Van Halen
11 September 1982
Venue: The Forum
Location: Inglewood, California
Source: Soundboard (Master)

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

Track Listing:

01 Intro
02 Romeo Delight
03 Unchained
04 Drum Solo
05 The Full Bug
06 Runnin' With The Devil
07 Jamie's Cryin'
08 Little Guitars
09 Where Have All The Good Times Gone!
10 Bass Solo
11 Hang 'Em High
12 Cathedral
13 Secrets
14 Drum Solo II
15 Everybody Wants Some!!
16 Dave Talks (cut)
17 Everybody Wants Some!! (Reprise)
18 Dance The Night Away
19 Somebody Get Me A Doctor / I'm So Glad
20 Pretty Woman (cut)
21 Guitar Solo
22 D.O.A.
23 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
24 Bottoms Up!
25 You Really Got Me (cut)

Notes:
Here we have a totally unheard, uncirculated soundboard recording, capturing the Van Halen concert in Inglewood (Los Angeles area) during their Diver Down tour (Hide Your Sheep tour) in 1982. This is the third of three consecutive nights Van Halen played at The Forum in 1982. Not even an audience recording of this show has circulated previously. However, it is worth noting that an audience recording does circulate of the previous night at The Forum.

During Dave's interlude of Everybody Wants Some, from what we can interpret from his commentary, it seems that a woman from the crowd was taken backstage by the crew. Whether she ran on stage, or this was one of Van Halen's infamous shenanigans, it's hard to know for sure.

As usual, Roy paused the tape during break where Dave would give an extended talk to the crowd prior to Jamie's Cryin'. The first side of the 90 minute master tape runs out at the very end of the first part of Everybody Wants Some, while the second side starts partway into Dave's storytime interlude. Roy pauses the tape after Somebody Get Me A Doctor, so does not capture Dave's acoustic solo, Ice Cream Man, or Intruder. The recording starts again about 47 seconds into Pretty Woman. The tape is paused again during both encore breaks. The tape runs out during the first part You Really Got Me, so does not capture Happy Trails or the reprise of You Really Got Me.

Huge thanks to those who significantly helped with the absurd pricetag that was required to liberate this VH collection, most of which would've been impossible to save otherwise.

Enjoy the music and be grateful we are able hear these special recordings. If you have uncirculated tapes, please consider sharing them before they end up forever lost to time.

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