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[Scott Roberts]

Date: July 1, 2004
City: Indianapolis, IN
Venue: Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
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Format: Video
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[steecoe]

just got home from Deer Creek. No Wolfie. No Learning to see. Seventh seal. Great show. Tape sounds great as far as I can tell... so far.....Cleveland tonight...need sleep.

[kettledrum]

No surprises from the setlist.

1. Jump
2. Runaround
3. Humans Being
4. Up For Breakfast
5. Bass Solo
6. Somebody Get Me A Doctor
7. Poundcake
8. It's About Time
9. Drum Solo
10. Top Of The World
11. Unchained
12. Why Can't This Be Love
13. Eagles Fly
14. Deeper Kind Of Love
15. Seventh Seal
16. Best Of Both Worlds
17. Eddie's Solo
18. Dreams
19. Ain't Talking 'Bout Love
20. Right Now
21. You Really Got Me
22. Panama
23. When It's Love

Also here's the review from the Indianapolis Star this morning.

http://www.indystar.com/articles/7/159388-7087-062.html

They also have an 8 photo gallery on that page :cool:

I thought the concert was better than the reviewer did, but hey I'm a fan, what else would I expect?

Here's the text of the review from the paperif you don't want the linkage...

Eddie Van Halen paused in the middle of his guitar solo Thursday night at Verizon Wireless Music Center to tell the audience of 13,500 that he was having a good time.

He then added candidly, "I don't have a clue what I'm doing."

These remarks reflected the highs and lows of the 15-minute solo showcase. It was less than precise and mostly offered bombast where technique and tone would have impressed.

But when he finally arrived at "Eruption" -- the most distinctive guitar composition in rock history -- there was cathartic victory.

In turn, the 15-minute solo was a microcosm of his band's two-hour concert. The Van Halen reunion show, featuring Sammy Hagar on vocals, veered between the dismal and the sublime.

This time, the pressure isn't on Hagar, whose first stint in the band ran from 1985 to 1996. He's been putting out albums and touring during the past eight years.

Eddie is the man on the spot. Following a weakly received album and tour featuring Gary Cherone on vocals in the late 1990s, the guitarist has been out of the public eye while battling oral cancer, undergoing hip-replacement surgery and splitting from wife Valerie Bertinelli.

His playing revealed too much rust to ignore on Thursday. Disjointed riffs and missed cues derailed opening number "Jump." On follow-up "Runaround," 56-year-old Hagar and 49-year-old Van Halen paid more attention to onstage pranks than to the song.

Fortunately, new tune "Up for Breakfast" soon helped the band straighten up. While it's a basic boogie, the linear and squealing guitar segment returned Van Halen to his "hero" pedestal.

For the rest of the night, Hagar pushed memories of the band's original vocalist, David Lee Roth, to the background. Van Halen always provided a sunny side to hard rock, and Hagar's renditions of "Best of Both Worlds," "Top of the World" and "Why Can't This Be Love" upheld that legacy.

In addition to Eddie's solo, the concert included showcases for Michael Anthony on bass and Alex Van Halen on drums.

The drum clinic was top-notch, as Alex moved from understated jazz percussion to a thundering blowout of call-and-response audience participation.

For Van Halen, this night had too many small-time moments. Or perhaps too much mortality when we were expecting rock gods.

Fans who paid $92.50 for pavilion seats may have felt stung by the performance. For those who grabbed discounted lawn tickets for $25 (plus $10 worth of free food), the price probably was right.

[blu]

that review was off; way off.

I thought the whole thing kicked ass. I was so emotionally high from the night it wasn't funny. Sammy was right; it's as if they never quit.
I don't think Ed was rusty at all. What he DID do was try some new tricks during the standards. Sometimes he landed on his feet and sometimes he didn't, but it was because he was doing new things not the same ole same ole. And ya know; I sure didn't care if missed a note here and there; hell, it was live!

Probably the second or third best show I've seen in my life from them. It was great. Naysayers of this tour or line up can officially kiss it. They're back and badass!!!!!

That's all I have to say about that.
:D :thumb:

[steecoe]

Quote: Originally posted by Blu:
that review was off; way off.

I thought the whole thing kicked ass. I was so emotionally high from the night it wasn't funny. Sammy was right; it's as if they never quit.
I don't think Ed was rusty at all. What he DID do was try some new tricks during the standards. Sometimes he landed on his feet and sometimes he didn't, but it was because he was doing new things not the same ole same ole. And ya know; I sure didn't care if missed a note here and there; hell, it was live!

Probably the second or third best show I've seen in my life from them. It was great. Naysayers of this tour or line up can officially kiss it. They're back and badass!!!!!

That's all I have to say about that.
:D :thumb: BINGO!!!!! I swear I saw a different show than most people bitchin' about EVH playing "sloppy" fuck man, he is playing loose, with a different approach -- IT'S FRESH!!!! He might be wingin' it but thats a good thing. Damn if you want to hear it exactly like the record then buy a new copy of that & don't go to the show. I just want to know why the hell they dropped Learning To See, that was my favorite song in the set!!!!

[ron]

http://www.vhboots.com/indianapolisfortnight.html

[steecoe]

Quote: Originally posted by Ron:
http://www.vhboots.com/indianapolisfortnight.html Did anyone take credit for the artwork? I know I didn't do any..too much work, I am too lazy for that!!!

[frankm]

Quote: Originally posted by steecoe:
Quote: Originally posted by Ron:
[b]http://www.vhboots.com/indianapolisfortnight.html Did anyone take credit for the artwork? I know I didn't do any..too much work, I am too lazy for that!!![/b] I didn't do it but I hope you're not upset that they have "steeco" on there, I kindda like that, let's you distinguish between different recordings. And the Recording information, location and equipment is also nice to have.

[Reggie Hayse]

I found out where the photos came from. From a review at www.indianapolismusic.net . They give credit to Joey Foley for the photos.

[steecoe]

Quote: Originally posted by frankm:
Quote: Originally posted by steecoe:
[b] Quote: Originally posted by Ron:
[b]http://www.vhboots.com/indianapolisfortnight.html Did anyone take credit for the artwork? I know I didn't do any..too much work, I am too lazy for that!!![/b] I didn't do it but I hope you're not upset that they have "steeco" on there, I kindda like that, let's you distinguish between different recordings. And the Recording information, location and equipment is also nice to have.[/b] Oh no, not at all, I just didn't see anyone take credit for the artwork & I didn't even know about it. In fact, I thought there was another recording source used for the CD, then I noticed--hey that's mine!
I think someone on STG had asked about artwork & I had replied that anyone could feel free to create it & post it up...maybe thats where it came from....

[blu]

Color me a dork, but I think it'd be cool to have a boot that you made up on VHBoots.com. That's just killer!!!