Cap Center 7/7/83

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

This is a commercial shoot? The lighting is so bad. It's like the difference in the Tusk tour vs Mirage. Tusk is dark and grainy, with no definition. Mirage is beautiful. Kind of shocking since this is the year after Mirage.

Her voice isn't very strong on several different songs, and her backup girls blow her away.

I could have sworn that Waddy sang Don Henley's part on L&Lace. I saw this tour at the Indianapolis stop(Joe Walsh opened, and it was at some outdoor tennis court - I don't remember the name, and it's the only time I was ever at that venue).

Well I imagine in those days to spend money on film crews and such led to the almost certainty of commercial release. Stevie was huge with her HBO special (Bella Donna) and her Red Rocks went to Showtime. VHS tapes of concerts sold like hot cakes in 1983 and 1984. So I don't see them recording a concert just for fun or memories like Stevie does today. But today its easier with the roaming cameras, etc.
Also its circumstantial evidence but this concert footage is a pre-cursor to Red Rocks. In 1983 it would have been insane to reshoot close ups because of how bad Stevie looked. They came up with a quick fix to her look. She looks great but is high as a kite.

I saw this tour in Pittsburgh and she was so out of it. The concert was recently added to youtube so I could relive my memories and I think I know why it was so bad. The night before she and Joe played Philly. She does a pretty good job but the next night of staying up all night with Joe led to a disaster show. I remember hearing Joe Walsh on the radio from the arena on the way to the show and he was drunk as a skunk. Waddy did not sing leather and lace when I saw them. She made it a solo song.

What is your opinion? Is Elaine a prop? I believe so and that is another reason I believe this concert was planned to be a commercial release.