Van Halen!

In 7th grade I had an assignment to write a report on a Central American country of my choice. One guess which I chose

“You see, I was listening to Sadinista...”

Thanks to that incorrect spelling I have invented an emo band.

They built a bunker for their feelings

https://www.pollstar.com/article/irving-azoff-on-eddie-van-halen-unqualified-genius-loving-soul-146599

Apparently they were going to reunite with Michael Anthony for a big tour last year, but then Eddie's cancer returned.

It's also mentioned that Alex and Wolfgang will soon be exploring the 5150 tape vault. I just saw an MTV news story on FB from '98 where Eddie gives a studio tour; arriving at the massive shelves containing the tapes, he mentioned that they'd recently tried log the contents, but the computer they were using cratered. He went on, bringing up a time recently when he got up on a ladder and grabbed a random tape box to listen to, and it was the initial work tape for "Right Now", which dated back to 1983.

Fun fact: Ted templeman played drums on “what a fool believes”

Good interview with Mr. Iommi -- he's seen a lot of people pass but I kinda think this one really has hit hard, not simply because they were fairly close but him being of a younger generation and all.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/black-sabbath-tony-iommi-eddie-van-halen-interview-1073082/

<3 aw that was lovely. Iommi’s such a gent.

https://i.imgur.com/5WM1oke.png

Have you ever seen a bigger smile on Tony’s face?

Beautiful interview

What would you talk about?
Do you really want to know? [Laughs] I’m not gonna mention that actually. [Pauses]

killing me here

Couldn't find any recent photos of the kids from the Hot for Teacher video... except for one:

https://i.imgur.com/8jA8LZB.jpg

"Michael" (Yano Anaya) was also the mean kid in A Christmas Story and one of the paper boys in Better Off Dead!

Great Memories from Ted Templeman

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/ted-templeman-producer-eddie-van-halen-interview-1073080/

More from Ted, from last May:

https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/van-halen-ted-templeman/

Wow, some impressive shit-talking in there!

Amazing how Templeman wanted to replace DLR with Hagar...in '77!

Templeman produced Montrose, right? Still, that seems maybe revisionist.

Tora tora is a wink to sabbath right?

xpost no at least according to Van Halen Rising Templeman wanted to replace Roth

Roth's um... limitations as a vocalist was one of the main reasons they took so long to get signed

I meant revisionist not that they didn't want to replace him but that Ted specifically wanted to replace him with the person they wanted to replace him with a decade before they actually replaced him with that very person. I guess I've never heard that story before. Anywho, I don't think Dave is that limited. Maybe compared to Sammy or someone like that, but you'd think if Dave were a real liability he wouldn't have lasted a decade. See also: Michael.

Eddie is actually pretty adamant that DLR was the right singer, despite hearing that they needed to ditch him for someone conventionally "better", also Roth did a lot back then to boost up Eddie's confidence

Roth obv was the perfect singer for Van Halen but if you're a 70s A&R guy I think they just thought hey this guy is a fun frontman for a party band but we can't make records with this guy

Roth also took voice lessons and worked on it, he was aware of his limitations

Anthony wasn't perceived as a liability at all, just super solid on bass and everyone was over the moon about his backing vocals

Anthony only plays half notes on the tonic, it’s in his contract

Eddie is actually pretty adamant that DLR was the right singer, despite hearing that they needed to ditch him for someone conventionally "better", also Roth did a lot back then to boost up Eddie's confidence

Roth obv was the perfect singer for Van Halen but if you're a 70s A&R guy I think they just thought hey this guy is a fun frontman for a party band but we can't make records with this guy

Roth also took voice lessons and worked on it, he was aware of his limitations

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, October 10, 2020 4:31 PM bookmarkflaglink

Otm

Hagar was a "better" singer but...i never wanna hear his era

I heard a spot with Patty Smythe on public radio this morning and she said she was asked to join, but didn't because she was 8 months pregnant at the time. Not sure how that would have worked.

wow! that would have been interesting

also weird

In the couple of VH books I read, Michael was kept around largely not because he was a great bassist or even because he's a great singer but because he's such a nice guy and helped everyone get along. But clearly Eddie had no problem eventually canning him.

Yeah, the Patti Smyth thing had always been floating around, but I don't know if I'd ever heard her confirm it before today? I'd also heard that EVH wanted to make an album with a revolving door of singers—Patti, plus whoever else would say yes.

Kinda think that might have been a disaster.

Wow, some impressive shit-talking in there!

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, October 9, 2020 11:15 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

new board description for ILTMI?

Patty Smyth (as per wiki): "I was a New Yorker, I didn't want to live in L.A. ... and those guys were drunk and fighting all the time."

Yeah, I think that was the real reason, and being preggers was the polite one.

Ozzy and DLR were replaced by better technical singers.
Can't say I ever gave a fuck even as a teenager who was a huge fan of both bands at various times.
I still preferred the earlier material in both cases.
I concede that I like Dio-Sabbath much more than Van Hagar, but that's not a very controversial opinion, I don't think.

This is v much my own baggage

but just seeing Van Hagar & Dio-Sabbath mentioned together in the same *sentence* almost made me throw my phone out the window

>:(

Not sure why ilx can’t hear the magic in “dreams” but it’s there. It just doesn’t have an exclamation point in the title

It sound like a song about a buthole sympathizers

Fuck crosswyed

dreams is great

Van Hagar had it's moments

i like Dreams, and Why Cant This Be Love.

and thats it. i can only take so much “music to snowboard by”

I always held DLR in high high esteem, a perfect frontman. EVH and DLR were both so... abstract impressionist in their approaches to rock, so non linear and spontaneous and ecstatic... but in a really masterful way cuz obv Eddie is a wizard and like upper Mississippi says DLR knew his limitations and so really knew how to use his voice. breathtaking.. the beautiful chaos especially evident on vh2 and wacf

https://i.imgur.com/HEb9ttT.gif

https://i.imgur.com/PU9DGMg.gif

https://i.imgur.com/hIH7WUz.gif

https://i.imgur.com/f6IXh56.gif

Van Hagar always seemed so happy!

Dave Holmes described Hagar as having “tequila-Dad energy”

I know that energy well, and it scans

Speaking of tequila dads, I just saw that DLR turned 66 today.

HBD DLR 🥳

I know EVH is a guitar genius and everything, but DLR's Melrose Avenue Borscht Belt schtick is responsible for a good portion of my VH fandom.