CANCELLED: Van Halen - Live at the Soundwave Revolution - Australia 2011

[ThrillsNSpills]

I just hope he doesn't go back to the sustainer abuse.

[chefcraig]

What's with the wah-wah? I'd be pretty hard pressed to come up with a CVH tune that features it.

[jhale667]

Silly, my rack has that as well...

LOL, I don't even know if I said that correctly... :D

[jhale667]

Who else would have custom EVH swtich boxes with one selection being Cathedral? Ed also runs three amps. One for Al, One through all the effects, and one dry to various stage monitors.

Betting the "One, Two, Three" you're referring to there are the channel selections (Clean, VH 1-era crunch and "I keel you") for the EVH 5150 III head(s) the other two would be slaved off the main one. If his rig is still anything like it was in the day, probably to separate power amps for more cabs and side-fills too. IIRC the 4th switch on the channel-switcher is the FX loop on/off. Didn't know there was an EVH MiDi /loop switcher though, that's a new one on me...looks cool! :D

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Who else would have custom EVH swtich boxes with one selection being Cathedral? Ed also runs three amps. One for Al, One through all the effects, and one dry to various stage monitors.

Silly, my rack has that as well...

LOL, I don't even know if I said that correctly... :D

[Va Beach VH Fan]

You'd think that by, say, mid-August they'd be starting to rev things up....

Rent out the Forum for another week, test out the new stage....

One of you L.A. bastards needs to get in there !!!

[Nitro Express]

Who else would have custom EVH swtich boxes with one selection being Cathedral? Ed also runs three amps. One for Al, One through all the effects, and one dry to various stage monitors.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Thanks, posted to our Twitter followers as well.....

EDIT: I stand corrected, it's 54 followers now....

[jhale667]

OK, I guess NOW I'm starting to feel a little excitement...

From the Twitter, apparently seen in a North Hollywood rehearsal studio this afternoon...

http://twitpic.com/5vcubs

[DaveTheScott]

Friendly suggestion: Look at the previous page before posting.... :D

Fuck me. Story of my life.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Friendly suggestion: Look at the previous page before posting.... :D

[DaveTheScott]

Same update to Dave's site. Let's hope that's not the "Get Ready..." he was talking about.

[DaveTheScott]

Official van halen site update

Not that anyone cares...maybe the publicist is done with her aerials.

http://van-halen.com/

[VAiN]

Hey - anyone in the Chicago area?

LINK

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[Vinnie Velvet]

The pisser is they really don't have to do anything. Think about it...AC/DC, The Eagles, KISS, hell even the limp-dicks in Journey figured out you could sell shitloads of albums by simply signing a distribution deal with Walmart. Walk into the store and there it is, all over the place: At the check-out counters, at the end of each aisle, in stand-alone displays (with all the band's other albums for 5 bucks a piece), on posters in the music section right next to the garden supplies, in newspaper ads, crap, you name it-it's everywhere.

Or you could go the Axl Rose/Chickenfood way and sell it at Best Buy. The Sunday insert ad will have the album cover plastered all over flat screen tv sets you can't afford to purchase, offering so-called bonus tracks or DVDs tacked onto it. Of course the downside to this is the album could stiff and the store is so stocked with copies that it winds up remaindering them out for an embarrassing price (last week you could purchase Chickenfart's album for 49 cents, now it's up to $2.99) or worse yet, refusing to admit they ever sold it in the first place. I'm not kidding, go to the Best Buy site and try to find a reference to Chinese Democracy. The album (plus any mention of it) has been purged from the site.

A family wanders into the store to buy some underwear, some charcoal briquettes and a garden hose, then walks out with a new VH CD bought on impulse (along with some other dopey "values") in addition to what the came for. So Van Halen could sell tons of albums by accident. Why do you think they always put the magazines, candy and toenail clippers right next to the check-out conveyor belt? Stick a handful of VH CDs there and you could sell a couple million in an afternoon.

Maybe that's the thing that separates VH from everyone else.

Maybe its a testament to the power of VH with Dave in that all they have to do is release the album and play the concerts and everything else will take care of itself.

Amazing, really, if that is indeed the case.