Official 6/14 San Diego Meetup/Review Thread

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Welcome to the Official 6/14 San Diego Meetup/Review thread. This thread is to discuss anything leading up to the show, as well as all reviews.

Let's hear it !!

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Check out my thread in Main about how somehow it's set up as an In the Round show on the ticket broker websites....

I also see they're having this at SDSU.... My memory is a little blurry, isn't there another arena other than SDSU that replaced the 'ol San Diego Sports Arena ??

Brings a tear to my eye just mentioning that place, that was the scene of my VH show in 1984 and it's literally two blocks from where my co-workers all work....

[DaveTheScott]

Well, there's Cricket Wireless Amphitheater (used to be Coors Amphitheater)...Sports Arena is still there and still has shows, surprisingly...Gaga was there back in the summer.

I also have seen the center-of-house stage you're talking about...hope its not the case.

Waiting to get tickets - for San Diego and Anaheim.

[python3]

Got this Spanish flyer at the Paul Dianno show Friday night at the Black Box in Tijuana.

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[Romeo Delight]

Giddeup?

[BenJammin]

Giddeup?

Seems people here around SD are a bit detached, or at least when it comes to this thread.

[python3]

Check out my thread in Main about how somehow it's set up as an In the Round show on the ticket broker websites....

I also see they're having this at SDSU.... My memory is a little blurry, isn't there another arena other than SDSU that replaced the 'ol San Diego Sports Arena ??

Brings a tear to my eye just mentioning that place, that was the scene of my VH show in 1984 and it's literally two blocks from where my co-workers all work....

Sports Arena is Vallew View Casino Center. Viejas Arena (formerly Cox Arena) is SDSU.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Right....

I also saw Ratt/Fastway at SDSU's "ampitheater" in '84 as well....

[Top Jimmy]

This is the arena , not the amphitheater....& at SDSU it's a wierd one..

They built it inside the old concrete football stadium,
so on the outside as you walk around, you can see the old stone bleachers..

It looks like they made the arena somewhere else
& dropped it by helicopter right on the 50 yard line..

kinda surreal..like walking around some new building on top of an ancient ruin...
(in the middle of drunk ass frat-town college-world...)

Also, the seating is a lot more vertical than a normal sports arena, wicked angle to it....

GREAT sound though, from what I recall...
(sorry to say I was there originally for a 'concert' by The Wiggles...)

Speaking of the amphitheater there though,
that's where I saw Dave for the first time, opening for Bad Company..

finally saw Halen for the first time that year too, (albeit with Gary) at the Del Mar Fair...
DLR won that round....to me, having been raised on the original band..VHIII seemed...odd...
turtle-neck sweaters on a Van Halen stage...bleh...what is this the Bee Gees?

Dave's show in 1999 kicked my ASS, first time seeing Ray Luzier on drums too, what a monster player..

They opened for Bad Co, and I felt sorry for Bad Co, let me tell you...
Dave had everyone, not just standing UP, but standing ON THEIR SEATS the entire time,
opened with Hot For Teacher too, how's THAT for a big opening?

Paul Rodgers was the only saving grace for Bad Co...his voice was FLAWLESS.

but Mick Ralphs looked like a tourist in a bad hawaiian shirt and was LOST,
like he couldn't remember his own riffs,
(and these are BAD COMPANY riffs, it ain't like Dream Theater, only a few chords, right?)

...Boz, the bassist was dressed in Safari googles, with a man-purse over his shoulder...wtf?

now that I think about it, maybe they dipped into Dave's blow,
cause they were just wierd that night...

I saw the current Halen lineup in San Diego at Cox Arena,
(where they're playing next week)
on the 07/08 tour and man THAT kicked ass...
although LA was way better, that tour..

funny thing about that show..during the breakdown of Panama,
after the music drops down and he is supposed to start with 'it's gettin a little hot tonight..'...etc..

Dave forgot what song he was in,
& started into the post-breakdown segment of Aint Talkin Bout Love
(if you want it got to BLEED for it baby!!!)

ROFLMAO

looking around at the other guys with a 'why aren't you with me' look,
until actually Wolf comes over and talks in his ear...

so Dave mans up and say 'well I fucked that ALL up didnt I? yeah!!!!"

This show coming up should be a good one..
I just saw Vegas, but I might go hit the parking lot for some cheap tix,
since I live only 40 minutes away

[python3]

Is anybody else going tonight?

[mh5150]

Is anybody else going tonight?

Nope not me cause I am on the east coast

[Catfish]

I'm so pissed off. About two months ago I totally degraded myself by boning an ex-girlfriend who lives down in SD. Then she told me she has a Budweiser hookup that could score us SD tickets. So I further degraded myself by boning her again. No tickets. I even went down on her

[Top Jimmy]

next time wait till SHE cums, not you...then you might get somewhere...
how ya been , Cat??

I was going to go to this show, but the funds are too low...

Saw the Vegas show, and was a little let down by the vocals,
so wasn't gonna make a big push to see this one..

Since a few friends are going, maybe I'll change my mind last minute...

I suppose I could take some of my current 'harvest' & go hit the parking lot for a trade...

[Catfish]

Been good, dude!!! Nice to see ya.

I was at that same '99 DLR show at the open air arena at SDSU. GREAT fucking night. You nailed it: DLR really blew BC away. And it wasn't BC's fault. Just different types of rock and energy. A very fond memory.

[Catfish]

next time wait till SHE cums, not you...then you might get somewhere...
how ya been , Cat??

The whole thing was pretty awkward the second time around. Knowing VH tickets were on the line--and, of course, I was horny as fuck--I banged her despite her being on the tail-end of a rag session. This bothered me. But I did it on the floor with her laying on my secret Rag Towel that I keep around. I flipped it over so she wouldn't see this huge wicked blood streak left by one of my exes a few months prior! I feared that may have offended her. Fucking nasty shit!!!

[Va Beach VH Fan]

So we're all meeting up at the Body Shop, then heading over to the Sports Arena to watch Autograph first, right ??







Oh sorry, just had a 1984 flashback, pardon me.....

[sadaist]

So we're all meeting up at the Body Shop, then heading over to the Sports Arena to watch Autograph first, right ??



Oh sorry, just had a 1984 flashback, pardon me.....

Not that far fetched. Place is still there.

http://thebodyshopsandiego.com/

[Sensible Shoes]

I'm so pissed off. About two months ago I totally degraded myself by boning an ex-girlfriend who lives down in SD. Then she told me she has a Budweiser hookup that could score us SD tickets. So I further degraded myself by boning her again. No tickets. I even went down on her

Has there been a divorce we don't know about?

[BenJammin]

So we're all meeting up at the Body Shop, then heading over to the Sports Arena to watch Autograph first, right ??


Oh sorry, just had a 1984 flashback, pardon me.....

Damn Va... you provoked a flashback in my head too ! I know you are a former squid like me... The Body Shop was the first strip club I ever went to, straight out of boot camp !

Remember it like it was yesterday [almost].... $6 orange juice wasn't it (had to go to the bar next door for beer) ? There I was in my dress blues, a naked hardbody blonde California stripper right in front of my stupid grinning face... I was in heaven!

[BenJammin]

next time wait till SHE cums, not you...then you might get somewhere...
how ya been , Cat??

I was going to go to this show, but the funds are too low...

Saw the Vegas show, and was a little let down by the vocals,
so wasn't gonna make a big push to see this one..

Since a few friends are going, maybe I'll change my mind last minute...

I suppose I could take some of my current 'harvest' & go hit the parking lot for a trade...

Hey Top Jimmy... I'm sitting here thinking about pushing the buy button on a couple of tickets, one for the trade [wink wink]. I had some neighbors interested but they backed out, so I'm not wanting to go stag. So if you don't smell too bad or fart too much... how about it ? I'm in Oside.

[edit: not a cop or queer so relax]

[Top Jimmy]

Les Girls & The Body Shop has been a rite of passage for
SD County youth (& soldiers in boot camp on thier first weekend pass)
for decades!

You start at Les Girls cause you can drink...
but it's only topless and that shit wears off after the first 2 drinks,
so you go next door to The Body Shop after building up a good buzz

...or for those with older brothers in-the-know,
you got drunk in the car upon arrival and went straight to The Body Shop

Buzz starts wearing off, don't want to pay Les Girls prices to get the buzz going again,
and besides once you go full-nude, you don't want to go BACKWARDS to topless only..

So, if you had balls, you went down to TJ at this point, just 20 minutes down the 805, and hit up the strip clubs there....
for what you might call a more 'interactive experience', lol....

WAY cheaper drinks and you can put those dollar bills anywhere on/in her that you want.

Hell, for a $50, you could go to a bar on one o fthe side streets, like the Fuzzy Catterpillar,
and get some poon-for-pay going, too!

Ahh...glorious youth, so fleeting!!!!

[Catfish]

Has there been a divorce we don't know about?

LOL, oh yeah!

[Top Jimmy]

Hey Top Jimmy... I'm sitting here thinking about pushing the buy button on a couple of tickets, one for the trade [wink wink]. I had some neighbors interested but they backed out, so I'm not wanting to go stag. So if you don't smell too bad or fart too much... how about it ? I'm in Oside.

[edit: not a cop or queer so relax]

don't care if you're a cop, this is Cali and my papers are on point...
and don't care if you're queer 'cause I'm only into asian transexual hookers with flat heads and no teeth...and a bungee basket...

but seriously, folks...

I'd love to take you up on the offer but at this point in the day I'm on lock down.

Got little man till just late enough to make it too late to catch the show...and that always comes first, ya dig?

[Top Jimmy]

but go anyway, man, if you haven't caught the tour yet, you'll regret it...

it's a =VAN HALEN= show &
that's better than anything else out there right now

[Top Jimmy]

.....

[BenJammin]

It's all cool. Party on with the little feller ! I know how it is... 8 & 10, and the 8 yo never shuts up. Was kinda starting to feel old and tired like "what the hell am I doing going to a VH concert on a Thursday?" immediately after I posted anyway.

I mean what the hell is that? Your only San Diego venue and it's booked on a fucking Thursday? Great for people that have Friday off for whatever reason, but jeez.

[Momshell]

Hey everyone - too late here on the east coast. To the lucky folks there - have a kickass time! To all my internet buddies - I'll miss enjoying the show with you all!

[Angel]

***crickets chirping***

[fourthcoming]

OK.....so it's 9:30 pm Cali time as I type this.....and nothing? No knock on Cali but you guys show up in the 3rd inning of baseball games and leave in the 7th......is it that laid back on the left coast? Does anyone have any type of care in the world out there?......lol.....or is this just a San Diego thing..........and yes I'm jealous if it's that laid back and I'm here in cut-throat N.Y.

[jhale667]

First glance at Twitter is a hater...

RE http://bit.ly/M9WF8X

[jhale667]

[mug]

Wow no report.

[Angel]

Haha! "@ChunkFat: David Lee Roth is staring right at @em_la_ma and she is denying it. Feel privileged."

[Angel]

Guess she can't deny it now, lol:

"@tonymanolatos: David Lee Roth in the middle of Pretty Woman stops and says, "I was looking at this girl in the front row and I forgot the words." @VanHalen"

[python3]

Toastmaster Fuckin General! Everything was spot on tonight. Dave mentioned towards the end of the show, maybe during Panama that it was one of the better shows of the tour. I was avoiding spoilers before I went Tuesday, so don't know if he says that often. Chinatown was most definitely not butchered. It was Tuesday, but don't know what that fuckstick was talking about tonight. Same setlist as the other 3 SoCal shows, so no surprises there. I was 12th row center on the floor, and the crowd was great. Band was tight, and enjoying themselves, and the Diamond one was on top of his game. A great night all around.

[Momshell]

Not many YouTubes yet - here's Eddie's solo - sound is good and if you squint real hard you might be able to see Eddie!

[Momshell]

Unfortunately that's all for now - too early I guess.

[loucap81]

This was the setlist per the Links, no surprises:

Unchained
Runnin' With the Devil
She's the Woman
Romeo Delight
Tattoo
Everybody Wants Some!!
Somebody Get Me a Doctor
China Town
Hear About It Later
Oh, Pretty Woman
Drum Solo
You Really Got Me
Trouble With Never
Dance the Night Away
I'll Wait
And the Cradle Will Rock…
Hot for Teacher
Women In Love
Beautiful Girls
Ice Cream Man
Panama
Guitar Solo
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Jump

[ELVIS]

I guess Mexicans don't like Van Halen...

Either that or they had to get up early for work...

[Va Beach VH Fan]

I only spent about a year in San Diego in the '80's, but I've always thought that L.A. had the "Mexicans are everywhere" view more than San Diego....