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This Day in CVH/DLR History
1975
Van Halen plays Gazzarri's in West Hollywood, CA.
1976
Van Halen plays Gazzarri's in West Hollywood, CA.
1979
Eddie Van Halen appears on cover of Circus Magazine, ""Eddie Van Halen's Really Got Guitars"" two-page feature on Edward’s equipment by Stan Soocher.
1984
1984 is released. It reached #2 on U.S. charts (entering U.S. charts on 1/28/84, and reaching #2 on 3/17/84) and #15 on U.K. charts (entering U.K. charts on 2/04/84). 10 million copies have been sold in the U.S. It was certified gold and platinum on 3/12/84, quadruple platinum on 10/24/84, platinum five times over on 1/23/85, platinum six times over on 7/01/87, seven times platinum on 7/11/94, platinum nine times over on 8/08/96, and platinum ten times over on 2/08/99. It was certified diamond on 3/16/99. The album was remastered and rereleased on 9/19/00. Errors were reported with this latest release. Some booklets had pages that were stapled upside down. 1984 was the first album recorded at the 5150 Studio, where every Van Halen album since 1984 has been recorded. All of the lyrics on this album, with the exception of those for ""I'll Wait"" were written in the back of Dave's 1951 Mercury lowrider. As the music was recorded, Dave would send a tape to roadie Larry Hostler. Larry would show up at Dave's house after lunch and the pair would drive through the Hollywood Hills, up the coast highway, and throughout the San Fernando Valley with the songs blaring. As Dave would come up with lyrics, he would show them to Larry and get his opinion. 1984 was voted the #1 album of the eighties by Guitar World magazine's editors. The album was banned from some U.K. stores because the artwork depicted a baby smoking. The artwork was designed by David Lee Roth, who borrowed the futuristic style from Moebius, a comic by Jean Giraud. The pod-looking things that appear on the inner sleeve photo are Par Cans, part of a tour lighting rig taken Gary Moderling. On the 1984 tour the entire lighting rig was chrome and the crew operating the lights wore chrome-colored jumpsuits to blend in. Ed initially wrote around 16 songs for this record, and at one point the other band members got upset with him because he wouldn't stop writing. Michael didn't use a pick on any of the bass lines.