October 8, 20205 yr On 10/6/2020 at 7:58 PM, markstanco said: On 10/6/2020 at 3:47 PM, hullabelew said: No more Eddie Van Halen and the Eddie Van Halen Band. Bummer. Any pothead in high school in early 1978 can tell you exactly where they were when they first heard that music. Usually screaming from a 8 track tape, played thru a Pioneer Supertuner and Jensen speakers. I was in Robbie Hickam's 76 Trans-Am in the high school parking lot. There were about 20 people gathered around her car, listening. No idea how he was doing that but it was fuckin' AWESOME! Did your pioneer supertuner have the green LOUD button or not? Fuck yes it did...but it was more a pale green because that motherfucker stayed on all the time.
October 8, 20205 yr I forgot that I also saw Eddie when he came on stage at Reunion Arena and joined Patty Smyth. She and John Waite were touring together. VH has just run Roth off and were looking for a new lead singer. Eddie apparently was wanting her to join VH so he was showing up at some of the shows. He had just cut his hair short and when he walked out on stage, carrying a very EVH looking Strat......who is this fucking clown. Then he started playing and people realized who it was. Found this MTV 'News' clip.
October 8, 20205 yr 13 hours ago, Hate said: Totally opposite for me. Fourteen year old me liked it, but that's one of the few Van Halen songs I can't listen to now. There was so much really interesting stuff happening in music then; I'm glad I was young enough not to think "That's not my thing" for most of it. (The kids who were into thrash and NWOBHM were the ones who were always getting into fights and suspensions... not my crowd, so I didn't pick up on the music until, sadly, college and beyond. Now, I love all that stuff.) Between the old AOR stuff still being around, to the new hair metal bands, to the new wave, to all these weird new sounds coming out of the latest and greatest synthesizers... it was a good time to be into music, pretty much until Bon Jovi fucked everything up. I loved "Jump" then, and I love "Jump" now. It doesn't surprise me any more, but it's like an old shirt that you just can't bear to part with; familiar and comfortable.
October 8, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, CHIEF said: Went one year in nothing but cut off overalls. I was cycling about 60 miles per day at the time and lifting for 8-10 hours a week. Three really hot chicks asked me to take the overalls off. I did, and they promptly took them, and my overalls ended up crowd surfing the rest of the show. Ended up leaving the Cotton Bowl in nothing but my whitey tighties and a Wild Mick Brown drum stick I caught during Dokken's show. Drunk as fuck, and no fucks given. At least the girls were kind enough to grope the rest of the show. CHIEF I read that as "nothing but my whitey tighties and Mack Brown's drumstick" Edited October 8, 20205 yr by Deej
October 8, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, hullabelew said: Fuck yes it did...but it was more a pale green because that motherfucker stayed on all the time.
October 8, 20205 yr NSIAP....some cool tidbits. https://www.vulture.com/article/eddie-van-halen-best-stories.html Eddie at a Tool concert. Tool fan asks old man to take his picture. Wonders who old man is and why he is at Tool show. Edited October 8, 20205 yr by Wally Pryor
October 8, 20205 yr 52 minutes ago, markstanco said: But my first under dash didn't have the loud button. But it was exactly like this model. Good, that was a great day when I got that hooked up. Edited October 8, 20205 yr by hullabelew
October 8, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, Rimbo said: The kids who were into thrash and NWOBHM were the ones who were always getting into fights and suspensions... not my crowd And that was the cool thing about Van Halen. There was no VH clique. Van Halen was for everyone. Going to a VH show was like going to a party, and everyone was invited.
October 8, 20205 yr And that was the cool thing about Van Halen. There was no VH clique. Van Halen was for everyone. Going to a VH show was like going to a party, and everyone was invited.That is a very good point. Cliques were very real back in the day. No one really crossed over like now.I credit Aerosmith and Run DMC for starting to change that.
October 8, 20205 yr 54 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said: NSIAP....some cool tidbits. https://www.vulture.com/article/eddie-van-halen-best-stories.html Eddie at a Tool concert. Tool fan asks old man to take his picture. Wonders who old man is and why he is at Tool show. Thats a cool story. But what a fucking moron
October 8, 20205 yr NSIAP....some cool tidbits. https://www.vulture.com/article/eddie-van-halen-best-stories.html Eddie at a Tool concert. Tool fan asks old man to take his picture. Wonders who old man is and why he is at Tool show. What’s cool about it is that EVH just bought tickets like a fan and didn’t have his people call Tool’s people and get him a seat on the side of the stage.
October 8, 20205 yr 2 minutes ago, CooterBrown said: What’s cool about it is that EVH just bought tickets like a fan and didn’t have his people call Tool’s people and get him a seat on the side of the stage. Yeah, it is. Was thinking the same thing.
October 8, 20205 yr 4 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said: Thats a cool story. But what a fucking moron I'm guessing he's been told that by friends, family and everyone else.
October 8, 20205 yr 37 minutes ago, tbone_ said: It’s just rock and roll man. 10 year old writing Right Now? Yeah, no.
October 8, 20205 yr 15 hours ago, honolulu horn said: He ejected it after hearing the solo in Top Jimmy? What a dumbass. You should've thrown Nicky out the window and kept the 1984 cassette. hard to believe any Van Halen fan pre 84 liked 1984 at first.
October 8, 20205 yr Jump had a keyboard sound that 12 year old Buzzrock had never heard before. It was just so HUGE! In music class someone would always go over to the piano and start playing Jump. It made me want a synthesizer something fierce.Luckily I got a guitar instead.
October 8, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, markstanco said: Look at that fucking “Loud” button. That butch is barely hangin’ on! THAT’s the way you do it @markstanco!
October 8, 20205 yr hard to believe any Van Halen fan pre 84 liked 1984 at first.The rest of 1984 was pretty damn good. Panama, Top Jimmy, Drop Dead Legs, and I’ll Wait are all great songs. Jump is just so cheesy when I hear it now.
October 8, 20205 yr 17 hours ago, hookem48 said: the first time I listened to it was riding around in my truck smoking pot with two buddies of mine and Nicky had bought the cassette, after about 4 songs he ejected the tape and threw it out the window. lol Nicky is telling everyone he was there in the beginning right now, he was into these guys before they made it big. Everyone knows a Nicky from their youth.
October 8, 20205 yr 30 minutes ago, NTVTXN said: Look at that fucking “Loud” button. That butch is barely hangin’ on! THAT’s the way you do it @markstanco! Perfect post when read in the voice of...
October 8, 20205 yr 57 minutes ago, Cajun said: Perfect post when read in the voice of... Hilariously enough, we get a reference to this here: A snippet of this was shared earlier. This is the entire interview. I love this interview. (I like the interviewer too and would like to get to know her better)
October 8, 20205 yr https://www.vhnd.com/2020/10/08/from-alex-van-halen/ Link goes to Alex Van Halen's message to his brother on the "Van Halen News Desk." Couldn't get the image to copy over, so link will have to do for now.
October 8, 20205 yr 3 hours ago, Al Czervik said: Nicky is telling everyone he was there in the beginning right now, he was into these guys before they made it big. Everyone knows a Nicky from their youth. Not sure what the hell you're talking about, Van Halen was big to us long before fucking Jump came out.
October 9, 20205 yr 3 hours ago, Hate said: The rest of 1984 was pretty damn good. Panama, Top Jimmy, Drop Dead Legs, and I’ll Wait are all great songs. Jump is just so cheesy when I hear it now. My name is Jimmy and I hated fucking Top Jimmy, god damn my friends gave me hell over the end of that song.
October 9, 20205 yr PSA, for those of you with sat radio, channel 27 is VH all the the time temporarily.
October 9, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, hookem48 said: Not sure what the hell you're talking about, Van Halen was big to us long before fucking Jump came out. Lighten up already.
October 9, 20205 yr I hated jump when it came out. But I was 16 and mostly into Maiden, Queensryche, heavy guitar shit etc. It was strange because we all fully respected Van Halen of course but the keyboards were gay af to our crew anyway.I always wondered what went on in Eddies head to cause him to write and then release that song as the lead single. It was such a departure.Strangely enough I loved Why Can’t This Be Love when it came out a few years later.
October 9, 20205 yr I hated jump when it came out. But I was 16 and mostly into Maiden, Queensryche, heavy guitar shit etc. It was strange because we all fully respected Van Halen of course but the keyboards were gay af to our crew anyway.I always wondered what went on in Eddies head to cause him to write and then release that song as the lead single. It was such a departure.Strangely enough I loved Why Can’t This Be Love when it came out a few years later.
October 9, 20205 yr Y’all wanna hear keyboard genius, go back and listen to the underlying keys during the brief guitar solo in Jump. The man was pure genius. The soundtrack of my youth. He will be missed.
October 9, 20205 yr Also, leave it to EVH to take his little outro to Jump and turn it into one of my favorite Van Hagar songs, Top of the World. Shit, I’ve been busy at work this week but this is really starting to hit me .
October 9, 20205 yr Did this video make it on here? I don't care. Of all the things I could comment on -- his tone, his technique, his joy, his classical influences -- I'm just going to say this: He. Doesn't. Make. One. Fucking. Mistake. 15 minutes of world class wizardry, and he doesn't miss one note. What the hell?
October 10, 20205 yr One thing that struck me about Eddie that may not be well received here, now He burst onto the scene as a phenomenal talent doing things no one had done before and then... he did that for 40 years. He didn’t seem to evolve a whole lot as a guitarist over those next 4 decades. By the time we got to Van Hagar, I felt like I had heard everything a few times over. Feel free to give examples of how I’m a dipshit.
October 10, 20205 yr 18 minutes ago, Goredho said: Feel free to give examples of how I’m a dipshit. Well.....for starters you’re on this website.
October 10, 20205 yr On 10/8/2020 at 7:59 PM, markstanco said: PSA, for those of you with sat radio, channel 27 is VH all the the time temporarily. Every time I've flipped over to it it's been Van Hagar.
October 10, 20205 yr 41 minutes ago, Goredho said: One thing that struck me about Eddie that may not be well received here, now He burst onto the scene as a phenomenal talent doing things no one had done before and then... he did that for 40 years. He didn’t seem to evolve a whole lot as a guitarist over those next 4 decades. By the time we got to Van Hagar, I felt like I had heard everything a few times over. Feel free to give examples of how I’m a dipshit. You just described just about every great guitarist ever. Set expectations, then try and meet them. Where do you go from here? Edited October 10, 20205 yr by Deej
October 10, 20205 yr Never have seen this video before (MJ can’t sing at all but towards the end is cool) If you are a fan
October 10, 20205 yr Question on Eruption. Eddie has said that in the version that made it onto the album he made a mistake near the top. Anyone know where he thought he made it? Because the album version seems damn near perfect to my ears.
October 11, 20205 yr On 10/8/2020 at 4:37 PM, Rimbo said: Hilariously enough, we get a reference to this here: A snippet of this was shared earlier. This is the entire interview. I love this interview. (I like the interviewer too and would like to get to know her better) The way she crosses her legs after he picks up the guitar is some pretty transparent body language. I really wish I had practiced my guitar a lot more. Edited October 11, 20205 yr by DougO
October 11, 20205 yr Thought it was cool that several college football games I watched today were playing VH tunes as transitions in/out of commercials. And don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but seriously, is there a cooler (real) name for a rock lead guitarist than fucking Eddie Van Halen?
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