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So…

40 years ago today it was Live Aid.

Just pause for a moment and remember where you were and what you were doing and what your favourite artist / set was on the day.

Then remember, that on that day, 40 years ago the Second World War had only just ended !!
 
Time does appear to speed up as we age.
I wasn’t interested so much with the live aid concerts. By then I had pretty much settled on the music that meant the most to me. Watch the Concert for Bangeladesh, the original benefit concert.
 
impressed by the musicians who could play a tune on an instrument and sing a song at the same time. Skills that seem to have been lost.

Didnt watch it when it was first broadcast, over that weekend I was out on a trip with some friends, in the campsite at Llanthony Priory. I was on my Commando with one guy on the pillion, another mate was on his Jota.
 
Fast Eddie said:
So…

40 years ago today it was Live Aid.

Just pause for a moment and remember where you were and what you were doing and what your favourite artist / set was on the day.

Then remember, that on that day, 40 years ago the Second World War had only just ended !!
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I remember what I was thinking
"What the hell is this all about?"
Adam Ant and Queen etc!!! to my mates and I at the time we just found it funny that they were trying to make some sort of comeback as we hadn't heard from any of them for years
 
Fast Eddie said:
remember where you were and what you were doing and what your favourite artist / set was on the day.
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I was in work ......... worked for Sony at the time ....... spent a full 12 hr shift in the QA Lab watching a whole WALL of 28" TV's

28" was WOW back then

Awesome gig and way better than working !!

Best performer ??? Queen / Bowie :cool:
 
1973x75 said:
Time does appear to speed up as we age.
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I read a theory on that.
When you are 5 years old, a year is 20% of your entire existence.
When you are 70 a year is only 1.4% of your existence.
Makes sense - to me, at least!
Cheers
 
Grandad said:
I was in work ......... worked for Sony at the time ....... spent a full 12 hr shift in the QA Lab watching a whole WALL of 28" TV's

28" was WOW back then

Awesome gig and way better than working !!

Best performer ??? Queen / Bowie :cool:
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In those days that would have been a Trinitron 'cylindrical' CRT, so a deep cabinet and weighed a ton. Great picture though.
 
Fast Eddie said:
So…

40 years ago today it was Live Aid.

Just pause for a moment and remember where you were and what you were doing and what your favourite artist / set was on the day.

Then remember, that on that day, 40 years ago the Second World War had only just ended !!
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I think weird things like that all the time.
I try to share them with my wife, she just gives me that Blank stare and responds with Oh, or that's interesting.
 
I have mastered the art of not thinking. It's very zin. Or maybe it's zinfandel.

Didn't watch that concert when it aired or ever. 1985 is a little blurry. 34 then and a bit wilder than I am today.
 
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When I was 9yo, 1969, The local AM radio station WIBG , 99.9 on your radio dial had a promotion where you had to send in a postcard for a drawing for free concert tickets. Johnny Winter opening for Chicago. My uncle called me and said he just heard my name on the radio. I immediately started dialing the radio station. Nothing but a busy signal. I only had 9 minutes and 99 seconds. I tried for about an hour and finally got through to the DJ. I explained my plight, Mom even got on the phone. It did no good, never got the tickets.
 
Another time in 76 or 77, my Mom stood in line while I was in school to purchase tickets for Led Zeppelin's North American tour. She was successful, but the tour was cancelled due to the death of Robet Plant's son Karic. What a bummer, after that I started buying my own concert tickets.:)
 
Fast Eddie said:
So…

40 years ago today it was Live Aid.

Just pause for a moment and remember where you were and what you were doing and what your favourite artist / set was on the day.

Then remember, that on that day, 40 years ago the Second World War had only just ended !!
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I was in Bremerhavn, working like hell to finish some repairs on Glacieré, a 25m (on deck) Baltic Trader sailing ketch, built in Denmark in 1899. We were doing the Tall Ships Race later that week and we had several holes in the hull to fix before leaving, so I didn't see anything of the concert.

We ended up retiring just off Den Helder on the Dutch coast after breaking a mizzen boom at 3am in heavy seas. Quite exciting, trying to capture the broken bits without getting seriously hurt or going overboard.....
 
NORTSTER1974 said:
When I was 9yo, 1969, The local AM radio station WIBG , 99.9 on your radio dial had a promotion where you had to send in a postcard for a drawing for free concert tickets. Johnny Winter opening for Chicago. My uncle called me and said he just heard my name on the radio. I immediately started dialing the radio station. Nothing but a busy signal. I only had 9 minutes and 99 seconds. I tried for about an hour and finally got through to the DJ. I explained my plight, Mom even got on the phone. It did no good, never got the tickets.
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Wibbage radio.....there's a step back in time for me. There was another station further down the dial, around 56. something that also played rock. I can remember hearing a song I didnt like on one, pushing the car radio button for the other, and the same damned song would be playing.
 
MikeG said:
Wibbage radio.....there's a step back in time for me. There was another station further down the dial, around 56. something that also played rock. I can remember hearing a song I didnt like on one, pushing the car radio button for the other, and the same damned song would be playing.
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I think it was WFIL? You from up this neck of the woods Mike?
 
Born and raised in Sprinfield PA. left in 1980 but I still have family in the area. Been gone 45 years but I still crave a good Italian hoagie and scrapple with my breakfast now and then.
 
NORTSTER1974 said:
When I was 9yo, 1969, The local AM radio station WIBG , 99.9 on your radio dial had a promotion where you had to send in a postcard for a drawing for free concert tickets. Johnny Winter opening for Chicago. My uncle called me and said he just heard my name on the radio. I immediately started dialing the radio station. Nothing but a busy signal. I only had 9 minutes and 99 seconds. I tried for about an hour and finally got through to the DJ. I explained my plight, Mom even got on the phone. It did no good, never got the tickets.
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Then came FM and WMMR …
 
I've only been to one big name concert. It was November 3, 1968 at the Keil Auditorium in St. Louis, MO. Jimi Hendrix.

Throughout, everyone was screaming for Purple Haze. He announced that the next song would be the last and it was only the 6th song! Then he started the Star-Spangled Banner which became more and more psychedelic as it went on. Then, all of the sudden, it became Purple Haze and the crowd went wild.

For the non-believers, they were only three people on the stage and all that sound came from them!

Rode my 66 Triumph 500 with Energy Transfer ignition there - shockingly, it was still there when the concert was over but was stolen a year later.
 
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hybridracer said:
In 1969 I was at The Rolling Stones free concert in Hyde Park.
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Did you see any of the hells angels there doing the security?
they look like school kids when you see film of them !!
I used to know some of them many years ago
 

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