Savatage - Rare 1982 Footage

[poundingmetal74]

Something for you 'Tage fans:

YouTube - Avatar (SAVATAGE) - "Holocaust" Live 1982

 

[carnut]

Yup, it's a damn cool vid that popped up somewhere !!
There's a collection of real oldschool Heavy Metal where this vid comes from.
I will have alot of the stuff soon on DVD. There absolutely is amazing stuff like live 80's gigs from Znöwhite, Zoetrope, Brocas Helm, Celtic Frost (first show!), Culprit, Exciter, Fates Warning , Heathen, Hexx, Laaz Rockit, Manilla Road, Medieval Steele, etc..etc...

 

[sixxswine]

Is this a Savatage original? I swear it's a song covered by Six Feet Under on the Graveyard Classic album... I didn't think there was a Savatage cover on it....

 

[Hawk]

This is a Savatage original. Btw when this video was recorded tgey were still called Avatar.

 

[delize]

Thanks PM74. The video is a treasure! That song was what turned me on to Savatage

 

[sixxswine]

This is a Savatage original. Btw when this video was recorded tgey were still called Avatar.

That's amazing because it sounds like the song Six Feet Under covered, grant the vocal is very different...

 

[delize]

Like Hawk says, it's Savatage's song! As far as I know Six Feet Under are the only band who have ever covered that song.

 

[sixxswine]

Like Hawk says, it's Savatage's song! As far as I know Six Feet Under are the only band who have ever covered that song.

It is the same song them?! I have the disc buried under a bunch of other boxes of discs... Otherwise I would have looked at the booklet...
It's killing me to know so I will just have to look up the disc info right now!!!!!

 

[Hawk]

It is the same song them?! I have the disc buried under a bunch of other boxes of discs... Otherwise I would have looked at the booklet...
It's killing me to know so I will just have to look up the disc info right now!!!!!

Yea it the same song. Savatage, then called Avatar wrote the song in 1980/81

Six Feet's Graveyard Classics is from 2000

This is the tracklist:

Six Feet Under

[SIZE=-2] 01. Holocaust (Savatage)
02. Tnt (AC/DC)
03. Sweet Leaf (Black Sabbath)
04. Pirahna (Exodus)
05. Son Of A Bitch (Accept)
06. Stepping Stone (Sex Pistols)
07. Confused (Angelwitch)
08. California Ueber Alles (Dead Kennedys)
09. Smoke On The Water (Deep Purple)
10. Blackout (Scorpions)
11. Purple Haze (Jimmy Hendrix)
12. In League With Satan (Venom)[/SIZE]

 

[carnut]

I also think this is 1981 footage, not 1982. There is a 4 track bootleg EP from this concert too, who can find it ??

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

Sweeeeeet! Thanks 74! I've gone thru alot of Savatage videos on YouTube, but I never saw that one. Jon and Criss were such young tikes back then. Fresh faced and completely unaware of the status they would later hold in the world of heavy metal.