Stick this one in the Better Late Than Never file…yeah, we just saw it.
We’re hearing mostly positives from Van Halen’s resurrection n’ resuscitation tour, but this version of Jump from Greensboro on 9/29 is just nasty. And I’ve switched back to using nasty in the bad way, not as in “How nasty was that, brahh?”
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According to blogger Rob Warmowski, this is what happens when the recording they’re using to play back the synth is accidentally run at 48K instead of 44.1K. I have no fuckin’ clue whether that’s the correct explanation or not, but I figured I’d offer one man’s reasoning. He continues:
I can’t tell which is funnier, this long-hated cheesebag-anthem turned into a much more interesting, atonal mess in front of thousands of paying customers or the hilarious soldiering on of the Van Halens as they look at each other from inside the trainwreck. Eddie tries to transpose on the fly and match the wildly fucked up keyboards but the great thing there is the difference in pitch is non-musical – about 1.5 semitones sharp. So there’s no frets he can choose to fix the problem!
Good times, Van Halen, good times. Otherwise, the tour seems to be proving most of their critics and 100 years of medical science horribly wrong.
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I feel for the family of the sound guy that Eddie murdered after this show.
Quit with the 2 year old pissy fit. Jump was a great pop song if you aren’t a cynical jaded self-righteous moron who is continously trying to stay “relevant”. Go listen to your early records and try to rmamber why you got into music in the first place. If it’s for some other reason than “fun” you’ve missed the point. Jump is a fun song. I don’t care if it’s been played 800 billion times on the radio, etc. No reason to hate a positive song like this unless you are just an asshole.
“No reason to hate a positive song like this unless you are just an asshole.”
larry – I have an inkling you haven’t been reading Hidden Track that long. Actually, I don’t think you’ve read a music website before this post.
What was that? That is not the Van Halen I know/knew!
VH = meh 😉
I saw Halen on Thursday night. Paid $175 for floor seats. All the critics who are lovin on Halen are mostly right, but not completely.
Dave’s voice is impressive at times, but at least 30% of the time he’s struggling. There were more than a few times during the show when I watched Dave stop and concentrate on breathing during solos. Wolfgang and Eddie on the other hand sounded great with their backing vocals.
The song selection is what’s making people into fanboys. The run through of the first 6-album catalog almost made me weep a couple times (I defy anyone to not sing along to Dance The Night Away). And Beautiful Girls – wow. I just love these songs.
All-in-all a good show, but not worth the ticket price. Had I paid $50 I would have been ecstatic. $175 – I’m a little disappointed.
Van Halen = Geigh
I want to have anal sex with David Lee Roth..