The little things...

[conmee]

Executive ass puncher.

Wait... so is that supposed to be a GAY THING, a new rank at ROTH ARMY, or a term of endearment.

I like the ring of it, uh huh uh huh if it's not gay that is....

That is all.

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[wiseguy]

Wait... so is that supposed to be a GAY THING, a new rank at ROTH ARMY, or a term of endearment.

I like the ring of it, uh huh uh huh if it's not gay that is....

That is all.


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All right then. You are our official EXECUTIVE ASS PUNCHER. Good going. You made it kid

[Yount]

I lost my virginity to the Greatest Hits Vol 1 CD. I remember Panama distinctly and the rest was a blur.
Also finding A Little Ain't Enough in a second hand shop and the total inspiration I got out of that. That disc is a tough find. DLR band even tougher.

The little things I like is the discovery of new meaning/truth while listening to Van Halen or Dave.

[ryoungblood]

i agree with you on all you said. i cant wait to hear all of the c.d. i will have both vinyl and c.d. cant wait my wife bought it for me on the net.

[ashstralia]

what a great thread!!!

when was the last time ya did somethin for the first time??

beautiful memories

[Nitro Express]

I got Van Halen II as a birthday present. I opened my presents and we had to leave to make the movie in time. I remember coming home and my sisters were playing it singing you are no good and laughing.

[sambo]

8 years old, water skiing every single weekend and my (late) Aunty used to bring the tape deck down to share some Boz Scaggs, Bony M, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Doors, Doobies, and VH every weekend. First song I heard was "You're No Good" and always thought it was the original..

If I ever got a chance to be "DJ" on those days..always played VH2 "on tape" over and over, and I was rewarded with VH 2 on vinyl shortly after for my birthday (from the same Aunt).

That feeling of playing it from start to finish on the family stereo..

Great tunes for a kid.. Beautiful Girls, Somebody Get me A Doctor, DOA, Women in Love and yes even Dance The Night Away. Must have put a smile on her face to have an 8 year old singing those around the house

Got VH1 for Christmas, along with ACDC's "Highway to Hell" (yes my Aunt was a cool one, Mum did not know about ACDC)... rest is history.

This album reminds me of how cool it was to get an album, race home as fast as you can, just put it on, smile and go wow...I have been to the record store on day 1 of every CVH release since, including this one.

Cheers, cool thread..

[Yount]

May I ask you all what was it that first triggered your enthusiasm for this band?

For me it was that voice. After finding a cassette with "Jump" back in the good ol' days I would listen, rewind, listen, just captivated by all the instruments, but especially the voice.
I love to read a good book, but hearing a story read by the Toastmaster General put to great music - tough to beat.

[sambo]

May I ask you all what was it that first triggered your enthusiasm for this band?

For me it was that voice. After finding a cassette with "Jump" back in the good ol' days I would listen, rewind, listen, just captivated by all the instruments, but especially the voice.
I love to read a good book, but hearing a story read by the Toastmaster General put to great music - tough to beat.

Well, Dave singing "You're No Good" and the "Ow's", "Ah-huh's, and backing vocals must have definitely been it..

I was too young to really appreciate the band until I was a couple of years older, I used to sing to VH II as a kid, so yeah Dave for sure...

The older I got, the more I listened, the better it got.

[Zing!]

May I ask you all what was it that first triggered your enthusiasm for this band?

For me it was that voice. After finding a cassette with "Jump" back in the good ol' days I would listen, rewind, listen, just captivated by all the instruments, but especially the voice.
I love to read a good book, but hearing a story read by the Toastmaster General put to great music - tough to beat.

Grabbed by the sound - hooked by the look. This was a bad-ass, rock and roll looking band that perfectly captured the wild abandon lifestyle of excess. Their clothes, videos, pictures in Circus magazine, posters... they had the look that backed up the sound - but the sound is what kept me coming back. Loved their willingness to take chances, to have a sense of humor, to be able to make an album that had tunes like 'Big Bad Bill' and 'The Full Bug' at the same time. If I could distill my very first memory of Van Halen down into one photograph - the earliest memory I have of this band is the live shot on the back of 'Diver Down' taken at the Tangerine Bowl when the opened for the Stones. Remember clearly, looking at that picture as a little kid and thinking: "Wow - look at all those people...these guys are BIG!"

[Dave's PA Rental]

I'm hoping for more and more quick gut-reaction type posts as people listen to this all the way through for the first time...

Was driving my little girl (she's almost 5) to daycare this morning and said to her that when I pick her up this afternoon, we were going to go buy the new Van Halen CD...she said "Oh yeah!"

[ELVIS]

May I ask you all what was it that first triggered your enthusiasm for this band?

The way the wild vocals perfectly complemented the wild guitar...

[Gdog4]

I bought "1984" on cassette tape...my first Van Halen album, even though I was well versed with them by that time. LOVED "Diver Down"...which a lot of people still slag here, there and everywhere in Van Halenland...I think it's great...still do...so it was essential to pick up "1984". I was a school newspaper geek, so I wrote a glowing review of "1984" in the school paper, and I wore that cassette down. I was going to college in Los Angeles in 1985 when I heard on the Mighty KMET that DLR had left Van Halen. That was a sad day for sure. Liked, but never loved Van Hagar...followed Dave through the years. Saw him on the EEASM and Skyscraper tours...saw Van Hagar on the OU812, F.U.C.K. and Right Here, Right Now tours...they were OK at best.

I was so excited in '96 when they appeared on the MTV Music Awards and was stunned when it all fell apart. Caught VH IV on tour in 2007...great night for sure...however like most people here, waited patiently for something I thought that would never happen...A Different Kind Of Truth...

Got up early today, so I could hit Walmart on my way to work and grab the CD...f'ers had no clue that the CD was released, and told me they probably didn't have it...WTF?!?!?! The guy was 800 years old, which is saying something, 'cos I'm 600 years old...LOL. So I'm leaving early for lunch and runnning to Best Buy to pick up the Deluxe Edition. Can't wait to blast it in my car and take me back to 1984...the year, and the album...good times my friends.

[So this is love]

I spent my entire high school days daydreaming of Van Halen back in the early 80's...God the clock was slow...I would picture them coming into class and rock like there's no tomorrow...

[chi-town324]

to this day when i hear "somebody get me a doctor" on Eddies solo i can remember where the pause was when my 8 track would change to the next channel....

the summer of 1981 i blasted fair warning so loud i had cops routinely coming to my apartment for disturbing the peace....