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From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Live AID, Phil Collins
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 08:46:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 18 08:46:48 1985
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I thought MTV's coverage was pretty lousy.  (In fact, I heard today that
Bill Graham, the promoter, is really pissed off about it!)  But what 
bothered me the most about it, and I haven't heard anybody else complain
about it was their tendency to flashback to the VJs watching the show.
A lot.  Who gives a flying $%$#& what Martha Quinn thinks of Paul McCartney
playing Let It Be?   And every 15 seconds?  There were other problems too,
but I think they've been touched on.  

I did find that if you switched between MTV and the independent coverage
(at least until when the Independents started showing tapes from earlier
in the day), you could do a pretty good job of covering it all.

--Evan Marcus
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