[Slowhand] Ramblin' 'bout "Live Aid" DVD

[Lucky and Alice Crumpler]

Art and Gang,

I have tucked away in the back of a closet VHS tapes of  (I think) the
entire Live Aid broadcast.  As I recall, it was a pain in the neck taping it
at the time.  I had pretty much forgotten about them until news of the DVD
release.  I'll pull them out and see how much of EC's set is on what I have.
Hopefully, the tape will not have degenerated, although it has been sitting
in the cool, dry and dark pretty much the whole time, so it might be okay.

Lucky
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Art Arias" <artaarias at yahoo.com>
To: <slowhand at planet-torque.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 8:09 PM
Subject: [Slowhand] Ramblin' 'bout "Live Aid" DVD


> Nov. 10 is the announced release date for the 4 disc
> DVD set of the now historic "Live Aid" events that
> took place in 1985 similtainiously at Philadephia's
> JFK Stadium and London's Wembley that raised over $70
> million dollars for African famine relief. I've heard
> there were numerous technical problems over the course
> of these events forcing some artists like Paul
> McCartney to re-record his vocals for his performance
> of "Let It Be" due to power failure of his microphone.
> Elton John is only allowing a couple of his songs used
> and the reunited Led Zeppelin has refused their
> performance altogether due to their claim of a
> "sub-standard performance". I remember sitting through
> it all day and into the evening recording and watching
> most of the artists as the event was broadcast Live on
> MTV and the power going out during the Who's set, and
> waiting for Eric Clapton to show only to have MTV come
> back from a commercial with Eric band halfway thru
> "White Room", the first time he'd included it in a
> live set since the Cream days. I was bummed not to get
> the whole performace of it on video but he did end it
> with a great solo followed by great versions of She's
> Waiting and Layla. He got a huge response from the
> crowd and they say this was a turning point in Eric
> career as his appearance opened up his audience base
> for years to come. I can only hope that this DVD
> version with Eric's performance captures his entire
> performance of White Room so I can put those VHS tapes
> to rest. Does anyone else who saw these concerts
> remember this happening also? I know there are bootleg
> DVD's out of the Live Aid concerts but haven't checked
> into it yet, so I don't know if there also taken from
> the MTV broadcast or not. It'll be great to finally
> hear Eric's and alot of the other artists who
> performed that day in hopefully an outstanding 5.1
> surround mix of the days events.
>
>                            Art Arias
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