Mean Streets VH Tribute Band

Everybody Wants Some... Early Van Halen!
Mean Streets ‘Live Van Halen Experience’ has been described by fans as a pure “adrenaline rush” show… keeping fans either “dancing in their seats”… or “rushing the dance floor” to ‘Dance the Night Away’, with reckless abandon….

Mean Streets meteoric rise in popularity across the west coast is primarily thanks to the exceptional sound coming from these 4 talented musicians… It’s also the energy and engagement with their audiences that makes a unique statement. Simply put, their memorable shows live on in the hearts and minds of their fans until the next show… Mean Streets fan base has quickly grown by thousands, becoming one of the Southwest’s premiere Van Halen Tribute Bands. They have a laser-targeted focus on recreating the energy and precision of the earliest VH Live performances. Specializing in the early years and VH tours, Mean Streets have been impressing true Van Halen fans, with accurate and faithful covers of the most iconic Van Halen songs…

Through an impressive mastery of the extensive Van Halen catalogue and their instruments, these 4 professional musicians faithfully recreate the sound, and energy of the original Van Halen shows between 1977 – 1984…

With incredible attention to detail in their performances, off-the-charts stage presence and true musical virtuoso level skills, Mean Streets deliver a Live Van Halen Experience that is astonishingly accurate and authentic. Their love and respect for EVH and the entire band, is evident throughout their shows… Fans cheer them on for their passion and craftmanship. Performing the earliest VH catalogue with exceptional sound, tone and accuracy both vocally and sonically, is a tall order indeed.

You’ll be blown away by Means Streets accurate and faithful renditions of the most iconic Van Halen hits like:

And The Cradle Will Rock, Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love, Beautiful Girls, Dance The Night Away, Drop Dead Legs, Eruption, Everybody Wants Some, Hot For Teacher, I’ll Wait, Jamie’s Cryin’, Oh’ Pretty Woman, Mean Street, Panama, Unchained, You Really Got Me, & many more…

Mean Streets consists of 4 extremely talented and versatile musicians with decades of experience between them:

Vocalist Matt Concienne as “Diamond Dave” (David Lee Roth) has been called “An Amazing Front Man” & “Powerhouse Vocalist”. Matt is also a talented Guitarist & Drummer. Matt explains his story… He’s been hearing his whole life, “just how much” he “Moved”, Sounded” & “Looked Like” David Lee Roth (DLR)… So many years ago Matt decided to bring his skills to honor Diamond Dave… When Matt shakes his blonde mane, jump kicks on stage or belts out a scream… audience enthusiasm and temperatures are sure to rise… In addition to Matt’s Stellar Vocals, his Dance Moves, Thrusting Antics, and Pant Splitting Jumps, have been described as “So much like DLR”, the experience of “watching him perform” is downright “uncanny”…

Guitarist/Backing Vocalist Roger Stanley as Eddie Van Halen (EVH) is a 30-year veteran of rock bands from the East Coast to the West…. Roger is now wowing crowds in the Southwest with his dexterity & versatility as a guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and all around sonic guru… It doesn’t take long for the listener to realize just how deeply he has studied EVH’s idiosyncratic and groundbreaking approach to rock guitar, successfully capturing the sound, phrasing and inventiveness that have made Eddie Van Halen one of the worlds most influential rock guitarists…

Drummer/Backing Vocalist Mike Troupe as Alex Van Halen, is a musician’s musician. A talented multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Mike combines the knowledge, control & intricacy of jazz and progressive music, with the high energy and raw power of the best rock drummers. In addition to his ability to capture both the swing and the sting of Alex Van Halen’s propulsive drumming, Mike’s wide ranging vocal abilities add an extra element of versatility to the band. Adding an extra 4th vocal that was not present in the original lineup when called for to better replicate the studio recordings is just one more example of Mike’s importance and versatility…

Rounding out the band is Bassist/Backing Vocalist Peter Gorritz as Michael Anthony. As any true VH fan knows, Michael Anthony was in many ways the band’s “Secret Weapon”; his pristine vocals and rock solid bass playing were what kept the band grounded, allowing Eddie to fly and Dave to soar. In addition to providing the high tenor MA vocals that were a hallmark of the VH sound, Peter is, like MA himself, the utility player of Mean Streets, supplying both the solid foundation and the ability to fill in space in the same way that always made VH sound like a much larger band…

While there are many bands out there that can do a pretty good job of capturing some elements of the Van Halen sound, you would be hard pressed to find another band that captures the thunderous precision of the recordings, the wild abandon of the live shows, the look and the sly humor & sheer showmanship that made the original VH legends in their own time in the same way that Mean Streets does…

It’s a show that simply must be experienced to be believed!