Kool & The Gang
Madison Square Garden
New York City, NY
March 1, 2012
(ukj69 Master)

Opening for Van Halen

Recording: Sony SCM-717 > Sony PCM-M10

Transfer: Master > iZotope RX 10 Advanced / ozone 9 (mastered) > xACT 2.56 > FLAC

01 Fresh
02 Tonight
03 Emergency
04 Misled
05 Too Hot
06 Hollywood Swingin'
07 Jungle Boogie
08 Ladies' Night
09 Get Down on It
10 Celebration

Known Faults:
-None

Kool & The Gang opened 48 shows for Van Halen on their 2012 'A Different Kind of Truth (or Viva La Van Halen Tour)'.

This is the second of back-to-back nights "ukj69" was on hand to capture.

According to "ulitmateclassrock.com" the unlikely pairing came together this way:

"Bell admits he was "kind of surprised" Roth called with the invitation to have Kool & the Gang join the Van Halen tour. Roth had apparently caught Kool's set at the 2011 Glastonbury festival and liked it so much that he got his people in touch with their people. "Kool & the Gang and Van Halen are the sounds of an entire continent at recreation," Roth told Canada's Sun Media at the time. "We've come to represent that - although you're more likely to hear Kool & the Gang at a bar mitzvah than me."

Bell, meanwhile, thought the Van Halen-Kool pairing would be "an interesting combination, because Van Halen is more on the rock side and we do what we do. It really caught us by surprise. But the more people I mention it to, the more interesting they're saying it is."

Bell says Roth told him there was some resistance from Eddie and Alex Van Halen.

"He said they said, 'What? You been smokin', man?'" Bell says, but the Van Halen camp was ultimately supportive and friendly during the trek. "We only saw 'em in the dressing room, things like that, and not very much. It was mostly, 'I'm happy to work with you guys' - that kind of vibe. We didn't see them a while lot, but they were always nice when we did."

"It was a little rough around the edges with their audience at first," the bassist remembers. "But they had a lot of women in their crowd, and when we got to 'Ladies' Night' and 'Get Down On It' and 'Celebration,' the ladies that follow Van Halen got up out of their seats, and then whoever was still being stubborn it was like, 'Hey, rock head, you better get up and get down on it, too.' And they did. It worked out."

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