Official 4/10 Sunrise Meetup/Review Thread

[SNIPER]

I'm here but just stalking. Me Wise Magic ?? Hmm. Don't belive it. Would be cool if they tried it.

Yeah, Our buddy from Guadalajara must have been at the show tonight.

[VAiN]

Great show!! Terrible cell phone reception though.. No MWM, not sure what that was about. We got HAIT and Outta Love.. Dave sounded so good! None of the rasp that's been hounding him lately. Very clean. This was very much a no bullshit show.. They rolled through the set. Dave skipped the dog intro to ICM.. He just wanted to rock.
A funny moment was during Women in Love, the band forgot to play the solo! Dave realized it, told Eddie to play the solo then told us 'I forget the words sometimes.. I've been drinking!'
So much fun!

[Light Em' Up!]

Posted by:krez5150 on vhlinks
Some quick highlights.
Band sounded great! The mix was pretty damn good and it usually sucks in that arena

DLR stopped the show during the drum intro for hot for teacher to complain about the blowers and how it's fucking up everyone's voices so he got the crowd to yell at them to stop the blowers

Took a while to get dlr on stage for ice cream man. Was fussing around with his guitar cable. Dog video started and he said "I don't want to do this shit I just want to play ice cream man! Cut the dog video and put me on screen!" he also didn't draw out the "guaranteed...... To satisfy" outro

During panama at the break after the solo dlr walked off stage and didn't do the the whole "I can barely see the road..." spiel. Just came back and went into the buildup for th chorus.

After ain't talkin bout love dlr said "I dont want to get off stage, you guys want th encore now?" and went straight into jump.

Overall I think the show was great but Dave looked kinda upset after the blower incident. Looked more like he was upset at some technical fuckups backstage.

[So this is love]

Great show!! Terrible cell phone reception though.. No MWM, not sure what that was about. We got HAIT and Outta Love.. Dave sounded so good! None of the rasp that's been hounding him lately. Very clean. This was very much a no bullshit show.. They rolled through the set. Dave skipped the dog intro to ICM.. He just wanted to rock.
A funny moment was during Women in Love, the band forgot to play the solo! Dave realized it, told Eddie to play the solo then told us 'I forget the words sometimes.. I've been drinking!'
So much fun!

They really played hear about it tomorrow? lol

[Light Em' Up!]

Got this set list from links page...don't know if it's accurate. I'm sure Vain can clarify it if needed...

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
(Roy Orbison cover)
Drum Solo
You Really Got Me
(The Kinks cover)
The Trouble with Never
Dance the Night Away
I'll Wait
Hot for Teacher
Women In Love
Outta Love Again
Beautiful Girls
Ice Cream Man
(John Brim cover)
Panama
Guitar Solo
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Jump

[sob33316]

Vain....glad to hear i wasn't the only one with crappy cell coverage!

The band was awesome!! Dave was going off big time about the "blowers"....starting to wonder if this is real. He actually left the stage to keep yelling after he asked once. The place was on it's feet the entire show. I was wondering if that would happen after hearing other reports. The crowd was in to it and the band was also!

I got to see HAIL for the first time ever in person! I loved it!!

Going to bed....gotta get up early!
out
(no me wise magic)

[Seshmeister]

Dying to know what the Me Wise Magic tweet was about

Troll.





Setlist

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
The Trouble with Never
Dance the Night Away
I'll Wait
Hot for Teacher
Women In Love
Outta Love Again
Beautiful Girls
Ice Cream Man
Panama
Guitar Solo
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Jump

[sob33316]

Looks like what i saw tonight!

Got this set list from links page...don't know if it's accurate. I'm sure Vain can clarify it if needed...

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
(Roy Orbison cover)
Drum Solo
You Really Got Me
(The Kinks cover)
The Trouble with Never
Dance the Night Away
I'll Wait
Hot for Teacher
Women In Love
Outta Love Again
Beautiful Girls
Ice Cream Man
(John Brim cover)
Panama
Guitar Solo
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Jump

[vandeleur]

Love when they play hear about it later

[TJMKID]

Dog video started and he said "I don't want to do this shit I just want to play ice cream man! Cut the dog video and put me on screen!" he also didn't draw out the "guaranteed...... To satisfy" outro

During panama at the break after the solo dlr walked off stage and didn't do the the whole "I can barely see the road..." spiel. Just came back and went into the buildup for th chorus.

Oh oh ---- back from a week off and Dave is already in "let's blow through the set so we can go home" kinda mode.

Doesn't bode well considering they got a busy 2 month schedule ahead of them ;-(

[vandeleur]

Sounds like the blower thing gets him pissed

[SNIPER]

Sounds like the blower thing gets him pissed

Drunk or mad?

[FALCO]

Hey all... just got to work... let me gather my thoughts and will have a review shortly...

\m/ \m/

[vandeleur]

[VAiN]

They really played hear about it tomorrow? lol

Ha! That's great! Yay beer!

[VAiN]

Oh yeah, the blower rant was epic. Best one of the tour so far. The show definitely moved along pretty quickly with little to no talking in between songs.

[chi-town324]

i mean can every arena have a blower problem? both shows in Chicago at different venues...now tonight again? ....ummm

[VAiN]

i mean can every arena have a blower problem? both shows in Chicago at different venues...now tonight again? ....ummm

I agree.. Odd indeed. He definitely makes it sound like they told them before the show. This is the first time Dave actually stopped a song though. It was at the beginning of HFT tonight.

[vandeleur]

Vain you said daves voice sounded good so there seems no need to blame blowers if he was struggling with his voice

[FALCO]

Hey all... ok... from what I have read so far in the quick reviews ... seems all is correct... NO Me Wise Magic or any real surprises... Hear About It Later was back (my favorite song, so that rocked!!!)

The band hit the stage and the (mostly) sold out crowd was into it... and Unchained set the tone (perfect opener)...

Very energized and just a great band!!!

Dave sounded VERY strong... he still butchered (in my opinion) Dance The Night Away, Beautiful Girls (some ridiculous nasally voice, like the Downtown Sessions) and the choruses of Chinatown (although he toyed with a lower register in verse/bridge parts and it sounded good) ... I also don't like the way he goes high in the chorus of Hear About It Later as opposed to doing the root note... but I know I'm being picky since I sing...

That being said (and I've mentioned this before) there is really NO reason for Dave to be hacking these songs, as he is singing them way higher than they were originally intended and if he just stayed in his natural tone and melody they would ABSOLUTELY KILL...

I say that because he SANG THE FUCK out of I'll Wait and Women In Love and his voice sounded absolutely killer... I'm sure once the YouTube vids come up there will be more critical analysis... but I thought overall Dave really benefitted from the break... he was strong and held a few long powerful notes... even some of his yelps were quite strong and I even heard a 'classic' Dave (short) scream in Ain't Talkin' Bout Love ... he was very animated (in the first half pre-blower incident) and slipped on the dance floor a few times and dropped his mic stand also... but he just kept on motoring and being the legendary frontman that he is!!!

The part about Dave saying he forgets the words in Women In Love was actually because Eddie fucked up the song!!! It was quite funny as he was supposed to go into the solo and he kept singing the chorus!!! The camera was on him and on the big video screen you could see him look over to Dave and Wolf and clearly mouth "I fucked up" and then just started laughing... that is when Dave said the "go to the solo... No big deal, I forget the words all the time" ... had EVH's back!!! Very loose and cool and quite funny... actually, the band seemed like they forgot a few things during the break, but it really made the show a bit more natural and not "robotic" ...

The backing vocals were strong, Wolfgang Van Halen is a fucking killer player (can we PLEASE END the Michael Anthony whining already) and Alex Van Halen is just a monster...

I don't even know what to say about Edward Van Halen except this - Edward Van Halen ... really that is all one has to say... completely mind blown as to the EVH we are getting to see today... shredded shredded shredded...

The blower incident really set Dave off!!! He did stop Alex in the middle of the intro to Hot For Teacher and really went on a rant... and I have to admit, as much as I thought it was part of the "schtick" like "I forgot the fucking words" (which Dave did NOT do tonight) the blowers were REALLY blowing... we had club seats and were freezing ... I know how much that can fuck with your voice while trying to sing and DLR totally lost it... which set a much quicker pace from that point on... he definitely was set off and left the stage about 3 or 4 times to really let somebody have it... they eventually DID stop blowing...

He did compose himself to announce after EVH's great solo "The winner and still champion - Edward Van Halen!!!"

Was funny watching EVH do the wierd foot sliding thing DLR does on the dance floor a few times... although I didn't see a 'Flying Eddie' tonight (unless I missed it)...

They extended the Dance The Night Away breakdown part so Dave could talk about the Latin influence on the song (since he was in South Florida) and told quite a hysterical story about the Latin community in California when they first wrote the song and they played it every night and the dances the different types of Latins would do during the song... I'm sure there will be video... was definitely a comedic moment and the band was riding it!!!

I was with 3 other people (all VH fans) and we all had a great time... as I feel did the entire venue!!! Really good reaction!!!

Ok... that is it off the top of my head...

For all the South Florida VH fans, my cover band 'The Smokin' Aces' (www.Facebook.com/TheSmokinAces) will be at Murphy's Law @ Hollywood Hard Rock This Friday and next Friday (11pm) and downtown Ft. Lauderdale @ Dicey Riley's this Saturday (11:30pm) ... we do a few classic VH tunes as well as 60's - today!!! Check out the Facebook page for all our Photo Albums from each gig... it is quite the MADNESS when we play!!!

\m/ \m/
FALCO
(The tattooed shaved headed guy with the 'Van Fuckin' Halen' T-Shirt on tonight!!!)

[VAiN]

Vain you said daves voice sounded good so there seems no need to blame blowers if he was struggling with his voice

Dave really sounded great all around tonight.

[sob33316]

Dave really sounded great all around tonight.

i concur

[sob33316]

Vain,

did you and john have fun in the box? how was the pre-party at tiki?
I didn't get off work til almost 6....sorry i couldn't make it by.

[Dan]

Bring On The YouTubes.

[vandeleur]

Yeah I wanna check out daves Latin story

[sob33316]

Yeah I wanna check out daves Latin story

It was funny....he was showing how all the latins danced in their club days.

[Momshell]

ICM (does not include Dave saying to forget the dog intro )

[Momshell]

I'll Wait

[Momshell]

ATBL

[Momshell]

RWTD

[Momshell]

Still no DTNA that I can find. Dave sounds good in those vids, from what I can hear.

[Momshell]

No Women In Love either - looking forward to that - sounds like it was a pretty funny moment!

[Va Beach VH Fan]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertai...,5496095.story

Concert review: Van Halen at the BankAtlantic Center, April 10, 2012

The storied rock band revisited its past, while closing the book on a less-than-great portion of it.
2:14 a.m. EDT, April 11, 2012

A Van Halen fan doesn’t need a reason to forget the name Sammy Hagar, but the reconstituted version of the band that played last night at Sunrise’s BankAtlantic Center offered plenty of them, anyway, and certainly no less than 22, the combined number of old and new songs the group performed in a bracingly loud, fleetingly nostalgic set that topped two hours. With original frontman David Lee Roth back at the microphone, Van Halen did its best to close the 28-year gap between “1984,” the last album the band cut with Roth before replacing him with the aforementioned Hagar, and “A Different Kind of Truth,” the surprisingly solid reunion album it released earlier this year. It didn’t play a single song from its post-Roth era.

Gone were any visible traces of the divisions that drove Roth away from and out of the band all those years ago, and if the singer’s nonstop smiling and wild-eyed mugging often appeared more mannered than genuine, his interplay with guitarist Eddie Van Halen, who seemed to be enjoying himself as much as any member of the audience, came off as warm and jovial, even brotherly. Only the absence of founding bassist Michael Anthony, who departed in the mid-2000s and who has been replaced in musicality if not in spirit by Eddie’s son Wolfgang, suggested any evidence of previous disharmony. But it was faint. And save the deep, riverlike lines made visible in the face of Alex Van Halen whenever he appeared on the large video screen behind the band, the preternaturally stoic drummer looked the same as ever.

Opening with “Unchained,” from the band’s 1981 album “Fair Warning,” the group quickly dispensed with the idea that the audience was in store for a typical reunion show, with all its attendant celebrations of past glories and starkly present reminders of fading abilities and eroding relevance. Sure, Roth’s roundhouse kicks don’t reach as high as they once did, and his flowing mane of blond hair has long since been replaced by a short, preppy ’do. And yes, he can no longer drop into a split without calling attention to the fact that he’s not too old to drop into a split, but last night, Roth lived up to his Diamond Dave moniker, glittering in matching black leather pants, vest and jacket, worn over a sparkling blue shirt that would make half the performers in Las Vegas blush. Although his style and demeanor have been widely imitated, Roth has always followed his own blueprint, a hard-rock frontman whose belt is crafted with as much Borsht as vinyl, and a sex god who isn’t afraid to appear mortal. He remains the genre’s preeminent ham, and only late in the show, when he interrupted Alex Van Halen’s drum intro to “Hot for the Teacher” to deliver an expletive-laden tirade against the stage crew for failing to properly control the temperature of the overhead “blowers,” did he allow any cracks to appear in his facade. It was an awkward, uncomfortable moment, the low point of the show, and it took the band two songs -- the deep cuts “Outta Love Again” and “Women in Love” -- before Roth was able to regain his composure and lead the Van Halens through a rollicking version of the classic sing-along “Beautiful Girls.”

Of course, Roth’s star is inextricably linked to that of Eddie Van Halen, the inventive, phenomenally gifted guitarist who has his own legions of acolytes and imitators. But even during songs as familiar as “Runnin’ With the Devil,” “Panama,” “Hot for Teacher” and the group’s cover of Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman,” Van Halen looked and sounded as if he’d only recently discovered his remarkable talent, that goofy, can-you-believe-I-can-do-this grin plastered to his weathered but still boyish face. Twice during his requisite, yet astonishing, late-set guitar solo, he gave the audience -- and himself -- a reflexive thumbs-up. Likewise, his fist-pumping enthusiasm during the night’s penultimate song, “Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love,” was redolent with charm. The effect for the audience was akin to rooting for an underdog who long ago became the leader of the pack.

The show ended, to no one’s surprise, with “Jump,” a trifle of a song from “1984” that also may have been the original lineup’s biggest hit. The song’s trademark keyboard riff was piped in from somewhere off-stage, but that didn’t seem to matter much. As the band struck its final note, and as Roth sang his last lyric of the night, the front half of the arena was blanketed with a hail of red and white confetti, shot forth from two large cannons near the front of the stage. It rained down in thick clumps, with Roth standing on the edge of the stage and manically waving a red-and-white checkered flag. The show was over. The race with the past had been won.

[vandeleur]

Cheers for the vids momshell

[vandeleur]

It can be hard to tell on the vids on an iPhone but daves sounding good to me on those

[VAiN]

No Women In Love either - looking forward to that - sounds like it was a pretty funny moment!

It really was.. I thought maybe it was just me, then I noticed the look between Dave and Eddie. Just a classic moment. Loose and fun. I hope this show turns up on DVD as well.

[vandeleur]

Hopefully a YouTube will turn up of women in love

[VAiN]

Vain,

did you and john have fun in the box? how was the pre-party at tiki?
I didn't get off work til almost 6....sorry i couldn't make it by.

Always a good time! Whats not to love about a tiki hut? Stayed there till about 8. Walked in to the suite and VH was on about 10 min later..

[Seshmeister]

Hopefully a YouTube will turn up of women in love

Probably safer not to Google that from work...

[vandeleur]