Best 1984 tour video?

[Jagermeister]

Montreal is not too bad, better than nothing.... The audio is OK for an audience recording....

If i'm not mistaken that is the one shot slightly stage left where Dave looks like he is 2" tall. I 'm sure I have it but never could get all the way through it. Too many other good boot's. I might have to pull it out and try to watch it again.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

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[Jagermeister]

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Yeah that's the one I remeber. I guess the audio isn't bad. Not as good as the pro shot's like Largo or Old No.7

[VanHalenFan5150]

Unless Ed gets off the shitter and opens up the vaults, nothing will be as good as those two boots... Hands down

[ppg960]

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This was right around the Winnipeg show. The quality is not bad really.
I've never seen the whole thing, just pieces of it.
This is better than the US Festival in 83 IMHO. Dave was hammered at that show before it started.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

This was right around the Winnipeg show. The quality is not bad really.
I've never seen the whole thing, just pieces of it.
This is better than the US Festival in 83 IMHO. Dave was hammered at that show before it started.

Maybe the show itself, but the US Festival was a pro-shot....

[Terry]

Is there a nice quality video from the 1984 tour that is generally accepted to
be one of the better shows? I'd like to get a video from that tour (even if it's
not the Buffalo show I attended.) The Montreal Forum seems to get high
marks but it doesn't seem to be readily available.

It's out there on various trade sites. Montreal looks like it was shot from the inside of a skybox, but considering what little of 1984 live video there is out there, it's probably the cream of the current crop.

[silverfish]

It's out there on various trade sites. Montreal looks like it was shot from the inside of a skybox, but considering what little of 1984 live video there is out there, it's probably the cream of the current crop.

That's the problem - the little VH material I have to trade is probably already in
most collections. That's why I was hoping to find a torrent or something.

[VanHalenFan5150]

Well what do you have?

[silverfish]

Well what do you have?

The usual suspects (all VHS):

Live clip compilation 1978 - 81
(Fresno 1978 + 79, Japan TV, 1st LP promos, Pasadena Civic 1979 & Oakland Jun 1981)
Baltimore Oct. 1982
US Fest 1983
Argentina 1983
San Paulo, Brazil 1983
Toronto PPV Dec. 1995
DLR - Glens Falls, March 1988
DLR - Karsloga, Sweden , March 1991
(and for Billy Sheehan fans - 4 Talas shows from 1982 - 84)

[VanHalenFan5150]

Posted my entire trade list (Minus Spammy stuff, because I didn't want to get gonhorrea) in another thread, check it out

http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/showthread.php?59067-Anybody-looking-for-any-bootlegs

[ace diamond]

Those were '82, not '84....

as per the book "the van halen encyclopedia", the 1980, 1982, and 1984 concerts at the capital center were pro-shot by the in-house video camera systems.
only the 1982 video has ever turned up.

[ace diamond]

The usual suspects (all VHS):

Live clip compilation 1978 - 81
(Fresno 1978 + 79, Japan TV, 1st LP promos, Pasadena Civic 1979 & Oakland Jun 1981)
Baltimore Oct. 1982
US Fest 1983
Argentina 1983
San Paulo, Brazil 1983
Toronto PPV Dec. 1995
DLR - Glens Falls, March 1988
DLR - Karsloga, Sweden , March 1991
(and for Billy Sheehan fans - 4 Talas shows from 1982 - 84)

i've got most of those on dvd, but i also have:
montrael 1982 and 1984
donington 1984
las vegas 1984
memphis 1981
minneapolis 1980(all existing known footage, only 1980 fottage known to exist)
toronto 1979
fresno 1978 and 1979
dlr detroit 1986
dlr ranta rock, finland 1999
us fest 1983
largo 1982
boston 1979
dlr hartford ct, and the meadowlands 2002 pro-shots from the sans halen tour
i have all of the shows from the 1983 south american tour........
i know i have more but this stuff is just off of the top of my head

[Va Beach VH Fan]

as per the book "the van halen encyclopedia", the 1980, 1982, and 1984 concerts at the capital center were pro-shot by the in-house video camera systems.
only the 1982 video has ever turned up.

I understand what you mean now, although that "encyclopedia" is filled with discrepancies that I verified during the creation of my "This Day in CVH/DLR History" calendar here....

[VanHalenFan5150]

My dad's best friend had went to the Largo show in 1982, both nights. He had seats that I can only describe like this. Let's say we're Van Halen. We're on stage facing out. If we looked up and straight out, there would be a box seat above the floor. He and a few of his friends had some of the best seats in the house. And he even let me wear the tour t-shirt he got there!