Van Halen to release unreleased music video for One Foot Out The Door?

[FORD]

Damned if I know. In context, it would seem that in the lip syncing promos as seen above, the whole idea was the band miming to a song on a tiny stage without any extra stage props like dinosaurs or whatever. So I would think the dinosaur idea was meant for an actual promo video meant for MTV (which started in 1981) or other music video programs of the day, like HBO's "video jukebox" (I think that's what it was called... that was 40 years ago, so memory's a little foggy)

[DFVH5150]

Damned if I know. In context, it would seem that in the lip syncing promos as seen above, the whole idea was the band miming to a song on a tiny stage without any extra stage props like dinosaurs or whatever. So I would think the dinosaur idea was meant for an actual promo video meant for MTV (which started in 1981) or other music video programs of the day, like HBO's "video jukebox" (I think that's what it was called... that was 40 years ago, so memory's a little foggy)

Sorry I thought you were the thread-starter but that was WARF. Four-letter all caps and all. But I'm sure you're right, unless it was weird one-off outside instead of a Euro American Bandstand/Solid Gold-type place.

WARF, if you know, please reply when you have the time.

[Seshmeister]

This one from French TV is even funnier. Why the fuck was Dave pretending to play electric guitar on "Unchained"??

I remember wondering this when I first saw it on an unofficial compilation VHS in the 1980s.

Apart from it being a bet or just fucking around, the best theory I came up with was there was no mic stand available. It's bad enough having to mime like that but without a mic stand to hold onto it would have been uncomfortable. This was back in the unsophisticated days when they didn't put cables in the guitars never mind mics on the drums to hide the miming. Nowadays I've noticed they even put individual cables in keyboards...

[DFVH5150]

I remember wondering this when I first saw it on an unofficial compilation VHS in the 1980s.

Apart from it being a bet or just fucking around, the best theory I came up with was there was no mic stand available. It's bad enough having to mime like that but without a mic stand to hold onto it would have been uncomfortable. This was back in the unsophisticated days when they didn't put cables in the guitars never mind mics on the drums to hide the miming. Nowadays I've noticed they even put individual cables in keyboards...

Could be...or Dave's just being a jag. Since they're already lip-syncing and doing a shitty job of it as always, why not go all the way and make even more of a joke of it? That IS his style after all.