Lou’s notes: “I think the quality is more like a B+/A- myself. ” (Source: )īootleg Title: “Home Ground” (no label, vinyl bootleg) (just like “Romeo Delight” in the US Festival show). Also, Dave “makes up” lyrics in the second verse of “Unchained”. In the same song, Eddie plays part of the second solo during the FIRST solo. It’s an audience recording, and the band sounds clear but there’s a “spacious” arena-quality to it.īecause the show was in LA, the boys were probably partying hard and it shows in a few songs Dave doesn’t sing the entire second verse of “So This Is Love”. Quality rating and identifying clues: “Overall sound quality would rate about a B.

I have also come across these previously undocumented labels, which misidentify this as a performance from London while keeping the same cover design: My claims are based on auction results showing the blank white copies being mainly offered from Japan and the red ones never from Japan but always from Europe. The matrix # was now VH-619 A/B/C/D:Ī third pressing on red vinyl was done in Europe, also ca. Compare the shrunk version from the red vinyl edition here:Ģ527B label leaving out Dance The Night Away in the # 2 positionĪ second pressing with blank white labels (random numbering on one side -see below) was done in Japan, ca. The “Van Halen” banner also looks more purple.” = this is actually a description of the cover for the first & second Japan releases. “The front and back artwork looks the same at first glance, but closer examination reveals that the artwork is compressed so that more of the image(s) appear at the edges of the sleeve. HOTWACKS and are incorrect here in calling these the alternate labels/reissue. Japan: 1983 for the first edition (2527/8 A/B matrix): Black vinyl + title labels (as shown after the copied cover image).

Van halen bootleg recordings