Official 3/5 Philadelphia Meetup/Review Thread

[vandeleur]

Damn ...we gotta choose

[chefcraig]

Boobs or Van Halen?

Damn ...we gotta choose

No contest. You can grope and slobber over a VH album anytime you wish. A spectacular set of knockers? Not so much, particularly if you wish to remain employed.

[SNIPER]

I am super stoked with the live footage from this show. It seems VH is kicking major fucking ass. They are gonna be even more fucking scary in the weeks to come!! Good times! ...And if I was DAVE I would have my shirt off just for the ladies.

[DLR Bridge]

YOu like 'em for what you like 'em for and us girls like 'em for what we like 'em for.

Van Halen. Something for everyone as per Diamond Dave himself.

[AndyChad]

Closure!

Just got back from Philly.

I'm from the UK, unless you saw the legendary Sabbath Tour (and most who say they did are lying!)
you didn't get a chance to see the mighty VH until Donington 84 (yes I know about the Hammy Odeon gigs, we don't all live in London).

Anyway, Donington was Cartoon VH, we wanted soooooo much to luv 'em, but it just wasn't there.


Tonight, i finally saw the MIGHTY Van Halen (sorry MA) and they fucking rocked the house. Dave was ON, Eddie? Wow. Alex and Wolfie - great.

It was everything i'd ever dreamed about... except for the crowd. WTF Philly? I live in Brasil, if VH had played that way in Brasil there would have been an earthquake. In Philly, a bunch a guys drinkin' beer and some drunk women trying to remember which year it is.

Sorry to the loyal fans who were there and rocked out, but damn it wasn't a great crowd!

VH rocked the house. I'm so glad i went and i look forward to AC.

Not true, they toured here in '79 and '80.

[Mr Walker]

Any chance of a Lou sighting? What the fuck Philly? Show is in 8 hours and this thread is still only one page?

I'll be damned... Lou taped the show... it's up on dime

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=396554

[Jagermeister]

I'll be damned. Wonder why he put it up at dime. Not that I care.

Due to some financial difficulty, I honestly wasn't sure if I was going to make this show until evening of the show itself. But in the end, I love Van Halen too much to skip a VH show in my own backyard. So I swallowed hard and bought a ticket at 4 PM that day off StubHub for slightly under face value. I'm glad I went. It was a great performance with a killer setlist. They seem closer knit as a band than they did on the 2007-08 tour.

As for the recording itself, I had the usual allotment of low-class assholes to contend with and I did the best I could under the circumstances. You can hear said assholes on the recording at times. Given where I was standing I'm a tad disappointed with how this came out--I was expecting more separation of instruments--but it's still a decent recording nonetheless.

There will not be a 16 bit version. I don't have the interest in doing that so any one of you can take it upon yourselves to do that and upload it to Dime, no need to ask me. Really you can do whatever you want with it without asking--mate it to a DVD, upload as mp3 files on guitars101.com, etc. I can't stop you anyway and I stopped caring about such things a long time ago.

Finally, a shout-out to the former DDLR crew who will be at the Buffalo show on Friday March 9th. I wish I could make it but I definitely can't. I'll never forget what a great time I had 4-1/2 years ago and I wish you all the best.

[Seshmeister]

Anyone converted it to mp3 yet?

Ah to be fair just noticed he has calmed down/grown up about that...

[Seshmeister]

I'll be damned. Wonder why he put it up at dime. Not that I care.

Well he wasn't going to put it up here after all the abuse he used to get.

[Jagermeister]

I'm on it should have it by tomorrow.

[Dave's PA Rental]

Can you put it in JTTwhen you get it?

[Jagermeister]

Can you put it in JTTwhen you get it?

Yeah good idea. I need to get my ratio up.

[Zempi]

No video but a couple pics..

Sorry I don't know how to make these attachments full size here...Enjoy




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[Zempi]

Camera ran out battery so only got a few.

[sob33316]

Boobs or Van Halen?

Can't we have both? Isn't that part of what VH is about....sex drugs and rock n roll\\