Alex Van Halen – enhanced “CHINATOWN” LIVE performed @Stone Music Festival (2013)Sydney, AU
Van Halen ao vivo em Sidney 2013 (128 kbps).wav CHINATOWN
A Different Kind of Truth Tour: Tour by Van Halen
Associated album: A Different Kind of Truth
Start date: January 5, 2012
End date: July 24, 2013
Legs: 2
No. of shows: 55 in North America, 1 in Oceania and 4 in Asia
60 total
A Different Kind of Truth (or Viva La Van Halen Tour) was a 2012–13 concert tour for hard rock band Van Halen. It was Van Halen’s tour in support of their 2012 album, A Different Kind of Truth.
post 2007 Van Halen concert chronology:
North American Tour (2007–2008)
A Different Kind of Truth Tour (2012–2013)
North American Tour (2015)
Notes:
HQ Audio from Director Jeff Claire at Five O Backstage One, of pro-shot video of Van Halen performing at the Stone Music Festival in Sydney, Australia at the ANZ Stadium on April 20th, 2013.
VAN HALEN played its first concert of 2013 as one of the headliners of the Stone Music Festival on April 20 at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia.
The group’s setlist was as follows:
01. Unchained
02. Runnin’ with the Devil
03. She’s The Woman
04. Romeo Delight
05. Tattoo
06. Everybody Wants Some!!
07. Somebody Get Me A Doctor
08. China Town
09. (Oh) Pretty Woman
10. Drum Solo
11. You Really Got Me
12. Dance the Night Away
13. I’ll Wait
14. Hot For Teacher
15. Beautiful Girls
16. Ice Cream Man
17. Panama
18. Guitar Solo
19. Aint’ Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
20. Jump
The Stone Music Festival was inspired by a cult ’70s biker film named “Stone”. Released in 1974, the exploitation movie starred Ken Shorter as an undercover cop assigned to discover who is murdering members of an outlaw biker gang named the Gravediggers.
VAN HALEN had not been seen on a stage since last spring, but along with a handful of Japanese dates and the Australian gig, the band recently confirmed its first U.S. show of 2013. The Van Halen clan and David Lee Roth will close out the annual Rock USA festival, scheduled for July 17 through July 20 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
VAN HALEN backed out of 31 North American dates last summer, citing exhaustion, and then Eddie Van Halen was sidelined for four-to-six months after undergoing surgery for the inflammatory intestinal affliction diverticulitis.
Roth recently gave an interview to Rolling Stone in which he expressed his desire to work on fresh material with Eddie Van Halen and tour outside the U.S., saying, “We have an audience and we have a potential future in many, many places . . . I don’t know where the VAN HALEN future lies aside from the States.”
Van Halen will headline day one the first ever Stone Festival in Sydney today with a line-up also featuring Aerosmith, Jimmy Barnes and supergroup Kings of Chaos.
Today’s Stone Fest will mark the first time Van Halen have ever played in Australia with David Lee Roth. The band toured Australia in the 90s with the short-lived Gary Cherone line-up but has never played on Australian soil with Roth or his replacement Sammy Hagar.
Both Roth and Hagar have toured Australia previously as solo artists.
Supergroup Kings of Chaos features members of Deep Purple, Guns N’ Roses, Skid Row and Billy Idol’s band.
The Stone Festival at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium is off to a bad start weatherwise with persistent rain over Sydney all night and still at 7am and thunderstorms predicted through-out the day. Stone Fest is on April 20 and 21 in Sydney.
Saturday’s lineup features Van Halen and Aerosmith with Jimmy Barnes, Kings of Chaos, The Living End, Noiseworks, Buckcherry, Richie Ramone and The Superjesus.
Billy Joel is headline the Sunday show with Icehouse, Guy Sebastian, Lifehouse, Diesel, Mark Seymour, Shannon Noll and Illumination Road.
(by Paul Cashmere on April 20, 2013)
