Van Halen
3 December 1978
Venue: San Diego Sports Arena
Location: San Diego, California
Source: Soundboard (Master)
Lineage: TDK D-C90 cassette > Nakamichi DR-1 (azimuth adjustment) > Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD > Audacity (24-96) > FLAC 6
Track Listing:
01 On Fire
02 I'm The One
03 Bass Solo
04 Runnin' With The Devil
05 Atomic Punk
06 Drum Solo
07 Jamie's Cryin'
08 Ice Cream Man
09 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
10 Eruption
11 You Really Got Me
Notes:
Here we have an unheard, uncirculated soundboard recording of Van Halen on the final night their debut album tour in 1978, opening for Black Sabbath. Not even an audience recording of this show has circulated previously.
This recording exists only on the first side of the 90 minute master tape, clocking in at about 47 minutes long. The second side of the tape is blank, so it's unknown for certain what unrecorded encore may have been performed. Dave hints during the show at possibly playing songs from their then-upcoming album, but none of those songs actually appear here. A newspaper review also indicates they played an encore with a "new tune" featuring a "ten minute jam".
This is largely the raw transfer, since I overall prefer doing as little editing as possible. A few channel dropouts were present, which were patched by copying over from the alternate channels. An overall speed adjustment was also applied. The manual azimuth adjustment was done by briefly listening to the tape playing into a mono feed, with stereo headphones.
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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