CREDIT to ByTorX1
Van Halen
3 August 1982
Venue: Rockford MetroCentre
Location: Rockford, Illinois
Source: Soundboard (Master)
Lineage: Maxell UDXL-I C-60 cassettes (x2) > Nakamichi DR-1 (azimuth adjustment) > Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD > Audacity (24 bit - 96 khz) > FLAC 6
01 Intro
02 Romeo Delight
03 Unchained
04 Drum Solo
05 The Full Bug
06 Runnin' With The Devil
07 Dave Talks
08 Jamie's Cryin'
09 Little Guitars
10 Where Have All The Good Times Gone!
11 Bass Solo
12 Hang 'Em High
13 Cathedral
14 Secrets
15 Drum Solo II
16 Everybody Wants Some!!
17 Dave Talks
18 Everybody Wants Some!! (Reprise)
19 Dance The Night Away
20 Somebody Get Me A Doctor / I'm So Glad
21 Dave Acoustic Solo
22 Ice Cream Man
23 Intruder
24 Pretty Woman
25 Guitar Solo
26 D.O.A. (cut)
27 Bottoms Up!
28 You Really Got Me
29 Happy Trails
30 You Really Got Me (Reprise)
31 Outro Music
Notes:
Here we have a totally unheard, uncirculated soundboard recording, capturing the Van Halen concert in Rockford during their Diver Down tour (Hide Your Sheep tour) in 1982. Not even an audience recording of this show has circulated previously.
It's a bit of an unusual night for Eddie, as he fumbles over his guitar parts on a few occasions throughout the show. The synth on Intruder even gets fumbled, which I believe was done by Dave. These little hiccups naturally don't wreck the show, unlike some dates later in the tour, but it is interesting to note in comparison to other shows. There are still plenty fun performances here, and overall what seems to be a pretty good sound mix.
Notably, this is the very first show where Dave expands the little "how much are you willing to give" interlude during Everybody Wants Some into his lengthy tangent about meeting a girl in the bar and going back to the hotel room, teasing the lighting crew, etc. This tangent would continue to evolve in little ways as the tour progressed.
Another fact of note, this is the first show of the tour where the short, seconds-long "Growth" is played as an intro to You Really Got Me. This would continue through 1982 and would sometimes be done as an intro to Bottoms Up instead. For those who don't know, Growth is a short hidden track at the end of the Women And Children First album.
This recording is one of a small handful of tapes that captures the rarely heard "outro music" that plays over the speakers at the end of the show after the band walks off stage. While this may seem insignificant, I'm not even sure if the outro music has ever been heard before in any Diver Down audience recordings. In all instances this outro is captured, the song that can be heard playing is called "Imitation" by Kid Creole and the Coconuts. Knowing Dave's taste in music, this seems likely to be a song he picked out. Here in Rockford only, 20 seconds of a second outro song can be heard at the end, which is called "Harder Than Diamond" by Chubby Checker. With the small handful of tapes later in the tour that also capture the outro music, those all have Van Halen's own Big Bad Bill as the second outro song instead.
This recording is one of only three shows where Roy chose to use 60 minute tapes instead of his usual choice of a single 90 minute tape. Unlike the show in Louisville, Roy ran two 60 minute tapes in Fort Wayne and Rockford, allowing him to capture nearly the entire setlist at these two shows. While this Rockford recording is nearly complete, there are a few notable cuts.
The first side of the first 60 minute master tape runs out during Where Have All The Good Times Gone, but luckily Roy flipped the tape quickly enough to still capture the most of the song. The second side of the first tape ends right after Dance The Night Away, while the first side of the second 60 minute master tape starts right at the beginning Somebody Get Me A Doctor. The first side of the second tape ends near the end of D.O.A., so is sadly missing the end of the song and Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love. The second side of the second tape starts at the beginning of Bottoms Up, and runs through capturing the remainder of the concert.
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.
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