What Song Do You WANT As The Opener, and What Song Do You THINK Will Be The Opener?

[moose]

Well considering that there are no new tunes and they will NOT performing any of the songs that most of you attending the show would love to hear and are basically rehashing the last tour I think they they are gonna break out into a solid Van Halenized version of Dire Straits
" Money for nothing" to start off the show

[Seshmeister]

Jump may not be so bad as then you know it's out the way...

[moose]

all kidding aside I would like nothing more than for the band to break out into LUTS for the peeps attending the show but Dave has become a "dick" and will not agree to this
You would be better off to watch some of the old vids on YouTube
And I agree with DLR B and how the band should walk out on stage
That is true Classic Van Halen

[vaijuju]

must be a easy song for opener like YRGM..you can't do mistake on it :D

[chefcraig]

I'd opt for "Sinner's Swing," yet then again I'm fairly delusional.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Why not open with "Mean Street"... Not the easiest tune to open with, but it would kick ass.

The opening will probably be another, and other than "Unchained" or YRGM. Maybe HFT. Who knows...

[VAiN]

I'm cool with unchained.. it's a strong start. With that said, I hope they start with something else this time - preferably one they haven't played live yet.

[atomicpnk47]

House Of Pain

[Junglestud]

Open with Hot For Teacher and then Alex doesn't have to have a drum solo and they could play one more song, on the other hand I would love for them to open with Bullet
head

[FORD]

House Of Pain

Only if it's the original version......

[Terry]

I still doubt Light Up The Sky will make it.

Dave's solo band tried for a while to get him to do it and that was 13 years ago...

If they do it then people may wish they hadn't. My experience is that if a singer doesn't think he will do well with a song then it's a self fulfilling prophecy...

Never mind the screams on the original recording (clearly Dave wouldn't even try any of those these days), the verses themselves have too many words without an opportunity to take a breath. Even on the original studio recording during the verses you can hear edits where Dave sang a line and then the next line was clearly from another take.

I'm sure the band could handle the tune just fine, but with the way Roth is approaching live singing these days Light Up The Sky wouldn't sound so hot. Even back in the day, that tune wasn't one the band even really did outside of (I think) the VHII tour...they might have done it on the W.A.C.F. tour (I can't remember off the top of my head).

[Terry]

Seems to be a natural opening song. You have each band member take the stage as their part in the song kicks in, starting off with Alex, then Wolf, then Eddie, and finally Dave. Can't believe they haven't thought of this.

That's really a smart idea. For some reason, I always associate EWS for a mid-set selection, but the way you described opening with it would totally work.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

That's really a smart idea. For some reason, I always associate EWS for a mid-set selection, but the way you described opening with it would totally work.

Yeah, but the problem with that lucid rationale and reasoning is that it's obvious the band is not devoting hardly anything towards what the aesthetics will look like...

I mean, they couldn't have come out any more lame than they did last tour, and besides their instruments that stage was fuckin' bare.....

[moose]

[QUOTE=hambon4lif;1886894]It doesn't matter to me what they open with. As long as D.O.A. is somewhere in the setlist, I'm cool with that.[/QUOTE


They will play this....
It's a great song

[DLR Bridge]

That's really a smart idea. For some reason, I always associate EWS for a mid-set selection, but the way you described opening with it would totally work.

It's a good idea, but just a bit to lumbering of a way to literally start the night. Cheap Trick came up with the song Hello There for the sole purpose of what FORD mentioned. The sound guy could give each member of the band a final tweaking of the knobs at the mixer as they entered the song individually. That song is a barn burner and that's more how I envision a night starting off. As I said earlier in #10, I think LUTS isn't far out of their reach as many fear.