YOUR 2015 Van Halen Tour Setlist

[fraroc]

I've been saying this for a while now, but it would be intreresting if they threw us a curveball and opened up with "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love"

[Romeo Delight]

I've been saying this for a while now, but it would be intreresting if they threw us a curveball"

Its going to be Poundcake and Love Walks in with Mikey on bass flute

[IceCreamBlondie]

1. Hot for Teacher

The lights go down. From the dark we hear the pound of the drum and then the unmistakable drum intro to HFT begins as the spotlight fades in on Alex. A second spotlight drops on Edward as he begins the opening riff. Halfway through the opening riff, a spotlight drops on Wolfie, only he's not playing the bass, he's playing guitar and he joins in on the opening riff. Then when the rhythm guitar part kicks in a large spot goes to center stage and there is the surprise appearance of Michael Anthony. As the crowd cheers, DLR zip lines from above the drum riser landing in a nice old-man-safe landing zone as Mike ducks and lets him pass overhead. The spot follows Dave out to the front of the stage, he says his howdys and when the band kicks back in, the whole thing goes up in lights. "T-T-Teacher, stop that screamin…."
Goes right into...

2. Everybody Wants Some

"Heard you missed him, He's baaaaack." Dave introduces Mike. Mike plays a SHORT bass intro then starts thumping...

3. Runnin With The Devil

The show continues with some classics and some new.

4. Somebody Get Me A Doctor, including some kind of medley thing in the middle.
5. Hear About it Later
6. As Is
7. Women In Love
8. Light Up the Sky

"Light Em Up ends with a prolonged bathing of light and then the stage goes dark.
Moments later, the spotlight comes up and Dave and Ed are sitting on stools with Acoustic guitars.
They crank out a version of…

9. Could This Be Magic

Followed by "a little something different."
Mike and Alex join the two on stage, Alex with a minimal drum setup of some kind and Mike with an acoustic bass. The band performs

10. Damn Good
…while vintage photos of the band play on a slide show behind the stage. At the end they show a photo of the new five-member Van Halen, Wolf comes out and joins them and they all take a bow.
Dave takes the mike, now standing with his acoustic. He begins telling a story about the sounds of summertime while the spot closes on him. He begins

11. Ice Cream Man

…and when it's time, the band kicks in. At the end, Dave says. "All my flavors arrrrrrrrre," and plays a little run on his guitar. "Ooooo all my flavors arrrrrrrre," he goes again. "All my flavors are G-g-g-g-g," and he begins the opening to…

12. Stay Frosty

They play some or all of the song. Dave introduces Edward Van Halen.

13. Ed solos

Ed introduces Wolfie Van Halen

14. Wolfie solos, then Ed joins in.

Then they are back for the lightning round.

15. Mean Street
16. Panama
17. I'm the One
18. Drum Solo
19. Unchained
20. This is the part where they don't play Dance The Night Away even though they really really want to.
21. Little Guitars
22. Take Your Whiskey Home

Close with

23. Romeo Delight

Encore

24. Drop Dead Legs
25. Ain't Talkin' Bout Love

2nd Encore

26. Obligatory Jump money shot.

Everyone goes home.

Once the venue is empty, they run back out on stage and play DTNY and Tattoo with amps powered completely by OCD. A custodian films it on his phone and half the people on the internet get angry because they didn't get to see it.

Gawd I love it! Except that I will stay to hear Dance the Night away. !!

[IceCreamBlondie]

Not a complete "in-order" set list, but here's my two cents of faves I would like to hear (along with the usual):

Unchained (opener)
Little Guitars
Blood and Fire
Bottoms Up! (With a flashback on the screen of Dave doing Bottoms Up in his Chaps pants from back in the day!)
Dance the Night Away

A "sweet interlude" Dave Solo of "Could this be Magic" and "Damn Good"

Stay Frosty (instead of Ice Cream Man)

In a Simple Rhyme

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Drop: I'll Wait

[Jérôme Frenchise]

1) Unchained
2) I'm the One
3) Drop Dead Legs
4) Somebody Get Me a Doctor
5) Little Guitars
6) Drums solo
7) Everybody Wants Some
8) Hear About It Later
9) Runnin' with the Devil
10) Mean Street
11) Women in Love
12) Take Your Whiskey Home
13) Fools
14) Girl Gone Bad/House of Pain (with no break between both songs)
15) Stay Frosty
16) Intruder/Pretty Woman (with "Intruder" only)
17) Beautiful Girls
18) Guitar solo
19) Panama
20) Romeo Delight
21) Little Dreamer
22) Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
23) Me Wise Magic
24) Dirty Movies
25) Hot for Teacher
26) In a Simple Rhyme

[perrin29]

1) Unchained
2) I'm the One
3) Drop Dead Legs
4) Somebody Get Me a Doctor
5) Little Guitars
6) Drums solo
7) Everybody Wants Some
8) Hear About It Later
9) Runnin' with the Devil
10) Mean Street
11) Women in Love
12) Take Your Whiskey Home
13) Fools
14) Girl Gone Bad/House of Pain (with no break between both songs)
15) Stay Frosty
16) Intruder/Pretty Woman (with "Intruder" only)
17) Beautiful Girls
18) Guitar solo
19) Panama
20) Romeo Delight
21) Little Dreamer
22) Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
23) Me Wise Magic
24) Dirty Movies
25) Hot for Teacher
26) In a Simple Rhyme

Pretty solid list. That would be a great show. I would like to see Sinners Swing, DOA and Full Bug mixed in along the line. Would be killer.

[Green Manalishi]

Personally speaking , my ideal setlist would heavily emphasize the first four albums especially Fair Warning .
A rotation of The Full Bug , Hang 'Em High , Cathedral/Secrets from Diver Down .
A rotation of Drop Dead Legs , Girl Gone Bad , and House Of Pain from 1984 .
A rotation of Tatoo , She's The Woman , and Stay Frosty from A Different Kind Of Truth .
Somehow incorporate an acoustic guitar showcase from Edward as well reminiscent of Spanish Fly .
I could do without Jump , Panama , I'll Wait , Hot For Teacher , Pretty Woman , Little Guitars , and Dancing In The Street . Classic Rock radio has all but ruined these tunes for me .
I'm absolutely sure this would NEVER happen but it would be a sheer delight to see and hear Van Halen do Damn Good Times .

[ODShowtime]

I need to see On Fire and Light Up the Sky to be satisfied in my life with live Van Halen. I've been lucky and seen many of my favorites live. Stay Frosty would be a treat as well. It sounds like all of these are in the pantheon of 'hardest to sing Van Halen Songs" but they are also all very badass. On Fire is probably the most underrated VH song in my opinion. And it would shred DLR if he sang it today. Maybe Artie Lange is available.

I'll Wait is the worst Van Halen song of the all the Roth albums and it's a piece of garbage and I'm personally offended that it was played live to me. I did have to piss though so it worked out. Jump as an encore is very effective as a traffic beater.

I'm looking forward to the 2015 tour.

[BumBahDeeDah]

Haven't looked at anybody else's. Gonna keep it to 25 like Tokyo Dome. Mine is unrealistic. No Jump. If they did this, but decently, I'd float for a month. This list ain't for the casual fan, I think it's for us. I even left off my probable favorite, HAIL for some other stuff. Now I can look at the other lists.

Hang 'em High

Dirty Movies

And The Cradle Will Rock

As Is

Drop Dead Legs

Hot For Teacher

Honeybabysweetiedoll

Feel Your Love Tonight

Secrets

Wimmen In Love

You and Your Blues

Yankee Rose (They realize they don't really have a problem with it.)

D.O.A.

So This Is Love?

In A Simple Rhyme

Push Come to Shove

Stay Frosty

Little Guitars

Light Up The Sky

Can't Get This Stuff No More

Everybody Wants Some

Unchained

Panama

Romeo Delight

Ain't Talkin Bout Love

[BumBahDeeDah]

But then again, this is (another) "Greatest Hits" tour, so they won't go outside the box and risk offending the casual fans they pick up from appearing on "Ellen."

Yeah, but this is music masturbation...

[SunisinuS]

Me Wise Magic.

*drop the mic.

Jump as the Encore*



*traffic beater.

[hain23x]

You can pretty much guess half the show

would love to hear

Drop Dead Legs
Light Up the Sky
Stay Frosty
Dirty Movies
Push Comes to Shove

Would be killer if they played all of "Fair Warning".

[Von Halen]

You can pretty much guess half the show

would love to hear

Drop Dead Legs
Light Up the Sky
Stay Frosty
Dirty Movies
Push Comes to Shove

Would be killer if they played all of "Fair Warning".

Hell, I'd love to hear all of WACF!

[Romeo Delight]

Wouldn't it be great if each show played an entire album?

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Wouldn't it be great if each show played an entire album?

Great, but short.

Let's hope they won't play the exact Tokyo Dome setlist at least.