The 2002 Sam and Dave Tour -- Who Saw It? And Is It Considered ...

[joe d'amato]

... an important solo dave tour amongst the hardcore dlr fans?

... it was an excellent double bill and it was quite a milestone to see king diamond dave and sammy playing on the same stage on the same night ...

[Whiteflag]

Fuck off young man!

[sadaist]

I saw it at Glen Helen Pavilion in San Bernardino...same place US Fest 83 was. I thought it was an important tour for any Van Halen fan to see. Whether a fan of Roth, Hagar, or both. From what I could tell from the crowd, the people were fans of both eras. People sang aloud to almost every song from both frontmen/eras.

Dave opened & was amazing. Sammys stage setup seemed a bit more elaborate. Not sure if that was because he was the headliner that night, or maybe his big screen monitor just showed up better because it was dark for most of his set, and daylight for Daves.

Sammy put on a good show. You could tell he was giving it everything he had because he knew he was up against the ultimate competition.

Must see show for any hardcore Van Halen fan from either era. How often does something like this ever happen? There aren't many bands that have been successful with 2 singers, and for them to tour together after all the shit....amazing. Brought out the best in both performers I thought.

Dave clearly won the show I attended...with both performance and song selection. Sammy got a lot of cheers as well, but by then people were hammered from drinking along with Roth for 1 1/2 hours.

If I remember correctly, Roth also did much better in the merchandising during the tour. Although the Roth tent didn't have as much variety as the Hagar tent. Quality, not quantity as they say.

The only downer from the whole night was Michael Anthony coming out for a couple songs with Hagar. Would have been epic had he come out with Dave for a few tunes. I wonder if those 2 ever talked at all or bumped into each other during that tour.

[ace diamond]

I saw it at Glen Helen Pavilion in San Bernardino...same place US Fest 83 was. I thought it was an important tour for any Van Halen fan to see. Whether a fan of Roth, Hagar, or both. From what I could tell from the crowd, the people were fans of both eras. People sang aloud to almost every song from both frontmen/eras.

Dave opened & was amazing. Sammys stage setup seemed a bit more elaborate. Not sure if that was because he was the headliner that night, or maybe his big screen monitor just showed up better because it was dark for most of his set, and daylight for Daves.

Sammy put on a good show. You could tell he was giving it everything he had because he knew he was up against the ultimate competition.

Must see show for any hardcore Van Halen fan from either era. How often does something like this ever happen? There aren't many bands that have been successful with 2 singers, and for them to tour together after all the shit....amazing. Brought out the best in both performers I thought.

Dave clearly won the show I attended...with both performance and song selection. Sammy got a lot of cheers as well, but by then people were hammered from drinking along with Roth for 1 1/2 hours.

If I remember correctly, Roth also did much better in the merchandising during the tour. Although the Roth tent didn't have as much variety as the Hagar tent. Quality, not quantity as they say.

The only downer from the whole night was Michael Anthony coming out for a couple songs with Hagar. Would have been epic had he come out with Dave for a few tunes. I wonder if those 2 ever talked at all or bumped into each other during that tour.

i was there too. i completely agree with your review of the thing.
just 1 thing i wish to add is that hagar's hometown of fontana is just a few miles down the I-15 and I am relatively certain that, being as it was
a more or less hometown show for sammy, his family and friends were there.
i saw sammy nov. 1,1997 at cal state university, san bernardino and he played for almost 4 hours with no opening act.
he was telling stories about banging his first chick in the mountains right near the college, and other such things.
i had to walk home after the show, i lived in muscoy on the corner of kern and duffy at the time, so it wasn't a long walk.
either way, as sammy's car was leaving the parking lot, he saw me, rolled his window down, and asked me if i needed a ride.
i told him "no. i'd rather walk home"
needless to say, it did not take me long to get home after that show.
back to the 2002 devore show with and , dave kicked sammy's ass like a red headed step-child.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Oh for Christ sakes, it was a night to get fucking blitzed and yell at Hagarita....

At least that's what it was for Pojo and I in Raleigh....

We were fucking hammered by the time Dave headlined, had a great time....

[ELVIS]

I was there at The Gorge...

Dave went on first and half of the people went back to our RV's during the Spam - Cabo infomercial...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

hagar opened in phoenix. he had a little more crowd interaction what with the bleachers on stage and all, yet roth sounded better and sang everything we wanted to hear.!

[POJO_Risin]

Oh for Christ sakes, it was a night to get fucking blitzed and yell at Hagarita....

At least that's what it was for Pojo and I in Raleigh....

We were fucking hammered by the time Dave headlined, had a great time....

Agreed...remember talking to the fucking Hagar fans at the start...that old broad and her toothless boyfriend? No shit, she was this used up, 50-year-old, scratchy-voiced ho-bag, with a 35-year-oldish, toothless, redneck, mullet-headed boyfriend. Boy did they love Hagar. We come back out, and sitting on my car is this used up napkin (god can only wonder what they used that for) that said, Hagar kicked Roth's ass!!!!!

It was apparent that they had left before Dave performed.

I wish I had a picture for them...it would have been a hell of a concert poster for Hagar.

Many good memories from that show. Hotdog and a Shake sitting in front of us. I can't remember what brought us to the conversation, but he started talking about the Roth Army, not knowing who we were...pretty funny stuff.

He was there with his girl, and if I remember correctly, dancing to Hagar. Didn't we punch him at some point? What people will do to get laid.

I spend 90% of the Hagar show facing the back of the amphitheater, yelling rampant profanities. I seem to moderately recall walking out during the set with Michael Anthony and talking to Santa Claus. There was some Santa-Claus looking guy with David Lee Roth pins sitting at a picnic table by the beer stand. He said this was the 40th or 50th time he'd seen Roth. I asked him where his sleigh was.

Va spent the majority of the Hagar portion of the show engaged in timely conversation with the young asian goddess to our right. It got so bad, that her boyfriend (yeah...just like VA) actually had to move them away. You could see the longing in her slightly slanted eyes.

All-in-All...a damn good time indeed...

Christ Va...hard to believe it was eight years ago...

[Seshmeister]

Saw it at Tampa, Roth was on first even though it didn't fit with the turn about pattern which pissed me off.

I stayed for a bit of Hagar's show, partly to review it for here, partly to make sure I caught his eye to call him a prick but mainly because I was absolutely convinced that there was no way the onstage bleacher of mainly female Hagar fans could last holding that amount of weight.

Hat's off to Hagar's crew, that was a fucking serious bit of structural engineering. If they had done the twin towers history could have been very different.

It's funny to think that back then I managed to get 2 second row tickets from an 'Agency' for $100 which seemed like an insane amount to spend at the time...

[POJO_Risin]

Saw it at Tampa, Roth was on first even though it didn't fit with the turn about pattern which pissed me off.

I stayed for a bit of Hagar's show, partly to review it for here, partly to make sure I caught his eye to call him a prick but mainly because I was absolutely convinced that there was no way the onstage bleacher of mainly female Hagar fans could last holding that amount of weight.

Hat's off to Hagar's crew, that was a fucking serious bit of structural engineering. If they had done the twin towers history could have been very different.

It's funny to think that back then I managed to get 2 second row tickets from an 'Agency' for $100 which seemed like an insane amount to spend at the time...

Damn Sesh...wish I would have gone to that show...I remember that I was playing with the idea...but had already bought tix for the Charlotte and Raleigh shows...and my broke ass couldn't do it at the time...

[Seshmeister]

I nearly missed it. I was sitting in the hotel bar and an urgent call came in over the tannoy for Mr Seshmeister.

A Roth Army poster had phoned the hotel to warn me Roth was on first.

If I'd known in advance I would have been at one of the SC shows, I just sat a couple of weeks before counting out the days with a map in front of me working out where I could get to where I thought he would headline.

It didn't matter that much in the end but the place was only 2/3 full at the start of his set.

[Guitar Shark]

I was there at The Gorge...

Dave went on first and half of the people went back to our RV's during the Spam - Cabo infomercial...

Holy shit - WTF were you doing at the Gorge? I was there too... ended up sitting next to FORD of all people!

[ThrillsNSpills]

Holy shit - WTF were you doing at the Gorge? I was there too... ended up sitting next to FORD of all people!

wow, what are the chances?

probably the same as Ace getting struck by lightning 4 times.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

wow, what are the chances?

probably the same as Ace getting struck by lightning 4 times.

in one night

[Terry]

I suppose it was an important solo tour in the sense that Roth was co-headlining large venues again (the last extended series of concerts he gave prior to that were in 1999/2000, and those saw him as an opening act for such bands as Bad Company), and this raised his visibility far as media attention went...probably the highest it had been in terms of general interest since 1996, as outside of the diehard fans most people really didn't even pay much heed to his autobiogaphy or the DLR Band cd releases.