The Road to the US Festival | The Van Halen 1984 Documentary Episode 2
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- Van Halen members went their separate ways after their Diver Down tour. Dave stayed in South America with his travel troupe, the Jungle Studs. In 1983, they were offered $1.5 million to headline the Heavy Metal Day of the US Festival organized by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple. The Clash, unhappy with the commercialization of the event and the paychecks of other bands, engaged in confrontations and refused to play an encore. Van Halen hosted a lavish private party during the festival. The band performed on Heavy Metal Day, delivering an explosive set despite being heavily intoxicated.
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00:00 - Intro to Episode 2 of Van Halen’s 1984 documentary
00:18 - The Jungle Studs
01:21 - Van Halen gets a call from Apple’s Steve Wozniak
01:48 - Short history of the US Festival
02:32 - Offering Van Halen a gig at the US Festival
02:57 - Favored nation deal clause
03:15 - Tracking down David Lee Roth
03:32 - Booking David Bowie for the US Festival
03:49 - The US Festival booker Barry Fey
04:22 - Having to match David Bowie’s payday
04:45 - Van Halen and the Guinness Book of World Records
05:16 - Van Halen’s publicist, Steve Mandel, saves the day
05:50 - Why Stevie Ray Vaughan did play on the Bowie tour
06:13 - Why John Mellencamp dropped off the US Festival
06:28 - Van Halen learns they have more work than just playing the show
07:16 - A man was murdered at the US Festival
07:36 - Why the US Festival cost Van Halen so much money
08:16 - The Clash are not happy
08:51 - David Lee Roth pokes fun at the Clash
09:24 - The Clash’s petulant tirade
10:36 - Joe Strummer speaks highly of Eddie Van Halen
11:14 - Eddie Van Halen thinks this video sucks
11:28 - Heavy Metal Sunday at the US Festival
12:15 - Van Halen chills while everyone else weathers the heat
12:39 - The reason for the private party space at the US Festival
13:08 - Bash of 1983
13:21 - Van Halen’s rider at the US Festival
13:58 - Roth’s drugs are kicking in
14:15 - David Lee Roth has a press conference at the US Festival
14:49 - David Lee Roth tries some new material
15:26 - David Lee Roth makes MTV’s Mark Goodman feel uncomfortable
16:09 - Van Halen plays a pre-recorded message for the US Festival crowd
17:06 - Van Halen plays the US Festival
18:12 - David Lee Roth being a bit unstable
18:27 - Van Halen lays down a clinic on how to play live
18:59 - One last shot at the Clash
20:08 - One of the highlights of Van Halen’s US Festival performance
21:03 - Van Halen proves they are atop the rock’s world of live performance
21:29 - Fans are disruptive going home
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Please note: This series is not being monetized in any way by me. If you see an ad, it's because it is being monetized by whoever owns Van Halen's music. I made this video purely out of love for Van Halen as a tribute. Seven months of my time to make this is nothing compared to all the happiness this band has brought me over the years. -Alan Berry
00:00 - Intro to Episode 2 of Van Halen’s 1984 documentary
00:18 - The Jungle Studs
01:21 - Van Halen gets a call from Apple’s Steve Wozniak
01:48 - Short history of the US Festival
02:32 - Offering Van Halen a gig at the US Festival
02:57 - Favored nation deal clause
03:15 - Tracking down David Lee Roth
03:32 - Booking David Bowie for the US Festival
03:49 - The US Festival booker Barry Fey
04:22 - Having to match David Bowie’s payday
04:45 - Van Halen and the Guinness Book of World Records
05:16 - Van Halen’s publicist, Steve Mandel, saves the day
05:50 - Why Stevie Ray Vaughan did play on the Bowie tour
06:13 - Why John Mellencamp dropped off the US Festival
06:28 - Van Halen learns they have more work than just playing the show
07:16 - A man was murdered at the US Festival
07:36 - Why the US Festival cost Van Halen so much money
08:16 - The Clash are not happy
08:51 - David Lee Roth pokes fun at the Clash
09:24 - The Clash’s petulant tirade
10:36 - Joe Strummer speaks highly of Eddie Van Halen
11:14 - Eddie Van Halen thinks this video sucks
11:28 - Heavy Metal Sunday at the US Festival
12:15 - Van Halen chills while everyone else weathers the heat
12:39 - The reason for the private party space at the US Festival
13:08 - Bash of 1983
13:21 - Van Halen’s rider at the US Festival
13:58 - Roth’s drugs are kicking in
14:15 - David Lee Roth has a press conference at the US Festival
14:49 - David Lee Roth tries some new material
15:26 - David Lee Roth makes MTV’s Mark Goodman feel uncomfortable
16:09 - Van Halen plays a pre-recorded message for the US Festival crowd
17:06 - Van Halen plays the US Festival
18:12 - David Lee Roth being a bit unstable
18:27 - Van Halen lays down a clinic on how to play live
18:59 - One last shot at the Clash
20:08 - One of the highlights of Van Halen’s US Festival performance
21:03 - Van Halen proves they are atop the rock’s world of live performance
21:29 - Fans are disruptive going home
Plus Dwarf Parties backstage,,,,Dave getting the costume lady to suck the air out of his clothes so the women can appreciate the contours,,,,,Dave revealing the CLASH are drinking Iced TEA in Jack Daniels bottles.....Poor ED having problems with his guitar strap at the start of his solo....And Alex playing drums with steam coming off his back .
Very nice work dude. You created a piece of art with historical fortitude.
All I can say is AWESOME - the best documentary I have seen on VH - Hope to see the rest of these soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just finished watching the first two episodes, and by the quality of it ,I'm so looking forward to the next one, BRAVO!! For the excellent work Dude, as it's the best I've seen!❤😎👍
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I think it’s funny in 2023 we’re waiting for a livestream from 1984 😅
Don’t you mean we’re living in 1984 in 2023??
@@thedadyouneverhadchannel3544 OUCH FOR REAL
Time travel is real!
Some would agree that we are living 1984 (George Orwell 1948).
That’s Van Halen for ya…😆
"I forgot the fucking words" was done at every show on the previous tour. its part of the show.
This was the greatest show of my entire lifetime. I miss Ed and VH more than anyone will ever know.
Unfortunately at the show Van Halen was the worst band they were horrendous
I know.😥😥
On behalf of ALL of us from Generation X. Thank you!!! ROCK ON!!!
the best era for bands and music in general that you cant beat !
Yes sir!
For what it's worth Triumph's huge album 'Allied Forces" was released 18 mos before this in Sept. 1981. "Magic Power" and "Fight the Good Fight" went to #8 and #18 on the Rock charts and the album went to #23 on the Billboard Charts. Their best years were hardly 'far' behind them. They were all over MTV.
Not to mention their performance was fantastic.
I could have worded that better. I love Triumph. I was meaning that compared to the other bands their hay day was more in the rearview. If I could take it back I would and phrase it better. Rik Emmett is one of the best ever.
Agreed!
@@TheTapesArchive Ha no worries. I just remembered listening to "Magic Power" on the radio around this time as a 13 year old. They weren't as "heavy" as many of the other bands so I do agree they were the odd band out and on their last flash. (So was solo Ozzy Ha!)
Exactly! Rik Emmett could and STILL can play rock, jazz classical, flamenco Spanish guitar, blues and everything in between.
This whole show should come out on dvd & cd !
It should. There’s a full length documentary about it on here
it is and has been for decades
Alan, you've done amazing job putting together all this material in a such entertaining and impactful way... Kudos 👋👋 Die hard fans owe you a big one.👌👍🤟
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A much over due tribute to the greatest Rock band of all time.
Eddie’s greatness made all the other madness acceptable. I saw them a number of times and NEVER have I seen a 4 piece band with 1 guitar player make so much sound, no drop off during the solos. Incredible live players
Yeah but there was a 3-piece band of sounded better they were called Rush
You've crushed it. Thank you to the TH-cam gods for sending it to me.
Two episodes in and I have to say if you took the glory days of MTV and The History Channel and put it together, it would be programming like this. Wow, I am blown away by how much I'm learning about Van Halen during this period. Kudos to you sir for an amazing job!
The "glory days of MTV". Back when they used to play Harden My Heart 18 times a day?
@@Frip36 And still better than anything Cardi B will ever put out.
@@jlowry71 Harden My Heart is a good song. But do you want to listen to it every hour on the hour?
The best days of my life, I was 17 in 1983, memories to never be forgotten!
This is such an incredible Gift you gave us Die-Hard VH Fans Alan…Absolutely TREMENDOUS job here…TY for all your Blood, Sweat, and Tears you put into this- Absolutely Epic!
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Loved this! Saw them on the 1984 tour in Toronto at Maple Leaf Gardens. Been to hundreds of concerts over the years - VH was easily the most memorable. What a night that was!
It’s hard to believe that it’s 40 years since this concert took place.
Great job sir !!
Exactly what I was going to say. We ain't getting any younger, are we?
Nope. Look who has been leaving us so far this year … let alone one member of the classic Van Halen line up who is gone
I know right. I remember that day like it was yesterday. Taking the buses up to get into the hot day and cold ass night to where DLR started shit he started with the police on horseback. But the drugs and music rocked! It was a great time in history.
I was 15 and there Day 2! This day was awesome! Hot as hell in the day, cold as ice at night though. People broke the water cannons trying to get cool. But we survived, well most of us, and thrived that day and rocked on! Its a day in history in a time in an era like no other that will be again. RIP Eddie!
Never will forget uS Festival 83. High school freshman. It was iconic then. And $20 was the price of every concert then. General admission! Front and center was anyone’s game if they got there early enough or fought their way to the front. My crew and I had mastered it. It was an golden era for concerts. I can’t believe ticket prices now. It’s beyond inflation. It’s disgusting.
This was the single greatest rock show in history.
So many memories. In 1984 at age 16 I was hit by a car as I was crossing this big road and I wound up in the hospital for a month. It seemed like everything in my body was broken. My mom bought me a brand new Walkman and a brand new copy of 1984 on cassette and it lifted my spirit through the roof of the hospital and made my time there a lot more bearable.
Glad you were OK and VH has always made me feel better too. So glad I got the experience their music while it was first coming out during those formative tonnage years. Best band ever!
How did she know?
A proper and true documentarian. This is some must watch stuff! Can't wait for the rest!
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Thank you for putting this together! I was there with a few friends and it was an experience I will never forget. It was truly special. So many people and the lineup was an absolute dream for a teenager in 1983. The only problem were the bathrooms, lol, which felt like a 5 mile walk through a wild, undulating, screaming human zoo, and good luck making it back to your little piece of land! It wasn't easy, I'll tell you that.🤘🍻
Excellent job, Alan!
Finally someone gets it right with regard to the Us Festival. It was an awesome, energetic show, not the sh*t show people who didn't attend would say. Dave was also not as "lit" as people say he was, he knew exactly what he was doing. When he would gaze us 300,00+ fans and then signal to Al in utter amazement, that was our energy that kept him in that moment. It was like two bandmembers in disbelief that just 8 years earlier they were playing a dive bar called "Walter Mitty's Rock & Roll Emporium" just a few miles away.
Looking forward to the next one!
Rock
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If he wasn't "lit" then there went his excuse for stinking up the joint. Everyone who says otherwise wasn't really there.
@@TheTapesArchive I wish people would stop praising the US Festival performance. By the third song literally THOUSANDS of people were headed towards the gates because they were so bad. Anybody who was there, and is being honest, will tell you VH got their asses handed to them by The Scorpions. This is coming from a California fan who saw them DOZENS of times since the 70's. The only other time they've played that bad was the 2004 reunion shows. You did a good job with clips, but spreading the lie of the US Fest being an iconic performance HAS to stop. It's not true in any sense of the word.
I just turned 17, and saw ALL the bands I loved in ONE NIGHT!!!! And this video recreated that MAGIC again!!! The MIGHTY VAN HALEN WAS, STILL and ALWAYS will be my favorite band! Thank You for the video!!! Tear down the roof in Heaven EDDIE!!!
Keep ROCKIN'!! 🤘
Not the last time the Scorpions blew everyone else away including VH. There was also Monsters of Rock summer of 88 in Dallas. Bunch of drunks while Scorps 💯.
Thank you so much for this long overdue documentary! I’m glad you took it upon yourself to make this for the fans. It was awesome!! Keep up the great work! Rock on!! 🤟🤟
I had to do it! VH has been so important in my life since age 11 or so. (I'm now 54.) I truly appreciate you being a subscriber. Most viewers are not. 🎉🍻🍺
Love this series - thank you!!!
This is gonna be a never a skip !
This is fantastic! Thank you, thank you!
This is so put together so good!
This is awesome! Great job.
Thanks for another great episode. Excellent behind the scenes info and music again.
Great work!! Fantastic video!!
Thank you so much for making this!! I’m enjoying every second of it.
Great job!!! I really enjoyed this. Thanks!
Love this ! Thank you
Great series so far. Really well done! Thanks for putting this together!
Great stuff! Thank you for making these for us all to see ❤
Wow!..THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Awesome job! Thanks for this great piece of work!
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Amazing job, Alan. Thank you!!
Unreal documentary man. Can’t wait for the rest 🤘🤘
Thank you! MORE please!!!!
Incredible stuff Alan! Thank you for doing this!
Well put togeather... quality doc. Enjoyed it... tkx
This is amazing. Just subscribed. Thank you for your hard work!
that was a great doc, thx
Dude this is awesome work, I would have paid for this for sure, it must’ve been a lot of work to put together. I love the humorous feel which is akin to the party and fun vibe Van Halen gave off! It’s very frustrating as a long time VH fan, that there is so little quality live footage of the band during the DLR era and no official video releases at all from that time…so this has satisfied my VH cravings as this has a lot of clips I’ve never seen before which is awesome to see…….but it makes me yearn for those days, what with the world going to shit and there being no great rock bands coming through and true iconic rock stars being a thing of the past, we truly lived through the best of times as far as music and freedom goes. Can’t wait for the next episode, I just pray they don’t get taken down, that would be a sin. Thanks so much for doing this! 🤘🏼🙏🏻
Thank you for the kind words. If was to make it for the money, I would have never made it. Plus I would have never made what it cost me time wise. (I figured it at around $70k.) Knowing that folks had 15-20 min of fun and entertainment is an awesome pay-off.
I will never get why VH doesn't treat it's fans better. We all know they are sitting on archives of material. I mean it is their call etc. But most of their fans will be dead in the next 20 years or so.
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amazing job on this!!
Both parts of this were killer thank you! 🎸😎
Muchas gracias por este video. It was awesome 😊
Thoroughly enjoying this doc! Job well done, Alan! Thanks for putting this together!🍻🤘🏻🎸
This is probably the best thing I've seen in ages. Thank you so much for making this!!
Loved it!!
Awesome job on this series. Thank you
Absolutely incredible documentary! Thanks much!
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THANK YOU for putting these together!! Great memories
EXCELLENT JOB!!! Can’t wait to see the other ones to come. 👍👍👍
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I’m gonna say it again… Thank you so much for putting this together!
Thanks for this 🙏
Thank you for this, very well done, bravo! Fills in more blanks and connects more of the dots of the landmark event that I was fortunate to be in attendance of..
Thank you for creating an AWWESOME ! VIDEO !!!!
You did an amazing job. Excellent editing and story-telling.
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Another fantastic episode! These are greatest VH docs we will ever get. Thank you for your hard work on this project. Looking forward to the next episode. Take care.
What a FANTASTIC look at the whole ordeal. Thank you so much for this!
Wow, just amazing!
Excellent job Alan! Truly well put together, with great live clips and commentary! Can't wait for the other epis!
Right the F**k on! 👊🏻👏🏻
Congratulations on a great presentation of the US Festival AND Van Halen's performance. Very interesting facts some hadn't gotten to see yet. Great footage 👍; stellar!!
This is absolutely top tier content! Thank you so much. 🤘🤘
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The amount of time and research you’ve put in to this hasn’t gone unnoticed. Thank you so much for teaching me more about my favourite band after I already thought I knew everything there was to know (I’m now finding out my knowledge didn’t even scratch the surface)
Can’t wait for the next installments!
Thank you so much for doing this! I grew up listening to VH through my dad but took a liking to the Clash on my own and had no idea about their back and forth at the festival. Amazing to see the old footage
Pure excellence!! Your attention to detail and your depth of knowledge is just remarkable. And thank you for making me laugh that DLR edit of the sequence with Mark Goodman is gold!!
Damn! you did again sir. Another masterpiece!
Excellent documentary series! As a fan since 83 I really enjoy this!
Thanks again, this is great!
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dude...great work!
This was great, thanks for doing it, really nice job! I especially enjoyed the story of Ed going into The Clash’s trailer after they played, he showed true class with that little visit. RIP Joe Strummer and Eddie Van Halen!!
Thank you for doing this! this was outstanding! can't wait for the next one!
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The US Festival is the stuff of VH legend. Thank you for the great vid…I thoroughly enjoyed it, can hardly wait for Ep. 3!
Thanks a lot guys it's been awesome
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Thank you for all your hard work in putting this masterpiece together! Having been a “HUGE “ VH fan fan since 1980, when this 14 year old first heard them. This is AWESOME
those opening warmup notes and mighty introduction always give me chills
15:26 - the BEST
I'm still laughing!! Thanks for the TS
They are both dorks! I would rewind a little more for full context. Kudos to the editor/director!!!!!!!!
Dude..I laugh at that every time. Thanks for subbing!
My heart is pounding so hard right now. God, I miss seeing them live!
Great work! One of the best I’ve seen. Thank you!!!! Eddie Van Halen….GOAT!!!!!!
Thank you for putting this out in the way you did! Us VH fans are happy! Great job!!
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what a great documentary! Sick!
great job, enjoyed this video
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Alan........loved it so far! Can't wait for the rest. Brings but such great memories of this band. I still remember opening night if the 1984 TOUR in Jacksonville. Such a great concert. Keep up the great work. 👍
(I know i have a cassette tape of the westwood one radio broadcast of the show. Hit record on my boom box whilst show was being broadcast)
Awesome job
good to see the videos are back. way to go Big Al Berry!
Incredible well done 👍
Outstanding work. The time you put in must have been immense, but COMPLETELY worth it!
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Watched the excellent part 1 a few hours ago and now this one. Anyone else hear that demo version of 'Romeo Delight' earlier in the vid? In one of my VH books it's basically said the work that Van Halen did for this one show was the equivalent of what they do for a normal U.S. tour. Very well done here @TheTapesArchive and I LOVE the funny little video bits & captions you added.
Way to work, Sir!!!! LOVE THIS!!!!
Great video, keep going from Canada ❤️
Phenomenal!!!!! I remember watching MTV 24/7 that weekend waiting to see any clip I could of their performance and had the VCR running non stop so I would not miss one DLR interview or clip 0f their show. Great memories
Oh man awesome work dude, this stuff is great! keep it coming and lets hope the Van Halen Camp doesn't strike it for sure, us fans need this and hopefully a future movie gor the world to see!
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4 times through now. I just love this band so much! Excellent job! 🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉VH4EVER!!!!!!
How did I not know about this channel before today?! The videos are like historical artifacts combined with fantastic (over) production memorializing one of the greatest rock bands to ever exist!
Not sure, but glad you made it! The bigger question...what is Irish Nachos? lol