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| January 5, 2016 at 1:39 am Quote #51629 | |
 Panamaniac (207) | Happy New Year everybody! This has taken a long time and even more hard work than last year’s compilation, but I have finally completed the compilation of the best/most interesting (in my opinion) live recordings from Van Halen’s 1979 World Vacation Tour. The compilation is now on DIME and JTT here (I could definitely use some ratio help at JTT): DIME: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=551952 (link updated by guitard to reflect new version) Van Halen DISC 1 FINGERPRINTS No errors occured. DISC 2 FINGERPRINTS No errors occured. LINEAGE Disc 1 1. Light Up The Sky (March 25, 1979: Selland Arena – Fresno, California) 2. Somebody Get Me A Doctor/Drum Solo (June 15, 1979: Jaap Edenhal – Amsterdam, Netherlands) 3. Runnin’ With The Devil (May 1, 1979: Masonic Auditorium – Detroit, Michigan) 4. Dance The Night Away (May 18, 1979: War Memorial – Rochester, New York) 5. Beautiful Girls (April 8, 1979: Memorial Coliseum – Los Angeles, California) 6. On Fire/Bass Solo (July 11, 1979: Music Hall – Houston, Texas) 7. You’re No Good (May 18, 1979: War Memorial – Rochester, New York) 8. Jamie’s Cryin’ (June 14, 1979: Vorst Nationaal – Brussels, Belgium) 9. Feel Your Love Tonight (September 3, 1979: Kyoto Kaikan – Kyoto, Japan) Disc 2 1. Outta Love Again (April 18, 1979: Pacific Coliseum – Vancouver, British Columbia) 2. Ice Cream Man (September 13, 1979: Budokan – Tokyo, Japan) 3. Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love (September 18, 1979: Northlands Coliseum – Edmonton, Alberta) 4. Guitar Solo (June 26, 1979: City Hall – Newcastle, England) 5. D.O.A. (March 25, 1979 Selland Arena – Fresno, California) 6. You Really Got Me (September 13, 1979: Budokan – Tokyo, Japan) 7. Bottoms Up! (June 8, 1979: Barton Coliseum – Little Rock, Arkansas) 8. Atomic Punk (September 10, 1979: Furitu Taiikukan – Osaka, Japan) NOTES The theme of this particular compilation is Van Halen’s infamously titled “World Vacation” Tour of 1979. The purpose is to honor and uniquely capture the very essence of the live Van Halen experience as they performed for the first time as headliners. To provide the most expansive possible representation and historical perspective of this legendary time in the band’s history, I have included every song Van Halen performed live on the tour, sourced most of them from a different date and venue, and sequentially positioned them in the same order they were played on location with as indiscernible song transitions as I could achieve. My desired outcome is for the listener to feel as though they are a member of the audience witnessing the band’s musicianship, personality, and nuance maturing throughout the duration of their second world tour in one all-encompassing show. At conclusion of the last song, I want the listener to feel exhausted, fulfilled, inspired, and excited to take the trip all over again as if they just spent six glorious months following the band around the world. Happy touring and bottoms up! *NOTE: Full disclosure, I attempted to use lossless sources for every song but, despite the lossy compression, it would have been criminally negligent in my opinion to disqualify the only known soundboard recordings from the tour just because there is no lossless version of them available (“Dance The Night Away” and “You’re No Good” from the pro-shot 1979 tour video that was never officially released). My apologies in advance that the source is a crappy YouTube video (the only other source I had was again, another crappy 128kbps version) but the sound is actually quite nice. That being said, if someone has a better version, I’d like nothing more than to use it for the sake of preserving the highest quality compilation possible. Please contact me if you have a higher fidelity version!! **NOTE: This is the original first release of the compilation titled “World Vacation Tour 1979″ that is part of a series of compilations branded as “reCOLLECTION xx” (“xx” referring to the number in the series). With respect to lineage, I have done my best to disclose my limited alterations by adding their descriptions directly after the sources’ original lineage(s) (when available). Most of the audio changes I made involved slightly adjusting EQ, amplification to avoid noticeable volume fluxuations and, of course, crossfading was used at the beginning and end of each track to achieve smooth transitions between songs from different sources. Having the aforementioned being said, I invite all listeners to offer ideas for improvement. If you have a suggestion for improving the audio of any of the tracks or even have a different source for a song that you think is stronger than what is represented on this collection, I welcome any and all comments.Van Halen – reCOLLECTION 02 – World Vacation Tour 1979 PanamaniacQuote |
| January 5, 2016 at 2:30 am Quote #51630 | |
 mikeyV (335) | Can anyone dropbox me this…………dude I really enjoyed the 1978 edition and was looking forward to this. MikeyV The Ultimate in Van Halen Vinyl Proud Member Since the First Year– Both VHTrading and the Band mikeyVQuote |
| January 5, 2016 at 10:58 am Quote #51635 | |
 fletch (657) | I was going to say…smells like Reunion. I had those songs digitally mastered that were used for Reunion. Took the guy a long time to go through each song and he actually replaced a song or two with his own masters from the same shows I selected. Why settle for a can? When you can drink straight from the bottle…. fletchQuote |
| January 5, 2016 at 12:12 pm Quote #51637 | |
| Panamaniac (207) |
Reunion was definitely the inspiration but this project is much different and far more extensive in the selection of songs, sources, and artwork. PanamaniacQuote |
| January 5, 2016 at 7:35 pm Quote #51647 | |
 mrmojohalen (6467) | There’s a 1st Gen Masonic Auditorium – Detroit, Michigan May 1, 1979 out there. When you turn on your stereo, does it return the favor? mrmojohalenQuote |
| January 5, 2016 at 10:08 pm Quote #51649 | |
 jroundy (1418) | Thanks for putting this together. The poor folks play for keeps down here…They’re the living dead. Nobody rules these streets at night like Van Halen!! jroundyQuote |
| January 6, 2016 at 12:25 am Quote #51651 | |
| Panamaniac (207) |
Thanks for the heads up; I got my version in a trade and it unfortunately contained no text file; I guess it’s possible mine is 1st Gen. PanamaniacQuote |
| January 6, 2016 at 2:09 am Quote #51652 | |
 Gilligan (1518) | Sweet! Jumped on at JTT – looking forward to giving this a listen. I really enjoyed the 1978 one you did. GilliganQuote |
| January 6, 2016 at 3:53 am Quote #51654 | |
| Panamaniac (207) | |
| January 6, 2016 at 6:45 pm Quote #51671 | |
| Gilligan (1518) | Yes, there were 4 seeders and the whole thing DL’d in about 5 minutes. Haven’t given it a listen yet…. GilliganQuote |
| January 6, 2016 at 6:50 pm Quote #51674 | |
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| January 6, 2016 at 7:39 pm Quote #51675 | |
 wjamflan (1113) | Thanks for all of the hard work. Loved the first one. Agree with Mikey and and Dave – can we do a dropbox link again? “This hamburger don’t need no helper.” – DLR 5/17/15 wjamflanQuote |
| January 6, 2016 at 10:48 pm Quote #51679 | |
| Panamaniac (207) | |
| January 7, 2016 at 6:52 am Quote #51683 | |
| Dave (2308) |
PM sent Stay Frosty DaveQuote |
| January 7, 2016 at 7:53 pm Quote #51693 | |
| wjamflan (1113) | Sounds great! Thank you Panamaniac. “This hamburger don’t need no helper.” – DLR 5/17/15 wjamflanQuote |
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