July 13th, 1985. Live Aid.

[fezident]

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[Judge Smails]

I was promised a Beatles reunion.

[A.J.]

I was promised a Beatles reunion.

Well we got Zeppelin.

[TheMojoPin]

Well we got Zeppelin.

And it was even shittier than we remembered.

[A.J.]

And it was even shittier than we remembered.

I blame Jimmy's coke binging.

[topless_mike]

somewhere, Tub is in mourning.

[paulisded]

The worst part of the day was the conclusion of the British show. Paul McCartney playing Let It Be for the first time since the breakup of the Beatles, and the dumb MTV camera crew thought we'd rather see the MTV veejays singing along in Philadelphia.

[hedges]

I remember the big deal was Phil Collins flying over the Atlantic to perform at both shows.

[fezident]

Zepplin was so bad that day, that they refused to have their performance included in any later broadcasts and/or releases. (they made a large monetary donation to secure the deal)


Wow. Did they suck. Go F yourself, Robert.... ya no-high-note-hittin' hack.





PS: feed the world. Peace n' love.

[AKA]

I sold a comic book from my stash for two tickets to the Philly show - sat in the VERY last row of the stadium, as far as you could be and still be in the stadium. We even sat on the top, overlooking the parking lot and highway.

I was not a fan of most of the music, but I do love an 'event' - although Duran Duran did make me want to leave.

First concert I ever went to where i saw women using the men's rooms - kept hoping for a Prince or Bruce Springsteen appearance - yeah, the London show would have beeen better - I had just been there, in England, and was bummed I was going to miss an U2/REM/RAMONES concert taking place just before Live Aid - but, I don't care what you fucks say or think, the Zep "reunion" was a blast in person.

It was on broadcast television as well as MTV, which is where my brother taped it from - (on Betamax!), but I never did go back and watch it, even after it was transferred to VHS.

[paulisded]

It was on broadcast television as well as MTV, which is where my brother taped it from - (on Betamax!), but I never did go back and watch it, even after it was transferred to VHS.


Only MTV aired the entire show...ABC aired the finale 3 hours of the American portion with a few earlier segments cut in between acts.

[topless_mike]

Only MTV aired the entire show...

and that was the last time MTV played music...

[AKA]

Only MTV aired the entire show...ABC aired the finale 3 hours of the American portion with a few earlier segments cut in between acts.

Channel 20 here in DC had broadcast during the day too - it was an independent station - not sure if they got their feed from MTV or another source, but my brother had about 8 or more hours recorded - they didn't get cable until 1987, after I had gone to college.

[PD]

I had recorded 2 2-hr VHS tapes.
I wonder what i recorded....

The problem is the audio (on those recorded tapes) is probably not very good, as "MTS Stereo" was as good as you got back then.

[Hottub]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I saw just about every top act of the day. Some were good, some were meh. But I saw them all live. I remember it wasn't even noon and the temperature was ridiculous. Judas Priest came out and did a set in full leather. Madonna was cracking nudie jokes. Ron Wood gave Bob Dylan his guitar and finished the set playing air guitar. And yes, Zeppelin was not that great.

JFK Stadium was a run down piece of shit. Certainly not fitting for a show of this magnitude. I clearly remember the line for the ladies room was an hour long. In the men's room all of the toilets backed up and sewage was running freely down the gangways. Guys were pissing on the floor because chicks were dumping in the urinals.

With temperatures reaching near 100 degrees, the concession stands and vendors did not have an adequate supply of ice and water. People started passing out. At one point they pulled out the fire hoses to spray down the crowd, but 80% of the people never felt a drop.
The busses were all screwed up, and not prepared for the crush of people. We had to walk several miles, with pretty bad dehydration, through a few not so nice neighborhoods to get back to the hotel.

I should have watched it on TV.

[RhinoinMN]

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[TheMojoPin]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I saw just about every top act of the day. Some were good, some were meh. But I saw them all live. I remember it wasn't even noon and the temperature was ridiculous. Judas Priest came out and did a set in full leather. Madonna was cracking nudie jokes. Ron Wood gave Bob Dylan his guitar and finished the set playing air guitar. And yes, Zeppelin was not that great.

JFK Stadium was a run down piece of shit. Certainly not fitting for a show of this magnitude. I clearly remember the line for the ladies room was an hour long. In the men's room all of the toilets backed up and sewage was running freely down the gangways. Guys were pissing on the floor because chicks were dumping in the urinals.

With temperatures reaching near 100 degrees, the concession stands and vendors did not have an adequate supply of ice and water. People started passing out. At one point they pulled out the fire hoses to spray down the crowd, but 80% of the people never felt a drop.
The busses were all screwed up, and not prepared for the crush of people. We had to walk several miles, with pretty bad dehydration, through a few not so nice neighborhoods to get back to the hotel.

I should have watched it on TV.

Can't wait to hear your Hands Across America story. I'm sure you'll clearly remember details about the ladies room for that one, too.

[Hottub]

Can't wait to hear your Hands Across America story. I'm sure you'll clearly remember details about the ladies room for that one, too.

Nah. I celebrated that one on my own.
Hands Across My Junk.

Back to Live Aid. I saw a drunk Ozzy say "Let me see your hands!!" 38 times.:wallbash:

[KnoxHarrington]

The thing I remember most about Live Aid was Phil Collins' lame gimmick of hopping in a Concorde right after his set in London so he could suck on two continents in the same day.

[paulisded]

The thing I remember most about Live Aid was Phil Collins' lame gimmick of hopping in a Concorde right after his set in London so he could suck on two continents in the same day.

Don't forget he played the same lame songs in both continents.

[JohnGacysCrawlSpace]

That was on my 1st birthday. :clap:

[KnoxHarrington]

Don't forget he played the same lame songs in both continents.

According to the set list on Wikipedia:

UK show: # Sting and Phil Collins (with Branford Marsalis) - "Roxanne", "Driven To Tears", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "Message in a Bottle", "In the Air Tonight", "Long Long Way To Go", "Every Breath You Take" (W 15:18);

US show: Phil Collins (having taken Concorde from UK to USA) - "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "In the Air Tonight" (JFK 01:04);

And not only did he play the same shitty songs both places, in the UK he was paired with Sting at about the height of his "I am too good to be a mere rock performer" delusion (well, at least until he did that lute album), with one of the worst members of the family that has done as much as anyone else to make jazz irrelevant in modern music.

[led37zep]

Well we got Zeppelin.

You're god damn fucking right we did.


I was 6 years old that day, but I was there in spirit.

[pennington]

I too remember watching it on MTV. It's funny, everyone (even then) thought what Phil Collins did was a hacky stunt. But everyone remembers it.

So what was the final outcome? Did they find a cure for hunger?

[Gvac]

Didn't care then, don't care now.

[KnoxHarrington]

I too remember watching it on MTV. It's funny, everyone (even then) thought what Phil Collins did was a hacky stunt. But everyone remembers it.

So what was the final outcome? Did they find a cure for hunger?

If anything, by pouring money pretty indiscriminately into Africa, with very little consideration of the political situation there, they might have funded genocide, such as a brutal "resettlement" program the Ethiopian government undertook that probably killed well over 100,000.

But, hey, we are the world.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jun/24/g8.debtrelief

[A.J.]

The thing I remember most about Live Aid was Phil Collins' lame gimmick of hopping in a Concorde right after his set in London so he could suck on two continents in the same day.

Don't forget he played the same lame songs in both continents.

According to the set list on Wikipedia:

UK show: # Sting and Phil Collins (with Branford Marsalis) - "Roxanne", "Driven To Tears", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "Message in a Bottle", "In the Air Tonight", "Long Long Way To Go", "Every Breath You Take" (W 15:18);

US show: Phil Collins (having taken Concorde from UK to USA) - "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "In the Air Tonight" (JFK 01:04);

And not only did he play the same shitty songs both places, in the UK he was paired with Sting at about the height of his "I am too good to be a mere rock performer" delusion (well, at least until he did that lute album), with one of the worst members of the family that has done as much as anyone else to make jazz irrelevant in modern music.

You forget that Phil Collins and Tony Thompson of Powerstation played drums for the Zep set.

[led37zep]

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[AKA]

Madonna was cracking nudie jokes.

The pics of her Penthouse had just came out, and she was wearing layer after layer, and at one point said, "I ain't takin shit out today." Didn't she also come out and perform with The Thompson Twins?

JFK Stadium was a run down piece of shit. Certainly not fitting for a show of this magnitude. I clearly remember the line for the ladies room was an hour long. In the men's room all of the toilets backed up and sewage was running freely down the gangways. Guys were pissing on the floor because chicks were dumping in the urinals.

Thankfully, I had to use the toilets only once - the heat just zaps all of the water out of you.

With temperatures reaching near 100 degrees, the concession stands and vendors did not have an adequate supply of ice and water. People started passing out. At one point they pulled out the fire hoses to spray down the crowd, but 80% of the people never felt a drop.

We were in the last row, against the wall, and actually had shade for most of the show because of it - but, yeah - it was brutal. Stayed with a friend in Philly - don't remember making it home from that.