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  • the drummers like.... fuck my life!

  • nobody rocks the ass-less chaps with bling tail like DLR.. and was that Ted Turner in the Scarface suit?!

  • nobody rocks the ass-less chaps with bling tail like DLR

  • little bit out of tune but still great

  • i saw them in twice in the 80s in omaha

  • Dave had the best ASS of any frontman post-Jimi and Plant, baby!

  • You clearly see Ed struggling with the fine tuners trying to recover. He's such a pro and manages to work around it. He probably needed an allen wrench so he could tune from the headstock but not possible in the midst of the song.

  • Crowd doesn't seem as pumped as they should be....

  • awesome out of tune guitar starting at 0:27

    He fixes it thought.

    At 1:47 , lights come on, coke-bottle glasses-disoriented dude..that's guys gotta be MIKE SMITH from Trailer Park Boys, or his twin, notice Dave still has his shirt on, meaning MIKE SMITH is thrashed this early on the show.

    Right at 3:05 dead center, Mike Smith again! still looking misplaced & out of it, PRICELESS!!! u know it's him by the coke bottle glasses, Awesome!! I hope he had a blast!!

    starting at 3:22 PURE MAGIC!!! 

  • @1251wire Are you sure?? I think he's just fluttering around

  • @1251wire Bubbles! He & Julian are my favorite characters. The ever present Rum & Coke in Julian's hand is priceless!

  • never heard eddie outta tune

  • gutarra desafinada da porra...kkkk

  • i was there.. and i sweated this out

  • i was there, yes at that concert..and it made me sweat

  • was his Floyd Rose at this time one of the first ones made? if so, these floyds dont have fine tuners at the bridge, so he would have to take an allen wrench and unclamp the locking nut, tune the guitar, then clamp it again. imagine how much time that would take. and if you start off a song not realizing your guitar needs to be tuned, you get this version...

  • I've been to the eeeeeedddddddddddgggggggggggee­eeeeee!

    I stood, and looked down. You know I lost, a lot of friends, not baby.

    I got no time to FUCK around.

    Nice crowd on had, back in 1982.

  • I give Dave the credit, for swearing!

  • eddie rules...roth sucks....van hagar....met & hung out with hagar...was on stage with him for the show in pittsburgh, 2000...drank his "wabroritas"...AWESOME

  • Try adjusting the Floyd Rose on a dark stage while your in the middle of a song like this one and it's damm near impossible. I sympathize with eddie, almost a spinal tap moment of sorts. Still a trailblazer of the guitar world in my opinion, Rock On

  • Love em, but seriously...is Dave gay??

  • @shelley7841  Shit Dave way baggin' FIRST CLASS PUSSY in these days honey!

  • would have been nice if eddie van halen would have tuned his fucking axe ...

  • lol@ the Don Johnson wannabe in the crowd.

  • Van Halen 4life!!!

  • if you were not there for the live show....than shut up....class is in session......

  • assless chaps

  • GREATSAVE!! about the tuning then and now!!

  • dave's on FIRE here

  • tune that guitar eddie!!

  • for the opening riff it doesnt seem out of tune

  • actually it is a little bit. u gotta listen close tho lol

  • lol eddies guitar was out of tune

  • o eddie eskeceu de afinar a guitarra...

    mas a musica eh loka..

  • If this video is from Largo, MD...why did Dave say Baltimore, Washington?

    Either he forgot what city he was in, or this isn't Largo...

  • Ha Ive never noticed that!

  • Dave put VH on the map.....

  • looking back on my adolescence, i had to choose between a ned flanderish barber quartet or a posterior challenged roth. thank god for eddie.errrrr...

  • Thats why when hendrix died they throned

    the new king, thats king Edward.

  • yessssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Floyd Rose still a bitch today when a string goes haywire, imagine 3 years into its existence? Yup, give him a break, song still freakin' awesome!

  • @TheOgrelord indeed ! he solves it anyways ! people cant trash talk this legend when his guitar gets out of tune ... thats fckin low ! Eddie and his Van halen for life !

  • ed was badley trying to tune the high E string

  • There is an anther version of this song ins'nt it? A new version. Does anybody know the name of that version?

  • ya its called,,,,"aint talking bout love"

  • Aint talking bout dub by Apollo Four Forty

  • His guitar simply went out of tune and he was trying to do two things at once (because he's a pro): tune it while playing and find a way to play his riffs while avoiding the out of tune strings.

    When he came back in after the oration everything was fine. In fact they ROCKED this tune.

  • hes right eddie is the best player in the world he changed rock hes a gutair geinus tht still isnt enouff to desribe how great he is

  • What you young punks don't understand is that Eddie was in the early stages of developing a locking tremelo system that would allow him to stay in tune. Most guitarists didn't have the balls the use the bar because they were afraid of going out of tune.

  • this sounds like my sisters 13 yr old neighbors garage band, only worse!

  • im a huge van halen fan but this sounds horrible :(

  • *an

  • i don't hink its eddie, it could be al old tape, they eventually go flat after a while, the whole thing don't sound right

  • And Eddie caught the Pick

    The Pick of Destiny

  • He could play a.t.b.l. even with a banjo made with a milk box but He will be the king forever and ever

  • Eddie flattened the B string slightly as far as I know, can't remember why but it was intentional. If it isn't that, fuck knows.

  • Guitar is out of tune...

  • This was before he found out the secrets of turning the volume all the way on a amp and the amp sounds like the little amps you get with a beginning guitar pack.

  • You are the Homo! DD put VH on the map.

    Sammy dragged on his coat tails!

  • scotton u are crap not van halen

  • ever hear of fred mercury. thank you nuff said.

  • Plant?

    Gillan?

    Gilmour?

    Waters?

    Bon Scott?

    Jagger?

    Morrison?

    Mercury?

  • Waters!!!

  • David lee roth hands down the best front man ever-he coined LSD-David Lee Roth + 80s = cocaine X pussy

  • lol wtf that dubbed in guitar track is f*d up as hell..

  • ...not the ass chaps.

  • that's a fake guitar track people. Someone is dubbing shit over all the guitar players on here....yay!

  • That wouldn't surprise me, sounds like crap. out of tune, choppy playing, off the beat.

  • high maybe???????

  • Your speaking of the "Shreds" videos. This is not an overdub -- if so, what happened to the original guitar track. Sounds like a board tape or a single mike, not a multitrack. Even if it were multitrack, I doubt StSanders has access to it to discard the original guitar track. If you want to hear what a dubbed video sounds like, just search "Steve Vai Shreds" -- one of the funniest ones... They have to dub ALL of the audio, or Vai's playing would still be there, wouldn't it?

  • I know about the st sanders stuff. That's NOT what i'm referring to. There is a sh*tload of other videos that have been altered in a serious manner, not like the st sanders stuff. Some of them are live performances, some guitar lesson vids. The mix, tone, etc still do sound fishy.

  • Gotta love the 80's.

  • wtf!!! nice jamming ehhhhhh?

  • Negative ....Negative and more negative comments..... Why be jealous because they are all fucking millionaires.....

    You Tube is just one big site to confront others .... that's about it....1 world of the haves and the have not's..... which side are you on ???? Nuff Said.....

    P.S. Are they on coke or is it meth???? who cares.... they can afford it ....

  • They're coked up out of their goards!!! Especially Michael Anthony, he just has that unmistable look in his eyes..

  • Roth lookes more fucked up.

  • i have the same tuning problem with this song. Not quite as bad, but it happens.

  • how can you say c.c. is great or even better then eddie? i dont mind c.c. guitar playing but come on eddie is far better then c.c. could ever dream to be.

  • Dude this is such a long time ago!!! GO Eddie!!!!

  • nice play, Eddie Van Halen rules!

  • David Lee Roth is the best! Van Halen ROCKS!

  • Mighty Mighty Bosstones do a great cover of this song with a Specials toast in it.

  • That chick in the ass-less pants sings o.k. but that guitar player sucks- can't even play in tune. What bar band is this?

  • you just wish you had half the talent eddie has

  • You talkin' to me?! I have more talent than you evar dreamt of. I taught the great C.C. Deville- the best guitarist on the planet- how to play great rifflages. Top that.

  • well i guess you suck because c.c deville is a pitiful guitar player

  • Lighten up, moron. It was a joke, just like my other comment about Van Halen. Heaven forbid anyone jokes about someone's sacred guitar players on Youtube. You're probably still wearing your 80's mullet and red and white striped jumpsuit. Moron.

  • wow just wow

  • CC DEVILLE? from Poison? another sucker in the same league as MICK FUCKING JUPITER FROM Motley Pukke. give me Eddie Van Halen,George Lynch,Paul Gilbert ANYTIME BECAUSE THEY'RE THE REAL SHIT!!!

  • this ain`t Largo

  • Yes it is.

  • Dude tune your guitar pretty please. It hurts

  • oh and why someone didnt hand him a guitar in tune while DLR is "running" his mouth??

  • Thing about a locking tremolo it can be a pain to put in tune on the fly as we hear in this video.

  • You think any of those guys have ever "experimented" with drugs? :)

  • tune thy guitar

  • yeah,it is out of tune here.

  • TE AMO DAVID

  • lmao the pimp at 2;23

  • i was at this show.. it was awesome.. crystal clear alot of sound...capital centre back in its day...ROCKED.. i saw zep there for five bucks.. thanks for posting this

  • Capital Centre, Largo, Maryland, USA

  • only eddie could tune a guitar and actually fit it into the song lol

  • I will cut the guy a break!! Everybody has a bad day now and then. However, not everyone can play like Eddie. Yes, even those of you who think you can. You can't be him:SORRY.

    EVH Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • woah, what the hell is Roth wearing at 1:29? stripper pants?!?!?!

  • if everyone played the guitar perfect every fucking time they played it wouldn't be rock n roll and its mistake filled glory.

  • Well...I dont know about Tyler or Plant but definetly better than Jagger

  • It's hard to believe anyone can pull attention away from Eddie's phenomenal playing.....but David Lee Roth could do it with ease.......GREATEST ROCK FRONTMAN OF ALL TIME.....better than Jagger, Plant, and Steven Tyler combined!

  • Goes to show you that even the pro's have bad nights.

  • dlr is god

  • You know what? Eddie's tune may have sucked ass this night but I don't really think the croud cared. That is the thing about playing live. Most people can't tell the difference between a real amp and a modeling amp, just like most people probably had no clue Eddie was that far out of tune. Crazy I know, but it's true. If you have ever played live you will have experienced this to some extent. Eddie's tone has almost no gain to it, but no one cares.

  • where did you find this

  • woah out of tune

  • dudes eddie rocks, what a beast. Acdc owns van halen any day tho...

  • AC/DC's songs all use the same basic chords like Emaj, Amaj, and Dmaj. Angus is good, but not even chartable when you account Eddie in. Their singer sucks now, and the other guys are talentless.

  • yeah right.

  • Eddie's sound sucks here but I know that aint his fault. It's amazing, without Eddie in the equation, the band really falls apart.

  • This has got to be the worst VH piece I've ever seen. The sound guy probably added to this disaster, but the band definately isnt trying to help matters.

    I saw them in Biloxi, Ms in 81 and they were awesome...I dont know what happend here.

    Now before you start flaming me, let me say that I am a huge fan, so I'm not hating on them. I'm just shocked to see such crap from a stellar band in their prime.

  • Um even the best sound man can't make a horribly out of tune guitar and lazy vocals sound good.

  • Agree 100%

  • van halen doesn't blow away black sabbath!!!!

  • best vh song by far

  • David's speech is so slured

  • you can tell they're pretty hammered tbhahahaha

  • Fuck, this is where glam started

  • Van Halen had nothing to do with the Glam Bands!!

  • that is deffinlty glamrock!!

  • No it isn't you fuck. Bands like Mr. Big and Poisin are glam bands. Having long hair doesn't make you glam, having hair that makes your head look like its 3 times smaller makes you glam, along with starting in the mid 80's... These guys were opening (and blowing away) Black Sabbath in 1978, before any kind of hair band.

  • nothing can be better than sabbath

  • They were at least drunked as hell. And I'm not sure how many times but in 80's Eddie had really big problem with drugs. I think the only one guy putting whole gig on stage together was Alex

  • I don't think he ever did drugs. But he was a heavy drinker, it wasnt noticible until the 90's with van hagar, he could barley make it through a set

  • Eddie definitly was big on drugs and drinking. Valerie even mentioned it in her book that they both were real big on coke.

  • ya man eddie was a mayjor coke head he was another clapton , booze and blow

  • haha "you know what? *reads note* "Baltimore, washington, you are louder than everyone else!"

  • I know something Van Halen "needs... oh yeah" in this video. A metronome.....

  • ..i guess you fly in to Baltimore Washington International maybe?...But you know;'pretend News Report.'It was definately NotTooLate for VanHalen..(when we've seen LedZeppelin there II!)The Capital Centre!

  • If it's Largo, why does Dave say "Baltimore/ Washington"? Drunk?

  • yea, i think it's the same general area.

  • Are you kiddin he was always drunk ALWAYS!

  • Alors là, c'est vraiment de la daube, il aurait mieux fait de la jouer au banjo ! Rien à voir avec l'original, c'est la guitare qui est mal accordée et qui sonne comme une vieille chèvre. Même à 3 balles sur e-bay j'en veux pas !

  • Whoa, is DLR wearing assless chaps?! Awesome!

  • They were probably sniffied out of their heads when they did this show.

  • "I will kill this fcuking guitar technician. WTF did he do to my Frankenstrat?"

    Better Eddie gives his GT a raise when he asks. =P

    It was so cool, they couldn't stand playing out of tune! LOL

  • We all experience tuning issues. Who gives. It's rock n roll.

  • Man They Party'd Hard! But Still Managed To Perform Good

  • They are just playing it double time..

    Sounds look faster.......

  • they sound like shit.......sounds like there wasted

  • guitar is out of tune.sounds horrible

  • Eddie's G (or B) string sounds just a little flat, but he still rocks!

  • Largo Florida?

  • the stones we kick -ass yes....but always sounded like shit live ....could never duplicate the studio.....thats because the members were mediocre players.. and mick just screamed his songs out .....dont compare to VH ...sorry

  • sounds good to me....i know i cant play this....can you?...every day...in front of 20,000...30,000 or more?....come on these guys are great. if they werent you would'nt listen.

  • whats with the lack of distortion on eddies setup??? sounds too clean for van halen!

  • He's probably jacked up on coke and forgot step on his dist pedal.

  • he does'nt use a distortion pedal

  • not when hes minducked on pot dude

  • uhm?

  • "hm hm he doesn't use a..." it was joke ass*hole. don't start givin out all your EVH rig knowledge. everybody knows what he uses. its the most publicized info in rock n roll. "how does he get that sound?!?!?!"

  • well soryy,man,omg bagging on a kid like me,

  • no one has ever immitated his sound form van halen 1 perfectly...

  • David lee roth is one of the best frontmaen of all time.....despite what peeps say about his ego and shit....there is just no other van halen.....only the stones can compare.

  • Just Try To Imagine!!! The Power!  Thats all I have to say.

  • Guitar sounds like shit..

    No it don't.

    Eddie For Life!