VH live album - OFFICIAL

[FALCO]

Yeahhhh... no

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Diamond Dave getting crucified... and personally I don't see how ANY VH / DLR fan has a leg to stand on defending this!!!

It's NOT '07/'08 anymore...

Ouch

FALCO
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[ZahZoo]

First impressions from the samples... This sounds 10x better than any bootleg available anywhere... ever. Sound quality, instrument separation and mix specifically.

Ed, Al & Wolf's performance is great... full of high energy of a typical Van Halen LIVE performance. The backing vocals... especially the harmonization between Ed & Wolf sound rock solid, on key and great!! I know Donnie will hate me for saying this but... Wolf's high end harmony in the backing vocals sound better than Mike's in the live format as Mike tended to push his high register over red-line like Dave does live.

Dave sounds ok for some parts... when he's in his "normal" register and close in the key/octave of the original version of the songs he's all there. I guess I just don't care much for the creative license he's taken and in some cases he's strayed too far from the core melody of certain songs. The high register stuff sucks the life out of certain songs.

But... I have to remind myself and probably a lot of you... Van Halen live was never about reproducing a close proximity of their studio versions. Especially Dave's vocals. How many times have many of us had to point out that Dave's an entertainer not a note-for-note precision singer. That "who gives a shit... we're takin no prisoners" attitude to live performances is what Dave has always been about...

Another factor just dawned on me... At the moment, I'm critiquing a Van Halen live experience. Sitting in my office, sipping early morning coffee and stone sober as a preacher on Sunday... Not exactly the ambiance of a live concert, partied up and surrounded by thousands of knuckleheads in a similar state... Where's my beer goggles..?

[ELVIS]

Man, that bass sounds like shit...

So does Edwad's buzzsaw tone...

And the backing vocals sound like three drunks at a bar...

[DONNIEP]

I have just received an exclusive copy of the live DVD that will accompany this new live record!!

[ELVIS]

this sounds 10x better than any bootleg available anywhere... Ever.

bull fucking shit !!

[Von Halen]

First impressions from the samples... This sounds 10x better than any bootleg available anywhere... ever. Sound quality, instrument separation and mix specifically.

Ed, Al & Wolf's performance is great... full of high energy of a typical Van Halen LIVE performance. The backing vocals... especially the harmonization between Ed & Wolf sound rock solid, on key and great!! I know Donnie will hate me for saying this but... Wolf's high end harmony in the backing vocals sound better than Mike's in the live format as Mike tended to push his high register over red-line like Dave does live.

Dave sounds ok for some parts... when he's in his "normal" register and close in the key/octave of the original version of the songs he's all there. I guess I just don't care much for the creative license he's taken and in some cases he's strayed too far from the core melody of certain songs. The high register stuff sucks the life out of certain songs.

But... I have to remind myself and probably a lot of you... Van Halen live was never about reproducing a close proximity of their studio versions. Especially Dave's vocals. How many times have many of us had to point out that Dave's an entertainer not a note-for-note precision singer. That "who gives a shit... we're takin no prisoners" attitude to live performances is what Dave has always been about...

Another factor just dawned on me... At the moment, I'm critiquing a Van Halen live experience. Sitting in my office, sipping early morning coffee and stone sober as a preacher on Sunday... Not exactly the ambiance of a live concert, partied up and surrounded by thousands of knuckleheads in a similar state... Where's my beer goggles..?

Congrats. You just made Van Halen's retard list.

[Dave's Bitch]

"who gives a shit... "

Van Halen camp to their fans

[DONNIEP]

"Take no prisoners"?? This sounds more like take it up the ass. And I don't mean that in a good way.

[ELVIS]

The backing vocals... especially the harmonization between Ed & Wolf sound rock solid, on key and great!!

OMG...

Lay off the glycol...

[ELVIS]

I feel like a prisoner trying to listen to this crap...

[ELVIS]

Is PAINama the first "single" ??

[Von Halen]

They should use this shit to get prisoners to talk, instead of waterboarding them.

[DONNIEP]

It's amazing, when you take away most of the crowd noise you can hear just how utterly lacking the background vocals are. They could have hired the fat chick from Heart to sing and it would have sounded better.

[Dave's Bitch]

Fuck this, I'm going to blast VH I!

[DONNIEP]

Fuck this, I'm going to blast VH I!

But that's not the REAL Van Halen - this is! So break out your wallets and bend the fuck over!