This is a Van Halen Thread

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If you don't like them, please ignore!

[taterguy]

1. Whatevs

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3. ROFL. I guess I gotta watch it.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. I found the simple life, ain't so simple...

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4. Rock on Cooley!

[melman]

5. Light Up the Sky

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7. Maybe their most underated album. Worthy post melman.

[Throd]

6. My favorite

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8. I think that you're headed for a whole lot of trouble.

HELL YEAH

[melman]

9. And then they went and they voted you..

..least likely to succeed.

[denbot]

10. Both time I've seen them live I paid .50 cents admission.

6 months after the last live show (high school gymnasiums) they were signed to a record contract, and headlined at the Los Angeles Forum, but general admission was $6.50 so I blew it off..

Get off my lawn!!!!! 👴

[BootinUp]

14. Ok, hmmm. I guess they dint excite you too much.

[denbot]

17. Actually I dig them with Roth in the line-up

They had an amazing following as a backyard band. Every show was packed with hot surfer chicks, but I was just a cheap little bastard way back when.. I mean, jeazs, pot was a whole $10 bucks an ounce back in the day.

[underahedgerow]

11. I was a stagehand on their Hide Your Sheep tour.

Wildest. Raunchiest. Over-the-top. Pure-Debauchery & Decadence tour, EVER.

And I toured with everyone who was anyone back in the day.

Best fun I ever did have! Yeeee hah!

Roth & Eddie were serious fun, Anthony was an uptight d**k.

[BootinUp]

13. Thanks for the story!

I only saw them once on the fair warning tour in LA. I bought tickets for the reunion but had to give them away.

[KMOD]

12. one Van Halen

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but I have to sneak in a David Lee Roth, too

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[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

15. Wait for it...

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16. The 1984 album sort of raised it a notch

certainly that's where they gained much more acclaim. Then all of a sudden they were without a lead singer and began looking for one. They reportedly considered Patty Smyth of the Scandals...Here Patty is joined on stage by Eddie Van Halen:

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[pipi_k]

18. They found a dirty-faced kid

in a garbage can....

[cemaphonic]

19. Guitar nerds represent!

I dislike about 98% of the 80s hard rock/metal guitar that followed it it's wake, but you've gotta give credit to Eddie for blowing the lid off of that stale British electric blues that everyone had been doing for the last decade.

[BootinUp]

20. Excellent observation. Eddie was trained as a classical musician and clearly had a creative

impact on guitar playing. When I first got into Van Halen in 1978 or 79 I was just a kid and didn't understand too much about rock history. But I think your comment is spot on.