Now Available: Van Halen, Tokyo Dome: Live in Concert + Van Halen / 1984 vinyl reissues

Since the very beginning of Van Halen's career, the only incarnation of the band to have released a live album is the one with Sammy Hagar standing front and center, and while Live: Right Here, Right Now certainly has its fans, it's always been a bit of a bummer that no similar audio document was ever (officially) released with David Lee Roth on vocals. As of today, however, that wrong has officially been righted, thanks to the release of the two-CD / four-LP set, Tokyo Dome: Live in Concert.

Recorded on June 21, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan (as you might reasonably have presumed by the name of the venue), the 23-song album includes material spanning all seven of the Van Halen albums that've featured “Diamond Dave” as frontman.

Here's the track listing:

Disc One:
1. “Unchained”
2. “Runnin' With The Devil”
3. “She's The Woman”
4. “I'm The One”
5. “Tattoo”
6. “Everybody Wants Some!!”
7. “Somebody Get Me A Doctor”
8. “Chinatown”
9. “Hear About It Later”
10. “(Oh) Pretty Woman”
11. “Me & You” (Drum Solo)
12. “You Really Got Me”
Disc Two:

1. “Dance The Night Away”
2. “I'll Wait”
3. “Cradle Will Rock”
4. “Hot For Teacher”
5. “Women In Love”
6. “Romeo Delight”
7. “Mean Street”
8. “Beautiful Girls”
9. “Ice Cream Man”
10. “Panama”
11. “Eruption” (Guitar Solo)
12. “Ain't Talkin''Bout Love”
13. “Jump”

If you're as excited about this release as we are, then we'll go ahead and see if we can help you take it up another notch: the band has also remastered their self-titled debut album and 1984 from their original analog tapes, and they've reissued both those albums digitally as well as on CD and 180-gram vinyl today. And if you really want to go whole hog, there's even a 4-CD / 6-LP set that includes Tokyo Dome: Live in Concert and both of the reissues.

Oh, and by the way, just so you can start saving, similar reissues of Van Halen II, Women and Children First, Fair Warning, and Diver Down are all in the works, too. You're welcome.