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From: wro@noscvax.UUCP (Michael Wroblewski)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Live-aid
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 11:56:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 11:56:03 1985
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  Okay, got in to work this morning hoping to see some postings, but there
  were none yet, so here go some idle ramblings....

  First off, what I enjoyed (in no particular order)....U2 was fabulous,
  but I wish someone from Empty Vee wouldn't have tripped over a cable and
  cobbed up one song (I don't remember which one....I'll have to go back and
  view the videotape).  Sting's set, which was almost the same as his set on
  the Secret Policeman's Balls, with the addition of Branford Marsallis on
  soprano sax.  Also Sting's collaborations with Phil Collins and Dire Straights

  Boomtown Rats were good, except the butchered broadcast feed of Bob Geldof's
  microphone.  The Who were okay, but given the atmosphere of the whole event,
  I certainly enjoyed them.  Again, as with U2, the satellite feed went out
  on one number.  The rest of the Wembley performances get a little bit hazy
  right now....I got up at 3:30 Pacific and taped all 17+ hours while doing
  things around the house.

  As for the US performances, I wish we could've seen more of them, given
  Empty Vee's propensity for other horseshit.  The Led Zeppelin reunion
  made my day (the only time I saw them was the one of four nights in
  Chicago back in '77, when Jimmy Page got sick and played for only 45
  minutes).  Bryan Adams' set was good, but again, another technical problem,
  and on the Canadian benefit song that all you people north of the border
  have been writing about, and I've never heard!  Didn't think Duran needed
  to show up, but Power Station was good, even without Robert Palmer (wish
  he still sang though, instead of Michael DesBarres).  

  Dislikes?  Few of the performers....Ultravox wasn't quite up to snuff,
  C,S & N were out of tune and sounded rotten (didn't Crosby look like
  shit?), the Beach Boys did backup vocals for somebody who escapes me at
  this time (but sounded okay on their set....must only be able to sing 
  harmony on just their own stuff, and probably on ly after lot's of
  practicing!!)ly after lot's of             .  Main gripes, I guess would be the Empty Vee anouncers,
  especially Mark Goodman, who I think should be shot, and Nina Blackwood.
  I didn't like how they'd talk over some of the songs, and other basic
  ramblings between sets ("Hey, that's Bruce Springsteen's lighting truss").

  So overwhelming, all of it.  I will get a better picture of it all as I
  view my videotapes over the next couple of weeks....It was recorded in
  Beta Hi-fi, so should make some great audio cassette compilations this
  summer.

  The other thing that ticked me, was that Oz for Africa, the four-hour show
  from Australia, was broadcast just prior to Live-aid, and wasn't even
  advertized....I would've taped that too....INXS had a really hot set.

  Das ist alle fur heute."

					 Mike Wroblewski


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