Van Halen Live

I first saw Van Halen my senior year of high school on the Women and Children First tour. It was perhaps the loudest concert I’ve ever been to. What really stuck out was Eddie running up and down the giant stacks of amplifiers set up like stairs — and David Lee Roth sitting on the front of the stage, bumming a joint from the audience and chugging from a bottle of whiskey.

Setlist – 1980
Romeo Delight
Bottoms Up!
Drum Solo
Runnin' With the Devil
Tora! Tora! / Loss of Control
Take Your Whiskey Home
Dance the Night Away
Women in Love…
Jamie's Cryin'
Feel Your Love Tonight
Bright Lights, Big City (Jimmy Reed cover)
Everybody Wants Some!!
Atomic Punk
And the Cradle Will Rock…
Light Up the Sky
Guitar Solo
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Ice Cream Man (John Brim cover)
Eruption
You Really Got Me (The Kinks cover)

Setlist – 2012
Unchained
Runnin' With the Devil
She's the Woman
The Full Bug
Tattoo
Everybody Wants Some!!
Somebody Get Me a Doctor
China Town
Hear About It Later
Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison cover)
Drum Solo
You Really Got Me (The Kinks cover)
The Trouble with Never
Dance the Night Away
I'll Wait
Hot for Teacher
Women in Love…
Girl Gone Bad
Beautiful Girls
Ice Cream Man (John Brim cover)
Panama
Guitar Solo
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Encore: Jump