CREDIT to ByTorX1
Van Halen
5 February 1983
Venue: Cilindro Municipal
Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
Source: Soundboard (Master)
Lineage:
Maxell UDXL-II C-90 cassettes (x2) > Nakamichi DR-1 (azimuth adjustment) > Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD > Audacity (24-96) > FLAC 6
01 Romeo Delight (cut)
02 Unchained
03 Drum Solo
04 The Full Bug
05 Runnin' With The Devil
06 Dave Talks
07 Jamie's Cryin'
08 Little Guitars
09 Bass Solo
10 Where Have All The Good Times Gone!
11 Dancing In The Street
12 Little Dreamer
13 So This Is Love?
14 God Bless The Child
15 Cathedral
16 Everybody Wants Some!!
17 Dance The Night Away
18 Somebody Get Me A Doctor / I'm So Glad
19 Summertime Blues
20 Montevideo Jam
21 Ice Cream Man
22 Heartbreak Hotel
23 Intruder
24 Pretty Woman
25 Guitar Solo
26 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
27 Bottoms Up!
28 You Really Got Me
29 Happy Trails
30 You Really Got Me (Reprise)
Notes:
Here is an uncirculated soundboard recording, capturing the Van Halen concert in Montevideo during the South American leg of their Diver Down tour in 1983 (No Problem tour). This is the one and only night Van Halen played at El Cilindro Municipal (Municipal Cylinder). This recording is another from the collection of VH's then-front-of-house sound engineer, Roy.
This show may not be completely new to a lot of fans, since there has been a recording of a local radio broadcast that has circulated for many decades. This new uncirculated soundboard recording is a completely different source, with much improved audio quality, and features the previously unheard encore missing from the broadcast recording (Bottoms Up, You Really Got Me, Happy Trails). Due to the tape flip however, this new source is missing a small segment that is present on the old source, specifically Secrets and the drum solo intro to Everybody Wants Some. Oddly, both sources start at the same point during the middle break of Romeo Delight. While unconfirmed, to me this could suggest that Roy was once again running his two tape decks consecutively, starting each at the same time, and was overseeing the recording that was to later be used for the broadcast. The copies of the broadcast source that circulate suffer from many issues such as occasional quality changes, muffle, dropouts, stereo shifts, speed issues, and pops, most of which are probably due to what goes around being from degraded bootleg copies several generations down. Luckily, thanks to Roy, that old broadcast source is 'mostly' obsolete now.
This show in Montevideo sees the very first live performance of Dancing In The Street, plus for the first time since 1981, So This Is Love and Summertime Blues make a return to the setlist. These three songs would be part of the setlist for the remainder of the South American tour.
Just as it had been played since Van Halen's early years, Summertime Blues features a special outro jam, which includes a tease of Black Sabbath's Symptom Of The Universe. It's also worth noting that Dance The Night Away ends with Eddie quickly playing a unique riff that seems to be a tease of Keep It Dark from Genesis, and he places more attention on it when doing it again at the start of the jam section during Somebody Get Me A Doctor.
Once again, Roy used two 90 minute tapes to record this show, allowing him to capture most of the show without many major cuts. As mentioned earlier, the only significant cut was during the tape flip at the end of Cathedral, which caused Roy to miss Secrets and the drum solo intro to Everybody Wants Some. The only other minor cut worth mentioning is the quick tape flip during Ed's guitar solo.
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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