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Has Spammy's Van Hagar actually sold out any shows yet ??
First Chicago show may have sold out. I was at the 2nd. It was not sold out. Close to sold out, but I saw quite a few upper level seats empty and some in the 200 level empty. Also a few in the back of the main floor were empty. Very few though. Chicago is a big rocker town so I can see shows should be sellouts.
Dont be so sure, we have already established that Van Hagar were selling tickets for second shows, when the first show was not even half sold out....
I still dont think they have had a real soldout show yet (apart from vegas). Im dying to see the final stats.. If they average less than 10,000 per show (in real paid attendance figures) its a joke..
BABY PANA 2 IS Coming !! All across the land, let the love and beer flow ! Love ya Mary Frances!
I can't BELIEVE what I'm READING HERE!!!! We're digging all over to find one or two sold-out shows on an ENTIRE VAN HALEN TOUR?!??!!?!??!! HOLY FUCK!!!!! The REAL Van Halen ALWAYS sold out, and everyone was there 8 hours EARLY to party in the parking lot BEFORE the show!!! This is fucking SAD!!! They can't even sell out more than a COUPLE of shows HERE and THERE!?!??!!? Fucking Ed, Al, and Sam have fucked it up so bad that even the pathetic SHEEP won't go to see them play...
Van Halen still naughty after all these years
R e v i e w
By Brandon Griggs
The Salt Lake Tribune
- "Salt Lake, let's rock!" shouted Van Halen vocalist Sammy Hagar to an adoring Utah crowd Tuesday night.
And rock they did.
It was an earplug kind of night at the not-so-full Delta Center, where Van Halen charged through two-plus hours of guitar riffs cranked to bone-rattling levels. Two decades after its commercial peak, the aging hard-rock band has done little to shed its naughty, party-boy image.
Bassist Michael Anthony guzzled from a fifth of Jack Daniel's. Hagar, 56 going on 15 in surfer shorts and wrap-around shades, boasted of a former Salt Lake City hangover and exhorted the women in the crowd to bare some skin. (Nobody did.)
So what about the music?
The four-member band - augmented by a synth player somewhere offstage - played with more enthusiasm and fire than they did with then-singer Gary Cherone during their last Utah visit in 1998. These guys are still having fun, and it shows.
Despite a tightly scripted set list that has varied little on this tour, the band somehow maintained a loose vibe onstage. Hagar sang while signing CDs, boxing gloves and even a VANHALN license plate, while guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen, hair hanging in his face and his fingers skittering over his strings, sometimes seemed lost in a private musical reverie.
The band opened with "Jump," its biggest hit, and played a half-dozen David Lee Roth-era tunes such as "Unchained" and "Ain't Talking About Love." But the set leaned more on
the band's more recent Hagar phase, from "Why Can't This Be Love" to new songs like the forgettable "It's About Time."
Hagar proved an affable frontman, prancing about the stage and toasting the audience with shots of bourbon - or was it tequila? But the band's most compelling figure was the guitarist who barely spoke at all.
Looking lean and fit, the shirtless Eddie Van Halen performed a hypnotic 15-minute solo that soared from humpback whale-like noodlings to crunching power chords and back again. Near the end he was joined onstage by his teenage son, Wolfgang, who showed some guitar flair of his own.
Tuesday's show proved that 26 years and three lead singers after they started, Van Halen can still bring the noise. It doesn't really matter who is singing - as long as Eddie Van Halen is on his game, this band will be worth hearing. griggs@sltrib.com
Originally posted by Panamark ...Im dying to see the final stats.. If they average less than 10,000 per show (in real paid attendance figures) its a joke..
We've know from the start that the SHAM HALEN 2004 tour was gonna be a bust! It cracks my ass up to see the low average of the attendance across the USA!!! Just shows how few SHEEP there actually are!!! They just make alot noise here to give the illusion that their numerous!
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