Van Halen - 1982-08-10 - St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, MN (SBD/FLAC) 24-bit

CREDIT to ByTorX1

Van Halen

10 August 1982

Venue: St. Paul Civic Center

Location: St. Paul, Minnesota

Source: Soundboard (Master)

Lineage:

Maxell UDXL-I C-90 cassette > Nakamichi DR-1 (azimuth adjustment) > Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD > Audacity (24-96) > FLAC 6

01 Intro

02 Romeo Delight

03 Unchained

04 Drum Solo

05 The Full Bug

06 Runnin' With The Devil

07 Jamie's Cryin'

08 Little Guitars

09 Where Have All The Good Times Gone!

10 Bass Solo

11 Hang 'Em High

12 Cathedral

13 Secrets

14 Drum Solo II

15 Everybody Wants Some!!

16 Dave Talks (cut)

17 Dance The Night Away

18 Somebody Get Me A Doctor / I'm So Glad

19 Dave Acoustic Solo

20 Ice Cream Man

21 Intruder

22 Pretty Woman

23 Guitar Solo

24 D.O.A.

25 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love

26 Bottoms Up!

27 You Really Got Me (cut)

Notes:

Here we have a totally unheard, uncirculated soundboard recording, capturing the Van Halen concert in St. Paul during their Diver Down tour (Hide Your Sheep tour) in 1982. Not even an audience recording of this show has circulated previously.

During the breakdown of Unchained, Dave plays out his rarer routine that is seemingly prompted when people are making a mess on the stage, in this case towards someone throwing beer. As his usual comeback goes, he delivers the "after the show I'm gonna f his girlfriend" line.

Probably not too significant of note, but Secrets starts a bit late with a weird build up, as if Eddie was having some sort of issue with his yellow Kramer doubleneck guitar.

The first cut in the recording is where Roy would often pause to save space, during the lengthy break where Dave would talk to the crowd before Jamie's Cryin'. The first side of the 90 minute master tape ends partway into Dave's story-time interlude during Everybody Wants Some. The second side of the master tape starts at the final few ending notes of the reprise of Everybody Wants Some, so the reprise is essentially missing. There are short tape pauses during the encore breaks, but no music missing except the Growth intro to You Really Got Me, hence the abrupt start. The second side of the tape ends barely a minute into You Really Got Me, so is missing Happy Trails and the reprise of You Really Got Me.

Huge thanks to those who significantly helped with the absurd pricetag that was required to liberate this VH collection, most of which would've been impossible to save otherwise.

Enjoy the music and be grateful we are able hear these special recordings. If you have uncirculated tapes, please consider sharing them before they end up forever lost to time.