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suicideking said:
Agree with this. I've seen Metallica many times and they always put on a good show. Vs some bands like GNR who used to essentially phone it in. That one GNR/Metallica/Motorhead show, GNR was the worst of the three and the main headliner. Axl seemed to be more focused on his multiple wardrobe changes during the concert which left many scratching their heads.

You can tell Metallica enjoys performing. James talking to the crowd between songs and just the energy they give off. Took my wife to one of their shows a few years ago. She doesn't even really like them much, but said they put on a great show. Took her to Kiss and she said that show kind of sucked. Gene Simmons was also phoning it in at that point. More interested in making some money. Saw Kiss in the late 80's (Animalize tour) and they put on a good show back then.
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Metallica plays hard, the entire night. They are my #1 when it comes to putting on a concert from those that I've seen. I'd love to go to their concert when they come back but I'm not a fan of the 2 night no repeats show and I'm not wanting to go both nights.

Kiss puts on a show and it was neat to see but their music doesn't do it for me. Rammstein was way better at the show part than either Kiss or Metallica but still Metallica wins for overall quality of concert.
 
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Apparition said:
Metallica plays hard, the entire night. They are my #1 when it comes to putting on a concert from those that I've seen. I'd love to go to their concert when they come back but I'm not a fan of the 2 night no repeats show and I'm not wanting to go both nights.

Kiss puts on a show and it was neat to see but their music doesn't do it for me. Rammstein was way better at the show part than either Kiss or Metallica but still Metallica wins for overall quality of concert.
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I saw Metallica in 2003 and 2008. I would have gone for this 2 night thing if they'd done a closer show that I didn't have to stay overnight for, but I've got too many commitments at home for a concert to turn into a 3 day ordeal. I've heard some complaints about the sound quality in the upper levels due to the stage design and speaker layout, so I don't regret not going because with today's ticket prices that's probably where I'd have been sitting. In 2003 I was in the pit in Texas stadium on Hetfield's 40th birthday and it's the #1 concert experience that I'll never forget...and I'm pretty sure it wasn't much more than $150 per ticket. In 2008 I saw them in Tulsa and I think I paid the same for low-level arena seating. Pretty sure that much money might have gotten me into the parking garage on this one.
 
freedom_in_4low said:
I saw Metallica in 2003 and 2008. I would have gone for this 2 night thing if they'd done a closer show that I didn't have to stay overnight for, but I've got too many commitments at home for a concert to turn into a 3 day ordeal. I've heard some complaints about the sound quality in the upper levels due to the stage design and speaker layout, so I don't regret not going because with today's ticket prices that's probably where I'd have been sitting. In 2003 I was in the pit in Texas stadium on Hetfield's 40th birthday and it's the #1 concert experience that I'll never forget...and I'm pretty sure it wasn't much more than $150 per ticket. In 2008 I saw them in Tulsa and I think I paid the same for low-level arena seating. Pretty sure that much money might have gotten me into the parking garage on this one.
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2016 first rock concert at the new stadium was the best I’ve been to. They still say it’s the loudest concert they’ve ever had. They had Luke Bryan the night before and there were sound complaints that it wasn’t loud enough. $150/ticket that night but it was nuts to butts all night. Pics below.

Saw them again in 2017 at the speedway outdoors and it wasn't quite the same experience.

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InOmaha said:
Mid 80s after I got a job. Before CDs. I graduated high school in 1987. I was poor so I copied a lot of music to tape that isn't in here and most of these were used or free.

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Those pics bring back memories. I had a a few of those cases on the right (or similar).

One time my dad took me to an LA Raiders game. He was cheap, so parked on the street in a bad area to save a few bucks. After the game we went back to the car and a windows was smashed, radio was gone. I had a walkman and a case of tapes on the floor in the back seat. Luckily none of my stuff was taken. So I had music on the way home. My dad got some quiet time to think about why it might be better to pay for parking. Back then it was probably $5. Unlike now, I went to a Chargers game, $100 for parking.
 
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I was a massive Van Halen fan, they pretty much owned the early 80s, then somewhere around half way through they had their falling out & Diamond Dave left (or was jettisoned, I'm still not sure) in favor of Sammy Hagar & shit was never the same. As much as the band was Eddie Van Halen, Roth was its spirit & personality, I've never seen anything like it before or after him, got to see their Fair Warning tour in 81 and Diver Down in 82, simply amazing stuff, Roth was in a league all his own & he's still nuts to this day, in a good way. At that point & into the early 80s I had seen some awesome front men between Mick Jagger, Roger Daultrey, Paul Stanley, Steven Tyler & many others, & Roth blew them all away. Van Hagar had some really good music, I appreciate it a lot more now then I did then, I was pretty butt hurt about Roth being gone & figured they'd just suck after that.

Anyway a few of Roth's gems after leaving VH, same energy, same 80s vibe


skip to 1:30 for Dave's entrance


a couple great covers


 
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Westtown Willy said:
I was a massive Van Halen fan, they pretty much owned the early 80s, then somewhere around half way through they had their falling out & Diamond Dave left (or was jettisoned, I'm still not sure) in favor of Sammy Hagar & shit was never the same. As much as the band was Eddie Van Halen, Roth was its spirit & personality, I've never seen anything like it before or after him, got to see their Fair Warning tour in 81 and Diver Down in 82, simply amazing stuff, Roth was in a league all his own & he's still nuts to this day, in a good way. At that point & into the early 80s I had seen some awesome front men between Mick Jagger, Roger Daultrey, Paul Stanley, Steven Tyler & many others, & Roth blew them all away. Van Hagar had some really good music, I appreciate it a lot more now then I did then, I was pretty butt hurt about Roth being gone & figured they'd just suck after that.

Anyway a few of Roth's gems after leaving VH, same energy, same 80s vibe


skip to 1:30 for Dave's entrance


a couple great covers


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I'm a huge Van Halen fan. If you have access to Sirius radio, Sammy Hagar was on Howard Stern last week. He talked about a lot of cool stuff. Check it out if you can.

He's doing a tour next year with, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham.

I was lucky enough to see Van Halen with DL Roth in 2015. That was a great show, crossed off my bucket list. Dragged my wife to that. She turned me down for the Hagar show in under 20 seconds. Might see if one of my kids will go.

I used to despise 'Van Hagar'. Though the last 10+ years I can't seem to find new music I like, so going back to music I didn't get enough of in the 80's. 5150 and OU812 are incredible albums. One of the stories Hagar told on Stearn was one of the songs lyrics was written pretty much unchanged in 30 minutes on the way to the studio. I think it was 'why can't this be love', but not 100% on that.
 
Apparition said:
Metallica plays hard, the entire night. They are my #1 when it comes to putting on a concert from those that I've seen. I'd love to go to their concert when they come back but I'm not a fan of the 2 night no repeats show and I'm not wanting to go both nights.

Kiss puts on a show and it was neat to see but their music doesn't do it for me. Rammstein was way better at the show part than either Kiss or Metallica but still Metallica wins for overall quality of concert.
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I saw them before Cliff Burton passed. Master of Puppets tour. They opened for Ozzy. I can carry that with me.
 
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suicideking said:
I'm a huge Van Halen fan. If you have access to Sirius radio, Sammy Hagar was on Howard Stern last week. He talked about a lot of cool stuff. Check it out if you can.

He's doing a tour next year with, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham.

I was lucky enough to see Van Halen with DL Roth in 2015. That was a great show, crossed off my bucket list. Dragged my wife to that. She turned me down for the Hagar show in under 20 seconds. Might see if one of my kids will go.

I used to despise 'Van Hagar'. Though the last 10+ years I can't seem to find new music I like, so going back to music I didn't get enough of in the 80's. 5150 and OU812 are incredible albums. One of the stories Hagar told on Stearn was one of the songs lyrics was written pretty much unchanged in 30 minutes on the way to the studio. I think it was 'why can't this be love', but not 100% on that.
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Yea, I've seen a ton of Hagar videos talking about the band, it's taken 40 years but I've softened my position on him :ROFLMAO: , they had some epic tunes with him, more refined, less bone crushing power VH that was pretty much everything up to Diver Down

I literally saw this performance in July of 1981 in Philly, the hair on my neck still stands up ever time I hear the first note, Eddie could fill the stadium with sound all by himself, the dude had a way of sounding like 3 people at the same time. I watch a lot of their old videos & still can't understand what he's even doing:


Watching this video reminds me that he must've done an 8-ball before/during every show to maintain his energy.

The whole era came and went so fast, 78 to 84 or 85, they pumped out so much gold in that short span before the wheels came off.

My favorite Van Hagar tune, it's just so damn good, can't remember how many years before I could even listen to it hahaha:

 
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I have seen VH with DLR, with haggar, Diamond Dave on his own and even Haggar - Roth together (by that point Haggar blew Dave away with vocals). There is still nothing like Classic VH with Dave!
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Yea I think his voice degraded much faster, Hagar always had a cleaner singing voice too.

Speaking of classic VH with Dave, this is quintessential VH, he looks & sounds a little wasted in some of the clips - this was blasting out of every box back then along with all their other kick ass tunes, man what a great time to be young & alive, perfect soundtrack for being a teenager

 
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Westtown Willy said:
Yea I think his voice degraded much faster, Hagar always had a cleaner singing voice too.

Speaking of classic VH with Dave, this is quintessential VH, he looks & sounds a little wasted in some of the clips - this was blasting out of every box back then along with all their other kick ass tunes, man what a great time to be young & alive, perfect soundtrack for being a teenager

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Grew up in So Cal in the 70s and 80s on a steady diet of VH, Montrose, Rush, Boston, Zeppelin and the like. Just missed seeing the original VH then but got to see them twice in the last 10-12 years. Dave just didn't have the voice... but gave it his all, and Eddie was still a straight up witch. I'd have paid any amount to see them again if they'd have come back thru.

Funny thing. Neighbor who's probably 10ish years younger than me was starting to appreciate all the classic rock we 'older guys' listen to and actually initiated going to the last VH concert.

He was pumped and prepping by listening to 'all their popular hits' so he'd be familiar with the tunes the night of the show. One night about a week before, he told me he'd just learned they had 'some other singer' really early on... some Lee Roth guy.

I had to laugh... had him stop by for beers one night to introduce him to the OG VH and blew him away with the different, original sound.

Had a blast at the show, made a lifetime fan of him and now his 6yr old son's favorite music is DLR VH.
 
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InOmaha said:
Mid 80s after I got a job. Before CDs. I graduated high school in 1987. I was poor so I copied a lot of music to tape that isn't in here and most of these were used or free.

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LOL I can remember going on road trips and loading up 3 cassette cases just like that! Used to spend hours the night before just making a special tape for a road trip or a party! Everything had to be recorded in real time! I had a Harmon Kardon dual studio quality tape deck and I could tape from one cassette to another, or from LP. Kenwood receiver and Bang & Olufsen turntable.

Then we went to CD organizers. Then iPods came and you could put your entire record collection in your shirt pocket, it was amazing. Then you could get a Touch and buy any song you wanted anywhere there was WIFI. Now we can carry hundreds of tracks on a flash drive or put them on a SD card and plug it in and just leave it, or listen to Spotify etc.

I still take an iPod Classic on trips sometimes, close to 10,000 tracks on my 2 classics.
 
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DaveC said:
Grew up in So Cal in the 70s and 80s on a steady diet of VH, Montrose, Rush, Boston, Zeppelin and the like. Just missed seeing the original VH then but got to see them twice in the last 10-12 years. Dave just didn't have the voice... but gave it his all, and Eddie was still a straight up witch. I'd have paid any amount to see them again if they'd have come back thru.

Funny thing. Neighbor who's probably 10ish years younger than me was starting to appreciate all the classic rock we 'older guys' listen to and actually initiated going to the last VH concert.

He was pumped and prepping by listening to 'all their popular hits' so he'd be familiar with the tunes the night of the show. One night about a week before, he told me he'd just learned they had 'some other singer' really early on... some Lee Roth guy.

I had to laugh... had him stop by for beers one night to introduce him to the OG VH and blew him away with the different, original sound.

Had a blast at the show, made a lifetime fan of him and now his 6yr old son's favorite music is DLR VH.
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The strangest replacement of all time is Arnel Pineda taking over for Steve Perry at Journey.

It's hard to tell them apart.
 
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InOmaha said:
The strangest replacement of all time is Arnel Pineda taking over for Steve Perry at Journey.

It's hard to tell them apart.
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It is amazing to hear... but then when you watch, it just doesn't work for me. I just know it's not Steve Perry and can start hearing minute differences.
 
cheechahumma said:
Graduated in 83'. Pretty much the same, but was still into the 70's music due to hanging around graduate art students. I grew up in a really small town and this one kid played Billy Squire non stop for about a year. We actually drove over to St. Louis to see him, but was late so we missed most of it.
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His "Don't Say No" album was great. I think he had one or two songs after that album that I could appreciate, and then it was all downhill from there.
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