Best 1984 tour video? [Archive] - The Diamond David Lee Roth Army

silverfish

09-25-2010, 11:05 PM

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.

indeedido

09-26-2010, 09:57 AM

The only one I've ever seen is the Montreal show. There must be more out there, but I've not seen them. I'd be interested to get my hands on one of the '84 shows too

VAiN

09-26-2010, 11:19 AM

There are only a handful of 84 shows out there, most aren't complete. Montreal is the one to get..

Diamondjimi

09-26-2010, 11:33 AM

I remember seeing a copy of the Toronto show back in the day. I've yet to see a copy of it out there. I recall it was of the same quality as the Montreal show...

VanHalenFan5150

09-26-2010, 12:54 PM

I've got Montreal. Las Vegas has been circulated out there, and I think Uniondale, New York... Heard about Toronto before but never seen it. If I was allowed to send things via snail mail, I would, but currently I can only upload without getting in trouble with the parents... Even then, that's still 9 gigs of space, that'd take forever. Any audio bootlegs however, i'd gladly upload! :hee:

EDIT: Looked up Las Vegas, it's not a complete show. I didn't think it was.

silverfish

09-26-2010, 01:22 PM

Thanks for the replies. If anyone knows where to find the '84 Montreal show,
lemme know. I've been trying torrents searches but have come up empty so far.
Guess I'll have to be content with YouTube clips (http://www.google.com/search?q=van+halen+montreal+1984&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=van+halen+montreal+1984&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=z1a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=iv&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=_4GfTL_tF4OKlwfmkszfCg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CB8QqwQwAA&fp=9d6eeca7724bdc1a).

VanHalenFan5150

09-26-2010, 01:39 PM

I found it on a trade site, had numerous Rapidshare links, and I downloaded the show... this was probably in May... The site went AWOL as far as I know

Cato

09-26-2010, 05:39 PM

the castle donnington '84 DVD I made sucks as hell!

VAiN

09-26-2010, 05:42 PM

the castle donnington '84 DVD I made sucks as hell!

Yeah, Donnington is for serious collectors only... it's NOT a great video...

Diamondjimi

09-26-2010, 05:43 PM

Cato, ya got the whole show?

Little Texan

09-26-2010, 05:45 PM

Thanks for the replies. If anyone knows where to find the '84 Montreal show,
lemme know. I've been trying torrents searches but have come up empty so far.
Guess I'll have to be content with YouTube clips (http://www.google.com/search?q=van+halen+montreal+1984&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=van+halen+montreal+1984&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=z1a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=iv&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=_4GfTL_tF4OKlwfmkszfCg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CB8QqwQwAA&fp=9d6eeca7724bdc1a).

I have Montreal, but it is on VHS. Same with the US Festival. :(

Cato

09-26-2010, 06:37 PM

Cato, ya got the whole show?
I don't know if it's the whole show. probably not. the footage is 63 minutes long....

Diamondjimi

09-26-2010, 07:16 PM

Not pro shot ,eh?

Cato

09-26-2010, 07:28 PM

very poor audience shot. but it's hard to get.

VanHalenFan5150

09-26-2010, 07:53 PM

the castle donnington '84 DVD I made sucks as hell!

Still, it'd be a nice addition to my collection... Would you ever u/l it? :hee:

Va Beach VH Fan

09-26-2010, 07:56 PM

and I think Uniondale, New York...

Otherwise known as Nassau Coliseum, Long Island....

VanHalenFan5150

09-26-2010, 07:59 PM

Precisely. The world's biggest parking lot...

Va Beach VH Fan

09-26-2010, 08:03 PM

Oh, it's still there and regularly used... Van Halen has played there more than most any other arena.... The Islanders have been trying to get a new arena built for years now....

VanHalenFan5150

09-26-2010, 08:04 PM

No, I meant that Long Island is undoubtedly the world's biggest parking lot. Just try driving on the L-I-E

ace diamond

09-27-2010, 02:22 PM

1984 videos in my stash:
montreal(complete)
castle donninton(complete)
las vegas(incomplete)
all are audience, montreal is really killer audience video, las vegas is kinda muddy sound, and donnington has ok sound, but the video is crap.

sadaist

09-27-2010, 04:58 PM

1984 videos in my stash:
montreal(complete)
castle donninton(complete)
las vegas(incomplete)
all are audience, montreal is really killer audience video, las vegas is kinda muddy sound, and donnington has ok sound, but the video is crap.

It's a fucking crime. There has to be a pro-shot, high quality film of this tour just gathering dust in Eddies damn vault. It's not fucking fair!

Michael has said he has a lot of stuff, but would be sued to high heaven if he ever let it out. The brothers would know instantly where it came from.

ace diamond

09-28-2010, 02:58 PM

It's a fucking crime. There has to be a pro-shot, high quality film of this tour just gathering dust in Eddies damn vault. It's not fucking fair!

Michael has said he has a lot of stuff, but would be sued to high heaven if he ever let it out. The brothers would know instantly where it came from.

van halen former manager back then, i forget his name but he is dead now, neil something or other, as well as a van halen anthology
book, the 1984 largo concerts, both nights, were pro-shot but the in-house video system.....as most concerts in the capital centre were.
however, at present, the only pro-shot 1984 footage to ever surface, is "hot for teacher" from donnington from bbc's "the old grey whistle test", and mtv's "lost weekend" segment with contest winner.

the largo 1980 and 1984 footage is confirmed to exist, alongside oakland 1981, but other than the 1981 clips on mtv,
none of any of this stuff has ever turned up.

all i know is, somebody somewhere has this stuff and they're sitting on it.

78/84 guy

09-30-2010, 07:22 PM

The rumor is Pete Angelus has pro shot show's from every tour. The Montreal show is pretty good. The camera only move's around a little on one song in the beggining of the show I think.

rocking ron

10-06-2010, 03:05 PM

Montreal '84 is the best one from that era, I've also Las Vegas '84 but that one is incomplete. I know they've taped
Donington '84 completely but the quality is very very bad.l

DFVH5150

10-25-2010, 11:40 AM

I don't know about an '84 Toronto show unless it just sprung up in the bootleg market very recently--you sure about that? And the Uniondale is '82, not '84.

VanHalenFan5150

10-26-2010, 09:32 PM

Pete Angelus... Man, if I was to mistakenly shoot him in the head and accidentally pilfer his video collection... :hee:

Va Beach VH Fan

10-27-2010, 03:51 PM

I have Montreal, but it is on VHS. Same with the US Festival. :(

I have Montreal on fucking Beta.....

Va Beach VH Fan

10-27-2010, 03:53 PM

the 1984 largo concerts, both nights, were pro-shot but the in-house video system.....as most concerts in the capital centre were.

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

Jagermeister

10-27-2010, 03:54 PM

They all suck IMO. No good footage from 84 in circulation.

Va Beach VH Fan

10-27-2010, 03:58 PM

They all suck IMO. No good footage from 84 in circulation.

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

Jagermeister

10-27-2010, 04:03 PM

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

10-27-2010, 04:30 PM

Jagermeister

10-27-2010, 04:51 PM

VanHalenFan5150

10-27-2010, 08:34 PM

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

ppg960

10-28-2010, 12:23 PM

Va Beach VH Fan

10-28-2010, 07:56 PM

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

10-30-2010, 09:41 AM

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

10-30-2010, 09:20 PM

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

10-30-2010, 09:43 PM

Well what do you have?

silverfish

10-31-2010, 12:29 PM

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

10-31-2010, 04:07 PM

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

11-01-2010, 03:07 PM

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

11-01-2010, 03:15 PM

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

11-01-2010, 05:53 PM

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

11-03-2010, 08:38 AM

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!

ace diamond

11-10-2010, 07:32 PM

cool fucking shit, kid.........you oughtta give your pop some beer money for that one!

src

11-17-2010, 02:19 PM

I saw in this post someone said mike had all this footage ,he may have audio no video,here is what i know on that he is friends with Jason slater from snake river who is a CVH fan,i gave Jason a couple things who in turn told Mike about it,.Mike was interested because he did not have anything so i guess Jason gave him copys

philouze

11-24-2011, 08:14 AM

Montreal kicks major ass. I often watch it (have it in .avi format) and really enjoy it.
It's just too bad nobody shot the Indianapolis show. The audio is great, IMHO; Dave is On Fire (homecoming), and the audience is wild.

Other than that, I have the US Fest and Kirschner stuff.

Terry

12-03-2011, 07:49 PM

Not really so much a case of Montreal being the best 1984 tour video, but really the only 1984 tour video in terms of bootleg circulation.

There's also the Donnington HFT clip, but I've never seen another 1984 start-to-finish show outside of Montreal. Come to think of it, I haven't seen any other 1984 footage beyond the brief snippets MTV aired (Lost Weekend with Van Halen).

Someone once told me in an email that they had the entire Donnington show on video, and they offered to trade me some other shows for it. However, said trade fell through on their end, with a bunch of excuses offered in place of producing the actual show ("Well, my dvd player is broken", "I can't trade right now; family emergency", "I promised the person who gave me the footage that I wouldn't give it to anyone else" - just the biggest bunch of lame-ass rationales rather than manning up and admitting they never had the footage in the first place).

I mean, I'd enjoy seeing some other 1984 footage other than Montreal, but if such stuff exists out there in circulation it's the first time I'm hearing about it.

fletch

12-29-2011, 12:39 PM

I cant believe you guys dont have more DVD bootlegs! you should be ashamed of yourselves. The montreal 84 footage you posted sucks...very generated. There are great versions of this show out there. Hell even the donnington is very generated. 10 years ago there was great footage around. Looks like someone has affected the gene pool again!!

philouze

01-07-2012, 03:22 AM

My dear Fletch,
in the meantime, I happened to get the 1982 Largo video (classic) and two shows from 2007 (Philly & L.A.), the latter being unwatchable, IMHO.
Sure, I have some DLR stuff, (Montreal 86, Finland 99, Japan 2002 or 3, that Party Dude thing) but I'd surely sell my ass for a video from Indy 84.

78/84 guy

01-07-2012, 01:13 PM

There is part of a 1984 show from Vegas around also. I remember seeing a clip of it on You Tube. It wasn't the Montreal show. It was closre filmed from the right side of the stage I think.

NichtSicher

02-13-2012, 02:58 PM

You should try it here.
Maybe these Links are still working.
http://theultimatebootlegexperience2.blogspot.com/2010/08/van-halen-1984-04-19-montreal-canada_1520.html
This is Montreal 1984 (FULL SHOW).
You will find other Van Halen stuff too.I saw a 1982 &`83 DVD.And some other Audio stuff you maybe will like to get.
Enjoy

philouze

02-15-2012, 04:32 PM

Oh yeah, TUBE... One of the best Blogspots EVER...
I got me a Midnight Oil bootleg there (Sydney 85, Oils On The Water video) Great show, FUCKIN HUGE band (at least for me)
Keep the TUBE going, it's worth it, really...

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