VH live album - OFFICIAL

[PETE'S BROTHER]

I'm still not buying Tokyo. If a DVD were included I may have bitten on it.

i know somebody with a video

[Jérôme Frenchise]

There's a bunch of missing posters whose feeling about the live album I'd like to read here too...

[DONNIEP]

So I've been listening to the live record today and the 2015 remasters on spotify. Coincidentally, they played a few oroginals and new live cuts back to back. And the band sounds incredible on the live record. Really, really good. Then Dave comes in and, well, it ain't so great. Hear about it later was one of the back to backs. And on the live cut there are a couple spots where Dave sounds great. And the rest is just...embarrassingly bad. I haven't heard all the songs on the live record yet but most of what I have heard is just confounding as to what the fuck Dave is doing. Or trying to do.

The 2015 remasters though sound awesome. I'll probably pick those up. But the live record - I think I'm gonna pass unless the rest of the cuts are outstanding.

[Mushroom]

Women In Love is a gem

Nice sequence...
Hot for Teacher
Women in Love
Romeo Delight
Mean Street

There are moments when Dave is embarrassingly bad.

[chefcraig]

There's a bunch of missing posters whose feeling about the live album I'd like to read here too...

I think it is fine.

Is the production mushy? Yes
Are the vocals at times questionable? Absolutely
The set list a tad wanting? Not really
Do I enjoy it? Yup...I'm not pounding the dashboard, yet it's OK
That I got it for $13.99? Outstanding!

[ELVIS]

I saw it at Walwart when I was picking up some oil...

They can keep it...

[chefcraig]

I saw it at Walwart when I was picking up some oil...

They can keep it...

The oil, or the album?

[atomicpnk47]

i know somebody with a video

Really? No shit...I guess I set myself up for this one

[ELVIS]

The oil, or the album?

Well, I purchased the oil...

[chefcraig]

Well, I purchased the oil...

Good choice. Stay away from the cold cuts aisle, however.

[Fairwrning]

If I were stranded on an island with 5 songs from this cd......

EWS/YRGM/HFT/Women in love/Mean Street

[perrin29]

If I were stranded on an island with 5 songs from this cd......

EWS/YRGM/HFT/Women in love/Mean Street

I would pretty much agree with you on those picks. He does a couple vocal things I like in RWTD, Hear About It Later and Romeo. I've been listening to it all week and it has grown on me. The low crowd noise drives me a bit cause for 40,000 people they're a little too quiet.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

This thread is a little long to scroll through, so does anybody here know how theTokyo Dome is doing in charts?

I've searched on the Billboard and "official charts" but didn't find it in the top 25, WTF?? Distribution...

[guwapo_rocker]

It's number 6 on the albums that should never have seen the light of day chart.

Other than that it is nowhere to be found.

[ELVIS]

Good choice. Stay away from the cold cuts aisle, however.

I don't buy Walwart so called food and I don't eat cold cuts...

[ELVIS]

The low crowd noise drives me a bit cause for 40,000 people they're a little too quiet.

Imagine that...

[VAiN]

I would pretty much agree with you on those picks. He does a couple vocal things I like in RWTD, Hear About It Later and Romeo. I've been listening to it all week and it has grown on me. The low crowd noise drives me a bit cause for 40,000 people they're a little too quiet.

The crowds in Japan are known for being quiet and listening.. Something that American audiences should take into their hearts. What I find mildly annoying is the raising of the crowd noise if Tokyo is mentioned.

[ELVIS]

The crowds in Japan are known for being quiet and listening..

Is that why Cheap Trick at Budokan is chock full of screams from the audience ??

[ELVIS]

Something that American audiences should take into their hearts.

C'mon dude, you're making that up as you go along...

The only Americans need to take into their hearts is Christ Jesus !!

[Va Beach VH Fan]

The crowds in Japan are known for being quiet and listening.. Something that American audiences should take into their hearts. What I find mildly annoying is the raising of the crowd noise if Tokyo is mentioned.

Yup, but you kinda knew that the crowd would be relatively quiet now in hindsight with Dave picking the show because of his affinity for the Japanese culture....

Is that why Cheap Trick at Budokan is chock full of screams from the audience ??

Not quite the fair comparison...

Budokan is 1/4 the size of Big Egg (Tokyo Dome), it's cavernous.... The Cheap Trick show was with them young in their prime in '77, compared to VH in their '60's....

Here's a video of Japanese girls screaming for VH when they were young....

[VAiN]

C'mon dude, you're making that up as you go along...

The only Americans need to take into their hearts is Christ Jesus !!

No way man, I plan these posts out months in advance.

How about a compromise? Americans take Jesus AND shutting the fuck up into their hearts?

[Fairwrning]

To this day , that chick is etched into my brain screaming " Robin,Robin"..

[ODShowtime]

I like when Bonzo would taunt the Japanese audiences.

"Far too noisy"

[Va Beach VH Fan]

And you just knew this was coming....

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns...hagar-laughing

New Van Halen album has Sammy Hagar laughing

By DOUG ELFMAN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

I knew Sammy Hagar was calling me Monday, so I kept saying to myself, “Don’t ask him how terrible the new Van Halen album is.” But then, Hagar brought up how terrible it is.

Here’s the bad-blood background if you’re 10 years old or a newly arrived space alien: David Lee Roth sang in Van Halen. Then Hagar sang in Van Halen. Then Roth rejoined Van Halen.

Now the new David-Lee-Roth-Van Halen album, “Tokyo Dome In Concert,” is available for purchase, and it’s super, super, super, super, super, super, crazy bad.

“I’m trying to tread lightly on the whole thing,” Hagar told me. “Every time they do something, I’m like, ‘Oh my god, can these guys do anything worse to their reputation and to the level of the music of the band?”

I can’t believe Van Halen even released the album with Roth’s voice sounding like it does.

“They’ve got some pretty rough vocals,” Hagar said of Roth.

I told Hagar I tried not to even bring up Van Halen.

“I’m glad you didn’t, but I did,” Hagar said and laughed. “I try to stay away from criticism, but here I am, already starting this interview with it. It’s impossible, Doug. It’s impossible to stay away from. Standing back, I’m just going, ‘What the (expletive) are these guys thinking?’”

Meanwhile, Hagar has a new band called the Circle. It includes Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, Wabos’ guitarist Vic Johnson, and last but not least, Jason Bonham on drums.

This Friday at Fremont Street Experience, a tribute band will perform some Hagar hits. Then around 9 p.m., the Circle will walk on stage with Sammy’s Beach Bar’s Rum, toast the crowd and watch an overhead-canopy show of Circle songs.

After that show, Hagar will party at his Cabo Wabo Cantina in Planet Hollywood.

Then on Saturday, the Circle performs at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center.

The Circle has its own live album, “At Your Service,” coming out May 19. I’ve heard one song. That one song sounds infinitely better than the new Van Halen album.

On stage, the Circle performs Van Hagar songs, Hagar solo hits, songs from his days in the band Montrose, and Led Zeppelin classics, since Bonham is the son of Zeppelin’s iconic drummer.

Hagar said Bonham, revered in his own right, is at the top of his game.

“In the old days, he was great, but he was crazy. We’d say, ‘Where’s Jason?’ It was like, ‘He just got up and walked off stage and went back to the dressing room to get himself a drink.’ He was living that real ’70s Led Zeppelin style.”

Hagar said seeing the Circle is the only way to hear Van Halen musicians play the Van Hagar oeuvre.

“The Van Hagar era — those great songs, ‘Poundcake,’ ‘When It’s Love,’ ‘Right Now,’ ‘Why Can’t This Be Love?,’ ‘Top of the World,’ ‘Finish What Ya Started,’ ‘Best of Both Worlds’ — you’ll never hear those songs again, unless I’m singing them.”

Hagar also has a new TV show starting on AXS, called “Rock and Roll Road Trip.” He’s interviewing famous friends like Tommy Lee and Alice Cooper on that show. And he is launching a radio show this year.

As you can see, Hagar remains one of the world’s most reliable quote machines.

“Yeah, I’ll tell you anything,” he said. “Then I read my interview, and I go, ‘Dammit, I shouldn’t have said that. Next time, I gotta watch out.’ After my 30,000th interview of my life, I’m still going, ‘Oh boy, I shouldn’t have done that.’

“The truth of the matter is, everyone is welcome, and has the right, to their own opinion. That would include me.”

[fryingdutchman]

And you just knew this was coming....

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns...hagar-laughing

New Van Halen album has Sammy Hagar laughing

By DOUG ELFMAN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

“Every time they do something, I’m like, ‘Oh my god, can these guys do anything worse to their reputation and to the level of the music of the band?”

Well...they've done two "somethings" in the last 3 years. One was ADKOT, which I think was great....and Hagar's jealous poodle ass can go jump off a cliff.

As for "Tokyo Dome", I kind of agree with Hagar. I think they should have left well enough alone.

Not that I care...but what happened to Chickenshit? Is Chad really that busy that they couldn't keep that "supergroup" together?

[fraroc]

And you just knew this was coming....

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns...hagar-laughing

New Van Halen album has Sammy Hagar laughing

By DOUG ELFMAN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

I knew Sammy Hagar was calling me Monday, so I kept saying to myself, “Don’t ask him how terrible the new Van Halen album is.” But then, Hagar brought up how terrible it is.

Here’s the bad-blood background if you’re 10 years old or a newly arrived space alien: David Lee Roth sang in Van Halen. Then Hagar sang in Van Halen. Then Roth rejoined Van Halen.

Now the new David-Lee-Roth-Van Halen album, “Tokyo Dome In Concert,” is available for purchase, and it’s super, super, super, super, super, super, crazy bad.

“I’m trying to tread lightly on the whole thing,” Hagar told me. “Every time they do something, I’m like, ‘Oh my god, can these guys do anything worse to their reputation and to the level of the music of the band?”

I can’t believe Van Halen even released the album with Roth’s voice sounding like it does.

“They’ve got some pretty rough vocals,” Hagar said of Roth.

I told Hagar I tried not to even bring up Van Halen.

“I’m glad you didn’t, but I did,” Hagar said and laughed. “I try to stay away from criticism, but here I am, already starting this interview with it. It’s impossible, Doug. It’s impossible to stay away from. Standing back, I’m just going, ‘What the (expletive) are these guys thinking?’”

Meanwhile, Hagar has a new band called the Circle. It includes Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, Wabos’ guitarist Vic Johnson, and last but not least, Jason Bonham on drums.

This Friday at Fremont Street Experience, a tribute band will perform some Hagar hits. Then around 9 p.m., the Circle will walk on stage with Sammy’s Beach Bar’s Rum, toast the crowd and watch an overhead-canopy show of Circle songs.

After that show, Hagar will party at his Cabo Wabo Cantina in Planet Hollywood.

Then on Saturday, the Circle performs at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center.

The Circle has its own live album, “At Your Service,” coming out May 19. I’ve heard one song. That one song sounds infinitely better than the new Van Halen album.

On stage, the Circle performs Van Hagar songs, Hagar solo hits, songs from his days in the band Montrose, and Led Zeppelin classics, since Bonham is the son of Zeppelin’s iconic drummer.

Hagar said Bonham, revered in his own right, is at the top of his game.

“In the old days, he was great, but he was crazy. We’d say, ‘Where’s Jason?’ It was like, ‘He just got up and walked off stage and went back to the dressing room to get himself a drink.’ He was living that real ’70s Led Zeppelin style.”

Hagar said seeing the Circle is the only way to hear Van Halen musicians play the Van Hagar oeuvre.

“The Van Hagar era — those great songs, ‘Poundcake,’ ‘When It’s Love,’ ‘Right Now,’ ‘Why Can’t This Be Love?,’ ‘Top of the World,’ ‘Finish What Ya Started,’ ‘Best of Both Worlds’ — you’ll never hear those songs again, unless I’m singing them.”

Hagar also has a new TV show starting on AXS, called “Rock and Roll Road Trip.” He’s interviewing famous friends like Tommy Lee and Alice Cooper on that show. And he is launching a radio show this year.

As you can see, Hagar remains one of the world’s most reliable quote machines.

“Yeah, I’ll tell you anything,” he said. “Then I read my interview, and I go, ‘Dammit, I shouldn’t have said that. Next time, I gotta watch out.’ After my 30,000th interview of my life, I’m still going, ‘Oh boy, I shouldn’t have done that.’

“The truth of the matter is, everyone is welcome, and has the right, to their own opinion. That would include me.”

[perrin29]

And you just knew this was coming....

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns...hagar-laughing

New Van Halen album has Sammy Hagar laughing

By DOUG ELFMAN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

I knew Sammy Hagar was calling me Monday, so I kept saying to myself, “Don’t ask him how terrible the new Van Halen album is.” But then, Hagar brought up how terrible it is.

Here’s the bad-blood background if you’re 10 years old or a newly arrived space alien: David Lee Roth sang in Van Halen. Then Hagar sang in Van Halen. Then Roth rejoined Van Halen.

Now the new David-Lee-Roth-Van Halen album, “Tokyo Dome In Concert,” is available for purchase, and it’s super, super, super, super, super, super, crazy bad.

“I’m trying to tread lightly on the whole thing,” Hagar told me. “Every time they do something, I’m like, ‘Oh my god, can these guys do anything worse to their reputation and to the level of the music of the band?”

I can’t believe Van Halen even released the album with Roth’s voice sounding like it does.

“They’ve got some pretty rough vocals,” Hagar said of Roth.

I told Hagar I tried not to even bring up Van Halen.

“I’m glad you didn’t, but I did,” Hagar said and laughed. “I try to stay away from criticism, but here I am, already starting this interview with it. It’s impossible, Doug. It’s impossible to stay away from. Standing back, I’m just going, ‘What the (expletive) are these guys thinking?’”

Meanwhile, Hagar has a new band called the Circle. It includes Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, Wabos’ guitarist Vic Johnson, and last but not least, Jason Bonham on drums.

This Friday at Fremont Street Experience, a tribute band will perform some Hagar hits. Then around 9 p.m., the Circle will walk on stage with Sammy’s Beach Bar’s Rum, toast the crowd and watch an overhead-canopy show of Circle songs.

After that show, Hagar will party at his Cabo Wabo Cantina in Planet Hollywood.

Then on Saturday, the Circle performs at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center.

The Circle has its own live album, “At Your Service,” coming out May 19. I’ve heard one song. That one song sounds infinitely better than the new Van Halen album.

On stage, the Circle performs Van Hagar songs, Hagar solo hits, songs from his days in the band Montrose, and Led Zeppelin classics, since Bonham is the son of Zeppelin’s iconic drummer.

Hagar said Bonham, revered in his own right, is at the top of his game.

“In the old days, he was great, but he was crazy. We’d say, ‘Where’s Jason?’ It was like, ‘He just got up and walked off stage and went back to the dressing room to get himself a drink.’ He was living that real ’70s Led Zeppelin style.”

Hagar said seeing the Circle is the only way to hear Van Halen musicians play the Van Hagar oeuvre.

“The Van Hagar era — those great songs, ‘Poundcake,’ ‘When It’s Love,’ ‘Right Now,’ ‘Why Can’t This Be Love?,’ ‘Top of the World,’ ‘Finish What Ya Started,’ ‘Best of Both Worlds’ — you’ll never hear those songs again, unless I’m singing them.”

Hagar also has a new TV show starting on AXS, called “Rock and Roll Road Trip.” He’s interviewing famous friends like Tommy Lee and Alice Cooper on that show. And he is launching a radio show this year.

As you can see, Hagar remains one of the world’s most reliable quote machines.

“Yeah, I’ll tell you anything,” he said. “Then I read my interview, and I go, ‘Dammit, I shouldn’t have said that. Next time, I gotta watch out.’ After my 30,000th interview of my life, I’m still going, ‘Oh boy, I shouldn’t have done that.’

“The truth of the matter is, everyone is welcome, and has the right, to their own opinion. That would include me.”

Another example of why Hagar is a complete asshole. Puts off the persona like he's a happy, go lucky dude but deep down he's a bitter, resentful dick. He had every opportunity not to mention it but his only relevancy to th world is when he is putting down VH. Nobody cares about what he is up to. He's in a band with Bonham covering Zepp songs, MA singing Dave songs and him schlocking that mediocre catalogue from the Hagar years. If anyone challenged him on it to his face, he would start going on about album sales. I could give him countless examples of artists that sold a shit ton of music but doesn't mean it will be revered in twenty years. the classic VH years are and still stand the test of time and that jealous fuck can't handle it.

[ELVIS]

Whatever...

He's 1000% right about this...

"and it’s super, super, super, super, super, super, crazy bad."

[private parts]

Sounds to me like Sammy agrees with 90% of the members of this site. Dave sounds like shit and Van Halen fucked up doing a live album.
Should we invite him to chime in on the "Dave can't sing for shit" thread?

[Von Halen]

Clichegar might want to listen to the way Victor butchers those Van Hagar songs. He might be a good guitarist, but he can't play Ed for shit.

[perrin29]

Whatever...

He's 1000% right about this...

"and it’s super, super, super, super, super, super, crazy bad."

Not the part where he mentions seven songs and refers to them as "great" ummm...incorrect sir. I'll give him two...three tops.

[ELVIS]

Clichegar might want to listen to the way Victor butchers those Van Hagar songs. He might be a good guitarist, but he can't play Ed for shit.

Vic is a pretty lame guitarist, IMO...

[ELVIS]

I'll give him two...three tops.

You mean as in great songs with van Halen ??

I'd say none are really great...

Even the few good ones have a whole lot cheese...

[ELVIS]

Of...even...

[Seshmeister]

Whatever...

He's 1000% right about this...

"and it’s super, super, super, super, super, super, crazy bad."

It was the Elfman who said that not Hagar. Whoever he is?



His opinion is worth no more and probably less than anyone posting on the board.

[ELVIS]

It's still correct...

[Seshmeister]

In your opinion.

If singing some verses differently makes something "super, super, super, super, super, super, crazy bad."

[perrin29]

You mean as in great songs with van Halen ??

I'd say none are really great...

Even the few good ones have a whole lot cheese...

I remember my initial reaction when I borrowed a friends copy of 5150 back in the day cause I wouldn't buy it. Don't think I ever did. I heard the "hellllo baby", the lyrics that followed it from Good Enough and almost never made it to track two. What a turd. That being said, I always liked the riff from Summer Nights. To clarify....the riff.

[clarathecarrot]

Whatever...

He's 1000% right about this...

"and it’s super, super, super, super, super, super, crazy bad."

Thank Jeebus your hero has been made relevant again..you must have been awfully lonely posting at this site all these many months, since the last time a hack no talent writer discovered a idea about how to get a article published, baby needs shoes you know.

And I am happy a writer went looking for Spammy the phone must be wringing off the hook at his Cabo beachside home....I know if I lived there all I would be thinking is what I am going to say about van halen when some hack writer calls me and needs to know what I have been thinking about Van Hale.

Thinking all day long about how to word my comments about what Van Halen is doing, that is Spatulas mind set.

Boner city huh..?

[DLR Bridge]

I told Hagar I tried not to even bring up Van Halen.

“I’m glad you didn’t, but I did,” Hagar said and laughed. “I try to stay away from criticism, but here I am, already starting this interview with it. It’s impossible, Doug. It’s impossible to stay away from. Standing back, I’m just going, ‘What the (expletive) are these guys thinking?’”

Meanwhile, Hagar has a new band called the Circle. It includes Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, Wabos’ guitarist Vic Johnson, and last but not least, Jason Bonham on drums.


“Yeah, I’ll tell you anything,” he said. “Then I read my interview, and I go, ‘Dammit, I shouldn’t have said that. Next time, I gotta watch out.’ After my 30,000th interview of my life, I’m still going, ‘Oh boy, I shouldn’t have done that.’

Truncated the article to more easily point out the root of this man's evil.
A) No one actually asked for his take, but he gave it anyway.
B) He brings up VH in every interview because he knows his interview will pop up in a search for them.
C) He is always plugging what he is currently doing while using the exploitative means referenced in B).
D) He back peddles to attempt to sound less douchey, but it's always too late.