DLR Live on 1998 tour

[Marlowe01]

I'm wondering why no one has a bootleg of this...I would really love if someone had a live CD to post on the forums for this tour. That would be AWESOME.

[Cato]

Dave didn't have a tour in 1998. period.

[Lou]

He probably meant 1999 and you know it.

To answer the question, yeah there are recordings out there but they're probably all mp3'd. Getting a 1999 mp3'd DLR show just happened to me, actually. There's also a Vaasa, Finland 6/26/99 DVD that's fairly common.

[Cato]

no he meant 1998. so he said there was NO boot from 1998.
he knows there's a recording from 1999 in the download corner.

[philouze]

maybe he wants to hear songs from the DLRBAND album..
BTW, did Dave play songs from that album ? I mean, songs like Little Texas or something...

[Cato]

SLAM DUNK is the only song he played from DLRBAND.

[Marlowe01]

really...(?) I thought he toured in support of it shortly, and then, starting in 1999, his setlist started to consist mainly of DLR-era Van Halen songs.

[Vanstonica]

No...Cato is right. I saw him when he toured with Bad Company, and he played almost entirely VH material.

I was kind of miffed, because I couldn't (and still can't) figure out why he didn't play more from DLR Band.

[dave_is_vh]

Dave's solo stuff is so good. I don't understand why he plays all VH stuff live. What a waste.

[Marlowe01]

That's kind of how I looked at it, dave_is_vh...almost exactly like that.

[dave_is_vh]

I think Dave's attitude is "give the people what they want" and he likes to cater to the masses. So he thinks VH is what the masses want. But the masses will like his new stuff too if they get a chance to hear it.

[Lou]

Dave did "Slam Dunk!" on the 1999 tour I believe 10 times or less, and unfortunately the last of those times was a mere couple of days before I saw him at the Mann Music Center in Philly. I was really hoping to hear "Slam Dunk!" too. I thought it was a pretty bad move to release an album in 1998 and then do nothing to promote it, not a tour or anything. Honestly who puts out an album and doesn't tour? The Beatles. And DLR is not The Beatles.

Now that being said, Dave doing the all-VH setlist was a renaissance of sorts in 1999. It was novel again, fresh off the heels of the 1998 Van Crap III debacle, and it truly was giving people what they wanted, at the time. But then he did the same thing in 2001...and 2002...and 2003...and 2004. I think most people including myself looked at that as a natural progression to Van HALEN reforming again, and it's crystal clear that's never happening. So Dave is in a real jam because he's not with VH and he doesn't have a solo career, and he's beyond the point of reinventing himself...kinda sucks.

[Loons The Great]

Dave's setlists from '99--'04 have been amazing and natural fact is in 2003 he played California Girls, Just A Gigalo, Shoo Bop, Yankee Rose, Goin' Crazy, Just Like Paradise, Theme From Shaft, Dance To The Music, Low Rider, and a lil' bit of a Sean Paul tune.

[spmusicplyr]

I think daves 99-04 setlists have been too demnanding for his voice.

Havent you heard him struggle? You can see in his '02 hartford DVD that he rubs his temples numerous times because he has to strain so much. Poor guy. I think he has a nice voice...he just should make songs that are in lower registers so he cn sing like a 50 year old and not a 20 year old.

Not to mention that besides a few songs, dave has just completely ignored his solo carreer.

[hotdog@ a shake]

yeh, I saw Dave in '98 in Winston Salem, NC and he did "Yankee Rose", "Tobacco Road" AND "SLAM DUNK"!!!

it sounded amazing and his voice really held up well, but then again, I believe it was the first show w/ Bad Co...

IMHO, sometimes it sounds like Dave tries to hard to hit certain notes or jus sings too loud...he also did this in Van Halen, especially at the US Festival in '83!!! when he doesn't try so hard and jus goes w/ the flow, he is amazing AND he sounds more natural!!!

I remember one time on this MB we were discussing the track "Relentless" from the DLR Band cd and somebody said that Dave sounded like Pee Wee Herman on that one!!! LMAO
that still kills me too this day, and as much as I like the tune, Dave sounds weird...!!!???

[Marlowe01]

I agree with your statement, spmusicplyr. He should just stick to his solo stuff and let Sammy murder some of the Dave-era classics with their current tour.

[Catfish]

Originally posted by dave_is_vh
I think Dave's attitude is "give the people what they want" and he likes to cater to the masses. So he thinks VH is what the masses want. But the masses will like his new stuff too if they get a chance to hear it.

I agree with you, but the Diamond Dave album was hardly 'catering to the masses.'