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THE INTRANCER · Post by **THE INTRANCER** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 5:05 am

For me, I feel greatfull that I had the chance to grow up in the 1980's, I was born 25 May 1977, so had the freedom to enjoy some great music of the time whilst playing with my favourite toys, building things with Construx building kits (kinda like Mechano) and playing the old Casio SK1 Sampling keyboard I once had, trying to emulate Jean Michel Jarre when I saw him on TV...however, my musical taste in music was fairly wide and I could recognise what sounded shit and what didn't to my young ears, and having many of my family either playing instruments like keyboards or guitars or playing music 15 hours a day..

So anyway...as you might guess, I would of been 8 years of age, at the time, but I wasn't at home, I was in a flat in Glasgow, Scotland at my Aunts, who lived in one of those big tower block flats, and I still remember the smell of the freshly painted doors, going up and down in a silver aluminium elevator for the first time, and looking down at the scary drop below on the balcony during school break... What was on the colour TV they had ? (Yes colour TV was a luxury back then as many were still using black and white)..it was of course Live Aid. I only had two things to play with, one was a rubix cube and a plastic snake like puzzle thing you could make shapes out of in a similar fashion you mangle a rubix cube like...and watching all the great acts on stage. Couldn't really hear the great quality with the TV only having mono speakers, but it was pretty enjoyable. Little did I know that some 15 years later that I would be standing on a stage playing keyboard in a band for HRH Prince Charles at Hollyrood Palace in Edinburgh in front of a huge audience...

But I do remember seeing Queen and Nick Kershaw performing at Live Aid in particular...way back then. My older brother had many tapes for his hi-fi system and so I recognised him right away...

It makes me sad when I reminisce, but these were some of the most precious times of my life I can always look back on..

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 6:30 am

The Quo are mighty. Mightier than gold. f**king QUO.

Bombadil · Post by **Bombadil** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:26 am

I saw some of it, but I don't remember much. I was at my friend's place doing some recording, I became ill, and went home to sleep it off until I got better. Which was about 2 weeks.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:18 pm

by 85 colour tvs where quite normal.

and ah, the rubik's snake! many a confused child face on xmas morning!

i saw odd bits when id nip in and out for something to eat.
but midsummer at 11? sat in all day? not in the 80s!

el-bo (formerly ebow) · Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:25 pm

vurt wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:18 pm by 85 colour tvs where quite normal.

As was the VHS recorder I was using to record the performances

vurt wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:18 pmi saw odd bits when id nip in and out for something to eat.
but midsummer at 11? sat in all day? not in the 80s!

I spent much of the afternoon, U.K portion in the garden, also. But I could actually hear it live from my garden

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:32 pm

all i could hear from the garden was cows n sheep.
spending spring waiting for the lambs to go silent...

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:32 pm

first concert I ever recorded on a vcr

Dunbar · Post by **Dunbar** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:44 pm

I was 11, at a garden party in the grounds of an old house in a village in rural Essex. A TV had been placed on a veranda and played in the background; it distracted the adults as us kids stole booze and got proper sh*tfaced.

I recall the sunshine, the never ending music, and the nausea, headache, and dry mouth...

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:06 pm

i didn't like most of what i saw. Queen was good, because they were always good live ... but "do you remember laughter¿"

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:56 pm

THE INTRANCER wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 5:05 amWhat was on the colour TV they had ? (Yes colour TV was a luxury back then as many were still using black and white)..

bollocks. a second tv for the kids might have been black and white, but not the main one. by 1985 kids had pretty much already started having colour home computers as a matter of course.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:58 pm

live aid, elvis costello :

"here's an old northern folk song"

el-bo (formerly ebow) · Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:59 pm

whyterabbyt wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:56 pm
THE INTRANCER wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 5:05 amWhat was on the colour TV they had ? (Yes colour TV was a luxury back then as many were still using black and white)..
bollocks. a second tv for the kids might have been black and white, but not the main one. by 1985 kids had pretty much already started having colour home computers as a matter of course.

ZX Spectrum, in 1984...Check!

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:03 pm

whyterabbyt wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:56 pm
THE INTRANCER wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 5:05 amWhat was on the colour TV they had ? (Yes colour TV was a luxury back then as many were still using black and white)..
bollocks. a second tv for the kids might have been black and white, but not the main one. by 1985 kids had pretty much already started having colour home computers as a matter of course.

Maybes in the US.Not in the UK I got my first colour TV in 89.

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:17 pm

Yikes, The UK was always so far behind in technology and economy.

Anyway the only thing I really remember was Led Zeppelin performing Stairway to Heaven. I remember them saying it was for Jason Bohnam more than anything else so he could get the exposure he needed. Jimmy Page blew the solo. Robert Plant wasn't that great either. Afterwards Plant said... "This is why there will never be a Led Zeppelin reunion.

I remember every dining establisment bringing in TV's just for the event. Afterwards half the TV's went home forever and half stayed.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:19 pm

thecontrolcentre wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:03 pm
whyterabbyt wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:56 pm
THE INTRANCER wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 5:05 amWhat was on the colour TV they had ? (Yes colour TV was a luxury back then as many were still using black and white)..
bollocks. a second tv for the kids might have been black and white, but not the main one. by 1985 kids had pretty much already started having colour home computers as a matter of course.

Maybes in the US.Not in the UK I got my first colour TV in 89.

No, the UK. If we're talking anecdote I got my first colour TV in 1997 or something, since I spent my 20s without one at all. But my parents had one well before Live Aid. And they were hardly atypical.

Who Remembers Watching Live Aid In 1985 ?