One thing I remember about the Philly 1979 show is DLR saying to the rowdy crowd something like "we were in NY last night and it was nothing like this" ... and the crowd went nuts because of the obvious Philly-NY rivalry. But looking at the VH tour dates...
http://www.rocknvideos.com/vhtourdates.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
... you can see that it was actually not NYC, but Rochester NY the night before. And that's cool because that's where they filmed the 3 songs DTNA, BU, & YNG. I get to see VH on film almost exactly as I saw them live the next night!
I was pretty close to the stage. Ed's side of course. One thing I remember about the show was thinking "why is his guitar all red with stripes? I thought it's supposed to be white with black stripes?"
I also remember his cabs were 3 high with a big rack of Marshall heads off to the side stage.Here's the 3 videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrfWzx8Tn4o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Fresno location given is wrong. The Fresno show was on 3/25/79 and there's also plenty of videos from it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXku-1qFCOA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esEUKTEgLKI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
What's interesting about these is that at Fresno he's using the carved snake guitar with the "black headstock" neck and then 2 mos later in Rochester/Philly he's using the red Franky with that same neck. Does anyone know if he intended for the snake to be his main guitar in 79? Or did he repaint and rebuild Franky sometime during those 2 mos from Mar to May 79?
