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09.11.24, 03:45 AM #1
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When was your first Van Halen concert?
Today's the 20th anniversary of my first VH show. I'd been into the band for two years and thought I was the luckiest kid in the world because they got back together and started touring again. I remember my parents picking me up from school early so I could go home and buy tickets via I Love All Access. $175 for 4th or 5th row. Clearly it was a time when Ed was battling his darkest demons. Even as a young naive teenager and could tell there was something wrong with Ed and the entire band’s dynamic. But I left having seen my guitar hero in person, and I’m still oddly nostalgic for aspects of this tour - Peavey era Wolfgangs, the striped cabinets, the (soberly striped) Art Series guitars, etc. I walked away from the show with a guitar pick from Ed too!
I’m very grateful it gave me an opportunity to see both Sam and Mike with the band, and if nothing else it at least serves as part of Ed’s story of beating addiction and beginning his path towards the victory he claimed over it a few years later.
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09.11.24, 04:06 AM
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RHRN tour. April 1993 for me when VH came to Birmingham UK. 3rd row seats. I had only discovered VH 2 years before and FUCK was my favourite album at that time. I couldn't take my eyes off Eds Musicman guitar which i badly wanted but they were just not available in the UK at that time and even if they were they were well out of my price range as a 16 yr old. I was this skinny kid surrounded by hairy biker types. The whole atmosphere was electric and i am very fortunate that i saw VH live which was a rarity as they just didnt tour England. Great times.
What is understood need not be discussed - Sammy Hagar
You only have 12 notes, what you do with them is up to you - Edward Van Halen
Opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one - Clint Eastwood
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09.11.24, 04:17 AM
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November 2, 1986. Cow Palace.
My sister had gotten tickets and attended 1984 tour. She's three years older than me, and at 12 years old, I'm way too young to go that. I was crushed. I was envious. I was mad. Why? Because I was the true VH fan among my siblings. You better get me a shirt, bitch.
Two years later, it's my time, and my mom was not gonna let her baby miss this one. She buys 5 tickets. One for me and a friend. 3 for my brother's and one of their friends. We set out for the night, and on the way, my brothers are trying to act sly and doing crank. Trying to hide it from us youngsters but little did they know, me and my friend were veterans. His father was a dealer.
Anyway, get to the venue, and what struck me was the haze in the place. I don't recall a weed haze just a general like fogginess if you will, and there's music playing in the arena over the system. Rock music always attracts a diverse crowd ESPECIALLY in the Bay Area in those days. Burned in my memory is seeing a vato loco ese wearing a VH tour shirt bobbing his head up and down to a song I had to know who it was from. That night was the first time I heard Over The Hills And Far Away.
I was not prepared for what was about to happen. BTO was nothing really crazy. They got a shitload of toilet paper rolls thrown at them and looked fat and old.
VH came on, and the GA crowd went complete apeshit. My feet weren't even touching the ground. I was tossed and turned. Thrown left to right, forwards and backward. It was hard to see. I just got glimpses, really. I'm on Ed's side of stage. I never really saw too much of Sam or Mike. It was frenetic. The only really clear image I have is of Ed plopping himself down on the stage, feet dangling, for his solo. I was close enough to see gum on the bottom of his shoe. His eyes closed for 316, but cracking them open. I remember my friend grabbing ass in the melee. Rubbing on this girl and she didn't flinch. She liked it. We're 14 fucking years old. I can't remember if I hit and run grabbed some ass.
He's wearing the LWAN outfit. The next night, he cut off his hair, and the tour was finished. This was my exact viewpoint, but I was facing him.
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Alex Van Halen sure knew how to light us up! I bet it was the same when Sammy released his memoir. I wasn't here at the time but I'm sure it was quite a hornet's nest!
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