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Posted by Levi on Jan 25th, 2005
2005
Jan 25
I know it’s hard to believe, but my DVD giveaway contest is still open on DVDMON.com. Please, readers, help me out. I’m trying to give these away and it seems like there’s no interest. All you gotta do is write up a small piece about how you remember Live Aid - or even how a friend or relative does if you don’t. Post it here as a comment or just email me. That’s it. I’m looking for just seven more entries so that I can have a total of nine to pick three from. So your chances are winning are a ridiculously high one in three! Come on, it’s a cool DVD and it’ll only cost you a few minutes of writing.
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January 26th, 2005 at 9:50 am
I remember Live Aid as just generating this huge feeling of oneness and unity. Just watching the huge crowds that were there all celebrating and being human beings together. That seemed to spill over to those of us that watched on TV. It was pure high emotion and goodwill for the whole world. Everyone was a member of the world community, if only for a day. Be nice if we had something unifying like that today.
January 26th, 2005 at 3:14 pm
I couldn’t believe that the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats was organizing this. Bob Geldof was eventually knighted for his work with LiveAid.
This was during my anti-media days and I thought the whole thing was an 80s attempt at recapturing Woodstock. I was wrong.
Many imitators soon followed, including FarmAid, BandAid, Michael Jackson’s “We Are the World”, and GatorAid, but LiveAid was the fist.
Who could forget Bono and his mullet?
Didn’t Phil Collins fly across the Atlantic on the Concord to pay at LiveAid? (”Phil Collins?” Yea. He was hot! Su…Su…Sudio….)
Who remembers any tasteless Ethiopian jokes? “How do you start a fire? Rub two Ethiopians together.”
How much of LiveAid did I watch? About 5 minutes. It was an all-day affair and I think it was broadcast exclusively on MTV. Back then events like these weren’t considered big prime time draws. Today, they would have a LiveAid special between 8-10PM and that’s when all the big acts would appear. Barbara Walters would come out of her hyperbaric chamber (the one that Star Jones secretly rigged up to suck away all of Barbara’s life energy) and interview Bono and The Edge, along with Springsteen and his former hot wife Julianne Phillips (wasn’t she in a ZZ Top video? Or was that Tawny Kitaen? Was Tawney in LiveAid? )
It was a worthwhile cause, but I still think the money could be better spent teaching people about birth control. Whenever I see starving kids, I always wonder about what motivated their parents to have children when the parents themselves can barely get enough to eat.
What would LiveAid be like today? MTV would have weeks of pre-show specials. Britney Spears and Christina Agulara would perform. Jessica Simpson and the cast of American Idol would be there too. Would Ashley Simpson be there too trying to save her career? [On a side-note, I don’t feel sorry for Ashley. She has more money than any of us could ever hope for and why should we give her a break? She’s not an amateur. People pay good $$$ to see her. If after all her training and prepping she can’t perform, then she’s quite talent-less.] CBS would broadcast it on Prime-Time (since MTV and CBS are both owned by ViaComm). There would be a few rap artists and upcoming artists. There would be a zillion commercial breaks and no performance would run more than four minutes. Were it on NBC, Donald Trump would show up. Since it would be broadcast on CBS, there would be a tie-in to Survivor and The Amazing Race. Who knows? It might even be a destination for the Amazing Race. NYC and LA would fight for hosting the event. And you know Paris Hilton would be there!
And at the end of the night, Madonna and Elton John would make a “surprise guest” appearance and perform the song that they had rehearsed until perfection. By 3AM you would be able to download the whole thing off the web. Fan sites would spring up by the morning, followed by articles in the paper of scalped tickets, who wore what, etc…
And The Shooting Gun would show what rediculious demands the singers would make prior to performing.
As I said, I only saw five minutes, but those five minutes are etched forever in my memory. I was visiting a distant relative – my mother’s sister’s mother-in-law, and I think it’s the last real time I spent with her before she passed away. She was so happy to see me, and I think that in some way I brought some “aid” to her. She was a sweet and caring person and memories of her and of her son, my uncle, now divorced from my maternal aunt, evoke a time in my childhood when I took family connections for granted and never thought that the day would come when the only time they would intersect in my life are at funerals or weddings. How sad. As I said, those five minutes are etched forever in my memory - knowing that though I was interested in watching LiveAid, that I turned to it for a moment, and then did the right thing by turning it off. Life “aid” overrode watching LiveAid.
-William Porto
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