![]() ![]() It sounds like there’s a vinyl side break before heading into “Buffalo”. “Pretty Woman” is zipped through fairly quickly (with one audience participation stop), going into Dave’s rabid “Elephant Gun” and the slick “Ladies’ Night in Buffalo?” “Elephant Gun” features solos galore that would have been pretty awesome to see up close. You put in the quarter, you gotta let the jukebox play the whole thing out. You don’t go to the show just to hear the music. And it’s also way way way too long, with Dave trying to figure out who is reaching down between whose legs, but that’s Dave. “Panama” sounds a little odd with Brett Tuggle’s keyboards so prominent in the mix. After “Unchained” he stops to talk to a “pretty Canadian girl”. Like in Van Halen, “Unchained” is interrupted part way, but this time it’s so Dave can ask what you think of his new band! Pretty hot. The backing vocals are far more elaborate. The bass rumblings are unlike anything Michael Anthony played on the original. “Unchained”, “Panama” and “Pretty Woman” are the first three. Vai certainly needs no help in hitting all the guitar hooks that he baked into the vinyl, just with more flair and energy.ĭave has never shied away from Van Halen hits or deep cuts. Without pause they rock into “Tobacco Road”. High octane, even though it’s just an audience recorded cassette with not enough volume on the guitar. The crackle of original vinyl is audible.Ī nice fade-in brings Steve Vai’s guitar to the fore, and then it’s wide open into “Shyboy”. It opens with a Van Halen-era interview with David Lee Roth about “precision rock”. This cassette is a second generation, recorded from a buddy (with good equipment at least) in 1992. ![]() DAVID LEE ROTH – Big Trouble Comes to Toronto – Maple Leaf Gardens 10/31/86 (bootleg cassette)
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