VAN HALEN - Live at Whisky a Go Go on New Year's Eve 1977 (Good sound quality)
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- This is an audio recording of VAN HALEN performing live at Whisky a Go Go on New Year's Eve in 1977. It's insane to think that Eddie Van Halen was just 21-years-old for this performance. (Birthdate: 01-26-1955)
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Incredibly. The real early raw-less commercial. Love the edge on this show. EVH already well beyond his years shiwcasing his complete innovated style.
Remember, this is 77.
No one has heard that tapping thing live.
On a record, it’s just recording magic.
Then you see it. You hear it for real.
And just stand there.
Jaw dropped.
And from then on it was, FUCK YAH🤘🏻😆🤘🏻
Tapping had existed long before Eddie
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You may be missing the point. Nobody ever said Eddie invented tapping in itself and certainly the comment above doesn't even say that, but he certainly invented tapping as we now know it. At that point nobody had tapped like Eddie, nobody. This might as well been from a different planet.
It was like what the hell is he doing it's coming at you from all angles @TVD1984 you're exactly right
Untouchable from ‘77 to ‘84
Still untouchable
Absolutely
I remember during those years, Eddie was always on the cover of guitar magazines as best guitarist always getting recognized. It was great, everyone wanted to figure out and play Eddie's chops and techniques.
Even with Hagar...some of the licks he wrote...holy shit. He was already better than everyone else...and he still just kept getting better and better
HE WILL NEVER BE "TOUCHABLE" , HE INVENTED A WAY OF PLAYING . 6 YEAR OLDS CAN IMITATE HIM FLAWLESSLY ON TH-cam BUT THEY WILL NEVER POSSESS THE ABILITY TO CREATE PIECES OF MUSIC OR A WAY OF PLAYING THAT PEOPLE WILL SPEND THE RST OF THEIR LIVES TRYING TO EMULATE.
Van Halen was the sum total of all its members.
Eddie was actually 22 at this time , almost 23. Awesome show!
I helped lug their equipment out after the show as I did many of the Hollywood circuit shows before they got signed. I worked for their Soundman's (at that time) brother, so we were always on the guest list. Eddie would spring for the 2pc. chicken combo meal at the 24hr Pioneer Chicken on Santa Monica Blvd in the wee mourning hrs for helping.
I wish there was more pioneer chicken around.
I haven't seen one in probably decades
@@jeffalbillar7625 I was just relating that story to buddy of mine a few weeks ago, and I believe he mentioned that one actually still being there. I'm not positive but I stopped for got coffee and hit restroom at (I think it was)a Pioneer on Colorado blvd in Pasadena a while back. I could wrong but I thought there was a few left.
@@discernment8963 there are some in L.A.
I'm subscribed to a channel called Adam the Woo and he did videos of places to eat and pioneer chicken was one of them.
I was surprised at all of the chain restaurants that started out here.
Thanks for the info Brother.
@@jeffalbillar7625 Yeah, like I mentioned I couldn't swear to it but I do think I drive by 1 here and there. That's cool. 👍
I worked at Winchels donut.
An almost 22 year old Edward Van Halen blowing their minds with his craft! This dude was light years ahead of everyone and they all knew it!
Who cares.
Dumass@@girpo
he was born January 1955…. which means he was almost 23
On this New Year's Eve of 1977, little did the world know that it would very soon be dominated by King Edward and his band. Listen to how ahead of their time they sounded in 1977. During the next several years Edward Van Halen would singlehandedly re-write the book on everything regarding the guitar and now all the way into 2022 nobody has even come close to what he did... It is so very rare that something as original, genuine, pure, authentic, honest groundbreaking and outright fucking ass kicking comes along in the world of music and Van Halen was truly every bit that. To hear them would leave you spellbound for sure, but to see them live would leave you in total awe of what you just witnessed. I was fortunate enough to see them 11 times from 1978 - 1989 and Edward Van Halen spearheaded the absolute greatest band to both record and perform live and I truly feel sorry for anyone who missed it... Unfortunately, Edward was taken from us way too early... When recently asked if Van Halen would continue, Edward's son Wolfgang looked at the interviewer, shook his head and said "How can you possibly have Van Halen without Eddie Van Halen"... You just can't and that pretty much says it all... May EVH always R.I.P....
Interviewers ask and say the stupidest things..
Saw VH in a small hall from up close in the mezzanine on the first / second album tour. It was stunning, and life changing for me as a young guitarist that had been playing 4 years at the time. As Craig Chaquico said "I could play any rock guitar, then Van Halen came out and I was sent back to the woodshed." to paraphrase.
Pretty much how I felt. I couldn't play all guitar solos, but as an indirect student of Michael Schenker I was getting there.
Then EVH materialized and we all said "WTF?!!!!"
There was lots more work to do.
He did not sound ahead of his time.. he was right with it. Teenagers and college kids were tired of Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Air Supply, Firefall, Little River Band sleepy time music. Punk sucked too, so it was time to ROCK, with skills and FURY!
Jimi was a bigger mind blowing shock. Totally changed the sound of guitar. Eddie and the band was awesome, but not the only ones..
@@michaelcraig9449 nope. vh1 hit me so hard im still a little wobbly today. hendrix was playing chuck berry licks still. eddie is a whole new ball game
Van Halen Setlist
On Fire
I'm the One
Just What You Wanted
Show No Mercy
Bass Solo
Runnin' With the Devil
Atomic Punk
Down in Flames (Early version of Tattoo)
Bullethead
Drum Solo
Little Dreamer
Somebody Get Me a Doctor
Ice Cream Man (John Brim cover)
Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
Guitar Solo (Including "Eruption")
D.O.A.
Happy Trails (Roy Rogers & Dale Evans cover)
You Really Got Me with extended jammin (The Kinks cover)
you completely left out Eruption
Can you imagine what this crowd was thinking, at 16.5 minutes in? That solo is incredible!!! I couldn’t imagine first hearing this in a club in 1977.
I saw them in 79 at the "Day Of Rock And Roll" in the New Orleans Super Dome. It was Van Halen, Sammy Haggar, Blue Oyster Cult, Heart, Nazareth and, Boston. They stole the show. They were amazing
Yeah you're right, brother. VH stole the show!
I was at this show. Ive played professionally for over 40 years..and this may have been the best show Ive ever seen
What was your take on dave's vocals?
@@totigerus Well...I was 17 and in my first band and starting to play clubs, so we made it a point to see all the local bands, Quiet Riot, Smile, Stormer...so we were probably comparing DLR to those guys, but it was really the show itself that impressed. As a front man, DLR was one of the best, and when the album came out..from what I remember he was hitting all the notes on the album. It was Eddie that was unforgettable. I do remember that during eruption, when he started tapping he turned his back to the audience, so you could hear it, but you couldnt see how he did it. When we walked out, my guitar player looked at the rest of us and said "I just saw the next Jimi Hendrix.
I just visited a high school friend, Kim, that I hadn't seen in 42 years since 1979. One of the first things we did was go into his garage and crank up "Eruption" on his kick ass stereo and he reminded me that I had said to him back in '79, "you gotta hear this!" We were both blown away. Nothing like it.
Man imagine hearing this in 77 I would of probably shit my pants 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Rock and Roll Delivered At Maximum Impact
I could barely scramble eggs when I was 21.
🤣
They were great in the 80's. I saw them at the Philadelphia spectrum on the fair warning tour. Busv
trip from Bethlehem, pa to philly and ticket was only 32.00. When i ordered the tickets on the phone i asked how close we were going to be and the womans response was "close enough to see them sweat" well she wasnt kidding, we got 8th row from the stage unbelievable 👍👍👍 16:06
Michael was absolutely killing it with the harmonies, as always. Dude is an amazing singer
And Roth was the perfect frontman...much better than Sammy
It took us 2 and a half hours to get down Sunset Blvd. from the 101 to the venue for this lights out midnight show. It was new years eve.
I drove to Hollywood a month before and bought tickets at the Whiskey knowing how lit this show was going to be and had calls every night about getting my extra ticket.
What a night.
About how many people would have been there? How many would the venue hold? Just curious. And thanks for sharing your experience. Must have been awesome to be there.
@@chriscampbell9191 I seem to remember 375 limit occupancy sign on the wall. In this days there were more tables and booths for dining but i'm sure the show was over sold. There is a picture taken at midnight floating around on the internet showing the crowd and the band toasting with champaign. I can see me and my cousin standing at the stage in front of Eddie and I remember it getting very warm on the floor which happens when it's packed like that.
We need this stuff professionally cleaned up and released!
Yes Thats a great Idea..Amp it up A Tad
This is vintage from the 70's......i was their......dont touch this.....buy the album if you want it cleaned up......⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡
It would need mixing to make it sound better; I’m not talking about the performance.
@@FizzzieCat once you remix the original where does it go. I have several mixes and don't know where the originals are now....producer dies or you move......once that original is gone its gone. One unique quality of the 70's was the tube amps......once it switched to solid state it becomes a different sound....it you clean it up and go digital it will change the original sound completely.....now the normal Person won't notice it, but those of us that have played in front of live audiences will......that sound is what made me remember how it used to be....
@@davidstull6867 it is just a simple case of balancing the sound better; tightening the bass. I’m not talking about wholesale change.
Holy shit! Dave actually singing. By the time I saw them in 83 Dave was already kinda phoning it in. What a privilege to have seen this show. Everyone on fire...
Agree.. Thought Sammy was a way better performer
Dave sang amazing in the first 5 years. their best singer & frontman by a million miles!
How fucking insane is it that these people witnessed Van Halen at the height of his power and BEFORE he was famous?! Luckiest people on Earth
Watch them at all the backyard parties in Pasadena and at the Pasadena Civic and when they played Hollywood they were freaking awesome
I used to go to backyard kegger parties where they would perform 😎🤘🏽
I was Born in ‘93. What I would do to see them live from 1976-1983…
Dave, Mike, Al, Eddie: Thank you for inspiring musicians and rock fans for the rest of eternity 💪
I saw them in 81 at the Forum and then in 83 at the US Festival ll in Devore CA! That night at the Forum in 81 was the best rock show I ever attended!
Opening for Sabbath in 78, they blew Ozzy off the stage. Changing of the guard. They were amazing. $7 probably.
Fair warning tour was incredible
Agreed!! Saw the '81 Fair Warning tour in Phoenix, I was 14, that show is still burned in my mind as one of greatest I've ever seen.
Cool stories boomers. Shouldn't you be listening to nirvana and writing trillion dollar checks?
@@EMK666 no I think l am going to see Paul McCartney this summer drink a beer, smoke a joint and enjoy the music! I was never into Nirvans but I just read that Brothers Cain are getting back together to tour. Their more to my liking muscially! Trillion dollar checks? That's your worry not mine? 😁
Props to Michaels bass too. He’s pounding it!
I have always felt bad for that guy. Him and Alex are underrated. It's pretty difficult to be noticed when EVH is your lead and rhythm guitarist lmao
@@totigerus Agreed. Mikey's background vocals were awesome, described by DLR as adding a "Motown" sound to the band, which I thought "yeah, that's it." Alex was steady, solid, and a superb drummer.
Not trying to knock Mike BUT Ed treated him as a sessions player and he played mostly whatever Ed composed . Ed made demos of all the instruments for the 1984 album .
I can't even imagine seeing them for the first time in a club setting ,I think I would have died and gone to heaven ,Unreal 🤟
I did
First time I saw VanHalen was 1982 at Madison Square Garden. ON FUCKING FIRE I TELL YOU!!! My favorite band.. 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
this is like opening a christmas gift just finding new VH recordings
YESSSSSS!!!!!
I pity the janitor that had to mop up all the melted faces off the floor the next morning after this show.
Amazing.
Rip: Eddie
Thank-you for the music. 💗
Eddies death is my 911, I'll never forget where I was when I heard the news. My favorite VH song is, "On Fire." RIP Eddie
It was horrible the way Eddie was murdered by those terrorists. Never forget
11:37 Edward plays the intro riff to "Take Me Back (Deja Vu)", which ended up on Van Halen's Balance record in 1995...18 years later!
Show No Mercy is one of my favorite unreleased tracks. I really wish there was an album version of it.
great song btw classic Sammy on the vocals
@@TopJimmy2 Some of their old songs were just so awesome, and so many songs were written or had pieces conceived during their club days. One of my favorite VH songs is the early version of House of Pain that still has the car horns in the chorus and outro (which became intro to Runnin' with the Devil). There were like 4 different versions of House of Pain at one point.
Really goes to show just how ahead of his time Eddie was. I just now became aware, at least the opening music for 'Take Me Back (Deja Vu)', was existent all the way back in 1977 after stumbling across this video and your comment!
Dave sounds really good here, alex Van Halen is so special and underrated he sounded amazing, Mikey as always brings amazing backing vocals and his bass licks are right in the pocket for these amazing songs, and King Edward was simply electric, simply the greatest of all time. Van Halen will be remembered forever! 🤘🏾🤘🏾
Yeah Alex is Bad ass here wow Eddie Really lucky to have him he told Eddie back in the Day turn your back people will still what your doing. She his brother knew there was something special about Eddie
@@charmcrackermusic4250 Amazing how well they complimented each other when it came to music, the stuff those brothers did together was amazing. They are timeless!
Great quality thanks for sharing
The MIGHTY VAN HALEN at the top of their game totally UNTOUCHABLE FROM 77 TO 84 could only imagine seeing them at the Whisky
You know, I'm not a huge VH fan, but, man oh man. Those four were a rock n roll tsunami. My god.
I feel sorry for kids who are rock fans today. All they have are Foo Fighters, Chili Peppers, and Tame Impala.
Tame Impàla?
dude…. King Gizzard are the best band in the world right now and they slay.
You just don't get more ferocious than this in rock and roll
Me reading this comment just as they get to "shooby doo wop" 😂
First saw them in summer of '78 - so about 8 months after this - they opened for Ted Nugent - but VH should have been the headliner that night. Then saw them in '79 - '80 - '81 - '82 - somehow I missed the 1984 tour - but did meet David Lee Roth at a restaurant as they were on that tour. The early years were the best - they were still young & hungry - RIP EVH.
This was back in the good ole' days when Eddie had to solo with his back to the audience to prevent other guitarist from stealing his tricks. RIP King Edward
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Love him. But he was selfish. A true non ego musician would share knowledge.
@@cptsound1972 He began facing the audience after VH1 was released, or so it is said; he didn't want his techniques stolen before the album came out. Kind of understandable.
But he misled us about his amp mods and much more for many years after with constantly changing his stories in interviews.
Yeah, we figured out he wasn't giving away his tone secrets...he's the first guy that I recall saying "the tone is in the hands", yet misled about his tone generation.
Check out Rick Beato brown sound video
@@barbaradascalos4411 Even Beato forgot an important part of his video he shot. After dialing the amp down with the veriac, you need to re bias the amp. Beato left that out, perhaps he didn't realize it? Dunno?
@@cptsound1972 Whoa whoa whoa. 1) The guys convinced Ed to start doing this, and he did what they said. Ed was always insecure of his performances and definitely not a "dominant/confident" person at the time. 2) There were bands who tried to beat VH (and Warner Bros.) to the punch by literally stealing and releasing what they were doing. 3) The moment the album was released, Ed stopped this, and the rest was musical history. As for calling him selfish, have you ever spoke to anyone at anytime who had met Ed? Sure, there was competitiveness in his field, like any other. And he was almost instantly the king, so to think he wouldn't want to "stay ahead of the pack" is not selfish, it's being driven to be great. Is that selfish? And then everyone copied him LIKE CRAZY! Is every athlete who ever existed selfish? Does every great painter or author or sculptor share the most important things that make them who they are? Sorry, your take here is an uninformed insult, and weak.
Saw them on the Women and Children First tour. Loudest concert I've been to!
My Ears Were Ringin For Days After I went To See Them In 1981 or 83@ Boston Garden Backstage & The After Party @ The Presidential Hotel of Boston...They Fkng TRASHED That Place..🥴
@@michaelr3955 tell this Gen X-er about the amounts of blow being snorted please.
You can feel the ENERGY!!
Yeah even watching the earliest film footage I could see form 78. The amount of energy is unmatched.
Even today, never seen a band play with this level of energy intensity.
Eddie is so incredible fast unbelievable and All the harmonics nobody sounded like this back then but him sure became the the future of extra arsenal for guitar players. When you think about the hand tapping you think about Eddie not some guy that did it first at the time I thought he had invented it. Maybe someone did it but had no impact but Eddie did something with it so much it appeared he did . He made melody’s with it and I still don’t know the guy who invented it it never came to light until Eddie plus he’s not just doing that he’s incorporating all kinds of harmonics in away nobody could ever dream of doing it was an amazing year for me discover him at 14 blew my mind
Nice to hear Dave's real voice in concert. They sound tight, Alex is just a machine. Ed's putting on a clinic- and Mikey is the rock!
..yes, it is..and Dave sounded like sh*t live then, too...the rest of the band, great!...
@@dyer2cycleDave sounded amazing back then. all the time. go watch Fresno 1979. same deal: killer singing
This is a time capsule of greatness, when DLR said 1978 is the year of Van Halen he wasn't kidding, these songs would become their Rocket ship to stardom once that first album hit, it went up like a uncontrollable wildfire! Just imagine being there and recording this. Wow!
I saw them twice about 11 months later opening for Black Sabbath in NYC. They blew Sabbath away.
the energy they played with is amazing.meanwhile the radio was playing the bee gee's & disco.VH was a breath of fresh air.
Thank you for this!!!!
This is unreal stuff. They were two months prior to dropping the eponymous first album in February 1978. They had material up to 1984 at this time, that's the reason they were able to drop an album yearly. There are songs here I have never heard that should have made it to albums. Hard core VH fan for over 40 years. Thanks for uploading.
Then you must have heard the demos. They are unreal !! If not check them out. Gene Simmons & warner Demos. Just great recordings. They should have been released. The music industry is so weird. It took them so long to get a record out.
Noel Monk’s book “Runnin with the Devil” does a great job going over this timeline.
@@stevenhanson1454 They actually had bass! The guitar tone is not as good but having bass was nice. Also there is something subtle that was changed in running with the devil chorus that made it better on the actual release.
Ed had more demos way past 1984 . There's a whole room of all his tapes . I've heard Sam say there's not much . He don't know . He wasn't welcome in Ed's place for quite a while . And Ed ALWAYS wrote music
Crazy was there … backstage
Thank you to whoever posted this VH concert!!!
What a band! Saw them in '81 first time. They always cooked along at breakneck speed, Eddie had to play like a beast to keep up with those speedy tempos! KILLER!!
Cocaine tempo's
Facts
I was at the Whisky New Year's Nite '76 to see the Runaways. I wish I could have been there a year later.
Wow I'm surprised Ed's pick didn't catch on fire 😳. On top of his game and beyond the band was about to take over. Gr8 audio. ✌️
Ed? If ever there was an Eddie, it was him....Mr. Ed?.....Mr Ed was a horse of course...Eddie Van Halen Lite UP the SKY!!....It was so sad to see his genius sink into addiction....
That little drunk Dutch boy changed the world of electric guitar...........
THAT is a helluva recording and I'm SHOCKED it wasn't remastered and released........Nearly the exact show they played on their first tour that blew everybody away......I saw them from the FRONT ROW at Will Rogers Auditorium in Fort Worth April 1978. VH opebed, Ronnie Montrose plated "Open Fire" and them some lame ass band called Journey closed the show and put everyone to sleep...
I can picture the crowd during Eruption with thier mouths open watching in amazement and not comprehending what they are seeing or hearing.
Jesus, this is absolutely amazing! Great sound quality, the playing is amazingly accurate, and Dave can actually sing!
I just finished “Running With The Devil” by Noel Monk. Every time I saw them. Dave sang like he was just nothing but f*
Dave was a good singer from VH's inception to about the end of 1977, maybe into 1978, He started losing it after the first album.
@@alecprentice1573 Exactly why I said I was surprised that he’s singing so well here.
@@alecprentice1573 did you ever LISTEN to anything after the first album? clearly not if you think he went downhill after. dave was FAR more of a huge voice than any otherVH singer. his voice is aged now and not as dynamic compared to this.
@@montemitchell3697: VH is one of my favorite bands......The first 6 albums are some of the best hard rock records ever recorded......It was live, that Dave starting having less than stellar performances after '78 -- and was getting very bad by 1984.
The DLR era was legendary their absolute peak IMO is Fair Warning…the first four albums are masterpieces…Diver Down and 1984 were great but a touch below the first four…78-84 great time to be alive…
I agree with you. VH lost their edge by 1982.
Insane, not only did Eddie kick ass like always but Alex really hammered those drums!!
Amazing audio!! so rare!! This is when Dave actually performed the songs correctly. Ed, Alex and Mike on are top of there game. If Dave continued to perform this way we would have enjoyed alot more albums. Love it!! Thank You
he did perform this way for many more years and you did get to enjoy another 5 albums. selective deafness. go watch Fresno from 1979. he’s singing amazing
Man. That version of Eruption was surreal. I mean, at one point in time on this earth, that shit happened. Fuck.
A pioneer. He single handedly opened the doors for so many aspiring guitarist. He put it to the floor and kept it there till the day he died. All Hail!!
Come back Eddie. I really miss you 😭
Listen to that futuristic Guitar sound of that time nobody like him back then. A whole other planet of new sounds
There’s still nobody like Eddie Van Halen. And I don’t think there ever will be.
EVH owned every song he played. Just listen to " You Really Got Me" - he made it his own. Unreal.
I am glad there is no video. I hear more of the music without any distractions.
The beginning of something really special
This concert is absolutely amazing!!!!! Van Halen is the greatest band on earth forever!!
I read Van Halen Rising (great book, delving into their early years before they got signed). Roth was instrumental in helping them develop their sound. I believe this was their last (small) show before they released their first album. Eddie, well ... One of the last true innovators of the instrument.
You’re right, that is a great book. I also recommend Ted Templeman’s book, also written by Greg Renoff.
Did it talk about how Teddy screwed them ? If you haven't seen it before checkout the Different Kind of Truth promotion videos of the Halen Bros talking with Dave about how screwed the first record deal was . Its a 2 part in TH-cam
Damn! Even before they were signed they sounded fully realized, especially Eddie. I’m amazed!
They were signed at this point and the first album was already done it was released a few months later Feb 78
That’s how u get noticed
It's true that by this point they were a completely lethal weapon as a unit, but they did spend a few years honing their craft in clubs, dances, backyard bbqs, you name it. Of course it helps when you have a once in a generation talent on guitar, a singularly charismatic frontman and a rock solid rhythm section that attacks like a pile driver.
凄いライブですよね。今からデビューしようかというバンドがこの演奏ですからね。特にエディのギタープレーなんていま聞いても驚きのプレイの連続ですからね。
これはアマチュア時代から人気があったことが頷けます。
David certainly didn't have the greatest voice. He did have incredible charisma and great energy to be the blueprint for how a front man should be.
Definitely dave was a visual singer and still the greatest frontman ever
Whatever, he sounded so cool and original. I don't understand why some people parrot the same tired bs that he isn't/wasn't a great singer. I have seen singers who technically were highly musical and range but mostly were boring. I've heard that kind of jive on most of the greatest including Jagger, Morrison and too many others and it's ridiculous
He got it from Jim Dandy Mangrum of Black Oak Arkansas.
Wow, the first song is their best one from that album
Behold the mighty Vh.. this is the closest I’ve heard to the show I saw in 78. So hard to explain to the kids how this was so much fuckin groundbreaking badassery.
Ed sounds as good live as he did on the record. Now THATS a pro.
Being at this performance on new years would have been life changing!!! DAMN!!!
I'm waiting for someone who was there to chime in, but they were probably too fucked up to remember anything???
You got it, brother. And thanks to the internet & YT, we get to hear this and pretend we could have been there......
It's impossible to overstate how completely mind-blowing this band sounded to me and every rock fan I knew back then. It was hard to believe really, like they just dropped from another planet or something. Beyond everything that's been said a million times about the music, the musicianship, the showmanship, etc., they just play with such an intense ATTITUDE, you can tell that they knew damn well that they were about to conquer the world.
Most don’t understand how big the Whiskey is ! It’s so small it must have been so cool. EVH is true amazing form.
Who? lol
Yeah I imagine permanent hearing damage.
My band from day one, and still is...VH rules!
VH in their heyday were a sonic assault. Eddie is just a fucking assassin on this recording. Just wow.
I released this on a silver CD way back in 1998 ,funny how people repackage and remaster my recording and put it up as it was sourced by them for the first time to the world
What gear did you use and where were you standing?
I saw VH in 1980, Boston Garden touring Women and Children 1st. Great show, very loud, in fact they were boasting about the 80,000 watt sound system. I feel like I caught them at their pinnacle at the 3rd album with almost all of the best Roth material out by then.
Few would disagree about the pinnacle thing
Hey! Still 3 more beers left in that six-pack
I’d say their peak was Fair Warning….the first four albums are masterpieces
seen um in 79 in fort lauderdale my ears are still hurtin bad asses!
Sportatorium?
@@pdk213 yes
Loudest band I've seen live!
@@alibobsmarland9572 ha what? lol
@@elvis-jj1sc Yep. Women and Children First tour and I was sat at the back of the hall. And I have been near the stage for the Motorhead Bomber tour!
This is the BEST ENOUGH!!! On 31st Dec 1977, What did I do? I can't remember at all. I'd never imagined that this fucking best enough stuff existed on the other side of the Earth before. I learned the Rock and Heavy Metal from Yngwie so I didn't recognize how great VH is at that time.(almost it's 1985 when I was a 9 grade student in the middle school) After I've grown up , I've found how great they are . The fact i s "Van Halen is the BEST Enough themselves!!!"
And a month and a half later the world knew their names
Holy hell… a show of force. Almost unbelievable to be at this astronomical level so early. At 21yo? Where does that talent come from?!?!? Insane.
He turns 23 in 26 days. New Year's Eve 1977 is the day before New Year's Day 1978. Still, amazing what the band would be able to write at their ages. At that age, I was still a year away from my first band.
late 70's and early 80's VH = the best VH. I saw them in this period and they were the shit. NO one was playing like this back then---people have heard so much shit since then they forget how revolutionary this was back then in ole 1977.
And, they open with their BEST song!!!
That first lick, unmistakable
No matter how many times I listen to this show I’m so impressed & jealous that I wasn’t there. EVH best guitarist in my lifetime without question!
Wow! I can’t say I was a huge fan of Van Halen bit they sounded awesome this night. It was my 12th birthday this night. I really liked a lot of Va Halen when I got older but had no clue who they were this night. To bad I was so young would have loved to have been there. Sounds great. Listened to this whole show which is rare for me.
I saw Van Halen open for Black Sabbath on Thanksgiving night 1978 in Houston at the Sam Houston Memorial Colosseum. I was a fan of both bands (bought VH1 that summer) and was listening to a lot of Sabbath and VH. But the rumors are true. Van Halen BLEW them boys off the stage. Sabbath had heads down the whole time. Two years earlier the took the Alive!-era Kiss on the road and got smoked then too. At least Sabbath didn’t go soft with the opening act. They let their openers play a full set.
I'll bet that was kickass
I saw the same tour (Cow Palace in San Fran) and to be honest, Black Sabbath was totally awesome. As much as I love VH, either it was their sound system, the venue (to be fair the C. Palace was made for auctioning cattle, not music), or they were too wasted. But, then again, Black Sabbath came out with such a wall of sound, perfect and professional that the contrast was startling.
@@daveluke5416 Venues definitely have an effect on overall sound. Maybe Sabbath found something for a night. Part of what I didn’t like was the way the tuned up Symptom of the Universe, and that Jam in the middle which I usually like seemed desperate. Plus I wasn’t really digging Never Say Die (save for a few cuts). So, I thought we saw a Never Say Die version of Sabbath live that year, and VH sound like VH1 from my point of view.
Yes Van halen did blow Sabbath off the stage in fact I've seen statements from Ozzy saying "what do you mean they were good they blew us off the fucking stage it was embarrassing". When he was asked if Van Halen was good during that 78 tour.
Nobody Will Match their Gig Now Or Even Back In 1977-78....Fkng Killer I just Hope Someone Can AMP this Entire Recording /show So that It Projects The Sound As It Was Intended Originally...it Would Be Real Nice If There Was Video To Go With This Recording....Now That Would Be Beyond BADASSSSS!🤘🤘🙉🙊🙈💋😎😜
I’m on fire!!!!!fire!!!!!! Van Halen 1 is a landmark.
I think that this is the best I've heard them play.
The whole band is on top of their game here.
I agree! Jesus, this is absolutely amazing! Great sound quality, the playing is amazingly accurate, and Dave can actually sing!
@@davidbrucemusicvideo Eddie played Eruption I think even a little faster on this audio.
I haven't seen or heard him play Eruption completely in a video or audio before this.
At least, not like this.
While I was listening to it, I had a vision in my head that I was outside the Whisky listening to them play and not seeing them.
Peace ✌️
@@jeffalbillar7625 The whole thing is too fast, which makes me think it’s an old tape that has been sped up a little bit, just like on the old record players.
Somebody released this at the wrong speed, I’m thinking, because everything is a bit too fast. I know there was cocaine back then, 😅 but I’ve been playing guitar for many years, I’ve taught some of my students how to play some of the things that Eddie is playing, and what he’s doing here is going to be pretty hard to play at that speed. So either the whole band was very hyped up, and Eddie is just being extremely accurate, or the more believable thing is that the tape was sped up just a little bit.
@@davidbrucemusicvideo I think that it is the right speed.
My thoughts are that they were young & full of vim & vigor.
My wife plays music faster for her video chats and the voice has the most distinct change, DLR's voice doesn't.
But I have been mistaken many times in the past, so...
@@jeffalbillar7625 Could be, but usually a band will speed up a few songs here and there. I noticed that every single song on this tape is too fast, that’s when I got suspicious.
Then again, I’m listening to “running with the devil“ right now, and it seems to be the right speed. So I guess Eddie could be just totally on fire, and the band is probably trying to keep up with each other. Lol
Hungry and playing for broke! They are tight as fick, with Alex just exploding on every track. Rich historrthere. Fan or not this is incredible. Thanks for uploading.
Imagine in a small club before they hit the big time..must have been incredible,ear shattering but incredible
The Whiskey is literally the size of my downstairs...they definitely were larger than life (and the room)
already killin it! 78 summer 7th grade we all came back to school and thats all I remember it was on!
Guys you have to think this is 1977 the 80’s haven’t even hit yet Van Halen really started up the 80’s rock style and crafted it at 21 YEARS OLD maybe even younger without anyone knowing man he’s unreal
Best early performance from them they were at the top of their game at this point
Thanks for posting this recording of the World's best bar band 😊