Talk:Van Halen concert tours

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It's a lot of boring hard work getting tours listed in detail. If anyone wants to make more pages, I suggest we do The Ambulance Tour. It's one of the best documented in live videos since several shows were aired live on TV (YouTube'll help you find them), it was one of the band's most successful tours. With the injuries the band incurred it was one of the more eventful tours too. Also one of the ones where Hagar allowed the other performers brief lead vocals - this never happened until the 1988 tour onwards and did not happen in 2004 or the present 2007 tour.

It was the last before the band began to fall apart - Hagar left, the band tried to reunite with Roth and told the public they had, Gary Cherone joined the band for an unpopular album and a tour that bombed and had a lot of cancelled dates. And that's just 1995-1998. Really the 1995 tour was the last tour during Van Halen's main career. FUCK was uneventful, RHRN was very short, so this would leave all the important Hagar-era dates done.

Some Roth-era tourdates would be nice, but they're not so relevant I feel. The band was on the road a lot more often then and it felt almost continuous. A tour was organised. Then another. In the Hagar era each tour was taylor made with a specific vibe (The Elfoid 16:09, 15 October 2007 (UTC))

Please note that tour articles do not have to list out all the tour dates! Many do, but some editors consider that quite encyclopaedic. Some of the best tour articles, such as those in Category:U2 tours and Category:Bruce Springsteen tours, just describe itineraries in general, without listing all dates. The important thing is to describe what the tours were like, i.e. what the shows looked like (stage set, etc), themes of the shows, quality of the shows/fan reactions, popularity or lack thereof, how the tour fit into the career arc of the performer, etc. See Blond Ambition Tour or The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972 for more examples of what tour articles can be. Wasted Time R 18:25, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

I think it's quite important in the case of Van Halen, since the most notable thing about the III tour was the new territories it covered, and one of the striking things about Van Halen is how frequently their tours were North America only. Also their festival tours (Monsters of Rock) obviously made it important to include all the dates on there. The present tour's very short, so again, each date's noteworthy.

After that it just felt appropriate for the sake of consistency. (The Elfoid 21:30, 22 October 2007 (UTC))