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Originally Posted by chiliD
The outdoor live portions of the Rosebud video ("I'm So Afraid", & portions of "Over My Head" & "World Turning") were filmed at the University Of California, Santa Barbara football stadium show in May 1976.
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Hey, I betcha that was the film footage that Warner Brothers played for Soviet officials when the plans were being made for Fleetwood Mac to perform in Moscow in 1978.
The Random Notes column in Rolling Stone reported the plans. Mickey Shapiro, the band's lawyer at the time, got clearance from the Russian Embassy & the U.S. State Department. The next step was for U.S. & Soviet politicos to meet the band (does Mick talk about the meeting in that book of his?) & see their Washington DC concert (? must have been in late March or early July 1977, but I don't have a date for it). Then one of the comrades from the politburo was shown a videotape of the band performing an "outdoor summer show in Santa Barbara" (says RS), which apparently clinched the deal -- except that the comrade was a little concerned about John's cutoffs.
Mac was going to play July 8, 9 & 10 (1978) at a three-thousand-seat concert hall in Moscow, with a live satellite broadcast & TV special. Now everybody talks about Stevie's putative knack for fortune-telling, but Mickey Shapiro is the prescient one: RS quoted him saying, "It wouldn't take much to disrupt all these plans." And sure enough, the whole damn thing fell through!