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VAN HALEN 1983 SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - 21/1/83 from Brazilian TV - re-mastered audio and colour corrected video. GREAT GIG SEVERAL RARE SONGS PLAYED! - menus created by BTB, capturing and re-mastering by myself. B+ 107m 2 NTSC SA CUST BTB/ OSKY co- production
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VAN HALEN - 1984 VEGAS 84 & MORE LAS VEGAS, NV - 15/5/84 - tripod recording - good camera work, shot from center back of hall (no close ups) - some songs incomplete - video and audio re-mastered from a neglected PAL DVD source - 41M - video quality B+, audio B-~C+
+ Chicago IL, 10+11/7/81 - 8mm film trans - all songs incomplete - nice copy 9M - B
+ Boston MA, 14/5/79 - 8mm film trans - all songs incomplete - C+
B+ (fillerB-C+) 63M 1 BOTH PC CUST OSKY PRODS
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VAN HALEN 1984 MONSTERS OF ROCK FESTIVAL, CASTLE DONNINGTON, LEICESTERSHIRE UK 18/8/84 - audience recording - this is a really badly filmed boot shot from a long way back, you can barely see anything of the band - for die hard completists only!! 63M B-
+ BBC OGWT feature on above gig includes Motley Crue and AC/DC footage plus interviews etc 24M from VHS master A B-
filler A 87M 1 BOTH PC
CUST CATO (NTSC)
OSKY PRODS (PAL)
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VAN HALEN 1992 BIRMINGHAM, AL - 14/2/92 - aud HH - steady & clear - low gen>DVD re-mastered NICE. a couple of cuts early on (filmer moves postion). A 114M 2 NTSC SA CUST OSKY PRODS
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VAN HALEN 1993 HAMBURG, GERMANY - 7/4/93 - excellent tripod recording, clear steady and close - Unchained is played! - 1st gen>DVD - re-mastering, digitising and standards conversion by OSKY - menus by ORYO. VHS source - Eddie Italian. A 121M 2 BOTH SA CUST ORYO/OSKY CO-PROD
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VAN HALEN 1993 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 9/4/93 - tripod recording! - 1st min missing. B+ 120M 2 PAL SA CUST OSKY
PRODS
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VAN HALEN 1993 OSLO, NORWAY - 10/4/93 - steady audience recording poss tripod - 2nd/3rd gen>DVD? A- 121M 2 PAL SA CUST OSKY
PRODS
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VAN HALEN 1993 ESSEN, GERMANY - 19/4/93 - steady audience recording poss tripod - occasional audio drop-outs during first half of gig - 2nd/3rd gen>DVD? A- 121M 1 PAL SA CUST OSKY PRODS
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VAN HALEN 1995 CARDIFF ARMS PARK, WALES, UK - 21/6/95 - aud HH - not bad, a little soft at times (digital zoom??) Short set supporting Bon Jovi. A- 63M 1 PAL SA CUST OSKY PRODS
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VAN HALEN 1998 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - 20/4/98 - from Japaneese TV - best quality and longest version available. SVHS Master>DVD>DVD (brightness corrected from Cato's DVD) A+ 65m 1 NTSC SA CUST OSKY/CATO
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VAN HALEN 1998 SPECTRUM, PHILADELPHIA PA - 24/5/98 - tripod - rec. re-mastered Wolfie hugs Ed during solo! Extra encore! (I'm The One) 1st min missing
NTSC master>PAL VHS>VHS>HD>SVHS>DVD B+ 121M 1 PAL SA CUST OSKY PRODS
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VAN HALEN RARE ROTH RE-MASTERS Double DVD compilation of rare but very rough footage from the 1st VH line-up. DIE HARD ROTH ERA FANS ONLY!!!!
B- to A- 129M 1 NTSC SA CUST OSKY PRODS

Total Running Time - 129M
2 Discs
Format - NTSC DVD
Authored on a Philips DVDR75 stand alone recorder. Thumbnails for each title and chapter points at the start of each song.
Re-mastering done with GTH Electronics ACE converter/timebase corrector + Tascam 6 ch audio mixer
Bit Rate - 9m/b sec approx.

Disc 1 (64M)

1. Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 13/11/82 41M - aud HH (rather shaky!) - fairly low gen B+ - this needed a lot of colour correction as the original was very green (camera set up incorrectly I would guess?), the colour is still a long way off what it should be, but I think its better. Starts with Ice Cream Man and runs through to the end of the set, so you get all of Ed's solo.

2. Paliebro, Caracas, Venezuela 16/1/83 - 20M - TV VERSION - please note this is the edited broadcast version of this gig. It differs greatly from the BTB version of the raw un-edited footage. In this version you get full length - Romeo Delight, Unchained and Jamie's Cryin which aren't on the BTB version. Plus clips of Secrets, Bass solo, Drum solo and Happy trails/YRGM. I have edited this together from 2 different sources, one B+ the other B. It's a bit glitchy, but I have never seen this footage anywhere else before.

3. Pretty Woman - San Remo Festival Italy 1982 - 3M - This is a lip-sync performace that you may well have seen before, BUT this is sourced straight from a PAL VHS TV master so the quality is a straight A.

Disc 2 (65M)

1. Ibirapuera Gymnasium, Sao Paulo, Brasil - 21/1/83 - TV VERSION - 47M - this is the TV edit of what you may have on the BTB full gig version (which incidentally, I did all the re-mastering on, if you have the 2 disc version). So why would anyone want this version? Well mainly, the colour on this version is much better. You also get a bit of pre-show footage and interviews (in Portugeese) with fans. The footage is still fairly generated, but not bad, I give it a B+. There is about 10 mins where there is a hum bar in the background (lines rolling up the pic). The editing for TV is fairly heavy and many tracks are cut short.

2. Charleston Civic Center, Charleston, WV - 20/5/81 - 12M - aud HH 8mm film footage - this was originally silent footage, but someone has dubbed audio from the LP versions of the songs in the background. Not the greatest footage in the world, but seeing as though 1981 stuff is so thin on the ground, its worth a look IMO. Quality, probably B- (8mm film is never that great at the best of times).

3. Japaneese TV 1978 - You Really Got Me (lip-sync) and interview - 6M - this has to be their earliest TV performance that has survived the years. Ed has his Frankenstrat with its original white body with black stripes (a la 1st LP). Cheesy stuff, very funny! Quality is pretty good considering its age, probably 3rd gen, I'd give it an A-.
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VAN HALEN - 625/50 - THE PAL RARITIES 1980 - 1998
Double DVD Compilation of rarities from European and Australian TV in (roughly) chronological order.VARIES B-~A+ 180M 2 BOTH SA CUST OSKY PRODS

Disc 1 - Dave Era (61 mins)

1. Rock Pop - ZDF TV Germany 21/6/80 - You Really Got Me (A+ - DVD master of Nov. 2003 re-broadcast) And The Cradle Will Rock (A- 2nd gen with a few satellite sparklies, but still pretty good) lip-sync - total 6 mins

2. Loss of Control - Promo - colour version - from Australian TV 1980 - a bit glitchy but much better than the 47th generation B&W copy that crops up on some Dave era compilations! This is the only promo not to appear on BTB prods excellent 'Rage Red and More' DVD set. - (B+) 3 mins

3. Pink Pop Festival, Landgraaf, Holland 26/5/80 - Dutch TV - very short clip of band playing RWTD + interviews with fans and groupies with the sound of VH playing live in background - generated with some colour drop-out but very rare (B-) 4 mins

4. Music Box - German TV 1981 - Unchained + short interview - lip-sync - (A-) 4 mins

5. US Festival San Bernadino 29/5/83 - recent re-broadcast on RAI TRE Italian TV - RWTD, Pretty Woman, YRGM + Happy Trails - (A)( fantastic quality 1st gen, I have never seen a better recording of this!) 12 mins

6. Ear Say - UKTV 1984 - Dave interview + I'll Wait - promo (no band apperance, filmed by TV station) - VHS master > DVD (A) 6 mins

7. BBC Old Grey Whistle Test - Castle Donnington Monsters of Rock Fest. Leicestershire, UK 18/8/84 - interview with Dave and Al in hotel room about gig (also includes interviews with Angus and Brian from AC/DC) - (A) 6 mins

8. BBC Old Grey Whistle Test - Castle Donnington Monsters of Rock Fest. Leicestershire, UK 18/8/84 - Hot For Teacher - live - this and no. 7 are straight from my VHS TV master I recorded when I was 19! - (A) 4 mins

9. Swedish TV news reports from Rasunda Stadium Stockholm, Sweden 25/8/84 (Monsters of Rock) - live clips and interviews w/Dave - some small tracking problems but still very viewable (B) 3 mins

10. German TV news report on a gig from September 84 (either Karlsruhe 1/9/84 or Nuremburg 2/9/84) - clip of Jump live + interviews with fans - (B) 2 mins

11. Danish TV 1984 - Short interview with Dave + a comment from Lars Ulrich in Danish! - (B+) - 1.5 mins

12. French TV 1985 - 'Enfants Du Rock' interview with Dave for his solo EP while he was still in VH , (interesting as he strongly hints that he will be departing from VH soon). - (B) 8 mins.

Disc 2 - Sammy and Gary Eras (120 mins)

1. MTV Europe Headbangers Ball special - interviews with the whole band, live clips from secret club gig 27/1/95 Luxor Holland, Ed and Al on Dutch radio (Ed speaks a little Dutch) and a guided tour of Eds guitars, amps and effects rack by Eddie himself. - digitally edited (no ads or promos) SVHS>VHS>HD>DVD - (A) 59 mins

2. Milan Italy 30/1/95 - Italian TV special from a small club - (I know this is already available on DVD but I believe this to be a better copy) 1st gen PAL Hi Fi StereoVHS digitally edited (no ads or logos in middle of gig) > DVD - 46 mins

3. Rock im Park Festival, Nuremburg, Germany 29/5/98 - 3 songs and a short interview (dubbed in German) from BR3 German TV - great outdoor daytime pro shot - 1st gen VHS > DVD (A) 15 mins
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VAN HALEN VAR PAL RARITIES PART 2 More rarities from Euro TV -
US Fest 1983 TV edit 15M from VHS Master (Italian TV) A
MTV VMAs 1991 'Poundcake' & int 7M A

LOSS OF CONTROL - PROMO - 1 gen better than PAL Rarities version 3M
5150 studios - interview with Ed and Al in Dutch about Twister soundtrack - Dutch TV - great - 1st gen A 13M
Finnish TV - interviews and TV reports from 1998 including footage from Helsinki Ice Hall 27/5/98 22M A
WELLINGTON, NZ 1998 - NZ TV interview 4M
MTV NEWS - LA 1995 - live clips & ints 2M
MTV VMAs 1992 - collect awards 2m
A 65M 1 NTSC SA CUST YUUNNNKKK!/OSKY CO PRODUCTION
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VAN HALEN VAR PAL RARITIES LEFT-OVERS

5150 STUDIOS 1993 - promo ints for European Tour 93 and 2 numbers live in Eds studio! 40M A VHS MASTER>DVD
+ ROCK IM PARK NUREMBURG, GERMANY 29/5/98 15M A+ SVHS>DVD>DVD even better version than the one on 625/50 comp!!
+ ROCK AM RING FEST GERMANY 1995 MTV 8M A VHS MASTER>DVD

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAL!
A~A+ 64M 1 BOTH SA CUST OSKY PRODS
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VAN HALEN 86-98 VH@MTV COMPILATION OF FOOTAGE SOURCED FROM MTV inc...
UNLEASHED 86
MTV AWARDS 91, 92, 96 & 02
MTV NEWS 90, 91, & 95
ROCKUMENTARIES 89 & 92
FAMOUS LAST WORDS 92
PENSACOLA 95 (TV EDIT).
all footage from masters or 1st gens A
to A- 184M 2 PAL SA CUST OSKY PRODS

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DAVE LEE ROTH 1988 HOLLYWOOD SPORTATORIUM, FLORIDA - 16/3/88 - great hand held recording, my favorite from the 88 tour - 1st gen VHS>DVD>DVD + TV AM Interview 88 8m A 112M 1 NTSC SA CUST OSKY PRODS
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DAVE LEE ROTH 1988 WEMBLEY ARENA, LONDON - 15/11/88 - aud HH - clear not bad for age, some minor tracking disturbances. 2nd/3rd gen?>DVD A- 111m 1 PAL SA CUST OSKY PRODS
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DAVE LEE ROTH 1999 RANTAROCK FESTIVAL, VAASA, FINLAND 26/6/99 from Finnish TV, includes interview. EXCELLENT! A 61M 1 BOTH SA CUST OSKY PRODS
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VAN HALEN
Estadio De Rio De La Plata
Buenos Aires, Argentina
11 February 1983
DVD
PC
FRANKM/OSKY CO PRODUCTION
UPGRADE
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VAN HALEN - HOMDEL, NJ 1998-08-16 - DVD OSKY PROD

01. Unchained
02. Without You
03. One I Want
04. Mean Street
05. When It's Love
06. Fire In the Hole
07. Why Can't This Be Love?
08. I’m The One
09. Alex Van Halen Solo
10. Jamie's Cryin'
11. Humans Being
12. Somebody Get Me A Doctor
13. Year To The Day
14. Eddie Van Halen Solo
15. Year To The Day (Reprise)
16. Right Now
17. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
18. Josephina
19. Panama
20. Jump

Chris's Notes on the DVD below....
Total Running time 113M
Format - NTSC
Fiming type Audience filmed screenshot (fixed on tripod)
Aspect Ratio 16:9 (anamorphic widescreen)
1 Disc
Remastered using an GTH Electronics ACE colour corrector/TBC, Phonic MU1202 audio mixer and a Realistic 5 band stereo graphic EQ.
Authored on a Pioneer DVR-530H-S standalone HDD/DVDR with correct chapter points.
Quality B+ (see notes)
Sorry no artwork available.

Notes: The source for this came to me on one SA DVD with random chapters captured at SP mode. The picture was in big need of some serious colour correction (too dark, very low colour, hue off). The colour is fine now and I have brightnened it as much as possible, but due to the way the screen was filmed it is still pretty dark at times, but it is better than it was. I also re-EQed the audio, which has turned out realy nice. The original was lacking in bass and mid-range. The shape of the picture on a regular shape TV makes people look long tall and thin, this is because it seems to have been filmed in anamorphic 16:9 widescreen. If you have a widescreen TV/monitor you should be easily able to correct the picture shape so that it fills the screen and everyone looks about the right size. I'm pretty pleased with how this has come out. Although not quite a pro-shot, it is very watchable and gives some great close-ups. Sometimes the feed to the screen has effects added to lower the frame rate, which I personally could do without, but I can live with. The band are on good form and Eddie is on fire!

DECATONE INFO

BONUS DVD INFO
VAN HALEN
DATE: 4/10/98
VENUE: Queens Wharf
LOCATION: Wellington, New Zealand.
DISCS: 1, Standalone (30mins)
CAM: Handheld
GEN: about a 3

SET LIST:
1. Unchained (cuts at end)
2. Mean Streets (only begining half)
3. When it's love
4. Why can't this be love
5. Jump (1 min)
6. Dirty water dog
7. Somebody get me a doctor
8. Wellington Interviews-
Holmes TV 6mins and news report 3mins.

FILMER POSITION:
Slight off centre Ed's side, low balcony above crowd. Steady-ish filming, but does jerk round from time to time, some auto focus issues.
NOTES:
First show of the tour, all of the NZ shows had a smallish light show, their full production didn't start till AUZ.
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Osky Productions - Van Halen - 625/50 PAL Rarities (Disc 1)
2007 Upgraded and expanded edition.

Total Running time – 91M
Format - PAL
Source content – pro-shot TV appearances from European and Australian TV
Aspect Ratio 4:3
1 Disc
Video bit rate – 6.75 mbps
Audio bit rate – 224 kbps
Re-mastered using a GTH Electronics ACE colour corrector/TBC, Phonic MU1202 audio mixer and a Realistic 5 band stereo graphic EQ.
Authored on a Pioneer DVR-530H-S standalone HDD/DVDR .
Thumbnails for each title and correct chapter points for titles with more than 1 song.
Quality – varies A+ (at best) to B (at worst)

1. Rock Pop - ZDF TV Germany 21/6/80 - You Really Got Me (lip-sync) - DVD master of Nov. 2003 re-broadcast. (A+) 3.01

2. Rock Pop - ZDF TV Germany 21/6/80 - And The Cradle Will Rock (lip-sync).VHS master>DVD of 90s re-broadcast. (A) 2.47

3. Loss of Control - Promo - colour version - from Australian TV 1980 - a bit glitchy but the best version available. 1 gen lower than version used on original PAL Rarities. Re-synced stereo audio from the WACF CD. (B+) 3.14

4. Pink Pop Festival, Landgraaf, Holland 26/5/80 - Dutch TV - very short clip of band playing RWTD + interviews with fans and groupies with the sound of VH playing live in background – much lower gen than original PAL Rarities version, with more stable colour. (B+) 4.00

5. Countdown Dutch TV 1981 – whole band messing around and interviewing people and themselves on the streets of Amsterdam. Includes some clips from the live Oakland 81 promos. A few gens down but pretty good for its age (B+) 7.17

6. Generation 80, Belgian TV 1981. 2 lip-syncs in a TV studio – Unchained and Hear About it Later. 3rd gen VHS I would guess, a few glitches but not bad. (B+) 8.50

7. Studio 3 TF1 French TV 1981. Unchained (lip-sync) quite glitchy but watchable. (B) 3.32

8. Applauso Spanish TV 1981. Mean Street and Unchained (lip-syncs). From 2 different sources. (B/B+) 7.42.

9. Music Box - German TV 1981 - Unchained + short interview – (lip-sync) 2nd/3rd gen? (B+) 4 mins

10. San Remo Festival, Italy 1982 – Pretty Woman (lip-sync) – VHS master>DVD this is from the same source as the version on Rare Roth Re-masters, but this is it without conversion to NTSC (A) 2.58

11. US Festival San Bernadino 29/5/83 - recent re-broadcast on RAI TRE Italian TV - RWTD, Pretty Woman, YRGM + Happy Trails VHS TV master>DVD 1 gen lower than original PAL Rarities version (A) 13.01

12. Ear Say - UKTV 1984 - Dave interview + I'll Wait - promo (no band appearance, filmed by TV station) - VHS master > DVD (A) 6.21

13. BBC Old Grey Whistle Test - Castle Donnington Monsters of Rock Fest. Leicestershire, UK 18/8/84 - interview with Dave and Al in hotel room about gig (also includes interviews with Angus and Brian from AC/DC) VHS master>DVD - (A) 6.22

14. BBC Old Grey Whistle Test - Castle Donnington Monsters of Rock Fest. Leicestershire, UK 18/8/84 - Hot For Teacher - live – VHS master>DVD - (A) 4.34

15. Swedish TV news reports from Rasunda Stadium Stockholm, Sweden 25/8/84 (Monsters of Rock) - live clips and interviews w/Dave - some small tracking problems but still very viewable (B+) 3.32

16. Nuremburg, Germany 2/9/84 German TV news report - clip of Jump live + interviews with fans - (B) 1.47

17. French TV 1985 - 'Enfants Du Rock' interview with Dave for his solo EP while he was still in VH , (interesting as he strongly hints that he will be departing from VH soon). Much lower gen version than on original PAL Rarities…. Slightly shorter though. (A-) 7.44

Items 2, 3, 4, 11, 15 & 17 are all upgrades on the original 2003 PAL Rarities disc.

Items 5, 6, 7, 8, & 10 are all new additional titles which did not appear on the original version.

This title which was on the original version has been omitted as it is now available elsewhere in longer form and better quality…..
Danish TV 1984 - Short interview with Dave + a comment from Lars Ulrich in Danish! - (B+) - 1.5 mins

....So hot off the press is this version of 625/50 PAL Rarities DVD (disc 1) that I originally authored back in 2003. I have been working on this project for over a year now, I thought I had it ready a couple of times last year and then I’d find some better footage and have to start again. This new version comes with 30 mins of new footage that was not on the 2003 version, plus lots of upgraded sources too.

Much of this footage is already out there on DVD, but most of it has been ‘stolen’ from the NTSC version of the original version and re-encoded often quite poorly. A good case in point is Burnin in Buenos Aires which has crappy versions of nearly all the titles off the original disc.

As you may have noticed this disc is PAL format, I will not be making an NTSC version like I did with the 2003 edition. Back in 2003 when I made version 1, PAL playback equipment was very hard to find in NTSC land. Since then things have changed and it is quite easy to get PAL compatible and it is not expensive either. So please don’t think I am being mean in not making an NTSC version, I am just trying to keep the trading pool quality up. I would also ask you all not to re-encode this footage in anyway including conversion to NTSC, that would defeat the purpose of putting out the best quality versions in their original format.
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