Rare or unseen VH photos #3

guitard: So I check the touring history and I see they played Bay City twice in the summer of 1978, exactly one month apart (1978-07-19 and 1978-08-19).The first show was with Bob Seger and the second one was with Black Sabbath.

I don’t think the July date is correct. I think they played Bay City once that summer, in August with Bob Seger.
http://media.mlive.com/entertainment/bay-city/photo/bay-city-centrals-engel-stadium-voted-michigans-grandest-high-school-football-stadium-931665f94f2fbcfb.jpg

The Flint show is typically listed as April 6th with Journey & Montrose, but this ticket stub says it was on the 4th:

Ran across these comments searching for Black Sabbath tour dates. Probably common knowledge already.

http://birminghammusicarchive.com/memories-of-brum-gigs-77-79-where-you-there/

Black Sabbath Van Halen Odeon Mon June 5, 1978
Black Sabbath Van Halen Odeon Tues June 6, 1978

Black Sabbath Van Halen Odeon Mon June 12, 1978

If I remember correctly I went to the 6th of June gig because the 5th of June gig was cut short because some dry ice got into Tony Iommi’s amp & blew it up, they arranged to come back on the 12th in way of compensation & I got a ticket for that one as well,. Unfortunately Van Halen had gone back to the states by then & support for that night was The Fields of the Nephlim.

Not strictly true. The first gig was cancelled because they were held up after recording a TV show.. If it was an amp, it would have been replaced with the spare or one would have been supplied locally.

I worked at the Odeon from 1974 – 1988 as a technician and remember that event pretty well
Happy memories……… i can still see Eddie V.H. throwing himself at the amps… and the roadies trying to hold them up behind. This was only my 2nd ever Gig. As i remember Monday June 5th (Centre circle R30) was cut short near the end as Sabbath were playing Snowblind and pumping lots of dry ice around. The music suddenly stopped and the Manager had to try and calm the audience…(not very well!!!) Ozzy walked on and apologised saying to hold onto stubs as a new gig would be held. Support group was Brian James “Tanster Youth” (sic ?) All this for £2.20 ….Bargain!!

Wow, yes! I remember that gig.

Thank the lord I was actually in the room when Van Halen came on rather than in the bar. I had not heard them and the set was dynamite (even though they were given about 3ft of stage at the front and about 3 lights by the Sabs.) I, too was disappointed by then not being at the re-scheduled event. Probably a good job as Sabbath were not at their best at the time.

I went out the next day and bought the debut album at HMV.

Selist FM shows VH in Tulsa on the 4th April 1978 and Flint on the 6th ….

Van Halen Setlist at Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, OK, USA

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/van-halen/1978/cains-ballroom-tulsa-ok-3cf6997.html

Journey website shows this as dates with VH http://www.angelfire.com/music/collections/index2.htm

April 1, 1978 Kiel Opera House. St. Louis, MO Montrose, Van Halen
April 2, 1978 Music Hall. Omaha, NE Montrose, Van Halen
April 5,1978 Aragon Hall. Chicago, IL Montrose, Van Halen
April 6, 1978 IMA Arena. Flint, MI Montrose, Van Halen
April 7, 1978 War Memorial Auditorium. Nashville, TN Montrose, Van Halen

Someone call and ask Ed. He should know.

From Seymour Duncan’s FB page

Halenberg:

One of NYC’s most in-demand sideman, JohnnyG has added musical muscle to a wide range of top acts, including Edgar Winter, Roy Buchanan, The Turtles, and has recorded with Eddie Van Halen.

http://www.jgmusics.com

This looks like 91-93… what has this johnnyG guy done with Ed?

The sword dance with Roth back on the 1984 tour was beyond stupid.