Van Halen International Amphitheater Chicago, IL July 10, 1981 Alternate Source to "Mean Streets of Chicago" Includes bonus tracks Lineage of Chicago 7/10/81: AUD>unknown gen cass>Sony TC-WE635 tape deck, pitch correction one-half step down and Dolby C noise reduction applied>Sony RCD-W500C standalone recorder>CDR>EAC(secure/offset)>WAV>Soundforge Audacity minimal editing/splicing>WAV>FLAC(level 5) Lineage of all other files: AUD>unknown gen cass>Sony TC-WE635 tape deck>Sony RCD-W500C standalone recorder>CDR> EAC(secure/offset)>WAV>Soundforge Audacity minimal editing>WAV>FLAC(level 5) Quality of Chicago 7/10/81: B+/B Quality of Chicago 7/29/80 interview: C+ Quality of Amsterdam 1981 interview: B- Quality of EVH w/Pretenders 2/14/82: B+/B Qualty of EVH w/Allan Holdsworth 4/23/82: C/C- All files transferred by loucap81 Total File Size: 748 MB Disc 1 Total Time: 72:02 1. On Fire 3:53 2. Sinner's Swing! 3:27 3. Drum Solo 2:56 4. Hear About It Later 4:54 5. Dave Raps 2:16 6. So This Is Love? 3:29 7. Jamie's Cryin' 3:42 8. Bass Solo 4:01 9. Runnin' With The Devil 3:28 10. Dance The Night Away 5:27 11. Sunday Afternoon in the Park 2:01 12. Romeo Delight 4:36 13. Everybody Wants Some!! 11:42 14. Ice Cream Man 8:55 15. Mean Street 5:09 Disc 2 Total Time: 47:58 1. Guitar Solo 8:49 2. Feel Your Love Tonight 2:49 3. You Really Got Me 4:45 Bonus Tracks: 4. Chicago Radio Interview 7/29/80 7:33 5. Amsterdam Radio Interview, sometime in 1981 9:28 6. EVH plays w/Pretenders, Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA 2/14/82 8:00 7. EVH plays w/Allan Holdsworth, The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA 4/23/82 6:33 Disc 1 d1t01vh7-10-81alt.flac:8ff8620e0d172b95f8499849d9e0dd4b d1t02vh7-10-81alt.flac:cd2290cc8cc0c7110df86b8ba52a8b04 d1t03vh7-10-81alt.flac:93760b71f00d4dca502b9a4b685ae469 d1t04vh7-10-81alt.flac:591fc41e9640f28dc955b3e4dda553ae d1t05vh7-10-81alt.flac:957f7904e18fd58d0b657ae346c2b1fa d1t06vh7-10-81alt.flac:4a4c6a6885d319a9ef28b9dd62bc17b3 d1t07vh7-10-81alt.flac:45a30bd8b59e269c59ddeec185a1955d d1t08vh7-10-81alt.flac:299cc86b430d3f9d9148a97b89514c46 d1t09vh7-10-81alt.flac:45660311bb4237ed90e0f8774f4e71da d1t10vh7-10-81alt.flac:be8c6adfe4d4eefd5ebeb6ed85afcb7a d1t11vh7-10-81alt.flac:d82feb6d67b8224ed827ad037f904c0d d1t12vh7-10-81alt.flac:5c24a9bc6e50d5e306142ee541aee1b8 d1t13vh7-10-81alt.flac:7defc87bcba11bb9bfe6365b3066a67b d1t14vh7-10-81alt.flac:9c5a259c805c38762550bd139d01d418 d1t15vh7-10-81alt.flac:7d9176074ea3daa6d95b1540f5572a56 Disc 2 d2t01vh7-10-81alt.flac:7f4067e0c9411ce44bf04a38bfba45a9 d2t02vh7-10-81alt.flac:adda75d3631e473b1bee83ba514d4fa7 d2t03vh7-10-81alt.flac:533fcca3debcfc3d277bca4bde59ca64 d2t04int7-29-80.flac:e7fc2464b6750b8313c4e86089ae260e d2t05amsterdam81.flac:a4d87ceec89100bc3e45348923ee28fb d2t06evh2-14-82.flac:ecbd8ce4ae310ae40735d3cce2bbb7f5 d2t07evh4-23-82.flac:4fec7f2616f2b3e1b0157a880cafc1b9 Notes: This is an alternate source of this show. This one doesn't have the encores, but it has a complete EWS and Ice Cream Man. If you put the two sources together (this one and "Mean Streets of Chicago") you get a complete show. I found this tape in a batch of tapes I was transferring, and I was expecting it to be the same source that we all have, but lo and behold it was not. I confirmed by listening Rudy Leiren's introduction. There's whistling in this source during that intro, whereas there's no whistling in the other source. I doubt this source is circulating very much. The tape sounded decent, wasn't too genned. This source is more distant and quasi-reminiscent of "Home Ground" in terms of the spacious, distant sound. The other source is very upfront without a lot of ambience. The tape had a high-pitched hiss which is why I applied Dolby C noise reduction right on the deck. I normally don't noise reduce anything but I felt I needed it here because it was rather annoying. I also applied speed correction right on the deck, a half step down as it ran too fast. All the highs are still there however, and if you turn it up loud enough you can still hear the high-pitched hiss a little bit. Editing was minimal; all I did was arrange things the way you see them on the CD. I spliced EWS together from both sides of the tape. Unfortunately, side 2 of the tape wasn't as good quality as side one of the tape, so there's a dropoff around the 0:33 mark of EWS where I did the splice. Because Disc 2 would only have been about 16 minutes, I threw in some bonus material to fill it out. I STRONGLY recommend saving all the FLAC files and not just burning to CD, but when burning for personal use you'll feel like you're getting more mileage out of Disc 2. Track 4 is a radio interview from a Chicago radio station, 7/29/80. There were studio songs played but they were mostly cut on the tape, and I cut what was left of that out here. Amsterdam 1981, track 5, is hilarious. DLR and the boys walk around town asking strangers if they've heard of Van Halen. No one recognizes them but for one person at the end who goes, "Wait, you're David Lee Roth!" This broadcast also has a couple of the Oakland 6/13/81 in there which I left in, since that's not copyrighted material. Tracks 6 and 7 are stuff that aren't widely circulated. Track 6 is a decent generation of EVH playing a couple of songs with the Pretenders at UCLA on 2/14/82. Track 7 is quite genned and is Ed playing with Allan Holdsworth at The Roxy in Los Angeles on 4/23/82. Nevertheless, it's a nice thing to have for historical purposes. One final thing...some of you may think, "I don't need an alternate source." Well if you're a serious collector, you do. This is a source that not only has complete versions of songs not on the other source, but an alternate source gives you a new perspective, a new way of hearing the songs. If you're on the fence, just download it and keep it. Worst that can happen is that it's trade bait for something else. Credits: Thanks to ffoner for the tape. Transferred and brought to you by Lou from jamtothis.com loucap81@hotmail.com http://www.geocities.com/loucap81/tradelist.html