Re: Live Aid "memories"

[Alan McKendree <amck@eden.com>]

On Mon, 8 May 1995, Kevin Winn wrote:

  I've never been one for those "all-star" shows 
  Usually 
> because the term "rockestra" gets applied sooner or later, and those never 
> fail to sound *terrible*.  I mean twenty or thirty huge egos on a stage at 
> once - it's just too much.

The thing that bugs me s about these is the apparently obligatory mass
assembly at the end where everyone sings some song, usually over and
over (and OVER and OVER because no one's leading the thing so no one
knows when to stop, and YET ANOTHER chorus starts up from somewhere)
so you have, oh, 20 voices singing the same line.  I'm not sure I see
the point except 1) curtain call, everybody bow and 2) photo ops to
get pictures of people you'll never see near each other again.  Even
Roger's tribute at Carnegie fell victim to this trap.  It may be
metaphysically unavoidable.  "Jooooiiiiin together, everybody
joooooiin together..."

Alan

"When I'm onstage...it's not like bein' possessed, it's just -- 
*I* *do* *my* *job*."  -- Pete Townshend