Bette Midler - Art or Bust Concert (1983) 

Your so lucky🥹😭

This is and or was what I was going to ask. If it had ever been on, "music home video", of some sort. Stone tablet...reel to reel...no...but those, yes. It should be on a recent format, yes. How about this question...has it ever been on television before? Oh, this seems to derive from perhaps a c.d.v. or v.c.d. which also seems to indicate not the U.S....

@@alexkx8599 it was originally an HBO special. Never on regular TV 5hat I know of.

@@PugsDaddy Spank you! I imagine it would have had to have been quite edited if it were on regular t.v.! I guess I also wondered if it got any airing on MTV but I don't recall any times they were really dropping the, "f", bomb on that channel much in the first couple of decades that I know of. (I wonder if they could have shown (at least some version of) this in the bleak of the night on MTV if they had wanted to or at real creepy early morning hours? 🤔 She is far more than some emotional adult contemporary old person (😜) singer which is kind of how I viewed her for a long time. She definitely rocks and shocks! 😄

@@alexkx8599 I only know it from HBO (and the video and laserdisc). No idea why this is still out of print.

@@PugsDaddy It's out of print because people don't buy physical media anymore and either no one has bothered with this release in the digital form, they are being strategic about when it is (perhaps with upgrades), and or legal issues/disagreements with whatever from whomever. Are my guesses.

My mum and I have birthdays 2 days apart. She presented me with Bette Midler tickets and we had the best night ever. Her performances are all epic. Her comedy chops are underrated. She is the best entertainer I've ever seen.

@@deedeeannash wow I envy you who had seen her performaned live! Back then she was at her prime too.

​@@wongfrancis I saw her at the Kansas City (near Swope Park outside with seats) Starlight Theater--she Great, good , wonderbar!!!

oh in 1983 same time era as Art or Bust :))

Was it ever on t.v.?

there is only one diva .. and that is Shirley Bassey ... well, maybe it's the diva of the American version !!

I pledge my allegiance to The Divine Miss M.

@@alexmuller6457 in the UK friend, Yes!

So...she rented her own video? How do you know that there is an unedited version?! Word of mouth that there was more of the show? Maybe it wasn't filmed and or recorded entirely or not properly, etc.?

All of her live concerts in every single city are professionally recorded. They belong to her (All Girl Company). Then they are edited for the best parts. On this tour, she had go on the road twice since she did not have the rights to record "Pink Cadillac". She passed out on stage in Chicago from exhaustion. Her second show in LA was not as energetic, she was tired and her voice was raspy. She can sell her shows on contract to HBO or whomever. She only released the VHS short version of this show with added animation, etc.@@alexkx8599

So...are you saying songs and performances were left out? Why are you so angry at whomever edited these shows? They probably had some issue of strategy to make this work as a, "music home video", and or t.v. special, yes, no?

It`s all in jest. And if you had seen the show in person and were able to make the comparison you might have the same sense of disappointment. @@alexkx8599

Dale Greene, she is the most enjoyable singer I have ever watched performed, I think her raw emotions have got me, she stirs something inside me, I get emotional when I hear her sing.

@@alicehenderson7983 As it should be, my friend. As it should be!! :-)

@@timoconnor8520 how long have you been a fan, I have listened to her since 1972, watched her on TV in the 70's also, she was a riot, but her voice is gorgeous.

@@alicehenderson7983 Im 64 so yes, I, Too--1972

@@davidstevenson404 wow their is a lot of us who are her fans

Yeah it is Pine Knob

I was wondering if this had aired on t.v. in some way...and where. Had a good hunch it would have been HBO.

I’m 10😢 I still love her more then anything❤

Barry manilow was with her in ‘82? I think he left in 1973. The New Year’s Eve concert of 1972 in New York was when the divine miss m came out as baby new year and mr. Muzak was with her then. I think mellissa Manchester was still one of MGM, miss m’s backup singers. That was also when she made her entrance, carried out in a sedan chair. And unfortunately, when miss m asked that her fans stay with her when she stops doing the act she was doing at the time. The greatest drag show ever, thanks to bill hennessy’s brilliance and manilow’s musical direction. I wish someone had that ny concert or Carnegie hall, the capital theater in Passaic, and the palace engagement. By the time clams opened in 1974, miss m was gone and Bette Midler was transitioning into what she peddles today.

@@mzmiller52 yes he was long gone but for this New years Eve show , he came as a surprise guest and she did the same thing again with him. This was the 82/83 DeTour, which she then released on VHS as Art or Bust, which was also shown on HBO. She was promoting the No-Frills album, which is also one of my favorites. She was still being very Miss M in that concert and she was in character in Divine Madness. DeTour is one of my favorite concerts of hers, and the first time that she introduced Dolores del Lago in the wheelchair who replaced Vickie Eydie. after clams on the half shell was over, she continued her tour period I saw her in Los Angeles in Dec. 1975. It was her Depression tour. She still was doing the Divine miss him, but she was wearing sloppier clothing. It was to promote the release of her Songs for the New Depression album, which was when she started getting rid of the Divine Miss M persona, which she never really ever totally gave up. Then they released Live at Last which was recorded in Cleveland as part of this tour. I wish they had recorded the clams on the Half Shell show, or her run at the Palace. She never has completely given up the Divine with some persona, even on her TV special she opened it with Oklahoma popping out of a clamshell. Unfortunately, she did kind of homogenize her music at times, but she does have a lot of really great music. Melissa Manchester only did one album with her and then went on her own. She's one of my favorite singers of all time.

@@lamusiclover2264 I’m glad you still enjoy her. Once she became as vanilla as the acts she used to mock, I abandoned her. The palace was great, clams started the costumes and productions, but still great entertainment. Her club tour, which I saw at a packed Copacobana, was also wonderful. Very intimate, like her old cabaret performances, which I’ve only seen in the RU-vid video of miss m at the baths. Divine madness was pretty good, too, but when I saw the idiotic costume for chapel of love, I knew Miss m was gone. Detour was fun at radio city, but all the naturalness was missing. Skipped everything after that, but had to see what she would do with dolly. $140 to find just what I expected. To be fair though, Channing was dolly. Saw a few dollys and it only works well with Channing, though I think ellen green could do it justice. Enjoy Bette Midler, I’ll stick to the divine miss m.

@@mzmiller52 Yes the club show was great here at the Roxy in LA which is posted on here. If you don't like her anymore, why are you watching her videos?

@@lamusiclover2264 I like everyone’s gone to the moon, here comes the flood, stay with me, broken bicycles. I just think she lost her sense of fun and spontaneity that created the legend. Plu I think manilow directed her singing voice and style early on, and she couldn’t find a voice or style. She said Hennessy used to tell her to remember the joy. I think it became work and performance when she went mainstream.

I still have ALL her shows on VHS🥰

Divine Grace absolutely correct. Before all the ridiculous productions, professionally written lines by vilanch, lousy direction, and terrible musical direction. Let’s face it Barry manilow and bill Hennessy created a legend and Bette Midler killed her off.

Cause J-lo ?????...It's Not ! As🙄 TALENTED ???????

lacking that Kind/type of talent--she's more a dancer/singer

She is the BEST!!!

That wasn`t Barry. That was Liberace. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. :)

I do thanks! :) It´s from a DVD I purchased some years ago. Glad you like it. There is just so much Bette stuff already on RU-vid and I only wanted to upload the things from my collection that weren´t available online.

@@MrJoko2812 I really prefer the concert's version of Favourite Waste Of Time. It's bright, happy and disco-y. The album version on No Frills is down a key and the tempo drags, and sounds like early 80's pop/new wave/anything-but-disco. Your version here has a couple of skips in the song. Someone else posted the song here from the VHS. And of course, the dancers and costumes are magic.

Everybody copied Bette midler's shows. She was actually the first performer to turn a show into a Broadway production with choreography and sets.

James McCulloch & Nick Gilder

@@roughbookeu Txs for writing. I should hv searched it on my own. Grateful for yr. time & sharing!

Art or Bust

The tour was called De Tour. I was at 3 different shows of that tour in 1983. I still have the tour books that they sold during the concerts. The HBO special was called Art or Bust. I have the VHS of the show.

Why don't you crap on Gaga as well? Has voice but no creativity nor imagination.

Мадонна без голоса и таланта? Тогда ты без мозга.

Well !!!👎 DON'T!!!!!

@@raymundoyanez3282 í didn't. Thanks for the suggestion. I found a better recording

Whatever--not a fan, huh? Is Ok

@@mega1breezy How and where?!