Van Halen
29 November 1982
Venue: Von Braun Civic Center
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
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 Little Guitars
08 Where Have All The Good Times Gone!
09 Bass Solo
10 Hang 'Em High
11 Cathedral
12 Secrets
13 Drum Solo II
14 Everybody Wants Some!! (cut)
15 Somebody Get Me A Doctor / I'm So Glad
16 Dave Acoustic Solo (cut)
17 Intruder
18 Pretty Woman
19 Guitar Solo
20 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
21 Bottoms Up!
22 You Really Got Me
23 Happy Trails
24 You Really Got Me (Reprise)
25 Outro Music

Notes:
Here is yet another uncirculated soundboard recording, capturing the Van Halen concert in Huntsville during their Diver Down tour (Hide Your Sheep tour) in 1982. Not even an audience recording of this show has circulated previously.

This show has a bit of a weird sound mix for a while, and a few random guitar feed issues throughout, but nothing majorly disruptive. Despite that, Dave seems to be in a "special" mood tonight. During his introduction to Where Have All The Good Times Gone, he breaks routine with a dramatic pause, then comes back with a deep voice, and then repeats himself. A bit later he introduces Mike's bass solo as a "private moment with Lady Di". Then for his vocalizing introduction to Cathedral, he instead does more of a low hum like what he'd typically do before Happy Trails, and follows with a goofy high voice which I can only presume was meant to sound like Michael Jackson or Mickey Mouse. Later, for the transition into to the jam section of Somebody Get Me A Doctor, Eddie starts off playfully with a tease of "Baby Elephant Walk" by Henry Mancini, something he has been known to do on other tours.

As usual, Roy paused the tape during the break where Dave would give an extended talk to the crowd following Runnin' With The Devil. However, this time he didn't resume recording for Jamie's Cryin' as he usually would, so misses the entire song, and instead started the recording again right before Little Guitars. Due to the missed song, the tape flip came a bit later in the set, so Roy manually pauses after the first part of Everybody Wants Some, intentionally misses Dave's entire storytime interlude, and resumes recording right before the reprise of Everybody Wants Some. Despite that, the first side of the 90 minute master tape runs out before the band finishes the song.

The second side of the tape starts several seconds into the beginning of Somebody Get Me A Doctor, so we're completely missing Dance The Night Away. Then as usual, Roy pauses the tape after Somebody Get Me A Doctor, however he pauses a bit later than normal and captures about 8 seconds at the start of Dave's acoustic solo, though overall does not capture that part nor Ice Cream Man. The recording starts again prior to the start of Intruder. The tape is paused again during both encore breaks, as always. There is one more pause during the brief interlude where Dave says a few more words between You Really Got Me and Happy Trails. This tape is another one of the few that captures the outro music that would play over the speakers after the band walked off stage, that being Kid Creole's "Imitation", followed by Van Halen's own "Big Bad Bill". There is about 22 seconds of silence before the outro music starts, not because the tape had been stopped, but because Roy seemed to have shut off all other mics that may have picked up any crowd noise.

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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