History Main / DressRehearsalVideo

* Music/{{Queen}}, "Bohemian Rhapsody", "You're My Best Friend", "Somebody to Love", "We Will Rock You", "Spread Your Wings", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Play the Game", "Another One Bites the Dust", "One Vision", "Princes of the Universe", "I Want It All", "The Miracle", "Headlong", "These Are the Days of Our Lives", "No-One But You".

* Many of Music/{{Journey}}'s early videos like "Wheel In The Sky" are of them on a soundstage.

** Music/{{Heart}}, "Barracuda"

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[[caption-width-right:350:Let's see... A giant stage with lots of lights? Check. A band performing to an empty audience? Check. A super macho HairMetal music video? Triple check!]]

* Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's ''Fanfare for the Common Man''. Live performance in a stadium; three people surrounded by organs and keyboards, no audience, no effects, no crew, and seemingly in the middle of winter.

* Music/GunsNRoses : "Paradise City" -Zigzagged , in that the video starts this way, then builds on the band setting up and cuts between them performing with and without an audience. Lots of "offstage" shots that get the sense of a touring band round out the footage.
* Music/{{Kiss}}, "I Love It Loud", "Forever"

* Music/{{Whitesnake}}, "Here I Go Again", "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City"

* Almost all the videos from Music/{{Queensryche}}'s ''OperationMindcrime'' album feature, amongst the concept footage, the full stage set-up the band was using at the time, including wall-sized projection screens. It's especially notable when watching the videos back to back; they all seem to look the same.

* Most of Music/{{Nile}}'s music videos have been this, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44jRUTKDLYI "Execration Text"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09dFfqdVDi0 "Sacrifice Unto Sebek"]].

* Music/ImagineDragons' video for "Gold" just has the band performing against some fancy lighting effects.

* Music/{{REM}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBS6N1k4FsQ "Turn You Inside Out"]] draws attention to the non-live nature of the performance, showing tech people and breaks, and at one point allowing Michael Stipe to turn the camera upside down.

* The video for indie band The Shannon Lyon Pop Explosion's song "Mods Rule" was meant to look like a performance. The kicker is that the video was shot during the day in a local club, with about 30 of the band's friends pretending to be the "audience." This allowed the band to repeat the song and re-set the cameras for various angles as many times as necessary to get the "authentic" feel of a performance.

* Some parts of Music/BloodOnTheDanceFloor's Bewitched and Believe.

* Music/GunsNRoses : "Paradise City"

* Lillian Axe's "Show a Little Love"

Examples:
* {{Kiss}}, "I Love It Loud", "Forever"

* Whitesnake, "Here I Go Again", "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City"
* Most of Poison's repertoire
* Almost all the videos from {{Queensryche}}'s ''OperationMindcrime'' album feature, amongst the concept footage, the full stage set-up the band was using at the time, including wall-sized projection screens. It's especially notable when watching the videos back to back; they all seem to look the same.

** Music/{{Heart}}, "Baracuda"
** DefLeppard, "Hello America"

* {{Queen}}, "Bohemian Rhapsody", "You're My Best Friend", "Somebody to Love", "We Will Rock You", "Spread Your Wings", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Play the Game", "Another One Bites the Dust", "One Vision", "Princes of the Universe", "I Want It All", "The Miracle", "Headlong", "These Are the Days of Our Lives", "No-One But You".

* The band Music/{{Metallica}} filmed a back-up video for their first ever music video, "One", of them performing the song in an empty warehouse in the event that the mash-up version of the song (which incorporated a ten minute long abridged edit of the movie ''JohnnyGotHisGun'', whose novel served as the basis for the song "One") was banned by MTV. However, MTV greenlighted airing the mash-up video for "One", and the "jamming" version of the song was ultimately included on video with the mash-up version (as well as included on the Metallica music video DVD collection, as an extra).

** The only one that leaps to mind for this troper is "All My Life". "No Way Back" uses regular concert footage, along with various random video clips from their touring misadventures.
*** "All My Life" is notable in that it is only confirmed to be a Dress Rehearsal Video at the end. They never show the crowd, but the video is made to assume the place will fill with time. It doesn't.

* About half of Music/{{Linkin Park}}'s music videos.

* {{Kiss}}, "I Love It Loud"

* VanHalen, "Jump", "Panama", "When It's Love"

** Heart, "Baracuda"

* PinkFloyd's ''Live at Pompeii'' takes this to extremes -- it's a full concert movie (interspersed with interviews and behind-the-scenes footage in the special edition), only without any audience at all.

* I'm Not Okay by My Chemical Romance has footage of a performance involving flashy lights, wind machines and tricksy camera angles... and turns out to be taking place in a garage.

* Metric's "Gimme Sympathy" has a fun twist on this - the singer begins singing while in her dressing room putting on clothes, and then walks out onto an empty stage (with full lights and effects playing) and joins the band who has already started the song. Then whenever the camera focus on one bandmember, the others all swap places an instruments while off-camera.

* BonJovi's "Livin on a Prayer" has the first half of the video in black and white showing prep/rehearsal for a gig, the second half in colour showing the actual performance in front of the audience.

* Limp Bizkut's video for "My Way" plays this trope a bit literally, with the concept of the video being that the wardrobe people want to try different costume ideas to see how it works. The video constantly cuts between the band as 50's lounge singers, {{Badass Biker}}s (DrivingADesk no less), and being cavemen. PlayedForLaughs.

** "The Pretender" is this to a T, just the band performing in an abandoned warehouse. Except they're just too awesome so the CulturePolice show up. [[SurrealMusicVideo Then the wall explodes.]]

* Limp Bizkut's video for "My Way" plays this trope a bit literally, with the concept of the video being that the wardrobe people want to try different costume ideas to see how it works. The video constantly cuts between the band as 50's lounge singers, {{Badass Biker}}s (DrivingADesk no less), and being cavemen. PlayedForLaughs.

* Limp Bizkut's video for "My Way Or The Highway" plays this trope a bit literally, with the concept of the video being that the wardrobe people want to try different costume ideas to see how it works. The video constantly cuts between the band as 50's lounge singers, {{Badass Biker}}s (DrivingADesk no less), and being cavemen. PlayedForLaughs.