Saturday, February 17, 2007

VAN HALEN - HAIL TO THE MIGHTY !!!


"WE WAITED FOR 20 YEARS -- TO SEE IF ANYTHING WOULD TOP IT..... AND WE ENDED UP WITH WHEEZER"
cantu as quoted at recent Royal Oak happening

This is a great live action clip even though the quality is crappy. The song is handled really well.. This was in 1983. I saw them the following year in 1984 in DC at the Capital Center. They call it something else now......

As you know Van Halen is reforming this summer for 40 cities. I would like to see them really kick out something amazing. I liked Roth in the band over any of the other singers. When you think about it they weren't a band for very long. Van Halen has trudged on without Dave for about..... well... 20 Years.

Even Howard Stern said they were better with Roth than without in his book, "Private Parts". I have to agree I think I played Van Halen III a total of 3 times.

Its interesting to see Alex Van Halen cook on the drums as he tries to out do his brother Eddie. Alex uses huge drum sticks.... "trees" as he says. Its amazing how much he pounds on them and creates this cocaphony of noise.

"Hang Em High" is not a song that quickly comes to mind when one is talking about Van Halen. I memorized every track on the Diver Down LP so for me its no big deal. In fact, I memorized all six of the original albums because they carried such firey intensity.

Eddie makes this song look so easy to play even though its incredibly complicated.

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