Irving Azoff to Leave Live Nation/Front Line Mgmt

[Va Beach VH Fan]

EVH calls up Dave to make sure he's not dicking around in Japan with the monks, and tells his lazy brother and son to meet him down at the Whiskey on a certain night for a 2-hour gig. Put the word out through the normal Twitter/Facebook channels and plenty of fans will show up and pay $100 for admission. Voila --- everybody wins!

Actually they did just that during the Bette era....

[DONNIEP]

Actually they did just that during the Bette era....

That video sucked donkey balls...what a fucking disgrace.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

That video sucked donkey balls...what a fucking disgrace.

Well, I never said if it was good or not....

The parts with the crowd outside were pretty cool....

[DONNIEP]

The part with the crowd was good, for sure. It's that fat scraggly dude screeching on stage that kills it.

[TJMKID]

Actually they did just that during the Bette era....

Wasn't that a promo gig for the "Live: RHRN" videotape and double-live CD they released around that time? Typical corporate maneuver for a McHaggis-led band.

Just go out and fucking play for the joy of putting smiles on faces. Get the juices flowing again --- and I dont mean what's coming out of Ed's surgically reduced colon!

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Wasn't that a promo gig for the "Live: RHRN" videotape and double-live CD they released around that time? Typical corporate maneuver for a McHaggis-led band.

Just go out and fucking play for the joy of putting smiles on faces. Get the juices flowing again --- and I dont mean what's coming out of Ed's surgically reduced colon!

No, I just watched a bit of it again until I threw up all over my monitor watching Bette....

It was an 15th anniversary show of the band at the Whisky....

I also noticed in that video that at the time the lot across the street from the Whisky was empty....

I took this pic in February the day of the Forum gig, there's a white building there now, probably some expensive real estate....

[DONNIEP]

Yeah, I checked it out again too. Big mistake. It's just a complete disgrace.

[TJMKID]

Officially, it was a one-off gig to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the signing of the band to Warner Bros.

However, I'm sure McHaggis wouldnt agree to it unless it was used as a promo video to help sell more copies of the "Live: RHRN" double CD and VHS tape. No way he's agreeing to celebrate something that Dave was a part of and not him!

"Live: RHRN" came out on Feb. 23, 1993 --- and the Whiskey video was on MTV around the same time (you can see the timestamp at 2:45 in the video):

No, I just watched a bit of it again until I threw up all over my monitor watching Bette....

It was an 15th anniversary show of the band at the Whisky....

I also noticed in that video that at the time the lot across the street from the Whisky was empty....

I took this pic in February the day of the Forum gig, there's a white building there now, probably some expensive real estate....

[jhale667]

No, I just watched a bit of it again until I threw up all over my monitor watching Bette....

It was an 15th anniversary show of the band at the Whisky....

I also noticed in that video that at the time the lot across the street from the Whisky was empty....

I took this pic in February the day of the Forum gig, there's a white building there now, probably some expensive real estate....

On Sunset - "probably"? More like astronomic.

[DONNIEP]

It just doesn't look the same during the day. Then again it wasn't what I was expecting - guess I was waiting for Dave to jump out

[Va Beach VH Fan]

On Sunset - "probably"? More like astronomic.

I was waiting for you to chime in, bastard...

[jhale667]

Pretty sure I hurled in the lot where the white building is now...

[Zing!]

Yeah I'm sure VH made some nice coin playing that Florida convention show. Probably banked at least $500,000 from that gig.

But what about playing music just for the fun of it? Fuck the corporate attitude --- EVH calls up Dave to make sure he's not dicking around in Japan with the monks, and tells his lazy brother and son to meet him down at the Whiskey on a certain night for a 2-hour gig. Put the word out through the normal Twitter/Facebook channels and plenty of fans will show up and pay $100 for admission. Voila --- everybody wins!

Right on, but lawyers start pissing themselves whenever their clients start saying they want to 'do something for the fans.'

Stones, yes. They've been known to do this very thing (and with more lawyers for sure). Van Halen, well... I guess your net worth has to be less than $400 or more than $400 million before you can start doing things 'for the fans' again.

[TJMKID]

Right on, but lawyers start pissing themselves whenever their clients start saying they want to 'do something for the fans.'

Stones, yes. They've been known to do this very thing (and with more lawyers for sure). Van Halen, well... I guess your net worth has to be less than $400 or more than $400 million before you can start doing things 'for the fans' again.

Fuck all the lawyers --- I aint met one yet worth his weight in dog shit (well, perhaps the OJ dream team earned their paychecks).

Hard to believe anyone from Live Nation could stop VH from doing a one-off gig somewhere simply for the love of playing to a live audience. If there really is contractual language that states "No performances by Van Halen shall proceed forthwith unless there is prior approval by Live Nation corporate board" --- then the music biz is more fucked then even I can imagine!

[Carmine]

Didn't they do a corporate gig in Florida?

They did one in Toronto on the 07/08 tour too...