VAN HALEN TO RELEASE DEFINITIVE LIVE ALBUM – TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT – APRIL 3
Van Halen will release its first-ever live album to feature original singer David Lee Roth. Recorded
on June 21, 2013 at the famed Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT
includes 23 songs, spanning all seven of the band’s albums with Roth. It will be released as a
double CD; four-LP set on 180-gram vinyl; and digitally beginning April 3rd, 2015.
Fans who pre-order TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT before its April 3rd release date through at
iTunes will instantly receive downloads of ‘Panama’ and ‘Runnin’ With The Devil.’ Go to
http://van-halen.com/ for updates and more information.
Van Halen reinvented the sound of hard rock in 1978 with its influential and wildly successful
eponymous debut album and then achieved even greater success six years later with 1984. Both
albums would define a generation while selling more than 10 million copies each in the U.S.
alone to earn diamond-certification from the RIAA. The band recently went back to the original
analog tapes and remastered both of these landmark albums – VAN HALEN and 1984 – which
are now also set for release on April 3rd 2015 through Warner Bros. Records.
Considered one of the greatest debut albums in rock history, Van Halen took the music world by
storm in 1978 with an 11-song manifesto that features some of rock radio’s most played songs of
all time and scorching concert staples like ‘Runnin’ With The Devil,’ ‘Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love,’
‘Jamie’s Cryin’,’ the band’s signature cover of The Kinks’ ‘You Really Got Me,’ and Eddie Van
Halen’s finger-tapping tour de force, ‘Eruption.’ Six years and five albums later, Van Halen had
become one of the biggest bands in world around the release of 1984, which includes a number
of the band’s most legendary songs such as the #1 hit, ‘Jump,’ ‘Panama,’ and ‘Hot For Teacher.’
Mastering engineer Chris Bellman, who remastered the original albums for Bernie Grundman
Studios, Hollywood, CA, was enlisted for these new versions. In order to produce the original
sound the band intended, Bellman cut straight from the quarter-inch tapes for CD; for 180-gram
vinyl; and for the digital version. Newly mastered versions of Diver Down, Women and Children
First, Van Halen II and Fair Warning are also being cut for each format and will be available
soon.
TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT features an electrifying performance by singer David Lee Roth,
guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen, and bassist Wolfgang Van Halen. Mixed by
award-winning engineer and mixer Bob Clearmountain (Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Roxy
Music, Nine Inch Nails, and many more), and mastered by Chris Bellman, the album features
such classic anthems as ‘Dance The Night Away,’ ‘Beautiful Girls’ ‘And The Cradle Will Rock…’
‘Unchained,’ and ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ as well as blistering versions of ‘Tattoo,’ ‘She’s The
Woman,’ and ‘China Town’ from the group’s most recent studio album, A DIFFFERENT KIND OF
TRUTH.
A deluxe collection featuring Tokyo Dome Live In Concert and the newly remastered VAN
HALEN and 1984 albums, as both a four-CD set and a six-LP vinyl set in special packaging, will
also be available April 17th
Pre-order TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT from iTunes now.
TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT
Track Listing:
“Unchained”
“Runnin’ With The Devil”
“She’s The Woman”
“I’m The One”
“Everybody Wants Some!!”
“Somebody Get Me A Doctor”
“Chinatown”
“Hear About It Later”
“(Oh) Pretty Woman”
“Me & You” (Drum Solo)
“You Really Got Me”
“Dance The Night Away”
“Cradle Will Rock”
“Hot For Teacher”
“Women In Love”
“Romeo Delight”
“Mean Street”
“Beautiful Girls”
“Ice Cream Man”
“Panama”
“Eruption” (Guitar Solo)
“Ain’t Talkin’’Bout Love”
“Tattoo”
“I’ll Wait”
“Jump”