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Van Halen- Poundcake- Dallas 12-4-91

The story behind this free concert performance by Van Halen of "Poundcake" in the streets of downtown Dallas in early December 1991 gets filed under Urban Legends that are actually true. That's me introducing Van Halen from the stage. -Redbeard

Texxas Jam ’78 Dallas Cotton Bowl 7-4-78

On July 4th weekend in 1978, almost 100,000 people crammed into the Cotton Bowl in Dallas for the first Texxas Jam on the hottest day of the decade to watch Van Halen, Heart, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Journey, Eddie Money, Walter Egan, Head East, & Frank Marino. It was one of the first stadium rock shows of this magnitude ever held in the South