Originally posted by NuffM
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Sleeves up: August 4th, 7th, 8th
Sleeves down: August 5th, 6th, 9th
(Bonus) Goldtop in Brick 2: every August night except for the 9th, where he swapped for the black strat.
The Brick 1 close up is from August 9th.
Of course all 3 were shot in full, there is a mountain of evidence to support it. The 6th? Well. Maybe it was fully shot by Lamden on the balcony behind the wall, but there's really no evidence. There aren't even pics of him up there (they're too dark).
As for how to actually separate the 7th and 8th shots, and to calculate how much of each appears in both sets and the documentaries, it's very hard to say/explain witbout the resources on hand right now. Some nights just have A LOOK to them. Once you have a handful of photographs confirmed to be one night, it's very easy from there to make matches and then line it up to potential shots in the footage etc..
The 7th 8mm film has helped confirm a lot of speculations I had years ago.
I know that a lot of what I say in regards to this topic comes across as "just trust me bro!" energy, but I wouldn't be saying any of this if I hadn't dedicated literally probably thousands of hours into this. I always try to go the extra mile to confirm things. If I'm unsure of a night and a photographer still has their ticket stub, that helps confirm my suspicions or completely ruin them. Yeeeears ago, I had tons of photographs labeled as the 6th Dortmund show in 1981. I labeled them as these because the "18th" set that was on A Fleeting Glimpse for decades had a stub in there that said 18th, so I figured "why would it be false?", it never even came to mind. But then I get a brand new set (The new "RickB" set on AFG) with a scanned stub and it tells me 19th, not 18th. I asked him if he attended two shows or if there was any possibility that the stub was incorrect, but the stub literally matched the seat, and well. The "18th" stub didn't. So then it became a mission to figure out which photographs were REALLY the 18th. Years later, I have every single show across the tour identifiable based on photographic evidence... EXCEPT a couple of the LA shows. For WHATEVER reason, security in that damn arena was on the top of their fucking game and they didn't let ANYBODY with ANY kind of equipment in. Some folks did manage to smuggle in things with incredibly thought out methods (Mick The Hat used a wheelchair, Reinhardt used a PHONE BOOK!), I have a photo set confirmed to be the opening night of the tour, and the guy shot those on 110 film, which goes into a super tiny camera that anybody with a brain could smuggle in. The nights that I have yet to identify won't be unidentified for long as I have a guy on my hands that took photographs of quite a few LA shows, and it's currently a matter of waiting for them to be shipped out once things settle on his end.
What really sucks is that some shows - while easily identifiable - just have almost no photographs at all. August 8th 1980 has a professional set by Neal Preston, some from Ian Russell, and a handful of sprinkled photographs that have surfaced over the years with seemingly no name attached. But there's nothing really remarkable... it sucks because that show is so well documented in terms of professional video, but there is no good audio and no good amateur photographs circulating. It sucks! The 7th and 9th have an unbelievable amount, and of course, both have a 30 minute long 8mm film.
Anyway, that's the end of my rant.
If you have more questions, please do let me know.
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