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Originally Posted by Macfan4life
I know, I know I am a silly dreamer. Someone is just really lazy or much of this material is destroyed or not owned by the band or something.
Its crazy that earlier tours have much more recordings both visual and audio. But the Mirage era is a blip even though it was a #1 album in the video age. They were really rushing through things to get to their solo careers and a much needed break from each other. I wish we knew why this footage is not around or given to the fans.
For example Stevie professionally recorded her solo tours in 1983, 1989, and 1991. But the drugs were so bad they were buried and then leaked many years later on bootlegs and youtube. Her 1986 show was lip synced to a live track. We have explanations. I demand a full FBI investigation of what happened to the Mirage footage. A live visual performance of Hold Me (one of the biggest hits of the 1980s) is as mysteriously hard to find as a sasquatch in the woods. Often heard but never seen.
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The bands own treatment of Hold Me has been abysmal since the Mirage Tour ended. That it was never played again in the context of the band until that dopey 2018-19 version is beyond me. How Christine just ignored it and Little Lies for The Dance is simply unimaginable. Plus it should have been played on one or both of the Shake the Cage and Behind the Mask tours. It was one of their biggest hits!