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Pics of the band that you have never seen before in this book, Could This Be Magic: Van Halen Before 1978 by Elizabeth Wiley.
I originally posted this somewhere else in a thread about what books people were reading, but it'll get lost there, and I figured you'd all want to see these images.
I just downloaded it on Kindle for £2.66 - it is a very sparse memoir of the time the author knew the guys in the band. Well worth the small cost. She apparently worked for Roth's father at some point, and followed Mammoth and Van Halen around, starched up Dave's denims, and took pictures, a lot of which are lost (or were given to an early manager).
There's 3 pics of Dave with an acoustic guitar when, in her words, 'he was playing clubs as a solo artist'. She is not very good on remembering dates, but it seems this was probably 1972. One photo from around this time has been in circulation on the internet for years, but these three I have never seen. Interesting to see how Dave is dressed - flared kind of check / tartan strides with turn-ups and platform shoes.
4 pics of Alex, rehearsing at a practice room with Mammoth. These, she says, were taken a year before the performance shot on the cover, which was 1973 - that means 1972.
3 Ed pics from 72-73. Performing at some outdoors highschool venue (1973), and in the rehearsal room (1972). Like the Dave and Alex ones, I have seen one shot before which is not in the book, but has been circulating for years on the internet.
2 pics of Mark Stone at rehearsal (he's on the cover as well), 1972. He has one of those plexi-glass basses.
4 pics of Van Halen on stage - Dave, Ed and Al. She says 'it could be as late as 1975 or 1976', but earlier she says that she never took any photos with Mike Anthony in the band, so it is probably more like '74, before Mike joined. These are interesting for the period detail. Dave has a very glam hairdo that to me says '1973' or '1974'. I remember as a kid when people wore their hair like that. If he wasn't wearing denims, he could fit right into The Sweet, or something.
I'd recommend it - it costs very little on the Kindle.
See: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466929294/ref=rdr_ext_tmb
I originally posted this somewhere else in a thread about what books people were reading, but it'll get lost there, and I figured you'd all want to see these images.
I just downloaded it on Kindle for £2.66 - it is a very sparse memoir of the time the author knew the guys in the band. Well worth the small cost. She apparently worked for Roth's father at some point, and followed Mammoth and Van Halen around, starched up Dave's denims, and took pictures, a lot of which are lost (or were given to an early manager).
There's 3 pics of Dave with an acoustic guitar when, in her words, 'he was playing clubs as a solo artist'. She is not very good on remembering dates, but it seems this was probably 1972. One photo from around this time has been in circulation on the internet for years, but these three I have never seen. Interesting to see how Dave is dressed - flared kind of check / tartan strides with turn-ups and platform shoes.
4 pics of Alex, rehearsing at a practice room with Mammoth. These, she says, were taken a year before the performance shot on the cover, which was 1973 - that means 1972.
3 Ed pics from 72-73. Performing at some outdoors highschool venue (1973), and in the rehearsal room (1972). Like the Dave and Alex ones, I have seen one shot before which is not in the book, but has been circulating for years on the internet.
2 pics of Mark Stone at rehearsal (he's on the cover as well), 1972. He has one of those plexi-glass basses.
4 pics of Van Halen on stage - Dave, Ed and Al. She says 'it could be as late as 1975 or 1976', but earlier she says that she never took any photos with Mike Anthony in the band, so it is probably more like '74, before Mike joined. These are interesting for the period detail. Dave has a very glam hairdo that to me says '1973' or '1974'. I remember as a kid when people wore their hair like that. If he wasn't wearing denims, he could fit right into The Sweet, or something.
I'd recommend it - it costs very little on the Kindle.
See: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466929294/ref=rdr_ext_tmb
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