The Rolling Stones: From the Vault – Hampton Coliseum – Live In 1981

I remember seeing this on pay per view. The sound quality is great. Not sure what video that other guy watched but I thought the picture was great. It is a very solid list of songs and to see the Stones on stage cranking out the jams is wonderful. I recently saw the Stones in Vegas and they are still great after 50 years. I really enjoy all the eras from the first 3 albums to today. This 1981 concert is powerful and I am so pleased they released this and I am waiting next to download the 1975 concert from the LA Forum.

I've loved the stones since I born. I remember when this concert was televised on "ONTV". I was just a kid. A few different families in my block were throwing parties. It was so exciting. And it still as good today when I watched it. Long live. THE ROLLING STONES.

I am a Stones thru & thru & this has got to best one of thee best concerts I have ever seen on film & on disc ! The quality of the sound &'the picture are superb ! I don't know what the other guy who gave a review is talking about ( maybe he needs glasses ) but this concert is a must have !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To be clear, I always give Stones the benefit of the doubt. For my age group, 50 years old, I could possibly be one of the biggest Stones fans in the world. I saw them for the first time in July of 1978 on their Some Girls tour. In 1981 I saw them in Rockford, IL. at the 6,000 seat Metro Center and in Chicago at the Rosemont Horizon. I’ve seen them multiple times since. I own dozens of bootlegs and every commercially released album or video/movie they have ever put out. Several classic concert films have been released by the Stones. 1972’s Ladies and Gentleman, 1983’s Let’s Spend the Night Together, Stones & Muddy Waters at The Checkerboard and Some Girls Live From Texas ’78…all with great sound and picture quality. I just downloaded From the Vault Hampton 1981. I saw the original broadcast on ONtv in 1981and halfway decent bootleg rips of the show on YouTube. Needless to say I was extremely pumped for this release and downloaded the minute it became available. First things first, the sound remastering is brilliant. The picture quality and restoration, not so much. As a matter of fact, it seems as if they did a lazy cheap dub from a second generation master tape and left it at that. Released in Standard Definition, it appears there was no effort to do any color correcting, sharpening or digital enhancement. There are rolling ghost bars and an extremely soft resolution. I’m pretty sure the pre digital age original broadcast in 1981 had a better picture resolution. There is no reason Eagle Entertainment nor the Stones themselves couldn’t have invested a little more time and money into this release and given it the remastering and restoration it deserves. Shame.