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  • this tour might have an official dvd , was awesome , compared with the new one 2012

  • They didn't do this one in Atlanta or Charlotte. One of my favs from the first record.

  • Imagine how much more awesome they would've been if Dave never left. Not hating on Sammy, but they were so much better with Diamond Dave.

  • Sober Eddie > Drunk Eddie

  • @Thrashfan21 Exactly. Since he quit smoking, and taking care he's playing 20x better, now, than this vid.

  • @jbankens5150 I don't think he's quit smoking but he gave up the drinking and drugs.

  • @Thrashfan21 hes worikng on the smoking issue too. just not very fast. tobacco is arguably in the top 5 addictive substances. or sp i read anyway.

  • amazing........ i didn't expect this to sound as good as the album, but fuckin hell it did! must've been a great show

  • This Is An Awesome Concert Footage Of Van Halen. Eddie Is On Fire Here.I Like It Big Time.

    Great Stuff" Van Halen You Rock"

  • Podrias desafinar un poco mas? NO, NI QUERIENDO LO CONSEGUIAS!!!!

  • it's so cute watching Dave sing 'running' with the devil....should be 'running FROM the devil' ...wouldn't it make more sense?

  • @wizzzeeee WTF????!!

  • Eddie looks like Tommy Emanuel with short hair

  • Just ordered all the Roth era stuff on CD, i only own the first album on CD... figured it was time to go back and relive all the glory days since the new CD is about to drop.

  • Dave sounds winded because he moves around a lot while singing...

  • Can someone post the lyrics? If I can't understand it, I doubt the French can.

  • Van Halen is #1

  • Eddie Van Halen Is the Best Rocker there is..... Van Halen RULES.....

  • Wolfie looks like he wants to go home to his xbox.

  • @waynejawspp surely not dumb enough to own an XBROKE dvd player, PS3 all the way for the mighty Van Halen household.

  • eddie is the greatest...their are loads of tappers and shredders...vai...satriani..bu­t to me they play like fucking robots...eddie is fast but he plays with heart and soul...2012 tour will be sick off the charts monster...cant wait for tour and new cd

  • @ChiroQuacker if you like this performance be aware when you watch the 2012 ones , dave is not the same

  • @tomasatlarge

    bullshit...dave is doing just fine...i have seen the 2012 ...and dave is singing better then the last tour....with the headset he can hear himself better

    adkot is the best album in decades...i fucking love

    but music critics and spammys rip the cd and dave's tour performance

    compete bullshit

    same assholes who NEVER EVER rip kanye and jay z and lil wayne and gaga and all that pure garbage that sucks and is talentless crap

    as for you....fuck off

    the VH 2012 tour is KILLER

  • @ChiroQuacker I have seen them live in the eighties , i know what im saying , i love them but the clock goes so fast ....

  • @tomasatlarge

    you are a depressing ass hole

    i bet chicks say you aint what u were either old man

    eddie is playing great 2012....incredible

    go fuck off stooge

    "oh it aint like 1984 so i'll just kill myself..." man up u are an embarrassment to VH fans..u friggin limpnoodle

    ADKOT is killer...the band is playing great

  • Eddie looks like a different person now, if you go back and watch the 2004 videos.

  • whisky 77 sunset strip, 2 sets a night, i was there, magic, anyone else??

  • you know daves vioce may notbe as great as one was but, his spirt is burning off the grid

    ! the the guitar players not bad either. lmfao

  • why don't they get some backup singers.. It's only natural to accompany dave for the the chorus

  • The band sounds great, David sounds like he's rushing through the song though

  • listen to this without looking and its 1982.  2012 will rock!

  • Is it me or does it sound like Michael Anthony's vocals in the background? Piped in? just sayin

  • @76sagi its just you.. I like sammy to, but dont buy into what he says about michael anthony and the mix tapes

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  • Sammy wasn't necessary...second guitar wasnt needed, he was tame compared to Dave, Dave had stage presence, great range, good screaming, and the attitude to go with Eddies lead. Can't wait for the tour. The master innovator (eddi) is back, along with his side kick...no guitarist compares, Eddi's heart and soul speaks!

  • Dave sounds great here, especially for his age - fuck all the haters !

  • that band always was, and will forever be about Eddie... brother, son, singers, and songs not withstanding

    (including EVH's ups and downs)

    EVH is in the history books as a game changer, not his relatives or band mates (nom to some formable talents)

  • that band always was, and will forever be about Eddie... brother, son, singers, and songs not withstanding

    EVH is in the history books as a game changer, not his relatives or band mates (nom to some formable talents)

  • great vid

  • Van Halen with Dave is the real Van Halen!

    SAMPLE AS THAT!

  • Sammy is the singer. Dave the entertainer.

    SIMPLE AS THAT.

  • As long as Sammy's singing Fools-ROMEOS DELIGHT-OUTTA LOVE and ATOMIC PUNK. Dave is a shell of his former self and Sammy is twice the singer that Dave is. Listen to him hack this one to bits. Monotonous emotionless chanting isn't the way I remember this stuff sounding in my younger days. Dave's an embarrassment to every self respecting Van Halen fan in the world. They'd rock if he was right but, there's something lost in translation with him now.

  • @patriotpizzaman You, sir, are an idiot.

  • the reason is love as you think so it is

  • the reason is love ...runnin with beezlejuice iz runnin with ...the devil as you think so it is

  • the reason is love

  • DLT looks like Liberace in this and AVH looks like Mr Spock in Star Trek IV. You can never go back in time guys but having said that I think Mr Spock did in Star Trek IV. Nostalgia? More like Neuralgia. What a shame that money raised its' ugly head.

  • I just watched a clip of the BS reunion of VH with Sam & Mike in 2004....and thank god that ended. It not ended the Sammy era of VH which I call the dark ages but it resulted in Dave being back where he rightfully belongs & EVH cleaning himself up for good!!! Its plain VH fact; the Sam era of VH almost killed KING EDDIE VAN HALEN & VAN HALEN for good!!!!!

  • @65Magnifico and how did it almost "kill" VH? 4 number 1 platinum albums under Sammy doesnt seem like it hurt the band to me? I like Dave.. he's cool. But Sammy is by far the better vocalist in the band.. The only thing wrong with the 04' tour was Eddie Van Halen's drinking. Otherwise the band would have been better than ever..

  • @codebreaker212p Hagar a better vocalist than DLR? That's the funniest damn thing I've ever heard. Hagar is WAY overrated. VH was a good Top 40 band while he was with them, but that sound is no longer in demand. People want the kick ass, Roth led Van Halen. As far as the 2004 debacle is concerned, Hagar was just as horrible as Ed was.

  • @olio8773 how is that funny? Sammy could sing over half of Roth's songs. Panama, unchained, aint talkin bout love, somebody get me a doctor, etc... How many songs of Sammy's could Roth sing? A big fat ZERO.. Lets hear Roth try and sing "dreams" or "poundcake" or "5150." Now that would be the funniest thing I ever heard. Roth is known for his showmanship on stage. That is what defines Roth and that goes with the "kickass" attitude you talk about. Sammy is a singer, Roth is a showman.. Period.

  • @codebreaker212p If you say so.

  • @olio8773 thanks for agreeing

  • @codebreaker212p You make a solid point on the comparison of Sammy and Dave's vocals but the bottom line is MOST Van Halen fans don't want to hear Dreams-Poundcake or 5150 (why can't this be love...YIKES!) Give us FOOLS-ROMEOS DELIGHT-OUTTA LOVE and ATOMIC PUNK...Period.

  • @clintbronson5 and how do you know what most fans want to listen to? Have you asked all of them?

  • @codebreaker212p and what happened now losing all his showmanship?

  • @olio8773 Yes! Hagar sucked too, but EVERYONE blames it all on Ed. BTW, Al is an absolute machine!

  • @Wilkster5150 Al is the most underrated drummer of all time. He makes it look so easy!

  • @olio8773 Agree 100% He is my all time favorite and the reason I started playing drums as a kid. He is the perfect compliment to Ed's blistering axe work and he defies age! He is simply amazing each and every night!

  • Fucking Great!! VH sounds incredible here.. Wolfgang holds his own as well

  • He still has his playing faculties together.

  • geez i think dave was sick

  • KILLER video - they sound great! Classic EVH......glad they got this together.

  • Please get the imitation bass player of the stage. Shouldn't he be in a weight loss clinic or in class. Come on Ed. What a joke. The true example of a boy trying to fill a mans shoes. Bring back Michael Anthony.

  • @Campermanist that's because you're tone deaf.

  • awesome. Ed sounds better than ever. can't wait for the new cd.

  • a can't believe how awful this is... the back up vocals suck. eddie is playing pretty well and alex is playing as well as sober alex can. dave sound like pure shit. the 2 shit screams he gave in running with the devil were horrible.

  • @LaunShivingston and u could do it better im guessing?

  • @VanHalenfan5150iii i could definitely sing the back up vocals better and probably daves aswell. im no eddie van halen =P

  • @Schusnap Dave wasn't even trying, which is bullshit since people paid good money to see that show...

  • @Thirdgen83 He looks like a lost pathetic hasbeen

  • Ed plays great when he's not drunk or stoned...

  • Your attention please;

    Elvis has entered the Dave.

  • This must have been one of Eddie's sober nights. Some of his best playing from that tour. Where's the new CD?

  • van nhalen has a darker edge with roth in it. with hagar is more of a happy go lucky type of band . much respect to sammy though he is a great vocalist.

  • @JLOZANO2 van hagar was more like marriage music dlr was more like im single lets fuckin party

  • THE BEST!!!!!! 

  • You know your famous when Ben Stiller coomes out at 3:52 to tighten your cymbal =P

  • @googaloon

    LOL

  • Doo whap part just ain't the same without Michael.

  • @DetestProtest Very true...

  • Ed is outstanding and hasn't lost a thing, sounds as good as ever. The key is good health and good spirits. All I can say to all the negative na-bobs out there is hey, all we should ever say to anything regarding Ed is, THANK YOU, THANKS FOR YOUR ETERNAL GIFT OF CREATIVE GENIUS AND GOD BLESS. Remember we have his music forever, the gift that keeps on giving and has given me countless moments of joy.

  • @bigtimmy1100 I second that brother! All the haters can kiss off. Van Halen, still the greatest band ever and Ed is still unmatched by ANYONE on guitar.

  • i'm the one and hot for teacher both have that double bass shuffle beat, they should never stop doing those songs,

  • who gives a crap about dave. i think the whole point of this video is to showcase the fact that we are all getting schooled by a geezer with arthritis.

  • Dave never totally lost his voice, he always sucked live!!!!!

  • Eddy and Alex sound good. Roth is finished. Lost his hair and his voice. I agree with others on this board. Give it up Dave!

  • Wow I love DLR but that was just a piss poor performance! He was never great live vocally! But I hope this was an off night!

  • Without a doubt they are using Mikey's backin vocals on a backin track!!

  • Dave sings this like a friggin' old fart. Bring Sammy and Mikey back, and let Wolf play keyboards or kazoo or something.

  • FUCK WOLFGANG HE AIN'T MICHAEL ANTHONY, Eddie should get the plunger out of his ass, and fuckin listen to the first 3 albums, that is the sound we all kno & want. wtf are u doing with eddies son! CAN HE PLAY THE JACK DANIELS BASS SOLO I DIDN'T FUCKING THINK SO.

    enough said!

  • @rehearsal4retirement

    Haha dude, the Jack Daniels bass solo was the most BORING bass solo in concert history!!! Bunch of over layered effects with zero licks...so inspiring. yawn

    I like Michael Anthony & miss his vocal harmonies but it was always take a piss & get a beer time during his solos...real boring shit.

  • @LightEmUp1 I thought Gene the Moneybag jew Simmons solo was worst!

  • Holy shit they were spot on at this show

  • What happened to Michael Anthony?

  • @jerrylaska Anthony left for a while so they can 'cash in' with ANOTHER reunion later....

  • what a sound ! amazing ! thank you bro!

  • Both that whole barbershop quartet part and the rolling bass line intro of RwtD would have been better if they still had Michael Anthony!

  • At least Dave attempted to sing the songs correctly and be the singer, instead of prancing around trashed and saying whatever the hell he wanted, messing up all the songs...Still that was fun to watch and listen too in those days.

  • Dave looks and acts like a damn night club singer out in las vegas. And that damn shit eattin grin all the time damn Dave give it a rest.

  • @wizard663 Dave is a fucking embarrassment - and the worst part is he's the only one who doesn't know it. Like your senile grandpa: "Everybody, sssssh - grandpa doesn't know he's got a goldfish sticking out of his fucking mouth."

  • @wizard663 you clearly missed the boat.

  • @ACEDIAMOND666 what the hell do you mean i clearly missed the boat. I saw Van Halen in 84 and all the years before when Dave was good, he is clearly washed up and needs to give it up. He doesn't have it anymore, he is done.

  • @wizard663 Dave has ALWAYS been like that. Hello, this is the man who sang "I'm just a gigolo!" Your comment is absurd.

  • DAVE STILL GOT IT!!!

  • 2 People Didn't Get To See This Tour!!!

  • BRING BACK MIKE!!!

  • sounds great!

  • Methinks Dave is a robot, or have I been in Tokyo too long?

  • @33 Dave shrugs his shoulders like a two year old. lol

  • eddie sounds awesome, and looks cool, like a new band, i think dave and alex had a major decision in talking with ed about his addiction and wanted to give there fans the best van halen can be, and that meant ed cleaning up his act, right on ed, we really need ya, todays music sucks,

  • i'm the one is one of there best of all time, same groove as hot for teacher, they sound great, roth could have put more focus on his phrasing of the words, but thats roth, they will always be the best band, with roth only that is, i didn't like them with sammy at all,

  • Dave is repulsive. Looks like he has reverted back to an infant.

  • ...And wolfgang can actually play some decent bass licks! All you people saying he is a crap bassist listen carefully in Running With The Devil (this video)

  • @joshkosh95 We won't know shit till the new record comes out. I suspect, for the first time, we'll actually HEAR the basslines on Van Halen records. If the kid is 10% as good as his dad, he'll tear it up. MA's vocals are very much a part of the VH sound, but his bass playing is mediocre at best. Wolfie has a decent voice. Too bad Ed's is shot because it used to be a pretty good "middle" harmony.

  • @DarthKazi Mike is not mediocre. Listen to the bass on Romeo Delight.

  • @DarthKazi anthonys playing mediocre? haha it takes more of a mediocre bass player too keep up with the van halen brothers now go listen to some old van halen albums and turn that bass up

  • Haha nice to see Alex singing along (or counting) at the "ba bada shoobi do wa" bit aha

  • Dave is insane

  • dave is as good as he was 40 years ago

  • Eddie is amazing! Great show

  • David Lee Roth can't sing to save his life.........Gawd!!!! horrible

  • I love how the camera guy realized that Eddie needed to be in every possible shot. Finally, someone who gets it.

  • i am crap at the guitar

  • ok this is fuken awesome but i still think back in the day they were better because it was more of a show and its really entertaining and also i think its not the same without Michael that guy was the shit its not the same without his high scream xD

    but like i said its still fuken awesome :)

  • how great this would be if Michael Anthony was playing with them.

  • Ed's playing is pretty good on this. Dave looks like a gay Elvis impersonator. As far as Dave's singing? My cat makes better noises when I step on his tail. Absolutely awful.

  • @BaldViking He was always a mediocre live singer. I agree that he could spice his stage routine up a bit, along with Wolfie just standing there like a lump on a log. Maybe if there are upcoming tours and new music, that might invigorate them. I'd still pay a couple Benjamins to see this group, IF THEY PUT SOME KILLER NEW SHIT OUT.

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  • Treble. 

  • what the hell is he yellin about...fuckin crack head...

  • I hope we hear some of Dave's crazy new scream on the new record!

  • Great, but having Mikey in the mix would've been soooooooo much better!

  • I think the "Show your love" backing vocals are not being sang by the band.. lol

  • Wow 4:26... Dave did his trademark scream! WOOOOOOH!

  • Sounds better than ever!!!!

  • @blasty5150 WHAT ?

  • Hair.....

    

  • @frase1234 I agree with your reaction... I liked Eddie and Dave much better in long hair, but that's all in the past =P

  • It also looks like some kid from 10th grade is on bass

  • Roth doesnt even know the words to his own songs. He like...Show your love..lunchmeat show tellin you snack pack. They are also so off timing--and is it me or does Roth seem like he may have finally lost it? In the opening lines he is like a robot Im talkin like a robot Im a robot

  • @Rizzy55 they've been singing that music for 32 years. they're tired of performing perfectly. they're having fun now, not making a living.

  • @johnadorian Performing perfectly? Have you ever seen the Us Festival peformance from 1983? Van Halen pretty much never peformed perfectly, especially Dave.

  • @hjackhammer Agreed! Dave actually made effort to sing all the lyrics on the last tour, and cut way down on his clown routine. Still the ultimate front man of rock.

  • how do drunks stay so thin?

  • VH are better than any metal old hat

    They are more like a cross between hard rock and bebop

    And Alex is the motor!!!

    Eddie would sound just half as good with other drummers

  • Impressive, if this clip was audio only I would have thought it was a recording from back in the day,,,

  • they sound great! better than ever eddie and dave are really kicking ass so is alex.now i wonder how much better they would sound with mikie back on bass.how can it be a reunion with only 3 guys?I want to see all 4 of them dave eddie alex and mikie not eddies kid .wolfie should start his own band and maybe open for van halen next time with mikie anthony back on bass

  • I wish Dave would go back to his short-lived radio and talk about pulling his Samurai Sword out on unwanted visitors at his NYC apartment.

    Also, Dave...please go back to the old hairstyle. You look like my accountant.

  • Dave sang better on the live tour than he did back in the old VH days

  • they were TIGHT here! damn, the lighting the sound! everything!

  • Mr Eddie please look for a new bass player, wolfie don't have that energy to rock, for a start why don't you call Mr Jason Newsteed ex metalicca

  • @MyDanik1 Hell ye ! But Jason would steal Eddie's show XD

  • @MyDanik1 or Michael Anthony...

  • 2:30 or rather tens seconds after that: aren't you running the risk of getting whip lash injuries If you stop a song like that?

    Those brothers!

    What keeps them from releasing new stuff? strange, isn't it?

    But we have to enjoy this for now, magnificent show!

  • @aNdYmAtTeR They are working on a new album as I type this!

  • Man sure would be cool if VH would do a tour through North America. i still think

    they could pull it off.And make sure it's not just only through Toronto, Montreal &Vancouver im sorry That dose not constitute as a tour.

  • did anyone else notice during im the one david lee roth rarely sang words

  • Snakes 'n' Barrels!

  • btw, wolfgang can harmonize very well. m.a. would be pure but the fat kid did well

  • saw this show while in va..only dissapointing thing was the stage setup..didnt like it at all

  • I think Alex needs more drums.

  • I Wonder If Eddie Will Ever Make A "Betcha Can't Play This"?

  • @furrysega7 He did, it was called "Eruption".

  • is that arnold playing the guitar hahah =D

  • damn, eddie still got it!

  • WOW - Awesome Vid!

  • they still sound so good.

  • Ok, if you carefully watch eddies left hand on the main riff of running with the devil, you will see that he plays that riff completely different that every single person i've ever seen play it or every single sheet music or tab i've ever read. For days I've been watching and trying to find what it is he's actually doing vs what we all think he's doing. Any one can help shine some light on it? What is eddie doing on the that progression that we've all gotten wrong?