Your favorite multitrack On Tour show?

[Burton71]

Hampton Roads is my preferred show, both in terms of setlist and performance. I'll concede that it's a step down from the 1970 shows, but I still can't believe it sat in the vaults as long as it did.

[Edwin66]

Hampton Roads is great.
I saw EPiC in Zürich and the Hampton footage and sound was amazing!
Never Been To Spain, How Great Thou Art , Bridge Over Troubled Water were great to see in this quality on the big screen

[lechersteve]

It’s a dead heat tie for me but Richmond is awfully hard to top. Outstanding vocals on Mountain, Trilogy, I Can’t Stop Loving You, which is reminiscent of Madison Square Garden’s killer version, and an almost unique ending on Can’t Help Falling In Love. Love this show!

[elvis-fan]

In terms of content and performance Hampton Roads would be the best of the four but Greensboro is my favorite.
Speaking strictly of the sound quality available of these shows, I don't like any of them. Sony/MR-S missed the boat on these mixes... the sound is simply awful... the bootleg soundboards are a better listen.

[JohanD]

All 4 shows are excellent, really at the top of his game, the ultimate superstar.
But if i had to choose one, it's Hampton Roads, closed followed by Richmond.

[LSP-4445]

Like many, I’d been waiting for decades for the Hampton show to be released, but when it finally did, I just
wasn’t that excited… I only played it once, actually.
I haven’t listened to the four shows enough to say I have a favorite, but in general, I’m not a big fan
of any of them .
The same songs that was also performed in 1970 were just so much better.
I M O

[Elvis NZ]

Richmond its a very strong show and always been my personal favourite show from On Tour
It saddens me that they apparently no longer have the complete show footage when it has been documented
to exist so how mysteriously did it disappear?
Any other artist and questions would be raised and answers demanded
How do these individuals get this material and why do they NOT know how it happened
Hampton Roads has been available for years in various quality but it has been out there
which while the restored version will be brilliant to see for me it wont be EPIC as it may be for others
I now doubt I will ever see the COMPLETE Richmond 72 show in my lifetime

[Rockin_John]

Hampton Roads

[LiveFan01TCB]

Hampton is my favorite of the bunch. Hampton Coliseum is so special. I've seen other concerts at the coliseum over the years, but the whole time I was inside the building I kept thinking how awesome it would have been to be in the room when Elvis played there. Plus, seeing the plaque inside the lobby just adds to the aura around the 1972 performance. Like others said, I believe the same songs played in 1970 were maybe more powerful, but Hampton from beginning to end is a hot show and EP really shows up.

[dougkapp]

Hampton Roads!! Because of I Got a Woman, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Are you Lonestome Tonight?, How Great Thou Art, Sweet, Sweet Spirit and a fantastic version of You Gave Me a Mountain.

[Alexander72]

Hampton Roads is my preferred show, both in terms of setlist and performance. I'll concede that it's a step down from the 1970 shows, but I still can't believe it sat in the vaults as long as it did.

Hampton Roads, but I do not think November 1971 or April/ June 1972 was a step down from 1970 shows at all. In my view, Elvis was still developing his show in 1970 in terms of structure, variety, tempo, and genres. And as a performing artist, he certainly hadn't yet reached his peak. He knew his way around a small venue like Las Vegas, but how would he translate his show to the big coliseums? He still largely had to undergo that evolution. Personally, I consider his peak around June 1972 (Madison Square Garden); but some roadshows in the spring and summer of 1973 and March 1974 are, in my opinion, on the same high level.

[BlackpoolEPfan]

Gotta be Hampton Roads for me!

Think I like this just as much, or even possibly more, than the MSG shows a couple of months later...

[On Tape 1972]

If I had to decide I'd give the nod to Greensboro. Not because it's the best of the bunch (it isn't) but because of the nostalgia associated with it. I was such a fan of the ol' Triangle bootleg "The Greensboro Concert" and listened to it on repeat when it came out in the early 2000s. Plus I always thought the San Antonio show was the weakest of the four, but that's definitely not the case after having listened to them all a bunch of times.

They're all good.

[@KB]

In terms of content and performance Hampton Roads would be the best of the four but Greensboro is my favorite.
Speaking strictly of the sound quality available of these shows, I don't like any of them. Sony/MR-S missed the boat on these mixes... the sound is simply awful... the bootleg soundboards are a better listen.

So true. This box set was a huge disappointment for me. We have been waiting for years for professional recordings of these famous concerts to finally see the light of day, and instead we got a muffled, poorly sounding result.

The San Antonio concert sounds much clearer and more vibrant on the Close Up box set, despite the imperfect mix on the older edition, and Greensboro sounds more like a multitrack stereo recording on the Madison bootleg.

Hampton Roads sounds okay, but what’s the point when I Got a Woman is heavily damaged? The sad thing is that the MGM version of I Got a Woman has been widely available for years in perfect sound.

In summary, only the Richmond concert is an improvement over the old bootlegs, the other three sound like average quality soundboards.

[On Tape 1972]

Hampton Roads sounds okay, but what’s the point when I Got a Woman is heavily damaged? The sad thing is that the MGM version of I Got a Woman has been widely available for years in perfect sound.

You may want to re-watch the sequence. In the movie, "I Got A Woman" was repaired using a secondary sound source and the quality is far from perfect. It's always been like this.

[Today]

Very true! The I Got A Woman sequence in OnTour movie is far from perfect, but at least it sounds much better than what we got in the box set which sounds like audience recording.

With advanced technology these days, i would have expected someone to have taken the better vocal from On Tour movie and laid it upon the multitrack music, since the problem was apparently the microphone in Elvis’s hands.

Did anyone make this repair and would be willing to post it for all of us to hear and enjoy?

[Edwin66]

I would think that the problem was in the RCA recording, not the microphone.

[Today]

I would think that the problem was in the RCA recording, not the microphone.

Yes, to clarify, what i meant to say is that there was some kind of communication or “line problem” in the first part of the song between Elvis’ microphone and the RCA multitrack recording equipment.