An 11 Year Old's Perspective Of The Fair Warning Tour

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Found this tape recently and converted. Yes this is me...

As a kid I was bored and recorded EVERYTHING on to cassette tape. This is me on the phone at age eleven discussing a Van Halen "Fair Warning" tour Biloxi, MS show from 09-05-81. The phone call was obviously the next day...and this was my first of many Van Halen shows. I'm approaching 42 years old now. Enjoy the foul language of a young boy.

[DONNIEP]

"That bass player, he dropped his and started jumpin' on it..." Too fucking funny! Dude, that's priceless

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Thanks! "That bass player" "The drummer". I had just discovered the band 2 months earlier and I knew who the bosses were.

[TJMKID]

Uncle Dave was corrupting your fragile mind at an early age ---- gotta love that shit.

"And that bass player" ---- Sobolewski gets owned by a middler schooler!

[sadaist]

"That bass player, he dropped his and started jumpin' on it..."

Probably one of sauces better solos too.

[SunisinuS]

Found this tape recently and converted. Yes this is me...

As a kid I was bored and recorded EVERYTHING on to cassette tape. This is me on the phone at age eleven discussing a Van Halen "Fair Warning" tour Biloxi, MS show from 09-05-81. The phone call was obviously the next day...and this was my first of many Van Halen shows. I'm approaching 42 years old now. Enjoy the foul language of a young boy.

Lol that was terrific....lost my recordings of me around that age to the sands of time.

[sadaist]

How did you go to the show at such a young age? You are only a little older than me and I wasn't allowed to go until the 5150 tour. Who did you go with? My older brother went to the 1984 show but no way mom was letting me tag along at age 12. Don't think my brother would have wanted the baggage anyways.

[ELVIS]

You were probably a tattletale anyways...

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How did you go to the show at such a young age? You are only a little older than me and I wasn't allowed to go until the 5150 tour. Who did you go with? My older brother went to the 1984 show but no way mom was letting me tag along at age 12. Don't think my brother would have wanted the baggage anyways.

That wasnt even my first concert. My mother took me. As a kid I saw the following shows:

KISS - 12-12-79. Mom took me. I was 9.

Van Halen - 9-5-81. Mom took me. I was 11.

Van Halen - 7-24-82. Uncle took me. I was 12.

Van Halen - 1-28-84. Uncle took me. I was 13. After that I went with friends to every show.

[Momshell]

That wasnt even my first concert. My mother took me. As a kid I saw the following shows:

KISS - 12-12-79. Mom took me. I was 9.

Van Halen - 9-5-81. Mom took me. I was 11.

Van Halen - 7-24-82. Uncle took me. I was 12.

Van Halen - 1-28-84. Uncle took me. I was 13. After that I went with friends to every show.

You are sooo lucky to have had such a cool mom (and uncle). My mom was (and is) super square and I didn't even have any older siblings or cool uncles. My first show wasn't til I was 14 or 15 and I'm ashamed to say it was Bryan Adams. I remember being invited by a group of friends to see Ozzy and Metallica as a freshman in HS and my parents wouldn't let me go. Probably why I grew up to be a shrink with a VH tattoo!

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My mother introduced me to music at a very young age. Of course she didn't introduce me to KISS or Van Halen. Her taste was more of The Beatles (whom I grew to love at an early age) and Neil Diamond (whom I didn't appreciate until my adult years). However, she loved the KISS and Van Halen shows. Her only complaint to this day is that they hadn't released "Jump" yet in 1981 as she loved that song. As for my Uncle, he got me into the heavier side of music (Sabbath, Zeppelin). When I told him I was into VH he showed me his vinyl copy of the first album.

[Dave's Bitch]

That was just adorable

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That was just adorable

Well thank you. My voice is deeper now but I still talk about Van Halen with the same enthusiasm.

[VAiN]

That was really, really cool!

[EdVanZep]

That wasnt even my first concert. My mother took me. As a kid I saw the following shows:

KISS - 12-12-79. Mom took me. I was 9.

Van Halen - 9-5-81. Mom took me. I was 11.

Van Halen - 7-24-82. Uncle took me. I was 12.

Van Halen - 1-28-84. Uncle took me. I was 13. After that I went with friends to every show.

Not trying to share the glory but I gotta jump in here and brag a little if I can, our concert history was similar
Kiss-11/25/79, mom and dad took me , 12yrs old
VH-10/9/80, mom took me and 3 friends , 13yrs old
VH-6/12/81, first concert without parents, 13yrs old
I would go on to see most of the hard rock metal bands that came to town thru the 80s and of course VH on every tour(yes I went to the Spammy shows). I was just showing a kid my Fair Warning ticket stub the other day the price was $8.00