At the height of their popularity, in 1984 MTV launched a competition to spend a weekend with Van Halen.
Over a million postcards were sent in and the winner was a 20 year old guy from Pennsylvania called Kurt.
Recently an undedited video of the weekend was uploaded to YouTube
Slightly surprising photo at 12:24...
Around the same time Kurt was interviewed at length on the Dave and Dave Unchained Podcast.
https://www.acast.com/davedaveunchai...n-halen-on-mtv