I thought this was an interesting old review.

Imagine living with the fact that you described the Ramones

as an untalented punk group! :)

The item in the bottom RH corner caught my eye as well.

I suspect that Almond and Harvest Gold are the same color (sic).

The price you pay depends on your aspirations.

A ménage à trois is just three people fucking.

regards

Titus

Van Halen

Tucson Convention Center 

Tucson AZ.

October 2nd 1979

This is from the Van Halen II era, remastered to my taste.

Not the best recording but certainly enjoyable.

A time when the band were still valid IMO.

Everything after 'Women and Children First' left me unmoved.

Eddie is flying on this well known SBD.

I saw them just a few months earlier:

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I'm never convinced by Alex's drumming.

His solo spot here has less musical merit than a brick thrown into a cement mixer.

...but hey, he's Ed's brother right?

I think Cozy Powell would have excelled in VH.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

1 intro/Light Up the Sky

2 Somebody Get Me a Doctor/drum solo

3 Runnin' with the Devil

4 Dance the Night Away

5 Beautiful Girls

6 On Fire

7 bass solo/You're No Good

8 Jamie's Cryin'

9 Feel Your Love Tonight

Disc 2

1 Outta Love Again

2 Ice Cream Man

3 Ain't Talkin''bout Love

4 guitar solo/You Really Got Me

5 Bottoms Up!

6 Atomic Punk (cut)

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US Festival 1983

May 28th - 30th

Part 9/9

The final part of this (n)ever-popular radio anthology.

I had great hopes for Missing Persons when they first formed.

Ex-Zappa pop might be great! It wasn't.

Scorps sound good. Nice talk-box guitar from Matty Jabs

on the up-tempo version of 'The Zoo'.

The Van Halen brothers (plus two blokes they don't like)

manage, as usual, to create the illusion of a cohesive unit.

Personally, I'd be avoiding the "Van Halen Compound".

Diamond Dave comes over like a character from

a Cheech & Chong sketch on the interview section.

He has been to the edge and there he stood and looked down.

...then Titus pushed the fucker into the abyss.

(you're dreaming again. Wake Up!...Ed.)

Fact or fiction?

Eddie Van Halen saw Steve Hackett play the 'Hogweed',

went home, worked it out and finger tapping became

an essential weapon of all Heavy Metal guitar players since.

regards

Titus

148 - Missing Persons - Do You Feel Me?

149 - Westwood One Radio

150 - Missing Persons - Walking in LA.

151 - Westwood One Radio

152 - Scorpions - stage intro

153 - Scorpions - No One Like You

154 - Westwood One Radio

155 - Scorpions - The Zoo

156 - Scorpions - I Cant Get Enough

157 - Westwood One Radio

158 - interview - Scorpions

159 - interview - Van Halen

160 - Westwood One Radio

161 - Van Halen - Running With Devil

162 - Van Halen - Pretty Woman

163 - Van Halen - You Really Got Me

164 - Westwood One Radio

165 - end credits

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Van Halen

Gaumont Theatre

Ipswich, UK

May 28th 1978

As you probably Know Eddie Van Halen died recently.

Can't say I am a huge fan but the first album was a landmark

and Ed was a brilliant guitarist.

This is a repost of something I remastered years ago.

It's in mp3 but I still say it sounds better than

the FLAC versions that are around.

A short set opening for Black Sabbath

who they blew off the stage!

Helen Reddy and Johnny Nash also recently left this mortal coil.

Wish I had something by them to share.

I once recorded a cover of Nash's I Can See Clearly Now.

It was difficult to sing and made me appreciate

just how good a singer he was.

regards

Titus

01. On Fire

02. I'm The One

03. bass solo

04. Runnin' With The Devil

05. Atomic Punk/Drum solo

06. Little Dreamer

07. Feel Your Love Tonight

08. Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love

09. Eruption

10. You Really Got Me

11. D.O.A.

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