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  • i remember when MTV played good music...oh wait, i wasn't born yet

  • I don't think I'd look good that shirt that Mike is wearing, but it looks so cool that I want one

  • I always cringe when I remember Sammy saying "Thank you Ars."

  • @NPRMc He can get away with it cos Americans use "Ass" not "Arse" :-D

  • what is mike wearing here, spandex and a big polka dot shirt? wtf

  • Man, I am a big fan of the Roth era, but Sammy definitely kills it on this song, and the more I hear performances like this the more I am leaning towards the Van Hagar era!

  • sammy...you surfin'?....cm on....

  • I watched this on TV. They opened the show with this. Had to see them live that year and I did.

  • i try to play like evh, my guitar doesn´t survive

  • @ 3:36 - pure eargasm. Sammy Hagar's voice is amazing. Even today. RIP Van Hagar. May your spirit live on through Chickenfoot!

  • I love both eras, and this was one of the best times to be a Van Hagar era fan. After the keyboard ballad releases from 5150 and 0U812, it was wonderful to hear VH rock out and be proud of it again (Unlike the last two releases, where all they released were keyboard ballads and almost seemed ashamed of being a guitar rock band, even though there were some awesome rockers on both albums.). F.U.C.K. remains one of the best VH releases ever IMHO, top 5 in the VH catalogue for sure.

  • When the hell we had changed this MTV Awards to the actual and why?!

  • bland

  • Say whatever you want, criticize me all you want, but I preffer Sammy.

  • @hmoy24677 whatever you want

  • what model of makita drill is he using

  • @mnm1945 i think it's a model 5150

  • @khensley1966

    hardy har har

  • Those notes Sammy hits after the solo are flat out ridiculous. Who does that?!!

  • I remember this performance like it was yesterday!! Eddie is king!!!!!!!!

  • fuck!! what a performance.... I got hipnotized.

  • poundcake.

    hmmmmm yummy

  • Ya the power drill... BUT didnt he also do a chainsaw effect, not actually taking a chainsaw to his Frankenstrat?

  • I saw Ed do that same trick in Tijuana with Sammy Hagar's 13" Vibrator....eeeww!!

  • Eddie wanted to sound better live, he always knew the audience was important, when I saw them in 2004 in Grenville SC, Eddie said that if anyone was thrown out for smoking a cigarette he would stop playing, it was incredible,

  • have you ever noticed that it is impossible for eddie to fuck up?? Half the time he plays better live than on the album.

  • Awesome!

  • What in gods name is mike wearing lmao

  • I don't know how the drill got popular with him. Wasn't much just a drill by pickups. Cool idea but nothing that special or crazy...

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  • @MyAccount4TrollingU neither.. You take the crown..

  • @MyAccount4Trolling...they are both queers.

  • The ONLY part of this is ASSHLE ( I KNOW EDDIE MURPHY ) HALL...Love  SAMMY more than the Van Halen Boyz !

  • I think Sammy's hair is so awesome!!

  • Some might like Dave better, but there is no denying this kicks major ass. The only thing wrong is that Michael and Eddie don't have enough speaker cabinets up there.

  • Just sick. These guys were money.

  • Trying to understand what sammy is whereing.... Ehh i dont care VAN HALEN FUCKING RULES!!!

  • you are so right, Youtube is the best!

  • no derr, SirRemembrant! some people just dont give a fuck about what they see, their just there for eddie!

  • Good luck following that performance@@!!!

  • Thiumbs up if you noticed that the drill that Eddies using at the begining of the video has the same design as his custome gituar! xD

  • One thing about Sammy, he doesn't shy away from the high notes when singing live. he nails it everytime.

  • @cell9song Agreed - There are some 78/79 clips of Dave actually singing live but anything later Mike held it together - I'm guessing there'll be a LOT of pre-recording for their next tour...

  • SO MUCH BETTER WITH SAMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Like so many other great bands, the 90's grunge plague destroyed them.

  • the drill is fkn awesome!!!

  • @Gordfozzfoster Thank you for the very detailed explanation.

  • Why is the amp-backline so small :-))

  • @Incurred Ed only ever used 3 heads and 3 cabs on this tour...Steve Lukathiers rig. Follow me please. Go into the main 100 watt head. Out of that head into one 4x12 cab dry. FX left send to delay. FX right send to reverb and -.9 cents pitch shift (chorus effect). FX left returns to another head and 4x12 cab. FX right rtrns to another head and cab. 3 heads. 3 cabs. 2 wet and 1 dry. Notice how only the bottom 3 cabs are ever mic'd on a Van Halen stage? All the others are fake cabs.

  • @Gordfozzfoster couldnt you just skip the other two heads and just use one?

  • @vanhalenkid you can. the other two heads are just amplifying the effected sounds. the main head or "dry" head is all you really need.

  • @Gordfozzfoster I meant couldnt you u use one head, into a power amp and the palmer and what not and pan the signal using the power amp or an external mixer? it doesnt make sense for him to use all the heads at once chained to each other. He uses three live, but I think the all run seperatly, they just have different settings

  • @vanhalenkid He used to use these H&H mosfet power amps in the 80's and he'd plug all of those cabs on stage in! lol! Now there's just 3 cabs plugged in. He uses the other 2 heads just for power...not even plugged into the pre amp section but just the return input. Just power. The 3 heads are separate. Only the tone settings on the main (dry) head are used. (bass 7 mid 7 treb 3 pres 4 pre 4 master 7)

  • Sammy's hair is awesome. Hate Mikey's outfits. EVH is godlike but it seems like they are playing too slowly.

  • I need one of those drills for house work.

  • @guitarplyr102 lol...right?

    

  • @NYtoTX how cool would it be to paint your bedroom frankenstein ??? !! lol

  • @guitarplyr102 Oooooh, dunno about the whole ROOM! Ha!

  • @NYtoTX his shitter is prob frankenstein color hahahahah

  • @guitarplyr102 lmao

  • @NYtoTX his shitter is probably frankenstein color. hahahaha did you know his car was that color once too lol

  • thats the best damn live performance VH has on you tube spot on why did Eddie stop with peavey the best damn tone his new fender designed made in Mexico sounds like shit and its made in Mexico for $1999.99.

  • mtv is fake now.PLAY THE REAL MUSIC. NOT THIS SKINS CRAP. their exploiting kids who need help. they have no respect for music theese days. who here needs to know that ecaped ompa lumpa (snookie) sleeps with an aligator... NO ONE!!!!!!!! If they had any sence they would let that 20 year olds dad run MTV. he kid would say "the frey" the dad would say "the who" LET THE ROCK AN ROLL ROLL!!!!!!!!!!

  • they really rocked the hell outta this! Too bad VH is way done

  • I like Roth over Hagar but this is my favorite VH song of all time

  • eddie van halen one of the greatest guitarist in the world

  • @francisco48117 THE, baby

  • @NYtoTX ok ill remember that jejeeje

  • Nice drill.

  • LOVE SAMMY...AND THE REST OF THE BAND......BUT, SAMMY DOES IT.....YEAHHHHHH

    home grown and down home.....

    ALEX IS THE BEST.....

    love MIKEY'S LEATHER PANTS..LOL......

    V-H ROCKS......LUV THEM

  • LOVE SAMMY...AND THE REST OF THE BAND......BUT, SAMMY DOES IT.....YEAHHHHHH

    home grown and down home.....

  • Sam and Anthony look like middle aged Jimmy Buffet fans who are still stuck in the 80s. Anthony's sporting a mullet at this point. I keep expecting the fans to throw cheeseburgers and tequila on the stage. Al and Ed were the only two in the band with any sense of style, taste and melody. Even Roth became a walking parody of himself toward the end of his tenure. As much as those guys like badmouthing Ed, I think that Sam, Mike and yes even Dave were basically alone for the ride/kicks

  • Sammy looks like Robert Plant's brother, especially around 2:25 . Great performance, killer song.

  • VAN FUCKING HALEN ......man, they did run the 90's, what I would not give to turn back time............

  • I LEIK SUM POWNDCAEK

  • Man, hard to believe it's been 20 years since this and they've only released 2 studio albums since. come on Eddie let's go

  • They looked the coolest n this album and tour. Hagar was always my choice over Dave.

  • Bass is too quiet

  • Although I prefer the rougher VH of the Roth days, Hagar's voice absolutely kills it. That guy had some serious range and abilities.

  • Oh shit this is when they got Bozo the clown into the band.

  • EDDIE VAN HALEN ROCKS!!!! HE IS MY GOD!!

  • God I wish there was still a rock culture in the U.S. like there was in the 80's and better part of the 90's. Hip Hop has ruined it all.....like you'll ever see a rock band like Van Halen on the MTV VMAs ever again.

  • @Afterburner289 Oh, I noticed that happening as far back as the mid 90s when underground grunge and alternative bands were being replaced by their corporate counterparts like Nickleback, Creed and neo-punk acts while The Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears started dominating Top 40 radio. I lost interest in the those goofy MTV awards a long time ago. By the time 9/11 happened the country was ripe for economic and cultural collapse

  • For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge was released 6-17-1991. FYI.. Have a vhs copy of this, It was from the1991 MTV awards.

  • This is not 1991!! For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (the album this is off of) came out in 1993

  • @haveadrinkonme15 no it didn't.. afraid you have it mixed up a bit

  • @codebreaker212p

    OOHHH right right my bad. I was thinking of the Live album they had. Or did the live album come out in 1992?

  • @haveadrinkonme15 the live album was in 93'

  • Van Halen is great, there is no denying the fact. Likewise Eddie is a great guitarist. But a great MUSICIAN does not require power tools on stage, or any other props or gadgetry, to be great.

  • @MaskedMarauderWIS It's still cool though.

  • Check Fernando Miyata. Period.

  • people say slash is the best guitarist, Most well known yes, but seriously, peeps need educating!! haah

  • @YodaVanGrindey95 What doe's slash have to do with this ??? your very opinionated, enjoy the vid., or go wath slash. Art is to be enjoyed by all, not always the best.

  • Van Halen is the shit!!! EVH FTW!!

  • WHY THE HELL DOESNT MTV PLAY MUSIC LIKE THIS ANYMORE INSTEAD OF THAT RAP CRAP OR JERSEY SHORE??? HARD ROCK FOREVER!!!!!!

  • @sofa0king I think because no one does it like Eddie :D

  • @sofa0king because they are greedy sons of bitches and only acre about money

  • @sofa0king Because no one ever makes music like this anymore. Let's hope for VHs upcoming album ...

  • @sofa0king caous now it is not mtv it's stv (sheet television

  • Fuckin awesome.

  • Eddie Is the King, we have to admit almost every guitar player followed his amazing technique, I know Randy roads is great and via, and so on,,,but eddie is the King forever !!

  • i remember this back when music television played music and videos those were the days oh yeah there were 12 idiots that didnt like this crazy

  • @crazymexicanchick199 agreed 100%

  • "Eddie Van Halen totally re-shaped the guitar".

    -Steve Vai

    See ??? Even he can admit Eddie is the master.

  • Next tour, why don't you guys make yourselves useful and print up some "Chickenfoot Sucks" and "Wolfgang WHO?" T-shirts, wearing them proudly in masses. Maybe then they'll get the damn point that nothing wets fans' panties faster and gets consumers' wallets out quicker than a FULL BAND REUNION TOUR!

  • anyone can sit behind their computer and spew their opinion-which they are entitled to have!!!! BUT Mr. Vai is a"maestro"..EVH is a virtuoso!!! the way he "falls down the stairs, and lands on his feet" is incredible!!!! both are musical geniuses...get a webcam and post your "stuff" on your channel!!! who knows, maybe you'll kick Ed's ass....my money is on Mr.Van Halen-my attorney is on retainer, so submitting the contract will not cost you anything!!! GOOD LUCK...

  • love my baby's pound cake !!!!! just an average guy !

  • Those pinch harmonics in the verse are so sexy.

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  • They also played "Runaround" right b4 they went on air that night.

    

  • I want that drill

  • this my friends is music

  • @LPHALEN Oh. I thought you said, "This is my friend's music." XD

  • @Element404 lmao i thought it said that to

  • @LPHALEN Van Halen, is music.

  • I wish is was 1991 again, so I could dress like Sammy Hagar without being beat up while going to school :) Anyway, great song!

  • michael, diggin the randy tribute button up ^_^

  • Sammy Hagar somehow reminds me of this funny dude in the movie "The big Lebowsky".

  • Great musicianship! Awesome video!!

  • best Sammy song with VH

  • tempo seams a bit slow

  • I LOVE YOU SAMMY!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 1st RVD theme

  • Other than Sammy dressing like a 75 year old retiree to Fort Myers this is pretty good.

  • sammy sings it awesome, but looks gay as all fuck, those shorts make him look like his about to swallow a mouth full of gob

  • i'm glad the 07 tour wasn't this gay

  • Using a guitar with a neck pickup was a great decision for Eddie! Love those tones he gets !!

  • MTV still had the balls to rock at this point in time...... Now its monkey music

  • Great band at their peak! Sammy's voice is so much better than DLR's, and it's not even close. I miss Van Hagar!

  • Just an opinion but I feel Hagar is the more pleasing singer, LIVE. DLR seems to be the wild intellect that sacrificed live musicality for spectacle. Hagar gives both things, live. I still prefer DLR to Hagar but if I had to choose to see VH in concert with Roth or Hagar, I would keep a gun pointed at DLR offstage taunting his demise unless he hit every note and sang during the backing vocal parts, at all times.

    But yeah, Sammy rocks, too (adult contempo cough), the man owns his own island!

  • 1991. this had to be not long before nevermind got released. the award shows in 1992 were just a bit different ;)

  • @templedown Not very different...VH won best vid in '92, beating out Nirvana.

  • @templedown The 91 show kicked ass, especially when Metallica hit the stage. I think VH opened the show with this, if my memory serves me right.

  • me encanta--- van halen--- nada q hacer

  • Did Michael stop by Debbie Gibson's yard sale on the way to this performance?

  • Love the guitar tone on this album. Heavy, seasick, chorus effect.

  • Sammy has more talent in his little finger than David Lee has in his whole body!! Sammy Hagar forever

  • @Rockhard423 damn right dude i feel the same way. I was just talking to my boss about that today.

  • FUCK was a great album, perfect for the time. had a real balsy sound and great song writing, they managed to weather the grunge storm when loads of other bands died

  • VAN HALEN!!!! oh yeah~~~

    Perfect song~~~I love this song~~~SAmmy is perfect~~~

    reminds me of the summer time in the Black Hills of South Dakota!!!

  • I used to have this on VHS, so thanks for posting. For me this was Van Halen at their musical prime. They all were very serious about their live shows, relaxed, happy, and healthy onstage. I love Roth-era stuff but their live shows then were pretty sloppy.

  • Eddie is STILL THE KING! All these these cats trying to play fast and technical on YouTube =) hasn`t got it! Eddie`s got it, it`s all about THE SONG! Listen to his feel, damn!!!

  • Man if you can't dig this, then you're retarded.

  • they were a great band!

  • Van Halen with David Lee Roth was very light and fast. Among the best stuff they did with Sammy Hagar was like this: slow and heavy. They should have concentrated on material like this. "Pleasure Dome" of F.U.C.K is another poof of that! Long Live Van Halen !

  • Isn't this the same show poison dropped their pants with cc? Goes to show vh was the shit live.

  • FUCK is the best VH album EVER, P E R I O D ! I love the Dave era but the whole album is a classic!!!!!!!!!

  • Eddie is God . !! 

  • temazo!!!!!!

  • You cant beat van halen ... and if you knock van halen .. i will be forced to erase your existence

  • gene simmons from kiss found these rockers good job gene

  • VAN HALEN, IS CREEPY.

  • van halen kick majors ass my friend... :-)

  • fck'n stunning guitar!!

  • i miss the days of turning on mtv and watching van halen and other rock and metal bands.todays mtv is gay teen reality shows and they only play music like 6 or 7 hours a week and its mostly hip hop or bands like the fray.

  • @airdanny791 yup it's a pity...same in germany...:-( gotta get us a satellite-dish soon for channels like deluxe music and co

  • @IBOII5150I if you get this channel in germany then watch VH1 classic...i watch it all the time...its the only channel left that didnt sell out,they always play hard rock and metal and have talk shows about rock and metal...like "that metal show".they have metal mania,behind the music,classic in concert,classic albums,rock fest...and none of that rap,hip hop or R & B shit

  • I made my ears bleed listening this on repeat back in the day,this track rawks like a mofo!!!!

  • unreal...holy shit. alex's snare. eddie drillin..sammy killin..mikey's shirt.

  • Long live the Red Rocker! More vocal range in his pinky finger than DLR has in his whole body.

    Go see DLR live and you will know just how bad a vocalist he really is.

    Sammy's got pipes and plays a mean gutar too. The best VH right here. Sammy also loves his fans rather than look down on them like DLR. DLR = Dick Lick R

  • Just saw Sammy Play this at San Manuel 3/25/10. OMG!! He is the best. David lee is Gay

  • Let me get on some of that.....oh yeah.....EVH can pound some cakes

  • This has to have been one of the greatest performances on the VMA's.

  • I still think this was their best work sinse the old DLR days and you could even hear Michaels bass on the album for a change. One of the great albums of all time for me definitely.

  • I agree nailband...these geeks today have no clue what it is to be a rockstar....as Gene Simmons once put it, many "rockstars" these days resemble pizza delivery boys that never get laid. Hagar was at his prime during this era.

  • I saw Van Halen on the Canadian Leg of the same 1991 tour on Canada Day...excellent!!!!!so sad........now we have "guitar heroes" like John Mayer....i wanna puke.

  • romospider...very good observation. The reason is that Sammy Hagar is a musician who love performing. David Weave is a bad performer with very little musical talent. Sammy can act and react to the rest of the band and vice versa. With the weave he can't do that making it a one way street. You can't cover for someone with no talen. Oh and also Michael Anthony makes a big difference. Wolfgang just doesn't have the bass or vocal chops of Michael Anthony