Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

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 LIVE IN CONCERT includes 23 songs, spanning all seven of the band’s albums with Roth. It will be released as a double CD; four-LP set on 180-gram vinyl; and digitally beginning March 31, 2015.

Van Halen reinvented the sound of hard rock in 1978 with its influential and wildly successful eponymous debut album and then achieved ever greater success six years later with 1984. Both albums would define a generation while selling more than 10 million copies each in the U.S. alone to earn diamond-certification from the RIAA. The band recently went back to the original analog tapes and remastered both of these landmark albums – Van Halen and 1984 - which are now also set for release on March 31, 2015 through Warner Bros. Records.

Considered one of the greatest debut albums in rock history, Van Halen took the music world by storm in 1978 with an 11-song manifesto that features some of rock radio’s most played songs of all time and scorching concert staples like “Runnin’ With The Devil,” “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love,” “Jamie’s Cryin’,” the band’s signature cover of The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me,” and Eddie Van Halen’s finger-tapping tour de force, “Eruption.” Six years and five albums later, Van Halen had become one of the biggest bands in the world around the release of 1984, which includes a number of the band’s most legendary songs such as the #1 hit, “Jump,” “Panama,” and “Hot For Teacher.”

Mastering engineer Chris Bellman, who remastered the original albums at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios, was enlisted for these new versions. In order to produce the original sound the band intended, Bellman cut straight from the quarter-inch tapes for CD; for 180-gram vinyl; and for the digital versions. Newly mastered versions of Diver Down, Women and Children First, Van Halen II and Fair Warning are now being cut (for CD, for vinyl, and for digital) for release later in spring.

TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT features an electrifying performance by singer David Lee Roth, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen, and bassist Wolfgang Van Halen. Mixed by award-winning engineer and mixer Bob Clearmountain (Rollings Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Roxy Music, Nine Inch Nails, and many more), 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.

A deluxe collection featuring Tokyo Dome Live In Concert and the newly remastered Van Halen and 1984 albums, as both a four-CD set and a six-LP vinyl set in special packaging, will also be available March 31.


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Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

They really blew it by not creating a live album of the 1984 tour. I don't think I'm alone in not really being interested in hearing Wolfie on the bass and background vocals and a Roth that lost his voice talent years ago.

I do wonder if the new re-masters will be better then the previous re-masters, or even the original releases.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

I wish it was more of a thing to put out concert videos rather than live albums.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

There is nothing definitive about this album.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

This is definitively the latest Van Halen cash grab!

How is it possible that they don't have live tapes from the original Roth years that they could clean up and release?

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

They could (and should) release something similar to what Kiss did with Kissology. They have to have tons of live stuff somewhere. If that also included something from the last tour, that would be cool.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

Yeah, or do what The Clash did with From Here To Eternity: Live.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

My old CDs sound great and aren't remastered walls of sound, so these can stay on she shelf as far I'm concerned.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

I'll take that bet!

They gotta do at least two farewell tours and finagle Sammy Hagar into some sort of doomed-from-the-start project.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

I'm still a bit miffed that the Van Hagar CDs never got a remaster. The songs on their "Best of" collection sound a lot better than their original CD counterparts.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

He said "latest", not "last" :)

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

I agree with the sentiments thus far. VH has never released a live album w/DLR and they choose their first from a 2013 show? Super lame. :down:

I'm not sure how clean they'd be, but surely there are some live tapes around during their early, formative years that could be remastered. What could have been...

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

Releasing old DLR live music would probably involve paying Michael Anthony something. This way, Eddie makes sure that Wolfgang gets paid and Mike does not.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

Good point. Wouldn't surprise me at all if that was the primary reason.

I imagine a lot of people will miss the year it was recorded and wonder "what is this shit?"

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

I can understand why it's audio, not video. Dave doesn't want to preserve his "old man shuffling down the boardwalk" dance moves for posterity.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

If they wanted to cut Michael Anthony out, I wouldn't think they would be re-releasing new versions of the albums he was on, which they are doing.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

Right, I was thinking along both these lines as well and it doesn't add up. Is it more of Michael not getting anything or Wolfgang getting something?

If the latter, the sales would arguably be higher if they chose to release the early DLR-era stuff and Eddie could just give Wolfgang a cut. The net amount would probably be as high, if not higher, than the revenue from the 2013 album.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

It all depends on how the band is set up financially. If the band is set up as separate financial entity, former, and the estate of dead members still receive an equal share. Unless they are bought out.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

They could always replace the bass tracks on the new remasters...

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

I don't think it's that simple, but maybe so. Michael has writing credits as well. When they signed with Warner, they did a equal 25% split for their songs. Rumor was that was one of the reasons Eddie wanted Michael out.

It would be a court mess like the Ozzy thing when <s>he</s> Sharon did that. Although, I think it did work out for them somehow.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

It's really too bad cause Michael's backing vocals is a big part of their success. I realize Eddie's playing made the band what it was but Michael's harmonies played a big part. Plus, after watching Michael play with Sammy solo over the last several years, I don't even think he's in it for the money, it's more about just jamming and enjoying himself.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

No Blu-ray or DVD release of the concert?

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Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

I don't see anything listed yet, but you can watch them on Jimmy Kimmel Monday and Tuesday nights--3/30 & 3/31.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

It's of a recent concert? Pass!

While they're not hiding the date of the concert, seems like they are kinda' keeping it on the down-low.

Re: Van Halen’s Definitive Live Album & Remasters.
 

Basically the only clue on the outside packaging (that it's not from the 80's) is the 3 songs from the reunion record. I suspect there will be a lot of unaware fans wondering what the hell happened when they hear Roth's and Wolfie's vocals. But I plan on finding a free way to hear this just to hear just how bad it got.

To make it all even more interesting, they are kicking off a new Summer tour with Roth here in the Seattle area on July 5th... pass!