How many of you actually have seen Van Halen live?

[Romeo Delight]

Ed could still bring it live when Cherone was in the band.

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He sure could. The fact that he looks like he is living a relatively healthy lifestyle bodes well. A name producer involved with Shanks means we won't have a revisit of VH III.

[sadaist]

I have seen Van Halen beginning with the 5150 tour. The 5150 show was incredibly good. I have never seen Eddie so full of energy & geniune happiness. The guy was relentless that night. Was at his prime and it is a crime it wasn't with Dave as he was also at his prime on the EEAS tour.

OU812, FUCK, Balance steadily declined in the goodness of the shows. Still better than what most bands were giving out. Also saw them in 1988 headlining the Monsters Of Rock shows. Metallica owned.

Saw them at the Del Mar county fair with Cherone. I left 2/3 of the way through. Gary was just horrible and it just ruined the whole fucking thing for me. Only song I truly enjoyed was 'Somebody Get Me a Doctor' with Michael Anthony singing. They should not have hired Cherone and just had Mike sing and be a 3-man band. I remember walking through the parking lot & hearing Panama. I was crushed cause it was not Van Halen anymore.

Saw the 2004 reunion with Hagar. HORRIBLE. And NOT because of Sammy. Sam did his best & gave 100% on the night I saw them. The problem was Eddie. He played sloppy, you could cut the tension on stage with a knife it was so apparent. And he kept his back to the crowd most of the night. It was very weird and a shitty way to treat a paying audience.

Saw them in 2007. First time with Dave singing. It was like a religious experience for me. Was the greatest show I have ever seen. Thousands of grown men with tears of joy in their eyes when the lights hit and Dave was waving that red flag. It was great...beyond great.

Saw Dave on EEAS, Skyscraper & A Little Aint Enough. EEAS was mind blowing. The others you could see a steady decline...very much mirroring the decline in the Van Hagar shows. Also saw him in Jan 2000 at the House Of Blues. DLR band tour I think.

Saw Dave opening night at Ballys in Las Vegas for his Vegas show. Was very cool and weird at the same time. He played only 2 VH songs. Jump & Ice Cream Man. Oddly, the best song of the night was 'Free Ride'. Dave nailed the hell out of it.

Oh...and in 2002 I saw the Sam & Dave show. Funny, it was at the US Fest grounds in San Bernardino. Dave opened. Both put on great shows but Dave clearly won the night. Mike came out & played a few with Sammy. I wish he would have done the same with Dave. Would also have been cool to see Sam & Dave do a closing number together. I bet that tour really got under Eddies skin...which made it all the better.

Lastly...I have seen the Atomic Punks about 6 times. That was always a fun show.

[sadaist]

F.U.C.K. tour I ponied up for front row seats for 6 of us. At the ticket agency they had front-center available, but I wanted section C which is the side Eddie is on. The lady thought I was crazy for not getting center, but I wanted to be as close to Eddie as possible just once to watch him perform up close. Fucking worth every cent once he did that solo.

Disposable camera and the negatives got tossed around over the years. Sorry for the shit pics. But gives you an idea. I love EVH!



Touching my girlfriends hand. She was so fucking happy and that was all she talked about for a week after. Bitch! Should have been me.

[sadaist]

couple more



...getting the crowd to cheer..

[Hardrock69]

Necropost....

THE MIGHTY VAN HALEN!

9/29/78 Seattle, WA
7/19/79 Wichita, KS
10/16/81 Wichita, KS
11/24/82 Wichita, KS

vanhagar
5/28/86 Wichita, KS
7/10/88 Kansas City, MO

Dave

8/30/86 Wichita, KS
12/2/99 Wichita, KS
8/3/02 Gnashville

[Halen High]

I saw Dave on Skyscraper and Lil ain' t enough tours here in good old blighty , missed the mighty VH in 1980 & 1984 , bastard !

Fuck Van Hagar .

I hope you are not a Birmingham City fan......

[Halen High]

I have only seen them with Gary Cherone. CVH and Van Hagar never toured Australia so I was desperate. I would have gone to see a Van Hagar show in Australia during the Van Hagar era, but had they come here in 2004 - no way.

The VH3 show wasn't bad and, funny enough, Adelaide's 10,000 capacity Entertainment Centre was packed to the rafters.

So you can imagine how having never seen Dave-VH, Australia is getting VERY excited about the 2011 VH tour Down Under.

[Halen High]

Ed could still bring it live when Cherone was in the band.

The waste of it was that the VH3 period SHOULD have instead been used to write, record and tour an album with Roth, simply because Ed still COULD play well and was capable of coming up with decent ideas.

Nothing that has transpired since the new millenium rolled around convinces me that Ed has either compelling musical ideas or the technical ability to execute them; when he clearly struggles to play his old material, it ain't a good sign for the future. I hope the dude is able to conjure up the fire to make those Aussie dates worthwhile for the Army members down there. There's really no excuse for him not to, and any EVH apologists can spare me the "oh, Ed's got arthritis/complications from cancer" biz as an excuse: if he can't cut the mustard, he shouldn't be charging money for people to watch him futz around onstage.

Yes - Eddie was amazing on the VH3 tour. I'm not a guitar player but I spent most of the show being amazed by him.

[bantonelli]

DLR Solo (which, BTW) was almost as awesome as the actual VH thing with a tight crew:
House of Blues, Sunset Strip (Hollyweird)
House of Blues, Anaheim
Universal Studios, Orlando, FL
Catalyst, Santa Cruz
Nugget, Reno, NV (weird audience & strange room)
Pala Casino, San Diego (Outdoor Concert - Rocked!)

VH (w/DAVE):
Charlotte, NC - Start of 2007 Tour
Los Angeles, CA - Tour 2007
Los Angeles, CA - Tour 2008
Had ticket (still have) for Cow Palace, San Francisco (1982) - didn't go in favor of hanging w/new boyfriend...WHAT A MISTAKE I MADE! Major Regret...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Had ticket (still have) for Cow Palace, San Francisco (1982) - didn't go in favor of hanging w/new boyfriend...WHAT A MISTAKE I MADE! Major Regret...

that is a goddam shame

[Jagermeister]

I saw the original line up twice. I don't have any real big stories about it though. Saw a ton of concerts back then.

[mug]

Every tour but the 1st. That was supposed to happen but the whole show was cancelled .VH was kicking journys ass so it never happened. Was supposed to happen in seymour wis, at the fairgrounds. Still have the ad for the show.

[Dan]

Every tour but the 1st. That was supposed to happen but the whole show was cancelled .VH was kicking journys ass so it never happened. Was supposed to happen in seymour wis, at the fairgrounds. Still have the ad for the show.

It's True,I Have Seen The Ticket Stubs.

What Up,Brother Mug?

[fwacf]

1981 Fair Warning tour Lake land Fla General admission !....Hitchhiked from Brooksville to Lakland,back when you could do that.
Oct 15th 1982...Brenden Byrne(now Izod) Original show was canceled due to Eddie wrist injury.
April 2 1984....Same arena...little did I know that was the last time I would see the original line up!

[Hardrock69]

As amazing as it was to see CVH, it was equally amazing to see the audience at a CVH show. Never in my life have I witnessed any other band who could cause 12,000 people to go absolutely nutso-bonkers and ROAR at the top of their lungs.

NO OTHER BAND has EVER been able to consistently create that extreme level of out-of-control fanatic response on such a consistent basis. At least in the US. Now if you go down to South America, those rock and metal fans down there go absolutely ape-shit when attending concerts.