i love vh but david is clearly wasted and it ruins it imo. he did not slur his words or have to forfeit the rhythm of the early verses or say senioriNa when i saw them do this in 83. his intro for little guitars is "are you drunk?" it's embarrassing.
i'm sure they'll be in top form this time. i'm psyched. i'm even getting used to the lack of M.A.
this is one of van halen's best songs, and even dave is doing his best to fuck it up. i like dave, but drunken vocals can only go so far. reasons like this is why i always felt sammy was the man.
Okay, I love this song and all but... they're not in tune with each other! The background vocals are off key! They probably couldn't hear each other with the drums and guitar being so loud but, good lord! I think I'll stick to the recorded version...
Awesome footage. I was at this show and must say this concert was in my top 5 list over the years. Before I viewed this, I could remember vividly Eddie sliding across the floor on this song. The energy was incredible and Van Halen was at their pinnacle.
I saw the mighty VH in"79 through '84 and they ruled then. What I find amusing is people that wanna trash DLR. Granted, he could be a little rough vocally live but you just had to be there. He was the ring leader of the great big top known as VH. Listen to the background vocals on this performance. Not exactly ion tune either......They RULED!!
well at least dave don't go screaming "i forgot the fuckin words"! he behaves not bad in this one... and yes in studio sounds a lttle better. super great song anyway.
Metal is a 2 guitar gig Rhythm on one side & Lead on the other think Scorpions, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Metallica . Why does VH not have a Rhythm player ? I love VH but live would be so much better w/ an extra guitar possibly Hagar (bonus he could sing back up)
etcha sketch etcha sketch... ? thats what i always thought he was saying- and you know what?... i still think that is what he is saying. i need to see the lyrics.
@Dogger1230 - Ahhhhh... thank you sir! it only took me 30 years to figure this out... with no help from my own laziness with the internet, but by the kindness of a good samaritan - thank you*
@Hankandthetanktops Well it is easy man, The Chiquita was tuned up three semitones because the small size of it but Eddie tuned the bottom E (G) string down to E to get the low notes on the clean chorused intro. The picking is just plain damping and stacatto plucking with the thumb and first two fingers of the right hand. And the big chords are just D chords shapes around the neck higher up, simple! However I do appreciate where you come from because I still cant do the "Mean Streets " intro :)
@Hankandthetanktops Thanks dude I found this song quite easy to figure out. Took me a while to figure out the finger tapping when I was a kid in 1983, saw someone noodling and doing it in a guitar shop and thought - Thats how he does it!!!!. Figured out Atomic Punk intro very quickly - just rhythmic scraping with the butt of your hand at the bridge with a flanger on. Women in Love? - tapping the frets an octave above. I know the theory of Mean Streats intro but it foxes me to this day, damn!!!
Cherone and Hagar would lick each other's assholes clean and ask for sloppy seconds for a chance to be 1/10th as COOL as Diamond Dave ---- CASE CLOSED
@Hunkola I saw Gary Cherone with Extreme in 1991 he was superb. And Sammy has the greatest range but no-one comes close to DLR as a frontman. EVH and DLR defined modern Rock and Roll!!!
Just look at all of the bands in the 80's that copied the DLR frontman and EVH virtuoso guitar. They are legends!!!
I don't think there is any doubt, Sammy is a much better singer, but Dave is a better showman. So it comes down to, do you like a great stage show or for the music to actually sound good. Both have given great contributions to Van Halen and thats all any VH fans should care about
@sabrefan269 van halen is not van halen with anyone except diamond dave, period, case closed! i liked sammy by himself, he is good with chickenfoot, ok with vh, but old van halen sung by dlr is a part of rocknroll history, from 1 to diver down i will put basically any song against any of the crap coming out of the airwaves nowadays, geez man, just listen to it, sammy should have made standing hampton 2 and dlr should have kept it together !
@kenf1ott ---- Dave was an awesome singer and showman, you dumb douche.......now go back to watching a fat asshole like Sammy Hagar jiggle his belly fat all over the stage like a piece of shit
Roth or Hagar? I will choose Roth i like both but I think that Dave is more of an entertianer of the group people might say shit to me that he's a show off well, i don't give a shit
My god I miss all the fun in Largo, the best concerts ever from any band "The Nations Capital at The Cap Center". Sadly it was leveled to make way for an outdoor mall to give locals/african americans thier god given right to spend our hard earned tax dollars, that seems fair. The place is so full of crime,death and poverty it makes haiti look like paradise. I raise a toast to the place of dreams of yesteryear "please come back oneday"
goblinarmy is only part right- eddie gets a 10 for creativity but timing is about a 7- 8 , he was actually a bit sloppy with tightness and if the first line-up of VH did consist of "better" musicians it would have been stale & boring, kinda like van hagar . these guys more than made up for precision & technical ability with sheer HEART in their playing. if not for mike's harmonies there would have been a serious lack of vocality in the first 5 albums. dave's a great showman-but barely a singer
Am I the only one who really dislikes micheal's voice??? In my opinion it doesn't add anything to the music and is just a high squeek... He's great for the show, just like Dave and Alex... But such a shame that Eddie was stuck with such mediocre musicians all his life. The show is great. But Eddie was the only real musician in the band in my opinion
its pretty un fair to say dave cant sing this could have been the last song of the nite and all voices get tired also dave is van halen so go fuck yourself
I have this entire concert on DVD........pretty good quality.......of course Dave is drunk off his ass but a Roth Halen show is still 1000 times better than a lame-ass Van Hagar gig........hit me up if you want a copy.
Agreed. VH can survive without David, and interchange Sammy. But they can never replace Michael Anthony. I would rather see Chicken Foot live nowadays than VH... And I am very sad to say that...
diver down was such a good album and the tour was so good, just like every one of ther tours, they are the best live with mikey and dave, u cant beat VH
Better on the CD... the chorus is awful and Eddie's guitar sounds like it's out of tune in the beginning... and believe me, I'm one of the biggest damn VH fans there are.
It's a miniature Les Paul copy. Not a Gibson. He played Gibson Les Pauls through the first 3 tours. Only had one Charvel, the black and yellow. The rest were Boogie Bodies parts he put together including the original white and black one he later painted red. Never seen him play a Fender live.
he had 3 charvel guitars the black and yellow charvel hybrid 2 the charvel star he used on the 1980 invasion tour (women and children first) and a charvel hydra guitar that i have no idea if he used live or not
When I say Charvel I mean complete guitars. The Star had a Danelectro neck. The Hydra was made by Karl Sandoval when he worked for Wayne. He actually had 3 black and yellow Charvels but only used one live, that I know of. The other 2 came later after Grover Jackson owned the company.
come on boys if you arent down with band changesups you cant be a real vaan halen fan. this is something we as vh fans should come to expect. i dig this band and have since 78' and see the line up changes are to rejuvenate the creative juices eddie has allways given to us- the true vh fans. a lil respect for someone who has given his fan so much to think and talk about. remember the music is the real part of all that is van halen and has not been short is greatness. so great job to eddie and vh
@rushbum Yes cool dude but Mickey will be back in the band when Valerie decides that Wolfgang has had enough rock and roll and bad influence from his father and should go back to college to get on the straight and narrow and get a proper job !!! ha ha
I dont like the slagging off of Eddie and I dont like the slagging off of Valerie. They were very in love and at least Edward did not cheat, he just could not overcome his drinking, worse things happen in life
THAT'S the ticket AJM! You know Mike's voice and bass notes indeed gave the group a commercial nuance other rock bands could only dream about. Sammy recognizes this more than Dave and the VH brothers I'm afraid.
yep. listen to Dance the Night Away and see if tears don't threaten. that effer had heart to go with the lungs. DtNA -- one of pop's masterpieces, courtesy of one M anthony (and DLR and EVH and AVH). then there's pretty much 80% of everything else they did that rocked.
How can anybody say that Michael was just another bassist/vocalist when you hear him compensate on the high notes for Dave? He was the spice of the group.
@NYVoice Yeah he most definitely picked up the slack for both Roth and Hagar at times. He had a natural gift at high harmonies that is rare. As a bass player is was/is OK, but Ed allegedly wrote many of the bass lines, or they mixed him nearly out of existence on the early records.
But I always thought they should have had him sing after Hagar left...
@DarthKazi I hear ya. They should have at least given Mike one song on each post-Roth album to sing. Especially on the God-awful VH III. Mike was a HUGE part of the sound and overall chemistry of the band. Even after DLR left, those signature VH backing harmonies held much of the original sound in check.
@NYVoice Yeah, anyone that thinks otherwise needs to watch The Van Halen Story, The Early Years. A must see for any true Van Halen fan. Just imagine what would have been had Eddie kept playing drums and Alex kept playing guitar as they originally started. Once you've seen this video you will learn to appreciate the talent Michael brought to the band.
Funny you mention that; I got the DVD for my birthday in Jan. and absolutely love it. The fact that MA was a lead singer was a plus when he got in VH -no, he wouldn't compete with Dave. But he NEVER whined about being demoted or relegated to backup vocals because that's where his true strengths were. they also turned out to be the final critical piece to the Van Halen sound. And yeah, Alex on guitar and ed on drums-fate had other plans.
@NYVoice Awesome DVD, I rented it from NetFlix, ripped it, and now it's forever a part of my collection. I've seen Van Halen in concert more than any other band, totaling 4 times. Aside from Led Zeppelin, they will always be a top two favorite. What originally hooked me was the song "Jamie's Cryin'". Michael's chorus, Dave's perfected lead, Eddie's guitar crying and singing, and Alex' impeccable drumming blended into a melodic song that still catches me to this day.
Mikey was the glue, baby, that held the mighty Van Halen machine together. No, he wasn't one of the two big celebrities in the band, but he was, and is, a great singer and bassist. I miss Michael Anthony being in the band — never be the same without him.
Sorry, I know its Michael Anthony. I've been a Vah Halen fan sicne the late 70's. I had a brain-fart when I typed that. I didn't mean to degrade Michael by calling him Marc. Michael Anthony is touring with Sammy Hagar now.
To be honest I didn't listen to them much after the first album and only saw them once in the original line up on their own tour a couple years later. That said VH did need DLR on vocals.
Beautiful Rock N Roll at it's finest !!!! Yes DLR is the man. Sammy is cool and all but Van Halen is Dave, Ed, Alex, Micheal. No hard feelings towards Sammy meant towards Sammy at all. And yes it's enduring that wolfgang is in the band but Ed needs to stop being an ass towards Micheal. Get off the bottle Ed....WAY OFF.
Fortunate enough to have witnessed Van Halen opening for Black Sabbath 8/22/78 in Milwaukee WI. this was back when it was common to hear "WHO THE FUCK IS VAN HALEN? BS was upset during the tour because Van Halen upstaged BS at every concert that year. I saw VH in 1980 and 1984 Always great shows. I have great memories from these VH concerts. Spammy fagar never filled the bill, they should have changed the name from VH to something else, van fagar never mattered, VAN HALEN FOR EVER>> DLR ROCKS!!
DoctorBob409. I saw the same tour in London. It was Van Halen's first date in the UK and they really did blow Sabbath away, unfortunately. I still have the concert program. The price of the ticket? £1.75
This is a good performance. These guys set the bar for a live show with energy that was insane. I had the good fortune of seeing them in LA, SD, PHX, and Tucson between 1981-83.
They, VH, were on the biggest stage of all time at the time and the whole world new it at the time...I don't think it will ever be replicated....I mean that ....A great tour...VH Rocks...
I have this entire '82 Largo show on DVD.........it's all pro-shot and pretty good quality.........probably the best filmed Dave-era concert aside from the '83 US Festival.
PLEASE PLEASE PLAY THIS SONG IN MONTREAL ON 3/15.
izzy6508 1 day ago
the band was at their best in this show / very cool !
TheRickc67 3 days ago
I like this particular version. Things don't always have to be perfect to sound good.
UR1Z3RO 3 weeks ago
i love vh but david is clearly wasted and it ruins it imo. he did not slur his words or have to forfeit the rhythm of the early verses or say senioriNa when i saw them do this in 83. his intro for little guitars is "are you drunk?" it's embarrassing.
i'm sure they'll be in top form this time. i'm psyched. i'm even getting used to the lack of M.A.
godisagui 1 month ago
this is one of van halen's best songs, and even dave is doing his best to fuck it up. i like dave, but drunken vocals can only go so far. reasons like this is why i always felt sammy was the man.
mireaux7 1 month ago
* * * * *
sirronald69 2 months ago
Okay, I love this song and all but... they're not in tune with each other! The background vocals are off key! They probably couldn't hear each other with the drums and guitar being so loud but, good lord! I think I'll stick to the recorded version...
DrummerGrrrl 2 months ago
wow dave sounds really good
TeamUberBeast 4 months ago
2:40 the mini les paul... mind blowing, wish he could still play it like that... flawless
0riginalHipster 5 months ago
@0riginalHipster It's The Little Guitar man!!
gixcm96 3 weeks ago
0:01 I DO COCAINE!! K-K-K-YEAAAAAH!!!
StereoDeth 5 months ago 3
2 Things Eddie Needs to Put on His Bucket List ---
1) Put this concert on DVD and Blu-ray
2) Put the 1981 Oakland concert on DVD and Blu-ray
Hunkola 6 months ago 5
@Hunkola You forgot one thing :
3) Bring back Michael Anthony
MoribondAlceste 3 months ago
Awesome footage. I was at this show and must say this concert was in my top 5 list over the years. Before I viewed this, I could remember vividly Eddie sliding across the floor on this song. The energy was incredible and Van Halen was at their pinnacle.
keithdew1 6 months ago
thats real one
NFedorov1989 7 months ago
I saw the mighty VH in"79 through '84 and they ruled then. What I find amusing is people that wanna trash DLR. Granted, he could be a little rough vocally live but you just had to be there. He was the ring leader of the great big top known as VH. Listen to the background vocals on this performance. Not exactly ion tune either......They RULED!!
treysamigos100 7 months ago 2
Killer shit.... C'mon Ed give us s break.... BUST OUT THE DVD BOX SET DAMNIT!!!
markfundingsland 7 months ago 2
'Thumbs Up' if you were sent here by Dr. Rockso...
irishmikelley 7 months ago
This song should be called MASSIVE INCREDIBLE HARD ROCKIN' ELECTRIC GUITARS!!!!!!
astrophysics123 8 months ago
well at least dave don't go screaming "i forgot the fuckin words"! he behaves not bad in this one... and yes in studio sounds a lttle better. super great song anyway.
bingrasm 8 months ago
Love that song, but Dave almost ruined it here live. He never has been nearly as good as in the studio.
Beez5150 8 months ago
thats a little guitar
silly423 8 months ago
That is an awesome guitar.
Wobiloblobiamob12 9 months ago
"Etch -A - Sketch!!!....Etch - A - Sketch!!!"
blakemetal 9 months ago
SWEEEEEET!!!!!!
dockie1964 9 months ago
Van Halen was never as good with out the original members
xxwantsomexx 9 months ago 2
Genius!!
MrJLGT 9 months ago
Usta dushta bashti booshta !!
mikecosgrove 9 months ago
metals not a 2 guitar gig for EVH. He's a one man band.
darthvapir 10 months ago
i was born in the wrong year :(
neos7832 10 months ago 2
ESE GRITO EN EL MINUTO 3:21 AL 3:24 , ES WOW !!!
godofrockz 10 months ago
Van Halen will never be the same without the original four. Try as they may, without Mike they don't have that sound any longer.
rheish 11 months ago 15
Metal is a 2 guitar gig Rhythm on one side & Lead on the other think Scorpions, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Metallica . Why does VH not have a Rhythm player ? I love VH but live would be so much better w/ an extra guitar possibly Hagar (bonus he could sing back up)
LordGandor3 1 year ago
2:06does dave have some kinda grease or soot on his face?
Luckums135 1 year ago
agreed
baseball12ification 1 year ago
Señorita
fruitypuffjr 1 year ago
etcha sketch etcha sketch... ? thats what i always thought he was saying- and you know what?... i still think that is what he is saying. i need to see the lyrics.
Hankandthetanktops 1 year ago
@Hankandthetanktops What he is saying is "Catch as catch, catch as catch"
Dogger1230 1 year ago
@Dogger1230 - Ahhhhh... thank you sir! it only took me 30 years to figure this out... with no help from my own laziness with the internet, but by the kindness of a good samaritan - thank you*
Hankandthetanktops 1 year ago
@Hankandthetanktops Well it is easy man, The Chiquita was tuned up three semitones because the small size of it but Eddie tuned the bottom E (G) string down to E to get the low notes on the clean chorused intro. The picking is just plain damping and stacatto plucking with the thumb and first two fingers of the right hand. And the big chords are just D chords shapes around the neck higher up, simple! However I do appreciate where you come from because I still cant do the "Mean Streets " intro :)
steveevh1 1 year ago
@steveevh1 - your a gentleman and a scholar...! thank you* keep on rocking huh!
Hankandthetanktops 1 year ago
@Hankandthetanktops Thank you man
steveevh1 1 year ago
@Hankandthetanktops Thanks dude I found this song quite easy to figure out. Took me a while to figure out the finger tapping when I was a kid in 1983, saw someone noodling and doing it in a guitar shop and thought - Thats how he does it!!!!. Figured out Atomic Punk intro very quickly - just rhythmic scraping with the butt of your hand at the bridge with a flanger on. Women in Love? - tapping the frets an octave above. I know the theory of Mean Streats intro but it foxes me to this day, damn!!!
steveevh1 1 year ago
Roth tweaking on the 8 ball he snorted in the dressing room! LOL!!!
Lettermaniacs 1 year ago
that guitar is bad ass!!
DrPepperDERF 1 year ago
Cherone and Hagar would lick each other's assholes clean and ask for sloppy seconds for a chance to be 1/10th as COOL as Diamond Dave ---- CASE CLOSED
Hunkola 1 year ago
@Hunkola I saw Gary Cherone with Extreme in 1991 he was superb. And Sammy has the greatest range but no-one comes close to DLR as a frontman. EVH and DLR defined modern Rock and Roll!!!
Just look at all of the bands in the 80's that copied the DLR frontman and EVH virtuoso guitar. They are legends!!!
steveevh1 1 year ago
pretty good quality
angryscowl 1 year ago
I THINK VAN HALEN IS GREAT WITH HAGAR OR ROTH AS LONG AS U KEEP CHERONE OUT OF THE CONVERSATION
smmsham 1 year ago
So lucky I grew up with such great bands like Van Halen! The music world of today is just nothing to me.
downvan77 1 year ago
I don't think there is any doubt, Sammy is a much better singer, but Dave is a better showman. So it comes down to, do you like a great stage show or for the music to actually sound good. Both have given great contributions to Van Halen and thats all any VH fans should care about
sabrefan269 1 year ago
@sabrefan269 van halen is not van halen with anyone except diamond dave, period, case closed! i liked sammy by himself, he is good with chickenfoot, ok with vh, but old van halen sung by dlr is a part of rocknroll history, from 1 to diver down i will put basically any song against any of the crap coming out of the airwaves nowadays, geez man, just listen to it, sammy should have made standing hampton 2 and dlr should have kept it together !
baseball12ification 1 year ago
Cocaine's a hell of a drug (Dave).... Good stuff! The music that is!
alwaysbeencrazy 1 year ago
roth was always a terrible singer
kenf1ott 1 year ago
@kenf1ott ---- Dave was an awesome singer and showman, you dumb douche.......now go back to watching a fat asshole like Sammy Hagar jiggle his belly fat all over the stage like a piece of shit
Hunkola 1 year ago
@Hunkola
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kenf1ott 1 year ago
@kenf1ott it didn't matter.....
WomackPhotoKCMO 1 year ago
Haha look at the tags!
jackiv1000 1 year ago
Roth or Hagar? I will choose Roth i like both but I think that Dave is more of an entertianer of the group people might say shit to me that he's a show off well, i don't give a shit
Alice155498 1 year ago
I WANT THAT FREEKIN' GUITAR. :U
piecrust8 1 year ago
My god I miss all the fun in Largo, the best concerts ever from any band "The Nations Capital at The Cap Center". Sadly it was leveled to make way for an outdoor mall to give locals/african americans thier god given right to spend our hard earned tax dollars, that seems fair. The place is so full of crime,death and poverty it makes haiti look like paradise. I raise a toast to the place of dreams of yesteryear "please come back oneday"
Roguestallion440 1 year ago 2
The start of this song is like jazz heavy rock rock
mastrofell 1 year ago
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One of the best songs they ever did.
Soxpert 1 year ago
Theres too many Van Halens In Van Halen, Anthony needed pronto! Eddie Rules!
MrAppolo777 1 year ago
goblinarmy is only part right- eddie gets a 10 for creativity but timing is about a 7- 8 , he was actually a bit sloppy with tightness and if the first line-up of VH did consist of "better" musicians it would have been stale & boring, kinda like van hagar . these guys more than made up for precision & technical ability with sheer HEART in their playing. if not for mike's harmonies there would have been a serious lack of vocality in the first 5 albums. dave's a great showman-but barely a singer
toneeleven 1 year ago
That little guitar is awsome ROCK ON EDDIE!
5150BALANCE 1 year ago
Am I the only one who really dislikes micheal's voice??? In my opinion it doesn't add anything to the music and is just a high squeek... He's great for the show, just like Dave and Alex... But such a shame that Eddie was stuck with such mediocre musicians all his life. The show is great. But Eddie was the only real musician in the band in my opinion
goblinarmy 1 year ago
Michael is definitely one of the greatest signature voices in Rock!
bluebabylou 1 year ago 8
FUCKIN AMAZING!!!
ribs389 1 year ago
@MrTennis3356 and you can't shit worth a song ,l,
Hiduregan 1 year ago
NO SHIT....AND EDDIE RULES
michelletotin 1 year ago
its pretty un fair to say dave cant sing this could have been the last song of the nite and all voices get tired also dave is van halen so go fuck yourself
alg1960 1 year ago
@alg1960 --- An exhausted David Lee Roth is still 100 times more entertaining than a well-rested fatso douchebag like Sammy Hagar
Hunkola 1 year ago
GREATNESS!!!
headleygrange1971 1 year ago
@MrTennis3356 DLR IS VAN HALEN. So Shut up.
Starsky76 1 year ago
i thought that sound was volume swelling, it turns out it's a real little guitar...
NeoPunKz 1 year ago
@NeoPunKz I read a long time ago that Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top gave that guitar to Ed.
robg8888 1 year ago
Does he still have that famous "Little guitar" or " Less Paul"
PSNgregiskool 1 year ago
My favorite! Wow, I haven't heard this is a long long time!
ryleebuchanan 1 year ago
This would be great concert to have on DVD, wonder if it available...
bedank 1 year ago
Diamond Dave reminds me of someone that escaped from a circus... lol..
kiritateruryu 1 year ago 11
@kiritateruryu That's DLR for ya! I think he was hyperactive as a child and evidently as an adult. Was perfect for VH! :-)
vinnykster 1 year ago
@kiritateruryu Just what you want in a frontman
RMNCOfficial 8 months ago
@kiritateruryu The Greatest Show on Earth ";....;"
residentflea 6 months ago
@kiritateruryu
a circus of cocaine. hehe
nicholausr 5 months ago
hahah!! i just laughed to eddie while he runs on the stage 3:25 - 3:28 :D:D
perfidia2 1 year ago
@perfidia2 He probably saw a full can of Schlitz Malt Liquor at the other end of the stage.
mrentertainment43 1 year ago
pure fucking class, got the whole show on dvd.
jelly1967 1 year ago
I wish Eddie would have done the 5150 III with Marshall instead of Fender!
jhop5150 1 year ago
Best moment at 3:14
MrDehungerize 1 year ago
there actually is a VH after Mikey? news to me...
loving the new Chickenfoot BluRay!
AUniqueVideoProd 1 year ago
This is awesome! VH with DLR is and will ALWAYS be Van Halen to me.
DixieRected 1 year ago
I have this entire concert on DVD........pretty good quality.......of course Dave is drunk off his ass but a Roth Halen show is still 1000 times better than a lame-ass Van Hagar gig........hit me up if you want a copy.
Hunkola 1 year ago
Most Underrated Van Halen Song!
1984rockcity 1 year ago 54
@1984rockcity
ballyztk 10 months ago
@1984rockcity I know I love this song..
vonkiser 7 months ago
Agreed. VH can survive without David, and interchange Sammy. But they can never replace Michael Anthony. I would rather see Chicken Foot live nowadays than VH... And I am very sad to say that...
bgdaddykul 1 year ago
bet i've heard that master eddie solo at the end of this song a thousand times. live twice. nothing but magic and bad as hell every time!!!
JHBguru1 1 year ago
diver down was such a good album and the tour was so good, just like every one of ther tours, they are the best live with mikey and dave, u cant beat VH
515OVanHalen515O 1 year ago
that les paul is sick
oxanon237425 1 year ago
I wish i would have been there!
slashwide 1 year ago
Better on the CD... the chorus is awful and Eddie's guitar sounds like it's out of tune in the beginning... and believe me, I'm one of the biggest damn VH fans there are.
Skizz1979 2 years ago
Comparing it too other VH live performances this does pretty damn well
TheSleathable 1 year ago
Great era but come on? Fuckin atrocious performance. I'm a big VH fan but by todays standards they'd be paid off.
hairyboosh 2 years ago
by todays standards they better
frankenstrat25 2 years ago
@ValterraBlue72 the best!
JLozano1963 2 years ago
Do I spy Eddie playing a Les Paul or is that just me? When the hell did he play that? I remember him always playing Charvel or on occasion fender.
hyde9318 2 years ago
It's a miniature Les Paul copy. Not a Gibson. He played Gibson Les Pauls through the first 3 tours. Only had one Charvel, the black and yellow. The rest were Boogie Bodies parts he put together including the original white and black one he later painted red. Never seen him play a Fender live.
darkknight91 2 years ago
he had 3 charvel guitars the black and yellow charvel hybrid 2 the charvel star he used on the 1980 invasion tour (women and children first) and a charvel hydra guitar that i have no idea if he used live or not
frankenstrat25 1 year ago
@frankenstrat25
When I say Charvel I mean complete guitars. The Star had a Danelectro neck. The Hydra was made by Karl Sandoval when he worked for Wayne. He actually had 3 black and yellow Charvels but only used one live, that I know of. The other 2 came later after Grover Jackson owned the company.
darkknight91 1 year ago
Diver Down FTW!!! Man that album is a staple of my youth and I have never grown tired of listening to the gem.
StevenGA1011 2 years ago 4
Way to scramble it together .... ;)
klank67 2 years ago
I think the diver down tour was live Van Halen at its best
MrACvanDC 2 years ago 3
back when music was good
watergrass5150 2 years ago 23
come on boys if you arent down with band changesups you cant be a real vaan halen fan. this is something we as vh fans should come to expect. i dig this band and have since 78' and see the line up changes are to rejuvenate the creative juices eddie has allways given to us- the true vh fans. a lil respect for someone who has given his fan so much to think and talk about. remember the music is the real part of all that is van halen and has not been short is greatness. so great job to eddie and vh
chad00023 2 years ago 4
Great song!! Grew up singing it with my dad!
MistyMtnHopx 2 years ago
ya but wolfgang cant sing for shit
siakdf3 2 years ago
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jackblack47872 2 years ago
thank god someone thinks like i do. Vh will never be the same without mikey
rushbum 2 years ago 63
@rushbum ...i totaly agree just aint the same without mikey.....sammy over david lee also
halenizer5150 2 years ago
nope no way nvr daves sales are couble eddie was simply more creative with dave and his guitar sounded better with daves voice
515OVanHalen515O 2 years ago
with sammy vh wrote better songs....with dave it was strictly party to you drop balls to the wall!!!!!!
rushbum 2 years ago
@rushbum totally agree, he's the man behind all those great backing vocals.
stormriderWI 2 years ago
Yeah true i'd rather have Mike Anthony
GuitarMaster10011 2 years ago
Ture
JK49900 2 years ago
@rushbum Your right! They techniclly are not VH without the original recording members!
keithsterman 1 year ago
@rushbum Yes cool dude but Mickey will be back in the band when Valerie decides that Wolfgang has had enough rock and roll and bad influence from his father and should go back to college to get on the straight and narrow and get a proper job !!! ha ha
I dont like the slagging off of Eddie and I dont like the slagging off of Valerie. They were very in love and at least Edward did not cheat, he just could not overcome his drinking, worse things happen in life
steveevh1 1 year ago
@steveevh1 yes Eddie did cheat. In fact he was being blackmailed because of it
ericpieper69 10 months ago
THAT'S the ticket AJM! You know Mike's voice and bass notes indeed gave the group a commercial nuance other rock bands could only dream about. Sammy recognizes this more than Dave and the VH brothers I'm afraid.
NYVoice 2 years ago 4
yep. listen to Dance the Night Away and see if tears don't threaten. that effer had heart to go with the lungs. DtNA -- one of pop's masterpieces, courtesy of one M anthony (and DLR and EVH and AVH). then there's pretty much 80% of everything else they did that rocked.
oh, and thanks for the promotion (AJM).
2ndAsstJizzMopper 2 years ago
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jackblack47872 2 years ago
How can anybody say that Michael was just another bassist/vocalist when you hear him compensate on the high notes for Dave? He was the spice of the group.
NYVoice 2 years ago 72
@NYVoice Yeah he most definitely picked up the slack for both Roth and Hagar at times. He had a natural gift at high harmonies that is rare. As a bass player is was/is OK, but Ed allegedly wrote many of the bass lines, or they mixed him nearly out of existence on the early records.
But I always thought they should have had him sing after Hagar left...
DarthKazi 1 year ago
@DarthKazi I hear ya. They should have at least given Mike one song on each post-Roth album to sing. Especially on the God-awful VH III. Mike was a HUGE part of the sound and overall chemistry of the band. Even after DLR left, those signature VH backing harmonies held much of the original sound in check.
Reg197844 1 year ago
@NYVoice Yeah, anyone that thinks otherwise needs to watch The Van Halen Story, The Early Years. A must see for any true Van Halen fan. Just imagine what would have been had Eddie kept playing drums and Alex kept playing guitar as they originally started. Once you've seen this video you will learn to appreciate the talent Michael brought to the band.
mindlessjrlee 1 year ago
Funny you mention that; I got the DVD for my birthday in Jan. and absolutely love it. The fact that MA was a lead singer was a plus when he got in VH -no, he wouldn't compete with Dave. But he NEVER whined about being demoted or relegated to backup vocals because that's where his true strengths were. they also turned out to be the final critical piece to the Van Halen sound. And yeah, Alex on guitar and ed on drums-fate had other plans.
NYVoice 1 year ago
@NYVoice Awesome DVD, I rented it from NetFlix, ripped it, and now it's forever a part of my collection. I've seen Van Halen in concert more than any other band, totaling 4 times. Aside from Led Zeppelin, they will always be a top two favorite. What originally hooked me was the song "Jamie's Cryin'". Michael's chorus, Dave's perfected lead, Eddie's guitar crying and singing, and Alex' impeccable drumming blended into a melodic song that still catches me to this day.
mindlessjrlee 1 year ago
@NYVoice
Mikey was the glue, baby, that held the mighty Van Halen machine together. No, he wasn't one of the two big celebrities in the band, but he was, and is, a great singer and bassist. I miss Michael Anthony being in the band — never be the same without him.
sheephider82 1 year ago
@NYVoice I agree. Michael was a good bass player. It takes a lot more work than people think to be a good bass player.
moldmakertoad 1 year ago
I saw this tour when they swung through Chattanooga in 1982. It was awesome.
beatle0001 2 years ago
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! Pure Magic.
bag11771 2 years ago 2
Very COOL !!!
SHAWNLARGE 2 years ago
team edward van halen bitch
8675309mmm 2 years ago 2
holy fuckin crap.. thankyou man... im so gonna use this on my sis
MattiesX2 2 years ago
I am glad they all made it through alive! God Bless Van Halen!
elbertsnext 2 years ago
This is awesome.
rossboss1 2 years ago 2
I was always amazed at the fucking sound that bastard got out of that little thing.
Chuck Norris opens doors for Ed, man!
DarthKazi 2 years ago 2
dig them crazy threads man.......van halen @ the top of their game!!!!
stewmacman 2 years ago 5
for you newbie's of the VH club!!!!!!! the new bassist for van halen is eddies son wolfgang AKA WOLFIE
langdon5150 2 years ago
David Lee Roth-Lead Vocals
Eddie Van Halen-Lead Guitar
Marc Anthony-Bass Guitar
Alex Van Halen-Drums
ukkats1998 2 years ago
It's Mike Anthony...
psychlyst 2 years ago
@ukkats1998
Michael anthony not marc anthony! thats jennifer lopez's husband
yellowearwax 2 years ago
Sorry, I know its Michael Anthony. I've been a Vah Halen fan sicne the late 70's. I had a brain-fart when I typed that. I didn't mean to degrade Michael by calling him Marc. Michael Anthony is touring with Sammy Hagar now.
ukkats1998 2 years ago
chickenfoot now
Gibsonwilshire 1 year ago
i thought the bassists last name was van halen, not anthony?
VoicerChanger 2 years ago
No Van Halen is the last name of the guitar player and the drummer.
ericpieper69 2 years ago
Sobolewski. Anthony is his middle name.
DarthKazi 2 years ago
persanly i really liked them with sammy, but ill admit they were the best with roth. i like can relate to sammy better
fattiesg61 2 years ago
To be honest I didn't listen to them much after the first album and only saw them once in the original line up on their own tour a couple years later. That said VH did need DLR on vocals.
grumpyoldgitt 2 years ago
Good Times! Great band, great singer and the genius EVH!!!! Great and crazy EVH!!!
roggeriocsouza 2 years ago
Beautiful Rock N Roll at it's finest !!!! Yes DLR is the man. Sammy is cool and all but Van Halen is Dave, Ed, Alex, Micheal. No hard feelings towards Sammy meant towards Sammy at all. And yes it's enduring that wolfgang is in the band but Ed needs to stop being an ass towards Micheal. Get off the bottle Ed....WAY OFF.
LMAO0O0O0 2 years ago 2
Fortunate enough to have witnessed Van Halen opening for Black Sabbath 8/22/78 in Milwaukee WI. this was back when it was common to hear "WHO THE FUCK IS VAN HALEN? BS was upset during the tour because Van Halen upstaged BS at every concert that year. I saw VH in 1980 and 1984 Always great shows. I have great memories from these VH concerts. Spammy fagar never filled the bill, they should have changed the name from VH to something else, van fagar never mattered, VAN HALEN FOR EVER>> DLR ROCKS!!
DoctorBob409 2 years ago
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grumpyoldgitt 2 years ago
DoctorBob409. I saw the same tour in London. It was Van Halen's first date in the UK and they really did blow Sabbath away, unfortunately. I still have the concert program. The price of the ticket? £1.75
grumpyoldgitt 2 years ago
Yeah Van Halen died in 1985 when DLR left
Glad to see them do a tour in 07 & 08 but not the same without MA
wolfies OK but the original is always best
DoctorBob409 2 years ago 2
This is a good performance. These guys set the bar for a live show with energy that was insane. I had the good fortune of seeing them in LA, SD, PHX, and Tucson between 1981-83.
twinfin321 2 years ago
nice
donottawaguitar 2 years ago
They, VH, were on the biggest stage of all time at the time and the whole world new it at the time...I don't think it will ever be replicated....I mean that ....A great tour...VH Rocks...
pistolpaul21 2 years ago
van halen roxx!!!!!!!!!!!
iloveandrewp97 2 years ago
I have this entire '82 Largo show on DVD.........it's all pro-shot and pretty good quality.........probably the best filmed Dave-era concert aside from the '83 US Festival.
Hit me up if you want a copy........
Hunkola 2 years ago
i do
vaimaster82 2 years ago
can i have a copy please..i only have the US festival on dvd and i fuckin love van halen
acelaney 2 years ago