Does Happy Trails indeed "Suck"

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  • Panamark
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Jan 2004
    • 17113

    Does Happy Trails indeed "Suck"

    Would you die if you never heard it again ???
    BABY PANA 2 IS Coming !! All across the land, let the love and beer flow !
    Love ya Mary Frances!
  • Panamark
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Jan 2004
    • 17113

    #2
    Secret admission, I always hit the skip button when this track comes on
    these days....
    BABY PANA 2 IS Coming !! All across the land, let the love and beer flow !
    Love ya Mary Frances!

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    • Mushroom
      Commando
      • Jul 2009
      • 1122

      #3
      Happy Trails does not suck. it fits the beer and babes attitude of VH. just listen to it. Talk about a song I could live without it's Big Bad Bill

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      • Panamark
        DIAMOND STATUS
        • Jan 2004
        • 17113

        #4
        Yeah but Big Bad Bill had Dad Van Halen doing his eruption on the clarinet...
        no instuments on happy trails....
        BABY PANA 2 IS Coming !! All across the land, let the love and beer flow !
        Love ya Mary Frances!

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        • Mushroom
          Commando
          • Jul 2009
          • 1122

          #5
          Originally posted by Panamark
          Yeah but Big Bad Bill had Dad Van Halen doing his eruption on the clarinet...
          no instuments on happy trails....
          voice is the instrument for the counterpoint and harmonies on Happy Trails

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          • vaijuju
            Sniper
            • Jan 2008
            • 830

            #6
            I laughed the first time i heard "happy trails" And I said yeah, it's my Band Van Halen!
            I love them for this
            http://vhfrance.activebb.net/ (1 er Site Francophone sur Van Halen)

            http://www.youtube.com/user/VHFranceVideos (Our new Channel)

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            • Panamark
              DIAMOND STATUS
              • Jan 2004
              • 17113

              #7
              I also laughed the first few hundred times..
              Now its painful..
              Especially when you know the VH trails have not
              been happy at all....
              BABY PANA 2 IS Coming !! All across the land, let the love and beer flow !
              Love ya Mary Frances!

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              • heartbreaker
                Groupie
                • Feb 2004
                • 52

                #8
                Nah. "Happy Trails" is a nice little ending to the album (like DLR did with "That's Life" at the end of EEAS) and the acapella version compliments the band's electrical instruments nicely, I think. Not to mention the fact that it fits in seamlessly on an album that is heavy with cover tunes. Perhaps the best part about "Happy Trails" is that it's only 1:05 in length.

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                • VanHalener
                  ROCKSTAR

                  • Nov 2006
                  • 5451

                  #9
                  Dammit Jim!!!!

                  Happy Trails is a motherphucking CLASSIC!

                  Hell no I couldn't live without it!


                  FAK!


                  I'd rather eat a thousand miles of manure than lose one =CVH= track!
                  Last edited by VanHalener; 08-04-2009, 08:59 PM.
                  ~Only you can prevent low volume~

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                  • Anonymous
                    Banned
                    • May 2004
                    • 12707

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Panamark
                    I also laughed the first few hundred times..
                    Now its painful..
                    Especially when you know the VH trails have not
                    been happy at all....
                    Don't think about that, Markster. Just enjoy it for what it is.

                    Though I do tend to skip it sometimes, it's like I'd do any other music.

                    Cheers! :bottle:

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                    • VanHalener
                      ROCKSTAR

                      • Nov 2006
                      • 5451

                      #11
                      I'd rather have my nails pulled off with pliers, my eyes plucked out by a Kung Fu master, and have a glass tube shoved up and broken in my urethra than lose one =CVH= track.

                      FAK!
                      ~Only you can prevent low volume~

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                      • standin
                        Veteran
                        • Apr 2009
                        • 2274

                        #12
                        One of my most favored songs , EVER.

                        It's a feel good song, and It is not as easy as it sounds.

                        Van Halen Live New Year's Eve 1977: You Really Got Me with Happy Trails intro
                        To put it simply, we need to worry a lot less about how to communicate our actions and much more about what our actions communicate.
                        MICHAEL G. MULLEN

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                        • standin
                          Veteran
                          • Apr 2009
                          • 2274

                          #13
                          I don't get why VH would play it in a middle of a set. It is a great closer. And I love watching chitlins' give it their best attempts.
                          It's a tough song live.
                          It,almost(does) requires a bowed head and a meditative moment to center for it.
                          Last edited by standin; 08-04-2009, 10:00 PM.
                          To put it simply, we need to worry a lot less about how to communicate our actions and much more about what our actions communicate.
                          MICHAEL G. MULLEN

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                          • Terry
                            TOASTMASTER GENERAL
                            • Jan 2004
                            • 11957

                            #14
                            Never really gave that "track" much spin time, even back in the days when I was listening to Diver Down on vinyl.

                            Worked better as a live sing-a-long (at the end of the bands sets on the Hide Your Sheep and 1984 tours when they used to encore with You Really Got Me, then they'd take a break midway through that song, sing Happy Trails, then blaze back into YRGM), then it ever did on record. Least for me. Kind of like Big Bad Bill; closest CVH ever got to a disposable novelty track. Although I'll listen to BBB (ISWN) once in a blue moon, I can't be bothered with Happy Trails.
                            Scramby eggs and bacon.

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                            • VanHalener
                              ROCKSTAR

                              • Nov 2006
                              • 5451

                              #15
                              I'd rather rake a cheese grater back and forth across my balls then dip them in salt and alcohol five times a day than lose a =CVH= track.


                              ~FAK THAT NOISE~
                              ~Only you can prevent low volume~

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