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No Fat in Van Halen?
I posted this in reply to the thread "The Stuff Eddie Doesn't Want You to Hear", but thought it had merit on it's own enough to start a thread with it. Here goes....the lies never cease with these fuckers, I swear...
VAN HALEN Have Released Almost Every Song They Have Completed [Rock Hard - 04.08.10 09:13:40]
Undercover News Australia (www.undercover.com.au) has issued the following VAN HALEN report:
No Fat In Van Halen
There's no fat in the Van Halen coffers according to the band's Alex Van Halen and Sammy Hagar. Almost every song they have ever finished recording since their first album in 1978 has been released.
"There are no real tracks that are unreleased. There may be two or three songs that were partially completed" Alex tells Undercover News. "If those songs were really worthwhile we would have released them back when they were written".
"One of the biggest mistakes artists can make is to go back on the stuff they passed on in the first place and throw it out as new, which it isn't" he adds. "Ed is very particular in which direction he wants to go in musically and that is forward. I don't know if there is such a thing as going forward in music. It is either up, down, sideways or backwards. It goes in a circle. The intent that goes in to behind making a piece of music is as important as the perception of that piece of music. The intent is to go forward. If you go backwards, then forget it. It doesn't work. We don't go back and go through old tapes".
Even since Sammy Hagar joined the band, almost every thing they recorded was released. "I can only think that for the 11 years I was in the band there is probably only three unfinished songs that we worked on, just like there is four from this one and we only released three".
According to Hagar, "you wouldn't want to hear it. It is not done. The lyrics aren't done, the melody is not done and the structure is not there. It was left half cooked. The idea is probably still good but I doubt if we would ever go back and use it because when we get back together and go in the studio it is about where you are at at that moment, not about something you did back there and trying to rekindling that. It is much better to go fresh every time. It is more inspiring. It is like going back to your old girlfriend".
The three news songs that made the Best of Both Worlds are 'It's About Time', 'Up For Breakfast' and 'Learning To See'. All three songs were created on the fly after Hagar rejoined the band. "For one thing we don't keep an accurate log of when the idea came to mind or when the music came to fruition" Alex says. "It is kind of nailed jello to the wall. It just comes and it goes. It just happened that when the four of us got together we played as much music as Sammy could digest and the one's that really stuck in his head were the ones that we worked on. It was nothing more or nothing less than that. It was that simple".
"It was kind of when I first walked in, Ed and Al had been in the studio for a couple of years and they had a lot of ideas floating around with no lyrics and no song structure" Sammy said. "It was hard for me to digest at first but because of the time limit, as soon as we got together we said lets go out on tour which is what we like to do more than anything, play live, I picked on the ones that instantly sang to me, ones I thought I could come up with some good lyrics for. In a way it sounds like I took the easy road with the ones that just presented themselves. Otherwise we would still be in there sorting through music".
"There is enough music for 100 years in that studio to write songs for laying around on the floor" he adds. "We had four songs and the forth one never got completed. These three got done in time to go out on tour and I mean barely. We were still in the studio mixing and rehearsing at night and mastering and being on tour. It was pretty intense. These three were the ones that came naturally to us".
Van Halen has just released their compilation The Best of Both Worlds.
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Um, is it just me, or do I have something like 5 CDs worth of Van Halen studio material ALONE that was finished, but never released? Not to mention all of the live video footage and audio recordings that could make enough for a GREAT Diamond Dave era 2 CD live album and/or DVD. Who are these fuckstains trying to kid? Do they REALLY BELIEVE, in this day and age, that people DON'T have access to these bootlegs? Have they forgotten that the internet is a GREAT SOURCE FOR TRADING BOOTLEGS??? AND THAT A WHOLE SHITLOAD OF THEM ARE OUT THERE???
"There's only two or three partially completed songs" MY ASS.
Now, I would believe that there isn't any real Sammy Hagar unreleased material, that much strikes me as truthful - I'm sure it's hard enough for them to come up with enough material to actually RECORD an album in the first place, considering all the time they have to spend playing XBox, drinking and running around naked slapping each others asses and shouting "IT'S 5150 TIME!!!" all day long...
VAN HALEN Have Released Almost Every Song They Have Completed [Rock Hard - 04.08.10 09:13:40]
Undercover News Australia (www.undercover.com.au) has issued the following VAN HALEN report:
No Fat In Van Halen
There's no fat in the Van Halen coffers according to the band's Alex Van Halen and Sammy Hagar. Almost every song they have ever finished recording since their first album in 1978 has been released.
"There are no real tracks that are unreleased. There may be two or three songs that were partially completed" Alex tells Undercover News. "If those songs were really worthwhile we would have released them back when they were written".
"One of the biggest mistakes artists can make is to go back on the stuff they passed on in the first place and throw it out as new, which it isn't" he adds. "Ed is very particular in which direction he wants to go in musically and that is forward. I don't know if there is such a thing as going forward in music. It is either up, down, sideways or backwards. It goes in a circle. The intent that goes in to behind making a piece of music is as important as the perception of that piece of music. The intent is to go forward. If you go backwards, then forget it. It doesn't work. We don't go back and go through old tapes".
Even since Sammy Hagar joined the band, almost every thing they recorded was released. "I can only think that for the 11 years I was in the band there is probably only three unfinished songs that we worked on, just like there is four from this one and we only released three".
According to Hagar, "you wouldn't want to hear it. It is not done. The lyrics aren't done, the melody is not done and the structure is not there. It was left half cooked. The idea is probably still good but I doubt if we would ever go back and use it because when we get back together and go in the studio it is about where you are at at that moment, not about something you did back there and trying to rekindling that. It is much better to go fresh every time. It is more inspiring. It is like going back to your old girlfriend".
The three news songs that made the Best of Both Worlds are 'It's About Time', 'Up For Breakfast' and 'Learning To See'. All three songs were created on the fly after Hagar rejoined the band. "For one thing we don't keep an accurate log of when the idea came to mind or when the music came to fruition" Alex says. "It is kind of nailed jello to the wall. It just comes and it goes. It just happened that when the four of us got together we played as much music as Sammy could digest and the one's that really stuck in his head were the ones that we worked on. It was nothing more or nothing less than that. It was that simple".
"It was kind of when I first walked in, Ed and Al had been in the studio for a couple of years and they had a lot of ideas floating around with no lyrics and no song structure" Sammy said. "It was hard for me to digest at first but because of the time limit, as soon as we got together we said lets go out on tour which is what we like to do more than anything, play live, I picked on the ones that instantly sang to me, ones I thought I could come up with some good lyrics for. In a way it sounds like I took the easy road with the ones that just presented themselves. Otherwise we would still be in there sorting through music".
"There is enough music for 100 years in that studio to write songs for laying around on the floor" he adds. "We had four songs and the forth one never got completed. These three got done in time to go out on tour and I mean barely. We were still in the studio mixing and rehearsing at night and mastering and being on tour. It was pretty intense. These three were the ones that came naturally to us".
Van Halen has just released their compilation The Best of Both Worlds.
***************
Um, is it just me, or do I have something like 5 CDs worth of Van Halen studio material ALONE that was finished, but never released? Not to mention all of the live video footage and audio recordings that could make enough for a GREAT Diamond Dave era 2 CD live album and/or DVD. Who are these fuckstains trying to kid? Do they REALLY BELIEVE, in this day and age, that people DON'T have access to these bootlegs? Have they forgotten that the internet is a GREAT SOURCE FOR TRADING BOOTLEGS??? AND THAT A WHOLE SHITLOAD OF THEM ARE OUT THERE???
"There's only two or three partially completed songs" MY ASS.
Now, I would believe that there isn't any real Sammy Hagar unreleased material, that much strikes me as truthful - I'm sure it's hard enough for them to come up with enough material to actually RECORD an album in the first place, considering all the time they have to spend playing XBox, drinking and running around naked slapping each others asses and shouting "IT'S 5150 TIME!!!" all day long...
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