Van Halen - Drop Dead Legs Jam 2004

[TheAgentAssassin]

Fuck I've had days where I just don't feel like playing and when I force it I sound uninspired and like shit

Now imagine feeling like this before a sold out show you can't cancel

YEP we're all fucking human man

[SummernlightningUSA]

Eddie you are a legend your fans love you. You were so drunk when you recorded this you couldent even keep time with Alex. You admitted yourself that you have a problem with booze so many times, just remember how many people love you and get high on that instead. We are all dying to hear your new album with dave wolfie and alex. Im just some asshole but Im speaking on behalf of my fellow Van Halen fans, we all love you and cant wait to see you kick ass on stage again.

[Thrashfan21]

@SummernlightningUSA Well said and hopefully this song makes the set list for the new tour.

[Xcorgi]

God, that sounded like shit!

[murph3113]

more blow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bigfish171]

im only 13 but i love this music poeple say i was born 40 years to late

[sunniski]

@bigfish171 dont ever worry about that lil' man. if you do... you'll wind up mowing the grass in december. e.g. ( an empty sack ) you like classic rock... that all. Rock On.

[jonb5150]

Damn that's some FAT tone. Has to be an ernie ball music man cause it has that real balsy bass-like tone

[PatVanHalen5150]

@jonb5150

Peavey Wolfgang. Ed hasn't used a Music Man at a live venue since 1995.

[vikingbush]

does anyone here know what the story is behind the pictures where Eddie's hair is like pony tailed straight up? ive seen a lot of concert pictures where he looks like this. its also when he looks the worst too. like his lowest of times with alcohol and other problems.

[fretworx]

@vikingbush Hard to say when his lowest time was - he's had some hard times, 1/2 of them self-induced - but he had his hair like that when I saw him live in '04. Still played the crap outta his guitar, tho... =)

[vikingbush]

@fretworx ha, yea I bet he did. His hair just looks really weird, I don't like it

[EVHguitarz]

I would have killed to hear them do "Drop Dead Legs" live.........hopefully they do it on the next tour

[joshkosh95]

@EVHguitarz they are eddie said (i think) that they are rehearsing "some cool tunes" hear about it later and drop dead legs. Hope they tour Australia:D

[badasspeter69]

fuck sammy hagar its van halen not van hagar

[jonb5150]

that's Eddie, the tone is unmistakable. It's not an easy tone to reproduce.

As for the sloppy playing, he does this often, particularly in concert just look at him playing Eruption on the recent tour.

[Force666666]

Are you sure this is Eddie? It doesn't even sound like him...or the rest of Van Halen for that matter...are you sure this is Eddie?

[evh5150316]

It's Eddie during soundcheck in 2004.

This is the FIRST time this tune has ever been played live. Not even snippets had been played live before.

[DarthKazi]

It's Eddie on guitar, but it's DEFINITELY Alex's drum kit, played by (presumably) the tech. I can tell Alex Van Halen's snare tone a mile away.

[Army258]

hes not playing bad at all. hes just screwing around. remember this was from 2004, sammy didnt let the band play any old stuff. hell, he probably forgot how to play it. give poor ed a break

[MINISLASH0]

well i don't know about any of you people, but I think sammy hagar should be put to death. I didn't even capitalize his name.

[Element404]

Holy shit, this must have been during his addiction. Don't get me wrong but, jesus that was horrible.

[wilfridblood]

Come on guys we all get old. Remember them as their best and as guys that still want to play music that you want ot hear. Still pleasing the fans.

By the way you real youngsters mark my words you are going to be old soon......

[skelapus]

;) .......

[motleycrue24]

@wilfridblood fuck i hear ya on that

[SpiritKnob]

@wilfridblood Wise words. Also, even when he's pissed as a newt, there's something interesting to find in Eddie's playing.

[charliesechos]

@wilfridblood well if you're lucky---or (un-lucky), depending on your particular view.

[smurfman67]

i saw van halen 2008 just befor they broke up, it was pretty cool

[DoktorDum]

Who broke up?

[acepigpup99]

man ed's really lost his "million dollar smile" he like butchered his hair. he's ruined, still plays awesome music though.

[SpiritKnob]

Fuck, who cares about hair?

[metfan31]

sammy looks like fozie bear.. i cant stand him, and eddies been looking terrible.

[wwemagazine]

He looks better now though

[jaminjan316]

I'm gonna just cut thru all this shit and say: I liked it; shit, any body out there ever heard of just jammin?

[TheHockeyCentral]

@jaminjan316 Eddie was pretty fucked up on that tour but I agree with you here theyre just jammin. This was during soundcheck.

[EVH51510Schumi]

It was from the Tucson show. I got the hole concert.

[gtrgyro]

Nice Try Boys no deal

[rockintheswamps]

I can tell thats not eddie playing eddie is a much better player than this bozo wanna be.

[evh5150316]

It IS Eddie playing...like somebody else said it's from their last soundcheck in Tuscon

[ten8goa]

EDDIE LOOKS LIKE SHIT THESE DAYS

[frenchy5150]

even when he looks like shit he still the king.steve vai can bow down anytime in front of him i'm sure

[ackerlaw2004]

That's the Atomic Punks, not Van Hagar/Halen/whatever at a soundcheck (with a crowd yelling). Listen at the end you can hear someone in the crowd say "Ralph" (as in Ralph Saenz...the singer for the Punks.) Nice try.

[admakowski1]

It IS Van Halen, and it's not from Detroit as the description says. It is the soundcheck from the Tucson, AZ show. The people in the crowd are saying "Wolf" and "Wolfie". At the end, you can hear Mike say "Let's play an oldie but a goodie"

If you still disagree, I can send you the audio from the whole soundcheck.

[ackerlaw2004]

I'd love to hear it. Can you upload it to Rapid or Mega?

[GWBBrainwash]

Wow after being a total prick you couldn't even say please..

[evh5150316]

Somebody yells Wolfie...not Ralph

[Wruff]

Ed was a mess on this tour. It's old news about his sloppy play in '04.

[Growl60]

He was still a mess all the way up till last month. Thank God he's back down to earth.

[EVHSlightReturn]

I'm glad I didn't see the 04' tour. I was at Charlotte for the opening of the 2007 tour and they did a good job... Everybody was pretty tight and put on a good show. Wolfie was a bit stiff but held up well on the bass and backgrounds and will just get better with stage antics over time. On a scale of wild to mild it was a bit mild but that's probably a bit of age creeping in. That's life... we're all headed there in the best of circumstances! Go see the guys and relive some memories!

[58LP]

anyone post up the original? VH's best!

[vinny3888s]

Eddie HATES Dave.

[Champane97]

And the rest hate you vinny3888s!!! Get over it, old news!!

[brunkdrums]

They need to play this with Dave when the tour gets cranked up!!

Believe in it...it will come!!

[ptacisback]

so will the end of the world. Im guessing that will be first

[burrous1984]

eddie was in bad shape during this tour..he wasnt ready..he was drunk unhappy and depressed

[spawnofwheezedog]

valarie did it! she left him and he probably was depressed and fell into drinking again.

[ManAndAHalf]

Cool to hear him play this again. Pretty sloppy though.

[TampaRed]

It's just a soundcheck.

[ManAndAHalf]

Yeah, I know it's a soundcheck and I don't expect it to be perfect. I just know that for the standard that Eddie Van Halen has set, his snippet of playing here is sloppy.

[MusiciansQuarters]

lol when will you people ever be happy its called sound check i believe half your ID LMAO

[ManAndAHalf]

I play in a band, so I am fully aware of what a sound check is. I am stating a fact about how Mr. Van Halen's playing sounds sloppy. It doesn't have to be dead-on, just to check levels, but I'm just surprised at how he sounds here. You folks are reading way too much into what I am saying.

[spawnofwheezedog]

cool guitar he's playing at 0:26. probably one of his hand striped charvels. i also saw the old Kramer 5150 with a different neck in there too.

[KornSOAD]

ive never heard Hagar sing this song and i guess i never will. unfortunatly because its my top ten favorie VH songs of all time

[KornSOAD]

i meant favorite

[144wychwood]

I luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv this song. Got to be one of my favorite VH songs of any era. Aside from this, I don't think they ever did it live - from start to end that is. Maybe they thought they couldn't do it justice live due to Ed's killer outro solo with overdubbed rhythm parts. I'm sure they could've pulled it off.

[bigspirt15]

doesn't anyone have a full length video of drop dead legs?  i find this hard to believe!! awesome song.

[TampaRed]

Agreed. I think the best song off of 1984, followed by Girl Gone Bad.

[aromicdevil]

Meth Scrambled Brains.

[Gary2112]

this is live in Tucson,AZ. i have the bootleg.