Van Halen!

I have a tape story as well. The mcmlxxxiv LP is a little over 45 mins, so on my c 90 it would cut off during a guitar run on “girl gone bad”

My mum did some babysitting jobs back in the 80s for a while. One time she babysat for Tommy Vance's kids - UKers of a certain age will remember him from The Friday Rock Show on Radio 1 ("TV on the radio here" etc). Anyway, once she figured out who he was and told him her sons were rock fans he very kindly autographed a couple of LPs that were lying around. My brother got Eliminator and I got 1984, which I still have, albeit with a somewhat faded Tommy Vance sig on the front cover.

And that's my Van Halen story, although really it's more of a Tommy Vance story. Apparently he was very nice.

I liked "When It's Love" when it came out but I was also in 3rd grade and imo it does not sound quite as dope today.

My parents gave me the CD of 'Balance' for my 10th birthday - it had just come out that same week. I think the only other VH i had at the time was the debut, but not real sure. Even at that age, the weaker songs were pretty embarrassing. The stronger songs were fine, they rocked pretty hard, y'know, they did the job. But pretty generic, not a lot of personality. Could have been whatever hard rock band.

Sammy sings the shit out of, for example, 'don't tell me what love can do'. it's almost comical, you know, like he gets so into it on the first verse that there's nowhere to go from there, or at best maybe it sort of plateaus.

I would cop to liking 'Right Now', like, I already knew the song from hearing it on the radio, in the supermarket, maybe the Pepsi ad... but I had no idea it was by Van Halen even though they were my favorite band. I think I got the double live CD with the Jesus lawn ornament on the cover around that time, expecting to recognize Jump because it was this huge hit, but I didn't. Right Now was the song I didn't know I already knew.

So basically I think the thread as a whole is OTM re: Sammy.

Have really enjoyed posts ITT by veronica moser, josh in chicago and everyone else. Really good stuff. I can't remember how 'Runaround' goes but the lyrics to poundcake are *so* cringe, fortunately it's kinda hard to make out all the words.

I can vibe with Sammy only up to ou812

"love walks in" is fun for the unintentionally hilarious alien abduction lyrics

btw Veronica Moser's posts upthread reminded me of this from consequence of sound on Foxy Shazam and the Darkness.

Listening to Clapton is like getting a sensual massage from a woman you’ve loved for the past 10 years; listening to Van Halen is like having the best sex of your life with three foxy nursing students you met at a Tastee Freeze. This is why rock historians and intellectuals feel comfortable lionizing Eric Clapton, even though every credible guy in the world will play Van Halen tapes when his wife isn’t around.

https://consequenceofsound.net/aux-out/i-love-bombastic-rock-bands-whos-with-me/

can i take back my last post?

Listening to 5150 today and I’d honestly forgotten “Love Walks In” & “Why Can’t This Be Love” were this early on

They def have a OU812/F.U.C.K. vibe

^Looking at tracklists, I was surprised "Top of The World" was on F.U.C.K. instead of being one of the first things they put out with him.

Summer nightz

^ eddie sitting on the mids doesn’t suit him

https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/10/david-crosby-backlash-eddie-van-halen-tweet/?new=true
ICYMI

Can't help think that Croz is a bit of a dick.

never mind that DLR's version of "let's party" is pretty quantum…

This made me lol hard. :) Right on.

I was an editor on a reality show some years back where Sammy Hagar guested and I can say, based on the couple of hours of rushes I had to watch to get his guest appearance into shape, he’s a genuinely nice bro.

Cros is a lot of a dick

i swear his niceness is just a myth propelled solely by his santa-beard these days

also dude is a fuckin contrarian through and through. $100 he is only saying “meh” because he knows literally everyone was talking about EVH and didnt feel like kissing ~the dead guy’s~ ass

And I feel her....from acroxxxs the room!

I just listened to Dreams for the first time in forever and whoever said it sounded like an Air Force commercial is otmfm.

crosby is a dick but people are really overreacting to that tweet

OTM

Croz basically apologized too

yes you Van Halen fans I did just toss off an answer that was not cool ...the even more embarrassing truth is ..I didn't even remember he had just died or I would have kept my mouth shut....I do make mistakes ...no offense intended

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) October 13, 2020

rmde

I just listened to Dreams for the first time in forever and whoever said it sounded like an Air Force commercial is otmfm.

I do love this song, actually. It's more like decent Journey.

The Onion used the band as fodder for some seriously good yuks...

http://www.theonion.com/jamie-crying-1819564111
http://entertainment.theonion.com/cia-admits-role-in-1985-coup-to-oust-david-lee-roth-1819577255
http://politics.theonion.com/clinton-hagar-meet-to-discuss-federal-speed-limit-issu-1819564715

But my favorite was when they just had a headline without a story:
"Sammy Hagar Discovers Second Way to Rock"

like decent Journey

i know you didn't mean it as a slam but this is ice fucking cold

also, lol

i mean wait til dee snyder hears about *this*

i for one am outraged

LMAO Croz didn't remember he just died so full of shit

He may be drug free now but his brain's been high since 1975

worst backpedal ever #choad

“i didnt say meh. i said yeh! i was misquoted”

I'm no fan of Crosby, but everyone on twitter knows that if you ask his opinion on just about any musician that he doesn't personally know, you're gonna get some shit talking. It's the only reason anyone asks him these questions. He, as expected, took the bait. I think it's stupid to get mad at how his game works, even if I vehemently disagree with his dumb ass 99% of the time.

hey look i just enjoy openly hating him, it’s my right as an American

lol fair

absolutely need to hear VG's american accent now

YALL CAYNT HANDLE IT

Crosby still more likable than Stills or Nash.

Anyway guy’s answering like a hundred Twitter questions a day, who cares

teach the Tweeters well

I love their music to this day but to a man all 3 are all monstrous assholes in their own magical ways.

but i digress

tell me more about how van hagar sounds like “decent” journey

Just that song, maybe one or two others. Most of it sounds like crap Journey imo.

is Nash bad? never heard much about him

he didn't come off bad in Shakey which is where I learned the most about CSN

I think I mainly don't like him for talking shit abt Crazy Horse, but also always sleeping w/ people's wives

He was a steadfast friend for many years to Crosby when nobody else could handle the guy anymore, so I retract. I just think his music is boring.

The only thing I know about Nash is the Innocent Eyes video starring John Ritter, which is a stone classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KwQORT1T6k

That might be the most '80s song/video combo ever. It could literally be by anyone/everyone.

I think I mainly don't like him for talking shit abt Crazy Horse, but also always sleeping w/ people's wives

― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, October 15, 2020 8:12 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

crosby's so fucking foul this is like eagle scout material in comparison

Good piece in the LA Times about the early Pasadena days

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-10-15/eddie-van-halen-david-lee-roth-pasadena-high-school

I live close to that liquor store at Allen and Villa, and walked over last weekend. About a dozen people there, and someone left a Fender Squire (the type that sold for < $100 at Guitar Center) on the sidewalk where Eddie's "Van Halen" was written. Then I walked to the house and there were people there too.