I stole this from Metal Sludge. Looks like Eddie is jus' being Eddie. ---------------------------------------- Van Halen Meadowlands Izod Center East Rutherford, New Jersey United States of America November 3, 2007 Notes: I was going to call this one "Meltdown at the Meadowlands," but after I heard the sound quality, not to mention the fact that it is incomplete, I decided to pass on the formalities such as titles, artwork, etc. The show is in the category of forgettable (or unforgettable..depends how you look at things). I guess the high point of the evening's drama was Eddie Van Halen stomping around like a 3-year old because his guitar cable kept getting tangled (as he yanked on it violently)...no wait...it would have to be him screaming..SCREAMING at the tech guys on the side of the stage for the better part of the show...no...the part where he flipped the monitor over, because it was either too loud, or he didn't like what was coming out of it..no...maybe it was when he picked said monitor up and threw it across the stage...NO..I got it..it was when he proceeded to pick up the monitor and throw it OFF the stage. That was it. I'm not making any of this up. There were some other noteworthy occurrences..like during one of Ed's fits, where he was switching guitars.."and the Cradle Will Rock" starts..only problem is..Ed is not holding a guitar..but it starts nonetheless, with the swoosing flanged guitar..that's he's not playing..it's pre-recorded..so is the rhythm part..I'm pretty sure it's a keyboard, but I never noticed it, because he was usually playing. This show seemed to measure up to the KC show everyone was talking about..except Dave was great. I gained a newfound respect for him tonight, as he was the consumate professional as his bandmate stomped, sneared and screamed through 90% of the show, during which he paid little attention to his playing, stopping at times, screwing up at others. After the monitor toss, he pretty much threw and swatted at anything and everything in his path. I feel bad for Wolfie too. I can tell this is all getting to him fast. He looked like he wanted to be ANYWHERE else for pretty much the entire show. At times I caught him staring at Ed with this "what the f*ck??" look on his face. At one point, after one of his meltdowns, I guess Ed realized that yeh..there are like 10,000 people watching this, he tried to do his goofy dancing and jumping pikes, then he goes over to Wolfie's side and picks up a straw cowboy hat, puts it on, then tries to put it on Wolf, only Wolfs backs up, slaps the hat away, then proceeds to kick it off the stage into the crowd. This thing is unravelling..fast. After the monitor throwing incident, Ed came back up and looked almost possessed. Very sad indeed. Sad for everyone involved. Sad for the fans that shelled out $500 to be in the VIP circle. Actually, it was sad for any fan who shelled out even $1 to see this charade tonight. Saddest of all for the multi-millionaire guitarist whose band is making 1.5 million per show that he can't put everything aside for 2 hours a day, play his music and act like a swell guy. In any event..here it is. The recording matches the performance. BTW - I'm not on the whole VH-bashing bandwagon either. I'm just really disgusted at the show Ed turned in last night. I considered not going to MSG next week, but figured I might as well, and hopefully go out on a high note.
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I figured this tour would fall apart before it was over. Eddie is a grade A ass from everything I have read.
it's kind of funny...I always assumed Diamond Dave was the ass and Eddie was the professional one. I was either wrong or times have changed. regardless, good to see the real VH playing
FYI, the rhythm "guitar" in "And the Cradle Will Rock" is not guitar. It's an electric piano played through cranked Marshalls. It makes sense that it would be pre-recorded since most of the keyboads in a Van Halen show are pre-recorded and it's not a big secret (i.e. Jump).
I'm checking YouTube videos from their Meadowlands show and I can't find anything like this guy describes.
That wasn't the only Eddie mishap on this tour - check this out..... <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mjx_GjyXCs4&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mjx_GjyXCs4&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
I read a few things today ... other fans that were at the show, & they're saying that some stuff did happen, particularly during "Cathedral" & "I'll Wait" but not like the dude that wrote story claimed. So who knows?
