Official 5/7 Vancouver Meetup/Review Thread

[VanCanHalen]

If there is any faster medium to upload please let me know, and "I DO" have the YRGM footage with the "Jam session"":-)

[Romeo Delight]

If there is any faster medium to upload please let me know, and "I DO" have the YRGM footage with the "Jam session"":-)

What about Unchained??

[vaijuju]

So does anyone have a setlist for this show? It's not even up on setlist.fm yet.

It was the the show with Romeo Delight et Girl Gone Bad



Unchained
Runnin' with the Devil
She's the Woman
Romeo Delight
Tattoo
Everybody Wants Some!!
Somebody Get Me a Doctor
China Town
Hear About It Later
Oh, Pretty Woman
Drum Solo
You Really Got Me
The Trouble With Never
Dance The Night Away
I'll Wait
Hot for Teacher
Women in Love
Girl Gone Bad
Beautiful Girls
Ice Cream Man
Panama
Guitar Solo
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Jump

[vaijuju]

more :

http://www.youtube.com/user/bignellystyle?feature=watch

[VanCanHalen]

Here is part of Unchained, enjoy!

[Momshell]

Here is part of Unchained, enjoy!

HOLY SHIT!!! That is one amazing seat you had!! Unchained sounded awesome - love that jam in the middle. Great video! Thanks for filming and for posting!

[VAiN]

No clue where we are besides Eddie's solo....God, I swear, when they come here, I already have traded numbers with Momshell. I swear Sniper and I will be keeping the Army posted :-) Then again, we are on the west coast, so who knows if Momshell will stay awake LOL

To be honest with you, I think you should put the phone away and just enjoy the show. It's such an amazingly fun and exciting time you don't want to miss one second because you're fumbling around on your phone updating a setlist that we pretty much by heart. I'm totally not knocking on that by any means, it's just my opinion.
I waited until the 5th time that I caught them this tour to pull out the phone and give, somewhat, a little play by play.
It's fucking awesome - don't miss it, is my point here.

[SNIPER]

Here is part of Unchained, enjoy!

Damn!! That jam was off the fucking hook!! I need to find the whole damn thing!

[VanCanHalen]

I have some camera pics, what is the best way to upload them?

[Momshell]

BTW - teasers like this are dangerous with a bunch of crazies like us (ok, I'll speak for myself!) - I kept hitting refresh while I was driving home from work to see if the videos were posted yet! I know - not good!!

[Zempi]

Great! You Did have great shots and seats! Where were they??

I have some camera pics, what is the best way to upload them?

[VanCanHalen]

Row 2 Seats 18 &19 pretty much dead center

[Va Beach VH Fan]

And I thought that 1st review was fucked up.....

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http://www.straight.com/article-678656/vancouver/van-halens-glory-days-are-fading-fast

Van Halen's glory days are fading fast

Eddie finds poor old Dave's impassioned pleadings for a warmer scarf to be quite hilarious.

By Steve Newton, May 8, 2012
At Rogers Arena on Monday, May 7.

Some rock bands from the seventies can still bring the dynamite in both hands. The last time I saw Aerosmith—at Rogers Arena in 2010—they overcame rumours of a pending breakup by delivering a flawless, electrifying set. And two years before that, AC/DC roared through the same building with a stunning ferocity you just don't expect from 57-year-olds in short pants.

But Van Halen has not aged nearly as well as Aerosmith or AC/DC. As we discovered at Rogers Arena last night, the band is on its last legs as far as live performance goes, and those legs are unfortunately attached to the swivel-challenged hips of one David Lee Roth.

Diamond Dave doesn't get around much anymore, but that's okay because they've set up a little wooden floor at the centre of the stage for him to shimmy and slide around on while he makes the most of fidgeting with a long scarf that doubles as a sweat rag. That's okay by me; I realize that he's outgrown those flying scissorkicks he used to pull off in '84, and I could care less whether he runs around the stage or not. But I was really hoping that with all that standing around, he'd be able to focus on his singing and deliver some decent vocals. Sadly, that hardly ever happened.

Thank God for Eddie Van Halen. If it weren't for his shit-hot fretwork, the concert would have been an unmitigated disaster. But on rowdy VH classics like the opener "Unchained" and the set-closing "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love" the guitarist brought enough ballsy fire to distract you from the subpar singing. His extended solo--which incorporated bits of the instrumentals "Eruption" and "Cathedral"--no doubt made the guitar freaks in attendance yearn for that solo album he's been teasing them with forever.

As expected, the rhythm section of drummer Alex Van Halen (Eddie's older brother) and bassist Wolfgang Van Halen (Eddie's 21-year-old son) laid down a steady foundation for the guitar legend to soar over, except on the encore, "Jump", which sounded surprisingly out of sync.

There wasn't much to complain about as far as the set-list went, although a couple more tracks from the band's impressive new album, A Different Kind of Truth, would have been nice. And the mediocre "Women in Love" should have been replaced by the intense "Little Dreamer", which was a highlight the last time the band played here, in December 2007.

For that show, the staging was very basic, but this time around it was even more so. You had Eddie's batch of amps at one end of the stage and Wolfie's at the other, with Alex's drums in the middle, behind Roth's little shindig setup. Apart from a few sets of stairs and one enormous video screen, that was it for bells and whistles. Maybe the band is on a less-is-more kick. Or maybe the Van Halens don't want be stuck with truckloads of gear, in case you-know-who stops moving altogether.

[Romeo Delight]

You know VA, I haven't even heard of any of these "Writers". The real music critics in this city are not these guys. I am ignoring them

[Romeo Delight]

What about Romeo Delight? GGB? Those were such great tunes last night