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I was just reading through an old CREEM mag...the one with DAVE on the cover(I know, there where many!)........
Something caught my eye that I don't remember having seen...before or since......
INTRUDER
"I wrote that. Remember what I told you about the video? We made it with no consideration for the music at all. There was no story line that we tried to fit to "Pretty Woman", we simply made a movie like MGM, Hollywood-style. None of this conceptual video stuff. When we finished the movie, it was about three minutes too long for the song, so I said, "We won't cut any of it, we'll write soundtrack music for the beginning. So we went into the studio and I played the synthesizer and I wrote it---it took about an hour to put that together. It was rerecorded for the album."
Fancy trying a whole soundtrack for a film?
"Not at all---but I did want to try. As you well know, after you've sold a million records, you become an internationally-recognized expert in everything!"
Which got me thinking......
"How much of CLASSIC VAN HALEN's music did DAVE have a direct hand in writing?
Could explain why his leaving affected the music so dramaticly.......
Let's get some opinions on this.........
Something caught my eye that I don't remember having seen...before or since......
INTRUDER
"I wrote that. Remember what I told you about the video? We made it with no consideration for the music at all. There was no story line that we tried to fit to "Pretty Woman", we simply made a movie like MGM, Hollywood-style. None of this conceptual video stuff. When we finished the movie, it was about three minutes too long for the song, so I said, "We won't cut any of it, we'll write soundtrack music for the beginning. So we went into the studio and I played the synthesizer and I wrote it---it took about an hour to put that together. It was rerecorded for the album."
Fancy trying a whole soundtrack for a film?
"Not at all---but I did want to try. As you well know, after you've sold a million records, you become an internationally-recognized expert in everything!"
Which got me thinking......
"How much of CLASSIC VAN HALEN's music did DAVE have a direct hand in writing?
Could explain why his leaving affected the music so dramaticly.......
Let's get some opinions on this.........
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