Van Halen or Mammoth : Gentlemen of Leisure 1974 (Maybe even 73')

[WARF]

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This was just posted on youtube...

[Panamark]

Awesome !

[indeedido]

Man Edward really cooked back then

[Diamondjimi]

Sounds like it could be a leftover from the Fair Warning sessions...

[katie]

Sounds like it could be a leftover from the Fair Warning sessions...

[Nickdfresh]

This is an outtake from an album from VHI to the Fair Waring period...

[DFVH5150]

'78-'81? I thought it was proven right from the start that it's a '74 demo

[BITEYOASS]

'78-'81? I thought it was proven right from the start that it's a '74 demo

Probably from the Gene Simmons Demo.

[kwame k]

Not really sure if this will shed some light on the issue but...........there's a few people over at this link that post here and other VH forums......here's what they say about this song. Link

[ELVIS]

That's pre-Simmons demo era...

I don't know how some of you can't tell that...

I've had an MP3 of that song for years, although this recording sounds better, but it's the same version...

BTW, they had Michael Anthony before they had Dave, so it's definately Michael, plus i can tell by hearing it who it is...

[FORD]

BTW, they had Michael Anthony before they had Dave, so it's definately Michael, plus i can tell by hearing it who it is...

Wrong. Mark Stone was the bass player in the band for quite a while after Dave joined. In fact, it was Stone who played bass on the band's first demo recorded at Cherokee Studios. That's where the original versions of "Take Your Whiskey Home" and "Simple Rhyme" were recorded, along with "Angel Eyes", but that was just Dave & Ed on acoustic.

[ELVIS]

I stand corrected, but I still say this is pre-Simmons and Michael Anthony, because most of the Mark Stone stuff I've ever heard were live covers and really old sounding...

[FORD]

This song might actually BE from the Cherokee Studios demo. If I remember correctly it was 4 songs. The three I previously mentioned and I can't remember the other one. It wasn't a song that ended up on any album though. But the other songs from that demo don't seem as muddled as the song above, with Alex being almost inaudible.

As a matter of fact, I just found the demo for "Take Your Whiskey Home". This is definitely the early demo with Stone on bass and NOT from the WACF sessions as it is labeled on You Tube.....

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[FORD]

And here's "Simple Rhyme" from that demo....... (NOT from 76)

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Or not? Maybe Sobolewski IS on this one?

[FORD]

Angel Eyes though, I'm sure was only recorded this once. Closest thing to a cheese ballad that Van HALEN ever did, and still sounds cooler than anything Hagar wrote......

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