Van Halen rehearsing

[kiki2006]

Likely to collapse into chaos and end in being called off....like before, and before...

But here's some shots.

http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/g...ion_rehearsals

[MalcolmSmith]

Man, am I dyslexic or what? I thought this was the Van Helsing thread.

[cubbybear]

Fuck Van Halen! Michael Anthony got screwed read it HERE
Eddie's ego is what drives this band.

[Tech007]

Speaking of backstage musical 'help' - this happened in Greensboro NC in the last month or so. Thanks for the clip Canuck!

Keyboard intro to 'Jump' goes horribly wrong and not even Eddie can make it better. He actually seems to ignore the whole deal and play the worst version of this song I've ever heard. Check his solo out??!!

(and someone tell Roth to drop the drum major act plz)

" 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!

So what happens when you’re Van Halen, the last song in your set list is the million-seller “Jump” with its synthesizer-keyboard opening…and the recording you’re using to play back the synth is accidentally run at 48K instead of 44.1K?

What happens could be this (recorded in Greensboro, NC four days ago):"

http://warmowski.wordpress.com/2007/...jump-in-pitch/



<EDIT>

and for comparison here is the same tour a few nights later in Toronto - Eddies 'chainsaw buzz' guitar is more or less in tune with the keyboards (or vice versa technically) But this is not the Eddie I remember. Ouch. Listen to the slop in the ending. <hides head in shame>



and I never heard all this stuff either? poor Mikeys pic was removed from albums etc. He shows some real class though.

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdail...-the-internet/

This latest tour is a total sham. And I WANTED to believe...