Kruk’s revenge? Rob Warmowski explains just what-the-fuck happened here.
What happens when you™re Van Halen, the last song in your set list is the million-seller œJump with its synthesizer-keyboard opening¦and the recording you™re using to play back the synth is accidentally run at 48K instead of 44.1K?
I can™t tell which is funnier, this long-hated cheesebag-anthem turned into a much more interesting, atonal mess in front of thousands of paying customers or the hilarious soldiering on of the Van Halens as they look at each other from inside the trainwreck.
Actually, Greensboro is not considered a “secondary” market the majority of tours. My cousin David is a tour manager for some of the bigger pop acts(Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, pre-meltdown Britney), and has worked with other artists from other genres over the years, and he says Greensboro is a stop on practically every tour he’s ever done. It’s considered quite the cash cow, in fact.
Bruce,
be sure to ask your cousin how many major arena tours start in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago or San Francisco. . No offense to the lovely people of Greensboro, but i would submit that routing aside, Van Halen Inc. would prefer to work out the kinks of their rusty stage show far away from the prying eyes of the major media. As a matter of fact, a quick bit of internet research reveals Van Hagar kicked off their 2004 touring with a show at the very same Greensboro Coliseum (in this case, they started in Charlotte and continued a night later in Greensboro).
Not to nitpick with you, but in the case of Justin Timberlake, of his 52 US shows over the course of two tours in 2007, none took place in Greensboro. So I take it back. In that instance, Greensboro wasn’t even a secondary market.
The tuning is one thing, but Sammy Hagar was right– David Lee Roth is just like Liberace these days… see, they even built a runway for him to prance down to the stage on.
This is the best version of “Jump” I’ve ever heard; no way the current Hagar/Anthony tour version could top that. Even if the individual competitions aren’t always worth winning, and even if the point is beyond obvious, Hagar does nothing as well as Diamond/Liberace Dave.
There are bigger VH fans than I, but I’ll say one thing this clip proves about DLR: he’s a really great and skilled singer. He’s right in tune along with the surprise-sharp keyboards and hits the required alien high notes with no effort. Between that and his posts here at CSTB, I’m willing to overlook his morning radio show failure.
Thanks so much. I just jumped in the air and touched my feet in celebration, then drank a bottle of Jack and called The Clash pussies.
Van Halen’s “Jack” bottles are really filled with ice tea, you know.