Pick three new songs for the setlist

[loucap81]

Pick one from each category that you'd like to hear in the setlist, the next time VH tours. While there are tough calls mine would be Light Up The Sky, "Dirty Movies" and Honeybabysweetiedoll. Not that I'd complain if just about any other song on this list found its way into the setlist in the future.

Category I: Six-pack songs that haven't been performed since 1984 or earlier

Feel Your Love Tonight
On Fire
You're No Good
Light Up The Sky
D.O.A.
Fools
Loss Of Control
Take Your Whiskey Home
In A Simple Rhyme
Sinner's Swing!
Sunday Afternoon In The Park
Where Have All The Good Times Gone!
Secrets
Intruder
Dancing In The Street
Happy Trails
House Of Pain

Category II: Six-pack songs that have never been played, ever

Could This Be Magic?
"Dirty Movies"
Push Comes To Shove
One Foot Out The Door
Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
Top Jimmy
Drop Dead Legs

Category III: ADKOT songs that haven't been played in current form

You And Your Blues
Bullethead
As Is
Honeybabysweetiedoll
Outta Space
Stay Frosty
Big River
Beats Workin'

[vandeleur]

Light up the sky .... With actual vocals
Drop dead legs
Stay frosty ... Instead of ice cream man

[DLR Bridge]

DOA
Drop Dead Legs
Big River

Or

Sinner's Swing
One Foot Out The Door
Honeybabysweetiedoll

Or....

[vandeleur]

Actually cat 1 makes a kicking set

[Matt White]

secrets

so this is love?

take your whiskey home

[Never was]

Sinner's Swing
Drop Dead Legs
Stay Frosty

[Fairwrning]

Im not sure the meaning of the categories but Ill play along

On Fire ( First VH song I heard live)
Top Jimmy ( itching for a killer " improv" jam )
Outta Space ( See Above)

[katina]

On Fire
Drop Dead Legs
Honeybabysweetiedoll

[minkahed]

Outta Space

[VAiN]

I want to hear new material, so I'm going with 'HBSD', 'As-Is' and 'Outta Space'.. If they want to dump a few more old tunes, please add 'Bullethead' and 'Stay Frosty'.

[hambon4lif]

BULLETHEAD- ('cause it would sound fucking awesome live)

D.O.A.- ('cause it's a killer fuckin' song I've been wanting to hear them play live since they got back together)

BIG RIVER- ('cause if what Dave says in recent interviews is true about Van Halen audiences breaking beer sales records at the shows, it would make perfect sense to play a badass drinking anthem like this one)

[FORD]

Light Up The Sky

Drop Dead Legs

Stay Frosty

[sadaist]

Happy Trails - end the damn show with this guys. Please!


Drop Dead Legs


Stay Frosty

[fryingdutchman]

House of Pain

In A Simple Rhyme

Sinner's Swing

[ThrillsNSpills]

Fools, Drop Dead Legs, As Is.


Tough call though since there's many choices that would work.

Simple Rhyme with the unreleased acoustic intro..... Ow Yeah!

[Zing!]

Happy Trails - end the damn show with this guys. Please!


Drop Dead Legs


Stay Frosty

What he said.

[DLR Bridge]

Simple Rhyme with the unreleased acoustic intro..... Ow Yeah!

What the what the?? Haven't heard that.

[private parts]

What the what the?? Haven't heard that.

My thoughts exactly. Acoustic intro that's never been heard?

[ThrillsNSpills]

Ever been to Paris?

How do you know it exists?


These are the inherant problems with the human ego.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

I KNOW YOU PUT A LOT INTO THOSE CATEGORIES, SO HERE GOES....

drop dead legs


drop dead legs

and...


drop dead legs

[envy_me]

Push comes to shove

Drop dead legs


....and I have to think about the third one, there are just too many.

[big fatty]

I want to hear an unexpected surprise. Like when they added a few extra jams in '07, like Magic Bus and Crossroads. That is live music right there. Unique to the sprecific show at the time.

Or better Yet. As heard on some of the older bootlegs.

Bright Lights Big City, from the 1980 Invasion Tour.

Lucille, from Providence, R.I., 1981

On Fire, with the extra long introduction, from Greensboro, '81

Romeo Delight, with the jam in the middle, like the Albequerque, N.M., version that was posted on the VHND.

Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers, from South America, '83.

You get the idea. Something different than the same usual routine would be a nice treat once in a while.

I think there was also a '78 bootleg where they played Down In Flames. So if they could do another unrecorded original, that would be just awesome.

No idea why Wolfie requested input for the setlist on Twitter for this show. Maybe Japan will get lucky with some more chestnuts not played live in a while.

1- Light Up The Sky
2- As Is
3 - Stay Frosty
4- Can't Get This Stuff No More
5- Me Wise Magic
4- Dirty Movies
6- California Girls
7- Weekend With The Babysitter
8- Sinners Swing
9- ON FIRE
10- I'm The One

Yup, I suppose I went a little overboard. I guess it's probably too much to ask. Oh well, fuck it. That's only a small fraction of what I really want. Heh, heh.

[DLR Bridge]

Yup, I suppose I went a little overboard. I guess it's probably too much to ask. Oh well, fuck it. That's only a small fraction of what I really want. Heh, heh.

I'm right there with ya. When I hit the lottery, I'm going to commission Dave, Ed, Mike & Al to play this set in my backyard.

Believe Me
Here's Just What Wanted
We All Had A Real Good Time
Show No Mercy (No More Waiting)
One More Time
Chevrolet
Down In Flames
Babe, Don't Leave Me Alone
Gentlemen Of Leisure
Glitter
The Grind
Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
Woman In Love
The Shape You're In
Light In The Sky
Eyes Of The Night
Walk Away
The Fool And Me
Get The Show On The Road

Encore:

Superstition
Piece Of Mind
Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
Honolulu Baby
Let Me Swim In Your Ocean

[PETE'S BROTHER]

i always find it ironic that folks will pine for dave solo tunes, yet never wanna hear hagar shite. you can only have both or none.

[binnie]

Sinners Swing!
Push Comes To Shove
As Is

[FORD]

I think we can assume that "Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers" ain't ever gonna happen without Sobolewski on stage. ZZ Top wrote it as a duet, Dave & Mikey performed it that way. I don't see it happening with either Wolf or Ed doing the second vocal.

If Mike ever did rejoin the band though, it should definitely be part of the set list.

[Zing!]

I'm right there with ya. When I hit the lottery, I'm going to commission Dave, Ed, Mike & Al to play this set in my backyard.

Believe Me
Here's Just What Wanted
We All Had A Real Good Time
Show No Mercy (No More Waiting)
One More Time
Chevrolet
Down In Flames
Babe, Don't Leave Me Alone
Gentlemen Of Leisure
Glitter
The Grind
Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
Woman In Love
The Shape You're In
Light In The Sky
Eyes Of The Night
Walk Away
The Fool And Me
Get The Show On The Road

Encore:

Superstition
Piece Of Mind
Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
Honolulu Baby
Let Me Swim In Your Ocean

That would kick all kinds of ass, but DLR would need a Teleprompter for that show!

[binnie]

I think we can assume that "Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers" ain't ever gonna happen without Sobolewski on stage. ZZ Top wrote it as a duet, Dave & Mikey performed it that way. I don't see it happening with either Wolf or Ed doing the second vocal.

If Mike ever did rejoin the band though, it should definitely be part of the set list.

True. If Dave was going to sing it with Wolf they'd have to re-name it 'Beer Drinkers and Pie Eaters'.

[vandeleur]

i always find it ironic that folks will pine for dave solo tunes, yet never wanna hear hagar shite. you can only have both or none.

Think it's cos dave's stuff is good and haggards ......... Er isn't

[big fatty]

i always find it ironic that folks will pine for dave solo tunes, yet never wanna hear hagar shite. you can only have both or none.

" I want my cake, and eat it too. I want pink icing, pre-cut paid for and delivered. I think the world owes me a living and I'm here to collect. "

I would not be opposed to hearing Dave make some of that stuff right. Eddie did some great stuff back then. Dave could make it better.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Think it's cos dave's stuff is good and haggards ......... Er isn't

agreed, but i can just picture the fight between the two.

dave: "c'mon, let's play "damn good"

eddie: "then we get to do "why can't this be love"

dave: "yeah....no. fuck it"

[vandeleur]

Nah it will never happen , fuck I bet ed cringes when Wolfe asks WTF were you thinking dad when you wrote this drivel as he makes another ashtray out of the unsold cd's of balance he has in the garage .

[big fatty]

I'm right there with ya. When I hit the lottery, I'm going to commission Dave, Ed, Mike & Al to play this set in my backyard.

Believe Me
Here's Just What Wanted
We All Had A Real Good Time
Show No Mercy (No More Waiting)
One More Time
Chevrolet
Down In Flames
Babe, Don't Leave Me Alone
Gentlemen Of Leisure
Glitter
The Grind
Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
Woman In Love
The Shape You're In
Light In The Sky
Eyes Of The Night
Walk Away
The Fool And Me
Get The Show On The Road

Encore:

Superstition
Piece Of Mind
Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
Honolulu Baby
Let Me Swim In Your Ocean

Yup, if your gonna dream, you might as well dream big. L.O.L.

But you forgot to add Young & Wild.

[FORD]

The only way I'd be remotely interested in hearing Dave singing "Van Hagar" songs would be if he totally re-wrote them and made them his own.

Should be easy enough on the songs from 5150 - as anything musically decent from that album was probably written with Dave in the first place. Can't really think of anything from OuBlowsGoats2 that is worth redeeming. There's a couple songs from "FUCK" that could be rewritten, maybe. One or two on Balance, maybe?

If they did two of those songs and then balanced it out with two of Dave's solo songs, I could deal with that.

[binnie]

Nah it will never happen , fuck I bet ed cringes when Wolfe asks WTF were you thinking dad when you wrote this drivel as he makes another ashtray out of the unsold cd's of balance he has in the garage .

You don't Ed's proud of wham-bam Amsterdam?

[DLR Bridge]

Yup, if your gonna dream, you might as well dream big. But you forgot to add Young & Wild.

Yeah, and a handful of others. This is my idea of a realistic request.

[envy_me]

" I want my cake, and eat it too. I want pink icing, pre-cut paid for and delivered. I think the world owes me a living and I'm here to collect. "

I would not be opposed to hearing Dave make some of that stuff right. Eddie did some great stuff back then. Dave could make it better.

I couldn't stand to hear Dave sing stuff like "How do I know when it's love, it will last forever, feel together"

[Matt White]

I couldn't stand to hear Dave sing stuff like "How do I know when it's love, it will last forever, feel together"

Don't sweat it toots...........somebody has been smoking some KIND bud if they even entertain the thought of DAVID LEE ROTH singing a Van Haggis song....just ain't gonna happen in this lifetime

[Zing!]

i always find it ironic that folks will pine for dave solo tunes, yet never wanna hear hagar shite. you can only have both or none.

One of the unsolvable mysteries of the universe: Haggar was allowed to perform One Way To Rock, Eagles Fly (and others? Not sure.) live under the Van Halen name, but we will never hear a DLR solo tune given such treatment. Verily, The Lord works in mysterious ways.

[DLR Bridge]

You don't think Ed's proud of wham-bam Amsterdam?

I remember when Ed voiced his displeasure with the lyrics. Possibly the official beginning of the end of the Van Hagar years. That's actually a great riff that deserved a much better fate along with a good handful of other tunes from those 4 albums.