Great White March 1988 late night TV performance 2 songs

Great White performs two songs in a Late Show TV broadcast from March 1988. EDIT: We just now discovered how rare this clip is, the program had fired their high profile host Joan Rivers and thus the show was dropped from a lot of stations before this broadcast with the final of many "guest" hosts. Not only had many of the stations carrying the show dropped it, but this ep was only broadcast on the east coast -- it was pre-empted elsewhere by breaking Iran-Contra news programs, and of course none of these shows were ever rerun. The show was cancelled around 6 months later. A lost Betagem, to be sure! The BetaGems channel also has "Great White 1-29-88 late night TV performance" and "Great White 1-22-90 Shrine Auditorium L.A.."

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded between from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads.

In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.