Van Halen at Monsters of Rock 1984

TD77 said:
Is this video sped up a bit or were they actually playing this fast. Jesus. lol
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sounds like they were playing that fast.:D It's hard to control when the adrenaline kicks in.
Great footage. I always have a difficult time watching old VH footage. Love it to death, but, watching Roth always makes me cringe. I believe the Germans have a word for it, fremdschamen.
 
Dave's cringe-worthy for sure, but you have to admit, he's got a brass pair to get up in front of a crowd like that and dance around like the village idiot.
 
I’ve always felt that speeding up songs takes the groove away. Here too. But the performance was great nevertheless. Even though Eddie didn’t play 2 bars without doing something virtuoso. And DLR surely owned the stage.
 
I forgot that Michael Anthony at times doubled on keyboards during some shows.
Also, Eddie's raw finger strength and attack. It really was in the hands. I swear in the solo I'm hearing part of the melody from the end of Jump and of what became Top of the World at around 48:18 mark.

after watching that I put in my DVD of Live: Right here right now that I havent seen in ages. Looking over at my Translucent red flame EBMM Axis that I havent played in well over a year. Picked it up in my hands unplugged. damn i forgot how great a guitar it is. It needs a clean and fresh strings. That's on my agenda for this week now.
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deakle said:
I was there in Pittsburgh! Van Halen, Scorpions, Metallica, Dokken and Kingdom Come. What a show!
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Hellz yeah! I saw it in Spokane WA. Took my little brother to the show. Scorpions were just on fire that night. I think they edged out VH for having the best show of the day. A friend who saw their next show in Seattle said Scorps' highly choreographed show fell flat there, so I guess that was a hit and miss affair.

I regret never having seen VH with DLR in front, but I had to admit that Sammy put on one hell of a show for MOR. I was truly impressed with his singing, showmanship, and having the cast iron balls to strap on a guitar on the same stage with EVH hisself.

I'd seen Dokken before, opening for Aerosmith to support their Back for the Attack album, which blew my mind on its release. Cool show, but nothing new there.

Of course my favorite part was the Metallica set in the middle of the day. The stadium there had a pair of long asphalt ramps from ground level down into the stadium where the stage was set up in one end zone. The Metallica dudes just sauntered down the ramp in their jeans and t-shirts, picked up guitars... and the sound system just detonated! They didn't even look like they'd started doing anything, it was just there. I think they opened with Creeping Death. Forty year-old memories are hazy, but it. was. glorious.

What a great day.
 
I went to the Seattle Monsters show. Great concert. Klaus Miene took a thrown 35mm camera to the face and that interrupted or cut the Scorpions set short if I remember correctly. I've also never seen so many flying shoes at a concert. I was surprised people weren't all leaving barefoot.
 
Saw them on this tour in Austin, TX. All I recall is the vibe, opening with Unchained, and Dave taking hits off the bottle of Jack Daniel’s. Pure rock’n’roll.
 
I was there in that massive audience at Donnington park, from mottled crew coming to uk doing shout at the devil through ozzy doing his thing to acdc finishing the day off.
Van Halen were amazing as were so many of the other band still got the program in a box ( just moved house so dont ask which box lol )
I remember the bit where he stopped mid song when the bottles were flying that was a something unfortunately happened a lot at Donnington
That gig had me buzzing for months good memories

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