…The band was well into their Fair Warning Tour on August 25, 1981 playing in Greensboro, NC for about 23,000 fans. Thanks to one fan we have an audio record of this night. This audience recording stands as one of the cleaner, distortion free, boots from this tour. When I first heard the Greensboro audience recording I was blown away! What was so unique about this show, great audio aside, was the intro to "On Fire" during the opening of the show. This seemed to be the only time that they jammed on the song, especially as an opener. The likely scenario seems to be that Mike may have been having problems with his rig, and Ed and Al were forced to improvise. If you listen carefully, I don't hear Mikey (clearly) during most of the jam. I could be wrong though.
I dug this recording so much that wanted to create a video to go along with it. I guess you could call it a bootleg showcase. I took the elements from about 6 sources available on KZitem and edited them to the audio from that unique 1981 show.
I hope this clip reminds us that there is still some amazing, undiscovered, footage out there. Maybe someday someone will truly "Rape The Vaults" and reveal some long lost hidden gems…
…So this is my Greensboro "On Fire" Video Mashup. Hope you enjoy!
Thanks,
Jon
though the first part of the video had no possible video to use, since this is a one off jam, I tried to match existing footage as much as possible. BUT!!! since there is plenty of live footage of "On Fire", I was able to sync (close to) frame accurate footage to the existing audio from 2:00 to the end of the song.
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