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Rare DLR Interview: Tiger Beat Star!
Courtesy of my pile of junk stacks:
STAR: Have you read any good books lately?
DAVID: Nothing really good; nothing really exciting...a lot of magazines lately. I can't even remember the last book that I read. Good writing is like good music-you know, it holds its timelessness.
STAR: Where did you get your vocabulary from?
DAVID: I read all the time. I read everything; I always have. And the way you fill up your bucket when it comes time to write, to do a lyric, is to talk to somebody. then you have more up there to choose from. That's just something that I started when I was a little kid.
STAR: Why do you think that Van Halen is so popular?
DAVID: Van Halen is one of the few groups that has maintained its integrity. We're an honest band; what we tell you in an interview, what we sing about, what we look like onstage actually happens; it allreally exists. Everything that you see and hear from Van Halen or better or worse comes out of our own little office.
STAR: You once said that your father wants you to go back to school. Is that true?
DAVID: No, he doesn't. Now my parents respect the big cars and the jet airplanes and things like that. My father said to me about four years ago-you know, he is a doctor-he said, "Man, you're swinging in show biz, Dave! How does it feel?" I said, "It feels great!" Then he said, "You know, I have always wanted to be an actor, especially when I was in school, and somewhere along the line I turned into a doctor." And I said, "Well, start acting." Now I see him guarding the door on one show and as a hit man on another, and even as a good cop!
STAR: Are you from a really straight-laced family?
DAVID: Yes-and look what happened!
STAR: Do you think that Van Halen stands for rebellion?
DAVID: No, not really. There is just a lot of freedom applied in Van Halen. It is all based on intergrity. We say as we want; we do as we want. We just happened to get rich in the interim...somewhere along the way. We make music...we travel. This is all fantasy and dreams and this applies to alot of personal freedom which a lot of people don't have. And I suspect a lot of folks attribute this loss freedom to their parents. (Laughs)
STAR: The song "Jump" has a pretty long intro. Did you do that on purpose so that the DJs could talk over it?
DAVID: No, we didn't. Are you talking about the synthesizer thing that is really slow and dreamy?
STAR: Yes.
DAVID: No, that was put on the twelve-inch. We did a big single with better sound and sent that around and I guess they stuck that on the front piece.
STAR: A lot of people have had strange reactions to that.
............Stay tuned for Dave's stream of consciousness reply in Part II!
You won't want to miss it!
STAR: Have you read any good books lately?
DAVID: Nothing really good; nothing really exciting...a lot of magazines lately. I can't even remember the last book that I read. Good writing is like good music-you know, it holds its timelessness.
STAR: Where did you get your vocabulary from?
DAVID: I read all the time. I read everything; I always have. And the way you fill up your bucket when it comes time to write, to do a lyric, is to talk to somebody. then you have more up there to choose from. That's just something that I started when I was a little kid.
STAR: Why do you think that Van Halen is so popular?
DAVID: Van Halen is one of the few groups that has maintained its integrity. We're an honest band; what we tell you in an interview, what we sing about, what we look like onstage actually happens; it allreally exists. Everything that you see and hear from Van Halen or better or worse comes out of our own little office.
STAR: You once said that your father wants you to go back to school. Is that true?
DAVID: No, he doesn't. Now my parents respect the big cars and the jet airplanes and things like that. My father said to me about four years ago-you know, he is a doctor-he said, "Man, you're swinging in show biz, Dave! How does it feel?" I said, "It feels great!" Then he said, "You know, I have always wanted to be an actor, especially when I was in school, and somewhere along the line I turned into a doctor." And I said, "Well, start acting." Now I see him guarding the door on one show and as a hit man on another, and even as a good cop!
STAR: Are you from a really straight-laced family?
DAVID: Yes-and look what happened!
STAR: Do you think that Van Halen stands for rebellion?
DAVID: No, not really. There is just a lot of freedom applied in Van Halen. It is all based on intergrity. We say as we want; we do as we want. We just happened to get rich in the interim...somewhere along the way. We make music...we travel. This is all fantasy and dreams and this applies to alot of personal freedom which a lot of people don't have. And I suspect a lot of folks attribute this loss freedom to their parents. (Laughs)
STAR: The song "Jump" has a pretty long intro. Did you do that on purpose so that the DJs could talk over it?
DAVID: No, we didn't. Are you talking about the synthesizer thing that is really slow and dreamy?
STAR: Yes.
DAVID: No, that was put on the twelve-inch. We did a big single with better sound and sent that around and I guess they stuck that on the front piece.
STAR: A lot of people have had strange reactions to that.
............Stay tuned for Dave's stream of consciousness reply in Part II!
You won't want to miss it!
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