![]() Being a hometown band, Van Halen shows in LA were always off-the-charts insane. Of course, I had seen Van Halen before, having the good fortune to live in Southern California.my very first Van Halen show was at the Whisky-a-Go-Go the weekend right before tickets went on sale for Led Zeppelin's 1977 tour at the Forum. September 12: Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston TXĮach concert was one big non-stop party, which, when you're 19, is EXACTLY what you want at a rock concert!!! These shows remain among my most treasured concert memories.the Nashville show being my first big-time road-trip and first visit to the "Music City". ![]() Going through old video clips of Van Halen, I discovered that TODAY is the 40th Anniversary of the start of the 1981 Fair Warning tour.Van Halen's BEST TOUR, performance-wise and setlist, ever, IMO.Īugust 30: Nashville Municipal Auditorium, Nashville TN Unlike Judas Priest, UFO, Scorpions, Motorhead, Saxon and Iron Maiden shows, which were sausage-fests filled with hairy grim-faced beasts wearing sleeveless Levi denim jackets covered in band patches. For one thing, like Led Zeppelin, early VH attracted the ladies, so there were always loads of hot girls at VH concerts. They were THE band to see if you wanted to party and get your rocks off. They were either old and running on fumes or were never any good in the first place. Geils Band in LA).ĭeep Purple.Black all sucked. With Led Zeppelin gone, there wasn't a hard rock band around that could touch them.Īerosmith? PLEASE, in 81 they were a disaster.same with the Rolling Stones, who were galavanting around the country on their enormo-football stadium tour, getting upstaged by the opening bands at just about every stop (ZZ Top in Texas, Prince and J. I saw all the DLR-era tours and the FAIR WARNING TOUR is where the Van I defy anyone not to jump around when Unchained starts playing. ![]() Mean Street, Unchained, Hear About it Later, Sinner's Swing, the positively effervescent So This Is Love?.so many good tunes, and unlike a few of their albums, no crappy covers for a change all original material. But apart from the first VH album, Fair Warning is the one I listen to most. It didn't have the radio hits and sell as much as "Women and Children First" and "Diver Down", the albums that preceded and followed Fair Warning. At first, when I saw the thread topic title, I laughed and thought to myself, "what a random arbitrary anniversary to note".īut, you know, Fair Warning was a KICK-ASS album, and very underrated. ![]()
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