Wolfgang Van Halen had replaced Michael Anthony on bass. Two minutes later, song over, all media were escorted to the press box, which offered a good view of the show, but no eye contact with Val.īy the next time I saw them, in 2008 again at Meadowlands, David Lee Roth was back in the band. Then the chorus ended and the arena was dark again. It was awesome, we had connected, in my mind. She caught me looking at her, but she thought I had caught her singing, so she stopped singing, smiled that Val smile, and then started cracking up, which I did, too. When she turned toward me in the now brightly lit arena, I was the only person not facing the stage. No more than 15 feet away stood my junior high crush-Barbara Cooper, aka Valerie Bertinelli-singing her head off, fist in the air, “Shine on, shine on…” During the song’s chorus, the lighting director shined really bright lights on the crowd, and I looked around to take in the crowd. The third song, “Humans Being,” one of the rare Van Hagar songs I really like, began as the videographers arrived at the mix position. After two minutes of “Runaround,” the video screen producer cut the feed to the videographers and we were escorted to the mix position in the middle of the house. Next was “Runaround”, which supplied me with some decent, close-up shots of Eddie’s hands fluidly running up and down the fretboard. The show’s opener was Jump, which disappointed me because I wanted video of Eddie shredding and in “Jump”, Eddie doesn’t touch his guitar for the first two minutes of the song. The author’s press pass for shooting Van Halen in 2004.įor Van Halen, the tour press agent allowed us to get video of the first two songs, after which we were escorted to the sound mix position, where the press photographers were allowed to shoot for the first three songs. The tour rep would walk videographers backstage to the video village, we’d connect our cameras to a distribution amp with the video screen feed, and they feed us the first two minutes of each of the first two or three songs. Almost every band allows the facility to do that. As was the case when any band I liked was booked to play the Meadowlands, I put in a request to record video of the band for promotional use for the sports complex. I was a video director for the video board production crew at the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, NJ. One of the most memorable was June 22, 2004. I had seen them many times over the years. But Eddie could still shred smoothly and effortlessly, with that grin spread across his youthful face, and it was great to have that one last glimpse of greatness. When I last saw Van Halen in 2008, David Lee Roth’s voice was so shot that I winced at times during the show. ![]() $13.50 in the lower tier, close to the stage, 9th row. It was supposed to be October 16, but Eddie had sprained his wrist in Pittsburgh the night before. The first concert I ever saw was Van Halen, November, 1982, at what was then the Brendan Byrne Arena. Eddie Van Halen at The Civic Center Theater in St.
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