CREDIT to ByTorX1
Van Halen
12 February 1983
Venue: Estadio Obras Sanitarias
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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 Intro
02 Romeo Delight
03 Unchained
04 Drum Solo
05 The Full Bug
06 Runnin' With The Devil
07 Dave Talks (cut)
08 Jamie's Cryin' (cut)
09 Little Guitars
10 Bass Solo
11 Where Have All The Good Times Gone!
12 Dancing In The Street
13 Little Dreamer
14 So This Is Love? (cut)
15 God Bless The Child / New York, New York
16 Cathedral
17 Secrets
18 Drum Solo II
19 Everybody Wants Some!!
20 Dance The Night Away
21 Somebody Get Me A Doctor / I'm So Glad
22 Argentina Jam
23 Ice Cream Man
24 Heartbreak Hotel
25 Intruder
26 Pretty Woman
27 Guitar Solo
28 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
29 Bottoms Up!
30 You Really Got Me
31 Happy Trails
32 You Really Got Me (Reprise)
Notes:
Here is an uncirculated soundboard recording, capturing the Van Halen concert in Buenos Aires during the South American leg of their Diver Down tour in 1983 (No Problem tour). This is the second of two consecutive nights Van Halen played at the Estadio Obras Sanitarias (Obras Stadium). This recording is another from the collection of VH's then-front-of-house sound engineer, Roy. While the proshot video of the first night is well known, no recordings from this second night have circulated previously, audience or otherwise.
This show in Buenos Aires is the grand finale of Van Halen's 1983 "No Problem" tour, and overall finale of the 1982-1983 Diver Down tour, notwithstanding the then-unplanned US Festival gig. The band is in a full-on celebratory mood, easily making the most off-the-rails performance we've heard, with a ton of improv and goofing off. Possibly the most unusual Van Halen concert to ever occur, it's a miracle that it can now be heard.
To list Dave's most notable bits: he starts the show screaming "Van Halen!", his story of "Chew-Me" and "I-Lean" during The Full Bug, his noises during Mike's bass solo, his tangent about dreams and pickles during an extended Little Dreamer, the extended intro to So This Is Love, his rendition of "New York, New York", and extra lyrics prior to Happy Trails. This is also the only South American show with his "forgot the words" routine: "No recuerdo las palabras" during Romeo Delight, then during Where Have All The Good Times Gone he "forgot the words again", adding "but it's the last show, and you probably don't understand English anyway, I know I don't". Further unique parts and humor from Dave, Mike, and Ed are heard throughout the show, such as the recurring word "guido".
As we've seen the Somebody Get Me A Doctor jam regularly evolve over the course of 1982-1983, and including the progressing evolution of Girl Gone Bad, this show also teases House Of Pain. While we know the song dates to the 1970s, its appearance here tells us that its revival for 1984 was likely already being considered.
Following Everybody Wants Some where Alex starts Dance The Night Away, Dave stops to say "you got it right... why not?", then Ed says "It was different last night". While these songs are missing on the first night video, I was recently gifted an uncirculated broadcast recording of the first night that has all missing songs, which reveals Dance The Night Away and Somebody Get Me A Doctor were played in swapped order that night. Both Argentina shows also see the return of Growth, but as an intro to Bottoms Up rather than for You Really Got Me in 1982.
Once again, Roy used two 90 minute tapes to record this show, allowing him to capture most of the show without many major cuts. This is easily Roy's longest recording, and the only one to clock at over two hours. Yet this show still isn't without cuts. Roy did his typical pause partway into Dave's talking segment that precedes Jamie's Cryin', but then missed a chunk of the song before recording again. With all the improv, you can't really blame Roy for not timing his tape flip better, but sadly the first side of the tape runs out during the guitar solo of So This Is Love.
While Summertime Blues can not be confirmed at this unique show, a fan who attended both shows tells me that he recalls the song on both nights. Unlike in Montevideo where the song transitioned from the end of Somebody Get Me A Doctor, in Buenos Aires they did Summertime Blues after So This Is Love. We could assume the song was played before Roy flipped the tape, which is a shame that he'd miss a rare song, but the show easily makes up for the loss. The only other cut worth mentioning is the tape flip after Pretty Woman ends, so misses the first ~45 seconds of Ed's guitar solo, and a pause during Dave's slower acoustic intro to the Argentina ode jam.
While Argentina is mostly free from the date revision chaos that plagued 1983, there was originally a third night set for February 13, and I'm told tickets were sold, but was ultimately cancelled. There was also a planned show in Rosario on February 8 and/or 9, but near assuredly cancelled as there's no evidence it ended up occurring. While on the subject, to amend the notes from Porto Alegre regarding the documentation discrepancies: I want to thank those who lived through it and shared their first hand memories, confidently stating that there was no concert in Belo Horizonte, and that there was only one show in Porto Alegre.
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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