RolandDeschain Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 New video for Tattoo The original and way better version - Down In Flames http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kCj0VfD22o&feature=player_embedded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Funny how the person that uploaded "Down In Flames" on YouTube says it went on to become "You're No Good" from Van Halen II. "You're No Good" is a cover of a song by Clint Ballard, Jr. that was made famous by Linda Ronstadt (and was covered by several others as well). I realize cover songs don't always adhere to the original version sonically but I really don't hear Van Halen's version of "You're No Good" in "Down In Flames". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RolandDeschain Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) Funny how the person that uploaded "Down In Flames" on YouTube says it went on to become "You're No Good" from Van Halen II. "You're No Good" is a cover of a song by Clint Ballard, Jr. that was made famous by Linda Ronstadt (and was covered by several others as well). I realize cover songs don't always adhere to the original version sonically but I really don't hear Van Halen's version of "You're No Good" in "Down In Flames". No but its for sure the precursor for Tattoo. anyway I like down in flames version way better than the watered down version they call Tattoo. Edited January 10, 2012 by RolandDeschain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 No but its for sure the precursor for Tattoo ...and I see nothing at all the matter with that. Same thing for "She's the Woman" also coming from an old demo. Lots of artists resurrect old songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliet Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 VH will be in Toronto in March...I believe on St. Patrick's Day at The ACC......No date for London, Ontario...yet!!!!! http://www.van-halen.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pagemeister Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 http://youtu.be/ttIQnxQ9xvM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pagemeister Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 http://youtu.be/rmtzqa5X1FQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 90 second preview of "Blood and Fire" from the upcoming Van Halen record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sagittarius Rising Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Saw them in 1984 and one of the worst concerts I ever saw. EVH was either drunk, stoned, or both because for someone who is so proud of his technical prowess on the guitar he made Jimmy's Mesa 1977 look like Bonamassa. I know everyone has off days and I still enjoyed myself but it just pisses me off when EVH mentions how sloppy Hendrix was compared to him. EVH is just an arrogant prick who plays variations on the same groundbreaking solo in just about every song. The lyrics to Tattoo are laughable and just plain stupid. Don't get me wrong, VHI is a classic but anything after Fair Warning is fair at best. Get it..."fair" at best. Ok, bad joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pagemeister Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 (edited) Edited January 26, 2012 by The Pagemeister Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishhead Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Saw them with Sammy at Molson Park a few years back...it was a good show but I would have loved to have seen them with DLR ....Unchained and Mean Streets are my fav tunes.....When Eddie is on he is electric.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliet Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 (edited) I saw, TATOO, on Much...formerly known as MUCH MUSIC.....it's pretty good.... Edited January 26, 2012 by Juliet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pagemeister Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 http://youtu.be/4FZCwTsoQMs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pagemeister Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 When David Lee Roth talks, it's 'A Different Kind of Truth' By Geoff Boucher, Los Angeles Times January 29, 2012 It's an old joke, but when David Lee Roth delivers the punch line it sounds more like a mission statement: "How many lead singers does it take to put in a lightbulb? One. You hold the bulb and wait for the world to revolve around you." Missing from the joke is how the singer is left standing there in the dark waiting for his proper wattage. On Feb. 7, Interscope Records will release "A Different Kind of Truth" and, as the world turns, it will represent the first Van Halen studio album featuring Roth as lead singer since "1984" — which was released 28 years ago this month, right before Ronald Reagan announced plans to run for a second term. Time flies — or does it drag? Earlier this month, on a crisp, sunny morning in Pasadena, Roth, now 57, welcomed a visitor to his 20-room, Italianate mansion to talk about Van Halen past, present and future. Roth actually rejoined the band "five summers and a million years ago" for the 2007-08 reunion tour, but it's taken this long for the still-volatile collective to finish an album that satisfies all of their agendas. The amazing thing is that they finished at all; like the Beach Boys, Eagles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N' Roses and Fleetwood Mac, Van Halen is part of the Southern California history of world-class soap operas disguised as platinum-selling bands. Van Halen's brawny brand of music has sold more than 80 million albums, but offstage the group has been a fragile alliance that has fallen apart again and again because of creative clashes, drug torpor, grudges and, more recently, health issues. "We accused each other of betrayal and thievery and lies and treachery," said the upbeat and chatty Roth. "And it was all true. We were all guilty. Dig up the past, and it's going to get all over everybody. And, man, do we have a past…" Photos: Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth The history traces back to 1972, when the Van Halen brothers, guitarist Eddie and drummer Alex — a pair of classically trained teen musicians born in the Netherlands but raised in Pasadena — auditioned singers for a planned band. Roth didn't make much of an impression at his tryout, but the brothers wanted to use his sound system and letting him in the band was better than renting the gear. Fame and fortune would follow, but again and again it was the brothers Van Halen deciding who should hold the microphone. They could do that because of the stature of Eddie Van Halen, who is revered by rock fans as a sort of mad-genius guitar god, the heir of Jimi Hendrix. He might also be viewed as the Elizabeth Taylor of rock considering the way he divorces lead singers, including Sammy Hagar — and, if so, Roth is forever his Richard Burton. Roth, meanwhile, passed time touring with an Eddie Van Halen soundalike and at one point did a double bill with his rival Hagar to pique attention. The reunited frenemies are a source of fascination, and fans are eager to see them share a spotlight when the reconstituted band (with Eddie's son, 20-year-old Wolfgang Van Halen, who replaced longtime member Michael Anthony on bass) starts a 46-date arena tour in Louisville, Ky., on Feb. 18. The music industry, meanwhile, is watching the whole enterprise and wondering if the wheels will fly off; more than squabbles, the worry is also about the state of Eddie Van Halen, a rehab veteran who has also lost a third of his tongue to cancer and undergone hip replacement. There were postponed shows on the last tour (2007-08), which were explained only by vague promoter statements about medical procedures. "He's doing really well," Roth said. "He's lucid, he's sober, he's playing. You know, I don't know if Ed has ever felt good. There's a thin line between rage and great work. He really never enjoyed his fame or success, and that might be part of what compels him." (All Van Halen family members, through their representatives, declined to be interviewed for this story.) Despite all the squealing guitar thunder, Eddie Van Halen seems like a man surrounded by his own silence. A holistic talker Roth, meanwhile, hides behind the sound of his own voice; the man never stops talking, but most of it is a jibber-jabber jive, a Cartoon Network version of classic-rock kung fu and spitball metaphysics. In a relentless two-hour synaptic strobe display, Roth cited the deep meanings he sees in Motown, matzo, state fairs, Roy Lichtenstein, Airedale terriers, reggaeton, Neil Young, clambakes, Brazilian jiu jitsu, Plato, Johnny Mercer and the unchanging nature of the sea anemone. The most consistent message amid the barrage was the magical legacy of Van Halen and the urgent need to live up to it with the new album and tour. "Are there second chances? I don't know, Mr. Faulkner, I'm tending to agree with you: No. We've managed to stretch our adolescence like a Chiclet to the moon and maintained the respectful dignities along the way that got us on that turnpike up in the first place. We love what we do for a living. Even in our wildest, most beer-soaked days we never missed rehearsal." In their youth, Roth and the Van Halens were clearly bonded by their love of hard rock, but Roth says they were also connected by the "immigrant energy" of their families, who were "desperate people seeking desperate fortune — with a smile." Roth was born in Bloomington, Ind., as the son, grandson and nephew of Jewish doctors, but the north-star figure in his youth turned out to be Manny Roth, the uncle who owned the Café Wha? in New York. It's one of the more illustrious dives in Greenwich Village — Bob Dylan played there, so did the Velvet Underground and Lenny Bruce — and despite the peeling paint and low ceilings it was a palace of possibility for young Roth. "I was 7 years old when I decided very specifically what I was going to be, and it was there in that room," he said. On Jan. 5, Roth was back in the club; the "secret show" by Van Halen was meant to stir press, rock radio and fan interest, and it did all of the above. The New York Times covered it enthusiastically, with Jon Pareles writing that Van Halen is "still one of the most limber bands in hard rock, with a higher center of gravity than most." Even better, there was old Manny Roth, now 92, beaming at his nephew from the audience. During the show the band played a vamping, boogie-propelled song called "She's the Woman" that will be on the new album. The song has considerable history; a version of it was on the demo record (produced by Gene Simmons of KISS) that landed Van Halen a deal with Warner Bros. in the 1970s. Throughout the album, the band has gone back and excavated pieces of unrecorded songs, lyrics from old notebooks and half-pursued concepts to build the 13-track collection. "It's material that Eddie and I generated, literally, in 1975, 1976 and 1977," Roth said. "Usually fellas in our weight division will kind of gamely — or ironically, wink, wink — try to hail back to it [but] keep a safe, mature distance from it." Instead, Roth said, he and the band have tried to do a sort of collaboration with their past. They can't be the same people — too much has changed — but Roth said there's interesting experimentation in the era-spanning synthesis of self. The process started with Eddie Van Halen and producer John Shanks (Bon Jovi, Keith Urban) sifting through archival material, looking for the nuggets that could be mined. "Some of it was recorded in Dave's basement when these guys were kids, and, sitting there next to Eddie, it was pretty cool just to go through that journey," Shanks said last week by phone from New York. "And then when the sessions started just seeing how Eddie and Alex play together — there's such a synchronicity in their feel and rhythm and their playing. There were times, honestly, I was just moved by it, not just as a musician but as a human being. The nuances of the way they communicate is staggering." The fan reaction to the album's first single, "Tattoo," has been mixed, but Roth and company know that the tour (which includes shows in Los Angeles (June 1) and Anaheim (June 12) will be the true proving ground for them. Roth, who has short hair now and a lean physique earned with decades of martial arts training, displayed a few of the dance moves he's been working on for the show. In his earth-tone overalls and cap he looked more like a Venice Beach mime than a rock star, but he still has a shark smile. What exactly drives him isn't easy to glean — does he have the same dark engines as Eddie Van Halen? "You're asking for a lot of introspection here," Roth said. "Nobody well adjusted ever got my job, much less kept it this long. There's some grasping drive, and it precludes self-satisfaction.... You're always questioning." As for his old friend and rival, Roth smiled and gave the world a bit of fair warning about the reclusive guitar hero. "There's an old Russian saying: 'There's no more lines in that guy's stomach.' It means somebody got fat and slow. There are still a lot of lines in Eddie's stomach." Photos: Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgeholder Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Have you seen the ticket prices? Ridiculous. Everything is "VIP" and "exclusive Amex packages" and all this high-end crap. For the rest, it's like 150 bucks to sit way in the back. The "cheap" seats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pagemeister Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 http://youtu.be/lFl2W-T3L7I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock Historian Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 This versions got some fuckin GROOVE!!! Great house band Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pagemeister Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 http://youtu.be/bb4jIyoOGtk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rover Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 (edited) Page couldn't do that, when he was 58 ! ! The other 184 photos from the warm up gig at the Forum Feb. 8th: http://khitschicago.radio.com/2012/02/09/photos-van-halen-perform-for-friends-and-family-at-the-la-forum-last-night/#photo-1 Edited February 11, 2012 by The Rover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mattmc1973 Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I've gotta say, though I was skeptical this new album rocks pretty hard. Reminiscent of 'Women and Children First' era VH. Songs like 'As Is' and 'honeybabysweetiedoll' definitely show Eddie with his 70's chops back in full force. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I've gotta say, though I was skeptical this new album rocks pretty hard. Reminiscent of 'Women and Children First' era VH. Songs like 'As Is' and 'honeybabysweetiedoll' definitely show Eddie with his 70's chops back in full force. I felt the same way going into the disc and feel the same way now - actually currently listening to "Blood and Fire" right now. Best work Eddie has done in years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 This was taken at June Jam at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, NC in 1979. In addition to Van Halen, the other bands on the bill were Poco, Boston and the Outlaws. The crowd had grown pretty restless leading up to Van Halen's set which led to everyone throwing plastic cups up in the air and eventually, at the stage. During Van Halen's set a train of cups hit Roth in the head, causing him to stop mid-song to address the crowd. He threatened to drag the "next motherfucker that throws a cup" up on stage to whip his ass. He also threatened to stop the show altogether if people kept throwing cups at the stage. After that, the cup tossing continued but no one threw any more at the stage. Unfortunately, things had gotten to the point where people were throwing nearly anything they could get their hands on. Up where I was seated in the bleachers I saw someone that had been hit in the head by a George Dickel bottle which left a pretty nasty gash. Thankfully, everyone calmed down considerably after Dave addressed the crowd. Fast forward to 2008 and my second Van Halen concert. This one was also in Raleigh and also included David Lee Roth. During "Ice Cream Man" someone got the bright idea of rushing the stage to give Eddie Van Halen a hug. Considering how tight security was at that concert, it's a wonder they got on the stage at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SteveAJones Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 A compilation of interview highlights from 1986 to present...David Lee Roth...Sammy...Eddie...over four hours! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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