One of my favorite deep cuts. I don't care that Dave can't sing anymore. Damn, Eddie looked good here. Strong. Healthy. Smiling. That f******g happy, beautiful smile. Damn, this hurts.
@@chrispellicci6587it really is sad. They wasted years and years and fucked up their legacy with the fighting and bullshit and van hagar. I would hate to see them like this. I remember seeing them in the 80s. Better memories to keep. This is just sad and awful
I hate people who rip on Dave's voice, he's never been a great singer, but he's as responsible for VHs success as much as Ed. Lyrics, showmanship, and the swagger. You try singing for over 45 or more years and see how easy it is.
I love ALL VH eras and music... but dude, Dave could never really, "sing" not in the traditional sense, you know? Watch the 1983 US Festival. Showman yes. Screamer yes. Singer, no.
I think in the studio Dave sang great. His voice "prints to tape" amazingly well as Daniel Lanoi would say. The timbre was great. His melodies were great. His whistle scream was amazing. I just think that even with microphones and large p.a , his voice just could not compete with the stage volume of the band and I think this is where possibly most of his live performance problems began. He sounds great on the early bootlegs up until the Fair Warning tour. Add to that excessive drinking, drugging and not sleeping and your voice is toast. Especially an extended baritone voice like Dave's, where some of the main aesthetics where his subtle vibrato, resonance and airiness. He returned to form somewhat on the Eat em and Smile tour and also sang very well on the 2007/2008 tour. Something happened between 2008 and 2012 where he lost his voice. As Eddie's guitar got better as he got his act together, Dave's voice went for a burton.
@@mancuniancandidatem Dave doesn’t seem to understand his strengths here. Stop trying to hit high notes, get through the song talk-singing, throw in an “ah YEAH!” and other high-register stuff here and there, make it understandable. It’s painful to hear EVH and the band kicking ass but Dave not delivering a cohesive experience. No idea what he’s even saying, the struggle is obvious.
What I like about VH, is that they actually play the deep cuts that they know fans like, unlike most bands from that era that still play! I’m so happy for EVH here, he looked so happy and looked like he had so much fan! RIP EVH!
King Edward. Bow down before the master! This song and the entire album smokes anything coming out these days. It makes me want to drive all day long singing at the top of my lungs.I want to buy that guitar. It's as iconic as his early striped axes. I don't know if that outro ever was made into a full song or not. I guess it's time for me to pull out all of my old bootlegs. 😮
If you do your homework into Keith, you’ll find that almost all of his antics etc are an act that he does just for fans etc. he isn’t what he puts himself out to be. Is just a front. Words straight from the horses mouth.
@@timallsopp9622Not quite true. NOW, that may be the case. But, Keith's drug and alcohol exploits went on for decades and decades. And, he only recently stopped smoking. He's acknowledged that he has a remarkably strong constitution. Let's not forget this is a guy who snorted a bit of his father's ashes. 😂 Keith is a freak of biology. I wouldn't trade him for Ed. Keith is a whole different legend of a man, and the world is better with him in it.
Agreed completely, but honestly, Eddie and Wolf did better than I expected! Course if they *couldn't* have pulled it off as well as they did, they wouldn't have put it in the setlist. RIP EVH 💔
@@mikes51501 Really? I won't go to the mat for this version but I doubt very highly that they didn't rehearse it ... a lot. Just my two cents here, but ... a song as relatively complex as this, and that hasn't been played on stage very much at all over the years, just isn't in the same league as something like You Really Got Me, which can be performed in their sleep. I'd guess that they'd have to rehearse the hell out of it or they couldn't even play it. At the end of the day, IMHO, most of what we're hearing or not hearing comes down to the abilities of the various members (EVH & Michael Anthony's background vox vs. EVH and Wolf's, and Dave's 26 year-old voice vs. his in 2015, age 61).
@@CoachingChaos they completely get the words wrong on the first break, makes it all crapped sounding. I was like really? Did y’all listen to the song before ya tried it? Dave’s just not good here. My favorite song by them and sound like they rehearsed it once, lol. Geez
Sad but true...Dave's voice is just gone. Fun to have had him back, but he was not at any level worthy of Van Halen. Ed smoked for decades & had his voice permanantly affected by throat cancer treatments, & he can still sing on point! Ed was so happy to be playing with Wolfgang & looked fantastic here at 60! Heartbroken he's gone 💔🎶
@@vonholland64 If you think David and Michael sang backups alone on those early records, you'd be completely wrong. Ed sang on ALL those records. Listen to him here fool!
@@eveningcharlatans9743 I’m well aware of that , fool lol. Wtf? I’ve seen them butcher the backups on this song live. I don’t hold it against them , it’s a hard one
@@vonholland64 I agreed with your post here until you entertained 6stringer with his MA rhetoric he shat ALL over this comments section. I was triggered, my apologies. I like Michael Anthony too but completely understand why Eddie toured with his only son. Turns out Wolf can do it all. Again, I know you didn't say it but Ed was one of my hero's.
I hear you... but he likely did the best he could (voice-wise), right? As far as not even trying to get parts of the lyrics right, Dave's always done that. I guess I really value a video of Eddie playing this song in 2015, and the only way we were ever going to get that is if Dave "sang" it. Lord knows Sammy would never have wanted to try performing this song, even though he certainly could sing it. If he had trouble with performing Jump, well, that excludes over half the songs on Van Halen's first six albums. Same thing for songs like Romeo Delight and Unchained... heh, Cherone could sing lots of the old VH, check out Mean Streets if you want verification... But who would want Gary back? Not even Gary would want that, talented as Gary is, he didn't fit in VH at all.
Awesome song...not sure why Dave trying to sing in a higher register for that song. He just needed to use his talking voice.......still love the video!!
It's because he has destroyed the area in his voice where it goes from chest voice to head voice. For singers with a healthy voice it is usually a note or two where flip happens (usually a squeaky sounding note). The gap is so wide now with Dave in between registers his voice has zero stability or control in the break.
Dave shouldn't say "fucking angels" in the song, he's hurting Pasteur Alex's feelings. Now he's going to have to repent for his singer's sins the next time he gives a sermon.
Hey if Dylan can get away with it for his Entire life, why can't Diamond Dave have a well deserved last quarter of the game with his voice a bit diminished
I don’t necessarily buy the idea that Roth’s voice is shot. He’s trying to sing a random-ass melody that’s way higher than the original - of course he sounds like shit. If he’d stick to the damn melody and maybe lower the guitars to D, I don’t think he’d sound half bad.
Why the fuck does Roth go into an upper register, out of key, when its totally unecessary. Just sing in the lower register if you cant hit the notes old mate. It leads me to believe he might actually be going deaf and cant hear himself properly
I only dislike 3 Roth era songs: light up the sky...one foot out the door and this one. Seriously, everytime they come on i skip them. Every song from first albums are 10/10's except these 3. (I dont acknowledge a different kind of truth..that album sucked front to back)
Agree to a point, music is good but they didn’t sing the right lyrics on the first simple rhyme part. It’s “ could you know, I want to be, yours in a simple rhyme “ they screwed that up maybe because Dave sang the wrong words, 🤦🏻♂️🤣.
@@paistekid Huge Van Halen fan here. I go waaaaaaay back. And this sucked. Love Ed. Dave is like the aging insane aunt we all put up with at Thanksgiving.
As an 80s kid, i had a cassette of women and children first that a friend recorded from the album. It cut off before this song was recorded...tape full. Years later, i bought a real copy of the cassette....and heard this song for the first time. Was like finding treasure...
My all time favorite VH song. I freaked out when they played this live along with Dirty Movies. When bands go deep into their catalog is the best!
Agreed! VH we’re good at doing that! Adding their best deep cuts!
One of my favorite deep cuts. I don't care that Dave can't sing anymore. Damn, Eddie looked good here. Strong. Healthy. Smiling. That f******g happy, beautiful smile. Damn, this hurts.
Hurts a lot!
Hard to believe that was his last tour, thanks for all the memories EDDIE RIP!
Dave sounded great for a guy in his 60's. I seriously dont understand people ragging on his vocals.... they were literally recorded 40-45 years ago
It really is, but Dave voice is just shot
@@chrispellicci6587it really is sad. They wasted years and years and fucked up their legacy with the fighting and bullshit and van hagar. I would hate to see them like this. I remember seeing them in the 80s. Better memories to keep. This is just sad and awful
Wow they sound so amazing with phenomenal harmonies and Ed looks so happy and healthy, tragic loss.
"Women in Love" and "In a Simple Rhyme" are my two fav Edward artifical harmonic masterpieces.
RIP Edward.
❤
Women in love, sure. But this one has no artificial harmonics. Maybe you meant Dance the night away or mean street
dont forget " 316 "
My fave also.
Gawd, how I miss him...Just the thought that we'll never see him up there again, sporting that big smile, is totally heartbreaking.
Love the fact that they played that ending riff on this song.
Ray Gonzales "Growth"
flashy5150 Alternative title was Tank 👍🏾
Yeah. The song that never was
I useta rewind and play that over and over.
@@paistekid right. But, that was the Van Hagar title Alex. We know this simple A jam as Growth. Or, girth.
Ed looks Amazing. Those harms are not easy, and Ed always has that middle voice- the unsung 'viola'.
I needed this. Those background vocals are awesome
Look how happy Eddie is during the outro ♥
This song and secrets from Diver Down are my two VH hidden gems!!!
Heck yeah! Deep cuts!
Me too.
First time I’ve seen or heard they ever did this LiVE - I think it’s one of their best tunes
I hate people who rip on Dave's voice, he's never been a great singer, but he's as responsible for VHs success as much as Ed. Lyrics, showmanship, and the swagger. You try singing for over 45 or more years and see how easy it is.
I love ALL VH eras and music... but dude, Dave could never really, "sing" not in the traditional sense, you know? Watch the 1983 US Festival. Showman yes. Screamer yes. Singer, no.
Daves got the big head Sammy rules
I think in the studio Dave sang great. His voice "prints to tape" amazingly well as Daniel Lanoi would say. The timbre was great. His melodies were great. His whistle scream was amazing. I just think that even with microphones and large p.a , his voice just could not compete with the stage volume of the band and I think this is where possibly most of his live performance problems began. He sounds great on the early bootlegs up until the Fair Warning tour. Add to that excessive drinking, drugging and not sleeping and your voice is toast. Especially an extended baritone voice like Dave's, where some of the main aesthetics where his subtle vibrato, resonance and airiness.
He returned to form somewhat on the Eat em and Smile tour and also sang very well on the 2007/2008 tour.
Something happened between 2008 and 2012 where he lost his voice.
As Eddie's guitar got better as he got his act together, Dave's voice went for a burton.
@@mancuniancandidatem Dave doesn’t seem to understand his strengths here. Stop trying to hit high notes, get through the song talk-singing, throw in an “ah YEAH!” and other high-register stuff here and there, make it understandable.
It’s painful to hear EVH and the band kicking ass but Dave not delivering a cohesive experience. No idea what he’s even saying, the struggle is obvious.
And he wrote these very romantic, poetic lyrics. ❤
The amazing thing is that they still sound exactly the same as they did playing High School dances.in 74'. .. raw.
Love them doing Growth at the end
Like or dislike, EVH has been among rock icons. Glad to see him healthy.
SIMPLY AWESOME. Righteous job. zr1!!
I love this song!
Talk about a deep cut. Love it
shaking my head-just simply awesome! truly with they could have ironed things out years ago,glad there back.
Rest In Peace, maestro.
涙がでてきた
What I like about VH, is that they actually play the deep cuts that they know fans like, unlike most bands from that era that still play! I’m so happy for EVH here, he looked so happy and looked like he had so much fan! RIP EVH!
We can thank Wolf VH for the setlist.
The greatest ending in world history 😁
Love you ed, rip my friend
King Edward. Bow down before the master! This song and the entire album smokes anything coming out these days. It makes me want to drive all day long singing at the top of my lungs.I want to buy that guitar. It's as iconic as his early striped axes. I don't know if that outro ever was made into a full song or not. I guess it's time for me to pull out all of my old bootlegs. 😮
I still can't believe Keith Richards outlived Eddie. There is no justice in this world.
This is a world without justice
Well 2 thing is forsure, Eddie VanHalen will always live in our hearts!
Not sure KR will, 🤫
True statement...😢
If you do your homework into Keith, you’ll find that almost all of his antics etc are an act that he does just for fans etc. he isn’t what he puts himself out to be. Is just a front. Words straight from the horses mouth.
@@timallsopp9622Not quite true. NOW, that may be the case. But, Keith's drug and alcohol exploits went on for decades and decades. And, he only recently stopped smoking. He's acknowledged that he has a remarkably strong constitution. Let's not forget this is a guy who snorted a bit of his father's ashes. 😂 Keith is a freak of biology. I wouldn't trade him for Ed. Keith is a whole different legend of a man, and the world is better with him in it.
Killer seats!!!
Great lyrics from Dave. A shame this song didn't make it bigger.
When he remembers them. Lol. But I agree, this song should have been bigger.
1974 when they first recorded this together in Cherokee Studios. Chatsworth, CA.
I love the album version of course. But I loved the way Eddie played the rhythm parts of Simple Rhyme in the club days. It was heavier.
Ed and Al are great here, but definitely missing Mike’s voice.
thank you for this front row view of mr Edward Lodewijke Van Halen....the GOAT
Good to Edward having fun
Dave actually sounds pretty good here. Great deep cut
Holy puck, I miss EVH.
There !
That's cool they added Growth at the end. Sounded awesome. DLR is done though , the voice is gone.
The KinG 💖
M.A. needed on that harmony - signature trademarks can be imitated but not improved upon!
Agreed completely, but honestly, Eddie and Wolf did better than I expected! Course if they *couldn't* have pulled it off as well as they did, they wouldn't have put it in the setlist. RIP EVH 💔
They completely did it wrong though , love this song. Seems like they didn’t really rehearse the song
@@mikes51501 Really? I won't go to the mat for this version but I doubt very highly that they didn't rehearse it ... a lot. Just my two cents here, but ... a song as relatively complex as this, and that hasn't been played on stage very much at all over the years, just isn't in the same league as something like You Really Got Me, which can be performed in their sleep. I'd guess that they'd have to rehearse the hell out of it or they couldn't even play it.
At the end of the day, IMHO, most of what we're hearing or not hearing comes down to the abilities of the various members (EVH & Michael Anthony's background vox vs. EVH and Wolf's, and Dave's 26 year-old voice vs. his in 2015, age 61).
@@CoachingChaos they completely get the words wrong on the first break, makes it all crapped sounding. I was like really? Did y’all listen to the song before ya tried it? Dave’s just not good here. My favorite song by them and sound like they rehearsed it once, lol. Geez
Looks like Ed was really enjoying himself! Love it!
Sad but true...Dave's voice is just gone. Fun to have had him back, but he was not at any level worthy of Van Halen. Ed smoked for decades & had his voice permanantly affected by throat cancer treatments, & he can still sing on point! Ed was so happy to be playing with Wolfgang & looked fantastic here at 60! Heartbroken he's gone 💔🎶
GROWTH.
Alternative title was Tank 👍🏾
U could see Ed was happy
Eddie.... The king of six strings and ten fingers.....
Eddie knew that guitar well going from both pickups to the neck pickup cool stufg
Sensacional !
Hey the backups were good. 👍
Yeah except completely screwing up the words on the first break, did they even listen to the song? Lol
@@mikes51501 when I saw them in Dallas, Ed was way off on the backups b. Stfu lol
@@vonholland64 If you think David and Michael sang backups alone on those early records, you'd be completely wrong. Ed sang on ALL those records. Listen to him here fool!
@@eveningcharlatans9743 I’m well aware of that , fool lol. Wtf? I’ve seen them butcher the backups on this song live. I don’t hold it against them , it’s a hard one
@@vonholland64 I agreed with your post here until you entertained 6stringer with his MA rhetoric he shat ALL over this comments section. I was triggered, my apologies. I like Michael Anthony too but completely understand why Eddie toured with his only son. Turns out Wolf can do it all. Again, I know you didn't say it but Ed was one of my hero's.
The new ap i got to remove Dave from Van Halen songs is not working.
miss ed
Van halen 4 ever I was fucken there that night me n chapo 2 ovs 13 r.i.p. ed top dog 4 ever
DLR’s voice seemed to change when he cut his hair.
Ed counts Dave in❣
Also - that was a tasty little solo!!
Stf u dave. Would be so great to just hear Edward play.
Was Ed helping count Dave in during the intro? 🤔😆
Yep
Eddie should do one record as lead vocalist ....i like his voice
Uh no...have you heard him sing How Many Say I from his debut solo album VH3? 😂
@@paistekid no ....how long has that been out ?
How many say I.........
@@diamondd2778 true fans .....popularity is the domain of taylor swift ,etc ...
its never the barometer of quality or taste
@@TheMichaelseymour theres no taste when it comes to How many say i...
01:41
Ed telling tech to turn up Wolfie's mic..
Saw this tour……DLR was so bad it really sunk the performances…..
Dave screwed it all up, ugh. I love this song too.
I hear you... but he likely did the best he could (voice-wise), right? As far as not even trying to get parts of the lyrics right, Dave's always done that. I guess I really value a video of Eddie playing this song in 2015, and the only way we were ever going to get that is if Dave "sang" it. Lord knows Sammy would never have wanted to try performing this song, even though he certainly could sing it. If he had trouble with performing Jump, well, that excludes over half the songs on Van Halen's first six albums. Same thing for songs like Romeo Delight and Unchained... heh, Cherone could sing lots of the old VH, check out Mean Streets if you want verification... But who would want Gary back? Not even Gary would want that, talented as Gary is, he didn't fit in VH at all.
Oh and I meant to agree with you on the song as well, it's one of my favorite early Van Halen songs.
Too bad Roth butchered it:(
No shit. Awful.
Awesome song...not sure why Dave trying to sing in a higher register for that song. He just needed to use his talking voice.......still love the video!!
It's because he has destroyed the area in his voice where it goes from chest voice to head voice. For singers with a healthy voice it is usually a note or two where flip happens (usually a squeaky sounding note). The gap is so wide now with Dave in between registers his voice has zero stability or control in the break.
DLR lead Van Halen was and is my all-time favorite band....but GD does Roth suck live!
Dave shouldn't say "fucking angels" in the song, he's hurting Pasteur Alex's feelings. Now he's going to have to repent for his singer's sins the next time he gives a sermon.
Dave man ... Stop trying to hit the octaves. Sing in a lower register, it would have been 100X better.
Good lord Roth really can’t sing. I love this song, one of my favorite VH tunes.
Stop butchering the song Dave.
Fucker ought to come out on stage with knives.
Eddie is a musical genius he can't hear that Roth is absolutely horrible
Hey if Dylan can get away with it for his Entire life, why can't Diamond Dave have a well deserved last quarter of the game with his voice a bit diminished
a wonderful Dave & Edward moment. prolly a last- moment &
But i'm happy! VH on a bag better than LV ;)
Roths hair lol
Damn Roth is absolutely horrible.
I don’t necessarily buy the idea that Roth’s voice is shot. He’s trying to sing a random-ass melody that’s way higher than the original - of course he sounds like shit. If he’d stick to the damn melody and maybe lower the guitars to D, I don’t think he’d sound half bad.
Why the fuck does Roth go into an upper register, out of key, when its totally unecessary. Just sing in the lower register if you cant hit the notes old mate. It leads me to believe he might actually be going deaf and cant hear himself properly
I only dislike 3 Roth era songs: light up the sky...one foot out the door and this one. Seriously, everytime they come on i skip them. Every song from first albums are 10/10's except these 3. (I dont acknowledge a different kind of truth..that album sucked front to back)
David Lee Roth is a short dude. He looks tall on TV but in person he's short. His voice is gone he needs to retire.
Wow! Does that sound like shit!
This is an atrocity!!! Horrible sound!!!
What a mess!!
Dave please stop singing. Your done. It's over.
Oh that sucked.
Not a Van Halen fan are ya? 😂
Agree to a point, music is good but they didn’t sing the right lyrics on the first simple rhyme part. It’s “ could you know, I want to be, yours in a simple rhyme “ they screwed that up maybe because Dave sang the wrong words, 🤦🏻♂️🤣.
@@paistekid Huge Van Halen fan here. I go waaaaaaay back. And this sucked. Love Ed. Dave is like the aging insane aunt we all put up with at Thanksgiving.
As an 80s kid, i had a cassette of women and children first that a friend recorded from the album.
It cut off before this song was recorded...tape full.
Years later, i bought a real copy of the cassette....and heard this song for the first time.
Was like finding treasure...
Sad EVH had to listen to Dave BUTCHER all those hits before he passed....
RIP EDWARD VAN HALEN 🎸🤘🎸🤘🎸🤘🎸🤘🎸🤘
M-O-N-E-Y. That’s why they were out there committing these musical felonies
There !