Here and Now VHS
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"Richard Pryor: Here and Now" is a 1983 Columbia Pictures VHS release of Pryor's third theatrical concert film, shot live at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans. The Saenger performance captured him at a particular inflection in his career: post-"Live on the Sunset Strip," post-the fire, post-the freebasing confession, and newly sober. That context is baked into the material on this tape, and any Pryor collector who has run through the concert film sequence knows it.
By 1983, the concert film format had become Pryor's sharpest platform. "Richard Pryor: Live in Concert" came out in 1979 and redrew what stand-up on film could do. "Live on the Sunset Strip" followed in 1982, filmed at the Hollywood Palladium, and included the extended bit about the freebasing accident that made national news. "Here and Now" arrived the following year, Columbia backing a third entry in what had become a legitimate theatrical run for stand-up comedy. The Saenger Theatre itself matters: a historic New Orleans venue on Canal Street, built in 1927, with the kind of room sound and audience energy that registers on a VHS transfer even through the generational tape noise. Pryor on Bourbon Street on the cover is not incidental staging. The New Orleans shoot was intentional, and the city's presence in the film is real.
Bourbon Street at two a.m., Pryor live on tape, no edits, exactly the cut that played art houses.
This copy comes on standard VHS cassette in the original Columbia release clamshell. The cover art shows Pryor mid-stride on Bourbon Street in a gray suit and red shirt, Columbia's 75th Anniversary badge printed at the lower right corner of the case, which dates the packaging production to 1983. Pre-owned condition, as you would expect from a tape that is now in its fifth decade of shelf life. Check the tape window on the cassette housing: ribbon should sit flush with no slack, which tells you the tape has been stored flat and has not been partially wound through and left mid-reel.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm the 1983 Columbia release year against the 75th Anniversary badge on the lower right corner of the clamshell.
Bourbon Street at two a.m., Pryor live on tape, no edits, exactly the cut that played art houses.
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