Eddie in Miami last night NetJets

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  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,520
    bootlegger10 said:
    This one is odd given their stance on the environment.   Not a big deal but just a surprising event sponsor to play for.
    Yeah, I think this is a valid criticism. Taking a private jet to perform at a private gig for a company that sells private jet ownership shares. Short of using a barrel of oil as a stool, it's hard to deviate further from an activist climate change urgency message.
  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,753
    edited February 2020
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  • ejk1280
    ejk1280 Posts: 86
    No one wants to answer my question truthfully.   Figures.  “I’m so upset Ed flew in a private jet!!!!! (Stomps feet)
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,496
    ejk1280 said:
    No one wants to answer my question truthfully.   Figures.  “I’m so upset Ed flew in a private jet!!!!! (Stomps feet)
    You know he probably flies a private jet to most gigs, so I guess I'm fine with attending if he takes  ajet to get there.
  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,379
    I don’t give a fuck if Ed takes a private jet for a gig or if he serves cheeseburgers at a private listening party for Gigaton. 
  • zman
    zman Posts: 502
    Greta is getting upset! 
  • Father Hubbard
    Father Hubbard Chicago Posts: 1,669
    They do some good things too

    https://www.netjets.com/en-us/corporate-angel-award
    https://www.netjets.com/en-us/homeless-families-foundation-partnership
    http://netjetsfamily.org/
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,111
    Did you guys want him to walk there?  Maybe take a sailboat for the European tour?
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,520
    mcgruff10 said:
    Did you guys want him to walk there?  Maybe take a sailboat for the European tour?
    Transportation to the gig aside, is it off message for a climate change activist to perform a private show for a private jet company?
  • CantKeepmedown
    CantKeepmedown Portland, Maine Posts: 3,119
    RP112579 said:

    This times a million.  Who really gives a shit about this? Especially not knowing what steps he takes to offset it? 
  • RoleModelsinBlood31
    RoleModelsinBlood31 Austin TX Posts: 6,239
    I just chucked an empty beer can out of my car window for every post in this thread.
    I'm like an opening band for your mom.
  • TN49724
    TN49724 Posts: 105
    This should surprise no one.  If it does, please return to the beach in Miami that previously housed the sand your head was buried in. 
  • evenflow82
    evenflow82 Posts: 3,892
    IBTL.
    I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.
    -Christopher Walken

    you're=you are
    your=showing ownership

    The truth has a well known liberal bias.
    -Stephen Colbert
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    edited February 2020
    pjl44 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    Did you guys want him to walk there?  Maybe take a sailboat for the European tour?
    Transportation to the gig aside, is it off message for a climate change activist to perform a private show for a private jet company?
    I understand both sides of this argument, but unless you were there you do not know the message Ed was delivering between songs. He conceivably could have used it to discuss climate change with the folks at Netjets who are all probably wealthy and influential.  
    Someone of Ed’s stature is not going to help change the world from his living room. 

    Love the pic with HOFer Chelios! 
  • ejk1280
    ejk1280 Posts: 86
    mcgruff10 said:
    Did you guys want him to walk there?  Maybe take a sailboat for the European tour?
    Needs to walk barefoot.  Don’t want to think about the carbon impact on making shoes.  I cry just thinking about it 
  • ejk1280
    ejk1280 Posts: 86
    RoleModelsinBlood31 said:
    I just chucked an empty beer can out of my car window for every post in this thread.
    One more please
  • dlymnfld
    dlymnfld CT Posts: 923
    Boom flies commercial. He was on my flight from Bos to Lax after Fenway show. Though he was in first class and was served food before coach was even seated. He did give me a big Hawaiian hug in his defense. 
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  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,520
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    pjl44 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    Did you guys want him to walk there?  Maybe take a sailboat for the European tour?
    Transportation to the gig aside, is it off message for a climate change activist to perform a private show for a private jet company?
    I understand both sides of this argument, but unless you were there you do not know the message Ed was delivering between songs. He conceivably could have used it to discuss climate change with the folks at Netjets who are all probably wealthy and influential.  
    Someone of Ed’s stature is not going to help change the world from his living room. 

    Love the pic with HOFer Chelios! 
    If that is what would pass as climate change activism, it goes a long way in explaining why people are not taking it seriously. 

    And I say all this as someone who is perfectly fine with everything he's doing. My politics on the issue don't necessarily line up with the band's, so it's just strange to see him doing something counter to his position vs. mine.
  • lindamarie73
    lindamarie73 Posts: 491
    nicknyr15 said:
    Celebrities are constantly doing one thing while telling you to do another. No surprise here. Doesn’t bother me at all. I’m here for the music and concerts, not political or environmental advice. 
    Spot on
  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,596
    Ed says (and does) a lot of things.
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    "...I changed by not changing at all..."

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