Monday
Nov182013
Memory Lane: Van Halen, 'Balance' Tour
Monday, November 18, 2013 at 12:01AM
I love the Van Halen album Balance and I love that I got to go to the tour back in 1995, too. That was my first really big rock show, so it holds a special place in my heart. Low and behold, someone has uploaded an entire night of the Balance tour to YouTube. Watching the footage really brings back some good memories of listening to Balance on repeat while sitting on the floor on my bedroom back in high school.
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Note to self - go back and listen to all of it. Maybe I will like it now.
p.s. Sammy is awesome but DLR rules.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n09M-O1cRpM
I have seen Van Halen with Sammy 3 times and DLR twice. While Hagar is good, VH with Roth is great.
Oh, and I remember seeing DLR on the Skyscraper tour with Vai. Faster Pussycat opened. Fantastic show.
Honestly, I only saw Van Halen 3 times -- Once off the first album, once off the second album and once off "Fair Warning".
Spoiled and therefore realized way back in '81 there was no need to see VH ever, ever again.
http://www.vharchives.com/vhtour1995
Maybe it was different by the time "Balance" rolled around, but when I saw VH open for Ted Nugent in '78, they blew him off the stage.
Who could ever do that to them all those years subsequent to that, even during the more boring Van Hagar era?
Or at least 'til the shite "Balance" release debuted.