Van Halen!

Is cherries on bananas a sex thing? I've been out of the game too long

― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, April 13, 2021 3:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i don't think there's any reason to read anything dirty into this...sammy's just a foodie, for ex "poundcake"

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 13:44 (one hour ago) link

You are probably right, I doubt Sammy is that crude, it isn't like he would name an album FUCK or anyt-...wait

the "Bob Plant emissions" jokes bookending every trip to the loo must be insufferable.

I need one of those dumb shirts that says:
Sam and
Dave and
Bob and
Guy

"She put the cream in my coffee (first thing in the morning)
Put that butter on my biscuit (honey to my melons)
Woo, cherries on bananas (you gonna need a second helping)
You know I'm up for breakfast so early in the morning"

Also "up": my breakfast

Perhaps there is a cosmic balance between the volume of breakfast consumed by Sammy and the volume of breakfast lost by others as a result

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ6bli9Xir4

Alex killing it

It's one thing to alter the pitch and tempo of two songs, isolate certain tracks, and mash those together. Bill is far and away the best in the business when it comes to that.
But THIS particular mashup... if you're a die hard Van Halen fan, you hear it right away... that's NOT how DLR sang the song! Bill altered the tempo, cadence and inflection of INDIVIDUAL WORDS from the original vocal track, and did it so skillfully that it comes out sounding completely natural and unedited. It's the audio equivalent of a Deep Fake... he turned DLR into a country singer. This is Next Level stuff, even for McClintock.
BRAVO, sir.
P.S. am I crazy, or did I hear like 5 notes from the bridge of And The Cradle Will Rock thrown in there? Genius.

tremendous work

David did a country album, Strummin' With the Devil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olk8rZmlhY4

Thoughts on Mammoth WVH? Considering he plays all the instruments, has a tight group sound. He has a good voice, too, reminds me vaguely of Nicky Wire. Surprised at the quality of this, and wonder if EVH hadn't passed, if these songs would have fueled a new VH album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMDoj8VVzh8

Quality butt rock.

1993 called

haha yes. extremely Soundgarden. but i like Soundgarden!

One of the new songs (with Hagar) on Best of Both Worlds, the 2004 Van Halen compilation, sounded like Soundgarden too; it's permanently grunge time at the Van Halen's.

Not a bad thing

In 2015, a writer found an email address that supposedly belonged to Eddie Van Halen. He fired off a note on a lark — and kicked off a five-year friendship that lasted until Eddie’s death.https://t.co/Uar74VTSpo

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) July 3, 2022

!!

...and the name of that writer...was Gary Cherone

Van Halen is literally my fucking name you grape https://t.co/ceuP5axF1x

— Wolf Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) March 21, 2023

Which reminds me, Van Halen obviously played for years before the first album came out. Has anyone ever come across any first-hand accounts, in contemporaneous reviews or anything like that, of when EVH showed off his tapping and other sci-fi techniques? I've heard some party band boots of the group doing covers and stuff, but EVH's playing, while good, still sounds pretty conventional. But I assume there's a clear point at which he started doing his trademark stuff live before the release of the first album, right?

Greg Renoff's Van Halen Rising documents it.

Thanks!

That book was great, thanks again. Very interesting and informative.

Meanwhile, found this rippin' performance of "Hot for Teacher" that focuses on Michael for most of the solo, then a bit of the fans, then, finally, EVH ... from the chest up. Weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaPlKTFnXz4

They were a really fun live band back in the day. Very positive energy.

Always shocking how high Anthony’s voice is

It's the pants.

That's probably why you didn't get a closeup of Eddie below the belt.

video shot by charter president of Moms for Michael

that video rules, thanks

I've thought about bands I'd want to see if someone invents time travel and peak Van Halen would probably be in the top five

I saw them in 1979, still one of my favorite shows ever.

goddamn I bet

Old library coworker of mine grew up in Pasadena and very much attended a number of those famed backyard shows in the early-mid 70s. Says it was a real experience.

I saw my guitar teacher's tribute band do a sold out Van Halen show last night, and if the crowd of old people now is any indication, it really must have been nuts back then. people were crazy.

Nailing that HFT tapping riff in the intro…man

Good read. There was another one I read online around time Ed died that was awesome story from the kids that went to the back yard and early shows that I could not find the link.

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

There is also a really low budget documentary about Quiet Riot (VH’s rival band) that had some good info on that same era and scene.

Randy Rhoads was guitarist in some of that early Quiet Riot FYI. I know Chris Holmes from WASP is in that documentary and he knew all of them as a teenager.

https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Metal-Pioneers-L/dp/B0797BSFMS?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=c196e9b2-17c8-40da-9a98-e5dd083b2273

this is an amazing no budget doc about the pre hair metal LA scene that goes very in depth

This is the QR doc.

https://www.amazon.com/Randy-Rhoads-Reflections-Guitar-Icon/dp/B09Z2RFS2D/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=2H022YSRG4XSQ&keywords=quiet+riot+documentary&qid=1681607314&sprefix=quiet+riot+doc%2Caps%2C937&sr=8-2

Drop Dead Legs has great rhythm … all those unrealized ghost notes are wonderful

That live Hot for Teacher is the best medicine rn

I've thought about bands I'd want to see if someone invents time travel and peak Van Halen would probably be in the top five

i have this exact thought very often. well, almost. i don't have a ranking.

This is peak Van Halen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn8APTMyKsg

That's peak anybody. Who's out there delivering that kind of live energy now?

Michael Anthony is 98% energy, 2% bass playing.

lol

though I will say I think a busier bassist would have been totally wrong for VH

Michael Anthony is pure, concentrated joy. Someone should bottle his essence and sling it as an antidepressant.

That's peak anybody.

concur.

Watching the ‘84 Montreal show…right at the beginning when EVH starts Unchained, lone spotlight and then the band kicks in and DLR does the splits off the riser….I got goosebumps just watching the grainy YT footage, can’t imagine what the front row was like

Paraphrasing what someone said in the comments but if I was 13,14 with a ticket DLR would have been some kind of comic book superhero shit to me

though I will say I think a busier bassist would have been totally wrong for VH

I'm listening to the albums on Tidal and I feel like they might have been remixed slightly during the last round of remasters, because I can hear a lot more of Anthony now and on some songs, like "Everybody Wants Some," he plays his ass off and has a really disgusting-in-a-good-way tone.