VAN HALEN – Tokyo Dome In Concert [2CD] (2015)

* the real one

Next March 31th, VAN HALEN will release its first-ever live album to feature original singer David Lee Roth. Recorded on June 21, 2013 at the famed Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, “Tokyo Dome In Concert” includes 23 songs, spanning all seven of the band’s albums with Roth.
It will be released as a double CD and four-LP set on 180-gram vinyl, and there was not a video, just the audio.

Mixed by award-winning engineer Bob Clearmountain and mastered by Chris Bellman, the album features such classic anthems as “Dance The Night Away”, “Beautiful Girls”, “And The Cradle Will Rock”, “Unchained” and “Everybody Wants Some!!” as well as blistering versions of “Tattoo”, “She’s The Woman” and “China Town” from the group’s most recent studio album, A Different Kind of Truth.
Of course you have too the hits “Jump”, “Panama”, “You Really Got Me”, and the scorching, Eddie Van Halen’s finger-tapping tour de force “Eruption”.

“Tokyo Dome In Concert” sounds pretty raw and direct, with a true ‘Live’ feel.
I was eager, particularly, to listen Roth’s performance. Some fan-videos seen from Van Halen’s last concerts showed David Lee Roth in pretty bad form and out of tune.
Well, “Tokyo Dome In Concert” was recorded two years ago, and David sounds very good, as all the band as whole.
Now you can hear Eddie really rippin’ his guitar, something missing in Van Halen’s only official live album Right Here, Right Now from 1993.
I liked “Tokyo Dome In Concert” a lot, and it’s a must have for Van Halen fans and lovers of Eddie’s incredible fingers.

There’s also great news from the Van Halen camp: Rhino Records will release Van Halen’s first six albums to be Remastered directly from the Analog Master Recordings by Chris Bellman, cut straight from the quarter-inch tapes.
“Van Halen 1” and “1984” will be available now, while the newly mastered versions of Diver Down, Women and Children First, Van Halen II and Fair Warning should hit the stores during this spring.

CD 1
01. Unchained
02. Runnin’ With The Devil
03. She’s The Woman
04. I’m The One
05. Tattoo
06. Everybody Wants Some
07. Somebody Get Me A Doctor
08. China Town
09. Hear About It Later
10. Oh, Pretty Woman
11. Me And You (drum Solo)
12. You Really Got Me

CD 2
01. Dance The Night Away
02. I’ll Wait
03. Cradle Will Rock
04. Hot For Teacher
05. Women In Love
06. Romeo Delight
07. Mean Street
08. Beautiful Girls
09. Ice Cream Man
10. Panama
11. Eruption
12. Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Love
13. Jump

David Lee Roth – vocals
Eddie Van Halen – guitars, synths
Alex Van Halen – drums, percussion
Wolfgang Van Halen – bass

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