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6/26/1979 –
@VanHalen
at Newcastle City Hall on their way thru England on the Van Halen II Tour.
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10/22/1982 –
@VanHalen
in Worcester, MA for 3 sold out shows on the Diver Down Tour.
@DavidLeeRoth
here with the Mayor who proclaimed Oct 22 'Van Halen Day'
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3/4/1978 (Springfield, IL) – Young gun
@eddievanhalen
blowing everyone's mind in 1978 – on the 2nd show of their first tour.
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10/25/1981 -- 39 yrs ago Van Halen plays the final show on the Fair Warning tour opening for The Rolling Stones and giving us this amazing shot. More pics here >
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Happy 40th to this masterpiece. Gonna give this a spin. Mike knows… “Girl Gone Bad” is 🔥💪💥
A1 – 1984 (01:07)
A2 – Jump (04:04)
A3 – Panama (03:31)
A4 – Top Jimmy (02:59)
A5 – Drop Dead Legs (04:13)
B1 – Hot For Teacher (04:42)
B2 – I'll Wait (04:41)
B3 – Girl Gone Bad (04:33)
B4 – House Of Pain (03:18)
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7/17/1981 –
@VanHalen
headlines Madison Square Garden for the first time on the Fair Warning tour.
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It's Thursday (May 17, 1984) and you see the
@MTV
World Premiere of
@VanHalen
's brand new video for "Panama" - For the rest of the year you'd watch MTV waiting to hear that biplane engine sputter!!🔥
@MarthaQuinn
@goodymade
@DavidLeeRoth
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1/25/1984 –
@eddievanhalen
plays 'Little Guitars' on their stop in Memphis, TN on the 1984 Tour
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4/19/1984 – "Hello Montreal... I give you the MIGHTY VAN HALEN!!!" 💥🧨 The only footage that exists showing the insane excitement for a
@VanHalen
show back then. No band opened a concert better from the intro to the leap off the drum riser. And can't go wrong w "Unchained" 🔥
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11/5/1982 –
@eddievanhalen
playing "Cathedral" on his rarely seen
@gibsonguitar
SG doubleneck – Cincinnati, OH at the Riverfront Coliseum.
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8/6/1978 –
@eddievanhalen
walking to the stage at the Oklahoma Jam to blow everyone's mind. (📷 Richard Galbraith)
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10/25/1981 – 40 years ago today
@VanHalen
plays the final date on the mighty Fair Warning tour opening for
@RollingStones
in Orlando, FL
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10/8/1982 –
@VanHalen
in NYC at
@TheGarden
. Iconic shot of
@eddievanhalen
on the Diver Down tour. (📷 Larry Marano)
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7/18/1980 –
@DavidLeeRoth
at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada on the Women and Children First Tour! (📷 Patrick Harbron)
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11/18/1982 – Setting up for 2 nights in Dallas, TX at the Reunion Arena on the Diver Down tour. This speaker backdrop was used during the encore "Bottom's Up!" and "You Really Got Me/Happy Trails"
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10/24/1981 –
@VanHalen
played 2 shows opening for the
@RollingStones
at the end of the Fair Warning tour in Orlando, FL.
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10/3/1981 – The Fair Warning tour in Norman, OK
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1/22/1984 –
@VanHalen
in Lakeland, FL on the 4th show of the 1984 Tour at the Lakeland Civic Center (📷 Tim Mccrum)
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12/2/1978 –
@eddievanhalen
in a classic pose on their first tour opening for
@BlackSabbath
(Oakland, CA).
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9/24/1982 •
@VanHalen
on the 2nd night in Houston at The Summit. Pictured here likely during the beginning of "Everybody Wants Some!!" –
#DiverDown
/ Hide Your Sheep Tour
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8/9/1980 –
@VanHalen
live at the Sportatorium, Hollywood, FL on the Women and Children First tour.
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11/18-11/19/1982 –
@VanHalen
for 2 nights in Dallas, TX at Reunion Arena.
@eddievanhalen
during his solo on the Diver Down tour.
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8/27/1980 –
@VanHalen
in San Antonio, TX.
@eddievanhalen
plays this rare guitar on the Women and Children First tour!
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2/21/1981 – Mike marries his high school sweetheart, Sue. Thanks to
@GregRenoff
for uncovering this DLR pic too. Wonder if Mike remembers what song they played?!
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10/6/2020 – a few billboards remembering Ed 😢
I'd never heard anything like that. I'd never heard that kind of tapping. I'd never heard anything that brilliant, and Ed said, "No, it's nothing."
He didn't even know. - Ted T.
It’s been 3 years. We really love and miss you, Ed.
#Eruption
#EddieVanHalen
#VanHalen
©Zloz
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7/6/1979 – Remastered soundboard recording of
@VanHalen
in West Palm Beach, FL on the Van Halen II World Vacation Tour – Light Up The Sky!! 🔥
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8/27/1980 –
@VanHalen
in San Antonio, TX. Eddie played a pretty rare guitar that night – Women and Children First tour.
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7/24/1981 –
@VanHalen
plays the first of (2) shows at Boston Garden on the Fair Warning tour.
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Ed and Val’s belated honeymoon — Amsterdam 1984 (Photo: Barry Schultz)
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5/21/1980 Rome, Italy - TV performance. Very rare photo of Eddie with his Dragon/Snake guitar!
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July 20-21-22, 1981 •
@VanHalen
plays 3 sold out shows in Philly at the Spectrum on the Fair Warning tour (📷 Mark Weiss)
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12/3/1978 –
@eddievanhalen
on the final date of the 1st VH tour (San Diego, CA). 7 days later they would start recording Van Halen II at
@sunsetsound
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4/14/1980 — Women And Children First, World Invasion Tour (Milwaukee, WI)
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10/25/1981 – The final date of
@VanHalen
's 1981 touring season. A second show with
@RollingStones
in Orlando, FL. This is where the great b&w photo comes from used on the Diver Down album.
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12/9/1982 – "I'm takin' whiskey to the party tonight and I'm lookin' for somebody to squeeze..." Photo during the opening song "Romeo Delight" at the Hollywood Sportatorium, FL on the Diver Down tour
#HideYourSheep
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10/25/1981 –
@VanHalen
having a laugh w their manager on the final date of the Fair Warning tour – opening for
@RollingStones
in Orlando, FL.
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Another rare guitar. Looks like the stretch in 'Ice Cream Man' solo (1980 Women and Children First Tour)
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10/7/1979 –
@VanHalen
plays the final date on the Van Halen II World Vacation Tour at The Forum in Inglewood, CA
#EddieVanHalen
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7/23/1978 –
@VanHalen
play the Day on the Green Festival (Oakland, CA). VH get the 2nd slot after AC/DC opened the show.
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3/9/1962 – 60yrs ago today the Van Halen's arrive in America 🇺🇸!! About a decade later they formed Van Halen and the rest is history...
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10/8/1982 –
@VanHalen
at Madison Square Garden. Looks like the solo in "The Full Bug" here with
@eddievanhalen
's massive finger spread. (📷 Larry Marano)
#DiverDown
#HideYourSheep
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3/3/1978 –
@VanHalen
on the 1st night of their very 1st tour opening for
@JourneyOfficial
at the Aragon Ballroom (Chicago, IL)
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10/10/1980 –
@DavidLeeRoth
's birthday in Oakland, CA on the Women and Children First tour!
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5/29/1983 – David Lee Roth at the US Festival with his mom... any questions??!! 😀
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12/7/1982 –
@eddievanhalen
gets ready for 2 nights in Lakeland, FL as the Diver Down tour winds down with only 5 more (US) shows to go.
#HideYourSheepTour
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11/20/1978 –
@VanHalen
at the Myriad Convention Center (Oklahoma City, OK) – 📷 R. Galbraith
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The king of 10 fingers and 6 strings! Edward Van Halennnn..... (9/28/1978 Spokane, WA)
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11/16/1980 –
@VanHalen
on the final date of the 1980 World Invasion Tour in Jacksonville, FL.
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8/3/1978 –
@VanHalen
play Lubbock, TX. Gotta love those early VH reviews > "The sound is overamplified and visuals are unimaginative and dull..." and got the headline all wrong too > "Death of hard rock" 😂
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9/6/1980 –
@eddievanhalen
plays his Les Paul during "And The Cradle Will Rock..." at Roklahoma, Norman, OK
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6/20/1981 – Happy Birthday Michael Anthony! 🎂 Here he is w longtime roadie Kevin Dugan on the Fair Warning tour in Los Angeles! (📷 don adkins)
The Mighty Van Halen plays the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles, CA
#OTD
in 1981. The Fools are the opening act.
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6/12/1981 – the 2nd show in Oakland, CA filming for the live music videos from the Fair Warning tour. Note the video camera next to Ed.
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4+ million sold. 4 top tier original VH tunes, 3 innovative EVH instrumentals. 2 1/2 great covers incl. their dad & 2 solid covers that served as big radio hits & a gigantic VH year. What’s not to like ???!! Ed defending
#DiverDown
is the best > “THEY’RE GOOD FCKN SONGS...” ❤️👊
On this day in Wolf History 2022 we went track x track on
@VanHalen
’s Diver Down to celebrate its 40th
Lots of covers, not very long & yet still contained
#VanHalen
magic
Listen:
What’s your take on
#DiverDown
?
What say you
@GregRenoff
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BEST GUITARIST can always be a hot debate but MOST INNOVATIVE should be no question.
@eddievanhalen
was doing something new & innovative every single year that people had no idea how the hell he did it. Eruption, Spanish Fly, Mean Street, Cathedral, Top Jimmy, Summer Nights etc..
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1/18/1984 – Opening night of
@VanHalen
's massive 1984 tour in Jacksonville, FL. Pictured here in the middle of singing "Happy Trails"
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5/27/1978 –
@VanHalen
making their way thru England on the first tour (Lewisham Odeon, London).
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4/15/1978 –
@eddievanhalen
doing his classic pose in Houston, TX with
@JourneyOfficial
and Montrose.
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8/13/1982 –
@VanHalen
play the first of 3 shows in Detroit at
#CoboArena
on the Diver Down tour.
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8/9/1980 – Radio ad for
@VanHalen
's concert at the Hollywood Sportatorium (Pembroke Pines, Florida) on the Women and Children First tour.
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8/1/1977 –
@VanHalen
play Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA. They play "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" for the first time ever and this is about 30 days before they'd start recording the debut album
@sunsetsound
(📷: kat hanes)
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5/12/1981 –
@VanHalen
kicks off the massive Fair Warning tour 41yrs ago. Many fans point to this album + tour as the pinnacle. Diver Down was gigantic and 1984 was next-level, but something about the 1981 tour that is pure VH magic ❤️🤘💥
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3/21/1984 -- Van Halen at the Philly Spectrum.
📷: Rich Fuscia
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11/15/1982 – Diver Down tour in NJ
@eddievanhalen
plays a quick riff during his solo that would be used later for "The Seventh Seal" on Balance (1995)
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Correction, Dave: you *helped create* one of the best bands in the history of rock and roll!" 💥💣
“I gave you all I had to give” —-
@DavidLeeRoth
Indeed you did. Happy Trails, DLR. Thanks for everything.
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1/22/1984 –
@eddievanhalen
on the 3rd date of the 1984 tour in Lakeland, FL during "Little Guitars"
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7/30/1982 – 40yrs ago tonight after their concert in Louisville, KY on the Diver Down tour,
@eddievanhalen
plays an early demo of "Jump" in this phone interview. This becomes the most popular VH song ever...
The Mighty Van Halen plays Freedom Hall in Louisville, KY
#OTD
in 1982. ATF is the opening act.
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9/28/1978 Spokane, WA – The King of 10 fingers and 6 strings, likely during the solo in "Ice Cream Man" here 🔥
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