Best Van Halen Cover Tune

[Matt White]

Originally posted by spmusicplyr
i think big bad bill is fuckin awesome. i play sax and clarinet...i learned it.

who is that...um, janice van halen or something like that? i guess thats ed's sister?

Jan Van Halen. Father of EVH & AVH. Professional Jazz musician, played clarinet, sax, and other instruments. Played on "Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now" at the request of....DAVID LEE ROTH.

[Matt White]

Jan & EVH circa 1984

[bueno bob]

Best cover? My vote goes to You're No Good.

[LookN4AMootBeat]

That pic of Eddie and his dad was definitely worth a save.
Thanks dude.

[LookN4AMootBeat]

They did alot of great cover tunes that are on live bootleg as im sure you're all aware.....I think "Rock and Roll Hoochie-Coo" is right up there with the best of them. Eddie does a friggin awesome jam in the middle of it. (who knew? lol)

Studio album covers........I'd have to go with Ice Cream Man for it's blazing guitar, the great style change they go through going from an accoustic song to a full-on rock/metal/blues jam is just world-class Rock-assault entertainment at it's finest. This song basically screams out what van halen was all about, Dave, Eddie, Mike, and Alex...all their personalities/playing styles are perfectly illustrated.....and of course Dave's personality/performance/singing style contributed as much as every other part of the song......and maybe even a little more.

Dave "van-halenized" their covers as much as anyone did.

[TwoFoolsAMinute]

Originally posted by spmusicplyr
i think big bad bill is fuckin awesome. i play sax and clarinet...i learned it.

who is that...um, janice van halen or something like that? i guess thats ed's sister?

Ed's sister is Alex. Jan Van Halen is his dad.

Favorite cover:
Where Have All The Good Times Gone

[Loons The Great]

Lucille live in '81

Earache My Eye jam live in '81

Bright Lights, Big City Blues live in '80

Heartbreak Hotel live in '83

God Bless The Child live in '83

...everything from the club days when the mighty, mighty Van Davin' had a Lead Belly-esque 500 song repetoire...

[Redballjets88]

ice cream man and happy trails

[DLR82VH]

Ice cream man

[DavidLeeNatra]

heartbreak hotel from the early club days...I love dave singing the king..."thankyouverymuch..."

for studio recordings...hard to pick one ice cream man close with you really got me...close with pretty woman...close with...shit...why am I always asked to make a fucking best of choice out of so many best of's...

[canadiandlrgirl]

every fuckin' cover Dave did was good no one covers a song like Dave does.

[DLRisGOD]

You Really Got Me was the first cover I had ever heard at the time that was better than the original...Gotta' go with it here as well.

[bedrockboy]

Originally posted by JCOOK
One thing about VH doing a cover tune-- I always thought VHs' always sounded better than the original. Of their cover tunes which would you say is best. I gotta go with "Youre' no good " still gives me chills

"Used to be i couldnt' sleep at night baby...Now -you go on do what you want to"

I think you got to go with You Really Got Me. The song really shows off the power of Van Halen. The reason is that the song isn't changed in the least musically but it blows away the original. It's a simple tune that can be played by anyone but when Halen played it, it just sounded different. You're No Good really doesn't resemble the original, it's basically another song (Dave basically makes that song his own). You Really Got Me is Van Halen telling the world that we can take your songs and re-record and they'll sound a thousand times better just cause we're playing them. That says something man.

[SoldMySoul4RnR]

Remeber they did that FUCKING HORRIBLE cover of 'A Apolitical Blues' on the OU812 album. Fuck, it's awful.

Put me down for You're No Good!

[Loons The Great]

I lub on that ol' bootleg when at the en' of You're No Good, Diamond Dave say,"Well, that sure ain't Linda Rondstadt stye, I tell ya!" I dig the original version(de Motown soun') and Van Rothin's de bes'...well well well...WELLAH WELLAH WELLAH...aw reep-a...Yez Yez...Shaw 'Nuff nah I say...all my friends are boppin' the blues, it muss be goin' 'roun'...

[DLRisGOD]

After seeing Dave live however, I must go with Ice Cream Man for live covers...Simply AWESOME!

"All flavors and Push-Ups too!"

[Matt White]

All CLASSIC VAN HALEN covers are FUCKING BRILLIANT!!!

So incredible that you never need to hear the originals!!!

[Loons The Great]

I'd like to hear D-Ro's recent version of,"Tush," one time nah yez.

[trueblue]

i'd say You're No Good was the best CVH cover song without a doubt...thing is that even though i dont' much like the idea of covers, CVH covers have always been brilliantly executed and sound like originals in their own right...You're No Good was superb, Dave's lyrical delivery, falsetto screams, and Eddie's fierce blues-riff attack on it makes YNG a terrific cover and a great way to start VHII, a record that i love more than their debut..