Houston '80 was filmed!

To cut a long story short, I was speaking with two Texan blokes yesterday (Chuck & Chase.... Honestly) in my local. One of them saw Queen in Houston '77 and he thinks '80 (we concluded it wasn't a HS tour show).
Anyway, he was mentioning about how the Summit was a great venue because of its big screens. He had seen many bands there, Aerosmith, Zeppelin, Kiss, AC/DC among others he mentioned, and he said the screen was always used! I mentioned the '77 bootleg video, of which he knew nothing about, and I asked if the screen was definitely used in 1980 as no footage had ever surfaced. He said the screen was used for every band he went to see there, and was sure it was used in '80, as he would remember if it was a one off. 

Obviously he could be wrong, or the footage may not have been recorded.

Can Gary or Greg shed any light on this? Greg did mention a few years back that a very early 80s show had recently been discovered. Was it Houston?

That would be awesome if it was really filmed!

sounds interesting

If he IS correct, does that mean that (unless they stopped such practice soon after) the HS show from 20.08.82 at the same venue has been filmed too?  This is getting exciting!!!  Not that I'm getting carried away, but it would be good if GT could comment either way.

As a Houstonian, I can tell you I miss the Summit!  Great venue, not too big, and not too small.  So many great concerts took place there.

Anyhoo, The Summit had a CCTV system, and from what I know, all concerts were recorded.  So I know there's a video of this concert, and the '82 HS concert floating around.  The owner of these tapes is sitting on a goldmine.  All Queen Productions has to do is do a little research to unearth these tapes.

I hope this is true. A 1980 show on film would be great!

Odd how its never been mentioned or even rumoured before but amazing if it does exist somewhere.

Holy...shit...

The Queen Productions' should investigate this. Probably this dont have quality to be released, but QP should have a copy of this gigs, if the tapes exist. Especially because they dont have a full record of a gig of 1980.

This kind of things need to be preserved. Every bit of Queen footage need to be preserved

Can anyone say why didn't Queen think to have any of their U.S. Tours in in 80 and 82 filmed?? Given they were huge in the U.S. in 80 with a massive sell out tour , so just doesn't make sense their is no official filming of such gigs at NY or LA. Personally I think there is an overload of Euro concerts from the mid 80's and basically they were cool to watch 20 years ago on video, but Queen weren't so cool a live act in 85/86 compared to the late 70's early 80's!

i'm seeing gary this weekend at the north american  queen convention so ill ask him.

LAP wrote: Can anyone say why didn't Queen think to have any of their U.S. Tours in in 80 and 82 filmed?? Given they were huge in the U.S. in 80 with a massive sell out tour , so just doesn't make sense their is no official filming of such gigs at NY or LA. Personally I think there is an overload of Euro concerts from the mid 80's and basically they were cool to watch 20 years ago on video, but Queen weren't so cool a live act in 85/86 compared to the late 70's early 80's!

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They wanted to film their succes of the GAME and the huge 81 tour in South America. But New York City was too expensive ! That's why they choose Montreal instead.... Nowadays hard to believe.... I mean i this digital era...

But it is logical : thewy only could sell the films to cinema's and networkstations... since their wasn;t really a market for video tapes.... it was a new and rising medium and very expensive !

It's so strange that QPL doesn't comment and doesn't deny that this concert was filmed.

Barber`s son wrote: It's so strange that QPL doesn't comment and doesn't deny that this concert was filmed.
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Why would they *have* to, Anton?  I mean, it is just a new discussion here, who's to say that they're even aware yet that we've even been talking about it?  Patience, buddy....

Thistleboy 1980 wrote: Barber`s son wrote: It's so strange that QPL doesn't comment and doesn't deny that this concert was filmed.
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Why would they *have* to, Anton?  I mean, it is just a new discussion here, who's to say that they're even aware yet that we've even been talking about it?  Patience, buddy....
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I  was thinking that you want  once again show me  that there is not my place