The Way They Were: VH Live In Fresno, 1979

[chefcraig]

From the opening night of the second VH World Tour, Selland Arena - Fresno, CA - March 25, 1979. This is the same video that made the rounds of television in the days before MTV broke open.

Van Halen Live in Fresno, 1979 (10:15)

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[Va Beach VH Fan]

That dude at the end with the beer always cracks me up....

[GAR]

WOW I never seen this before! VH2 is my favorite record..

[Carloscda]

I guess I would be to much like right to to release all their classic footage from back then remastered on DVD?!

Talk about making millions..

[Seshmeister]

In a couple of weeks time this will be 30 years old...

[Cato]

the location is wrong. this was filmed in Rochester or somewhere.

if you have the boot "Live and Loud" which was recorded in Fresno on 3/25/1979, compare the audio tracks. then you can find the difference...
great footage indeed, though.

access the video directory and check out the real Fresno video that Nick posted.

[chefcraig]

the location is wrong. this was filmed in Rochester or somewhere.

if you have the boot "Live and Loud" which was recorded in Fresno on 3/25/1979, compare the audio tracks. then you can find the difference...
great footage indeed, though.

access the video directory and check out the real Fresno video that Nick posted.

It's the same footage.

The David Lee Roth Army - Van Halen - "Fresno 1979" three songs

[David Lee Rocks]

In a couple of weeks time this will be 30 years old...

thats right!! I remember goin to the store to buy this, and i wore the thing out, i loved it, great memories!!

[Diamondjimi]

Ed's tone is killer here.
His tone today is absolute shit. It sounds like he has 5 Boss distortions linked up...shite...

[Cato]

It's the same footage.

The David Lee Roth Army - Van Halen - "Fresno 1979" three songs

sorry, my bad. it's also wrong. I thought Nick would never make an error at this kind of thing.

here's the real one.

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I have this footage on DVD. Dave says "Tonight is the first nght of the second world tour...." in it.
I'll capture that part and show you it later.

[Cato]

just uploaded it. VAN HALEN playing On Fire in Fresno, 3/25/1979.


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[chefcraig]

That is neat, and thank you for providing this. Damn, I researched that pretty poorly looking back. I simply took the Youtube poster's date as fact, then checked to see if it was real by looking at the VH Bootleg site. It never occurred to me that the content would be wrong.

Great find, and good work!