Van Halen 1982-08-10 St. Paul, MN

Here we have a totally unheard, uncirculated soundboard recording, capturing the Van Halen concert in St. Paul during their Diver Down tour (Hide Your Sheep tour) in 1982. Not even an audience recording of this show has circulated previously.

During the breakdown of Unchained, Dave plays out his rarer routine that is seemingly prompted when people are making a mess on the stage, in this case towards someone throwing beer. As his usual comeback goes, he delivers the “after the show I’m gonna f his girlfriend” line.

Probably not too significant of note, but Secrets starts a bit late with a weird build up, as if Eddie was having some sort of issue with his yellow Kramer doubleneck guitar.

The first cut in the recording is where Roy would often pause to save space, during the lengthy break where Dave would talk to the crowd before Jamie’s Cryin’. The first side of the 90 minute master tape ends partway into Dave’s story-time interlude during Everybody Wants Some. The second side of the master tape starts at the final few ending notes of the reprise of Everybody Wants Some, so the reprise is essentially missing. There are short tape pauses during the encore breaks, but no music missing except the Growth intro to You Really Got Me, hence the abrupt start. The second side of the tape ends barely a minute into You Really Got Me, so is missing Happy Trails and the reprise of You Really Got Me.

Track Listing:

01 Intro [0:00]
02 Romeo Delight [0:26]
03 Unchained [4:13]
04 Drum Solo [7:55]
05 The Full Bug [10:25]
06 Runnin’ With The Devil [13:52]
07 Jamie’s Cryin’ [17:40]
08 Little Guitars [21:06]
09 Where Have All The Good Times Gone! [25:49]
10 Bass Solo [29:05]
11 Hang ‘Em High [32:40]
12 Cathedral [36:20]
13 Secrets [37:35]
14 Drum Solo II [40:59]
15 Everybody Wants Some!! [42:43]
16 Dave Talks (cut) [45:29]
17 Dance The Night Away [47:16]
18 Somebody Get Me A Doctor / I’m So Glad [50:28]
19 Dave Acoustic Solo [56:42]
20 Ice Cream Man [59:46]
21 Intruder [1:04:09]
22 Pretty Woman [1:06:08]
23 Guitar Solo [1:09:14]
24 D.O.A. [1:18:06]
25 Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love [1:21:38]
26 Bottoms Up! [1:28:36]
27 You Really Got Me (cut) [1:32:55]

Lineage: Maxell UDXL-I C-90 cassette / Nakamichi DR-1 (azimuth adjustment) / Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD / Audacity (24 bit – 96 khz) / FLAC 6

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