Van Halen-Sunday afternoon in the park / Romeo Delight 9/1/81 new version

[@miked9000]

sunday afternoon in the park-most underrated song

[@gregorypeller3052]

"My very first concert ever was the Fair Warning tour May 18th, 1981 in Rochester, New York..... from that day until the end of 1984 they were the greatest band in the world.... bar none........ what a great time to be young and alive during this period...... man I miss those days."

[@nothinglikeraceday]

May 9th 1981 in Buffalo...:)

[@Michael-----]

@@nothinglikeraceday The Fair Warning tour started in Canada on May 12th 1981.

[@Spookje09]

It really was amazing to be young, alive and a VH fan then! I used to be dismissive of ni=ostalgia, but once I hit my 50s I realized the joy of living in the 70s and 80s and the despair that it will never be that great again!

[@brettrossi89]

June 20th Los Angeles forum first concert. My friends and I talked about that show for years. It was Michael Anthony’s birthday that night. Cake fight and all.

[@MRCATL3]

You're so right man. Nobody did anything like this

[@diezeldiamond1041]

WHY VAN HALEN NEVER MADE A CONCERT MOVIE OF THIS TOUR WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS ONE OF BIGGEST FUCK UPS IN ROCK N ROLL HISTORY !!!!!!!!!!

[@philipreedwallace]

Man those were the days. Concerts are not anything like they were in the 80s.

[@philipreedwallace]

I got it bro.Ty.

[@big_tuna8]

Philip Reed Wallace truth

[@oiyabastard7275]

We lived it

[@jimmyjennings4089]

That's right bro, I would always try to get as close to the front as possible, so the music would vibrate through my chest especially at a Van Halen concert, these kid's have no clue what they are missing, what a time to be alive and young, we got the memories bro.

[@gregorypeller3052]

"Nope..... soon as you walked into a concert hall you smelled sensimillia, sweat, and lots of hairspray on the ladies,--- all clear indications that it was going to be a good time!"

[@80macking]

Alex's kit was the best looking drum set of all time...

[@nathanwalsh3028]

Agree!! 💯 That kit was a ludwig vista light kit that Alex had coated the inside with 1/4inch fibreglass so it could withstand David jumping on/off the bass drum. He went to ludwig early on in the eighties to get the kit made and realised he had to coat the drums with fibreglass for strength because as soon as Alex stood on the bass drum to test it, it cracked in half. He said in my modern drummer magazine from that year that it was one of the best sounding kits he ever had up until that point. Yes I am a complete geek when it comes to Alex. I even have a few of his old drumheads and old sticks from Alex circa 1979. Bought at an auction in 1982.

[@kevinwilkins3248]

@@nathanwalsh3028 lol I'm exactly the same and was about to post what you did about Al's awesome FW Vistalite kit until I read your post. This is still my all time favorite kit, but I also love his VHII, WACF, DD, OU812, 2007 Reunion, and 2015 tour kits. Heck, ALL of his kits were unique and amazing. He was a tinkerer and tone chaser just like Ed, but he never gets credit for his unique ideas and tones and superb playing. Still my favorite and the reason I started playing drums all these years later.

[@cory3518]

Holy crap I never knew they played Sunday afternoon in the park live before! This is off the charts amazing to watch! Band is on fire and Dave is absolutely incredible with his vocals!!!

[@miked9000]

this video is VH at their prime. nobody came close

[@marlinshanklin1855]

100% true I seen them in their prime this is it.

[@commentfreely5443]

that son of a bitch got me singing that same old song

[@GG-ju5mi]

KISS "Love Gun/Alive 2" Tour along with VH "Fair Warning" tour are the Best two Tours in my opinion.

[@miked9000]

@@GG-ju5mi I would have loved to see either one.

[@schuey999]

They could have never imagined people would be watching a barely visible video 40 years later and treasuring every moment.

[@diezeldiamond2766]

Roth is singing amazing here .The whole show was fucking off the hook .Van Halens Fair Warning tour was the shit .Nobody could touch them only try and copy .My first VH show blown away .Oh yeah the glory days .

[@mechagojira6951]

must have been amazing!!!! if I had 3 wishes...money, be invisible when I want and to go back in time to a concert from the "Fair Warning tour"!!!!! they were so incredible. Roth the best front man hard rock had ever seen...period. the album FW for me is as good as the debut 78 album. It is Eddie's "Brown Sound" guitar masterpiece... I hated it when he started to do overdubs in the hagar era...why??? no need to!!!! he is so f'ing good there is no need for stupid overdubs. none of that bs in the roth era. no electronic drums on any of the "Big Six" albums either.

[@rags847]

That's the Real Van Halen!!! No Wolf! All Originals!

[@topjimmy72]

Amen to that. But Eddie won't have any part of it...

[@rags847]

BA CARL Still hoping.

[@darthhull85]

rags847 At least Wolf contributes to the band...

[@tbfdude]

No Wolf, lol. :D

[@oiyabastard7275]

Do you really need to get the new fucking record it fucking kicks ass and I'm sure 80 did the bass Parts on the studio but dude seriously a fucking rocks man just look up Van Halen a different kind of Truth full album don't worry about the first song tattoo it's the fucking shittiest song on there

[@thekalaoakidd]

even on You-Tube,I'm in the ''nose bleeds''

[@alexandreteixeirabenjamin6539]

This song is one of the strangest sounds I`ve heard in all rock history!! But it sounds fantastic!

[@robertciaschini7625]

Fucking amazing! The energy is immense and the talent off the charts. That's how it's done, Maroon 5!

[@schwickd]

Amen brotha, them some bad azz dudes playin!

[@DreidMusicalX]

I wish I could go back to these days. Much more fun and simple time.

[@marlinshanklin-ww7em]

That was a great tour !

[@willcarmack1242]

UNFKN-REAL!!!!! Fantastic....spun me back to the Charlotte Coliseum...so long ago I forgot....But I remember Sunday Afternoon in the Park....thank you for the trip back in time....never forgotten..

[@rickrenner8528]

Any documentation for better or worse is good,....I saw this song MSG NY 1981,.....and it was grand,.....and now, happy to see it again since that day.

[@jeffwojcik8244]

Was there... Great show

[@1leech]

Sure you were....and my dog was there too; he had floors the lucky bugger...got the tix from his vet.

[@mookytc]

Thanks for the upload! Would love to see the whole show!

[@hibikimaiku]

Thank you very much for uploading this!!

[@666777GG]

Mike S, I agree that it's interesting to see these early '80s concert videos & KZbin is fantastic. I used to trade live cassette tapes by mail in the 80s & some bootleg video too. In 1985 I got my first bootleg video & it was Iron Maiden in Montreal '83. By '86/'87 camcorders got a bit smaller & bootleg videos became more common & the quality was getting alot better. A couple tapes I traded for in '87 are still amazing-(Slayer SF the Stone 11/3/'86 & Possessed in Baltimore 2/7/'87). ---I hope VH has a vault of Roth era concert films, it would be so amazing to see full shows from '78 to '83. I haven't heard any rumours.

[@philipreedwallace]

Me too

[@ricklyle3739]

****ing Awesome! This tour was my first time to see VH in concert. It was the best concert I have EVER seen live! Words can’t describe how ****ing awesome it was. My only regret is that the first time I discovered VH was when they played my home town for the first time in 1980 on the World Invasion tour and a local radio station played only VH the entire night. That night was life changing. I so regret I didn’t “know” to go see them in concert in 1980. So sad 😩

[@Lemke68]

I've never seen this live before! great upload

[@christopherdunn317]

WOW now that's rare indeed

[@archiecunningham3734]

Saw this tour in Vegas ! 15 years old

[@brucebrandy9433]

My 2nd concert ever 8/15/79, Cleveland Music Hall and first of my 7X seeing VH (5X Dave, 2X Sammy)....Best of the 7 was in 81, 2nd row Eddie side....Epic ear damage, right there.

[@dougsteeleguitar]

He knew the fucking words!

[@mrwhitford1966]

+Doug Steele good one!

[@herbertbrown8683]

80s concerts where the best miss those days

[@loutcb]

the new stage is way too lit.

[@monkface]

never knew this existed! awesome!

[@666777GG]

This is one of the first camcorder bootleg videos. At this time the cameras were large & used full size VHS tapes. --thanks to whoever made this, it would have been difficult. To pull this off the filmer probably had a private box or knew security, friend of band/crew etc. ---another great unknown early filmer was doing many shows from '82, '83, '84... In the Montreal Forum.

[@hibikimaiku]

Yeah, it is interesting to see these secret but classic videos turn up! People all over KZbin say that VH possess alot of live footage from the DLR era...do you think they have lots of high quality video in their homes ?

[@philipreedwallace]

LOL How in the hell did they pull that off.?

[@philipreedwallace]

Mike S Dam i hope they do.

[@herewegoaround]

Where have all the good times gone!

[@Forgiveandholyspirit4]

So awesome

[@eddiealex84]

The Mighty Van Halen!!!! \m/

[@gamatron17]

wish they would tour now with this set up.

[@fretboy33]

Bloody force of nature, man.🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@chrisubias7135]

I wished VH would have made a concert video done professionally. I saw them every tour except the last 1984 cause I went to the military

[@alanmartino5488]

Thanks for your service to both VH and the country!

[@MrDevilman67]

saw this tour!!

[@hazor777]

Roth's voice sounds really good here - powerful projection etc.. hate that I didn't get to see Van Halen in their absolute prime, back then. I will always say that Van Halen is THE BEST RnR band to EVER come out of America - yes, even better than Aerosmith (which, IMO, is #2 ).......

[@TheMightyVanHalen]

Truth

[@danielgunning4123]

I agree. I saw them in 1979 in San Jose Ca. The were awesome from what I can remember. After the show as we were leaving , we saw Limos leaving the show, so we started following the limos and cars that were following them. They pulled into, I think was the Holiday Inn, . We ran up to the limos and Eddie and Alex got out first. My friend Tony shook Eddies hand. When I tried a giant bouncer stepped in front of me, Oh well. Then Dave got out, He Was Wasted, with like 4 fine girls holding him up. That was so awesome, I was only 19 yrs old. And Aerosmith cant hold a candle to Van Halen and never will. VH FOREVER

[@hazor777]

that's cool! Would love to have seen them back then, esp. in Ca. - I know the show kicked ass. That's one of the great things about KZbin ; all the vintage footage, .....even if the state of modern music sucks complete ass...ahem.....Funny thing is, I think Aerosmith knows they can't hold a candle to vintage VH either, haha!

[@TheMightyVanHalen]

daniel gunning those were the days..eh

[@danielgunning4123]

The Mighty Van Halen You got that right. Tickets were so cheap too

[@EddieOTesla]

Fair Warning is the peak - 81 tour is the peak

[@krammet]

Rest in Peace EVH

[@topjimmy72]

I would lose it if I heard VH play this live.

[@hazor777]

you had 2 chances w/the last 2 reunion tours w/Roth - they played it & then went into some cover stuff like Cream, The Who etc... - great stuff....

[@topjimmy72]

***** it's not the same without all 4 founding members. Mike needs to be in the band along with Dave, Eddie, and Alex

[@hazor777]

BA CARL yea - tell that to Ed

[@topjimmy72]

***** being that he scrubbed Michael Anthony off their first album and replaced him with Wolf, I don't think my request would get very far...

[@darthhull85]

BA CARL At least Wolf contributes to the band...

[@telavivkunz8479]

All originals no wolfie, They rock outta this entire planet

[@evander5150]

awesome ! thank you fletch !

[@mikecostanzo3145]

I need this updated copy.Waaaaaaaaay better than what I got.

[@lucst.martin2112]

I saw these guys tour, their 1st album. Nobody......I. Mean. Nobody., put on a live show, like VH.

[@twj1964]

Ya, need all of the live stuff on dvds

[@hiterss]

Holy fucks! Looks amazing in this video we can actually see the guys! Upload moreeeee!

[@joerock040]

it's so difficult to find a complete show of 81 tour dvd or before... but why ??

[@stevewarren4813]

It was very difficult to "smuggle" that era's camera into a venue.

[@nothinglikeraceday]

R.I.P. Edward Van Halen...:(

[@topjimmy72]

Awesome. Period.

[@twj1964]

I meant - go to a shelf or bookcase in your house and there's all the VH bootlegs, cds, dvds, everything that the fans recorded, or pro shot, whatever, all in one nice tidy place.

[@philipreedwallace]

Awesome

[@DRUMTOY2002]

A WHOLE 1980 & 1981 show! Do you have "Everybody Wants Some" from this tour with Alex's 'jungle drums" pre-intro?

[@nondrabhandjittapisuth8484]

I love Mike's bass tone

[@eugvh18]

really kick assin metal show

[@SeaVHfan]

Nice work Fletch. Wolfgang's bass playing and background vocals makes this sound like the orignal.

[@fletch2u]

it is on dvd's...what are you looking for? I have it all!

[@Jedizen07]

How in the hell did Eddie play " Sunday. . . " live?!?!?! Thanks for the upload!!

[@JohnnyBeane]

he played a mini synth.

[@johnwestcott5612]

Those ants sound awesome!

[@cletusbeauregard1972]

damn, Dave didn't forget the fuckin' words!

[@johnasheton8927]

They are easily...the greatest rock n roll band PERIOD. Aerosmith?? Are u kidding me?

[@surfsup5757]

MICHAEL ANTHONY WHERE FOR ARTH THOU???

[@ROOKTABULA]

Want Us festival (with extras and full menus), Buenos Aires 83, and the 2 ROTV dvds for Panama and Jump.......BAD! Any leads?

[@Boldaslove71]

This is the case study for having people with their 4k HD iPhones in the air all night. It was dangerous bootlegging a VH concert back in the day. If Noel Monk and his crew got a hold of you.....

[@jerryboogaloo6375]

Back when big ass speakers was all the back-drop needed.

[@seancallan6061]

Wholly shit was that good! VH was in their prime, now doubt!

[@randydogs61]

It really does sound like Godzilla waking up!! EVH quote from years ago!!!

[@randydogs61]

played on a Cheap Electro-Harmonix Ribbon Synthesizer in 1981

[@tryfourlo]

Big like the pyramids

[@SpammerOvTheGods]

tripod-mounted camera makes all the difference

[@zisoul]

Hey there fletch2u, do you got this complete full show? Do you got all the '77 to 85 V H area of live shows on DVD Video? Thanks. Peace.

[@iddddaduncan]

Has Dave always sounded like this?

[@dougsteeleguitar]

+iddddaduncan Shit? Probably.

[@twinvasion7798]

Kraft-Halen 🎹 🤖

[@greglamb4079]

I know the laaaawww, friend

[@gageevans360]

2:50

[@DRUMTOY2002]

I think I just wet myself!!!

[@wayneblair67]

Do you have a website or an email so I can get a list of the DVDs you have

[@BigBlackRod]

When leviathans trod the earth...

[@larryhernandez5062]

Frosty . . . .

[@Jerpal1966]

Was this in Memphis?

[@tadnowicki333]

Jerpal1966 i was literally born on September 1st 1981 at 9:06pm central time. i can't help but feel as though i came into this world with incredible fanfare as i watch this. You made the right trade my friend!

[@johnclaudio8799]

Airborne all the way/Death from above.

[@dasse1588]

I was there 5th row section b 😒

[@joepipe1010]

Sunday afternoon...is like a break in the show but i dont understand the reason it's on the album.

[@michaelbillypec]

He is like Bach

[@rustbeltwilds837]

Rare footage🎉

[@barryhester170]

I forgot the fucking words!!!

[@TontoEpstein]

This looks like it was filmed through some solar filter from the Hubble Telescope.

[@MrJohnnysynth]

A little stingy on the zoom unfortunately.

[@fletch2u]

Johnny synth you people are out of your fucking minds baby!!! .......

[@MrJohnnysynth]

fletch2u Sorry, didn't bring my telescope for the first tune, "baby".

[@8088ee]

+fletch2u this version is amazingly clearer than my old boot.....thx bro !!

[@RSTI191]

No, perfect. Everything is visible.

[@EddieOTesla]

Baby, don't stick your tongue at me unless you plan to use it - DLR lol fuck pc bs 202 - have fun, grow a pair and rock out

[@ericpieper69]

you know that they had o pay radio station to play this album? cause believe it or not it was their worst selling one

[@JeremyS95]

ericpieper69 that is false

[@davidmerlin3344]

Jeremy Scardino it sold 2 million copies and it was the lowest record sales of all of the 70s and 80s Dave era

[@97warlock]

sounds ike maybe he shouldve practiced Sunday afternoon in the park a bit more. Drums were flawless.