I Just Bought The 6!

[tydhurst]

My CD collection could now boil Iran off the map! Led Zeppelin 1, 2, 3, 4 and the 6 PACK have been added, thank you Government funding!!!

I love them!
It's a whole new experience. I did have copies of them off of David Van Via, but that's just cheap and Nasty, so i bought them. Best £60 i ever spent!

What was it like for anyone else when they first got their CVH albums?

[David Van Via]

I bought Van Halen 1 remastered after listening to my Dads original copy over and over again. Then I got payed and bought the other 5 all but Diver down asked a friend for £2 and ran back into the shop and bought it. Headed back up to college for the last 2 peroids and the rest of the night was sorted.

[tydhurst]

Good old Ross!

[light 'em up!]

Originally posted by tydhurst
What was it like for anyone else when they first got their CVH albums?

I bought 5 of the 6 (VHII-1984) on the day they were released, and I wasn't alone. That's how BIG Van Halen was back in the day. I remember people would plan their lives around the release dates of the new Van Halen albums. It was quite extraordinary. I don't believe Van Hagar releases ever got that kind of fanatic reception.

[tydhurst]

that's because they're shit!"

[Matt White]

I remember staring at the stereo for hours wondering WHAT THE FUCK was going on when I bought VAN HALEN I on vinyl.

[sambo]

Originally posted by light 'em up!
I bought 5 of the 6 (VHII-1984) on the day they were released, and I wasn't alone. That's how BIG Van Halen was back in the day. I remember people would plan their lives around the release dates of the new Van Halen albums. It was quite extraordinary. I don't believe Van Hagar releases ever got that kind of fanatic reception.

Oh wow man... I used to do the same thing in Aust.

A mate and I would pre order VH LPs (via one of the only import record stores of the day, Utopia Records in Sydney), straight from the US to ensure we were one of the first to get them. (This stopped in the 5150-era but continued through to EEAS and SS)

More often than not, we used to have to pay a $5-$10 premium on the price, but it didn't bother us a bit - the anticipation of catching the train home to play them on our family stereos was worth it. (where the stock speakers we more equipped to play Hall and Oates than VH at ear blistering volumes - hahaha!).

Come to think of it, I don't think many bands of this day actually get that kind of fanantic reception - internet or no internet...

[scottydabodi]

I first bought the 6 pack when they were new, one at a time. It aged my parents 10 years with each new VH release. Particularly "Hot for Teacher", whose video pissed off my parents SO BAD they didn't speak to me for a week cuz they thought I was the son of satan... well, we didn't know they were right until about 15 years ago, but nonetheless... The 6 pack is the BEST SHIT EVER, and FUCK the sheep who don't know any better!!! DLR=Genius.

[Panamark]

Im sorry, I tried living like Van Halen so much, that Ive totally forgotten the order I purchased the albums in !

[ThrillsNSpills]

Originally posted by Matt White
I remember staring at the stereo for hours wondering WHAT THE FUCK was going on when I bought VAN HALEN I on vinyl.

That sums it up. Then step 2 was learnin' how to play it.
It's like Dave wrote, that if you got anywhere near it it changed your life.
Van Halen I was when the book got rewritten overnight.

[Last_Child]

My first was 1984....it fucking rocked!
then i think i bought...uhm....shit......DD.....then eh.......WACF and FW.......II . & I

after that.....L Right H : R Now ....man that sucked!!

[Last_Child]

I Bought the DVD of "Live R H R NOw" i mean.....not the CD

[VH80-84]

I bought Van Halen I in 1980. A couple months late I got VH II and WACFT. From then on it was release date when I picked up FW, DD and 1984. I also got 5150 on the release date, but never got another VH album after that disappointmeent.

[Carmine]

Originally posted by ThrillsNSpills
It's like Dave wrote, that if you got anywhere near it it changed your life.
Van Halen I was when the book got rewritten overnight.

Right on man!

[tydhurst]

Imagine... On the links they're all saying "What was it like when you first got your imported Japanese Balance CD?"

[Atomic_Rob]

listening to Van Halen 1 round Loss Of Fools house about a year ago just completely blew me away, and since then I have got the 6 Pack, but I listened to VHII so much I lost the fuckin disk so in theory I have the cases and spent the money but I don't actually have the VHII disk. looks like I'll have to buy another copy.

[JacktheRipper]

i remember i used to listen to 1984 on tape and jump and down on my bead to..jump of course. me being like 7 or 8 or so. then after that i found my moms stereo with a turntable on top. and started unpacking and listening to the records, after using some thing called ted nugent as a frsibie with my friends(no dissing,but thats how i remember) i put on something called van halen, and i thought the cover was pretty cool. and that was the beginning with van halen. my fav's were you really got me, i'm the one, feel your love tonight, at the time i hated little dreamer and thought that it was the worst song they could of put on there. i dont what it is as a kid but you only seem to like fast pace songs with fast guitar and fast drums. yeah...
then later on MTV a they were doing some video countdown and show van halen doing junp and i about freaked, (it never occured that jump and that album were done by the same band). after that its a fog of buying every van halen cyes and van hagar, and every VHIII wich i listened to without you...once and i dont think i have heard any other songs of that album...
still have 1984 tape and when i get pmy license and my ranger its the first tape getting played.

[JacktheRipper]

wow that kinda got messed up there in the end

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by tydhurst
My CD collection could now boil Iran off the map! Led Zeppelin 1, 2, 3, 4 and the 6 PACK have been added, thank you Government funding!!!

I love them!
It's a whole new experience. I did have copies of them off of David Van Via, but that's just cheap and Nasty, so i bought them. Best £60 i ever spent!

What was it like for anyone else when they first got their CVH albums?

Then Dave goes: "So... it was you!?"

[CVHfan]

Yesterday, I completed the 6. I bought Diver Down yesterday. Finally. I had the other 5 for years. So, I have the 6 pack in it's entirety now.

[mentalpancake]

Originally posted by scottydabodi
I first bought the 6 pack when they were new, one at a time. It aged my parents 10 years with each new VH release. Particularly "Hot for Teacher", whose video pissed off my parents SO BAD they didn't speak to me for a week cuz they thought I was the son of satan... well, we didn't know they were right until about 15 years ago, but nonetheless... The 6 pack is the BEST SHIT EVER, and FUCK the sheep who don't know any better!!! DLR=Genius.

I learned to like the Hot for Teacher video because of my parents. I remember seeing the video when I was little on some music video channel or something and thinking it was really weird but my dad loved it (being a long-time VH fan) and he taught me about Van Halen that day. I've never been the same since. I only started listening to them last year though and what a great year it's been!

[DLR'sCock]

Huh??? Wha' Happan'?? Where am I??

Gimme that bottle....

[Northern Girl]

Originally posted by light 'em up!
I bought 5 of the 6 (VHII-1984) on the day they were released, and I wasn't alone. That's how BIG Van Halen was back in the day. I remember people would plan their lives around the release dates of the new Van Halen albums. It was quite extraordinary.

Ah yes! I remember it well. The anticipation. Nothing like it. They were the Kings!!

[Redballjets88]

my parents bought me VH1 on cd the christmas before last...n then i bought wacf and 1984 a month later and then like 3 weeks after that i got vh2 fw and dd on the same day

[tydhurst]

Fuck, this thread is OLD!!!!

[evans5150]

Welcome noob!

[VonHalen]

i have em too