🎄 A Van Halen Christmas Surprise! 🎄 On this episode of Exclusively Van Halen here on Johnny Beane TV, we dive deep into a newly uploaded and extremely rare recording from the Music Media Archives YouTube channel — an uncirculated Van Halen soundboard tape captured during a 1983 South American soundcheck. Pulled from legendary sound engineer Roy’s personal collection, this tape was sadly left unlabeled, but clues throughout both sides strongly point to an early-1983 South American stop on the tour. The recording is paused and restarted multiple times, giving us a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall look at Van Halen in pure creative mode. This isn’t just a casual listen — it’s a dense, detail-packed snapshot of the band working things out in real time. Dave is mostly absent early on, popping in occasionally to talk, joke, and later sing, while the bulk of the tape features Eddie, Alex, and Michael Anthony jamming, experimenting, and locking in grooves. Among the many highlights: Jam-based takes on Wild Thing, Since I’ve Been Loving You, and Crossroads A funky jam that morphs into Eddie teasing Another One Bites The Dust Mike kicking off In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida before a tune-up stops the fun Nearly complete instrumental performances of Sinner’s Swing and Hear About It Later An early, embryonic version of Panama, showing just how far along the song already was in early ’83 Eddie solo for nearly 10 minutes, noodling, experimenting, and even dipping into The Munsters theme and the main riff of Beat It — especially cool considering Eddie’s iconic solo on the final track Dave returns later with classic Roth humor, bizarre commentary, and vocal warmups, before delivering the only full vocal performances on the tape: 🎤 You Can’t Do That (The Beatles) 🎤 A partial Little Dreamer, stopped mid-song with Dave admitting he’s been making up the words The tape closes perfectly with Dave declaring, “Roy, we’re done,” and Roy replying, “OK.” This is Van Halen raw, loose, funny, experimental, and brilliant — the kind of archival gem fans dream about. 🎧 Track Listing: 01 Jam I 02 Jam II / Wild Thing 03 Jam III / Funky 04 Panama 05 Since I’ve Been Loving You / Funky Queen 06 Blues Jam / Heartbreak Hotel 07 Jam IV / In A Gadda Da Vida 08 Take Your Whiskey Home 09 Sinner’s Swing! 10 Hear About It Later 11 Jam V / Romeo Delight 12 Crossroads 13 Jam VI (Side B) 14 Guitar Noodling / Munsters Theme / Beat It 15 Interlude 16 Jam VII / Girl Gone Bad / Drums 17 Runnin’ With The Devil / Vocal Warmup 18 You Can’t Do That 19 Little Dreamer 📼 Lineage: Maxell UDXL-I C-90 → Nakamichi DR-1 → Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD → FLAC #VanHalen #ExclusivelyVanHalen #EddieVanHalen #VanHalenBootleg #VanHalenLive #VanHalenArchive #DavidLeeRoth #MichaelAnthony #AlexVanHalen #JohnnyBeaneTV
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