Setlist (from Rock and Metal news guy on YouTube)
Unchained
RWTD
STW
Romeo
Tattoo
EWS
SGMAD
Chinatown
HAIL
Pretty Woman
AVH solo
YRGM
The Trouble With Never
DTNA
I'll Wait
HFT
Women in Love
Outta Love Again
Beautiful Girls
ICM
Panama
Eddie's solo
Jump
didn't mention ATBL before Jump - imagining it's a mistake?
Stay Frosty!
THE DAY IS DONZO LET'S HAVE SOME FUNZO!!
Yawn....
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/201...march-15-2012/
Van Halen with Kool & the Gang, Bell Centre, March 15, 2012
Well, yer semi-good-lookin’… Amazing how an old ho can look like Liz Taylor in the right light.
It doesn’t even take much make-up or hair extensions. Just the appreciation bred by the years, for the band that was Bigger-est and most carny, most SuperBowl, Most American of its crotch-grabbing yahooing era, the ’80s. And now, this time.
Don’t get me wrong – despite all that writing of a New Grace in a recent column, David Lee Roth remains a hooting Vaudevillian, his band a hard rock boom-bah parade candy coating a kind of genius center. But burnished by the fondling hands of time, Van Halen offered their own kind of truth to a crowd ready to celebrate.
Ah yes. The VH had been unlikely from the get-go, with a smart Jewish baton-twirler fronting hard rockers and the dominant instrumentalist of his period, a guy with a smile of bliss and an atomic talent he put to the service of songs about stocking lines running up the back of a chick’s legs. So there was nothing unlikely about opening act Kool & the Gang cheering a surprisingly full quotient of the 9,000 partyers expected with Jungle Boogie, Ladies Night, Get Down On It, and Celebration.
Then with zero fanfare, Alex Van Halen’s drums were bathed in nuclear yellow, DLR was stride-waddling in leatherish pants, and Eddie Van Halen was cranking into a slower version of the Unchained that used to open their shows at warp speed, on a borderless stage, with the entire back wall taken up by the b&w screen. Simple. Clean. Perfect.
Eddie stuck close to home – his pedals and mic – for most of the evening, allowing you to concentrate on the sounds and be reminded of the illicit thrill of his virtuosity and bag-o-tricks. The Horse whinnied in Runnin’ With the Devil two songs in, the Elephant blared, all the stop-time whammy-bar dive-bombing, and the gargantuan riffs.
Dave didn’t have anything to say – kidding, he never shut his yap, about his sheepdogs and cattle dogs and pickup trucks and “Little Elvis” – that was actually pretty funny, joking about a sex tape “nobody wants to see” and 180-ing with “No, in 1982, I was f*****’ good – Little Elvis was in the House that whole tour!” Thereby solving the ancient psyche riddle: you can be self-deprecating and aggrandizing, in the very same minute. Beware the Prides of March. Vocally, he was in fine bray throughout. He was… loveable. But he didn’t have anything to say about the VH reformation. That was handled last go-round, in 2007-8.
And he needn’t have said anything about the Meaning of the VH. You were pointing your ears at it, at a band that has reconciled itself to what it is and must be. Yes, DLR and this Van Halen that couldn’t be more Van Halen with three VHs in it, belong together.
Tattoo drew a big cheer from the crowd. Everybody Wants Some drew a bigger one, bookended with Somebody Get Me a Doctor in the early highlight. After the crazy intro to China Town, Pretty Woman and You Really Got Me, you saw the new songs would slow nothing down. Not when The Trouble With Never was setting up Dance the Night Away. I’ll Wait for the girls, the sonic roman candle of Hot For Teacher for everyone. You realized you’d been pulling for Eddie, and needn’t have – he was in top form and complete control in those fretboard calisthenics, and seated on the steps for Eruption, and unleashing the riff to Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love.
Cue Dave solo with an acoustic guitar and his charming ranch tales. “Who likes dogs here?” Really? It’s been a long winter, with its unexpected trials. You figured you were entitled to this. Panama let the dogs out, and Thursday night on the Ides was Saturday night in mid-July.
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
In other words, a Chickenshit/Spamalot fan.Originally Posted by ALMOSTsaved
My karma just ran over your dogma.
Damn! LOL - ok, let's try this again:
Romeo's Delight:
Unchained / RWTD:
Panama:
no blower rant? Montreal was ROBBED!
Writing In All Proper Case Takes Extra Time, Is Confusing To Read, And Is Completely Pointless.
Link To The Rest Of My Pics
http://s119.photobucket.com/albums/o...en%20Montreal/
HAHAHAHA! Wish I could thank you 100 x's just for this pic alone!
“Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”
No Need.... I Loved Every Minute Of The Show!
HAHAHAHA! Wish I could thank you 100 x's just for this pic alone!
Dang shooter...you got some good pics. Thanks for sharing!
what he saidDang shooter...you got some good pics. Thanks for sharing!
fuck your fucking framing
No Prob, Thats What Its All About!
Dave knew THE FUCKING WORDS !!
Hali fuckin' loo yah!!!
This is the BEST clip of the tour I've seen so far!!!
Fucking awesome !!
I've listened to a few recent shows and was also surprised that Dave hasn't been "forgetting the fucking words"... even to China Town.Dave knew THE FUCKING WORDS !!
Hali fuckin' loo yah!!!
is that dave directing the camera to show the ladies
fuck there rocking ....they sound tight , dave's trying to lasso woman ... everything is right with the world
just watched the she's the woman youtube from last night hope alex laughed when dave spat water at him
Will say a few things right off the bat, so I dont get slammed, although I'm sure I will....
I am here on and off, and try to keep up with the latest threads, so if this topic had been posted before, well there ya go......
Just watched Fletch's video of -Sunday afternoon in the park / Romeo Delight and holy fuck- that was so kick ass I cannot even put it into words, I hope a better video comes out where the camera is not so far away, I am still blowen away and with watch it again now for the 10'th time.....
Diamond Mafia Forever - 4. To restore fullbug to the prominent place in this board, after various serious attacks by hitch1969 have now damaged his reputation and now is reguarded as a "Retarded, Stoned, Canadian, Dog finger bangin' fuckup"
This is the BEST clip of the tour I've seen so far!!!
Fucking awesome !!
Indeed! Fucking just kick ass.
Those pics are going up on the Roth Army Facebook page, I say....
Damn you lucky canucks - what a show! =VH= is bringing it! After the overly choreographed '07/'08 tour, it's great to see Dave finally getting to be himself. Sure wish we could see the babe in the front row that caught Dave's attention during Romeo Delight.
WOW!!! What an amazing show/party last night....Just trying to recover, I partied like in the 80's but with todays body, damn that hurts... NO Regrets... Dave was Dave Eddie was Eddie and it was a blast last night....
Now who`s that babe with the fab-u-lous shad-ow?
Yes indeed this was a fucking awesome show. Thank you Eddie for blowing my mind.
I just watched the Hot For Teacher video from this show.
Dave... please don't that anymore... very uncool.
Go back to throwing chocolate in the crowd.
Holy shit. I must agree.
Dave sounds really good on this one...
That was great. He was riding like a chopper. I think it was during SGMAD. Awesome show.
Agreed. They did a great version of that one. It was cool to hear all the stuff from VHII even though HEH or Full Bug would've been super sweet. No complaint here. They played a kick ass show.
In Al's direction but from my angle it was still a couple of feet away from the kit.
Classic!Dang shooter...you got some good pics. Thanks for sharing!
From me too!!! Love the one with Dave on the drum and Eddie and Dave hugging - awesome!!
Thanks for this one - everytime I see a video of them opening with Unchained I literally get the chills!!
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