This Day in CVH/DLR History
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1977
Van Halen plays the Whisky A Go-Go in West Hollywood, CA. Berlin Brats and Orange are the opening acts.
1978
Van Halen plays in Fresno, CA.
1983
Van Halen plays the Ginasio do Maracanazinho in Rio De Janiero, Brazil.
1984
Van Halen plays the Gulfcoast Coliseum in Biloxi, MS.
1985
David Lee Roth releases the Crazy From the Heat EP. Produced by Ted Templeman and recorded at Power Station, New York, NY, this was David Lee Roth's first solo album. The album entered the charts on 2/23/85 and stayed on the charts for 33 weeks, reaching #15 on the U.S. charts and #91 on the U.K.
charts. Tracks: • Easy Street • California Girls • Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody • Coconut Grove
The idea for this album was reputedly thought up while Dave was vacationing on the beaches of Mexico. While listening to the Beach Boys, a bodyguard suggested to Dave that he should cover "California Girls." Roth, in turn, presented the idea to Warner Brothers President Larry Waronker and Crazy from the Heat was born, debuting shortly thereafter at #43 on the Billboard
charts. Roth's philosophy was that most albums contain no more than four good tracks on them. He cut off the flab, so to speak, resulting in this EP containing the aforementioned quartet of good material. Reportedly, Dave titled his EP Crazy from the Heat after seeing an early 1930s Warner Bros. cartoon about two mice on a beach who were going crazy from the heat. While the media and fans speculated that this release might have been a signal that Van Halen was breaking up, Dave spent just as much time refuting such claims as he did hyping the album. He referred to the EP as something to
occupy his time while the band recuperated from the recent 1984 tour. Whether he changed his mind or was merely putting up a smoke screen to hide his intentions, he did indeed leave the band a scant four months after the EP's release. "California Girls," a #3 hit in the U.S. for the Beach Boys from their 1965 Capitol release, features background vocals by Christopher Cross and the Beach Boys' own Carl Wilson. The video for the song premiered on MTV on 12/31/84. It was directed by The Fabulous Picasso Brothers, Pete Angelus and David Lee Roth. The video was filmed entirely on location at Venice Beach in Southern California. Angelus and Roth approached this video from a theatrical standpoint, wanting to present characters you could see for only 5 seconds and feel as though you knew them. One of these characters, the Latin youth dressed in breakdancing clothing, got his film start in Breakin' (Cannon Group, 1984). "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" features horns arranged by Edgar Winter, who played keyboards on three of the EP's four cuts. Edgar also teamed up with Roth as bandleader for the Blues Bustin' Mambo Slammers for Dave's Vegasstyle lounge act in 1995. The video for this song was directed by The Fabulous Picasso Brothers. It earned Dave six MTV Video Award nominations at the September 1985 awards show, though he didn't win in any category. The "California Girls" (remix) on the B-side of the "California Girls" single differs in that the order of the verses and chorus has been changed. The instruments have also been mixed differently, with the guitar lines standing out more than the A-side version. The "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" (remix) B-side from the single of the same name is similar to the "California Girls" (remix) in that the order of the verse and chorus sections has changed and the instruments have been remixed. A spoof of "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" entitled "Just A Big Ego" was recorded by Bob Rivers and Peter Zipfield, a pair of radio disc jockeys working for WAAF in Boston, MA. Released in 1985, the single was backed with "Can We Talk?".
1987
David Lee Roth plays the Baltimore Civic Center in Baltimore, MD.
2004
David Lee Roth plays the Club Diamond Hall in Nagoya, Japan.
2008
Van Halen plays the Toyota Center in Houston, TX. Ky-Mani Marley is the opening act.