You know, go through the garbage, binoculars in tinted cars, accidentally bumping into him at the corner store dropping a folder with lyrics you have written.Originally Posted by Sensible Shoes
High school / backyard party days
Club days
1978-79 - Opening act
1980-81 - World invasion
1982-84 - Monster band
1986-95 - Sammy years
1996-97 - Reunion blues
1998-99 - Mock III
2000-06 - Dark years
2007 - Dave's back!!
You know, go through the garbage, binoculars in tinted cars, accidentally bumping into him at the corner store dropping a folder with lyrics you have written.
There are no obsessive fans here.
Oh dear.
I can remember listening to themin those years, as well, but it took a friend (you know who you are) to come along and show me how TRULY stupendous the music of VH is.
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” ~~Maria Robinson
You were very wise.
I bought 1984 sometime between Crazy From The Heat and Eat Em and Smile after I heard it at a party. It was love at first listen. that was pretty much the moment I went from listening to Jr. High pop to grown up rock. By the time EEAS came out, I had four VH tapes and bought EEAS without having heard anything from it. So that pretty much makes it during the Samm years, but I will not click on that button.
as yount knows, the only cvh we ever saw on oz tv in the eighties was panama, jump, and boom! all over. the hagar shite.
but late one night mtv played goin crazy- i was like 'yeah; that's the stuff'. so although i already owned the 6 pack in 86, then i was a rothfan.
soundtrack to my youth? yep!
ps- great to see you lou!
I have the Yankee Rose 45 still. Anybody else?
nah sniper; got eeas and skyscraper original lp's though
I wish I kept my LP's ..I had those too back in the day.
I still have all the LPs, including my copy of "Women and Children First" with the DLR poster inside. I have been thinking of having that Helmut Newton shot framed.
I have a few odd books as well. Maybe I will get around to posting a couple of pics one day.
"Don't want 'em to get you goat, don't show 'em where it's hid." - David Lee Roth
I remember a friend of mine playing Women and Children First for me around '82. Intrigued enough to get Diver Down. Right about that time my uncle was getting rid of all his 8-tracks (yes, I said 8-tracks) and gave me VH2. It was all over after that. Being a guitar player all I thought was "I wanna do THAT! I wanna play THAT!"
Of course I never did...
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." - Bill NcNeal
34 years ago I rode an inner tube across the Mississippi river from moline Illinois to credit island in davenport Iowa .
I was with 3 friends and we all snuck onto the island and hid in the woods over night and then walked into the concert untouched.
I didn't even know who vanhalen was and a lot of people there didn't .
I still remember how in awe everyone was over Eddie vanhalen, he ripped everyone a new asshole that day.
I got the worst sunburn of my life that day.
It was called the credit island jam.
I watched David lee Roth bend over backwards till his hair touched the stage
Ever since then, no other band mattered .
Those were the days.
Roth And Roll
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Why not? This is not a poll to shame people. I just wanna know the time period people got into Van Halen music. I think you should feel extra proud of yourself for getting into VH during the Sammy years because you would have been going against "popular opinion."
Good to see one for the club days!
I had that poster tacked to the ceiling above my bed as a teenager. I had over 250 posters and pictures that covered my entire wall space and ceiling. Then, they were put in storage when I moved to Tennessee back in '87 and the roof leaked and ruined every one of them. I cried for days.......
"Why behave in public if you're livin' on a playground?"
Funny how music can impact your life so damn much!
Kids don't have that anymore...too much crap out there. No really big up-and-coming "rock stars" anymore. It's kind of sad that there is nobody relevant enough to impact the lives of people like back then.
You were very wise.
Totally agree.
Ok...I clicked the samm years...I just don't want that to imply that I liked the Hagar albums...because although they had some moments, they were a far inferior product. I guess it actually happened in 1985, so it really falls in between. I remember I was into VH before hearing the first single from 5150. I copletely dismissed the new VH until I was told it was Sammy Hagar at the helm. I had liked Hagar's solo stuff okay. So, I gave it a chance. I admit listening to 5150 quite a bit, but it didn't stand up to the earlier stuff. OU812 went down like a turd sandwich, though. I never gave two shits for anything after that except for I kinda started to dig "Don't Tell Me What Love Can Do", but not enough to buy the record or see the show. One of my best friends was and is a lover of the sam era and does not like DLR (but likes the old albums..just not DLR as a person) So, I had a LOT of exposure to VHagar and opportunity to see them live. I just couldn't do it. It's not that VHagar was horrible, or that I didn't want to see Edward. It's that it was such a waste that the perfect rock band had turned into a mediocre rock band and it could still be the perfect rock band. If Dave had died or something, it might be a different story, but I just could not pay for an inferior product.
So, when EEAS came out, it was another perfect band...although time has found it a little hit and miss. Then I saw DLR host Friday Night Videos and that was it. He was brilliant, philosophical, comic, and the perfect rock star. I've really never been disappointed in anything DLR has done except his strained vocals on DLR Band and the strange direction of Diamond Dave. I could still appreciate most of the Diamond Dave album. DLR Band was a harder sell. Musically it was amazing, but DLR was embarassing. But, A Different Kind of Truth really helped me appreciate what Dave was doing on the DLR Band album. ADKOT made DLR Band better. Those two albums compliment each other very well. I love that DLR's solo career was all over the place. The same people who complain that every AC/DC song sounds the same dismiss DLR because he is such a genre bender. There's DLR for every mood. (there's Van Hagar for every mood too as long as the only moods you have are crying like a girl, food sex, or...well that's it.) He's an amazing lyricist that has only gotten better over time. CVH is the pinnacle of what rock music can be in the studio. Live, I think Van Halen leaves a little to be desired. I'm spoiled by the internet, but I've heard so many bands who can improvise and turn on a dime to give the audience something special. VH does what it does very well,but there are very few surprises and DLR seems to have cut out a lot of the audience interaction that made him great. But, I have to say VH in 2012 certainly does not disappoint. I couldn't be happier that there's a new album and that it truly is good. The worship goes on.
Yep, along with the picture sleeve it came in. Pretty sure I have the one for "Jump" as well, but sadly, not the "Panama" one.
EDIT: Hell, I just checked on Ebay, and I didn't even know there was on for "I'll Wait." Some CVH fan I am.
EBAY DDL SINGLE
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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen Hawking
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Try not to laugh too hard everyone. This was me in 1984 (I was 16). My collection was about half complete at this time. Diggin' the flannel shirt, right? Double click on the photo.
Good picture
Roth And Roll
You know it!
Good picture
Roth And Roll
Thank you for sharing.
If I couldn't share it here with you freaks, where else could I?
Damn Jenn, you had quite the collection there! Did you make it to the Nashville show? Or you live closet to Memphis or Knoxville?
For me, it had to be about 1980. I was 10 and I remember hearing Van Halen on AM 61 Big Ways here in Charlotte. Don't remember the song at this point but that was my station - back when AM still ruled. And I went over to my next-door-neighbor's house and asked my buddy Tony if he knew who Van Halen was. Tony's brother Kevin had the ultimate rock record collection and we would listen to Kevin's records every day 'cause the motherfucker was never at home - and that was cool as long as we put them back. So we go to the V's in his collection and pull out the first Van Halen record and put it on the stereo and holy fucking shit!!! I remember being blown the fuck away by the whole record...I found my calling. And from that point on everybody I knew absolutely knew that I was a Van Halen fan!!! And still to this day, even if you've never met me, all you gotta do is get behind me in traffic and see that big goddamn VH logo on the back of my SUV and you know...Van Fuckin' Halen bitches!!!!!
American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
Was late '78 and my brother's friend used to sneak a cassette recorder into every show he went to. After their support slot on the Sabbath tour they came back and did a headliner at the Rainbow in London and he'd managed to record it and if I remember he'd tagged a London radio station ad on the front of the show , sounded like a movie ad with one of those extreme deep-voiced guys advertising the VH show saying something like "It won't be no boy scouts garden party ! ". Then heard some of the show although the sound quality wasn't great. Then bought VH1 and was hooked from there , collected as many live tapes as I could and still have a great collection of early singles i.e. demo's and Japanese picture sleeve singles. Still have my original "Dance The Night Away" picture disc single. Then I saw them at the Rainbow in '79 !
Actually, I live about 30 miles northeast of Chattanooga. Went to the Atlanta show and headin' to the Knoxville show!!
Cool!
My worship started Sept. 29, 1978 when I saw them open for Black Sabbath in Seattle.
Interesting....the new poster advertising Black Sabbath's upcoming gig at O2 Arena in Birmingham is the same design as that tour, Never Say Die:
I got into VH when I was 14 (late 1999). My mom told me a story of requesting Jump on the radio the day I was born and that compelled me to purchase the original "Best of" disk and 1984 a few weeks later. Needless to say, I was hooked on VH. I became a true DLR fan after reading his book during the summer of 2000.
"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it." - DLR
Damn, some of you make me feel old. In 1999, my son was 15...
"Ya know what they say about angels... An angel is a supernatural being or spirit, usually humanoid in form, found in various religions and mythologies. Plus Roth fan boards..."- ZahZoo April 2013
Hey man that's pretty similar to myself. Reading that book in the winter of 2000, it was simply amazing stuff. I stumbled upon it in a bookstore, amidst the boring and cliched covers and quotes shone this blue and yellow masterpiece.
"At a time when so-called 'idols' can only muster a few unintelligible words... Crazy From The Heat leaves you lamenting a time when star meant 'stellar.' "
Now THAT is impressive!! Love it!
...livin in the online VH world for 19 years....thanks to a 2 year old.....
You need to post that pic in the VH/DLR Grab bag thread!
My karma just ran over your dogma.
11 years old and hearing this...
Hey psycho, please get out of my Van Halen T-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up.
I wasn't obsessed or nuffin'........
Okie dokie!
I first heard them in 1978, Eddie's playing knocked me out and Dave's screams were so beautifully primal. I was hooked. I hung in there when Dave left because of Eddie. I have always gotten center right seats to focus on Ed's playing, as far back as 1981 and did so again on Saturday night in Tacoma. I was floor 1, row 3, seat 12 and the show was stellar. The pace was spot on with Dave in excellent form, plenty of interaction with the crowd and he moved well. Edward was as good as I have ever seen him, maybe better than ever. And how cool is it that he is clean.
1996.
A bright-eyed 13 year old Coyote was hanging out at his sisters apartment, going through her then-boyfriends record collection (vinyls), armed with a 90-minute blank cassette.
Coming across an album with a smoking baby on the cover, I asked the guy "Who's this? Is it good?" to which he answered "I think you'll like that".
And he was right. After a while that blank tape was 1/3 full.
Also saw the HFT video around that time.
Going through the records again, came across another interesting looking album, this time it had a Technicolor jungle dude on the cover.
Same questions, same answer. And the tape was 2/3 full. (The rest of it was filled with Ratt and other various hard rock)
Later on, I had them all on CD's. Even the Van Hagar-crap AND that one with Cherone, but I was young and hungry for knowledge...
Missed out on the VHIII Helsinki gig in '98, though.
Why settle for something you have, if it's not as good as something you're out to get?
It's like putting up a YouTube of Bach and playing Chopstix on your Bontempi...
I go back to the very beginning. When VH I came out I was flabbergasted, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Eruption just stunned me and then the rest of the album just won me over. From then on life was simply waiting for the next VH record. And now with the new album and tour it's good to have them back.
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