Memories, or lack of, I was there. Best concert ever. 13 top name groups, started about 10am finished about 2am. Temps reached 130 on the turf. Don't forget Ted Nugent, Boston, Blue Oyster Cult, Foriener, Foghat, Heart, Sammy Hagar, Aerosmith, Head East, Triumph, Mahogany Rush, Thin Lizzy and Kansas, I believe. Cant find my ticket stub with the list, going on memory . 4th of July weekend. What a show. No place but Texas
Its such a shame Vh fans can't enjoy all the old footage thats out there. The VH camp has a tight grip on their stuff for some reason. Why on earth they never released full concert films in their day is insane. Rush, Led Zep have amazing in concert DVDs. Treat your fans to the footage they deserve!!
I was in Dallas for the Texxas Jam, it all derived from the California Jam. It was kinda crazy, although we brought better grade weed than the guy in this video, he looks like he's rolling stems and seeds. If my memory (fried) serves, it was...... Heart, Ted Nugent, Van Halen, Aerosmith, and a newcomer named Eddie Money, a dreamteam line up, can;t even begin to know any comparision nowadays. and yes, it was very hot!
@rsidaris Was there with you! Also included Head East, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Cheech & Chong, April Wine. Can't really remember if Triumph was at the first one or second one.
Was too young to make this one, went to three or four in the 80's though. This event was like a pilgrimage of a road trip for rock fans driving in from nationwide! And it was everything you ever heard and then some! Miss those times, damn good times. BRING BACK THA JAMM!!! -----SAMMY HAGAR / LOUIE MESSINA HELP!!!
You know what is cool about this also, Dimebag Darell & Vinnie Paul was in the crowd. Dimebag had talked about how much he idolized Eddie Van Halen & talked about this very show!
@SteelRock73 Hellyeah!, they were true rock fans as well as musicians. Seen 'em at alot of concerts around Dallas through the years(in the beer line etc.)! Loved being at a concert and a band start playing WALK, (people tstart loosing their minds) and the brothers, Abbott are in town and come onstage! Yep, two of D/FWs' favorite sons, AND FOREVER--POWER METALLLLLLLL!
I was at 1,2,3 and yes it was 78 for sure. My friends and I camped out in line the first year and we were probably no more than 50 spectators let in before us. As the day wore on the more crowded it got. VH got the entire cotton bowl pumping our fists in the air. That was the first time I ever saw that many people in 100% behind a band. What is cool I met Vernon Gowdy photographer. last year. I got a poster size pic on my wall of me buds in the crowd at the front near the stage.
I was 17 at this jam...VH was the 3rd band to play but it wasnt the 1st time I had seen them, once before with Eddie Money. I remember the sprinklers and the fire hoses from the stage, I was down front and center. It was so hot on everyone including the bands, I remember Ted Nugent almost passed out from the heat. Drugs were passed out like cotton candy at a circus. If I could do a do over you bet it was the greatest. The night before people slept on the hoods of their cars.
Yeah Dude! I'm with you.. c'mmon guys who ever's got it, put it out there! Or VH guys, RELEASE IT!! I wanna buy it! Dang! Black & White Strat! Running With Thw Devil! Young & skinny Van Halen!... HELLYEAH! :)
The entire Texas Jam 78 was filmed by the NFL films dudes.. However the only footage that has seen the light of day is the Aerosmith set. The rest of the footage is out there somewhere but I guess there are so many legal issues with it preventing it from being released.. and its not even available as a bootleg - I've searched harrrd! I'm a big Head East fan and at 1:47 you hear them ending the song "Since You Been Gone" - so that was very cool, but I'd really love to get my hands on the footage
@headeastrocks Firstly it's TEXXAS Jam w/ two X's. IMDB has a release date of July 2011 but there's been problems. Someone wrote and article about it here:
It's too bad these docs get all hung up in copyright hell or that Aerosmith & Van Halen were difficult to interview for the doc which would include all the bands there. I'd watch it.
Was at this show, it was the first "Texxas Jam", part of the first "Texxas World Music Festival", which also featured Willie Nelson's 4th July picnic on the 4th with an all-star country lineup on the 4th July. At the Texxas Jam on the 1st, Van Halen was the 3rd band to play. (1st band was a local band, followed by Walter Egan, then Van Halen, Head East, Cheech n Chong, Journey, Eddie Money, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Heart, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, and closed with Frank Marino Mahogany Rush.Fun times
I'm not sure if they even have this right. I was at the jam in 77,78, and 79.
I don't think VH was there in 78'. Their first album I think came out in 79. They were only the 3rd band to play in 79' Billy Thorpe (children of the sun was 1st. I was in the stands for that one. I'm not sure who the 2nd band was. Van Halen came on 3rd and opened w/ eruption and You really got me. I would like to see any other video from 79' Jam.
I was there. Van Halen was the third act if I remember correctly. They blew the stage down. I immediately went out and got their first "album" and a T-shirt.
It was very hot and I remember the roadies spraying the crowd with water hoses between acts which actually made it worse because the astroturf field heated up the water and turned it to steam.
Yep, there were lots of drugs...But it was really a well behaved crowd.
0:07 is priceless. I've only seen one video of Van Halen live on flim in 1978 and it's black and white with a lousy picture. It's cool to see VH on on flim before the days of 80's MTV era!
How can this be on Van Halen in 1978 when they werent even a headlining act and were mostly in the clubs?? Unless ive missed something somewhere along the way. Their first album was out if that even.
@97warlock i was there...cheech and chong opened the festival and van halen came on avout 11 am. April Wine preceded VH, they had just won a battle of the bands contest in louisianna...runnin with the devil had been out for a little while...the best was when cheech and chong sang Up in Smoke
The footage at 0:07 is priceless and rare as fuck. I've only seen one video of Van Halen live in 1978 and it's not even that clear (or in color). I love to see flim of VH in 1978 just cos it was before the days of 1980's music television. I know alex and eddie are very anal about releasing old stuff from the bands early years but with dave now in the band and so many years have pasted since, you never know!
Memories, or lack of, I was there. Best concert ever. 13 top name groups, started about 10am finished about 2am. Temps reached 130 on the turf. Don't forget Ted Nugent, Boston, Blue Oyster Cult, Foriener, Foghat, Heart, Sammy Hagar, Aerosmith, Head East, Triumph, Mahogany Rush, Thin Lizzy and Kansas, I believe. Cant find my ticket stub with the list, going on memory . 4th of July weekend. What a show. No place but Texas
dohdah1 1 month ago
aaaahhh the good old days - I loved it - we really are in a chop shop these days (in regard to freedom)
silverbullx 1 month ago
randy jackson dawg.
guitarlad89 4 months ago
I was there for the first 3 Texas Jams
EmptyHighway1 4 months ago 2
I was there!! What a kick ass show!!!!!
MrMaxWatts 5 months ago 2
Anyone who brought drugs there must be stupid or wrong in the head. If I was Eddie, I would say "I'm not playing until you stop all these drugs!"
Dragonforce55valley 6 months ago
@Dragonforce55valley ya well we live in reality
motleycrue24 5 months ago
@Dragonforce55valley he was the first doing drugs dude
MrJohnp93 5 months ago 2
@Dragonforce55valley Good thing you weren't Eddie, because that would have ended Van Halen right there.
Tokopol 4 months ago
Its such a shame Vh fans can't enjoy all the old footage thats out there. The VH camp has a tight grip on their stuff for some reason. Why on earth they never released full concert films in their day is insane. Rush, Led Zep have amazing in concert DVDs. Treat your fans to the footage they deserve!!
howzaou812 6 months ago 2
I was in Dallas for the Texxas Jam, it all derived from the California Jam. It was kinda crazy, although we brought better grade weed than the guy in this video, he looks like he's rolling stems and seeds. If my memory (fried) serves, it was...... Heart, Ted Nugent, Van Halen, Aerosmith, and a newcomer named Eddie Money, a dreamteam line up, can;t even begin to know any comparision nowadays. and yes, it was very hot!
rsidaris 6 months ago 6
@rsidaris Was there with you! Also included Head East, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Cheech & Chong, April Wine. Can't really remember if Triumph was at the first one or second one.
stringbender95 3 months ago
@ 1:23 " People were sent to the makeshift hospital after a man that was high on drugs and went wild."
Yep, sounds like your typical (great) VH concert back in the day, haha...
ANDLU1 6 months ago
THIS AUDIENCE MUST HAVE BEEN AWESTRUCK WHEN THEY THIS NEW BAND =VH=
ajaxrules1975 7 months ago
AH NO WAY!! Openly smoke weed at a van halen concert...That's awesome!!! If only we could do that today
EVH578 7 months ago
as a halen fan..that 3 sec of them was a major tease..would be nice to see the whole gig...
shootonface 7 months ago
Fucking smokers! Poisoning the air for everyone else!
BAN ALL SMOKING NOW!
tripjet999 7 months ago
damn this was the year i was born. i was robbed of times like this as a 90's teen. the down fall of rock
davidallenroth 7 months ago 5
ahhh... those were the days of sex and drugs and ROCK n ROLL. Concerts were a straight frikken blast.
watchdiswillya 9 months ago 2
oh my god they're smoking weed, it's the end of the universe as we know it....someone pass the bong
smoothcriminal268 9 months ago 5
Damn I am getting old!!! I was there when all this went down!!!
k29137 9 months ago
He done told you, THEY ARE WORKIN' THE GATE! Don't press the non- issue dude! Nice to see a cop that ain't a NAZI.
jimmy5150ify 10 months ago
Was too young to make this one, went to three or four in the 80's though. This event was like a pilgrimage of a road trip for rock fans driving in from nationwide! And it was everything you ever heard and then some! Miss those times, damn good times. BRING BACK THA JAMM!!! -----SAMMY HAGAR / LOUIE MESSINA HELP!!!
jimmy5150ify 10 months ago
You know what is cool about this also, Dimebag Darell & Vinnie Paul was in the crowd. Dimebag had talked about how much he idolized Eddie Van Halen & talked about this very show!
SteelRock73 11 months ago 3
@SteelRock73 Hellyeah!, they were true rock fans as well as musicians. Seen 'em at alot of concerts around Dallas through the years(in the beer line etc.)! Loved being at a concert and a band start playing WALK, (people tstart loosing their minds) and the brothers, Abbott are in town and come onstage! Yep, two of D/FWs' favorite sons, AND FOREVER--POWER METALLLLLLLL!
jimmy5150ify 10 months ago
Now THIS is a concert!!!
MIssStrutter 1 year ago
I was at 1,2,3 and yes it was 78 for sure. My friends and I camped out in line the first year and we were probably no more than 50 spectators let in before us. As the day wore on the more crowded it got. VH got the entire cotton bowl pumping our fists in the air. That was the first time I ever saw that many people in 100% behind a band. What is cool I met Vernon Gowdy photographer. last year. I got a poster size pic on my wall of me buds in the crowd at the front near the stage.
JDBRAGG92 1 year ago
I was 17 at this jam...VH was the 3rd band to play but it wasnt the 1st time I had seen them, once before with Eddie Money. I remember the sprinklers and the fire hoses from the stage, I was down front and center. It was so hot on everyone including the bands, I remember Ted Nugent almost passed out from the heat. Drugs were passed out like cotton candy at a circus. If I could do a do over you bet it was the greatest. The night before people slept on the hoods of their cars.
General Admiss
logbrax2000 1 year ago
WHERE is the BOOTLEG DVD of This Concert ??????????
It HAS to be out there Somewhere !!!!!!!
mikenobeardthepirate 1 year ago 30
@mikenobeardthepirate
Yeah Dude! I'm with you.. c'mmon guys who ever's got it, put it out there! Or VH guys, RELEASE IT!! I wanna buy it! Dang! Black & White Strat! Running With Thw Devil! Young & skinny Van Halen!... HELLYEAH! :)
motmr 11 months ago
The entire Texas Jam 78 was filmed by the NFL films dudes.. However the only footage that has seen the light of day is the Aerosmith set. The rest of the footage is out there somewhere but I guess there are so many legal issues with it preventing it from being released.. and its not even available as a bootleg - I've searched harrrd! I'm a big Head East fan and at 1:47 you hear them ending the song "Since You Been Gone" - so that was very cool, but I'd really love to get my hands on the footage
headeastrocks 1 year ago 13
@headeastrocks TOTALLY AGREE!!! REMEMBER ITS TEXXAS JAMM,..
bongnbud 9 months ago
@headeastrocks Firstly it's TEXXAS Jam w/ two X's. IMDB has a release date of July 2011 but there's been problems. Someone wrote and article about it here:
blogs.dallasobserver (dot) com/unfairpark/2011/07/so_whatever_happened_to_that_t.php#Comments
It's too bad these docs get all hung up in copyright hell or that Aerosmith & Van Halen were difficult to interview for the doc which would include all the bands there. I'd watch it.
Grendelmonster8u 7 months ago
who gives a fuck get high
oksooner405 1 year ago 2
Was at this show, it was the first "Texxas Jam", part of the first "Texxas World Music Festival", which also featured Willie Nelson's 4th July picnic on the 4th with an all-star country lineup on the 4th July. At the Texxas Jam on the 1st, Van Halen was the 3rd band to play. (1st band was a local band, followed by Walter Egan, then Van Halen, Head East, Cheech n Chong, Journey, Eddie Money, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Heart, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, and closed with Frank Marino Mahogany Rush.Fun times
microcube62 1 year ago 3
I'm not sure if they even have this right. I was at the jam in 77,78, and 79.
I don't think VH was there in 78'. Their first album I think came out in 79. They were only the 3rd band to play in 79' Billy Thorpe (children of the sun was 1st. I was in the stands for that one. I'm not sure who the 2nd band was. Van Halen came on 3rd and opened w/ eruption and You really got me. I would like to see any other video from 79' Jam.
cary0408 1 year ago
in 1979? you are crazy! the first album was in 1978 but the songs wrote in 1977 and before !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
adonysdrift07 1 year ago
Hey Elite - do you have any more VH vids?
ouluvme2 1 year ago 2
I was there. Van Halen was the third act if I remember correctly. They blew the stage down. I immediately went out and got their first "album" and a T-shirt.
It was very hot and I remember the roadies spraying the crowd with water hoses between acts which actually made it worse because the astroturf field heated up the water and turned it to steam.
Yep, there were lots of drugs...But it was really a well behaved crowd.
dstar1958 1 year ago 2
0:07 is priceless. I've only seen one video of Van Halen live on flim in 1978 and it's black and white with a lousy picture. It's cool to see VH on on flim before the days of 80's MTV era!
MeYouView 1 year ago
How can this be on Van Halen in 1978 when they werent even a headlining act and were mostly in the clubs?? Unless ive missed something somewhere along the way. Their first album was out if that even.
97warlock 1 year ago
@97warlock Ya you definetly missed many things. Van Halen has been around since 1974, their first album came out in 1978. You were on Venus.
revolutionman81 1 year ago
@97warlock Texas Jam is an all day concert. Van Halen were one of the first bands to play that day.
careypeak23 1 year ago
@97warlock i was there...cheech and chong opened the festival and van halen came on avout 11 am. April Wine preceded VH, they had just won a battle of the bands contest in louisianna...runnin with the devil had been out for a little while...the best was when cheech and chong sang Up in Smoke
mark54ization 1 year ago
@mark54ization You got the wrong show, maybe. VH was on at 3 pm for Jam 1. They smoked it.
TheEvilDrR 10 months ago
The footage at 0:07 is priceless and rare as fuck. I've only seen one video of Van Halen live in 1978 and it's not even that clear (or in color). I love to see flim of VH in 1978 just cos it was before the days of 1980's music television. I know alex and eddie are very anal about releasing old stuff from the bands early years but with dave now in the band and so many years have pasted since, you never know!
MeYouView 1 year ago
Thanks so much for sharing this!!!
SteelRock73 1 year ago
@SteelRock73 No shit!!!!
MeYouView 1 year ago 2