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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I love how this isn't marred by the NBC talking heads going, "wow look it's metal at the Olympics hurrrrr"

They didn't even mention the name of the band, meanwhile they gave the full backstory of the very next act which was a French pop star who lip synced amidst this poor professional marching band who got snookered into being her backing performers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Holy fuck, Gojira played the opening ceremony!?!?

[–] Trollivier 7 points 3 months ago

Affirmative

[–] southsamurai 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yup, and they fucking slayed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yea it’s been hard to find footage of the full performance. But I’ve seen clips and yea it seems epic.

Funny personal story about gojira. I lived right near a performance hall, close enough to hear the music and recognise it to an extent. I kept an eye on who was performing for anything I’d be interested in. One day I hear the warm up and sound check. And it was loud and huge. Nothing ever sounded like from this hall. I start to recognise the tune. Confused, as Gojira weren’t listed as performing there, I look them up to find out where they’re touring at the moment. And sure as hell they’d been moved to this hall on short notice or something.

That venue has never sounded more monstrous. I’d almost guess they brought their own PA or something.

Of course the show was sold out and I missed the show. But funnily it feels like gojira are just good at epic surprises.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Had to VPN to Europe to watch the eurosport link but it was worth it! Thanks for the link!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

the streamable link from the guy above is good too (and no pesky commentators, I think). I had no idea Eurosport was geofenced on yt.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh fuck, I was just raving to my friends about how cool that segment was and was going to look for a replay later D=. Surely it will be on Youtube at some point???

[–] southsamurai 2 points 3 months ago

Someone posted a link to the streamable for it.