FROM THE VAULT – HAMPTON COLISEUM – LIVE IN 1981
The Rolling Stones DV Release: 03 November 2014 Catalog No.: EREDV1052 Barcode: 5034504105270




“From The Vault” is a new series of live concerts from The Rolling Stones archive which are getting their first official release.

“Hampton Coliseum – Live In 1981” is the first title in this series. The Rolling Stones American Tour in 1981 was the most successful tour of that year taking a then record $50 million dollars in ticket sales. The tour was in support of the critically and commercially successful “Tattoo You” album. There were fifty dates on the tour which ran from Philadelphia at the end of September through to Hampton, Virginia on the 18th and 19th of December. The show on December 18th, which was also Keith Richards’ birthday, was the first ever music concert to be broadcast on television as a pay-per-view event.

The footage has now been carefully restored and the sound has been newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain for this first official release of the show.

http://www.eagle-rock.com/product/from-the-vault-hampton-coliseum-live-in-1981/#...

LSTNT is visually wonderful, but a mess of a film with all the cuts.

88 minutes of music with about 22 songs, at a time when they were playing 24-25 songs in concerts lasting about two and a quarter hours.

The only shows used were the Sun Devil Stadium gig in Arizona for the outdoor footage and the first and second of the three shows at the Meadowlands (5th and 6th November)

They probably needed a bit of restoring for this release as I think it was shot on videotape?

Its a fantastic gig that should have been released a long time ago. I'm intrigued by what else there will be in this series as I cant imagine there's much from earlier in that era that was filmed that we dont know about.

I have a friend who works for Eagle Rock who told me Hampton '81 was ready to be released last November but was pushed back by Sweet Summer Sun, so it took them a year to release something that was ready nearly a year ago? He has told me what they have coming eventually, I just hope I live long enough to see/hear the real gems he has told me about!

this is gonna rock

Pdog wrote on Aug 12^th, 2014 at 6:23pm:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iii154tjv2Y

Ahh man, that's a drag. The 81/82 tours are to me the last tours where the Stones still ruled. There's gotta be something of better quality in their vaults. If they could find Leeds '82...

011780 wrote on Aug 12^th, 2014 at 9:14pm:


everything was on tape, and they made the blu rays look fine, like L&G and Texas 78...

These are the ones that jump out at me the most, in no particular order...a three or four DVD set of the Stripped concerts in London, Paris and Amsterdam...the 1999 San Jose No Security U.S. tour finale, originally scheduled to be shown on Showtime but withdrawn...Shepherd's Bush '99 with some excellent rarities...the Licks tour theater shows...it's early in the morning for me and I can't remember all of them but these make my head spin!

leonid wrote on Aug 13^th, 2014 at 1:52am:


I'm pretty sure El Mocambo wasn't filmed.

MRD8 wrote on Aug 13^th, 2014 at 6:26am:


Oh good holy fuck. I was at that one - dont remember noticing much in the way of cameras at it at the time, but coincidentally enough I was burning a copy of the audience dvd about 3 days ago, watched a bit of it, noticed a cameraman filming onstage and wondered 'why would he be doing that when this was a theatre show'?

We already know there's pro shots in circulation of the theatre shows in Munich '03 plus (in much more limited circulation) Brixton '95. so it'd be great to see more extensive releases of stuff like that.

Still think pre-1981 DVD's are going to be very thin on the ground though, which is a pity as they'd be good sellers. The Stones didnt really do much TV after 1969 and there was otherwise no real need to film their shows throughout the 70's unless it was for a potential broadcast or movie.


Once youve woken up and wolfed down some black coffee, feel free to post more when your head is stationary again

Gazza, 16mm was vastly superior to what was being done on video during those years. It's only been over the past 15 years or so that video has achieved a high enough visual quality.

Steel Wheels wrote on Aug 13^th, 2014 at 6:27am:


guess who just learned the difference between tape and film, and to read the words closely…
oops!

was at the 99 san jose show. good times.

munichhilton wrote on Aug 16^th, 2014 at 5:12pm:



and whatever woody was having

Pre-orders for the DVD & 2-CD version now on amazon.co.uk. Under £20. Not bad, although that price will probably go down.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vault-Hampton-Coliseum-Live-1981/dp/B00MOA7J8U/ref=sr_1_...

Paranoid Android wrote on Aug 20^th, 2014 at 9:16am:



Same as all the other live releases. It gives us fans a chance to think of what could have been...

Lots of folks backstage there who are sadly no longer with us...

Stu, Joe Seabrook, Freddy Sessler, Chuch Magee, Bill Graham.....

Keith embracing Marlon and Angela at the end just before he goes onstage is really sweet, I think.

well, singles from live albums is a pretty crappy idea, to begin with. This was the first time theyd ever done one.

The version of 'Going to a Go Go' from Largo on 'Still Life' isnt that good. The Hampton version (which they used for the promo video) was far better.

That clip was first shown a few weeks before my first Stones show in July 1982. As a result, I've probably watched that one performance more times than any other clip in history. To the point where I can copy every one of Mick's arse wiggles in my sleep and 32 years later could probably identify in the street pretty much every audience member that the cameras focussed in on. Its brilliantly edited.

(the other verison of the video with the nightclub scene edited in is toe-curlingly awful, though)

Gazza wrote on Aug 21^st, 2014 at 6:40am:

WaiteringOnAFiend wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2014 at 12:23am:


Lets not forget 'Beast of Bottle', as it was called in 81-82 tour parlance

will the sheep be in innit?

RS Official App(?) is now touting both '81 & '75 release and have posted Shattered here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj96Tau44OA

Nothing new, but obviously best quality ever. I can now clearly see Keith switching the pick up toggle and finally confirm that he turns off the phase during the bridge/solo.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NSOP9FQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&...

Edith Grove wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2014 at 10:06am:



only if you are part of ISIS

Just picked up the SD Blu-Ray from Best Buy . . . who had to retrieve it from the stock room for me after i was told that if it isn't on the shelf, they don't have it. My showing them it listed as 'in stock' on their website from my phone allowed me to spend money there. No wonder they're struggling. . .

The booklet is zero insight and rife with errors, including citing Bobby as playing the sax on Waiting on a Friend. Is their no quality control or review of this crap?

The tattooed naked girl begins the disc in all of her natural glory. Greatly edited backstage scenes that many of us know follow. We don't get Keith's coked plea for rehearsal nor any sheep. A bit of the ping pong game and the tuning room are included (no jamming with Thorogood - probably couldn't get rid of the distortion) and the line up in the hallway before taking the stage is largely intact.

I don't remember every frame from the bootleg, but it's seemingly the entire show as broadcast - including, for what it's worth, the between song comment about a Turkish taxi drivers jock strap and feedback before Imagination.

Time is on My Side contains the Still Life overdubbed vocals as well as some dubbed vocals for Miss You that was broadcast on KBFH. Intact backing vocals seem mixed down, but overall the surround sound is FANTASTIC. Great sounding and clear guitars, Bill's bass is thumping - it's better than I'd hoped.

Since its standard definition, don't expect HD quality - some of the colors run,etc. You'll despise the color green after viewing, but again it's obviously the best quality video ever and it's great, despite the familiarity of Hampton, to have it in this quality.

Out in UK yesterday. US today.

Some Guy wrote on Nov 4^th, 2014 at 6:15pm:


Sitting around posting on a message board!

I'm going to try to buy it tomorrow.

Gazza wrote on Nov 6^th, 2014 at 6:51am:


Yo G unit, that is true. But I went ahead and ordered it while I was at Best Buy. 81 looks and sounds sweet! That's my Stones.

Some Guy wrote on Nov 6^th, 2014 at 12:58pm:


Agreed. Again, there's nothing surprising to see, but the quality of the video is good and the OUTSTANDING audio on the Blu-Ray in surround sound is tremendous - it's '72 Tele Custom heaven - I miss that tone.

Avoid the booklet - it'll only frustrate.

What a shower of bastards. I will sneak this in later. Gotta pace yourself.

Just got my Hampton yesterday, 3 LP+Dvd
One word : AWESOME SOUND

Till the next LA 75

Some Guy wrote on Nov 11^th, 2014 at 5:04pm:

Just got Hampton today, watched with me sister. Tremendous sound and great visual. Never seen/heard the boot of this show. Clearmountain did a fantastic re-mixing job, so much better than his work on 'Still Life' - that cloudy, mushy sound he had back in the early '80s as a producer. Listening to the CDs now - makes 'Still Life' fairly redundant (though I do love Keiths backing vocals on "Going to a Go-go", even if they were overdubbed).

the 75 dvd was in the mailbox! I'm gonna put something together tonight.

moonie would love the 75 dvd, lot's of black people in the band.