So lemme aggsk y'all a question...well well well...Do yous think that Classic Van Hal

[Loons The Great]

en atually had a 500 song repetoire in the glorious club days??...that is according to the legend or tall tale tol' by the Diamond Dave...well well well...Yez Yeah...alright alright nah...

[DLR7884]

500 seems a bit high....

Between album songs, demos, and tons of covers I'd guess they had somewhere between 200 and 300 songs that they EVER played between 1974 and 1985 (1996, 2000 as well).

DLR7884
500 is a fucking shitload.

[Loons The Great]

Nah, Lead Belly, the great bluesman(one of Diamond Dave's blues heroes) had a repetoire that he claimed numbered 500. He sang folk, blues, protest, country an' western, prison songs, chain-gang songs, spirituals, and children songs.

[Panamark]

Even at 200 it would be fucking impressive !

[bobgnote]

1977 Oakland concert with Ozzy

I was given comps for a really dead Oakland CA Sabbath reunion show where Van Halen opened.

Ed could play Eruption, and everything else sounded like crap. How many other shows like that, before the window of good sync, in re Hot for Teacher and New Halen?

That bitchin rock star guy turns out tons of crap for millions, you guys wait around like scrapdogs in vast numbers, AND YOU STILL DON'T GET ANY UPSCALE NEW MATERIAL, IN TWENTY YEARS.

I bet the New Halen revival comes up with more material than Dave does, UNLESS Dave gets real and blows off his French fan, one time.

[rustoffa]

Re: 1977 Oakland concert with Ozzy

Originally posted by bobgnote
you guys wait around like scrapdogs in vast numbers

Do tell..........

[Terry]

500 does seem high.

DLR7884 seems to have it at a more resonable number. A couple hundred seems about right.

[bobgnote]

Bet it went down below a hundred quick as could be.

You guys may have seen something early in VH I didn't.

Go ahead and slap it up here. Anyway, being able to grind a couple hundred tunes is nothing for a show group like Weinberg or Schaeffer, but DLR parts then were not that easy. Weirdness allows the practitioner to survive. No wonder you guys are so inconsistent up here at DLR blog. When I play, Weird Al works. Unlike DLR, his rep covers all the other stuff I played until MY shutdown.

Bet you guys liked that accordion record Weirdo put out. He can't really get it up, even with dire faker with him, but it was a long career. DAVE could suddenly bounce UP, with strategic advantages over VH and Weird Al. Dave could be the great, weird comback weirdo of Century 21. Or don't you think so?

Couple THOUSAND tunes is viable for me, on guitar, if I practice. Crunchy ones that you guys like are what I do. Carrying a thousand or more means maintaining a level of confidence and ability to hold the drummer and talk to the MC, with the axe. I know there's a bassist who's good, but I haven't met the fucker yet. All that recital crap is a process that can be mastered. You aren't getting the encores you want after all these years; too bad, huh?

[academic punk]

Originally posted by bobgnote
You guys may have seen something early in VH I didn't.

Go ahead and slap it up here. Anyway, being able to grind a couple hundred tunes is nothing for a show group like Weinberg or Schaeffer, but DLR parts then were not that easy. Weirdness allows the practitioner to survive. No wonder you guys are so inconsistent up here at DLR blog. When I play, Weird Al works. Unlike DLR, his rep covers all the other stuff I played until MY shutdown.

Bet you guys liked that accordion record Weirdo put out. He can't really get it up, even with dire faker with him, but it was a long career. DAVE could suddenly bounce UP, with strategic advantages over VH and Weird Al. Dave could be the great, weird comback weirdo of Century 21. Or don't you think so?

Couple THOUSAND tunes is viable for me, on guitar, if I practice. Crunchy ones that you guys like are what I do. Carrying a thousand or more means maintaining a level of confidence and ability to hold the drummer and talk to the MC, with the axe. I know there's a bassist who's good, but I haven't met the fucker yet. All that recital crap is a process that can be mastered. You aren't getting the encores you want after all these years; too bad, huh?

Does anyone have a fucking clue what this guy is talking about???

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by academic punk
Does anyone have a fucking clue what this guy is talking about???

Some of it's pretty funny.

:D

[Redballjets88]

i heard it was 300 hundred in the club days...at least my VH:the early years dvd says