Fuck, does everything have to be about ethnicity with you?Originally Posted by ELVIS
I guess Mexicans don't like Van Halen...
Either that or they had to get up early for work...
Fuck, does everything have to be about ethnicity with you?I guess Mexicans don't like Van Halen...
Either that or they had to get up early for work...
"Ya know what they say about angels... An angel is a supernatural being or spirit, usually humanoid in form, found in various religions and mythologies. Plus Roth fan boards..."- ZahZoo April 2013
I'm trying to be diverse...
Okay, since my bromance with Top Jimmy didn't work out, I decided to go it alone and man was it f'in awesome !
I've been bummed a little from the youtubes but as others have said, there's nothing like being there. There is definately magic happening on that stage. True, Dave had his usual speed bumps vocally, but nothing stopped me from grinning ear to ear and whooping it up the whole time.
I was on the floor, stage left and there was this little cutey by herself too that was really digging the show and dancing next to me all night and felt like I was 25 years old again (no I didn't get all 'old pervy guy' on her so no one start cringing).
I kept yelling 'ARMY ! ARMY! ' but none of you fuckers were around my seats and I didn't notice any RA shirts... so people probably just thought I was a drunk loon... I was, but anyhow....
I haven't been to a concert like that in ages and I'm really glad I decided to get my old ass up and down to SD and I would suggest if you feel any hesitation about seeing them you better get the stick out of your butt and do it!
The only rough spot of the evening for me was waiting to get out of the parking garage. We were all stuck in place for like 20-30 minutes when someone a few rows or levels away from me started beeping their horn and I started beeping back which soon escalated into kind of a dueling banjos thing. I was having a great time and it sounded like my distant co-conspirator was too, but then this dude has to come over and tell me how irritating I'm being. I told him sorry he didn't know how to have a good time and we were stuck anyway so might as well make the best of it and asked him "were you not just at a VH concert?" but told him I'd try to settle down so he could go back to being old again. But then my troublemaking 'buddy' hornblower started up again and I couldn't resist! So then the dude's group sends over this big red headed girl to again tell me how irritating I was being. I proceeded to make her my friend by telling her how beautiful and large her breasts were. I got a few laughs from her, but her tampon fuse was still pretty lit. It looked like they were plotting my death from across the garage, lol !
Anyway, sorry for the parking lot horn story, but I guess everyone already knows how awesome VH is on this tour so why go on about that? But this was a once in a lifetime kind of thing and you better not miss it.
Last edited by BenJammin; 06-15-2012 at 10:12 AM.
So you did take my advice... hahahaha!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
Appears the whole state has gone that direction...
Flew into San Jose a couple of years ago and jumped into a rental car. Cranked the radio and had to hit seek 7 times before I got a non-Spanish speaking station.
"If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”
Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee Roth
Good choice Ben. I did have an Army shirt on, but was on the right side of the center floor section. I saw one other Army shirt on the beer line after Kool And The Gang.
People don't get what life is like out here. There is lots to do out here and more entertainment options that anyone could imagine. To say nothing of VH fans, but every single show of every single tour goes through here multiple times. It's not as big a deal as when a band goes to, say, Moline or Arkansas. As for showing up at games late, that's all about traffic. Ever seen 7 lanes jammed at 7:30 p.m.? As for leaving early--I got no defense for that
Last edited by Catfish; 06-15-2012 at 01:20 PM.
Too bad I didn't see any RA members, that would have been really cool on top of everything else. I quit looking for the shirts after awhile, I was losing my freakin' mind watching the super heros from my youth right there in front of me still doing their thing. I think that's about as close to a time machine as I'll ever get. I probably came across as some sort of middle aged jackass, but there was nothing getting between me and the good time I was having... but boy do I feel it today
Dave is killing it!
Something about DTNA & San Diego. best versions the entire tour both in 2007 & 2012
“Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”
Dave's on fire in those clips!! Same goes for the rest of the band!! And yes, San Diego really is as great of a town as you've heard...Better, in fact. Go check it out, on a Friday night. Go downtown, park your car and you won't believe how many people are out walking around and how much there is to do. Spent most of my teenage summers there and a few years in the mid 90s. If you can't have a good time there you might as well walk out into the ocean and keep on going.
American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
I have been there 4 times. Love Old Town. Lot's to do in S.D. Pacific Beach is awesome. Band sounds good.
Yes! Man - I simply had no idea where Dave was taking DTNA from the start, but it keeps getting better and better...
Loved that version!
Last edited by Zing!; 06-16-2012 at 12:11 AM. Reason: Fucking Evylyn.
My karma just ran over your dogma.
I just about had a plane booked to one of 5 shows in Socal...I am holding out for the next leg instead...Hope it comes
Roth Army Canada
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/...page=1#article
Van Halen rocks anew at SDSU concert
Armed with new album, '70s hard-rock kings return
Written by
George Varga
5:13 p.m., June 15, 2012
Updated 10:14 p.m.
Here’s a surefire way to get a rock concert audience hot and sweaty before the music even begins: Turn off the air conditioning system!
That is precisely what Van Halen did Thursday night at SDSU’s Viejas Arena. The move, apparently enacted as a voice-saving measure by lead singer David Lee Roth, has also been applied on other stops during the hard-rocking band’s latest reunion tour.
“I know Dave has been having problem with air conditioned buildings, so he has it turned off when he comes in, and he doesn’t change in (the venue’s) dressing rooms — he changes in his (tour) bus,” Kool & The Gang leader Robert “Kool” Bell, whose band is the energetic opening act on the tour, told U-T San Diego during an interview last week.
The result, at least at Viejas Arena, was that Van Halen and its audience shared in a temperature-raising experience that was alternately generated by the performance and by the increasingly warm setting.
When the music soared, as it did during such potent new songs as “Tattoo” and “China Town,” and during such combustible classics as “Runnin’ with the Devil,” “Everybody Wants Some,” “Panama” and “Ain’t Talking ‘Bout Love,” hot, sweaty fun was the order of the night. When the show plodded, as it did during Roth’s momentum-killing, mid-song, stream-of-consciousness gabbing on “She’s the Woman,” “Trouble with Never” and “Dance the Night Away,” cooler temperatures (and, perhaps, some free ice) would have been welcome.
The 24-song, 100-minute concert marked Van Halen’s first area appearance since its 2007 reunion tour stopped at the same SDSU venue (which was then known as Cox Arena). By comparison, and even with its periodic, Roth-fueled pacing problems, Thursday’s no-frills, nearly all-business performance was a dramatic improvement.
Five years ago, guitarist Eddie Van Halen did not appear to be in good shape, physically or artistically, and the band stumbled repeatedly. Worse, the audio quality of its 2007 concert here was so muddled and deafening, it often sounded like the music was emanating from the world’s largest hybrid dual-blender-and-vacuum-cleaner. To further compound matters, Eddie’s then-16-year-old son, Wolfgang, had just joined the band. He had replaced the ousted Michael Anthony, and he was doing all any teenager could to try and keep up.
With Eddie Van Halen now clean, sober and newly buff — and his two bouts of cancer happily behind him — he sounds (and looks) like a man reborn. Wolfgang, 21, has developed into a confident, rock-solid bassist capable of executing fleet unison runs with his dad and playing with punch and power.
While Wolfgang still can’t match the departed Anthony’s vocal prowess, his harmony singing is much improved over the 2007 tour. He also locks in much better with the propulsive drumming of his uncle, Alex Van Halen, who Thursday played with a winning combination of ferocity and agility as he navigated around a massive drum set that would fill an entire living room in the average home.
The fact that the band is now touring in support of a new album — its first with Roth since 1984 and the group’s first new release since 1998’s disappointing “III” — has given Van Halen a welcome new lease on life, creatively speaking. This holds true even though a number of the songs on the new album, the 13-track “A Different Kind of Truth,” were written back in the 1970s and look back, rather than ahead, stylistically.
Essentially, “Truth” is a place-holder, at least until Van Halen can work up a batch of bona fide new music. But the album enables the four-man band to move beyond simply revisiting decades-old hits, as it did on the 2007 tour. As an added bonus, Van Halen’s current tour finds the group digging into some deep early album cuts, which at Viejas Arena included 1977’s “Ice Cream Man,” 1979’s rollicking “Somebody Get Me a Doctor” and 1981’s “Unchained” and “Hear About It Later” (the latter of which boasts an infectious, pop-rock chorus with a distinct, mid-period Beatles flavor).
Not all the songs worked. “Dance the Night Away” seemed to be going in several directions at once, prompting concertgoer Gordon Wilcox, 49, to comment: “This is a train wreck.” It was, although there’s something endearing about seeing a veteran band uncharacteristically skid off the tracks and then regain its bearings.
Eddie Van Halen performed with verve and pinpoint precision throughout the evening, executing dizzying six-string swoops and bluesy bends one moment, quicksilver flurries, chiming accents and jaw-dropping tapping the next. His unaccompanied solo opus, which (if my ears didn’t deceive me) combined parts of “Cathedral,” “Little Guitars” and the epic “Eruption,” was a dazzling delight that sounded fresh and vital from start to finish. At times, it suggested what might have happened if Johann Sebastian Bach and Jimi Hendrix had somehow fathered a son together.
“Eddie’s a master, he’s the Mozart of the guitar,” Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready (a former Del Mar resident) told me during a recent U-T San Diego interview after attending Van Halen’s Seattle concert last month.
“I went (to the Seattle show) with Eddie (Vedder) and (Alice In Chain’s) Jerry Cantrell, and I watched Eddie (Van Halen) in awe. I like the new Van Halen album and I wasn’t expecting to. It sounds like the old Van Halen.”
That it does, although Roth — at 57 — can no longer hit the high notes with consistency. On Thursday, his vocals grew more pitch-challenged as the show progressed. While he appeared trim and fit, his energetic showmanship from earlier decades has diminished significantly, although his perpetual leer remains intact.
Recalling Van Halen’s 1982 tour, Roth told the Viejas Arena audience of about 9,000 fans: “That was a good year. I think I only had my clothes on for the two hours we were on stage, if I remember. I was a sexy... Is it too early to make a booty call? Never too early. Never too early.”
Um, no, but maybe a bit too late?
Like his periodic crotch-grabbing, a little of Roth’s patter went a long way. His longest monologue came between “Beautiful Girls” and “Ice Cream Man.” It lasted five minutes, but seemed to stretch on twice as long. Nearly all of it was devoted to Roth plugging his most recent non-musical gig as “a professional dog handler,” as footage of he and his dogs, Benny and Mikey, was shown on the enormous LED screen at the rear of the stage. His band mates were nowhere to be seen, perhaps wisely, as Roth professed his love for his dogs and his three pick-up trucks at length.
It’s impossible to say whether this canine-inspired segment was designed to boost Roth’s new vocation, give Van Halen’s other members a breather before the concert’s final five selections, or both. Whatever the impetus, it brought the concert to a total standstill at precisely the time when the band should have been kicking into high gear for a volcanic, wham-bam finish.
The concert concluded 27 minutes later, with Van Halen having to work to regain the lost momentum before finishing with “Jump” and enough confetti for the launching of a new ocean liner. Despite its flaws, the concert’s best moments were strong enough to suggest that Van Halen’s future could hold considerable promise, if the band doesn’t implode again. Here’s hoping "A Different Kind of Truth" is the start of a rich new musical chapter, not the conclusion.
Which fucking concert did this reviewer go to ? First of all, the a/c may have been off, but I couldn't tell. I was on the floor though, maybe it got a little hotter in the nosebleed sections, but seriously I didn't even break a bead of sweat. How could anyone be there and not enjoy that show ?
"With Eddie Van Halen now clean, sober and newly buff " well he might have not been playing as good in 2007, but physically he's a little pudgy now, not buff, and I thought he looked pretty good back in 2007, and wasn't that tour delayed for his rehab before they got back out on the road? Another clueless comment.
"[on DTNA] prompting Gordon Wilcox, 49, to comment: “This is a train wreck.” - Goddammit you could have found thousands of people there to say overwhelmingly positive things about the show, but you decide to print a Gordon 'Who the Fuck am I" Wilcox quote ?
"It’s impossible to say whether this canine-inspired segment was designed to boost Roth’s new vocation..." well Dave would be more successful at that than this guy will be as a writer. And besides, if you don't like that personal moment that a legendary entertainer wants to share with his adoring fans... go grab a beer and take a piss and jerk off to thoughts of Sammy while at the stall.
Just another douchebag wanna-be but never-was writer .... 'nuff said.
Last edited by BenJammin; 06-16-2012 at 11:07 AM.
So which is it dude? Don't like them rehashing decades-old songs or you do? Typical idiot writer. They write sentences they think sound like great journalism, but don't pay attention to what they said in the very sentence before.
Aaah memories, pic I took sometime in '84....
Gotta love that Pinto in the foreground......Aaah memories, pic I took sometime in '84....
I'm Stayin' Frosty!
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