{"id":316,"date":"2007-12-17T17:02:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T00:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=316"},"modified":"2007-12-17T17:02:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T00:02:35","slug":"the-van-halen-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"The Van Halen show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after all that waiting, the concert was last night. It was&#8230;not everything I&#8217;d hoped, but damned close.<\/p>\n<p>The Good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eddie was sober.<\/li>\n<li>Eddie got his tone back. New amps + cable + proto EVH Wolfgang sounded wonderful.<\/li>\n<li>Eddie was in shape.<\/li>\n<li>Alex was in shape.<\/li>\n<li>Dave was in <em>amazing <\/em>shape.<\/li>\n<li>Truly classic setlist. (&#8220;So This Is Love&#8221; was a nice surprise.)<\/li>\n<li>No bass solo!<\/li>\n<li>Two Charvels (both to go to eBay, no doubt to be bought by overzealous rich middle-aged guys), and a little Frankie for &#8220;Little Guitars.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Eddie and Dave smiling and goofing around. I don&#8217;t care if it was scripted. My heart leapt.<\/li>\n<li>Mike Weigand went with me and we had fun spending time together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Bad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bad house mix &#8212; Genesis sounded great in the same space a few months ago&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t remember seeing Michael Anthony.<\/li>\n<li>Wolfgang has all the stage presence of a walrus&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;And twice the body weight. Kid just looked unhealthy in comparison to the ripped geezers. Now we know where all the brown M&amp;Ms went.<\/li>\n<li>Wolfgang is not living in Michael Anthony&#8217;s shadow so much as his dad&#8217;s. The striped bass, complete with poorly routed humbucker and reflectors on the back, was more than a bit much.<\/li>\n<li>Wolfgang flashed a bumper sticker on the back of his bass that said &#8220;I can barely see the road&#8221; when Dave sang same lyric in &#8220;Panama,&#8221; and Dave stopped to plug the fact that you could buy that sticker before you left the show.<\/li>\n<li>Eddie only pulled out Frankenstein for the encore.<\/li>\n<li>Ed&#8217;s solo was just uninteresting. I hate to say it, the tone was there, but it really sounded like random wankery this time.<\/li>\n<li>Surrounded by trailer trash and women who wanted to be MILFs but just weren&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I went. I wouldn&#8217;t have wanted to miss it. I had fun. But it wasn&#8217;t transcendent, though it could have been if the sound mix was up to snuff. I&#8217;d love to see (or rather hear) a DVD. And I hope they make good on the promise of doing an album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after all that waiting, the concert was last night. It was&#8230;not everything I&#8217;d hoped, but damned close. The Good: Eddie was sober. Eddie got his tone back. New amps + cable + proto EVH Wolfgang sounded wonderful. Eddie was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=316\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}