REPORT: =vh = to headline australian festival april 20-21

[ashstralia]

you'll all excuse my scepticism i hope...

[Coyote]

[Hardrock69]

I thought VH was playing Aussieland and Japan in April/May anyway? What is this rubbish about a "single show"???

[Jetstream]

I can hear Edward now talking to the band, "Ok, we are going to take baby steps...just one show, let us not talk about anything else."
Dave then responds, "That is bullshit, they are gonna ask what the future plans are...are we really just coming here for one show when we like have hardly ever been here."
Edward then retorts while Dave's dog Russ starts growling at Ed's dog Kody who is taking nips as him, "Shut up or I will kick you in the balls."
In the corner of the room, Al continues a lecture on how Starbucks coffee is about selling milk to Wolfgang

[Nitro Express]

If Ed crawled back into the Smoking Loon bottle, we're fucked.

[Nitro Express]

Kicking ass and taking names. Mike was even cool.



I'll have The Bull.

[Nitro Express]

Hey Bill. I didn't know you were an actor. Them girls didn't earn their keep on the dance floor that's for sure. LOL!

[FORD]

You gotta wonder if there's any tapes of those club gigs out there somewhere that are actually listenable.

I probably have a copy of that Gazzari's show somewhere, but it's one I downloaded in MP3 form back in the Napster days, and never bothered upgrading it, because the FLAC version wouldn't have sounded any better.

[Nitro Express]

You gotta wonder if there's any tapes of those club gigs out there somewhere that are actually listenable.

I probably have a copy of that Gazzari's show somewhere, but it's one I downloaded in MP3 form back in the Napster days, and never bothered upgrading it, because the FLAC version wouldn't have sounded any better.

It would be nice to have good video and recordings but I'm glad we have something of a historical record.

[FORD]

I just can't believe by the mid 70's nobody got a better recording than that. Shit, I've heard early Quarrymen (Beatles) demos from fucking 1958 that sound better than these tapes, and you know John & Paul probably weren't using a top of the line multi-track recorder in those days.

[sadaist]

Dave is going gray. I'm going gray. We all are going gray. Lame.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/music/david-lee-roth-billy-joel-to-headline-stone-music-festival/story-e6frf9hf-1226579740983

Van Halen, Billy Joel heading Down Under

Kathy McCabe, National Music Writer
From: News Limited Network
February 17, 2013 3:05PM

[DLR Bridge]

The Van Halen a Different Kind of Timeline FB page has posted it...

That page has some amazing pictures.

[DLR Bridge]

Maybe my mind is befuddled, but I seem to remember reading an interview with Billy Joel back in the 80s, and I am pretty certain that he said Eddie Van Halen had met with him about the possibility of co-producing what became the album 5150 ...

I thought the story was that Joel asked Ed to produce Storm Front and Ed was a little to drunk and coked up to pull it together and do it.

[DLR Bridge]

If this is legit, that God damn Buck Cherry better start thanking their lucky stars. They put out a powerful first CD and have followed it with shit ever since. An now they have a new one out whereby all of the songs are based on the seven sins. There's a page torn right from the Spinal Tap play book for ya.

[VHscraps]

you'll all excuse my scepticism i hope...

Indeed ...

ya know, I was at Glenn Hughes's Facebook yesterday and today, and he is in Kings of Chaos. Apparently second on the bill on Van Halen's day. He was interacting with people on there yesterday while he was waiting to catch a flight at Minneapolis airport. I posted something about the Stone music festival TWICE, saying "see ya there fella", and after a while both posts disappeared.

So, I'm wondering why does he not want his fans to know about this? The gig looks like a big deal to me - you'd think he'd wanna sell some tickets.

It's 8 weeks to go, and no one is talking about this, apart from this interview with a guy called 'Lee Roth' and a couple of stories that are just taking the same info from the original interview.

Excuse my scepticism ... !! Even if VH have agreed to this, my guess is that the ticket sales will be so poor that it is cancelled.

I guess I am getting so exercised by this because if it was true, I'm thinking of making the trip - seeing as I can't see them coming to Europe, and I have time and funds, whereas I didn't have with the US tour in 2012. But, heck, air fares are fckn non-refundable. I just wish they'd make an official announcement on the band website that they are doing it.