YES, it's amazing when you thinking back on tape-trading, low-quality recordings that was sent across the nation and very expensive bootlegs... And now everything is so easy to access... Mind-blowing, and a bit confused feelings...
Mike was always such an integral part of that band. The musicianship and dexterity bass playing, the fantastic backing vocals, the stage presence. Always the consummate professional through and through. On top of that, he was... is ... and always will be the nicest musician you could ever meet. It's beyond comprehension and beneath contempt the way he was treated in the later years and tossed aside like trash.
Agreed however it wasn't later years it was always. Edward tried to get Billy Sheehan in the band in 1981 just 3 years after the first album. Billy wisely declined. VH killed the 4-way split of music rights and profits when 1984 was released so it wasn't just later... becoming a hired musician for the 2002 tour or the firing in 2005.
But Eddie still needed to have a bass player and Michael was the perfect fit. Held that bottom like the left hand of a piano and then that voice. So you my friend are the clown.
Ed wrote most of the music on piano and his guitar playing was very piano like his rhythm playing. Sheehan would have drove him crazy always wanting to go crazy on the neck. That is what Michael great. Just holding down the groove with Alex
@@davewolpak2732yeah imagining a super group with EVH, Sheehan, and Niel Peart ignores that music needs space and there's no room for everyone to show off and take the lead. End up a bunch of noise.
Nothing touches the original line up. VH with Sammy...good band with a good vocalist and phenomenal guitarist. VH with Dave...legendary force to be reckoned with. When VH1 dropped in 78 it was like a nuclear bomb hit suburban America.
This is great stuff and much better, MUCH, better than the earlier version. The boys were hungry here. Dave is doing his thing but keeping up with the vocals. Ed is spot on, playing like he's got something to prove, and proving it. Mike and Al have the rhythm buckled down tight. The energy is contagious. The sound quality here is good. Thanks for posting this up!
I read an article somewhere that it was also the way he strung the guitar not only did he string the guitar like normal but he also Twisted the strings Down The Long axis of the string. Ie, a lot of torsion on the string from the part that goes into the nut to the part that anchors to the bridge so he added a whole new component of tension through a rotational component @e.l.norton
@@jeffk8359 Wound up the posts, down on some strings. As he tightened the string he would also turn the ball end of the string so that the string didn't twist along its length. He wanted as little tension as possible. He also widened the slots in the brass nut, and adjusted all the bridge screws. The inside and outside screws were tightened differently.
0:00 Light Up the Sky 4:03 Somebody Get Me a Doctor (intro) 4:30 Running With the Devil 7:18 DLR Banter 8:04 On Fire 10:47 Bass Solo 11:47 Feel Your Love Tonight 13:53 Drum Solo 15:20 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love 18:53 Guitar Solo 21:22 Dead Or Alive (DOA) 22:25 You Really Got Me 27:12 Bottoms Up!
If we could freeze Dave in a bottle so that this is how he’s remembered that would be great. Because there was a small window of 4 or 5 years where he was an unstoppable force of nature and probably the coolest guy on the planet. We gotta remember him that way instead of the unfortunate clown show he morphed into 😎👍
@@stevestarscream5182 you’re not wrong…eat um and smile has some bangers and probably the best musicians of his solo career. Not to put too fine a point on it but one could argue that in terms of coolness Dave was beginning to show some troublesome signs like the ass less spandex and that goofy smile. For my money there’s still the first 4 or 5 years and then there’s everything else i.e., the video for unchained.
@@tylerstamps2786yep, it was a case of trying to “fix things that aren’t broke”. According to Ted Templemans book and other stuff, he wanted to make a lot of silly decisions…Especially around 1984….I think that would be about the time he jumped the shark…
DLR was a cabaret jew adapting to hard rock. As soon as he got autonomous the cringy stuff slowly took over. And losing his hair was a major stage performer. That said he is awesome in his later private lifestyle, the sheep herding, the free climbing, the martial arts , japan alone, he is a giant outside music.
First 8 track tape I bought was VH first album I played it on my stereo in my room over and over I was in jr.high school..Now I’m a 59 year old grandpa in my bedroom listening with my headphones at 1:30 am..RIP Ed🎸
When the cameraman finally figured out the focus on close ups on Feel Your Love Tonight… holy crap! Gave me the chills. I had VH1 on 8-track as soon as it came out, but I was only about 10. So I was too young to see them live. Seeing this was a definite treat. Thank you!
@@AmericanPatriot4-19-95 Stop! Vince Neil copied David Lee Roth and was bad at it! Look at him now. Vince Neal has been eating bacon and sausage by the truckload the past 2 decades in a band playing recorded back tracks. I like Ozzy but he's on stage persona has always been very limited. Hand to God, In 1976 I saw Elvis live! 1979 Bon Scott live! (He's better than Vince Neal) , 1981 Ozzy with Randy Rhoads live!
@@rafa_v1.0 I understand people get old but Crue and Van Halen were friends. Vince had his Own style but in 81-91 They were on top and he was wasssy different......he didn't copy Roth. Most consider him a prick. I love early Van Halen. Hey at least Vince is still out there....... Eddie bit the dust and secretly wished he could read music, understand theory. Then instead of being dependent on the whammy (tremolo) bar and was able to compose solos like Randy Rhoads.... The GOAT 🐐. I SPENT 13 YEARS IN THE USMC AS AN EOD (CORPORAL RANK) and I did 3 tours and was shot 3 times. I'm desert shield and storm all we listened to was DIO , CRUE, and OZZY. Now I'm old and fat....that's kinda how it goes MOTLEY CRUE made their contribution. Look at the rolling Stones. Old ,, ugly and sound like a tribute band. Wtf have you done 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🥋💯 SEMPER FIDELIS 🌎🦅⚓💯
It blows my mind and angers me a little to think that "Live Without A Net" was the first pro-shot VH concert, in 1986. I get that it's on the band to hire people to capture your shows and pay for it out of your own $ or investor's $. But it really is ridiculous we have so little footage of this band, during their hottest years of creativity and power. Props to the uploader for making this show watchable.
Every tour had a different stage set and drumset so they should have had pro footage of at least one if not two shows. We get no even years at all. Especially 1980. Not even crappy bootleg footage of that year. There were pro shots before 1986 but no entire concerts. 1979 had one three song pro shot as did 1981.
I've been a fan since 1980 and I just did a search earlier today to see photos of the "1980 Invasion" tour. Van Halen as I've never seen them!! Bizarre looking riser under Alex's freaky looking drum kit. Still only two bass drums but they were super long and tube like. Unlike the 1981 or 1982 stage there was a keyboard rig with two giant retro bombs surrounding it for a beardless Michael to play "And the Cradle Will Rock". Also Dave had the "Davesickle" acoustic guitar. I read he had it on other tours (never even seen a picture) but the "1984" concert I saw he did not use it.
@@deathmetaldouglas69 I suspect a lot of that was VH's original involvement with Gene Simmons/Bingenheimer, WB and all of the shady characters that wanted a piece of VH, had they been captured live on film/tape. Plus once MTV/MV3/Friday Night Videos rolled around with enormous global distribution, a lot of "big" bands just expected that if they made a video, those channels would play it and that would be much more lucrative/promotional for the band's future success than a static "concert", that requires actual attention span and dedicated fans/advertisers willing to pay for it.
I'm about the same age and would of been envious when you showed up at school wearing the tshirt you got at the show. How many VH's did you draw on your notebooks? Hell yea!
Rochester has always had a great music scene. Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra just to name two. So many great people have played there.
Glad someone finally mentioned that guitar. I first saw Eddie with the dragon guitar on a 1980 cover of some rock magazine and thought it was cool but I never saw him play it live on stage until this Fresno CA concert back in 79. Hopefully he kept it and his son Wolfgang has it now. May the king r.i.p 🐉🎸🙏
Simply peak of 70s pentatonic rock. EVH basically stole his playing from Jim McCarty (Catcus, Detroit Wheels) and two-handed tapping from John Du Cann (Atomic Rooster). EVH was the end of a long line that starts with the Sonics, though it became legit with Hendrix The guy who fundamentally changed rock and from which most everything metal comes today is Yngwie Malmsteen.
Fucking awesome! It was so rare to see bands live anywhere but live it wasn't like now. We had the Midnight Special and that was about it. Going to concerts back then was so fucking awesome! Shows were listed in the newspaper, you heard it on the radio if they even played them on the radio and word of mouth. It was such a great experience. Nothing fancy just the band rocking out!
Thank you so much for uploading this and the 1978 video🙏I went to the first concerts in the early 80s and had the chance to see Van Halen one time with Dave in Germany at the Monsters of Rock 1984. I always wondered how Van Halen sounded in their beginnings (the late 70s) and as an professional guitar player I now can imagine what an impact & experience this must must have been for the audience listening back then. Absolutely mind blowing performance & guitar sound😅🙏
I saw them in Tulsa Oklahoma at the Cains Ballroom in 1978... Eddie was like an alien ...totally changed my approach to my newly budding guitar skills!! LOL
Great way to put it. "like an alien" watching him play and how he acted on stage didn't seem like a level any human could preform. So effortless and confident.
I also saw them in Tulsa, but it was 1981 at the Convention Center downtown. The entire show blew my mind. Before that, I saw Kiss in 77, when I was eight. So to see this amazing band, with no tricks, no bombs. or smoke, absolutely kill it, was a life-changer
I missed this concert, but went to many more in the 70’s and 80’s. I loved the end where they all stand together onstage after killing it, the entire crowd is standing, and not cell phone. Those were the best performances.
Awesome. I saw the ‘78 tour on Thanksgiving night. I wanted to go to the ‘79 and ‘80 tour but missed them. I saw the ‘84 tour but they were a mess by then. The first four tours were “On Fire!”
saw Van Halen 5 times in the 80s......Fair Warning tour (10th row) 1984 Tour (3rd row) two nights! and two more shows 4 the 5150 Tour......BEST SHOWS EVER! EDDIE WAS ON FIRE ALWAYS
I saw Van Halen open for Black Sabbath in 1978 18th row. Van Halen 2 tour Balcony, Women and Children first tour front row, Mean Streets Tour. Fair Warning Tour, 1984 Tour, 5150 Tour, 2015 tour...2nd to last show EVH ever played 7th row in AZ. I have all the tickets as well before they went digital.
I got this audience recording around 20 years ago, and it was a big deal to get a live version of Light Up The Sky. To be able to watch it is incredible.
"Lighting Up The Sky" to open up the concert? The song opener of side 2 of "Van Halen ll"?! This is fire!!! Signing off, a 50-year old who's had the LP since 1983 (Actually, I think it was '82 or '81, but '83 rhymes..EVH rocks forever!!!!!)
I had this footage for years on good o'l 1/2" VHS and I thought "wow this is so cool" but with modern tech it's amazing what can be done! I wish I knew who was tweaking these old videos, I have tons of old VHS masters that could use some of this treatment...especially my Hendrix master video from 1970. The world needs to see that footage...but it needs work.
I have a lot of original master videos that could use this kind of AI powered clean up. One in particular is the Hendrix video from 1970. Would you consider doing some work for the cause? If so, we should communicate.@@HeavyJams
Thanks to the guy or gal that filmed this. This is historic. Many of us guitar players will be studying Eddie now and for generations to come! One of a kind. And one of a kind band! Attitude in droves! It's Rock & Roll!
EXACTLY how I remember my first Van Halen concert... Multiple moments of blurred vision, intermittent black outs and hallucinations of consciousness... Where have ALL the GOOD times GONE?!
❤ty for sharing! I love both VanHalen Dave and Sammy, but loved them with Sammy!... But like I said both singers did well!😘 I love the 80s tunes! And many other kinds of music ! But 80s seemed a Very special time for a lot of people the 70s & 1980s especially rocked, meaning it had a different feeling to it! Todays fun, is stressful to all! Enjoy your vanhalen tunes
I was 7 years old in Fresno and about 4 years shy of my first exposure to VH, which along with RUSH were the only things on my mind as a kid. Both were influential so it’s weird to find out they didn’t get along. When I started playing music myself and discovering other guitar-based bands I got away from Eddie. Then Sammy entered and I couldn’t feel the music they made together. I don’t know why because I liked Sammy and Van Halen, but there was something different that I couldn’t get into.
This is amazing. I need to dig into HD upscaling. I use VideoProc for video conversions and they recently introducted these AI features. I just ran a test and it looked like it was going to take a full day to render 30 minutes of footage. Very surprising as I recently upgraded my motherboard and processor and I can render HD video very quickly usually. I"m curious what software you used and does that sound normal for it to take an enormous amount of hours for it to process?
Saw VH on this tour play the 4,500 seat Masonic Auditorium in Detroit. Me and a friend drove down to the Masonic box office late after work and couldn't believe we got 10th row seats. Almost dead center. Some things I remember - I think that hooded cape you saw Dave wearing briefly was what he wore while performing Atomic Punk. Also, he started out singing Beautiful Girls lounging on his side on the stage floor. As if at the beach. Never been that close to a top R&R group before. All four of them gave their all.
DLR in his glory days was unstoppable. I remember seeing him on his solo tour with Steve Vai and Billy Sheehan. It remains one of my top three concerts of all time.
This video brings back so many memories of how insanely great VH was during this time period (and seeing them in concert while in high school)...pure raw power...
This is hands down the best live footage of VH!! There is a god!! Light up the Skies is my favorite VH song! Man, imagine seeing them live that year!! Dave is the best frontman of all time!
Well, seems to me the best footage from the boys comes from Fresno in 78 and 79. Did they play there in 80 and 81? If so, let's have it! I saw the 79, 81, 82 (3X) and 84 (3x) tours also. The 1981 Fair Warning tour is the show I want to come out. Best VH show I ever saw. This is really good footage. Not much footage out there from VH back then. For me and the tours I saw back then, Fair Warning was them at their peak. Gigantic stage and light rig. For 1981, it was a sight to see. That was the first moving light rig I ever saw. The 1982 tour was just alright. Diver Down was never a favorite of mine. 1984 tour was just alright also. Stage and light rig were spectacular for sure. The boys weren't getting along, they played the songs at 100 mph, Dave talked too much and acted goofy, Alex had switched to the Simmons electronic pads and I hated the sound of them. Yep, If I could see a great copy of the Fair Warning (Oakland) tour, I can die a happy man!
The greatest hardrock band in American rock history. One of the greatest bands to ever grace a stage. The greatest guitar player to ever live. Great band.
Van Halen's debut album knocked the HELL out of me when it first came out. (And I wasn't a strictly hard rock guy either). Was in my teens, on the East Coast - and just starting to smoke pot. Dude down the street kept chirping, "You gotta hear these guys! Band from California!". Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought. Whatever. But somehow, reefer and that album it changed my perspective. I remember getting really high a & listening to "Eruption" really loud on headphones. Had all these wild images running through my head, from those sounds Eddie made! God, those were the days. The next album they started getting radio popularity, around here. But that first one is a classic.
This is wat made them the greatest and most unique band in the world .nothing like it had been seen before .was like hearing and seeing aliens 👽from another world .glad to say i lived in the time of the beginning of the mighty Van Halen
Aw yeah, that patented Mike Anthony balls in a vise backing vox! Damn. This the first time I've ever seen and heard Dave killing it in all three phases of the game.
When I was in high school , I remember having VH 1 on 8 track in a boom box playing on a loop the whole weekend at the beach. Back then, no one could touch them. I was telling a co worker about it. His response, omg , you’re old. My response, you missed out on being around when the greatest band in the world dropped their first album.
No disrespect at all, VH was a total beast for those few years with Roth, couple things, so Dave did know the lyrics at one time, and I can see why Sabbath wasn't to happy following them in 78
If you grew up on the East coast,especially in the tri-state area of Connecticut,New York and New Jersey like I did in the 70s and 80s it was fuckin' awesome! I was close to NYC,Hartford,Boston,New Haven,Great woods and the Nassau Coliseum. I saw everyone and had the best record stores around. Van Halen at the Hartford Civic Center in March of 1984.
@@jacktorrance2633 Grew up near Washington DC and had access to the old capital centre in landover Maryland as the big venue for concerts. Then there was also merryweather post pavilion in Columbia Maryland and Nissan pavilion which is now Jiffy Lube live in Bristo Virginia, These days we have the Fillmore in Silver Spring Maryland and Baltimore sound stage near the inner harbor. Like you I also grew up in the 70s and 80s. The late 70s and 80s were my later teens and 20's and saw like you I'm sure all the awesome big concerts of the 80s and the heyday of heavy metal. Judas Priest Turbo and defenders of the faith iron maiden power slave and somewhere in time Metallica opening for Ozzy and 86 on the master of puppets tour and the Moving pictures tour from rush in 1981, Van Halen in 1980 1981 and 1986 Motley crue on the girl's tour and Doctor feel good tour, Dio sacred heart, and the original Black Sabbath twice, Ratt, Accept, Quiet Riot, Dokken, Poison, Kix, Bon Jovi, Slippery when wet, to name a few. Still have the concert stubs and the shirts from most these awesome shows. Appreciate your comment, Brother! 🤘🍻
my first concert was in 81 SLC . smoked joints that were just passed along down the row of sits. amazing set, I do believe. It is the strangest thing to go from playing records to hearing VH live. TY YT
I remember the first time I heard VH I was in summer camp in 78, we were taking swim classes and all these kids were yelling "Van Halen!! Van Halen!!" when the teacher asked what tunes to play during class - Runnin'with the Devil didnt quite grab me, it was the follow up(Eruption) that changed my outlook for good
Amazing that by this time, alex and eddie had been playing together for fifteen years. They both started when they were around 11yrs old, but on opposite intruments.
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In the 80's if someone told me that one day you can just push a button and see Van Halen live footage for free, I would have never believed it.
….on your phone!
👍🤘
YES, it's amazing when you thinking back on tape-trading, low-quality recordings that was sent across the nation and very expensive bootlegs... And now everything is so easy to access... Mind-blowing, and a bit confused feelings...
I’M ON FI-YARRRRRRRRRR!
@@styrmugnsell4560I was a collector of bootlegs. It was an expensive hobby. Now I can access all of those expensive bootlegs for free on RUclips.
Mike was always such an integral part of that band. The musicianship and dexterity bass playing, the fantastic backing vocals, the stage presence. Always the consummate professional through and through. On top of that, he was... is ... and always will be the nicest musician you could ever meet. It's beyond comprehension and beneath contempt the way he was treated in the later years and tossed aside like trash.
Agreed however it wasn't later years it was always. Edward tried to get Billy Sheehan in the band in 1981 just 3 years after the first album. Billy wisely declined. VH killed the 4-way split of music rights and profits when 1984 was released so it wasn't just later... becoming a hired musician for the 2002 tour or the firing in 2005.
OMG he never would have been anything without EVH, what a clown take
But Eddie still needed to have a bass player and Michael was the perfect fit. Held that bottom like the left hand of a piano and then that voice.
So you my friend are the clown.
Ed wrote most of the music on piano and his guitar playing was very piano like his rhythm playing. Sheehan would have drove him crazy always wanting to go crazy on the neck.
That is what Michael great. Just holding down the groove with Alex
@@davewolpak2732yeah imagining a super group with EVH, Sheehan, and Niel Peart ignores that music needs space and there's no room for everyone to show off and take the lead. End up a bunch of noise.
Alex!!! More swing than a swing set!! My favorite
Hard rock-Classic rock Drummer ever!!
Yep
Yeah🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
It's amazing how good this is.
Nothing touches the original line up. VH with Sammy...good band with a good vocalist and phenomenal guitarist. VH with Dave...legendary force to be reckoned with. When VH1 dropped in 78 it was like a nuclear bomb hit suburban America.
Especially at this time, the original hair band.
Van Halen vs. Van Hagar
In my opinion, VH was better with Sammy Hagar.
@@sneakerfacevids441 did you see them circa 78-81; i.e. early era Roth?
@@scottankers6690 Never seen them in concert . But I have heard some of the records, and I just like Sammy’s voice better. Right Now is a masterpiece.
Light up the Sky ¡ Man it brings tears to my eyes My all time VH tune insane
This is great stuff and much better, MUCH, better than the earlier version. The boys were hungry here. Dave is doing his thing but keeping up with the vocals. Ed is spot on, playing like he's got something to prove, and proving it. Mike and Al have the rhythm buckled down tight. The energy is contagious. The sound quality here is good. Thanks for posting this up!
damn I have seen Sasquatch videos with better focus ...... still grateful..
Ed was a monster, the way he kept that guitar in tune between multiple dive bombs on the whammy bar was downright heroic. RIP King.
It went out tho .....but he handled it
He basically created his own Floyd rose
He was actually using the bar to bring it back to pitch when it would go out from bending. He was a mad genius.
I read an article somewhere that it was also the way he strung the guitar not only did he string the guitar like normal but he also Twisted the strings Down The Long axis of the string.
Ie, a lot of torsion on the string from the part that goes into the nut to the part that anchors to the bridge so he added a whole new component of tension through a rotational component @e.l.norton
@@jeffk8359 Wound up the posts, down on some strings. As he tightened the string he would also turn the ball end of the string so that the string didn't twist along its length. He wanted as little tension as possible. He also widened the slots in the brass nut, and adjusted all the bridge screws. The inside and outside screws were tightened differently.
Diamond Dave was that fuckin Dude back in the day😩
Dave in his prime was the best front man ever in my opinion.
@@zevongrie1402oh hell yeah he was
0:00 Light Up the Sky
4:03 Somebody Get Me a Doctor (intro)
4:30 Running With the Devil
7:18 DLR Banter
8:04 On Fire
10:47 Bass Solo
11:47 Feel Your Love Tonight
13:53 Drum Solo
15:20 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
18:53 Guitar Solo
21:22 Dead Or Alive (DOA)
22:25 You Really Got Me
27:12 Bottoms Up!
You cut out a greater part of your collection like DOA for a Kinks cover?? Gee, thanks! We never heard enough of that one before..
You cut out a greater part of your collection like DOA for a Kinks cover?? Gee, thanks!
If we could freeze Dave in a bottle so that this is how he’s remembered that would be great. Because there was a small window of 4 or 5 years where he was an unstoppable force of nature and probably the coolest guy on the planet. We gotta remember him that way instead of the unfortunate clown show he morphed into 😎👍
I’d say more like 7-8 years… Eat em and Smile was great
@@stevestarscream5182 you’re not wrong…eat um and smile has some bangers and probably the best musicians of his solo career. Not to put too fine a point on it but one could argue that in terms of coolness Dave was beginning to show some troublesome signs like the ass less spandex and that goofy smile. For my money there’s still the first 4 or 5 years and then there’s everything else i.e., the video for unchained.
@@tylerstamps2786yep, it was a case of trying to “fix things that aren’t broke”.
According to Ted Templemans book and other stuff, he wanted to make a lot of silly decisions…Especially around 1984….I think that would be about the time he jumped the shark…
DLR was a cabaret jew adapting to hard rock. As soon as he got autonomous the cringy stuff slowly took over. And losing his hair was a major stage performer. That said he is awesome in his later private lifestyle, the sheep herding, the free climbing, the martial arts , japan alone, he is a giant outside music.
He sang in ranges very few could reach.
First 8 track tape I bought was VH first album I played it on my stereo in my room over and over I was in jr.high school..Now I’m a 59 year old grandpa in my bedroom listening with my headphones at 1:30 am..RIP Ed🎸
When the cameraman finally figured out the focus on close ups on Feel Your Love Tonight… holy crap! Gave me the chills. I had VH1 on 8-track as soon as it came out, but I was only about 10. So I was too young to see them live. Seeing this was a definite treat. Thank you!
These guys were born to be Rock Stars!!!
Dave sounds amazing here
well duh. you dont become the biggest band in the world with a shit singer. he was the BEST from 1975-1985
If you like the sound of Woody Allan singing ...
His tone,phrasing,fills so tasteful and every note counts, EVH still blows away ALL shredders
Raw energy - never over rehearsed and tons of fun . The proper VH
David Lee Roth he was doing the outfit changes during the show before Madonna and Britney Spears! The best frontman ever!
Best front men EVER are 80s Vince Neil Ozzy and Elvis 😮😱🤯🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇮🇱🙏💯
@@AmericanPatriot4-19-95 Stop! Vince Neil copied David Lee Roth and was bad at it! Look at him now. Vince Neal has been eating bacon and sausage by the truckload the past 2 decades in a band playing recorded back tracks. I like Ozzy but he's on stage persona has always been very limited.
Hand to God, In 1976 I saw Elvis live! 1979 Bon Scott live! (He's better than Vince Neal) , 1981 Ozzy with Randy Rhoads live!
@@rafa_v1.0 I understand people get old but Crue and Van Halen were friends. Vince had his
Own style but in 81-91 They were on top and he was wasssy different......he didn't copy Roth. Most consider him a prick. I love early Van Halen. Hey at least Vince is still out there....... Eddie bit the dust and secretly wished he could read music, understand theory. Then instead of being dependent on the whammy (tremolo) bar and was able to compose solos like Randy Rhoads....
The GOAT 🐐. I SPENT 13 YEARS IN THE USMC AS AN EOD (CORPORAL RANK) and I did 3 tours and was shot 3 times. I'm desert shield and storm all we listened to was DIO , CRUE, and OZZY. Now I'm old and fat....that's kinda how it goes MOTLEY CRUE made their contribution. Look at the rolling Stones. Old ,, ugly and sound like a tribute band. Wtf have you done 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🥋💯 SEMPER FIDELIS 🌎🦅⚓💯
I’m sure glad that someone was smart enough to film this legendary band as their massive success was getting underway!
It blows my mind and angers me a little to think that "Live Without A Net" was the first pro-shot VH concert, in 1986. I get that it's on the band to hire people to capture your shows and pay for it out of your own $ or investor's $. But it really is ridiculous we have so little footage of this band, during their hottest years of creativity and power. Props to the uploader for making this show watchable.
Every tour had a different stage set and drumset so they should have had pro footage of at least one if not two shows. We get no even years at all. Especially 1980. Not even crappy bootleg footage of that year. There were pro shots before 1986 but no entire concerts. 1979 had one three song pro shot as did 1981.
Oh they have it alright,it's gonna cost a fortune though when they release it
This is YOUR fault , mattwuxx3888 . YOU should have been filming this.
I've been a fan since 1980 and I just did a search earlier today to see photos of the "1980 Invasion" tour. Van Halen as I've never seen them!! Bizarre looking riser under Alex's freaky looking drum kit. Still only two bass drums but they were super long and tube like. Unlike the 1981 or 1982 stage there was a keyboard rig with two giant retro bombs surrounding it for a beardless Michael to play "And the Cradle Will Rock". Also Dave had the "Davesickle" acoustic guitar. I read he had it on other tours (never even seen a picture) but the "1984" concert I saw he did not use it.
@@deathmetaldouglas69 I suspect a lot of that was VH's original involvement with Gene Simmons/Bingenheimer, WB and all of the shady characters that wanted a piece of VH, had they been captured live on film/tape. Plus once MTV/MV3/Friday Night Videos rolled around with enormous global distribution, a lot of "big" bands just expected that if they made a video, those channels would play it and that would be much more lucrative/promotional for the band's future success than a static "concert", that requires actual attention span and dedicated fans/advertisers willing to pay for it.
I was in High School back then, and just started to like them! I was into Rush, AC/DC, and this amazing band came on the radio. Blew my mind!
I was there. 14 years old.
i was not there but i was uninformed also 14 years old i missed all the killer concerts in fresno
I'm about the same age and would of been envious when you showed up at school wearing the tshirt you got at the show. How many VH's did you draw on your notebooks? Hell yea!
@@allglorytogod12 I went with my older cousin and his buddies. I felt like a big boy that night and seeing this shows was completely life changing. I
Me too I was 17
@@doalex2085 Wow cool.
We saw this tour in 1979 in Rochester NY and i read it was their first headlining tour. It was great. Tickets were ten bucks! Good memories for sure.
I remember the $10 arena ticket days, we used to ride our bikes down to midnight records for tix oh yeah!!
Who else played?
Rochester has always had a great music scene. Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra just to name two. So many great people have played there.
Was there an opening act?
@@deathmetaldouglas69 I had to look it up. Granati Brothers. Don't remember that name, but it was 45 years ago. Damn. 😃
This is SO MUCH BETTER. Thank you. The Dragonsnake guitar in all of its glory and high quality video. So killer.
Glad someone finally mentioned that guitar. I first saw Eddie with the dragon guitar on a 1980 cover of some rock magazine and thought it was cool but I never saw him play it live on stage until this Fresno CA concert back in 79. Hopefully he kept it and his son Wolfgang has it now. May the king r.i.p 🐉🎸🙏
Hahaha A Tele control plate! Outstanding
So great to see actual life footage of those hallowed early days!
the best time to catch a band is when their rocket ship to stardom is just taking off like van halen here and guns n roses at the ritz in 88
Good God, Eddie was something else. The band was still pretty damn hungry back then and it shows. Thanks for posting this!
God this is UNBELIEVABLE! Thank you RUclips. If I was just a few years older I could have seen this tour.
That music............ Simply ahead of their time. Michael Anthony backing vocals are gold.
Without his backing sound they wouldn’t have sounded the same. Simple truth.
Simply peak of 70s pentatonic rock. EVH basically stole his playing from Jim McCarty (Catcus, Detroit Wheels) and two-handed tapping from John Du Cann (Atomic Rooster). EVH was the end of a long line that starts with the Sonics, though it became legit with Hendrix
The guy who fundamentally changed rock and from which most everything metal comes today is Yngwie Malmsteen.
@@johnp.johnson1541 it is sarcasm, isn't it?
@@johnp.johnson1541 it's sarcasm, isn't it?
@@SidAlienTV You mean you do not know?
Fucking awesome! It was so rare to see bands live anywhere but live it wasn't like now. We had the Midnight Special and that was about it. Going to concerts back then was so fucking awesome! Shows were listed in the newspaper, you heard it on the radio if they even played them on the radio and word of mouth. It was such a great experience. Nothing fancy just the band rocking out!
YES!!!!
Thank you so much for uploading this and the 1978 video🙏I went to the first concerts in the early 80s and had the chance to see Van Halen one time with Dave in Germany at the Monsters of Rock 1984.
I always wondered how Van Halen sounded in their beginnings (the late 70s) and as an professional guitar player I now can imagine what an impact & experience this must must have been for the audience listening back then.
Absolutely mind blowing performance & guitar sound😅🙏
Tone and feel is eternally amazing to me.
The Greatest **American ** Band Of All Time
Name any other band with this combination of energy, attitude, songwriting ability, and talent in all 4 members
.....I can't
U2 maybe.
Cactus.
I saw them in Tulsa Oklahoma at the Cains Ballroom in 1978... Eddie was like an alien ...totally changed my approach to my newly budding guitar skills!! LOL
Great way to put it. "like an alien" watching him play and how he acted on stage didn't seem like a level any human could preform. So effortless and confident.
I also saw them in Tulsa, but it was 1981 at the Convention Center downtown. The entire show blew my mind. Before that, I saw Kiss in 77, when I was eight. So to see this amazing band, with no tricks, no bombs. or smoke, absolutely kill it, was a life-changer
I missed this concert, but went to many more in the 70’s and 80’s. I loved the end where they all stand together onstage after killing it, the entire crowd is standing, and not cell phone. Those were the best performances.
I saw the 1980 World Invasion tour - so this is the next best thing to a "time machine."
Awesome. I saw the ‘78 tour on Thanksgiving night. I wanted to go to the ‘79 and ‘80 tour but missed them. I saw the ‘84 tour but they were a mess by then. The first four tours were “On Fire!”
@@TheSteveSteele How lucky you were to see them in 1978 when they were SO young and on fire!! Wow! Do you have any specific memories of that show?
saw Van Halen 5 times in the 80s......Fair Warning tour (10th row) 1984 Tour (3rd row) two nights! and two more shows 4 the 5150 Tour......BEST SHOWS EVER! EDDIE WAS ON FIRE ALWAYS
Oh man good stuff
I saw Van Halen open for Black Sabbath in 1978 18th row. Van Halen 2 tour Balcony, Women and Children first tour front row, Mean Streets Tour. Fair Warning Tour, 1984 Tour, 5150 Tour, 2015 tour...2nd to last show EVH ever played 7th row in AZ. I have all the tickets as well before they went digital.
Ed's so On Fire that you can actually see steam coming off all of his guitars fretboards
🔥🎸
This the best I've heard Dave live. It's the start of the tour so he's got a fresh voice.
Sammy could sing and still can but for raw energy, power, showmanship give me 1984 and earlier Dave, what a F’ing force.
The footage is outstanding for 1979 ! thanks so much for this post, now I can have some peace of mind : I ve seen VH live on their early days
I got this audience recording around 20 years ago, and it was a big deal to get a live version of Light Up The Sky. To be able to watch it is incredible.
Incredible footage thank you!
"Lighting Up The Sky" to open up the concert? The song opener of side 2 of "Van Halen ll"?! This is fire!!! Signing off, a 50-year old who's had the LP since 1983
(Actually, I think it was '82 or '81, but '83 rhymes..EVH rocks forever!!!!!)
It is so cool to see these guys live from the early days, first saw them in 1980. Best live band at the time! Thanks for uploading!
I had this footage for years on good o'l 1/2" VHS and I thought "wow this is so cool" but with modern tech it's amazing what can be done! I wish I knew who was tweaking these old videos, I have tons of old VHS masters that could use some of this treatment...especially my Hendrix master video from 1970. The world needs to see that footage...but it needs work.
It was me tweaking these old videos
God bless you, sir
I have a lot of original master videos that could use this kind of AI powered clean up. One in particular is the Hendrix video from 1970. Would you consider doing some work for the cause? If so, we should communicate.@@HeavyJams
@@richpatz4807 I hope you and @heavyjams can connect!
Thanks to the guy or gal that filmed this. This is historic. Many of us guitar players will be studying Eddie now and for generations to come! One of a kind. And one of a kind band! Attitude in droves! It's Rock & Roll!
MORE PLEASE I was there I witnessed this tour
My wife was 1 when this came out I lived in Florida I was 8 1983 mtv came out and omg did Van Halen blow up could not get enough of it
Endlessly entertaining! Love this band!
Yeah that bass player rocks!
Yes he does. At 25:10 he's telling Dave to get off his back. It's creeping him out!!
Such musicianship. Such showmanship. Van halen, forever...
What A Band. Lucky to catch them twice; Leicester in 1980 and Donnington 4 years later. Great times.
They kicked ass
EXACTLY how I remember my first Van Halen concert... Multiple moments of blurred vision, intermittent black outs and hallucinations of consciousness... Where have ALL the GOOD times GONE?!
The Greatest band of all time 🤘
The Greatest **American** Band of All Time for sure!
Used to be, most music suks today, if you wanna call it music
EDDIE IS FIGHTING THE TUNING ON THAT GUITAR WAY MORE THEN NORMAL FOR HIM~~~ THX FOR THE TIMELESS VAN HALEN HISTORY TAKING THE WORLD BY STORM!!!!
yeah man that guitar sucked
When is the VH camp get there shit together and release all this classic VH music. Everyone would scarf up this like no tomorrow... Please!!!!!
❤ty for sharing! I love both VanHalen Dave and Sammy, but loved them with Sammy!... But like I said both singers did well!😘 I love the 80s tunes! And many other kinds of music ! But 80s seemed a Very special time for a lot of people the 70s & 1980s especially rocked, meaning it had a different feeling to it! Todays fun, is stressful to all! Enjoy your vanhalen tunes
I was 7 years old in Fresno and about 4 years shy of my first exposure to VH, which along with RUSH were the only things on my mind as a kid. Both were influential so it’s weird to find out they didn’t get along. When I started playing music myself and discovering other guitar-based bands I got away from Eddie. Then Sammy entered and I couldn’t feel the music they made together. I don’t know why because I liked Sammy and Van Halen, but there was something different that I couldn’t get into.
This video's overall quality and angles are much better than most of today's amateur videos filmed on their cell phones.
This is amazing. I need to dig into HD upscaling. I use VideoProc for video conversions and they recently introducted these AI features. I just ran a test and it looked like it was going to take a full day to render 30 minutes of footage. Very surprising as I recently upgraded my motherboard and processor and I can render HD video very quickly usually. I"m curious what software you used and does that sound normal for it to take an enormous amount of hours for it to process?
removing the watermark took almost a whole week with 8 processors.. The upscale only took a few hours.
Topaz..
That audience is so damn fortunate to have seen them in their prime, before the hagar nonsense. Phenomenal!
5150 was hagar best album only
@@Swanlord05 I didn't like any of the hagar stuff. Didn't sound like van halen to me at all.
Pop Hagar
@@autk For real. Wasn't even the same band as far as i'm concerned. Lost their heaviness and cool interesting sound
So don't listen to it. No need to bitch about it like a bunch of chicks.
Saw VH on this tour play the 4,500 seat Masonic Auditorium in Detroit. Me and a friend drove down to the Masonic box office late after work and couldn't believe we got 10th row seats. Almost dead center.
Some things I remember - I think that hooded cape you saw Dave wearing briefly was what he wore while performing Atomic Punk. Also, he started out singing Beautiful Girls lounging on his side on the stage floor. As if at the beach.
Never been that close to a top R&R group before. All four of them gave their all.
DLR in his glory days was unstoppable. I remember seeing him on his solo tour with Steve Vai and Billy Sheehan. It remains one of my top three concerts of all time.
I saw this tour! West Palm Beach Auditorium. Epic!
One of the best VH performances Ive seen. Usually DLR is more concerned with running around than singing - this show he was awesome!
he was razor sharp the first 5 years of their live career. they didn’t become the biggest band in the USA by accident
This video brings back so many memories of how insanely great VH was during this time period (and seeing them in concert while in high school)...pure raw power...
This is hands down the best live footage of VH!! There is a god!! Light up the Skies is my favorite VH song! Man, imagine seeing them live that year!! Dave is the best frontman of all time!
Oh shit! Eddie playing the Dragon guitar!
🤘😂🤘that’s very cool.
Snake
Well, seems to me the best footage from the boys comes from Fresno in 78 and 79. Did they play there in 80 and 81? If so, let's have it! I saw the 79, 81, 82 (3X) and 84 (3x) tours also. The 1981 Fair Warning tour is the show I want to come out. Best VH show I ever saw. This is really good footage. Not much footage out there from VH back then. For me and the tours I saw back then, Fair Warning was them at their peak. Gigantic stage and light rig. For 1981, it was a sight to see. That was the first moving light rig I ever saw. The 1982 tour was just alright. Diver Down was never a favorite of mine. 1984 tour was just alright also. Stage and light rig were spectacular for sure. The boys weren't getting along, they played the songs at 100 mph, Dave talked too much and acted goofy, Alex had switched to the Simmons electronic pads and I hated the sound of them. Yep, If I could see a great copy of the Fair Warning (Oakland) tour, I can die a happy man!
The greatest hardrock band in American rock history.
One of the greatest bands to ever grace a stage.
The greatest guitar player to ever live.
Great band.
Don’t realize till you watch this how AMAZING the backing vocals were…
Van Halen's debut album knocked the HELL out of me when it first came out. (And I wasn't a strictly hard rock guy either). Was in my teens, on the East Coast - and just starting to smoke pot. Dude down the street kept chirping, "You gotta hear these guys! Band from California!". Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought. Whatever.
But somehow, reefer and that album it changed my perspective. I remember getting really high a & listening to "Eruption" really loud on headphones. Had all these wild images running through my head, from those sounds Eddie made! God, those were the days. The next album they started getting radio popularity, around here. But that first one is a classic.
I first heard it '82 and it was like something from outer space..
This is wat made them the greatest and most unique band in the world .nothing like it had been seen before .was like hearing and seeing aliens 👽from another world .glad to say i lived in the time of the beginning of the mighty Van Halen
Omg please.
Wow!great share,a big big thank @ HeavyJams
I saw this tour, but it was so damn long ago, I barely remember anything about it! So, this is cool to see.
Aw yeah, that patented Mike Anthony balls in a vise backing vox!
Damn. This the first time I've ever seen and heard Dave killing it in all three phases of the game.
When I was in high school , I remember having VH 1 on 8 track in a boom box playing on a loop the whole weekend at the beach. Back then, no one could touch them. I was telling a co worker about it. His response, omg , you’re old. My response, you missed out on being around when the greatest band in the world dropped their first album.
Also - Dave sounds amazing!! Love that guitar break in Light up the Skies!! This is gold.
Incredible footage. Thanks for sharing.
No disrespect at all, VH was a total beast for those few years with Roth, couple things, so Dave did know the lyrics at one time, and I can see why Sabbath wasn't to happy following them in 78
I definitely grew up in America at the right time just on the wrong coast!
If you grew up on the East coast,especially in the tri-state area of Connecticut,New York and New Jersey like I did in the 70s and 80s it was fuckin' awesome! I was close to NYC,Hartford,Boston,New Haven,Great woods and the Nassau Coliseum. I saw everyone and had the best record stores around.
Van Halen at the Hartford Civic Center in March of 1984.
@@jacktorrance2633 Grew up near Washington DC and had access to the old capital centre in landover Maryland as the big venue for concerts. Then there was also merryweather post pavilion in Columbia Maryland and Nissan pavilion which is now Jiffy Lube live in Bristo Virginia, These days we have the Fillmore in Silver Spring Maryland and Baltimore sound stage near the inner harbor.
Like you I also grew up in the 70s and 80s. The late 70s and 80s were my later teens and 20's and saw like you I'm sure all the awesome big concerts of the 80s and the heyday of heavy metal. Judas Priest Turbo and defenders of the faith iron maiden power slave and somewhere in time Metallica opening for Ozzy and 86 on the master of puppets tour and the Moving pictures tour from rush in 1981, Van Halen in 1980 1981 and 1986 Motley crue on the girl's tour and Doctor feel good tour, Dio sacred heart, and the original Black Sabbath twice, Ratt, Accept, Quiet Riot, Dokken, Poison, Kix, Bon Jovi, Slippery when wet, to name a few. Still have the concert stubs and the shirts from most these awesome shows. Appreciate your comment, Brother! 🤘🍻
Saw the shortly after this. 3rd row center stage.... I was 15 and I've had hearing difficulties ever since.
The quality is amazing
my first concert was in 81 SLC . smoked joints that were just passed along down the row of sits. amazing set, I do believe. It is the strangest thing to go from playing records to hearing VH live. TY YT
Truly Awesome!!!!!!!!! Thank You!!!!!!!!!
Top of the mountain here , DLR had a screen like no other .
No one could touch them .
First concert was 1980 , a sound like no other
This is the set list I remember them doing when I saw them in 79 in Columbus Ohio 👍🇺🇸
Wow DLR sang so effortlessly back then and sounded so good! They sound so good!
Just incredible. No words. 🤘🤘
I remember the first time I heard VH I was in summer camp in 78, we were taking swim classes and all these kids were yelling "Van Halen!! Van Halen!!" when the teacher asked what tunes to play during class - Runnin'with the Devil didnt quite grab me, it was the follow up(Eruption) that changed my outlook for good
Oh the days when Dave used to sing were the best. They didn't last long.
Vu a Paris la même année !!!! une tuerie !!!!!!!😊🤘🤘
Amazing that by this time, alex and eddie had been playing together for fifteen years. They both started when they were around 11yrs old, but on opposite intruments.
Thank you for all the work you put into this and thanks for sharing it with us.
Bad ass band with bad ass songs
Anybody whoever had anything to say about Diamond Dave’s live vocals. Just check it! Cus I’m on Fire is actual proof! VH 79 ls a lean machine
Man, what a rare treat this is. It's such a shame that VH's management didn't have the foresight to document them on video more during the early days.