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High Wycombe (pronounced wick-am). It used to be somewhere in downtown London, thus the London Central name, and eventually moved to the north London suburbs to an Air Force base.
Did we ever play you guys in sports? I can't recall.
No, we were a Department of Defense school. We only played other DoD schools in England (Alconberry, Croughton, Lakenheath, forgot the other...there were 5 schools).
lol - I've almost certainly played Jump on the keyboard at Costco. That and the intro to "The Final Countdown". Nothing peaks the interest of 50-year old soccer moms passing by with a cart full of bottled water and Kirkland chardonnay than a little Europe on a Saturday afternoon 🤣
So many great clips @RxDawg and others have shared here. Really brings one back to a specific place & time in our collective youth. Also reminded me that Michael Anthony might be one of the more underrated backing vocalists in rock.
PS - not a complaint as I have pretty thick skin on DVs but curious as to what someone's issue is/was on the video I shared? Did they disagree with the riffs that were chosen? Dialogue & debate are encouraged!
This guy says, "Hold my beer."
I know......unbelievable
I played a Rugby match at Lakenheath.
I got a DV for sharing 7th Seal by VH. Bizarre.
BTW, there was a Marine barracks in St. Johns Wood, about a 5 minute walk from ASL. Every year the all English school called Quinton Kennison (I think) would protest outside ASL and throw rocks and bottles at us. One year I grabbed a couple of guys and ran to the Marine barracks. I told a Marine what was going on and he called out to some fellow soldiers and they ran with us back to our campus. That protest ended quickly once they saw who was running down the street. The Marines roughed up a few of the kids, but nobody got hurt.
Must not be a Van Hagar fan! hahaha
For the record - I was firmly in the "David Lee Roth VH is way better than Hagar VH" back in the 80s, but I've definitely softened on that position over time. If I was stuck on a desert island with just the DLR catalog or Hagar, I'd still likely pick DLR; but many of my favorite VH songs have Hagar on vocals.
I'm right there with ya on the two singers.
The album version of 7th Seal is much better than the live one. This is a bad arse tune.
As the OP of this thread I saw those DVs and thought, ****????
Really appreciate all the great stories being shared about VH - one time when I saw them it was general admission in the Ft. Meyers, FL arena - basically a giant warehouse - hot, loud, and crowded. We got there late, so were at the very back. A few fight s broke out in front of us, the crowd shifted to the fight, so we moved closer. The crowd was so pugnacious, that before VH was halfway through the set, we were at the stage (aided by our telling those in front of us that there was a fight behind us - there were lots of gaturd shirts in the crowd). EVH was incredible, gained a new appreciation Michael A. AVH was almost Bonhamesque in his heavy hitting and Roth...well at one point he must have asked for some weed because all of sudden from behind us it started raining nickel and dime bags on the stage as they were being flung from in back of us. Roth sparked one up and I just remember thinking how all these guys that had to hang 4 sheets of drywall to buy that bag were throwing their hard-earned herb to a guy who got much better for free. I'm sure the next day they were shouting, "DLR smoked my dope!"
Bring on the DV's!
PS - to those talking PRS and strats. if you want to get lost in a guitar rabbit hole, check out - https://www.strat-talk.com/
We had a permanent encampment of protesters at the gate of the base our school was on. Sometimes they would block the road, throw stuff at the bus. The bus routes were very long. Mine was about an hour each way. Very nice touring buses with TVs and stereos and tables, so it wasn't a bad ride. Kids would sometimes come out and throw rocks at our bus. We weren't very popular over there.
Ungrateful bas.tards. (Just kidding. Or maybe not.)
The older generation English loved Americans. The younger guys not so much. We had to be careful where we went. Americans kind of stick out over there (for many reasons). It was not uncommon for us to get jumped once in a while. Our whole football team got into a brawl at a rest stop coming home from an away game. It was my freshman year and I made Varsity as a kicker. Literally the smallest kid on the team. We pull in to a rest stop and a couple of us hit the bathroom immediately. We didn't know it but a bus load of drunk soccer hooligans pulled in right next to our bus. I come out of the bathroom and it's a full on gang warfare fight in the parking lot. Pretty scary for a 13 year old to be in the middle of. A couple of our guys got some minor injuries, but the hooligans took a pretty good beating.