EDDIE VAN HALEN ON THE BAND’S LIVE ALBUM: “THERE ARE MISTAKES..BUT THAT’S HOW IT SOUNDED THAT NIGHT SO WE JUST LEFT IT”
The Pulse Of Radio reports that Eddie Van Halen told Guitar Worldmagazine that he was fine with leaving mistakes on Van Halen’s new concert album, Live: Tokyo Dome In Concert. Eddie stated, “There are mistakes. After it was mixed I listened to a few parts and went, ‘Okay, I f–ked that up.’ But that’s how it sounded that night so we just left it. It’s like a photograph of that evening and we didn’t Photoshop it. When you fix parts or mistakes, it’s not a real live experience any more.”
Eddie added, “There’s this uncontrolled energy. It’s never really right or perfect, but it creates tension. It’s like, ‘Okay, who’s going to blow it?’ When you keep waiting for someone to f–k up but no one does, it keeps you on the edge of your seat. It’s the real thing.”
Van Halen’s Tokyo Dome Live In Concert was released on March 31st. The band will be hitting the road starting July 5th in Seattle, WA. Please click here to see the band’s tour schedule.
Related articles:
Of the hundred and hundred of shows I have attended there are always some mistakes. So for Eddie to leave those on the album ,I give him kudos! Not many mistakes from him anyway
The mistake I can’t overlook is that Michael Anthony isn’t playing bass and singing. I’m fine with the rest.
Oh what could’ve been if that reunion would’ve lasted when Dave walked out on stage with Van Halen at the MTV awards in 1996 and everyone went ape shit!
album sounds great.hope vh plays some other tunes on tour,dirty movies from fair warning
Oh-Em-Gee! I can’t – CAN’T – listen to this album! Here’s why:
1- Dave doesn’t sound like the screaming note-perfect banshee that I’m told he sounded like in 1978.
2- Michael Anthony, his Three Tenors-perfect background vocals, and his most amazing bass playing this side of Jaco Pastorius are not present either. Instead Paul and Gene replaced him with an imposter – Wolfgang Van Halen!
3- Ed hits a few wrong notes and chords. Why – oh, why – couldn’t they overdub the guitars and all the instruments in the studio and make it a sterile, note-perfect product like Van Hagar’s Right Here, Right Now?