Xanadoood Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 (edited) I met a guy at a Halloween party that went to high school with Eddie. He saw them many times in the clubs and backyard keggers.. It renergized my love of VH... Been dissecting their catalogue again, mostly the Roth years. Eddies rythm playing is just so cutting , choppy and kick ass..fools, Romeos delight, take your whiskey home, mean street, drop dead legs... Just killer playing, and sadly, you don't hear any guys paying with this type of raw, kick ass emotion anymore... Those albums were so raw... Cut in 2 weeks, but they still sounded good.. The playing is stellar. Anyway, yeah, Van Halen kicks ass and I feel fortunate to have grown up with them. Edited December 3, 2013 by Xanadoood 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom55 Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Me too. Played Women and Children First yesterday and 1984 today. http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w276/custom55/IMG_3040_zps9360c71d.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadoood Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 Me too. Played Women and Children First yesterday and 1984 today. http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w276/custom55/IMG_3040_zps9360c71d.jpg Woman and Children First is so brutal.. Love it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Me too. Played Women and Children First yesterday and 1984 today. Woman and Children First is so brutal.. Love itIt's my most listened to running music. The guitars are great on head phones. Lots of little details in there. W&CF has great tone as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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goose Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 http://wac.450F.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2012/10/Van-halen-pic.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 A VH top ten list: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/van-halen-songs/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 A VH top ten list: http://ultimateclass...an-halen-songs/ #1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Ways Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 My first real concert ever was van Halen. Those first four albums were awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadoood Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 Listen to that f*ckin nasty , choppin, thick rythm on take your whiskey home.. Just brutal .. No one plays like that anymore 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadoood Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 Me too. Played Women and Children First yesterday and 1984 today. Woman and Children First is so brutal.. Love itIt's my most listened to running music. The guitars are great on head phones. Lots of little details in there. W&CF has great tone as well. Yup, all the little noises, feedback, mistakes... RAW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narps Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Van Halen huh? Well being an 18 year old red blooded, rock'in male in 1978 was a great time. I have not to this day been so excited about a "new" band like I was excited by them in 1978. Grabbed that first album and rocked out. Bought the next 3 or 4 and then like with all others, stopped around my daughter's birth in 1987. If there was ever an exciting "new" sound back then, it was them. I saw them open for Ted Nugent in 1979 and they were outstanding. Definitely in the top five "most excited" I have ever been to see any band....... Great times they were...... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Not a bad kick to be on... ...while I enjoy both Dave fronted Van Halen and Sammy fronted Van Halen, the tip of the hat goes to the original line-up for me. Those first six albums (Van Halen / Van Halen II / Women and Children First / Fair Warning / Diver Down / 1984) are all just monumental. I may just have to join you on this Van Halen kick. ~Cheers, RGLT http://bravewords-public.s3.amazonaws.com/images/p17io6l34cuhh12m41ov0105911l5.jpg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReRushed Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Not one of the Roth-era albums is longer than 35 minutes. 35 MINUTES! Rock and roll magic, all of them. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 first 4 albums kick ass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadoood Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 first 4 albums kick ass How is Van Halen looked upon among peeps in your age group? Are they respected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 I love listening to the isolated guitar tracks from many of these songs. Just amazing rhythm work...and this for a guy so noted for his soloing. Van Halen is probably my favorite band and I consider them to be the greatest American hard rock band of all time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Not one of the Roth-era albums is longer than 35 minutes. 35 MINUTES! Rock and roll magic, all of them. We have threads about prog songs longer than that. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Not a bad kick to be on... ...while I enjoy both Dave fronted Van Halen and Sammy fronted Van Halen, the tip of the hat goes to the original line-up for me. Those first six albums (Van Halen / Van Halen II / Women and Children First / Fair Warning / Diver Down / 1984) are all just monumental. I may just have to join you on this Van Halen kick. ~Cheers, RGLT http://bravewords-public.s3.amazonaws.com/images/p17io6l34cuhh12m41ov0105911l5.jpg Honestly I think the new album is very fitting to stand next to the original six as well. In fact, I like it better than a couple of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 first 4 albums kick ass How is Van Halen looked upon among peeps in your age group? Are they respected? haven't seen a van halen shirt at school ever, most people have heard of them though, and they're familiar with 3 or 4 songs but most kids won't be able to tell you that they're by van halen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadoood Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 first 4 albums kick ass How is Van Halen looked upon among peeps in your age group? Are they respected? haven't seen a van halen shirt at school ever, most people have heard of them though, and they're familiar with 3 or 4 songs but most kids won't be able to tell you that they're by van halen Thats a damn shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 most kids at my school couldn't even name 4 beatles tunes, 4 zep tunes, etc. their loss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom55 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 I've posted this before but this is my fave Eddie guitar track. Love this !!! :haz: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 most kids at my school couldn't even name 4 beatles tunes, 4 zep tunes, etc. their lossI wonder how many of us oldies could name four Cole Porter songs off the top of our heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Tasty! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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