I could not be happier to see this!!!
Great job, Momshell! After some of the doom and gloom that followed Chicago, it's awesome to see them kick ass in NYC. Dave sounds great as does the rest of the band.
I'm stoked for A.C. on 3/24!!
I could not be happier to see this!!!
Great job, Momshell! After some of the doom and gloom that followed Chicago, it's awesome to see them kick ass in NYC. Dave sounds great as does the rest of the band.
I'm stoked for A.C. on 3/24!!
Originally posted by perilouspete
fryingdutchman you pretty much own everyone.....sick comebacks, well put. top class wit.
And it appears that the runway into the audience has gone the way of the headset....
Thanks DLR's Cock for the videos. Spectacular!!! The band is on top of its game and Dave's vocals sound great to me. As for Eddie Trunk...he's OBVIOUSLY a personal friend of Hagar and he has an agenda. So who cares what he thinks?
Hey it's NewYork's MSG did anyone expect anything less than Van Halen's "A" game?
They should drop Pretty Woman and play either Outta Space, Big River, You and Your Blues or HBSD. The new album is begging to be played live and they should be promoting it. Still, after suffering a decade of Bland Halen with the screaming idiot, this setlist will do just fine thanks.Originally Posted by Full Bug
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/ar...re-garden.html
Of the small handful of new songs that Van Halen played at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night, one managed to sum up the spirit of the band’s current reunion tour. It was “The Trouble with Never,” a typically full-throttle contraption: grinding riffs, bashing drums, deviously catchy chorus. And as David Lee Roth spat out the lyrics, it was easy to apply them obliquely to his situation in the band: years of estrangement and acrimony with the brothers Van Halen, followed
“Every Einstein’s assigned / A Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber,” he sang. Which was meant to be funny, and probably a little pointed. The bigger message of “The Trouble with Never,” telegraphed by its title, took aim at a certain kind of declarative vow — like those made by Eddie Van Halen over the years, when people speculated about Mr. Roth’s return. Maybe that’s reading too much into the song, but at one point, after an especially ferocious guitar solo, there was also a spoken interlude over a slowed-down groove, culminating in the aside “Selective amnesia is only a heartbeat away.”
Van Halen — with Alex Van Halen on drums and Eddie’s son, Wolfgang Van Halen, now filling Michael Anthony’s spot on bass — has been through this sort of thing before. After parting ways with Mr. Roth in 1985, the band installed Sammy Hagar as lead singer and scored four consecutive No. 1 albums, followed by a less charmed affiliation with Gary Cherone. The first reunion tour with Mr. Roth, about five years ago, was a commercial smash, and an effective reminder that the most committed fans still see him as the enduring face of the Van Halen franchise: its Connery, its Shatner.
What’s different this time around is the existence of a new studio release, “A Different Kind of Truth” (Interscope). The album has a respectable spark, and yet the show included only four of its tracks; on one of them, “China Town,”Mr. Roth momentarily forgot the lyrics. The rest of the set list consisted of well-honed nostalgia, without any trace of material from the Hagar era: selective amnesia, as the man said.
From a crowd-satiation standpoint, this was fine. The band’s center has always been Eddie Van Halen, who still deserves his exalted stature among rock guitarists; even his heavier riffs came threaded with filigree, and his solos were bold in their extravagance. The one solo that didn’t come fastened to a song, late in the show, featured not only his signature tapping technique but also a drift of cascading arpeggios, rendered beautifully strange by his finessing of a volume knob. There could have been more of this.
But then the band had a lot of songs to get through, from “Runnin’ With the Devil” to “Ain’t Talkin’ About Love” to signature covers of “You Really Got Me” (The Kinks) and “Oh, Pretty Woman” (Ray Orbison). “Panama” was churning but precise, and “Hot for Teacher,” with its double bass drum cadence like a jackrabbit’s pulse, was urgent and galvanizing. “How ‘bout a little candy from a stranger, hot stuff?” Mr. Roth ad-libbed, adding a weirdly predatory layer to the song.
Since we’re back on the subject of Mr. Roth: at 56, he continues to convey both a busy work ethic and an insistent effortlessness. Looking trim in sequins and shiny fabrics, he covered the breadth of the stage with fluid footwork, though his trademark high kick was scarce. His voice suggested a similar constriction, coming across strongest in his barking, regular-guy mid-range. In a band so heavy on virtuosity, he’s touchingly mortal.
But he’s still selling a fantasy. Halfway through “Jump,” the inevitable finale, some confetti cannons fired at the foot of the stage, and he dashed off, returning with a giant checkered flag. He waved it to and fro, signaling a crossing of the finish line. Who the winner was he didn’t say, but he looked like he’d been waiting for that moment all night.
Hey everyone. All my vids are on my computer. Wanna post them. Do I need to upload to YouTube first or can I do directly? Theyre from an iPhone and they're in .mov format. Can't do anything til kids are off to school at 8:30! Thanks!
Stay Frosty!
THE DAY IS DONZO LET'S HAVE SOME FUNZO!!
Not surprised =VH= would bring it for MSG. Thanks for the great show reviews everybody.
Oh yeah. And Trunk is a tool.
My karma just ran over your dogma.
Chinatown 3D
Last edited by ELVIS; 02-29-2012 at 08:01 AM.
Here's an awesome sounding recording...
Them dudes can f**king jam.
Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee Roth
Random thoughts after a 3 hour sleep:
Dave could sing through a communicator from the original Star Trek series and make it work and look cool, so the headset didn't bother me. That being said, it clearly appeared to bother the shit out of him. It takes an awful lot of futzing with and repositioning. If he doesn't give up on it all together, one can only imagine he favors the hands free way of putting on his show.
Dave was a bit silly in Chinatown in that during the choruses, he kept mimicking that little china girl walk with his hands together and his big ass smile. Not what you picture him doing when you blast the CD, but what the hay. He deliberately boots the second verse to set up his "quick! to the chorus! I know the way!" line.
I recognized the two Charvel Art Series axes from the EVH workshop tour with Chip Ellis and Chris Canella. Beautiful stripes and colors! I loved the one that was white with black stripes with a field of red in the middle.
Ed clearly is beaming over what his ORIGINAL front man brings to the live show table. An hour and 45 of genuine smiles. Last tour, I'm not so sure about the genuine part.
At the end of I'll Wait, Dave lines himself up with Ed much like Fryingdutchman's avatar. Light and the music fade and they're still there. An awesome mental snapshot for me.
Dave does an awesomely funny bit in EWS that I can do no justice, which basically has the punchline of it being ladies night.
Tattoo was ions better live than the CD. More shake to it, no keys and a ripping solo with no power chords behind it.
No diss on Mike A what so ever, but getting him back at this point would only serve nostalgic purposes. The new guy owns the role. All other current rock bands must be jealous they don't have someone as solid as him. He clearly broke his ass from '08 to now. Hats off kid and thank you!
HAIL and GGB we're my favorites of the evening. It is a bit odd how Dave's verses to these two, and Women In Love for that matter, are just skit scats of the originals. It's no harm no foul, but still, notably different.
There was a guy with an old Roth Army shirt right behind me. Said Ol' #1 with a picture is Dave on the back. I pointed at his chest and said, "Hey! Who are you?!" which I think freaked him out a little. I think he said his name was Pat, but I'm not sure. Said he was a fan of the DLR Army, but didn't sound as though he was a current regular. He also filled the air with some of the good kind of smoke about half way in. Forgot to thank him for that!
With Dave's voice sounding stellar, I held out some hope that they'd take a stab at Blood & Fire, but once he yelled, "Say you missed us!! Say it like you mean it!!" in Hot For Teacher, I figured it wasn't happening.
The songs are virtually seamless. Never a drop of in between song banter, aside from "how's it sound so far?" maybe once. All spoken shenanigans are within the songs.
The black and white still shots of the band (not the Tattoo video ones) on the screen are awesome. They really should've put a couple of those in the CD cover.
My predictions for any Thursday 3/1 setlist switch ups are Outta Love and Mean Street return and who knows, Blood & Fire is not out of reach!
Ah. Time for work. This is gonna suck.
Let's start at the beginning! YRGM part one. Sorry for my random screams - couldn't control myself at times.
Part 2 of YRGM to follow- will continue to post what I got.
Sorry - didn't get whole songs - had to enjoy as well!!!
This video is Private !!
having technical issues!!! still trying to figure it out!
should be ok now - still loading up new ones.
YRGM part 2
EWS part 1
EWS part 2
It's getting all WAVY!!!
RWTD
Romeo
awww. EWS p2 cuts right at that killer kick. haha!!!!
You scream like a girl.
That's ok, when I saw them in 2007 I did too.....and probably will when I see them again in June.
Nice seats by the way. Hey man! That's David Lee Roth & Eddie Van Halen in front of you....HOLY SHIT!
*avatar - nice job on the shirt - tattoo cutout.
“Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”
SGMAD
MOTHERFUCKING DAVE!
Nice kick at 2:04 mark. Mofo still has da mojo.
small clip of Chinatown
TOO LATE!!!
These guys are bringing it !!
Momshell, went looking for you between sets, but couldn't bring myself to scream "MOMSHELL!!" like Stella into a crowd. Was that a show or what?
Nice seats.
Holy shit yeah!!! Sorry I missed you. We were at the bar area between sets.
I'm still trying to post more vids. Have STW, Unchained, DTNA, TWN, Women In Love, and HAIL. YouTube is being a pain in the ass!
any vids of HAIL? sorry if I missed it...Tx
Now who`s that babe with the fab-u-lous shad-ow?
PROPS to Momshell! I don't think I could put together a coherent message much less a sentence after seeing VH in MSG other than OMG OMG OMG!
"After seeing a Van Halen show, you run out in the street and say 'car, go ahead try to hit my ass. Building, go ahead and fall on me. I won't feel a thing'" DLR
" You ever notice when I scream I sound like Mr. Bill on acid" DLR
Yeah, I was just about to post this one, it really kicks ass.Here's an awesome sounding recording...
Teacher: Junior, why are you late to class?
Junior: My mom was uploading Van Halen concert videos. Have you seen my grades?
Love it!
HAIL!!!
Not the whole thing but almost 3 mins!
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