Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site CS-Mordred Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!narten From: narten@CS-Mordred (Thomas Narten) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Live AID, Phil Collins Message-ID: <273@CS-Mordred> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 12:32:08 EDT Article-I.D.: CS-Mordr.273 Posted: Wed Jul 17 12:32:08 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 07:51:33 EDT Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 30 Someone commented that Phil Collins wasn't doing much while playing for Led Zep. MTV had several (pretty bad) interviews, one of which included Phil. Phil admitted that for he didn't hardly get a chance to practice the songs he was to perform, and rather than improvise on the fly, he sat out for part of songs. I might add that he was one of the few performers that MTV interviewed that handled the interviewer well. I couldn't hardly believe the MTV interviews. They asked the same (bad) questions, and didn't know when to quit. For instance, the most common questions was: "Do you feel an energy in the air?" In asking Robert Plant if he felt the old chemistry while playing, are there plans to regroup, etc, even when Plant would not answer the question (and it was obvious that he wouldn't) they kept on going, leaving a kindof awkward silence. Its a shame that MTV couldn't do a better job at showing the music. I tried taping parts of the set, but they seemed really good at cutting in right as the band was starting! They never seemed to be paying attention to when the music was about to start, they would cut to it in a hurry once it began. For those upset with the loss of contact during the Who, that was one of the every few moments when they had technical problems with the satellite broadcast. All in all I was impressed with the way the whole thing was pulled off. The sound quality was excellent (not necessarily the playing), and they were very fast at switching bands, especially at the end. Does anyone know if there was more than one stage to make the switching of bands go faster? Thomas Narten