Van Halen – Fresno 1978-79 films

voodoo: I totally agree. He made his objectives obvious with his comment, “somebody had to come along and say something stupid like this..you just fucked up royal” Not, “Send me your address and I’ll send you a copy” not, “If you want a copy, send me $50/$100/$1,000 and I’ll send you a master transfer.” His answer to me was basically, “Fuck you! You will not question me and you will pay what I say to get what you want.”

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Rob has never suggested in any way, shape or fashion that his intent was to come here and try to make money. If that was his intent, don’t you think he would have said something along those lines months ago??

I have always liked you a lot Voodoo … and thought of you as one of the truly great VHT members. If someone had asked me yesterday, “Who do think is going to say something stupid and stir shit up in this thread?” I would have never guessed in a million years that it would be you.

I don’t know what got into you tonight – but please cut this shit out. It does nothing but create bad feelings at the site and piss people off.

voodoo: We love seeing this footage and we’d all love to have it to trade openly, but it seems obvious that this footage isn’t going to be shared in it’s most pure form until some entity with unlimited funds purchases it and sells it to us.

single-8: somebody had to come along and say something stupid like this..you just fucked up royal S8S

voodoo: So, you were planning on sharing your footage for free?

I have no clout to comment here but I’ll just go ahead and speak my mind anyways.

We just received the utmost ultimate mindblowing gift of LIVE VH in their prime in pristine crystal clear vision and amazing editing of still shots showing EVH playing the Dragonsnake and white star before it was the white star. Eddie probably only played those guitars very few times for all we know only this one show in Fresno. There are no pictures that I know of anywhere of this unique occasion. The earlier versions of this footage was so blurry we couldn’t really even see.

So now we have knowledge that this footage excists in crystal clear vision. It is a godsend of the highest magnitude. S8S has just blessed us VH fans with the utmost important thing VH fans want its more than the band has ever put out.

Patience is a virtue. The S8S channel has been up less than a year. Just knowing it excists and eventually everyone will probably see it at some point is more than enough.

And you have the audacity to bitch about not having it all right now in full at once as though he owes it to you you ungrateful fuck after he just put up not one but two killer videos this week. The ignorance of those comments and tone of entitlement overwhelming. Totally rude belligerent disrespectful and completely uncalled for. Really low blow there. You should’ve been happy as a pig in shit just to get the clips that have already been put up so far. If Santa Clause gave you a Porshe for Christmas you’d probably bitch that it wasn’t a Lamborghini. Ignorant ballsack of fuck.

This S8S YouTube channel popped up less than a year ago I’ve subscribed and followed the threads regularly.

single-8: Its nice to know that I have some friends out there .. S8S

As I mentioned a few times in this thread. It is your footage; you can do with it what you like. Even if you want to sell the footage that is entirely up to you. No-one can tell you what you should be doing with the footage. if you do share more in the future great, if you get a big money deal from VH to sell the footage to them, great. if you release it all for free, great, etc etc etc. I am just thankful for the stuff you have shared with us.

I grew up liking VH in the Sammy era around 5150 and then went back on all their stuff.
To see this awesome footage at their beginning was a great insight into how explosive and hungry they were as a band back then..Just to have this stuff around is very much appreciated as the band wont release anything like this..

Voodoo is just as keen as we all are to see more of your great footage….Lets not drag VHT down to the level of some other VH sites out there..This is the best place for anything VH or music in general…We are all VH brothers and love sharing or hearing anything related to VH..The quality and time & effort of the projects released here is Top Shelf and puts most official releases to shame..
I have made many great friends on this site from all over the World and look forward to meeting many more.

Lets all take a deep breath relax sit back and enjoy all the cool aspects of this place and the things people bring to VHT..

sickman: I don’t understand why 1 posters comments can ruin everything. It just makes no sense. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

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Let’s keep this thread discussion positive and appreciate the information and videos that were shared with us here at VHT…

radikal: Let’s keep this thread discussion positive and appreciate the information and videos that were shared with us here at VHT…

I hear you.

I was just thankful for what we had… hopefully this is not the end.

frankm: I would have guessed it would have been ME!

I’ve really enjoyed the videos, thanks for sharing.

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Hey … what can I say? You’re a close second though!!