Ed singing Overcome a capella Options

[Live inside]

Have you ever seen this one?





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGpKL0LB1_o

[Pokey]

god damn that is terrible haha I mean I know it's for the shoot of the video so it doesn't have to have any sound because they dubbed over it and must be hard to sing out there in the conditions but the part at 1:49 is just .. wow lol

The scenes in background are quite stand out though, all the smoke still lingering in the air.

[Existentialist]

That's up there with William Hung and the rest of the AI losers...

[Badman]

Parts were good, parts were bad... I give him a 52. He can come in after class and retake it for a 70.

[Existentialist]

It was at least better than Beau's covers...

[Hoodstock]

He seriously went to NY and sang that with the tower light in the background. Ed, you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to connect that song to 9/11 and capitalize on it.

That's just wrong.

[WaiterAtCliftons]

He seriously went to NY and sang that with the tower light in the background. Ed, you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to connect that song to 9/11 and capitalize on it.

That's just wrong.

Look at all the bands and all the people in Hollywood you could say that about. I guess they all tried to get their face in there just to make a few extra bucks? If Ed and the band really wanted to capitalize on this opportunity they could've made a real video about it, but instead they let Camera Planet do it. As far as I know Live made no money off making this video, unless you consider the sales from Awake 5 years later.

I find nothing wrong with the way that video was done or how the song was used for 9/11. I believe it helped in some of the healing, even if it was just a tiny small blimp on the radar.

[Gertjan]

I memory serves me right, Ed was asked to come over and sing the song by the CameraPlanet people who ripped Overcome off of a demo they had lying around and used if for their video earlier. Ed nor the band tried to connect the song to 9/11, other people did. Instead they gave the song away for free and donated the money from the single to 9/11 relief funds. I don't see anything wrong here.

[SecretInsomnia]

I memory serves me right, Ed was asked to come over and sing the song by the CameraPlanet people who ripped Overcome off of a demo they had lying around and used if for their video earlier. Ed nor the band tried to connect the song to 9/11, other people did. Instead they gave the song away for free and donated the money from the single to 9/11 relief funds. I don't see anything wrong here.

Exactly! The way Gertjan described it, is exactly what I've always heard. And don't forget: radiostations started to play the song because they thought it would fit. Back than Live was only the maker of the song, that had nothing to with 9/11 yet.

And making money by means of the video? Yeah, maybe. Maybe it worked posiive for their single sales. But that means making only more money for the 9/11 relief funds etc. What's wrong with that!

Damn!, it's one of Live's biggest and best selling hits, and the song that finally did something in their own country, finally...and what did they do? > they gave their money away! But still people are bitching about this.

Kinda sad!

[Merica]

A bit wierd to sing in the street like that, but still decently done.

[jaybb]

He was asked to record it by the Camera Planet people. The a capella version was done simply to inter-splice in the finished version. You can get a better idea of the history of this piece from its creator here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rosenb...91_b_63560.html

It's September. And once again, the 11th falls on a Tuesday.

And for me, it's a time of year that is frozen in images, snapshots, and bits of video.

Bits of paper hovering in gusts of hot air.

A hat in the dust.

I expected that day to leave scars that would last a lifetime. I didn't expect to be left with a musical legacy that still brings tears to my eyes.

This is a story about 9/11 that has a soundtrack. A magical discovery that just appeared, six years later. A beautiful gift from a terrible day.

But, let's start at the beginning.

In the 24 hours after the attacks at the World Trade Center, I found myself sifting through video tape trying to find answers. As a documentary filmmaker, I was used to looking at terrible things, but always with some distance. This was my backyard.

I could smell the burning buildings.

I knew it was too early to know the answers. But the raw material that would become history had drawn me into 9/11 and I knew I wasn't getting out.

On the morning of September 11th, I was preparing to start shooting a television series in NY. My office was 30 blocks north of the World Trade Center, and looking down 5th avenue, you could see the smoke rising.

My team of six videographers ended up deciding to cover the attacks, and so by the middle of the night, both of the buildings had collapsed and I was sitting with reels and reels of videotape of the attack and the aftermath.

Two days later -- exhausted from lack of sleep -- I went home to take a shower and return to work. In the car, I heard on the radio a song that had been released that day by Ed Kowalczyk and the band Live. It was called "Overcome". And listening to the song, exhausted, I was overcome. It was all too much. The song was posted on the Internet so that anyone could download it.

I downloaded it, and working with my partner and wife Pam Yoder -- we began to cut images to the worlds and music.

Music is a magical thing. It sometimes is the only language that makes sense.

By the end of the day the images had connected with the music in a way that is easier to show than to explain.

And almost as an afterthought, I called an executive that I barely knew at VH1 and said, hey, we've got a tribute video we'd like to send you. An hour later -- this video was on VH1. Our images and Ed's song, playing over and over again.

We didn't ask permission. We didn't try. We just heard the music, were moved by it, and made our piece of work. It was a collaboration. The band, in California, reached out. And sitting at 28th street and 5th avenue, we connected with their music. But it didn't end there.

One day later, the phone rang, it was the manager of the band Live -- and he'd seen our music video.

I knew we'd used his song without permission, and I expected that the band would be unhappy. But I was wrong.

Ed Kowalczyk had been watching TV, and was very moved by the music video. He wanted to come to NY from California, and he wanted to visit the WTC site, and he wanted to perform the song -- and do his part to help NY and the Nation heal -- or at least feel.

Just days later -- with the smoldering ruins of the Trade Center still filling the night sky, Pam, myself, a film crew, and Ed Kowalczyk were walking down the abandoned West Side Highway... toward the smoking space that used to be the WTC. We didn't say a word, but once we'd gotten to the site, Ed began to sing. It was an exhausting moment. We hadn't slept in days.

But hearing his voice was the only thing even close to an emotional release we'd had.

Now, six years later -- I find myself looking for a touchstone on that day, an element or a moment that would connect me with that time. And there was this video, of Ed Kowalczyk; standing on the west side highway, smelling that smell, and connecting his words to that
terrible time in a way that made it seem both painful and survivable.

The music created a strange elixir of pain and hope. Once again, his music has meaning.

Here is the music, recorded just days after 9/11 -- just on the side of the West Side highway a capella:

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In a conversation later in the day -- Ed told us that in his mind, the word "overcome" had two meanings. We are emotionally "overcome" -- and, in the worlds of Martin Luther King, we shall "overcome".

Well, that seems like a goal worth striving for. Overcoming fear. Overcoming prejudice. Overcoming the obstacles that our Country and the world now face.

We're not there yet. But today I'd rather remember than forget.

Yeah there is nothing wrong here. He did this solely to help people. They were offering the song and video for free. It was a nice thought.

[Trathena]

I don't see anything wrong here.

I don't either. But this, on the other hand:



And this:



are just wrong.

This post has been edited by Trathena: Nov 26 2007, 9:36 pm

[Live inside]

Can`t see whats wrong ..no pictures!!!

[dangum]

Can`t see whats wrong ..no pictures!!!

Fixed:

[Trathena]

Thank you, dangum. Don't know why my images didn't work.

This post has been edited by Trathena: Nov 27 2007, 7:44 am