This'll probably keep me busy for a while, considering how little time I spend watching stuff these days.
 
I'm very curious to see and hear Brad Gillis playing the Randy Rhoads era material, even though it's always touchy, Rhoads being my first true guitar hero...  As far as I'm concerned, Gillis did a very fine job on the Sabbath stuff on the album version of Speak of the Devil. He's an unsung hero of my youth, even if that's the only thing I'd heard him play on and never heard Night Ranger until much, much later. That whacky tremolo thing he did was the first time I heard that trick.
 
And then all the footage on Memoirs...
 
 

I remember MTV used to have Saturday night concerts in 82/83. Well one of them was Ozzy on the Diary tour with Brad Gillis playing guitar. I remember putting my jambox in front of the TV and recording the whole thing. I listened to that tape a lot, and can still remember a lot of the solos that Brad did. I thought he did a great job. Those were huge shoes to fill. That guy did do some amazing things with the tremelo. Turns out, that red Fernandes strat had a Floyd Rose first generation tremelo on it(possibly a prototype?). No wonder he could do some of those things. I remember flipping out on the dive bombs and the warble effects. He really pioneered some of those techniques. I wonder what an Ozzy studio album with him would've sounded like.

I started watching the second DVD on Memoirs last night - didn't have the time for a full show and wanted to see the early days footage. 
 
Sadly, but not unexpectedly, there very little from the Rhoads era - the 4 songs from what appears to be a short filmed-for-tv special in Rochester that I had already seen, and Over the Mountain live in NM, 82, shot by MTV, with a single camera on the bass player side of the stage... You do get a better glimpse of Rhoads at the very end when they finally zoom in.
 
One thing that really stunned me was the footage from the Ritz, the Speak of the Devil shows. You sometimes make those mental images, incorporating what little visual cues you have from the record sleeve and such... I should also mention that I knew nothing about the Ritz.
 
It was quite a shock when I saw Ozzy w/ his short hair rocking that tiny stage without the extravagant Madman tour stage set. Speak of the Devil sounded so big, and I had this mental picture of a huge, mega arena size concert hall... Well, nope. lol
 
Same as the first Sabbath record actually. I was dumbfounded when I saw pictures of that minuscule recording studio... It sounded so huge and spacious.
 
 

I didn't know that either. They did a great job making it sound huge.

The Bat  
Rain , I can just picture you working on a song and while you are looking at you screen you feel the presence of somebody looking over your shoulder watching you work …when you turn around to see who it is i can see it in my minds eye that you have an upside down attractive female gymnastic "bat" hanging from a cable doing stretches while they warm up on their vocal exercises 
 
cool beans , 
Kenny

Kenny - Now that would be awesome. :)
 
Leadfoot - here's a screenshot. Maybe tiny was a bit strong, but it's definitely not large enough to accommodate the big stage set I associated w/ Madman.

I just noticed that there's a chair next to the mic stand, and I'm guessing the sheets on it are lyrics... :/
 
 

Definitely not the Madman sized stage. Thanks for the screenshot. Yeah I wonder if those were lyrics or the setlist.

Leadfoot
Definitely not the Madman sized stage. Thanks for the screenshot. Yeah I wonder if those were lyrics or the setlist.

Nowadays, people on the internet would probably go nuts about such an unthinkable thing.
 
They'd probably **** about him not wearing a shirt too - I've seen that happening not too long ago, because the singer of the band didn't have 6 pack abs... Not that he was fat, mind you, but some  people thought it was gross because he didn't have a model physique.

He definitely didn't have a six pack, but that's the way you think of Ozzy, shirt off and sweaty. I'm surprised that he didn't have a six pack on the chair though.:)

Yup. That and putting the mic on the stand for 2 seconds and picking it back up immediately for 8 seconds walking left and right before he puts it back on the stand for another 3 seconds and starts all over again... :)