Since we're talkin' Rhoads footage...

[tojoro]

I didn't want to hijack Elvis' thread concerning the NM footage, I saw this at one of the Rhoads boards, and thought I'd share it here, it's an excerpt from an interview conducted last month with one of the guys who worked on the Rhoads book:

The answer is YES, but we may never get to see it. Ozzy's concert at The Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey on April 24th 1981 was professionally shot. Every concert in that theatre from 1973-1984 was pro-shot. It was a 3-camera black and white shoot. The entire concert was filmed. I've had numerous conversations with the theatre's owner, John Scher about this. Randy also talked about it in specific detail in one of his letters to Jodi that I've read. He was excited about it and he said the band performed exceptionally well, knowing that they were being filmed. Whether or not the fans will ever get to see it, remains to be seen.

Fucking hell!!

http://www.rockmusicstar.com/randyrhoadsbook/

~T.

[jhale667]

I'd so love to see that film.

[Seshmeister]

Since all parties seem desperate to wring every last penny from his legacy I'm really surprised this hasn't been released if it exists.

It's not going to get more valuable than it is at the moment.

[Hardrock69]

AHHH....I see...so that is how Rush was filmed there in 1976! I have a bootleg DVD from that venue of Rush, but it has a fucking timecode in the midst of the screen for the entire time.

[VHscraps]

A similar sounding venue, The Capital Center in Landover, Maryland, also reputedly had an in-house system for filming performances.

Back in the early 80s the BBC here in the UK used to have a show titled 'Late Night in Concert', and the performances were often from the Landover Capital Center. I remember AC/DC from '81.



Did our boys ever play there?

[FORD]

Yeah, the Capitol Center in Maryland and their in-house recording system has been the source of a lot of well known bootleg videos. VH "Largo 82", for example.

[VHscraps]

Ah ... I have seen it. Had it on a VHS aeons ago. Forgot all about it!

[ELVIS]

If that show was in the box set, I would have bought it...