Woodstock, Live Aide or Live 8

[Jrnygrl]

Which event would you have liked to be at?

VH1 Classics showed Woodstock all weekend, and I think it was better than both Live Aide or Live 8. JMO!



What are your thoughts???

[Dean Winchester]

Live Aid, just about everything was perfect in 1985 musically. The older acts were still relevant (while they're "oldies" acts now), artists like U2 and Madonna were the it thing and were still getting used to stardom instead of being used to being icons, and Run-DMC was the only rap that was popular and acts like Britney, Jessica, etc... were running around in diapers instead of running around onstage in their undies.

I'm just not the biggest fan of 60's music, I understand it's importance but it's not my thing and too many of todays artists are fly-by-night to really matter IMO.

[Steve M.]

I was at Live Aid, and it was al la bunch of crap! It was in a decrpeitstadium, it was hot, you couldn't leave the stadium and come back, and it was an excuse for Coca-Cola to debut Cherry Coke! Plus, everyone in the stands had to do the Wave. And the Hooters were there. :barf: I would have preferred Woodstock, because there was no pretense about it being for a good cause, Hendrix played there, and you could wander off when Blood, Sweat and Tears came on and not miss anything!

Plus, Sha Na Na were there. :lol:

[Steve M.]

Oh, wait a minute, we can't forget the three Isle of Wight festivals in England! Dylan was at the 1969 festival with the Band, and the 1970 show featured Hendrix (in his last British appearance) the Doors (ditto), Taste (Rory Gallagher's old group), Joni Mitchell, the Who, and a group I might have mentioned before, Family.

Their performance of "The Weaver's Answer" was one of the big highlights of the 1970 festival!

[Dean Winchester]

I think Woodstock was culturally the most important, but Live Aid had the most artists I love. Basically everybody who was anybody in 1985 was there, with the exceptions of Prince, Cyndi Lauper and Michael Jackson.

[Jrnygrl]

Oh, wait a minute, we can't forget the three Isle of Wight festivals in England! Dylan was at the 1969 festival with the Band, and the 1970 show featured Hendrix (in his last British appearance) the Doors (ditto), Taste (Rory Gallagher's old group), Joni Mitchell, the Who, and a group I might have mentioned before, Family.

Their performance of "The Weaver's Answer" was one of the big highlights of the 1970 festival!

Completely forgot about the Isle of Wight, that's why I said other.

I also agree about Woodstock being unpretentious, I think that's why for me it would have been the place to be. Hendrix, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, and Sha Na Na how much better can it get????

[ABlairican Pie]

Live Aid. But only for Sabbath and Priest. :rock:

[MissZero]

live 8...its a generation thing...

[Sharop]

I wasn't around for Woodstock, but it's so famous that I think, historically, it's very important. It also sounds as though it was great.

I wad born about three years after Live Aid, but watched parts of the DVDs and really enjoyed them. Also, the fact that in Philadelphia, Jack Nicholson introduced some acts! ItI'd just recently watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and it was great to see good old Randle P. McMurphy return from the dead to appear at Live Aid.

I live in England, and I only saw the English Live 8, but I also really enjoyed that one. Also, I liked seeing John McEnroe being interviewed for a few minutes by Jonathan Ross. He (John McEnroe) came across as quite a pleasant guy. He'd been supposed to introduce the acts, but he'd arrived late, so got interviewed instead.

Anyway, summing up - I have to say all three.

[Shine]

I would have loved to have been at Woodstock. I think there has always been a bit of hippy in me. :lol: I would have loved to have been around when The Beatles and Led Zeppelin were making music and when The Rolling Stones were still a great band. There is a part of me that feels that I was born too late.

[Jrnygrl]

I would have loved to have been at Woodstock. I think there has always been a bit of hippy in me. :lol: I would have loved to have been around when The Beatles and Led Zeppelin were making music and when The Rolling Stones were still a great band. There is a part of me that feels that I was born too late.

OMG DAX I feel the exact same way!!!! :cool: :D :wave:

[Steve M.]

I spent my high school and college years in the eighties. Almost everything I heard that I loved was on classic rock radio, and at least ten years old. I hated almost everything new (especially after 1983), and if there were was something new that I did like, usually you could only hear it on alternative and/or college radio, which, of course, was for losers, nerds, and dweebs. This is a way of saying that Marshall Crenshaw should have had the success that Duran Duran did. :mad:

I'm not nostaglic for my high school and college years. Well, maybe for Mellencamp. . . .

[bad_boy]

Woodstock

[Courtnee]

live 8...its a generation thing...
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[Hollow]

AIDE AND EIGHT ARE TWO VERY SIMILAR-SOUNDING WORDS. BUT I SUPPOSE THAT IS JUST MY OPINION.

[Dean Winchester]

AIDE AND EIGHT ARE TWO VERY SIMILAR-SOUNDING WORDS. BUT I SUPPOSE THAT IS JUST MY OPINION.

I think it was intentional. Live 8 is a sequel to Live Aid.

I'm surprised Woodstock '94 wasn't listed as well, that was HUGE in 94 (let's not talk 99, which was a failure), that was when Green Day and Nine Inch Nails exploded in popularity, and Metallica, Chili Peppers and Aerosmith among others rocked the place. It was certainly era-defining much like Woodstock and Live Aid were IMO.