thougths but i respect that, I can respect your opinion, I can listen you, but your acts speak so loud that i can't hear your freakin words...

or maybe your words are so inmature, that i will listen you.... mhhh, never?

good luck in this world, i hope that someday you will enjoy it!!!
cheers!!!

This is how I see it:

Ed is sometimes singing from another point of view.
For example: the soldier in "Home".
(In the verses he is the soldier, in the chorus he is himself again).

And I think that he does that too in "Selling the drama", but in a less obvious way.
I think you see it good if you see that Ed is there not singing from his own point of view and not singing from the society point of view.
At least in the verses.

In the verses he sings from the point of view of a person who can be seen and followed as a leader by other people (that leader can be for example a teacher, a preacher or maybe even a president or prime minister) and who likes the power he has too much.

But in the part from: "I've willed".... to: "scarred like that" Ed is himself.
There he tells that he has, at least tried to believe and maybe even to follow such a leader.
Maybe he even used to follow one.
But he found out that this leader did not want the best for him at all, but was just interested in his own power.
Ed was obviously hurt by it, but he got over it.
And I guess that he hopes that everybody does, and I think that that is the reason that he sings: now WE won't be raped, now WE won't be scarred like that.
It's I think about that he stopped to listen to what these so-called leaders say, and started to make up his own mind.
And I think that Ed would like to advise people to make up their own minds and to make their own choices in what to believe and that he wants to advise us to watch out in who we believe.
And that he advises us to be critical to every leader.

I don't think that Ed wants to force you to believe in Jesus or Buddha or whoever, I think he only wants to show us that he believes in both and made his own kind of believing out of it.
And that it's possible for you to find your own way in believing, and that that's possible for everyone.
And I guess that the only thing that he hopes that we do is, making or own minds up so that we can finally find our own way in life.
And that we see that there are between all miserable things, beautiful things too.
And that that makes us willing to work on a better world and to live in peace with ourselves, and maybe even to go and live in peace with each other.

I guess that that is what Ed wants to tell us.

Do with it what you want.

GvB.

This post has been edited by GvB: Nov 14 2006, 10:24 am

Those podcasts you could watch on Friendsoflive.com a few months back were parts of the DVD side of SFBM.

If there is one thing I've learned from living in the USA bible belt it is that you are not going to convince a fundamentalist that they are being narrow minded. They can't even conceive of what you are talking about because to them that is all that exists. It isn't until they actually open up their heart and feel the real love for the world that Jesus himself felt that they will understand how their rules and condemnations are all useless in the face of real religion, which is the infinite love that Jesus, Buddha or Ed even speaks of. Fishouttawater did a good job trying to relate the ideas I thought!

FishOutaWater: thank you for copying and pasting this....
There is nothing more for me to say about this....



GvB.

Ah, man, thank you, I have gotten so many nice shout outs in this thread. Now that all the haters are no longer around here, I am really going to miss this darn message board when it's gone.

Who says this board is closing? I'm confident that it will stay open, as well as the site itself. Just sit tight and things'll be fine, I'm betting.

my SFBM dvd had the making of the river, but no interview with ed.....strange. I dont have it anymore

Thanks for your answer GvB.
Now that I know it's out there, I keep lokking for it.

Cant we just get Ed, to tell us what the songs is abbout, he probably have the time before they record a new great cd, and ones again be one top of the world.

there is a little interview behind each played song accoustic by Ed. You can't choose for the interview just as an option in the menu, I thought..........
Your dvd dòes contain the accoustic performed songs? Cause than check out the endings of the songs

SecretInsomnia: I'm affraid that the Epic label brought out more kinds of SFBM (with a dvd-side, without a dvd - side, with a dvd side with less contents than the one they brought out in the Netherlands). That is f*cking discriminating to fans from for example Norway and Australia!

GvB.