Well....I have been patiently waiting since 1986 for this show....and tomorrow night, what I thought would NEVER happen, I will get to witness.
Keep in mind, that back in the day I was a HUGE VH fan...lived it, breathed it, BLASTED IT with my Lasonic. My second ever cassette was VH "Women and Children First" in 1980. Saw every tour, bought every album, cassette and eventually CD.
I still remember, it was January and Los Angeles radio station 95.5 KLOS spend a whole week promoting the debut of the new song and album from Van Halen. The album....1984. The song, JUMP.
I was at my buddy Rob's house and we were playing a board game, my buddy Eric was there and so was my original TRC-920.
Moments before they were about to play "Jump" my buddy Eric got up and by accident kicked my radio breaking off one of the switches on the face :annoyed: :annoyed: :annoyed:
I was so FRIGGEN' pissed off. I had been waiting all day to hear the new VH and now this....I was also pissed because he didn't seem to care very much and he knew how much I loved that radio!
.....So....I tried hard to get over it....I tried to get pumped up, that things will be better when this new Van Halen song comes on the radio...In my mind I just kept thinking..."This is gonna ROCK". I had a cassette in the deck....I had the Pause, Record and Play buttons pressed, locked and loaded. The radio station announced this was it....I pressed down on the Pause button....let the tape roll...
AND Then...they played JUMP!
The first thing that came to mind was "FRIGGEN KEYBOARDS!" 
I almost puked....I was such a HUGE Van Halen fan BECAUSE of their Hard Rock style. "And the Cradle Will Rock", "Unchained", "Runnin With The Devil".
My disappointment with life in general all started with the switch being broken on my radio and it all went down the Shiatter from there....
Broken switch leads to keyboards on a Van Halen record.
Key Boards on a VH record leads to fruit cake, pop rock bands like Europe, Brittney Fox, Poison and all the other putrid, flaccid, hair spray, chick metal.
Dave Lee Roth quits Van Halen and releases some of the worst music ever made.
Eddie Van Halen becomes a drug addicted alcoholic bum.
VH doesn't put out "Classic Hard Rock Record" for 28 years
WHY YOU ASK.....
Because some JERK kicked over my radio and broke off a switch....THAT'S WHY! :angry:
But now....things have changed.....
the planets have aligned....
I now have a fully functioning Lasonic TRC-920 WITH NO BROKEN SWITCHES!
Van Halen Reunites with David Lee Roth
Eddie Van Helan sobers up
VH releases their Hardest Rocking record in 20 years (pick it up "A Different Kind Of Truth" it's killer!)
VH on tour right now and I am going to the Staple Center in Los Angeles to see them with my wife!
COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!
Keep in mind, that back in the day I was a HUGE VH fan...lived it, breathed it, BLASTED IT with my Lasonic. My second ever cassette was VH "Women and Children First" in 1980. Saw every tour, bought every album, cassette and eventually CD.
I still remember, it was January and Los Angeles radio station 95.5 KLOS spend a whole week promoting the debut of the new song and album from Van Halen. The album....1984. The song, JUMP.
I was at my buddy Rob's house and we were playing a board game, my buddy Eric was there and so was my original TRC-920.
Moments before they were about to play "Jump" my buddy Eric got up and by accident kicked my radio breaking off one of the switches on the face :annoyed: :annoyed: :annoyed:
I was so FRIGGEN' pissed off. I had been waiting all day to hear the new VH and now this....I was also pissed because he didn't seem to care very much and he knew how much I loved that radio!
.....So....I tried hard to get over it....I tried to get pumped up, that things will be better when this new Van Halen song comes on the radio...In my mind I just kept thinking..."This is gonna ROCK". I had a cassette in the deck....I had the Pause, Record and Play buttons pressed, locked and loaded. The radio station announced this was it....I pressed down on the Pause button....let the tape roll...
AND Then...they played JUMP!
The first thing that came to mind was "FRIGGEN KEYBOARDS!" I almost puked....I was such a HUGE Van Halen fan BECAUSE of their Hard Rock style. "And the Cradle Will Rock", "Unchained", "Runnin With The Devil".
My disappointment with life in general all started with the switch being broken on my radio and it all went down the Shiatter from there....
Broken switch leads to keyboards on a Van Halen record.
Key Boards on a VH record leads to fruit cake, pop rock bands like Europe, Brittney Fox, Poison and all the other putrid, flaccid, hair spray, chick metal.
Dave Lee Roth quits Van Halen and releases some of the worst music ever made.
Eddie Van Halen becomes a drug addicted alcoholic bum.
VH doesn't put out "Classic Hard Rock Record" for 28 years
WHY YOU ASK.....
Because some JERK kicked over my radio and broke off a switch....THAT'S WHY! :angry:
But now....things have changed.....
the planets have aligned....
I now have a fully functioning Lasonic TRC-920 WITH NO BROKEN SWITCHES!
Van Halen Reunites with David Lee Roth
Eddie Van Helan sobers up
VH releases their Hardest Rocking record in 20 years (pick it up "A Different Kind Of Truth" it's killer!)
VH on tour right now and I am going to the Staple Center in Los Angeles to see them with my wife!
COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!
. but we had a designated driver .
Saw them back in the 90's when Hagar was lead singer!!! Awesome show and would love to see them again 
) for the past 33 years. I want to see them so badly. My sister just GAVE me two tickets to see Nickleback (w/ Seether, Bush & My Darkest Days) for June 21st. She couldn't make it.
The only thing I really hate about the new album is the piss-poor mastering job. It is WAY too compressed. 