VH 2012-03-17 Toronto (Lou)

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=398150

Van Halen
Air Canada Centre
Toronto, ON, Canada
March 17, 2012–Saturday

Taper: Lou
Location: Section 111, Row 21, Seat 11

Lineage: SP-CMC-2 (AT831′s with low sensitivity mod) > SP-SPSB-8 (95 Hz bass roll off) > Edirol R-09 > WAV 24/48 > CDWave > Trader’s Little Helper > FLAC(level
Raw master recording

Quality: B-
File Size: 1.22 GB, FLAC

Total Time: 114:32

1. Unchained 4:55
2. Runnin’ With The Devil 3:41
3. She’s the Woman 2:57
4. The Full Bug 3:42
5. Tattoo 4:35
6. Everybody Wants Some!! 6:52
7. Somebody Get Me A Doctor 4:02
8. China Town 3:33
9. Hear About It Later 4:49
10. (Oh) Pretty Woman 3:25
11. Drum Solo 3:00
12. You Really Got Me 4:05
13. The Trouble With Never 5:46
14. Dance The Night Away 3:57
15. I’ll Wait 5:03
16. Hot For Teacher 6:08
17. Women In Love… 4:20
18. Girl Gone Bad 4:44
19. Beautiful Girls 3:50
20. Ice Cream Man 8:13
21. Panama 4:14
22. Guitar Solo (Eruption, Spanish Fly, Cathedral) 8:17
23. Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love 5:02
24. Jump 5:26

Notes:
After missing out on a reunion with the old DDLR crew on March 9, 2012 in Buffalo, I decided to spring for the Toronto show. After the fun I had in Canada in 2007, I just had to suck up the cost and enjoy myself. Especially since I hadn’t seen the gang since then, and God knows how many more Van Halen tours there will be. I’m glad I went and reconnected with the “family.”

Because of the significant financial and time commitments for me to travel to Toronto, I couldn’t screw around with trying to get a good seat on StubHub at or below face value. I had too much to lose. And this was possibly the toughest VH ticket to get on the tour, with very few singles to be had on StubHub, and only obstructed-view seats left on Ticketmaster. So I bought one of those sub-optimal tickets from Ticketmaster and hoped for the best in terms of how far away it was from the speaker stacks. I came away with an OK recording, but not as good as the March 5, 2012 Philly show. The bottom line is that you’re only as good as your location, so if you compare it to my Philly recording you’ll hear that it’s muddier with less stereo separation and richness than that one. This is why I prefer general admission shows in small venues where you have free reign to stand right in front of the speaker stacks, where you’re in control of your recording spot. But it is what it is. The main purpose in going to this show was reuniting with the DDLR crew, and basically I consider this recording a holdover “bonus” source until something better (preferably a floor recording) comes along.

There will not be a 16 bit version. I don’t have the interest in doing that so any one of you can take it upon yourselves to do that and upload it to Dime, no need to ask me. Really you can do whatever you want with it without asking–mate it to a DVD, upload as mp3 files on guitars101.com, etc. I can’t stop you anyway and I stopped caring about such things a long time ago.