'Van Halen Rising' Book Chat with Greg Renoff - Oct. 17th, 9pm ET

[Fairwrning]

Awesome read!

https://medium.com/cuepoint/the-priv...en-ac6fa2cda7b

Great find..had no idea..

[WARF]

[Heater]

How can anyone NOT worship Dave? He always got the pick of the litter......the manly way he's holding that cig, a Virginia Slim Menthol most likely...you know he's about to get to it on this "gal's" 7 inch clit.

[vandeleur]

How can anyone NOT worship Dave? He always got the pick of the litter......the manly way he's holding that cig, a Virginia Slim Menthol most likely...you know he's about to get to it on this "gal's" 7 inch clit.

Dave is gay , hair, hair, cant sing, victim victim.
There you go bud you dont have to post any more today done it for you.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

BTW, here is the cover of Greg's upcoming book.....

[Cato]

Cool. VAiN did a great job for this cover.

but I don't like to see the words "HEAVY METAL" on VH related books because their music is not metal.

[Nitro Express]

I've heard Van Halen referred to as a Heavy Metal band over the years. I never got that. Metallica is a heavy metal band. VH was a good time, free wheelin, So-Cal, rock and roll party band. Heavy Metal is heavy and dark. Now come on Beautiful Girls is heavy metal?

[ELVIS]

It's Rock music...

[ThatArtGuy]

The term "heavy metal" is open for interpretation. Compared to what was on the radio at the time, songs like "On Fire" would definitely qualify.

[Cato]

shut up elvis.

[ELVIS]

How insulting...

[Seshmeister]

Is this metal enough?

[vandeleur]

Hahaha

[tojoro]

Growing up, I saw plenty of print that lumped Van Halen in with the "Heavy Metal" genre. The 80s was really when the different genres of music began to splinter into sub-genres. Yes, Van Halen were "rock", but, so were Journey and U2.
Rush wouldn't be considered "Heavy Metal", but they, like CVH, were accepted by the "Metal-Head" community back then...it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to see pins or patches of either band, alongside those of Maiden, Dio, or Priest.
I was fortunate to grow near a college town, as I had several places to find import books, magazines & music. Along from the usual suspects like Creem, Circus and Hit Parader, mags like Kerrang! and Burrn! would regularly feature the guys...even during their lost years.
I guess the best example would be the US Festival...they headlined "Heavy Metal Day".

~T.

[tojoro]

...and looking at the flipside of it, Metallica toured with LVH on their "Monsters of Rock" tour five years later.