Megadeth

Last Saturday I went to a "Live 8" concert by Megadeth (and others like Fear Factory). This was a part of the ONE Campaign "to make poverty history". The concert was held in Journal Pavilion in Albuquerque, set amidst the backdrop of the Sandia mountains. I went with my hiking friend Hilary Lorenz as Anita (my wife) isn't into heavy metal music. Hilary is an artist and a professor in Long Island University. She is visiting the Santa Fe Art Institute for summer. Here is a picture of the two of us at the Journal Pavilion.

Megadeth gave a great concert, playing many of the old favorites as well as some of their newer songs. In the second picture you can see -- in the big screen -- Dave Mustaine, the lead singer.

There was the usual price gouging merchandising going on. However, when I saw the following Megadeth T-shirt, I just couldn't resist. I wore it to work at Los Alamos today and got several favourable comments!

Comments

[aalu paneer]

just wondering -- how does a music concert make poverty history!?

[Anuj]

It doesn't. They just donate a part of the proceeds to charity. I personally think that charity alone is not so important. The real reasons why countries are poor is often bad
policy and corruption. People have been having these sort of charity concerts for decades but they haven't made any difference... Most of the money ends up in Swiss Bank accounts of corrupt govt. officials. Still it was a good concert.