‘Van Halen: The Studio Albums 1978-1984′ Due For Release March 26th!

[Cato]

I heard that a member of this site posting from Japan already ordered it!

[DLR Bridge]

I wonder if the volume will be upped on these. So annoying when Little Guitars follows something more recently recorded in shuffle mode on the I Pod and it sounds all puny. If these new CDs blast, I may cuntsider picking it up. Sans bonus tracks dang it.

[Girth]

I checked BestBuy... they all the remasters ranging from $7.99 to $4.99. So you could pick up the Remastered 6 pack there for $36.94 or pre-order the same thing for $39.95 from the VHstore and wait until late March...

Not exactly marketing genius... But hey I'm sure we could all use our 23rd copy of Jump in a new paper sleeve...

...And you would get the inside cover art and each cd would be housed in its own jewel case if you bought them separately. You are getting quite less by buying the six pack this way.
IF these aren't new re-masters, no reason to buy. I have all the original remasters on CD and they were certainly an upgrade over the original CD's, but no reason to buy this unless they are truly new remasters or you have to have that box.
I do agree with Elvis that they should remaster the new album.

Girth

[Terry]

No way will this repackaged bullshit sell...

The current "remasters" are all over the Walmart bins for $5.00 each...

How 'bout they "remaster" the crappy sounding new album and give it a proper sounding bottom end ??

And then what's next, the Cheese years repackaged in cardboard and "remastered" ??

Fuck that...

Elvis is right.

You can find the 6-pack remasters that already exist in any Walmart, Target or Best Buy, usually for $6 a pop regardless of album.

I mean, shit, I love Van Halen but I ain't repaying for another "remaster" that consists of no bonus tracks and has had the eq fiddled around with.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck THAT shit...

[ZahZoo]

I wonder if the volume will be upped on these. So annoying when Little Guitars follows something more recently recorded in shuffle mode on the I Pod and it sounds all puny. If these new CDs blast, I may cuntsider picking it up. Sans bonus tracks dang it.

No, no and no...

Please don't encourage the current dipshit engineers into ruining perfectly fine, mastered music anymore. Little Guitars is NOT a wall of sound composition and it doesn't need any boosting nor frequency packing to make it "blast" like most of the crap mixes available today.

It ain't broke so let's not try to fix anything. There's a reason your pathetic iPod has a volume control.

Seriously... we don't need classic music remastered to lowest common denominator... fucking iPods, ear-buds and crap electronics. Go invest in a real stereo system with real speakers. Move some gawd-damned air... for Christ's sake!! You might just be surprised at what you are missing!!!

[DLR Bridge]

No, no and no...

Please don't encourage the current dipshit engineers into ruining perfectly fine, mastered music anymore. Little Guitars is NOT a wall of sound composition and it doesn't need any boosting nor frequency packing to make it "blast" like most of the crap mixes available today.

It ain't broke so let's not try to fix anything. There's a reason your pathetic iPod has a volume control.

Seriously... we don't need classic music remastered to lowest common denominator... fucking iPods, ear-buds and crap electronics. Go invest in a real stereo system with real speakers. Move some gawd-damned air... for Christ's sake!! You might just be surprised at what you are missing!!!

My dear friend Mr. Zoo. I take no pleasure in stating that a good deal of my time spent enjoying music is during my grueling, shitty, train-hopping (3 damn times) commute from NJ to NYC 5 times a week. The 6 pack make the jump to I-pod format with less oomf than Led Zeppelin CDs. Realistically, the brainiacs who invented the dang device should come up with a way to level the volumes automatically or something.

[TJMKID]

How much would a professionally-edited DVD of the complete Oakland '81 show fetch?

I'd easily pay $50 for that shit and it'd probably be one of the best-selling concert DVDs of all time, but instead we get re-hashed stuff that sells for $3.99 in the discount bins.

Just more proof of how retarded the Halen sisters really are ..... FUCK 'EM TO HELL, I say.

[Zing!]

How much would a professionally-edited DVD of the complete Oakland '81 show fetch?

I'd easily pay $50 for that shit and it'd probably be one of the best-selling concert DVDs of all time:

I'd pay that.

[Hardrock69]

So would me.

[Fairwrning]

This is sad actually...The very least they should release an official 30th anniversary US festival DVD..Coincide with the Japan tour very nicely..followed by the summer North American tour...

[jhale667]

How much would a professionally-edited DVD of the complete Oakland '81 show fetch?

I'd easily pay $50 for that shit and it'd probably be one of the best-selling concert DVDs of all time, but instead we get re-hashed stuff that sells for $3.99 in the discount bins.

Yep, I'd buy it.

[Droomer5150]

There's enough squares to have pictures of all 12 of the studio album covers and make it a full discography boxset...then again the Hagar and Cherone eras have been erased from existence since 2006 in the band...risky mentioning those eras on the Rotharmy haha but they are all albums released under the Van Halen name. Not that I care, I already own all 12!...now what I would care about is 3 blu rays, 81 and 84 and the 2008 show... ...then maybe a boxset of the "early years 1972-1979" later on...and that documentary of the 1980 tour they said they filmed...and maybe another studio album...and an australian tour...and a meet and greet with van halen...and then a reunion with michael anthony... each with lots of promotion; tv interviews/appearances and all for everything... Then I will die a very, very happy man ahaha

[FORD]

Eddie never played a single song from VDIII aside from the one tour with Cherone, and the Velveetapalooza 2004 tour was a complete fucking trainwreck. So I can say with a fair amount of confidence that Eddie doesn't want to hear that shit any more than we do. Van Hagar and Van Danniels are best left in the past, and completely forgotten, if at all possible.

If you need help killing brain cells to help you forget, please consult FORD's Beercyclopedia for tools to help you with that goal.

[ELVIS]

Nah, at some point Edwad will be sharing a casino stage with Mayor McCheese playing for the Seniors...

[ashstralia]

Nah, at some point Edwad will be sharing a casino stage with Mayor McCheese playing for the Seniors...

that's about as likely as you ever posting some of your guitar 'noodlings'.