Classic Van Halen: The Hidden Filmed History

[Unchainme]

This is insulting as well, not only did they releaesed a DVD full of Van Hagar videos, They only put 3 Dave era songs on the DVD, God I'm sick of Ed and Al and there Bullshit.

Here what videos are on the DVD.

"Jump"
"Panama"
"Hot for Teacher"
"When it's Love"
"Finish What Ya Started"
"Poundcake"
"Right Now"
"Dreams"
"Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)"
"Can't Stop Lovin' You"
"Not Enough"
"Humans Being"
Where the hell are the Oakland '81 tracks, and Oh Pretty Woman, and how about The US Festival. Its Bullshit like this that pisses me off.

[Unchainme]

The awesome part of the Oakland '81 show is watching all the fans trying to touch Dave like he was God, Its nothing like the Hagar shows at all, pplus you could obviously tell that the shows in oakland were sold out unlike the recent tours with Hagar.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Maybe we should blackmail the Warner Bros office.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

OR maybe we should start some kind of press campaign.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Just sent this e-mail to Blabbermouth, and will be sending it to many places in the next few weeks, I would appreciate it if you would too.

We are an army, lets act like it, shall we?

"The Van Halen brothers, and Warner Records, constantly release Van Halen DVDs and CDs featuring frontman Sammy Hagar, a man many die hard Van Halen fans despise. Because, as we all know, original frontman David Lee Roth fronted the band through their glory years, and during his time with the band have sold 34 million albums to date, compared to the 16 million sold with Hagar, and the 500,000 sold with third frontman, former Extreme frontman, Gary Cherone.

So, maybe you can understand the frustration that Van Halen's real fans feel when you can currently buy 2 live Videos/DVDs featuring Sammy Hagar on vocals and a greatest hits Video/DVD featuring 13 Sammy Hagar-era videos and just 3 David Lee Roth-era videos.

However, the Van Halen brothers constantly claim that footage of the band from 1978-1984 does not exist. Well, I here have proof that a lot of footage DOES in fact exsist. The following list contains each and every known concert footage of Van Halen between 1978 and 1984...

1.) 5/13/79: Orpheum Theater, Boston MA....Video recordings Exists.

2.) The "WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST" "WORLD INVASION" Tour 1980....
"A Dutch cinematographer (reportedly named Snade Krellmans) was hired to document the tour on film and the band intended to release a documentary that would rival the WHO's The KIds Are Alright and LED ZEPPELIN's THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME. UNFORTUNATELY, the footage was never released."

3.) 9/19-20/80: Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA... "At Least One of these L.A. shows was filmed. DAVE even invited the camera crew on stage to film the audience."

4.) 6/11, 12, & 13/81: Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA... According to DAVE, ALL THREE OF THESE SHOWS were filmed, but only the third night was a keeper. According to WARNER BROTHERS, special attention was paid to the FIRST show...There remains some confusion about exactly which show was used for the (three) videos."

5.) 7/28/81: Capitol Centre, Largo, MD... WARNER BROTHERS films these shows.

6.) 10/11-12/82: Capitol Centre, Largo, MD...WARNER BROTHERS filmed these shows.

7.) 10/27/82: Montreal Forum, Montreal, QE...Video recordings exist.

8.) 11/13/82: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY...Video recordings exist.

9.)1/16/83: Paliebro, Caracas, VENEZUELA....Video recording exist.

10) 1/22/83: Ibirapuera Gymnasium, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL...Video recording exists.

11.) 2/11/83: Auditorio Obras, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA...Video
recording exist.

12.) 5/29/83:US FESTIVAL Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA...Video exist. "Four of the songs performed were included in a special ShowTime presentation of the three-day event: "Running With the Devil." "(Oh) Pretty Woman," "You Really got ME," " and "Happy Trails". The film was done by Pacific Video and was produced by Robert Lombard and Noel Monk. Donn Landee was in charge of the audio. All four tunes were touched up with numerous overdubs prior to being shown."

13.) 3/26/04: Capitol Centre, Largo, MD...

WARNER BROTHERS films this show.

14.) 4/19/84: Montreal Forum, MOntreal, QE...Video recording exist.

15.) 8/18/84: Donington Park Castle, Donington, Leicestershire, UK...This VAN HALEN show was FILMED and the performance of "Hot For Teacher" was used by European MTV.

Now, I myself have managed to obtain a bootleg DVD of Van Halen @ the US FEST in 1983, along with other footage including-

-Promotional footage for Van Halen's debut album
-Van Halen performing on TV stations
-Promo videos for Pretty Woman/Jump/Panama/Hot For Teacher
-Countless interviews
-A short film made for TV supposedly showing Van Halen backstage at the US FEST in 1983.

So, we at the Roth Army are sick of both Eddie and Alex Van Halen and Warner Bros Records conning REAL Van Halen fans with the rubbish they have produced since 1985. WE WANT SOME OFFICIAL LIVE DOCUMENTS, WE WANT A RETROSPECTIVE DVD WHICH DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE IMPOSTER WE KNOW AS SAMMY HGAR-THE RED ROCKED TAMPON.

We do, however need as much public attention in the rock world as possible, so we would appreciate it if you could report on our cause, along with the other places I am going to contact.

Thankyou very much,
Shaun Ponsonby
One of the 15,000 members of the Roth Army."

[Georgevader]

I picked up the US Festival show on ebay for £16, picture and sound is good not great, I've also seen advertised shows from Argentina and Brazil from the South American Tour in 83, and also a show from 82 at Largo which is supposedly a proffesional shoot.

[Nickdfresh]

Just imagine all the audio recordings from the soundboards that VAN HALEN must have as well. I they wanted to, they could put out a comprehensive live package with virtually every CVH sound on it.

[ODShowtime]

sooner or later economics will win out and something will come out. Most likely when none of us give a shit anymore.

And judging from the quality control around Ed lately, it'll be all fucked up too.

Actually, what I really see coming out is a two disc with half Dave half Sam. That's what I really see. So we get all the goods all squeezed up on one DVD and then a big helping of cheez for dessert.

And that will be in 5 years

[ben halen]

I just watched the '81 Oakland videos for the zillionth time and I'm still fuckin amazed. I was going to start a thread about how sick they are but I saw this thread. Eddie, call Jimmy Page and ask him for some pointers on how to make a proper CVH DVD! I don't know if CVH will ever reunite, but I'd be pretty satisfied with a kickass DVD that contained all available material.

[Hardrock69]

No shit. The Led Zep DVD from last year is fucking amazing.

Ed needs to go to the Steve Harris School Of Fan Care.

Look at what Iron Maiden did last year on the Early Years DVD? THREE FULL FUCKING SHOWS!!!! PLUS SHITLOADS OF INTERVIEWS, BIOS AND OTHER SHIT!!!

Maiden knows how to treat their fans right.

Ed does not know Jack unless it comes in a fucking 55-gallon drum.

[Brett]

Originally posted by Unchainme


This is insulting as well, not only did they releaesed a DVD full of Van Hagar videos, They only put 3 Dave era songs on the DVD, God I'm sick of Ed and Al and there Bullshit.

Here what videos are on the DVD.

"Jump"
"Panama"
"Hot for Teacher"
"When it's Love"
"Finish What Ya Started"
"Poundcake"
"Right Now"
"Dreams"
"Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)"
"Can't Stop Lovin' You"
"Not Enough"
"Humans Being"
Where the hell are the Oakland '81 tracks, and Oh Pretty Woman, and how about The US Festival. Its Bullshit like this that pisses me off.

Hello McFly? V-I-D-E-O hits. Those are the songs they made official videos for with Dave, minus "Pretty Woman." They also left a bunch of Sam-era ones off there too.

You could I guess make a case for the Oakland vids, the VH 1 promos, and the '79 promos as actual videos, but they weren't made for MTV like everything else was.

[Matt White]

'79 Promo videos?

Is that "You're No Good" "Dance the Night Away" & "Bottoms Up"?

I've got those on a bootleg video tape....Always wondered about 'em!

[Brett]

Yep, yep, those.

I am pretty sure there is something floating around for "...And The Cradle Will Rock," but I've never seen it.

[Matt White]

Right on!:D

It's CRIMINAL those aren't on that Video collection!!!

Most people I know & have met have NEVER seen 'em!!!

[Brett]

Of course they should be, but it's just because they weren't official videos the band created for the MTV world...obviously because there was no MTV.

Nope most people haven't seen those. A lot of people haven't seen the VH1 promos apart from "You Really Got Me" either.