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Post by Hey Man on Mar 3, 2015 10:52:39 GMT -5
Van Halen has revealed the details for "Tokyo Dome Live In Concert," the legendary band's very first live album release to feature original frontman David Lee Roth.
Amazon and iTunes are offering an instant download of the songs "Panama" and "Runnin' With The Devil" to fans that preorder the digital version of the album.
The album will feature 23 songs that were recorded at band's concert at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on June 21, 2013. It will be released on March 31st on various formats including double CD, digital download, and 4-LP 180-gram vinyl.
Van Halen also plan to release a deluxe collection that will include "Tokyo Dome Live In Concert "and the newly remastered "Van Halen" and "1984" albums. The deluxe edition will be released in two formats; a four-CD set and a six-LP vinyl set in special packaging.
Tracklisting:
"Unchained"
"Runnin' With The Devil"
"She's The Woman"
"I'm The One"
"Tattoo"
"Everybody Wants Some!!"
"Somebody Get Me A Doctor"
"Chinatown"
"Hear About It Later"
"(Oh) Pretty Woman"
"Me & You" (Drum Solo)
"You Really Got Me"
"Dance The Night Away"
"I'll Wait"
"Cradle Will Rock"
"Hot For Teacher"
"Women In Love"
"Romeo Delight"
"Mean Street"
"Beautiful Girls"
"Ice Cream Man"
"Panama"
"Eruption" (Guitar Solo)
"Ain't Talkin''Bout Love"
"Jump"
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Post by Hey Man on Mar 3, 2015 10:55:48 GMT -5
Wow - those sound terrible. Even Eddie.
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Post by I'm Almost Human on Mar 3, 2015 10:59:41 GMT -5
Tried listening to Panama... What the hell was that.
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Post by Hey Man on Mar 3, 2015 13:03:05 GMT -5
Tried listening to Panama... What the hell was that. A band that is now horrible live. But hey, Wolfgang is a better bassist. |
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Post by R&ROVER on Mar 3, 2015 13:05:21 GMT -5
Wow - those sound terrible. Even Eddie. I agree. Dave is as awful live as you'd expect, but EVH?! That RWTD solo is....is.... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 13:46:42 GMT -5
Meh. Won't be purchasing that. No big loss!
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Post by Hey Man on Mar 3, 2015 13:49:01 GMT -5
A band that is now horrible live. But hey, Wolfgang is a better bassist. DLR always sucked live. But of course having Anthony there would make Eddie play better and DLR sing on-key. It's just not fair.  Chemistry is a wonderful thing. |
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Post by Hey Man on Mar 3, 2015 14:01:29 GMT -5
Even the guy who runs the biggest Van Halen site doesn't get this:
I don't know. Obviously I'm buying it for completist sakes, but wow it's just not good. Couldn't they have given Mike his cut and just released something from 1978-1984? I'd rather hear any of that with all the flaws than this. Sorry guys I just don't get this move.
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Post by R&ROVER on Mar 3, 2015 14:18:34 GMT -5
A band that is now horrible live. But hey, Wolfgang is a better bassist. DLR always sucked live. But of course having Anthony there would make Eddie play better and DLR sing on-key. It's just not fair.  Hilarious. I'll probably pass on this. I love the song selection, but if it's cringe-worthy to listen to...then I'll just spin A Different Kind Of Truth another 100 times instead.  |
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Post by Hey Man on Mar 3, 2015 14:34:03 GMT -5
Hopefully before I die - Eddie smartens up and brings Sammy and Mike back. This live album is a joke and it's clear that new material isn't happening with Roth - Eddie doesn't even know where Dave is and they haven't worked on fuck all since ADKOT.
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Post by B5Erik on Mar 3, 2015 15:04:35 GMT -5
Tried listening to Panama... What the hell was that. A band that is now horrible live. But hey, Wolfgang is a better bassist. Actually, Wolf comes across as the best of the bunch with his bass playing and backing vocals sounding that good. |
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Post by Justlee on Mar 3, 2015 15:04:52 GMT -5
Hopefully before I die - Eddie smartens up and brings Sammy and Mike back. This live album is a joke and it's clear that new material isn't happening with Roth - Eddie doesn't even know where Dave is and they haven't worked on fuck all since ADKOT. Not happening. Besides, financially, having DLR is better. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 15:06:01 GMT -5
Hopefully before I die - Eddie smartens up and brings Sammy and Mike back. This live album is a joke and it's clear that new material isn't happening with Roth - Eddie doesn't even know where Dave is and they haven't worked on fuck all since ADKOT. Not happening. Besides, financially, having DLR is better. Agreed. |
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Post by Hey Man on Mar 3, 2015 15:13:43 GMT -5
Hopefully before I die - Eddie smartens up and brings Sammy and Mike back. This live album is a joke and it's clear that new material isn't happening with Roth - Eddie doesn't even know where Dave is and they haven't worked on fuck all since ADKOT. Not happening. Besides, financially, having DLR is better. We shall see - more shocking things have happened in music when I wake up and check the news for the day. It may not be today or tomorrow, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me if the day comes. |
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Post by R&ROVER on Mar 3, 2015 15:15:18 GMT -5
Not happening. Besides, financially, having DLR is better. Agreed. True. |
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Post by HeisenDude on Mar 3, 2015 22:22:21 GMT -5
Goddamn those samples suck. I am truly embarrassed for them. The whole band sounds like shit, and Dave is the shit whipped topping. Sammy Hagar and the Circle blow this band away.
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Post by Anomacunt the Excellent on Mar 3, 2015 23:16:59 GMT -5
Not happening. Besides, financially, having DLR is better. We shall see - more shocking things have happened in music when I wake up and check the news for the day. It may not be today or tomorrow, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me if the day comes. There's a better chance of Gary Cherone rejoining Van Halen than Sammy Hagar rejoining Van Halen. Just saying. |
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Post by Hey Man on Mar 4, 2015 3:24:16 GMT -5
We shall see - more shocking things have happened in music when I wake up and check the news for the day. It may not be today or tomorrow, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me if the day comes. There's a better chance of Gary Cherone rejoining Van Halen than Sammy Hagar rejoining Van Halen. Just saying. Now that's just crazy talk. |
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Post by Kissologistna on Mar 4, 2015 9:22:15 GMT -5
Normally VH without Sammy is music to my ears, but this sounds horrible. I have over 30 shows from their last two tours and I don't recall any of them sounding this bad.
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Post by Hey Man on Mar 4, 2015 12:25:00 GMT -5
The biggest Van Halen forum are losing their shit FAQ style over how terrible this is and how Van Halen are done. It's over 30 pages, but you can start anywhere. This kind of post sounds familiar: I rarely post anymore or share my opinion but I'm on here checking out what's going on once in a while. Inactivity by the soul purpose of this website will do that.
As stated, I read through the threads from time to time as on all websites and outlets where people can post their opinions and make themselves feel important, I, and, I think we all have seen some doozies. Really dumb stuff that makes you feel like wet towel just reading it.
But here I am reading through this thread and I think this might be the biggest bunch of bullshit I've ever read on here and sums up the majority of content in these forums. Most of you - not all, as there are some that make me believe you save your "standards" concern for the important things in life - are satisfied with nothing or at least say you aren't making some of you the biggest hypocrites an internet forum has ever seen written from your wifes parents house basement. It's unreal.
I had to skim through a lot because they all started to sound the same... Like pro wrestling fans trying to figure out a storyline pretending they know all of the insider information about the business. Stop. Please. This is showbiz, entrainment and as the hipsters would say, art.
Nobody said you had to like it, buy it or even acknowledge it. And I'm all for opinions and freedom of expression (would it really matter if I wasn't?) but there's so much negativity coming out of something NEW - Van Halen has made your Twitter or Facebook feeds light up with SOMETHING - that isn't a throwback from when you couldn't even spell Internet because it wasn't a word. 365 days a year you guys bitch and moan and bitch and moan and spend your day thinking about a "hidden message" in Roth's videos or pictures and then when something does happen, you shit all over it.
"The vocals aren't touched up and the band went out of it's way to point that out. Uh-oh, Roth must have ordered an Old Fashion at dinner in front of Ed's puppy who just got off the bottle. He's out!"
If the vocals were touched up - all I'd read is "Ugh, if too polished and doesn't have that LIVE feel to it. It's LRHRN all over again"
"I don't understand what kind of move this is."
"Move"? What is this, a game of chess? We're talking about a bunch of Hall of Famers in their 60's, two other guys that used to be in the band with one of them shading on being a billionaire (now or at one point) and a 23 year old kid who's got an insane music career ahead of him, touring, studio or his own thing, who's sexual conquests are probably still in single digits. I'm not sure if there's a "move" to be made when there's nothing left to prove and the investment in making a live record these days is so beyond minimal in the record business these days, the return will happen in a week with the guys with tucked-in Steve Vai shirts buying up all the vinyl copies.
"They could have left out China Town", "They could've made a new album", 'They could've just released it and said nothing about the vocals", "I'd rather hear/see something from 1981, they could've opened the vault", "They could've recorded the album at the studio by my house because I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy". They could have done a lot of things and most of you would find a way to shit on it or question it.
The same people who pay for a ticket to the live shows and come one here and say "Well, Dave doesn't have it anymore" and "Ed didn't seem into" or "There was tension between Dave and Al's high-hat". Yup, because it isn't the Fair Warning tour, folks. People also no longer buy CD's (probably a shock to some of you) and things that actually SELL and are produced to MAKE MONEY are mastered for iTunes - and have touched up vocals. A vinyl record is an unconventional novelty... Just like a live Van Halen record, five years after a "Reunion Tour" and 40 years after the day they all met each other.
I'll put it this way... I assume almost all of you saw a show from the ADKOT tour? There are hundreds and thousands of views on their bootleg footage on YouTube. Most of you have accounts to acquire torrents to get the flac, mp3, wav or (insert passee form of media here) to get the shows. Huge topic of discussion here has always been the quality of those bootlegs. Now you have the biggest setlist of the tour, recorded in a neutral location (to most of us) from that tour, ripped right off the soundboard with mixing so that it will sound good anywhere and somewhere to stash your ticket stub to say "I was there that year". But because the vocals aren't touched up and/or they said they weren't in a supposed shot a Dave and/or Dave sounds bad (for somebody who boozed and snorted narcs for nearly his entire adult life) it's not good enough. But.... you're okay with the GoPro footage and sound shot by a drunk in the upper bowl of the arena? Amazing.
Did I miss so much that I didn't get the hate card to login, here?
Again, I tired to highlight that I was speaking of the majority, not the entirety of people who contributed to this thread. www.vhlinks.com/vbforums/threads/60465-Tokyo-Dome-Live-in-Concert-It-s-Official!!/page34 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2015 12:47:29 GMT -5
I read all of that VH fan's diatribe and the 2 samples still sound like shit to me - even if Anthony was there, it would still sound fucking abysmal.
Still will not spend my hard-earned money on it as a die hard Roth fronted VH fan.
FACT.
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Post by Anomacunt the Excellent on Mar 4, 2015 12:49:12 GMT -5
Normally VH without Sammy is music to my ears, but this sounds horrible. I have over 30 shows from their last two tours and I don't recall any of them sounding this bad. Dave sounds like his usual self from 2012-2013, I'd wager that he was actually worse in the American tour in 2012 and he tried doing better in Japan. Eddie was generally spot on in 2012-2013, best he'd played in years. Also, Hey Man, FAQ-style would mean that VH fans would be saying this sounds absolutely fine. |
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Post by R&ROVER on Mar 4, 2015 18:12:42 GMT -5
I don't need a plethora of VH forum posts to tell me how bad this sounds. It's bloody horrible. Nor should you. But really it's about what I expected...except that Eddie is much worse. That's the surprise here. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2015 19:19:45 GMT -5
Wolf is the only solid element here. The other three sound out of sync, unfocused, and just crappy.
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Post by HeisenDude on Mar 4, 2015 19:28:31 GMT -5
There are a bunch of douchers on this one Van Halen site who think these tracks sound good. Dammit, I have listened to VH for over three decades and I can tell you this sucks.
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Post by HeisenDude on Mar 4, 2015 19:29:37 GMT -5
Even the guy who runs the biggest Van Halen site doesn't get this: I don't know. Obviously I'm buying it for completist sakes, but wow it's just not good. Couldn't they have given Mike his cut and just released something from 1978-1984? I'd rather hear any of that with all the flaws than this. Sorry guys I just don't get this move.That guy is a doucher too. |
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Post by Justlee on Mar 4, 2015 19:54:08 GMT -5
This sounds rough
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2015 22:43:30 GMT -5
Hopefully before I die - Eddie smartens up and brings Sammy and Mike back. This live album is a joke and it's clear that new material isn't happening with Roth - Eddie doesn't even know where Dave is and they haven't worked on fuck all since ADKOT. A live album with Roth or a new album with Sammy "Up For Breakfast" Hagar. I can't decide which one interests me the least. |
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Post by Anomacunt the Excellent on Mar 4, 2015 23:32:08 GMT -5
Hopefully before I die - Eddie smartens up and brings Sammy and Mike back. This live album is a joke and it's clear that new material isn't happening with Roth - Eddie doesn't even know where Dave is and they haven't worked on fuck all since ADKOT. A live album with Roth or a new album with Sammy "Up For Breakfast" Hagar. I can't decide which one interests me the least. It makes sense why there never was a live album with David in the first place. Ferocious live unit instrumentally from 1978-1984, but Dave's vocals would have put a bit of a damper on it.  |
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Post by Hey Man on Mar 4, 2015 23:42:28 GMT -5
Hopefully before I die - Eddie smartens up and brings Sammy and Mike back. This live album is a joke and it's clear that new material isn't happening with Roth - Eddie doesn't even know where Dave is and they haven't worked on fuck all since ADKOT. A live album with Roth or a new album with Sammy "Up For Breakfast" Hagar. I can't decide which one interests me the least. I will take my chances with a new Van Hagar album. Those 3 songs were rushed, so hopefully with time - they can continue on from Humans Being. |
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Hilarious.
