CREDIT to ByTorX1
Van Halen
7 December 1982
Venue: Lakeland Civic Center
Location: Lakeland, Florida
Source: Soundboard (Master)
Lineage:
Maxell UD 120 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 Secrets
13 Drum Solo II
14 Everybody Wants Some!!
15 Dave Talks
16 Everybody Wants Some!! (Reprise)
17 Dance The Night Away
18 Somebody Get Me A Doctor (cut)
19 Dave Acoustic Solo
20 Ice Cream Man
21 Intruder
22 Pretty Woman
23 Guitar Solo
24 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
25 You Really Got Me
26 Happy Trails
27 You Really Got Me (Reprise)
28 Outro Music
Notes:
Here is yet another uncirculated soundboard recording, capturing the Van Halen concert in Lakeland during their Diver Down tour (Hide Your Sheep tour) in 1982. Not even an audience recording of this show has circulated previously.
With the tour winding down in Florida within the week, it's clear that the band is well aware and in good spirits. Like the show in Memphis several nights earlier, this show in Lakeland features the second known instance of Cathedral being omitted from the setlist in favor of a unique extended intro to Secrets. Unfortunately, there is no known recording of the show prior in Raleigh, and Roy's soundboard tapes of the two shows that followed at the Hollywood Sportatorium are among three known 1982 concert tapes (with Montreal) that disappeared into the hands of an unknown person, so as it stands we don't know if this special arrangement of Secrets was ever done more than twice.
It's also worth noting, that while the surface internet will tell us there were two consecutive shows performed in Lakeland, and retroactively created posters can be found, there has been no clear evidence that a second show on December 8th ever actually happened. While it may or may not have taken place, the alleged second show seems to have stemmed from the crew's tour itinerary, those which are generally always subject to multiple changes. Many known local newspaper mentions only reference one show on December 7th, ticket stubs have only been found for the Dec 7th date, and an attendee has even said they don't remember there being two shows. A couple other VH researchers were not able to provide confirmation either. Roy also labeled his tape simply as "Lakeland Board", whereas for multiple nights he typically labeled them with a "I", "II", or "III". So if anyone has evidence of a second show on the 8th, it would be great to turn up any sort of confirmation.
The moment many have been waiting for, Roy has finally used a 120 minute tape to record, rather than his preferred choice of a single 90 minute tape per show. While this recording is notably longer, it unfortunately isn't without a few cuts. Roy still chose to do his usual pause during the break where Dave would give an extended talk to the crowd prior to Jamie's Cryin'. There's another very brief pause following the first part of Everybody Wants Some, but it seems it just misses a length of crowd noise, because essentially all of Dave's usual banter is here. The first side of the master tape sadly runs out midway into the jam section of Somebody Get Me A Doctor, and the second side starts not long after the song had already ended.
Later in the show, Roy still chose to pause during the first encore break, but for some reason didn't start the recording again until the second encore starts, so unfortunately we're missing the entire first encore with Bottoms Up. There's no excuse for the tape being paused here, considering there was plenty time left on the tape. Though overall this is still one of the longer recordings in Roy's collection, and it survives for us to hear, so we shouldn't complain too much. This tape is again another one of the few that captures the outro music that would play over the speakers after the band walked off stage, that being Kid Creole's "Imitation", followed by Van Halen's own "Big Bad Bill".
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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