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Van Halen Tour arrives in Greensboro last Sunday.
Man.....Nothing like starting early! Eddie's probably driving everyone insane with his typical per show manic episodes.
Sorry had to add my comments.......
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Van Halen prepares to kick off tour in Greensboro
6-8-04
By Mike Kernels, Staff Writer, News & Record
GREENSBORO -- The first of 12 tractor-trailers rumbled to a halt outside the Greensboro Coliseum around midnight Saturday. Six hours later, it opened its doors to reveal black and silver containers. Lots of them, stacked high and tight. Each one handled as if it were a newborn. And on each, written in magic marker, a household name: Van Halen. (Man, Eddie’s got a thing for these magic markers hunnnn.....after marking up the neck of his guitars, so he could remember where the main chord frets were)
After nine years away from the stage, the band reunites in Greensboro on Friday for a 47-date tour. (already canceled two, three more on chopping block currently) In a nationwide conference call with reporters last week, vocalist Sammy Hagar, the band's on-again, off-again and now on-again frontman, promised: "The set list will kill you." (No f--kstick if just killed Van Halen 1974 - 2004, RIP)
But before that show can begin, another one began to unfold Sunday. The crates came off the trucks and the crew began the massive chore of setting up lights, sound and sets so the band can start rehearsing today or tomorrow.
(WTF, Barnum and Bailey Circus doesn't take 5 days to setup, oh.....it's starting to make sense now.......)
Greensboro has seen its share of great acts come through, but seldom do they start here. The last time one did was AC/DC in 1996. Before that, it was The Cars in the late 1980s. (Only 2 National acts in 24 damn years!!!.... no wonder Greensboro is masturbation capital of the world) …. (Now in 2004 it's “Runaway Train Wreak”, formally known as the band named Van Halen)
This tour was originally scheduled to begin in Richmond, Va. -- only multiple days couldn't be secured there for rehearsal. So band organizers looked for another point on the map that was within a day's drive of the tour's second stop, Hershey, Pa. They chose Greensboro, a city where they've always been warmly received. (Righttttt, it's like having to screw the ugly second pic sister!)
"It's always been a great market for us," Alex Van Halen said during last week's teleconference. "We'll go to Greensboro and hang out for a week and get to a know a few -- and make a few new friends." (This guy is more full of shit that Spammy. Should have done a family plan deal on the partial tongue removal operation at MD Anderson. Hell, Alex thinks this trip is National Lampoon Family Vacation or something.)
Putting together their show is a massive undertaking. It takes five tour buses, 12 53-foot tractor-trailers, 3,000 amps of electricity and 92,000 pounds of equipment. (That’s a lot of gear to still sound like shit boys) When it's all assembled, three large video screens will surround a simple stage of two simple letters -- V and H -- that you can see from at least a half block away. (This is almost exactly the Tour specs for the Britney Spears 2004 Tour, who sorry makes sense now.........)
Right now, an electrician is checking outlets. Carpenters are swinging hammers. Riggers are working in the rafters. On the arena floor -- an area off-limits to the uninitiated because of the potential for falling objects (you mean like the Tour dropping out of the sky like the Hindenburg)
Go down the hall. Behind Door No. 1 will be the dressing room for the Van Halen brothers, guitar god Eddie and drummer deity Alex. (Mannnnn this reporter is worse than Spammy & Alex talking out of the same arse like conjoined twins) Behind Door No. 2: Hagar and bassist Michael Anthony. (Got to let the 2 faggots be in each others arms and I have proving pictures!) By contrast, the promoter whose Bishopville, S.C.-based company Van Halen tapped to set things up gets no star treatment. (Welcome to Eddie's dry f--k world pal...)
Shitttt, cannot take anymore of this reporters diarrhea of the mouth. If interested you can read the rest yourself:
Contact Mike Kernels at 373-7096 or mkernels@news-record.com
Man.....Nothing like starting early! Eddie's probably driving everyone insane with his typical per show manic episodes.
Sorry had to add my comments.......
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Van Halen prepares to kick off tour in Greensboro
6-8-04
By Mike Kernels, Staff Writer, News & Record
GREENSBORO -- The first of 12 tractor-trailers rumbled to a halt outside the Greensboro Coliseum around midnight Saturday. Six hours later, it opened its doors to reveal black and silver containers. Lots of them, stacked high and tight. Each one handled as if it were a newborn. And on each, written in magic marker, a household name: Van Halen. (Man, Eddie’s got a thing for these magic markers hunnnn.....after marking up the neck of his guitars, so he could remember where the main chord frets were)
After nine years away from the stage, the band reunites in Greensboro on Friday for a 47-date tour. (already canceled two, three more on chopping block currently) In a nationwide conference call with reporters last week, vocalist Sammy Hagar, the band's on-again, off-again and now on-again frontman, promised: "The set list will kill you." (No f--kstick if just killed Van Halen 1974 - 2004, RIP)
But before that show can begin, another one began to unfold Sunday. The crates came off the trucks and the crew began the massive chore of setting up lights, sound and sets so the band can start rehearsing today or tomorrow.
(WTF, Barnum and Bailey Circus doesn't take 5 days to setup, oh.....it's starting to make sense now.......)
Greensboro has seen its share of great acts come through, but seldom do they start here. The last time one did was AC/DC in 1996. Before that, it was The Cars in the late 1980s. (Only 2 National acts in 24 damn years!!!.... no wonder Greensboro is masturbation capital of the world) …. (Now in 2004 it's “Runaway Train Wreak”, formally known as the band named Van Halen)
This tour was originally scheduled to begin in Richmond, Va. -- only multiple days couldn't be secured there for rehearsal. So band organizers looked for another point on the map that was within a day's drive of the tour's second stop, Hershey, Pa. They chose Greensboro, a city where they've always been warmly received. (Righttttt, it's like having to screw the ugly second pic sister!)
"It's always been a great market for us," Alex Van Halen said during last week's teleconference. "We'll go to Greensboro and hang out for a week and get to a know a few -- and make a few new friends." (This guy is more full of shit that Spammy. Should have done a family plan deal on the partial tongue removal operation at MD Anderson. Hell, Alex thinks this trip is National Lampoon Family Vacation or something.)
Putting together their show is a massive undertaking. It takes five tour buses, 12 53-foot tractor-trailers, 3,000 amps of electricity and 92,000 pounds of equipment. (That’s a lot of gear to still sound like shit boys) When it's all assembled, three large video screens will surround a simple stage of two simple letters -- V and H -- that you can see from at least a half block away. (This is almost exactly the Tour specs for the Britney Spears 2004 Tour, who sorry makes sense now.........)
Right now, an electrician is checking outlets. Carpenters are swinging hammers. Riggers are working in the rafters. On the arena floor -- an area off-limits to the uninitiated because of the potential for falling objects (you mean like the Tour dropping out of the sky like the Hindenburg)
Go down the hall. Behind Door No. 1 will be the dressing room for the Van Halen brothers, guitar god Eddie and drummer deity Alex. (Mannnnn this reporter is worse than Spammy & Alex talking out of the same arse like conjoined twins) Behind Door No. 2: Hagar and bassist Michael Anthony. (Got to let the 2 faggots be in each others arms and I have proving pictures!) By contrast, the promoter whose Bishopville, S.C.-based company Van Halen tapped to set things up gets no star treatment. (Welcome to Eddie's dry f--k world pal...)
Shitttt, cannot take anymore of this reporters diarrhea of the mouth. If interested you can read the rest yourself:
Contact Mike Kernels at 373-7096 or mkernels@news-record.com
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