DLR Amadeus clip, 1984

[VHscraps]

Just found this again - it was used to promote the movie Amadeus on MTV (to try and appeal to the younger generation of rock'n'roll kids). It's a compilation of clips set to a bit of Mozart. Dave - naturally - appears at the start and then again at the end as the conductor. i.e., they were trying to say Mozart was a rock'n'roll dude (if you've seen the movie Amadeus, you migth agree - although he was a few hundred years too early). Updated to 1984 who else would he be like but the Diamond One. Dig that suit. I saw this on British TV back in 1984 and hadn't seen it since.

Where are all the friggin DVD box sets of this kinda stuff - eh, Dave?

Enjoy.

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[Cato]

the blond guy wearing blue jacket, playing black guitar is Hagar?

[VHscraps]

the blond guy wearing blue jacket, playing black guitar is Hagar?

Yeah, I thought that, too. But I think it's Brad Gillis of Night Ranger - black guitar, too. Think Hagar always played ... red geetars.

Remember seeing Gillis on the back cover of the first Night Ranger album and thinking he looked like Hagar at the time - 1982.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Plus Gillis is a much better geetarist...

[VHscraps]

Nah - it ain't Brad Gillis. Just looked up Night Ranger on youtube and he always had that red strat with the black scratch plate. I saw him play with Ozzy on the Speak of the Devil tour and he maybe had a variant strat with blue / black scratchplate.

I need a fuckin life - why do I remember all this garbage ...

[VHscraps]

Plus Gillis is a much better geetarist...

I also remember that Guitar Player mag gave away a flexidisc (remember those) with Gillis imitating his favourite sports cars.

Some of his playing on that first Night Ranger album - and the other guy, Jeff Watson, is awesome. Lost track of 'em after two albums - power ballad syndrome, etc. He ripped it up on that Ozzy tour and album - although I read recently that Ozzy hates it. This was before Night Ranger came out with their first album, and everyone there in the crowd had slack jaws at his take on the Sabbath tunes, thinking 'who the fuck is this guy' ...

[indeedido]

Ah, when MTV was cool.

[GAR]

Howard Leese from Heart? But with the poofey hair, that would have been the touring for the album didn't come out till 1985 with Heart's "Heart" album - the one with all those hit videos in it.

Not 1984.

[VHscraps]

Why did men stop having hair like that?! I ask you ...

Naff as it is, in a way it is also kinda heroic - like the court of Marie Antoinette, baroque magnificence and total superfluity, heroic.

Sorry chaps. It's that pipe tabac ...

[Seshmeister]

I have to ask you, were you a big fan of Betamax?

[chefcraig]

I have to ask you, were you a big fan of Betamax?

Hell, I was, as it was the superior system. Of course, Sony refused to sign away rights to make it the industry standard, and we were stuck with those crummy and clumsy to use VHS tapes for the better part of two decades.

[VHscraps]

I have to ask you, were you a big fan of Betamax?

well, yeah - obsolescent technology. And haircuts - but only at a distance ... of like, 25 years.

[Seshmeister]

It was your user name that made me think you were a flag carrier for Betamax.

By all accounts it was the better system but they were out manoeuvred business wise...

[Anonymous]

I used to watch cartoons my father recorded on a Beta VCR & I remember it becoming obsolete, but I have no idea how one is superior to another. Guess I was too young to pay attention to specifications & shit.

Why was Beta better than VHS?

Cheers! :bottle:

[VHscraps]

Ha - Seshmeister, I see - I'm too fackin slow to have noticed the VHS in my user name ... Jeez, you dudes are reading all sorts of stuff between the lines!

I remember people I knew had Betamax before VHS won out, and I don't think an average everyday user would have been able to say one was better than the other, but the more tech informed people always thought Betamax was better. I don't know exactly why. But VHS won the battle of formats, I think, because they threw more money at it. I think it was JVC (VHS format) against Sony (Betamax).