On July 13, 1985 the world experienced a television super concert that has never been replicated. Live Aid was a famine relief effort for Africa, which began with a Bob Geldof song and a “Feed The World” mantra that returns every Christmas. On the 40th Anniversary of a day made famous by so many bands and artists over the years, Nestor gathered his two brotherly pals, Richard and David Abrahams, who traveled to London to see the show at Wembley Stadium while he was in Philadelphia at JFK Stadium, writing a long-forgotten review of the concert that was unearthed. Let them share memories and show and tell pictures and mementos of their experiences four decades later…
Nestor Aparicio, David Abrahams, and Richard Abrahams reminisce about their experiences at the 1985 Live Aid concerts in Philadelphia and London. Nestor recalls attending with his brother and girlfriend, highlighting the foggy morning drive and the excitement of watching acts like Adam and the Ants and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. David and Richard shared their story of attending the London concert, detailing their front-row seats, the heat, and David’s heatstroke. They also discussed the impact of Live Aid, which raised $100 million for Ethiopian famine relief and influenced future events like Farm Aid and Live 8. Nestor Aparicio shared a story on Facebook about David Bowie recounting a 1964 incident where he and Mick Jagger attended a Rolling Stones concert. Bowie humorously recalled a fan telling Jagger to cut his hair, to which Bowie responded, “Look like you.” Nestor related this to his own experiences with hair comments. The conversation then shifted to Live Aid, marking its 40th anniversary, and Nestor mentioned upcoming events, including a lottery ticket giveaway and discussions about Baltimore Positive. The segment concluded with a toast to the memories and experiences shared.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Live Aid, 40th anniversary, Wembley, JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, London, Bob Geldof, Bill Graham, music concert, Ethiopian famine, ticket stubs, memorabilia, rock and roll, celebrity encounters, historical event., Live Aid, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, 1964, concert memories, friendship, Maryland lottery, Baltimore positive, WNST, Ravens training camp, rock and roll, 40th anniversary, Wembley, JFK Philly.
SPEAKERS
David Abrahams, Speaker 2, Nestor Aparicio, Speaker 1, Richard Abrahams, Speaker 4, Speaker 3
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, G, am 1570 task, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive. We are positively no longer in Baltimore. We’re in Eldersburg. We’re up here. Beautiful, 1623 brewing. I’m having beer. There’s ice cold. This is a milk stout here at 1623 brewing. We’ve had a good time here. This is going to be the final segment probably of my life for my career, because we’re going to be celebrating 40 years of friendship, of lager, of knights in Scranton, Pennsylvania, together. We’ve done a lot of things together, this trio here, David Abrahams, Richard Abrahams, two of my oldest friends in the world, and they have decided to come out and relive something that I don’t know, that I talk about every day. People come to me every day and like, you’ve been to Super Bowls, you’ve been to concerts, you’ve been this, you know, famous people like John Allen, you done, you’ve been around the world and all that people the Live Aid thing. And you’re wearing the London Live Aid shirt here, a little tight, um, I went to Live Aid in Philadelphia. I’m very proud of that. I have my ticket stubs. I have a review that I wrote that I’m going to share for the very I haven’t read it yet because I’m so embarrassed by it, because I know how terrible it’s going to be that, that I that I know this, but you guys did something incredible in the summer of 85 I had graduated high school on June 3 of 85 I somehow had three tickets for Live Aid. I don’t know how I went up with three, but my brother Jeff, my step brother, and my girlfriend, then mother, my child, Michelle, we got in the car and we drove up to JFK in the morning, probably at six in the morning. And I have two big memories of that day that I shared with John a couple hours ago, that I’ll share with you, fellas, because you weren’t with me. First was we pulled over wherever you pee, up on 95 like the Chesapeake house, or whatever those houses were, and it was just fog everywhere. It was July morning. It was a hot ass day, but on 95 there was fog on the road early in the morning because we left before, like, really crack of dawn. It was like dark when we left. Dark when we left in the morning. Got up, got a great parking spot right by the spectrum. We parked before it was messy. We were in our seats inside, watching status quo and watching the first part, but Adam and the ants at 820, in the morning, I was watching Adam and the ants on the screens inside of JFK, and there were no there was drinking, partying. We were 12 hours from Led Zeppelin coming on, but I experienced Live Aid. I got my ticket ripped. And I have my two tickets here. This is my this is the ticket that got wet when I was the other memory I have of that day was being at Crosby Stills in Nash. These are the two tickets right here. I want to say so I but this one is mint condition I might let you touch. This was got the water. This is probably only $200 ticket. This is probably a $500 ticket. Ron, these are ticket Tron stubs that I had. These are the legit Live Aid. So we you know you were there. I was there. You were in London. So these are my two tickets that I have. This is what else I have from that day. I have two bumper stickers that I got on the way in. It says I saw Live Aid. This is power 99 oops. Did this one upside down? This one’s upside down. No, this one’s upside down. I’m all reversed. There we go. Fine. And this is Philadelphia, July 13, 1985 and to show they’re legit, you could save money at pizzazz on the back. Get 50 cents off with your Taco Bell pizzazz. And this one, just as, like, I don’t know, some stout on the back of it, or something like that, some blood from the 80s. And then the other thing I have from that day, the Philadelphia Daily News would usually re plate, is what we called the newspaper business, which was the front page. They would put the Phillies on the front, or the eagles on the front, if you’re up there on a Sunday. This is my feed the world, Philadelphia Daily News. And it says, right here, the drawing of JFK stadium will help you find your seat. And nobody had seats. I was in wn, up here in row 60. I was underneath the press box. Imagine that I was under the second E and feed the world. It said, feed the world. I was under the second yourself. So I was at the end, at the 40 yard line or so that day. I don’t have any pictures. I didn’t bring a camera, you know, you they would have taken it away from me, and I tried to take it in. But these are what I have, and then the last thing I have, and I’ll share this with you a little later on, because you guys have a whole bag of show and tell. Richard, David went to London. I found my choice magazine. And Richard, you remember this? Well, this was a fell out in Pikesville and Owings Mills. David Russell was his name, and and Jamie Allen, they published this choice magazine. It was a rock and roll magazine. John Allen, my lifer, dearest friend, when I finally opened this four days ago, when I text you, I knew that I had written a really, really horrible, horrible review of Live Aid. I was 16 years old. Okay? So this is a month after I graduated high school. You saw it on TV, but what was Live Aid really like? So you guys are going to ask me what I remember about the day. I remember two things, the fog and I remember being in the shower in the on the 15 yard line on the field, because it was so hot when Crosby Stills Nash and Young were playing Southern Cross. So I was in there. I have been around the world, you know. So I was in there getting wet, looking fun. So those are my two memories. Luckily for you two fellas, I wrote it all down back when I was 16. This is exactly what I think. I haven’t read it because I read the first paragraph and I went. I was so 16 years old, I panned Live Aid. I shat upon Live Aid. So 40 years later, I’m gonna read this. I’ve shown my paraphernalia, but I love you guys. David, you’re a lawyer. Richard, you’re off living your life. I run into you in various concerts. We had a crab cake together a couple summers ago. I cannot think of Live Aid, even though I wasn’t with you, you were with me and I was with you. We were like best friends, and you were there in London. And until I talked to you, 48 hours ago, Richard, I forgot that David passed out and was given up to the barristers in London. Yes, and the guys with the little pony clubs came looking for you. So I have, I don’t know your story. John has hung around to hear your story through chicken wings and pretzels out here at 1623 but I’ve got a beer, and you got stories to tell, and you got show and tell, so it’s good to have you. David, a pleasure. Man always. Richard, happy 40th anniversary of the greatest concert. I don’t say of our lifetime, because Woodstock happened during not your watch, probably, but our watch, but of what we could have attended, and John and I did 15 minutes on the Aussie thing last week, and thought we have that up. The Zeppelin oh two show is now, 20 years ago, and I didn’t get to that, but I do Steve Gorman was standing on the stage for that one. So I do have a link to that one. But Live Aid in London, when you tell people, your friends that you were there. I don’t know anybody that was even in Philadelphia, other than Chris Emery. You know, 40 years later, a lot of those folks are dead, gone, dispersed, but we were still young enough and sexy enough. I was 16. You were about 19, 1819, you were 15. Yeah, you were younger than me. And your parents put you on a plane and sent you to London. So they let us say, they let you go. And I remember when you say we’re going to London, I’m like, yeah, be some crazy mfers here. These are my kind of guys. And 40 years later, you did, yeah, great, great parents, great family. And so love to you, man. The microphone is yours. Tell, tell my audience your live age story, Richard,
David Abrahams 07:40
this doesn’t happen in, you know, 2025 you know, parents don’t go ahead and say, Yeah, sure, fly halfway across the world, go to a concert.
Richard Abrahams 07:47
I think you’re my parents. Yeah. I think you have to understand the most important thing is, this was 1985 before the internet, before cell phones, and even Bob Geldof and Bill Graham’s idea to do a global concert and televise it’s you know through, through you know, through satellite, and make it a world event. I mean, there were 190 million viewers.
Nestor Aparicio 08:13
Incredibly ambitious. Unlike rock star Bucha eldoff, read this thing midsure, and it became something
Richard Abrahams 08:19
right. Unlike Woodstock, which was only 16 years earlier, okay, this was for a cause, and I learned something about my love affair with music, and that was simply that music will take a person back to a certain place or a certain time. It will change a mood. And what Bob Geldof did that day is he put people into action to highlight what was going on in Ethiopia that 100,000 people were dying a month and a year earlier with the band aid song, feed the world. Feed the world. There it is right, that money was supposed to go completed to the to the famine effort and the record company because of the success of MTV pushing it against Gen Xers like us. All of a sudden he was like, okay, sought off mites, that’s what they saying. British speak, we’re going to do a live concert, and you can’t take any of that revenue. And that’s where the idea, when Bob Geldof spoke to Bill Graham to say, we need to do this global jukebox and get a televised I know here in the US, it was ABC television. The MTV, I think, was what in maybe its fourth year. 81 was a first year for MTV. It was very it was a very different time and place in this world that we don’t know of today, because there were no cell phones, pagers, okay, no internet. It was none of that. It had to be done through television.
Nestor Aparicio 09:36
So everyone stayed our age, glued to the television
David Abrahams 09:41
Exactly, exactly.
Richard Abrahams 09:41
But anyways, as the story goes, I had a friend, because you and I used to, we met each other sleeping opera tickets. You broker tickets, and said that he could get tickets to Live Aid, and I really wanted to see the show. And he said that he could get tickets for or had tickets for the. London show. Now understand this again, before the internet, he reserved these block of tickets for the live eight show in Wembley Stadium in London over a telex line. So he offered to me that he would give two of the tickets, and I had to buy them from him. I’m like, All right, fine. I got to ask my parents if I can do this. And my mother’s response was, as I ran into her at the grocery store, I said, Mom, I want to take today to London. She goes. I’ll talk to your father, but it’s all right. You boys have your passports if you want to go, go. Okay. Now here, this is one. This is the week before the show. Okay? And we had to, we didn’t have flights. We had nothing. I knew that I can get tickets, right? What? I finally solidified that, not only did I have the permission, I
Nestor Aparicio 10:47
made stuff happen. If you said you were going to do it, I’m going to go. We both have had 40 years of right? That 60 years of that exactly
Speaker 1 10:55
so. Booked
Nestor Aparicio 10:57
your flights July.
Richard Abrahams 10:58
We booked our flights a few days before, on the Monday before the show or
David Abrahams 11:04
the budget carrier people’s Express, remember
Nestor Aparicio 11:06
those guys? Oh, okay, yeah, the Concord, yeah.
David Abrahams 11:10
No, we’re not Phil Collins. We were exactly we were paying for our meal.
Richard Abrahams 11:15
We’re not on the Concord. Yeah. And, of course, you know teenagers, it’s like we’re paying out of our own money to do this.
Nestor Aparicio 11:21
So you were 20 and you were 15. Yes sir, all right, summer of 85 so
Richard Abrahams 11:25
we ended up Stan scope with
David Abrahams 11:27
this label. Absolutely damn was good. We had different kinds of parents, guys. This is 1985 we’re
Richard Abrahams 11:36
talking, you know, that’s it. That’s it. So we ended up booking with people’s
Nestor Aparicio 11:41
grew up by the quarry, which what is now. You were the only Jewish people I knew. I was 1982 I’m 13. I’m from Dundalk, and you brought me into your home and your family. I always say to my wife all the time about the Jewish faith, it’s so full of love. You know, I had a Jewish girl. It was just You brought me into your home, and your mother was offering me lamb chops, my wife and your mother’s like, sit down. I’ll bring you some food, you know. And I think I had dark beer. I had a Beck’s buck and a grouch I was telling that story. You guys were like, I wore something for you today, which was for Richard, because I know of all the stories you’ll tell of Live Aid. Some people are into Freddie Mercury. Some people are into David Bowie. And I know you said you saw my, Thomas Dolby, David Bowie, you were part of that over there. You were. Who? Guy, dude, guy, I brought my, my Roger Daltrey ride a rock horse. Belt buckle here. This is my Pacifica, 1976 Pacifica there. Very nice. So, you know, I collect these. That’s great stuff. Part of my collection look, I mean, Roger almost wants to kiss you in there, if you look at Roger me, Rogers, right? So I wore this for you. But thanks. When I went this weekend and sort of, I didn’t watch it all. I didn’t. I was reading more of the stories about how status quo and style cancel said we would have rehearsed more if
Richard Abrahams 13:08
we would have known now, a lot of the artists,
Nestor Aparicio 13:12
I would have learned the opening part of rock and roll. And I really, you know, like I would have done it the right way had I known. I don’t know than any of them, even Elton John being magnanimous with with George Michael, and saying, Let’s do don’t go, just let the sun go down on me, or that Freddie Mercury’s star would rise to the point where the radio Gaga moment. I remember the radio Gaga moment. Oh yeah. I was in Philly watching it, and I remember the radio, God, everyone’s going like and Bono doing bad, and Paul McCartney doing, let it be when it got dark, because we’re in Philly, and it was the afternoon, and it was three in the afternoon, McCartney’s doing, let it be you’re closing London. It’s all coming back to me now, not even on DVD. It’s coming back to me from my seat at JFK Stadium, where I experienced the entire day you guys had. What do you remember about it, and what are you getting together as brothers all of your lives? Do you talk about it much? Or is it every July 13?
David Abrahams 14:16
Oh, it comes up quite a bit with this guy. I’ve one thing I remember in Nestor, it was hot as hell that day in London. It really wasn’t talking about, you know, it’s and I the one thing you know that I do remember again, we are, you know, about probably 20 feet from the stage. We’re packed
Nestor Aparicio 14:33
in. You guys really clear in all the videos, you were wearing red you’re wearing red shirts,
Richard Abrahams 14:40
American flag. Our mother bought us those shirts before we went over. So maybe if she shot
Nestor Aparicio 14:44
every time we watched the tape after that, Richard, because I had the videotape, Richard would say, there we are, there we are, there we are, there we are, because you stood out. Yes, if you look at the video and it’s not, you know, HD, is it? David, here to that television. You. Were from the middle of the front of the stage, because you were young, dumb, full of vigor, and you were the ones that were, you were the you were the pushing Americans.
David Abrahams 15:10
Absolutely, absolutely, I also helped. They were the one that probably first, what, 250,
Richard Abrahams 15:15
500 in right there really, really
Nestor Aparicio 15:17
go through this. So
David Abrahams 15:19
you flew over on a cheap airline. Flew over a cheap airline. Thought you
Nestor Aparicio 15:24
had rich parents, but what do I know? I’m from Dundalk.
David Abrahams 15:27
Hey, man, we pay for this with our bar mitzvah money, right? Exactly.
Nestor Aparicio 15:30
But you did fly. You did it all, and you did it like backpackers, exactly, with parents that gave you a little bit of money, but you didn’t go over their bankroll. Yeah,
David Abrahams 15:38
we did not. We did not. We did not. The
Richard Abrahams 15:40
first night we stayed in a youth hostel, right?
David Abrahams 15:45
Chalk outline on the five star hotels. Woke up the next morning, I was like, hell with this man. I
Nestor Aparicio 15:54
stayed with you in Scranton.
Richard Abrahams 15:59
Well, here’s the fortunate thing. And this is really part of the story of the things that we remember. It wasn’t just the show itself, but it was getting to the show and afterwards.
Nestor Aparicio 16:07
Well, when we in the middle of anything football a couple years, yeah, it’s way on the outskirts. It’s Westminster to
Richard Abrahams 16:16
Baltimore, right? Really, absolutely. So we ended up the Telex for the tickets was reserved at a place called the Keith prouse booking company that was in a place called Shepherd’s Bush. Well, ironically, that’s where the who is from, Shepherd’s Bush. Okay, so when we woke up from the US hostel on Friday morning, because we flew one on Thursday, we went over to Keith brows to go collect our tickets for the show for Saturday. And we walk into the lobby. I said, my name is Richard Abraham. Here’s a telex lumber, and a lady at the counter there. She goes back to get tickets, and she comes back, she goes up, I’m sorry, sir, but the tickets are not here. I’m like, What do you mean? They’re not here, right? So I said, What do you mean? I said, the reverse that we were reserved on Telex. This is the name in the account. And next time I know she goes to the back, I look over David, he’s in tears, and I’m like, you know, we flew all the way before the show. This is Friday. The show is Saturday. We had to go pick up the tickets because it wasn’t like today, where you just
Nestor Aparicio 17:17
there Wednesday or Thursday, right? You weren’t liking Churchill’s bunker.
Speaker 2 17:22
One reason we had a mission right there to see this show this was not a social studies now,
Richard Abrahams 17:28
this is no social crisis, just another tricky day for you, exactly. So you know the the lady disappears. She comes back with a gentleman. He goes, let me see what I can do. He goes back. In about 15 minutes, he the guy walks back and he says, Sir, we’re so sorry, sir. He goes. The tickets were released. However, we’re going to give you two complimentary tickets to the show. Please enjoy the show. On our behalf, we’re so sorry for the mistake. I’m looking at David. I’m like, win the lottery. I said, instead of how to go home and pay 250 bucks a ticket, we just got free tickets to the show that we flew here today to go. But wait, there’s more. There is more. So I’m gonna pull this out.
Nestor Aparicio 18:04
I totally the show. This is where the beer has to get all Abraham’s this year. David Abrahams their brothers. I’ve known them for 45 years. They’ve been my pals. Man, you got, you got? Look at, look at the programs. This is the program. Man, Where’s John Allen, did John leaving? Not see any of this stuff, John, you’re looking at this online. Look out. Look so this, oh my god, this is such a honey, I’m afraid to touch it. Where are your tickets? Well,
Richard Abrahams 18:33
anyways, this is the hand bill that they had this out. This is the actual hand bill. All
Nestor Aparicio 18:40
right, so this is the hand bill from Live Aid, right? This is the program, the UK program, and
Richard Abrahams 18:46
it’s not even complete, because they didn’t know all the artists they did back and it shows the Philadelphia without times. And then that’s at least what they knew was going to be the set times for the British
Speaker 3 18:56
is amazing stuff. All right, so here’s the here’s the story, okay, here’s the one. This is the tickets they
Richard Abrahams 19:01
gave Willie Wonka. Now, look at, look at the portal that we had to end up in. Can you read the letter turns F, turn style F. Now, the reason I’m telling you this is this. This is actually the actual, okay, map of the stadium right the middle. Was general admission. If you look at stern style F, it’s right near the stage. Okay, what’s the side of the stage? I got it right here. So David and I get there at six o’clock in the morning. They open the gates at eight. The show’s supposed to start at 10. I think 10.
Nestor Aparicio 19:30
Beware. Private pirate program sellers. So when they’re
Richard Abrahams 19:33
when they open the gate, David and I ended up right in front of the stage. Okay, yeah, we are 15 to 20 feet. You were there now you’re like, I can’t dance for 14
David Abrahams 19:43
hours. Well, pretty much, you know, you knock out. You’re not getting water, you’re not getting food, you’re just, you’re
Speaker 1 19:48
getting you got all these pictures, and that was
Richard Abrahams 19:50
taken on a on a instrument, a camera, before the days of cell phone.
Nestor Aparicio 19:55
Did you take the camera inside? Oh, god, look at these pictures. Right. Look at this stuff.
Richard Abrahams 20:01
Look, this is us. This stuff. Look at this one that’s portal f that’s us waiting outside.
Nestor Aparicio 20:06
There you go, Wembley Stadium. And dude, you got it. You got to scan all of this and get it up onto Facebook and I’ll share it forever, of
David Abrahams 20:14
course. Oh yeah. This is interesting to kid with an Oriole hat six o’clock in the morning.
Richard Abrahams 20:18
Look, we run. This is two years after one last wall series
Nestor Aparicio 20:22
summer 85 he probably looked big, big. Fred Lynn fan, yes, sir, yes, sir. Look at all of these pictures. So did you you took pictures during the show? So, yeah, absolutely, there’s
David Abrahams 20:31
killed off. Is that? Killed off? Adamant, right there, adamant.
Nestor Aparicio 20:35
And Bob Geldof on stage at live a look at this. So you guys went over. You’re in the front of the stage before. So let me get the program out, because the program will tell me what order. It’s right here. I got it right here. Status quo. Open the show, right. Style Council, ultra Vox Boomer at Spandau Ballet at some point, adamant was in that part of got added in there. Elvis Costello, Nick Kershaw, shot day, Sting and Phil Collins and then got on the Concord. Howard Jones
Speaker 4 21:06
on the Concord. Brian ferry,
Nestor Aparicio 21:10
fantastic. Paul Young, who I saw last week down at Wolf Trap with the Wang Chung guys, you two, played at 520 dire straits,
Speaker 1 21:19
money for money for nothing.
Richard Abrahams 21:21
That was the first time that was ever played live with Sting. Yeah, Sting, I wore my empty right?
Nestor Aparicio 21:28
That’s right. Dire Straits, queen, that was now the Bowie thing. We got to talk about the Bowie thing. Did you see you saw the zombies? Did you know about that before, three days ago or No, no, no. Okay, so Thomas Dolby moved to Baltimore, going on 15 years ago, and I got wind that he was in town, and I’m a fan, and he was a professor over at Hopkins, and we got connected to a mutual friend through through living classrooms. And Thomas did my show as, oh, I’m here, yeah, mate, you know, whatever. And I struck up a friendship with him, and I said, you live downtown. And he didn’t drive at the time because he’s mission free and he’s a professor. So he said, I’ve never been to a Ravens game. Did you teach me football? That’s great. So when Jen was at the depths of the depths of her she was in the hospital. I thought she was literally gonna die. It was December of 15, her second battle. It was the day that Ryan Mallett beat the Steelers check. That was Christmas week, right? And Dolby met me in my house and in my wife was had been in and out of the hospital. She was very, very sick at this point, but we had all of these ravens hats that Marvin Lewis sent me in a box. When Marvin was in Cincinnati. Marvin text me one day and said, What’s your address? I sent it to him. I’m like, What am I getting? He sent me a box of 25 ravens hats that he had in his closet, you know. So I had all these houses, comes over to the house, and it had all these hats. And I’m like, pick one. It’s yours. I can’t keep it. Keep it. So dopey has one of Marvin’s hats, okay, Marvin at the ravenette that he wanted. It was, it was a very nice day in December as I remember it, and Dolby and I walked out of my house, and we’re walking through the neighborhood, and I had been at the hospital, my wife had been through living hell, and we’re just talking, and I said, you know, I was a music critic back in the day, and I actually interviewed David Bowie. And Dolby, being who he is, didn’t jump out at the Bowie ref. I remember this because, you know, I said to him, I said, I interviewed Robert Plant, I interviewed Jimmy Page, I interviewed I interviewed David Bowie. And just as a matter of like, my pride in having interviewed David Bowie, he doesn’t say anything to me, is 2015 we went, sat in the game. We had a Greatest Day. He came into the show the next week and talked about his experience of American football. My wife survived. Thank God for that. Neil’s I love you. And so fast forward, years later, years later, Dolby is at my house having dinner, and it came up, yeah, and he’s like, I was the band leader for Bowie that day. And I’m like, you were the what to the what?
Speaker 2 24:13
I got to hear this story, right? I’m like, yeah, what? And my
Nestor Aparicio 24:17
dude, Ace is at the house, and I surprised ace, because Tom was at my house having dinner, and I invited ace over. And aces a big Tom fan. Ace walked in and saw Tom tolby in my kitchen. He’s like, flipping what, we’re vegetarians, like a whole thing, right? So Dolby didn’t tell me the whole story, and then I invited him out. And when I invited him out, oh no, I had him on zoom the one I sent you was a Zoomer, Zoomer, right? And the reason was, run grin and Adrian Ballou were doing a Rams Head Bowie thing, and Dolby was recruited to do one piece of that. She was a special guest at the ramset show. And I said to Dolby, what are you gonna do? He’s like, Well, I played with David at Live Aid. And. He said, I have, I have all my I have all my Polaroids. So yeah, Dolby, like you on the same day, had a camera like this and took pictures. He was with Bowie in the helicopter leaving for London. Bowie was between bands, you and I camped out for serious moonlight. We had front row tickets, right? So in the summer of 84 week, two nights with Bowie, I was in the front row, in the eighth row. I went the eighth row with you. We went the second night together. I was in the front row the first night at the serious moonlight tour. When that tour ended after a year and a half and they toured the world, his biggest act in the world at the time. Let’s dance. All that. Stevie Ray Vaughan had played all that stuff on Let’s dance. Carlos Alomar was the guitar player on the tour. The tour broke up, and Bowie didn’t have a band. So it’s a summer 85 and this live eight things happening, but he didn’t have a band. Bowie reached to Dolby to put a band together. Yeah. So this is the story. So Dolby is in London helicoptering to the show at two. When did they play? They played at 640 they had rehearsed a couple of times, and Dolby helicoptered with Bowie. And he said Bowie was so you can go watch this at Baltimore. Positives, Google, Google. Thomas Dolby to pop right up. He said that Bowie was chain smoking cigarettes in the helicopter, huh? Because Bowie was so nervous about flying pilots
Richard Abrahams 26:30
like you can’t smoke here,
Nestor Aparicio 26:33
right? And he said, Dolby said they circled the stadium. He has pictures from above. He has Polaroids
David Abrahams 26:39
like that. That’s crazy. So Dolby
Nestor Aparicio 26:41
has all of this stuff, and Dolby says I’m putting together something for heroes with with Bowie. Yeah, I went down to ram said that night, and I hadn’t interviewed runger Yet, I talked to Adrian blue on the side of the stage by the bathroom in the back of ramset. But it was amazing. I’m sure I was amazed that bony night was amazing. Sure, it was Halloween night about four years ago, maybe 421 22 somewhere in there. Dolby got inspired because he’s freaking Thomas. Dolby, he’s a genius. He got inspired by all of his pictures and the music. And he did a 10 Minute vignette on that Bowie night where he redid heroes, showing the pictures that video, wow, I’m sobbing. I’m literally sobbing at Rams Head on and my wife wasn’t with me, but you know, the man who saved her life was German. He was a hero. Oh, you know, I’m like, Ah, and I said to Thomas, I text him later. Then I’m like, Dude, you had me sobbing. So a year and a half later, Dolby comes out year year and a half ago, and did the show at State Fair. We had a long breakfast, and he took this whole Live Aid thing and built it into his tour last year. So if you saw him last year on the tour, yeah, he tells these stories of I was recruited by David Bowie to do Live Aid. I did Live Aid. I was not the star, but I got some really cool shit, right? So Dolby is just an amazing who lives here in Canton, right teaching at Hopkins. He lived in Baltimore 15 years. Dolby was a huge part of the Bowie thing. And Dolby told me the story last year, and I and I know you saw the video of it. He said we audibled into TVC one five, David, we were going through Scary, scary monsters, or one of those songs that we didn’t do. Yep, he said, David got up on stage and said, I don’t want it. I want TVC one five. He said we had barely rehearsed it. He said we barely played it through. Everybody, tap dancing, a little
David Abrahams 28:48
bit heroes, was one of the signature moments of that show. No question. It really was. I’m talking about everybody. We can be just, just one day. I would say that was a signature moment. I would say the Queen performance, definitely, you two doing bad. You two doing bad. And that broke them to the world stage. I mean, I know that they work on it. We saw him a year later, they broke Absolutely. They were playing small. Then let me tell you what was also unbelievable. Again, hot as hell that day, the who comes on, they came on, play, love. Rain over me, the skies open up. It starts raining. I swear to you, as if it was the only time I got water. The entire crowd down. It was like, sort of you
Nestor Aparicio 29:29
got to tell you, David Abrahams is here, Richard. These are two of my oldest blah. I’m the third Abraham’s brother. I’m the Dundalk brother. They didn’t know that Venezuela brother didn’t know about but 40 years ago, these guys were two of my best friends in the world, and we used to go to concerts together. We camped out for tickets together. We went to concerts together with Billy Joel. We went to went to a million spring see with the house. Oh, man, just a
Speaker 2 29:52
whole deal. The next year, we went
Nestor Aparicio 29:55
to amnesty the following June. And I have all my I should have brought my memorabilia from that, but I. Um, you had a moment that I have forgotten about for 40 years. You went to Wembley, you went to London, you got out of bed, you went you stood in line, you got up in the front of the stage. Was hot as hell. What happened and when David,
David Abrahams 30:15
not exactly my final I’m going to start this. Okay, you’re going to start. I’ll
Richard Abrahams 30:20
start it. You can finish it. Okay. Now, understand, I’m just, I’m entrusted with a minor
Nestor Aparicio 30:27
because I’m at 1620,
Richard Abrahams 30:28
right? Okay. Now, about, I guess it was about 45 to an
David Abrahams 30:33
hour into the show. It was way around. One Ultra box went on. So it was probably about 1247, right? About that exactly.
Richard Abrahams 30:40
So. Height of the day, David. All of a sudden, I’m standing next to him, and he collapses. He goes down, yeah, and he David had heat stroke. Now understand, they weren’t giving. They weren’t watering the crowd like they were in Philly. They were trying. They figured out afterwards, start tossing water bottles in. And we had nothing we couldn’t get out of the crowd to get get sustenance, to get water or
Nestor Aparicio 31:00
that’s why in Philly they had that shower.
David Abrahams 31:05
You’re packed in there like you’re
Richard Abrahams 31:07
because everybody’s pushed off against, against, you know, the fence, and you’re with
Nestor Aparicio 31:11
a bunch of hooligans, right? Yeah, whose fans are in London, or soccer hooligans. It’s a rock concert, right? We all had long hair,
Richard Abrahams 31:18
long hair. There you go. So Dave passes out, and the crowd there was unbelievable, where they everybody was trying to clear, to push people back, to get him some air. Eventually, we also
Nestor Aparicio 31:29
wasn’t a new thing. It was like, help the kid. No.
Richard Abrahams 31:31
Everybody, right, all right. So they lifted him up, okay, above, like somebody stage diving. They were holding him up like crouch and and immediately, the security that’s at the front security barrier in front of the stage is we’re only 15 to 20 feet from the stage. They see it, and they’re motioning for us to pass him over. So I’m like, whatever. So all of a sudden I see my brother go over the front security barrier, and he’s gone. I have no contact, no cell, but you text him, right?
David Abrahams 32:01
Not even smoke. Signals,
Richard Abrahams 32:04
my friend, there’s no I am one. What’s up with my brother? Is he all right? Did he die to how am I gonna explain this one to my parents? And three, okay, Will I ever see him again? Okay, I’m flipping out for the next hour. So and then
Nestor Aparicio 32:22
you missed Boomtown Rats and Spandau
David Abrahams 32:25
Ballet as I came back, exactly. So I basically, I was, I was that first? So they I get back. How long were you out? Do you even know, you know what? I woke up just as they were escorting me to this, like little area, sort of like backing off the side. You were exactly. I knew my name wasn’t Batman. It was all good stuff like that, but I was definitely feeling like very, very jelly. I would
Nestor Aparicio 32:47
always say we went to the Capitol center. You’d see casualties, right? You see somebody on shrooms. This
David Abrahams 32:55
was dehydration, right? Dehydration. So, you know, they set me up in this little area stuff. I guess it’s probably just for, like, a little first aid station. Art. First aid station, artist, first station triage, triage, as it were. I mean, they’re putting the cold complex, cold compresses on my neck. They’re giving me water. They’re giving me juice, whatever, that type of thing, speaking British to you, speaking British baby. All right, all right. And I didn’t realize where I was. Next thing I know I’m seeing America. I see sting walking by, and then I see George mile. George Michael looks over here, all right. Mouse like, yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 33:26
George Michael asked
David Abrahams 33:29
you, this is going on? Right?
Richard Abrahams 33:36
Shooting myself, because I
Speaker 2 33:38
explained that to my parents that I lost him.
Nestor Aparicio 33:41
So you’re watching Boomtown Rats a bowl, pretty much is true. And you’re like, Where’s my brother? And could he?
David Abrahams 33:53
Yeah, yep, all right. So some, by some grace of God or something like that, you know, I get better. And, you know, probably watch it Sydney law firmly or something. I walked back into the crowd. Actually, that was good thing that I kind of noticed the surroundings, because we were right by the belly flag. Walked about these there, you thought of this hell. And I had about, like, a bunch of boxes. What are they see? Means, like, these orange juice and stuff like that, exactly, stuff like that. So I was like, I was like, I was like, dude, Queen’s
Nestor Aparicio 34:22
gonna do greatest thing you’ve ever seen in your life? Yeah, you need to be hydrated.
David Abrahams 34:28
I think I got back there, maybe just a spin down ballet. We just get Elvis. Okay, yeah, exactly. So I
Richard Abrahams 34:35
see him walking I see the part crowd and letting him back because they recognize the kid that went over. And I see him coming in from the same area on the corner, like, if you’re looking at the stage on the right hand side, they had an opening on the right side. And I see them pushing him out over the security barrier again, like there’s a gate there. Yeah. And he’s walking back towards me. I’m like, Oh my God, thank God, Dave’s alive. And here’s the story he tell. I’m like, what happened? And he tell. The story.
David Abrahams 35:00
So I told you the story there. So basically, you know, again, to put me in this little triage area there. And you know, it’s, it’s a sing
Nestor Aparicio 35:08
walk by George Michael spoke to you. Do you see anybody else? Or no, you don’t remember
David Abrahams 35:13
exactly 40 years ago. I said, those are the two that I remember. You know exactly. So, I mean, there were a bunch of people. Who knows, there could have been other band members and things like that. But so is
Nestor Aparicio 35:21
it’s funny. You say sting, because a year later, and this is where the story can get funny for us, we went to the the amnesty rising police, and I had a cousin in Scranton who had a house, and I slept there, Tom Robinson, right? It was a weekend Robbie who gave me my career at this at the news American, yep, he got married in Clark Summit, Pennsylvania, where my dad was from, and my dad had family there, and we stayed on a farmhouse where they did not want us. I had family members that did not want me in the house. I remember that. And he was just a nasty trunk. It was like literally, but we had a free crash pad, and we wound up in a hotel. Sheridan, Sheridan Scranton and I went to the wedding, and you guys
Richard Abrahams 36:08
drank a lot
David Abrahams 36:11
of pictures of you
Nestor Aparicio 36:14
in the hotel room that I couldn’t find today, but when I find them, you’ll get away. I had pictures of you two in the hotel room, not you two, the two of you, before we saw YouTube,
Richard Abrahams 36:23
right, right?
Nestor Aparicio 36:24
That that Amnesty show, I was a full fled. I was at the sun by then. Yep. So in this, this is May of 86 was the amnesty concert. Yep, that I had a press pass that day. I met sting. I met Yoko Ono. And this is the craziest thing that you’ll say, like, celebrity thing. Yeah, I hung out with Christopher Reeve. Christopher Reeve was Reeve was in the VIP area down there, and for some reason, I befriended him. Subaru. Yeah, he was just Christopher Reed, this is Kevin Bacon. Was running around. There. I have autographs from little Steven. And I didn’t know enough about the E Street Band. He was doing, Sun City, and I remember that. And Peter Gabriel played, I didn’t meet him or anything. Mark Rivera play, I have pictures from that day. You two played. I was not in the room with them, but Lou Reed signed an autograph for me, one of the ladies of rock, Joni Mitchell, was backstage. Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon was backstage that day, but I remember talking to sting, and I remember literally hanging out with Christopher Reeve for hours, wow, backstage, because it was like there were, it was like this, where there was a program, and I came back at I watched Peter Gabriel with you guys. Yes, I have pictures of Peter Gabriel doing Sledgehammer Biko, and he did a big time at that time, in your eyes, he was doing all of that. And then the you two and the police, that was last time the police played again. I saw him in Vancouver, 20 year, 30 year, 24 years later, right? 2010 but the police and you to that day, we did that show together. I mean, in two summers, you guys attended two of the most amazing. And I did too, I guess. But I’ve always been envious of the London thing, and you guys probably have a little envy the Philly thing, because you’re a zeppelin guy. And you know what I mean? And I told John this couple hours ago, the Philadelphia side. I mean, I remember all these acts, and I’ve and I’ve watched the DVD and like all of that, but Madonna was the biggest star in the world. She played it like four in the afternoon,
Richard Abrahams 38:46
which, you know, did you come back on the stage second time? Though, I thought
Nestor Aparicio 38:49
she I think she played right after maybe McCartney, and then ended, because the way they timed, it was McCartney. What are we going to do from that? Let’s go Madonna. Madonna, Madonna. And at that point, and that’s when it got crazy in Philly, where it went from like Madonna to Clapton to Duran. Duran, you know, it was getting it darker in Philly, and because of the mix of music, where there’s a temptations that to play Patti LaBelle played Lionel Richie was a big part of it in Philadelphia as well. But that that that hand over to Madonna. Madonna was the big, the green jacket she wore, and, you know, get into the groove and all of that. It was just such a star power thing. And I guess, 40 years later, to have queen have this biopic history that’s based on that day, that day, and you two for both of those concerts, really, to move them and in a place where, like Elton, John and George Michael, George Michael, iconic, don’t let the sun go down on me. I mean, it, it really bookends rock and roll to have been a part of that, without a doubt,
David Abrahams 39:55
world stage. Yeah, it really did. I mean, bad is what, bro. But I tell you, I mean, we. Went, obviously, for the music. What we didn’t realize was that we would be part of an event that shows up in this day in history, right? You know, it really is. And, you know, I had we known that I, you know, gosh, I mean, you would have taken better pictures, and we would have taken better pictures.
Nestor Aparicio 40:22
Adam Ant here, dancing. They took a camera in, and they have nothing of McCarty. But you know, all of it is, is it’s a part of history in that when, if you were on a timeline this weekend, all the videos showed up, none of its in high def. All the storytelling is there. Whether it’s mid you’re telling a story or Bob Geldof. I mean, all of these, many of these people have lived longer. Roger May, all the people have lived long enough. I mean, we lost Tina Turner, right? I was thinking about that, and in her doing the thing with Mick Jagger and doing It’s Only Rock and Roll, but 40 years later. I mean, here’s, here’s my offer to you. I have two Live Aid tickets in Philly. You have two from London. I’ll trade you a Philly for a London. You could say, No, it’s okay. This right here. But give me those. Tell us some stories. What do you
Richard Abrahams 41:11
got there? It’s ironic that, again, it was a day that changed music forever. Was Live Aid. It moved multitudes into action. And
Nestor Aparicio 41:21
going back to that, and I appreciate that,
Richard Abrahams 41:26
but it was a day that changed all three of our lives, yeah, whether we were at Wembley Stadium or in Philadelphia. So I was visiting a friend’s mother, who’s very ill, and they print this little thing called the Daily Chronicle at her senior care facility. Okay, and it shows on it. It says, On this date, it goes through different things. In 1865 about PT Barnum, Frank Sinatra recorded his first single, then read what it says For
Nestor Aparicio 41:50
nine live, a benefit concert was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, at JFK stadium filled up the raise funds for Famine Relief in Ethiopia, featuring performances by iconic artists like Queen you to Madonna and Elton John live a captivated an estimated 1.9 billion viewers across 150 nations, rates $100,000,000,000.40
Richard Abrahams 42:09
years later, we still talk about it. And this is not without the Internet. That’s the amazing thing that we could achieve, that we put a man on the moon, and they and Bob Geldof and Bill Graham produced there you have
Nestor Aparicio 42:18
it, right there. There’s the two we believe and the two Philadelphia live eight stories, and the program, this program, saved lives. What else do you have? You have your shirt. You have one shirt left.
Richard Abrahams 42:28
No, have all my other shirts and stuff. But these are other things that I wanted to show you. This is the stationary from this is one, all
Nestor Aparicio 42:37
right, Swiss Cottage, yep. This
Richard Abrahams 42:39
is a souvenir from Nestor Aparicio.
Nestor Aparicio 42:41
I gave you that,
Richard Abrahams 42:46
and then in the tube
Speaker 1 42:48
that, that’s from the photographs I took this off. I love you life post do this has
Nestor Aparicio 42:56
got to be $1,000 post or so, dude, this is, this is, this is probably a special notice
Richard Abrahams 43:03
to Capitol heart rock and roll to Wembley. Wembley shows the tube. Stop the tape valid. And to get the Live Aid. Why
Nestor Aparicio 43:10
not give Live
Speaker 1 43:12
Aid? What you save? There you go.
Nestor Aparicio 43:14
Is that cool? My fault? Take good care of that smudge off. It
Richard Abrahams 43:18
was. I took it off of a light post, whatever. And I said, Hey, we got to take that one home. That’s that’s a cool thing. It stayed in there for all those years.
David Abrahams 43:26
If you want to hear another kind of funny story, sort of lucky date. Oh yes. So this show best. So after we get out, we spent the night at this our gosh man again. It’s probably a place for, you know, wayward men or something like that. But, so that’s how I ended up there was basically, you were at the base before that. Well, yeah, exactly, we were at the base motel before that. So after we, you know, get the tickets from case, walking down the street and, you know, my foot hit something, and I look down and there’s a wallet, no joke. So, you know, pick it up, and I’m looking for any signs of, like, cards, IDs and stuff. There’s nothing in there, you know, I think one bill full. So I open it up, there’s 300 pounds, which is basically like, 400 bucks. Yeah, 450 500 bucks. 1985 no place, no place to return. I was like, Well, I think
Nestor Aparicio 44:15
it was 50 bucks. How much is the ticket? I still tickets our ticket was five pounds, whatever that was, a $20.20 pound donation, 20
David Abrahams 44:27
pound donation. So 25 pounds, roughly about 40
Speaker 1 44:29
bucks, maybe 40 bucks, 40 bucks. My ticket says 50, right. So it’s
David Abrahams 44:33
about that, yeah. But so this as a Yorkshire puddings on me tonight. So it was all good. You know,
Richard Abrahams 44:39
we tried to find ID, and there was nothing in there. It was the billful full of cash. So we were we realized that the American Bar Association was in town. We couldn’t even get a hotel if we wanted. There was a cancelation at this place. That was a gorgeous hotel. It was a Holiday Inn. Where was this? David? Swiss Cottage, Swiss cotton station, Henry’s road 128, King Henry’s. That’s where we were, and Dave and I, and you can show him the pictures. And we ended up going downstairs. We got some said,
Nestor Aparicio 45:09
Little David in there. Look at that.
David Abrahams 45:11
You didn’t have to give credit cards. And the one
Richard Abrahams 45:14
before was the shower from the place we stayed the night before with that was with the right, with the bullet shells,
Nestor Aparicio 45:19
right? But we find the pictures from our 86 adventure in scrap.
Speaker 2 45:24
And there’s, uh, there’s me hanging out. Where’s us?
Richard Abrahams 45:28
Richard’s hair? Look at that. So we ended up your style Americans in London, yeah. Then there was, I don’t know where that what? Yeah, yeah, Cuban cigars. We ended up having a prime rib dinner and smoking some Cuban cigar sitting on the balcony. Cubans here. This is the night before. All
Nestor Aparicio 45:46
right, so I in the summer 85 I had begun interviewing rock stars. At the end of 84 I did my Getty Lee and triumph and kiss. October, November, December. Of 84 was in high school. I graduated in June. This guy comes to me at the choice magazine, and I had done an REO Speedwagon piece for him and a survivor piece for him earlier, and I went to live eight. He’s like, you went to live eight. Write a review, right? And I’m like, I don’t really know how to write a review, but I did, and I wrote all of these words, and all 40 years later, I haven’t read it. I read it in the four days since I found this, this piece here, but my bitch about it was, it was made for television. So, so being there as a 16 year old guy, I felt like the whole thing was because it was, yeah, it was made for television. Yes, at that time, I wasn’t ready to accept that. So the first 10 paragraphs here were about me bitching about how it was made for television. So it’s, this is a terrible 16 year old, right? Mario Speedwagon appeared sluggish. Judas Priest rocked away and Rick Springfield danced into the crowd during human touch. High Noon proved fantastic, as Bryan Adams took down the house with an inspiring version of tears are not enough. A song he wrote with Getty Lee, a song he wrote performed with over 20 of Canada’s rock stars for Africans family relief. The Beach Boys then clogged up the 800 phones with uppity versions of surfing USA and help me run. Keep in mind, the television was a telethon,
David Abrahams 47:23
yep, yep, yep, right? I read that
Nestor Aparicio 47:28
out loud because it was they were begging for money, exactly, right? Okay. I mean, that’s lost in all of this. Yeah, you saw
Richard Abrahams 47:36
that poster Capital One
Nestor Aparicio 47:38
straight on the big screen with my pals David and Richard over in London and George Thorogood were disappointing from the London show you two and queen were amazing. All right, yeah, even on Diamond vision, although Bono’s face and voice faded out halfway through Sunday. Bloody Sunday. Much. They lost audio, right? They lost the audio in JFK, okay, we didn’t lose audio. Mercury of Queen had the London crowd eating out of his hands during the chorus of radio, Gaga, we will rock you rock JFK, as much as it did. Wembley, our stadium was going as crazy as the crowd was shaking in ours. Always, London set was fabulous as he rolled through, I love you. Your fault the course, let’s see here. TVC, one five, rebel, rebel. And finally, a get up and dance version of Modern Love. The crowd sat through Simple Minds, don’t you impatiently waiting the whose resurrection, who had already done their real flow that was
Speaker 2 48:38
a Fauci. And then they farewelling again and
Nestor Aparicio 48:40
again and again, again, right? Finally, at 3pm Pete, Roger, John and Kenny appeared much to the light of the JFK audience. My generation had him rocking until the big screen went dark after the first course, they had tech problems. Promoter Bill Graham appeared to say, we are having satellite problems, and we’ll try to get things straightness. We lost the new in Philly. Wow, he did. And the show went on to end on rain on me and won’t get fooled again. The who was, well, let’s say not, The Who. And just after a half an hour of rehearsal, how could they be? Oh, I took a cheap shot at Roger. Yes, he did. Chrissy hind to The Pretenders, brought the crowd back to life with the harmonica led middle of the road. But Donna started her stuff at 420, interesting time, right? Performing sexy, but non revealing versions of holiday and get into the groove the British finale. I called it disappointing. These microphone going out and no Beatle reunion. Yeah, we all thought that George and it could
Richard Abrahams 49:41
John not been killed five years five years earlier, the Beatles, without question, would have reunited for that show on Wembley. I guarantee it.
Nestor Aparicio 49:47
Spiffy looking, young looking, Eric Clapton bowled over the masses with Layla. But where was cocaine? He probably left it home due to good taste, his set was highlighted by a big screen close up for the drummer, who just happened to be Phil Collin. The other day, Collins went on to do his own set against all odds in the air tonight and a zillion balloons as Dick Clark and the ABC cameras led into television, Led Zeppelin partially reunited with stylist page and plant rock. Did the rock and roll then plant yell for the crowds request stairway, of course, but they ignored and played the classic. Whole lot of love. Jimmy Page strolled through Stairway to Heaven, just like he did so many times before. Crosby Stills in Nash appear with with Neil Young. Duran. Duran LeBrons voice broke horribly during the view to really go back watch that. It was really, really bad. Duran Duran, they were not very good. You were bad. Probably we already passed. Patti LaBelle, you were sleeping lunch. You didn’t watch the No, we
David Abrahams 50:45
know we would actually watched Zeppelin, I think, in that bar, who
Richard Abrahams 50:48
watched the phone call and stuff, right? We were went to a hotel bar after we left.
Nestor Aparicio 50:52
Tina Turner did stay to shock with Mick Jagger stayed in shock. They did just another night, lonely at the top, dancing in streets. They didn’t miss you, they didn’t miss you, and they did. And then people were yelling for Bruce Springsteen, but he never appeared. And then Ron wood and Keith Richards did blow it in the wind with Bob Dylan. And then, and then Lionel Richie and Harry Belafonte. That’s it. We are the world.
Speaker 1 51:21
Who’s my review there you go. Well, I ripped a who I ripped? Jesus, I’m terrible. I’ll show you something. You
David Abrahams 51:28
were crying on the London AX, though, I mean, but then again, you couldn’t see half of it. I’m gonna
Nestor Aparicio 51:32
leave you with this. Believe I gave you a bumper sticker. That’s
Richard Abrahams 51:36
bumper stick. Well, here’s some of the things. This
Nestor Aparicio 51:39
person $10 on the internet. I priced it the other day. Oh, god, that’s true.
Richard Abrahams 51:43
Here’s some of the things this burned on first because of the WHO playing at Live Aid. It reunited them. This is one of their precipice shows.
Nestor Aparicio 51:52
Okay, so they went together again. Is it the 89 who stood together?
David Abrahams 51:56
Well, it was North Robbins benefit over Radio City Museum.
Richard Abrahams 52:00
That’s what HBO film that I remember that that was where they did Tommy cover to cover, nice. And that was The Kids Are All Right, Kenny, who’s out of the band. And then I found,
Nestor Aparicio 52:11
ah, this is the show, right? June 15, 1986 in East Rutherford. This is the famous Scranton story that’ll never be told,
Richard Abrahams 52:20
right? And if you turn the backside, see it shows all the acts there.
Nestor Aparicio 52:25
All right, so, yeah, yeah, yeah. Brian Adams, Joan Baez, I said. Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez Jackson, brown Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel, never shot every sting. Shot a Absolutely. Carlos Santana Pete. Pete Townsend, so, yeah, that was, that was something.
Richard Abrahams 52:43
Look how young he is there. Ah, this was something. This was the program for Paul McCartney, his world tour right after and at the very back. So
Nestor Aparicio 52:54
I met McCartney. I was show you one thing. I was the press con. I asked Paul a question, okay, once in my life, and he signed a Rolling Stone for me. It was underneath RFK Stadium. So this was an 88 there’s a whole live eights. Look at this. He wrote about his experience
Speaker 1 53:07
in Live Aid. That’s Paul. This is Paul’s story
Nestor Aparicio 53:10
in Paul’s magazine, right? Tour, right. This
Richard Abrahams 53:14
was for 87 or 88 exactly. I went there with mom and dad and Dave Robbie
Nestor Aparicio 53:18
McIntosh doing the guitar. Right, right. Paul did I gave you this. That’s right, yeah, that’s a that’s I threw out 100 of these. This was the VMA. This was the night Sean Penn almost killed me with Madonna backstage. I had a camera. Wow. The Hooters hit me out in their dressing room this night. This was at the Palladium in New York, and I met Andy Warhol this night. Oh, wow, experience. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Mark noffler was a dickhead to me this night, so I remember that too. Okay, you don’t forget, yeah, but I was in the press room with Tina Turner This night. Tina Turner debuted what we don’t need another hero this night for the MTV Video work, and I was in the pit. This was the night that the cars won all the all
Richard Abrahams 54:11
the Live Aid affected a lot of this, this, and of course, obviously,
Nestor Aparicio 54:17
it affected everything.
Richard Abrahams 54:20
I mean, it was a groundbreaking event,
David Abrahams 54:23
festival, shows now our diamond dozen, right? I mean, this was really to the first really big ones, right, since
Nestor Aparicio 54:28
Woodstock. I mean, Ocean City. But for
Richard Abrahams 54:30
absolutely, for cause, even cause me, okay, for a cause, okay, this change, because, as a result of live, a came Farm Aid with John cougar and all that and Willie Nelson, live spins off, right? Live eight, right, right. But you can’t repeat we were there, both of us, all right, all three of us.
Nestor Aparicio 54:48
Wrap this up so we can drink some beer right here at 1623, we’re four old guys, young guys, telling stories from 40 years ago this week. Live Aid is a real thing. It happened. You. This guy was in London. I was in Philly. We’ve had tickets. We’re doing all the fun things. This shirt, you brought me, this shirt I wore it wore out. I want to end this with a little bit of love for someone that involved your father, your business. You were promoters for a minute of sit down, relax. We’re together. Pat can I see? Oh yes, Pat. Patton SEO, what Pat? You had a pat story, you guys, smithereen story. Oh, boy,
Richard Abrahams 55:27
too many Pat was, I think I got him his first Maryland crab cake. You being the crab Angelina
Nestor Aparicio 55:33
is exactly green mount station right here in Carroll County does crab cakes. If you’re dying for an Angelina style crab cake, go to green mount station,
Richard Abrahams 55:43
you will do that. But Pat was a class act, and he helped us to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Dave and I, we promoted a show in Baltimore. We put him in a big venue at Towson center, and we raised a lot of money for CF that night, we did a press conference with 98 rock and we were so appreciative to everything that Baltimore did for us and Nestor, I got to tell you, you played a big part
Nestor Aparicio 56:05
in that I tried to do my best, doing your best. It
Richard Abrahams 56:08
was you doing what you do, okay. And thank God. My mother and father were there to witness that with all of us together and and the Smithereens who were up and coming bands were so appreciative. And
Nestor Aparicio 56:21
I remember press conferences at the Sheridan
Richard Abrahams 56:24
and I remember the night after going to see them playing at University of Delaware passes.
Nestor Aparicio 56:31
That’s right, we had some good times, you know, that period of time in life, and my backstage hammer jacks, rock and roll, and just all of that stuff, but always included you. Yeah? Well, we were always sort of together in all of the soup of all of these memories and pictures. And I wish we took more pictures right
Richard Abrahams 56:55
phone. But now here’s some 40 years later, we all get to reminisce about a moment to change the world, and this is the proof of it, Instamatic camera pictures, a program, a t shirt, a story about lose.
Nestor Aparicio 57:08
So here’s the t shirt ready. So Captain Izzy, oh, of the smithereens. I had the other live eight shirt, which was the Philly
Richard Abrahams 57:14
shirt? I have that too. You gave me one of those two. I have Philly.
Nestor Aparicio 57:19
Yes, I think that was our quid pro quo. We haven’t traded concert tickets, but I’m still working on that. So four years later, so Dennis EO, I’m on their tour bus for years, right? I had a backstage laminate with the Smithereens through all of their green thoughts 10 all the tours they were on, and I would join them at the belly up in San Diego, or I come see him at the stone pony, wherever they were. I would just show up because I could. I didn’t even have to call him. I would just walk backstage. Right, right. I’m on their tour bus. And dennisio would say, this is 85 was live 80. Are you familiar with heavy metal parking lot. Okay, heavy metal parking lot. I want to google it up for you, because I want you guys to google it, okay, and just so you know what it is. It
Richard Abrahams 58:10
was a movie, and it was not heavy metal. This is heavy metal parking lot.
Nestor Aparicio 58:14
Parking Lot is a 1986 documentary. It was filmed at the Capitol center. It was made by a fellow who’s my Facebook friend. Now that I’ve been trying to have on the show, they’ve been having the 40th anniversary of that, because we’re getting up on that. Well, it was filmed at a Judas Priest concert in the parking lot of metal heads. Okay, so everybody,
Richard Abrahams 58:36
wait a second. I’ve seen this. I’ve seen I think you showed this to me? No, no, I know what you’re talking about. Yes. Jeff
Nestor Aparicio 58:42
krulick is a guy. Yes, by the way, have you guys gotten the capital center? Table, table, coffee table book? Do it? No, okay, buy the Discover the Laurel boys. It’s called the Laurel. Why have a cop? It’s one of the most amazing books ever. It’s it’s 50 bucks. It’s value, trust me, bound ticket stubs from through the era, pictures of wrestling, circus, rock and roll, the Eagles, Elvis. Elvis shows down absolutely Bill Clinton’s inauguration, Ronald Reagan’s inaudible. Just all of it. Right? So heavy metal parking lot is a documentary short 1986 features interviews with several small groups of young heavy metal fans gather for a tailgate party at a Judas Priest docking concert on May the 31st 1986 Okay, so this film had an afterlife on VHS. Okay, so in the early 90s, I would be with the Smithereens places, and they would all say to me, dude, you’re in Miss Sarah, should say, Dude, you’re in heavy metal parking lot. Go to that show. I didn’t go No. Dude, wearing the live eight Philly shirt. Did you go to live eight? I think the busy started with, did you go to live eight? I’m like, Yeah, you. You’re in the heavy metal parking lot, my friend, you know how I could do all three of them? I could do Jimmy and Dennis too, but mainly Mike and Dennis or Mike and Pat. I’m in some I think I was in Vegas with them on a bus to Phoenix to do a show in Tempe. I was like doing the still water almost that I brag about doing for years, right? But this is what might have been on radio by then, early 90s, maybe. Yeah, 9192 93 and Pat’s like, my friend, you’re in this film.
Richard Abrahams 1:00:37
Sure, it’s your doppelganger, if not, I
Nestor Aparicio 1:00:40
want everybody out there. And I had Kevin Leonard on, who wrote the book with Jeff krulek. Jeff crewlike is involved in this capital center book too. He made the film. He was, he was a Waynes World Prince George’s Community College TV guy. Camera, okay, in 86 she had a pro camera. 86 so he went to the parking lot to film this iconic film. The first 40 seconds are his car going into the parking lot and sort of filming the tailgating that’s going on right on a May 31 night in the eagle lot at the Capitol center off Landover road. And damn if there is not a young dude, not in that shirt in the film, in the Philly shirt, right? Right? She’s different, right? With my haircut, look like you, my height in the back, he swears it was you. It’s not me, yeah, just like, put the videotape in, because they watch the videotape pissing themselves. If
Nestor Aparicio 1:01:43
Yeah, right. That’s you, my friend.
Speaker 2 1:01:48
Me, dude wouldn’t me, it looks just like you.
Nestor Aparicio 1:01:53
So if you got you can watch it. You can watch it. 40 seconds in, you’ll see a kid. We’re gonna say that’s Nestor, but
Richard Abrahams 1:02:04
it’s not me, or you’re on something really good. You don’t even remember the fact that you were
Nestor Aparicio 1:02:08
really there. Gave me worth 500 bucks about it.
Speaker 2 1:02:10
David Abrahams has
Nestor Aparicio 1:02:13
been my friend forever. Richard’s been my friend. Richard’s been my friend longer, because David was like 11 when Richard and I met, when Richard and I met, when we
Richard Abrahams 1:02:24
released 16 or 17 camping out for we Billy Joel, it might was it. Billy Joel, in the summer 83 my senior high school, I was 18. Love you guys. Man
Nestor Aparicio 1:02:37
David and Richard are good. Man that smells like 1980
Speaker 2 1:02:42
it has that must 80.
Nestor Aparicio 1:02:44
So I saw the greatest little clip real on on Facebook this week, and I’ve been using it for any do you like my long hair? Do you not like you know, it’s totally So David Bowie told this story on a British show. I shared it. You can follow it. Just put David Bowie Mick Jagger story. So Bowie’s telling this story, and he’s, it’s probably in the 90s, maybe late eight, late 80s. He’s not thin, white Duke, but he’s between serious moonlight and tin machine. Okay? And he’s on a show, and someone asked him about his rock and roll history. Said I saw that Rolling Stones at Hammersmith Odeon, or a place, and we were there in 1964 they were opening for another band. I think they’re open for Little Richard, and we’re in the front. And I saw an insult that affected me. This is my Bowie, you know, he said, Mick Jagger was on stage, and I was a fan of the stones. You know, they were not a big band. No one. There may be 20 of us up against the front. And A fan said the most awful thing to Mick. He said, cut you long hair. Joey said, this is Bowie doing Nick. Nick said, what? Look like you.
Nestor Aparicio 1:04:12
That’s Bowie in 1964
Richard Abrahams 1:04:14
doing right. Look
Nestor Aparicio 1:04:18
like you. Anyone that’s given me that cut my hair thing, my thing. Learned this about three weeks ago. I saw this video.
David Abrahams 1:04:28
I got too sure worthy.
Nestor Aparicio 1:04:30
It creates memories. Friendship creates memories. And you know, for anyone who told their children in the 80s you can’t camp out for concert tickets, you don’t know what kind of people you’ll meet out. Ha, these guys a toast alive aid from London to 40 years later. Here, dude, fancy drink they took away. Cheers, man. Here
Speaker 2 1:04:53
you go. Stout. All right. There you go. Stout. To get out stout, to get out 1623,
Nestor Aparicio 1:05:01
my friends, at the Maryland lottery, you get a Lucky Seven doubler. David, you get a pressure luck, Richard, because you’re over in your sign off after a an hour of live eight stories. Pressure luck there. Press my luck at Zeke’s coffee on Friday, and then I’m gonna press my luck into 27 of my favorite things to eat during the 27th anniversary of wnst and Baltimore positive. Nothing more. Baltimore positive. And talking some Live Aid here over an ice cold staff signing off from 1623 we got plenty ahead. Luke is at ravens training camp, and I’ll be back with some more lottery tickets to give away. We are wnst. Am 1570 tasks in Baltimore. We never stop talking rock and roll. What look like you, what? Lola front, never.
