How many of you actually have seen Van Halen live?

[walterswoodman]

MONSTER OF ROCK tour: EVERYBODY else SUCKED when faced with a YOUNG & HUNGRY METALLICA!!!! NEAR FUCKING RIOT!!!

Yeah, I agree even the band I was dying to see DOKKEN, Big George
Lynch Fan, even sucked but Metallica blew them all away.
the crowd got into a , Taste Great Less Filling Chant War,
PA says the "yellow shirts are here to help you" about that time I see
a huge black security guard in a yellow shirt tackle a mullet, in stlye
then, made us real nervous.
Monsters of Rock 88 sucked, even though I kinda liked Kingdom Kome
Memphis Tn,

[walterswoodman]

Oh Yeah! not to mention the paper cup fight before the Scorpions,
by the way everybody thougt the Scorpions were lipping,
I believe there just that good.

[keith2]

I saw them @ Monsters of Rock - Donington 1984 - BLEW ME AWAY!
DLR Hammersmith Odeon 1988 - BLEW ME AWAY!
DLR - Donington Monsters of Rock 1988 - BLEW ME AWAY!
DLR - Peterborough UK 1991 - BLEW ME AWAY!

VAN HAGER - Sheffield 1993 - I STILL TO THIS DAY WAKE UP SCREAMING.

If DLR joined VH again i would travel to the US for a few shows.
Anybody in the UK up for it?

This site ROCKS!

[Nitro Express]

1980 1980 Invasion Tour
1982 Diver Down Tour
1984 1984 Tour (Had backstage pass )
1988 OU812 Tour (Arrested for public drunkeness and was hauled out of the venue by the police.)

[Terry]

St. Patrick's Day, 1984 Providence RI. One of two sold out dates (when Van Halen could still sell out an arena for multiple nights)

Tickets were around $13, give or take a buck either way.

Autograph opened.

Was the biggest non-stadium production I'd seen up to that point.

Dave did a lot of onstage raps that night. Ed took a long guitar solo. So long that 10 minutes into it people were yelling for the band to "PLAY SOME FUCKING SONGS!!" Although they were doing the same thing when Dave was rapping with the audience too.

Biggest applause of the night was when Dave held the mic out to the audience. People were going ballistic.

Roth also said something about the show being filmed, and there was a girl in our high school who claimed she could be seen jumping up in one of the Panama video audience shots (sitting next to the guy who looked like Weird Al Yankovic), but apparently she was bullshitting, as someone told me the Panama footage was taken at the Philly Spectrum.

[frenchie]

i saw them in 1984 in England
i saw david lee roth in 1988 in france (skyscraper) with amazing band
i saw van hagar in 1993 in france
i saw david lee roth in 1991 in england
i saw van hagar again (i know, everybody makes mistake) in 1995 in germany
i saw the sam and dave tour in your wonderful country call USA

[guwapo_rocker]

Originally posted by Nitro Express
1980 1980 Invasion Tour
1982 Diver Down Tour
1984 1984 Tour (Had backstage pass )
1988 OU812 Tour (Arrested for public drunkeness and was hauled out of the venue by the police.)

Tell us about your backstage experience.

[Louden]

I saw VAN HAGAR in 1995/1996? in WERCHTER (BELGIUM) - they were opening for Bon Jovi and only played for 1 hour...can you f**king believe this ?

[guwapo_rocker]

If they stick with Spammy they will be opening for

Olivia Newton John on the Australian leg of the tour.

[ULTRAMAN VH]

Saw them in March 1984, AWESOME show. They opened with my favorite song UNCHAINED. Great stage show, great music. 2 years later out of curiousity, went to see them with Hagar. No stage show, left early due to intense feelings of sadness and boredom.

[Carmine]

never saw real VH. Saw the EEAS smile tour 4 times, Skyscraper tour 4 times, ALAE twice, saw Dave open for Bad Company in 00. Did see Van Hagar this year in Albany, and am going to CasinoRama on Nov 4th to see Dave...

[Matt White]

Originally posted by guwapo_rocker
If they stick with Spammy they will be opening for

Olivia Newton John on the Australian leg of the tour.

I don't think Olivia would stoop that low Guwpao-rocker!!! Maybe Rikki Martin will take them over seas!!!!!


DAVE OR THE GRAVE BABY!!!!

[ZahZoo]

Saw em on every tour 78 - 85 until Dave bailed...

[Carmine]

Originally posted by ZahZoo
Saw em on every tour 78 - 85 until Dave bailed...

you are a lucky man!! there are probably not to many who can say that.

[Bill Lumbergh]

Let's see, I've only posted this about 700 times .........San Francisco 1984.........like Terry said, one of my endurining memories is that it seemed like the band was hardly all on stage together at one time.