![]() and Wesley executive producing and Alex directing and co-editing, have taken the original concert footage and re-edited it to reflect the original running order. Shot in black and white with 7 cameras, the original video is a tightly-knit performance showcasing Orbison at the height of his powers backed by a dream team who obviously adore him.īut now Roy’s sons, Roy Jr. T Bone Burnette directs Elvis’s touring band, with James Burton on guitar. There’s Jackson Browne and J.D Souther in the male chorus, boosted by Bonnie Raitt, Jennifer Warnes, and k.d. Tom Waits drifts in and out of the onstage lineup on piano and guitar as well. An impossibly young looking Elvis Costello scrambles around from guitar to piano throughout the proceedings. There’s 38-year-old Bruce Springsteen, beaming like a kid who’s just gotten his first puppy for Christmas. ![]() As if Orbison’s talent alone wasn’t enough to sell out a show, this one had a cast of supporting characters that’d be impossible, financially and logistically, to put together today. ![]() His legacy endures with a wealth of recorded material, but nothing eclipses 1987’s Black and White Night, a concert videotaped in LA’s Coconut Grove nightclub thirty years ago. Roy Orbison was a musical God, his songwriting skills just as awe-inspiring as his vocal abilities. ![]() It’s impossible to duplicate, a soaring, ethereal instrument that swoops and dips with a range few humans ever get within earshot of. ![]()
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