"Vivaldi Tribute" (Patrick Rondat) Tina S cover has been added as a related post - related requested by ChaosEngine.

14 year old girl shreds Van Halen - Eruption Guitar Cover has been added as a related post - related requested by ChaosEngine.

I don't necessarily disagree with you. My opinions, while oft contrarian, are really just open ended processes without judgement or declaration. They are hardly even opinions, as I almost always simultaneously believe and hold dear multiple conflicting ideas about particular subjects. An enlightened doublethink as it were. Everything is a theory worth pondering. Thanks Socrates. Thanks for making me not know anything.

Now while tenure certainly holds clout, it can also blind us to the moments in time which were shorter but sweeter than any of the fine tuned complexities of empire. The Internet as we know it, with youtube and Facebook, for example, may be the fixture but I'll always think kindly upon those early 90s, when it was the awkward but mysterious world wide web.

So, cool, yay for fixtures, but I'm a founders man, not a member of the club after its maturity. The Thomas Paine -- Cool, the revolution is over, now fuck yo couch. Where's the next one?

Other examples where the fixture isn't necessarily the only method to decide value by: Van Halen's prolific career versus that first, highly exceptional, fast and heavy album. Or the short but sweet years Ronnie James Dio or Glenn Huges sang for Black Sabbath -- Ozzy is the fixture, but those short moments of time where something strange and magical was created with other diverse geniuses, prior to or after the bread winners, those are the moments of fascination.

I love Jon Stewart but this ain't no thang. My interest was already piqued and held years ago, before him. He's great though and far better than a single television show.

While I do get your point, I think perhaps you miss the point that a real live singing/playing concert is different from a 'pop star concert' (although I do think they should be billed as 'pop star performances', not 'concerts').
If I go to the opera, I am expecting to hear people sing live while performing a play.
If I go to a 'concert', I expect to see a singer or band singing or playing live, but not doing much else (old Van Halen and GWAR being the exceptions).
If I go to a pop star performance, I usually expect to see flashing lights, smoke, sparks, special effects, stunts, and crazy dancing while you hear a track of the performer.
It's not possible to do the stage performance AND sing competently at the same time. If I expect to see dancing, I should not expect the dancer to also sing live, that's not realistic to me.

Apologies SFOGuy, I was trying (emphasis on trying) to be funny. I fail at this attempt more often than not. To my knowledge one can't add a soundtrack to a video w/o sound. But hey that'd be pretty cool - good idea!

The soundtrack of my intent was to be Jump by Van Halen(if you middle-mouse on my link it should open up the link to that song in a different tab while still keeping your video playing in the current webpage tab, at least with Firefox). When I saw the fish flying out of the tube in slo-mo it just popped into my head.

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And that is why I used to love Van Halen.

Madness and UB40, The Specials, English Beat, the ska revival and reggae made the 80's way more tolerable than it could have been musically...There was some shitty rock and roll in the 80's, just sayin'....

I'm sayin' fuck Sammy Hagar joining Van Halen is what I'm sayin'!!

"larzgallows" does some great Led Zeppelin and Van Halen covers as well, sans vocals.

Check out his "Since I've Been Loving You"

>> ^kceaton1:

>> ^Duckman33:
Interesting, I posted this months ago and no one seemed to care. http://videosift.com/video/Roth-Stops-Van-Halen-Show-Scolds-Fans-
for-Fighting
Dupe? Even the title is almost the same as mine.

I can't call it, but that is of course a VERY CLOSE call there. Yours does go on quite a bit longer so technically no, but I'll let the more experienced users call it out for sure...


Actually, since mine goes on longer that is technically a yes. Since this one adds nothing to the one I already posted except different camera angles and sub-titles which weren't really necessary.

>> ^Duckman33:

Interesting, I posted this months ago and no one seemed to care. http://videosift.com/video/Roth-Stops-Van-Halen-Show-Scolds-Fans-
for-Fighting
Dupe? Even the title is almost the same as mine.


I can't call it, but that is of course a VERY CLOSE call there. Yours does go on quite a bit longer so technically no, but I'll let the more experienced users call it out for sure...

Interesting, I posted this months ago and no one seemed to care. http://videosift.com/video/Roth-Stops-Van-Halen-Show-Scolds-Fans-for-Fighting

Dupe? Even the title is almost the same as mine.

In reply to this comment by moodonia:
*promote


hey thanks fellow van halen fan =)

Ok, that was awesome. A while ago someone posted vids of acapella versions of Jump by Van Halen and Battery by Metallica. Both of them were awful, but this... this just ruled

>> ^ChaosEngine:
seriously, learn a fuckin' instrument.


Buddy, did you miss the title? It wouldn't be A Capella if they were playing instruments... (sheesh)

>> ^ponceleon:

Somebody queue up Van Halen plz. Thx.


You don't FEEL tardy.