Van Halen - Complete Zero Demo - 1976 (Unreleased)
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Complete Zero Demo of Van Halen in 1976 before the album Van Halen I.
Titles :
1.Intro • Van Halen - Complete Z...
2.On Fire
3.Women In Love • Van Halen - Complete Z...
4.House of Pain • Van Halen - Complete Z...
5.Runnin' With The Devil • Van Halen - Complete Z...
6.She's The Woman • Van Halen - Complete Z...
7.Let's Get Rockin' • Van Halen - Complete Z... (equals song Outer Space, in ADKOT)
8.Big Trouble • Van Halen - Complete Z...
9.Somebody Get Me a Doctor • Van Halen - Complete Z...
10.Babe, Don't Leave Me Alone • Van Halen - Complete Z...
11.Put Out The Lights • Van Halen - Complete Z...
12.We Die Bold • Van Halen - Complete Z...
13.Voodoo Queen • Van Halen - Complete Z... (Mean street)
14.Little Dreamer • Van Halen - Complete Z...
15.Bring Out The Girls • Van Halen - Complete Z... (Beautiful Girls)
16.Young & Wild • Van Halen - Complete Z...
17.Last Night • Van Halen - Complete Z... (Hang em' High)
18.Light In The Sky • Van Halen - Complete Z...
19.Get The Show On The Road • Van Halen - Complete Z...
20.D.O.A • Van Halen - Complete Z...
21.Somebody Get Me A Doctor • Van Halen - Complete Z...
22.Show Your Love • Van Halen - Complete Z... (I'm the One)
23.I Wanna Be Your Lover • Van Halen - Complete Z...
24.Feel Your Love Tonight • Van Halen - Complete Z...
25.In A Simple Rhyme • Van Halen - Complete Z...
26.Piece Of Mind • Van Halen - Complete Z...
27.You Really Got Me • Van Halen - Complete Z...
28.Happy Trails • Van Halen - Complete Z...
29.Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love • Van Halen - Complete Z...
Thanks to Lucas Gouvêa for the timestamps !! ( / lthiaggo )
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This is near the top of the most amazing things on the internet.
haha. rite
fr,,,,n sweet! !
I'm so happy I found this. got goosebumps.
Agree
Me too,love this stuff.
I can't believe people say Roth's singing wasn't up to par at this stage. It's fucking phenomenal on the first demo.
absolutely
That's what I'm thinking 🤔 too!!!!
Roth was the shit even Wasted
He was the coolest until he let Sammy Hagar take the wheel; "Van Hagar" was so weak, that poor old Dave lost face, cut his hair and completely lost his rock n roll Sampson persona. Now he's just a gigolo-lol.
Roth sounded like a clown on this recording. Terrible.
Michael Anthony is a mountain on bass, dude is so rock solid.
Yes, Always has been.
VH, will always will be my favorite band, but when Michael Anthony was let go, VH as a band ended. Not only his bass playing was excellent, but his background vocals completed VH awesome sound. Don't get me wrong, I love the newer members also (Wolfgang, Sammy, etc...) but that was a different band. Eddie alone didn't make VH. It was all of them, Eddie, Alex, Michael and Dave. Although VH had some really great music after Alex was no longer part of the band, it wasn't for me
He was a Tank in the Fair Warning tour. 🗿
A tar tar can play the bass.
Micheal Anthony is one of the best bassists and singers in the business. Wolfgang does an amazing job on their last record though, both playing and singing.
This is epic. They should release this as an official release. Its killer!!! Brings back so many memories of those days..
Always great, when it is pure , no overdubs or mixing to much just raw rock , always my favorite before huge most bands do there best just a rock purist I guess
@@timbarry1424that's exactly why I love it so much!! I listen to this daily!
Gene Simmons, who produced this, said it would only be released with the approval and blessing of the Van Halen brothers. Now, of course, it's up to Alex and Wolfgang.
He was the best guitar player
Its Raw & Rocks wish there was some visible video!!✌️
Let’s not forget Michael Anthony and his contributions!! Incredible vocals and tight bass playing. Plays whatever you want him to
Lol exactly he plays what Eddie wrote for him..😅 All joking aside He wS a huge part of the VH sound..Nobody can touch his high backup singing.
I would like to hear Runnin with the Devil with only music and Michael Anthony’s background vocals! STRATOSPHERE TIME!
Love him
ALEX on the drums was incredible as well !!!!
Mikey is one of the best bass players that no one really knows is a great bass player. On these demos (and on some of the more quality live recordings) you get to actually hear him go. The man’s a beast on 4 strings, only you’d never know it listening to the albums, where he’s buried so low in the mix that you’re lucky if you can even hear root notes.
And then there’s the vocal harmonies. At least you can hear those loud and clear on the albums.
This 1976 demo explains why Ed is a genius. NO ONE could touch this man then. The guy wrote all 6 albums practically by age 20. This playing is something unheard of back then.
Unheard of at any time, in any place, both before and after Eddie. He was a master pianist who probably could have had a Rubinstein career, but instead chose to apply that manual dexterity and muisicianship to the guitar. No one with those gifts (and there are damn few of those anyway) will likely ever do that again.
@@paulhoworth9600 great response
Really enjoyed this album the best.Still trying to play like him, ain't doing too good,lol.
You'll get no argument from me that EVH is a true genius musician. However, for some context, he may have had songs that were written earlier than they were released, saying he did it all before he was 20 is a bit of a stretch. 1984 Ed was 29 years old. There might be songs he did when Sam was singing that he wrote before he was 20, but if you go down that road, then he didn't grow after his 20th birthday. Which is utter nonsense. One of the very reasons he was such a genius is that he never stopped trying to get better. Chasing the elusive TONE.
Enjoy it all. We won't ever see the likes of Edward's ability again. ✌️
I'm surprised to see they basically wrote their whole body of work back before they were famous! I had no idea that so much music was written at this point in time. Does this make 1984 only their second effort? No wonder there was so much creativity with 5150!
David Lee Roth at his peak was fire.
A legend!
He peaked through all the first 6 VH albums and went on to do some pretty decent stuff with Vai.
Obviously after he was serious about bein profesfional he went found vocal teacher . And I saw both his tours with steve vai and it sounded like the album very clear and the colesium is a hard sound fix to get soundin right
25:02 click click
He was the best ever at his peak in regards to his vocals, spirit, showmanship, and mobility all taken into account. Other vocalists may have had equal or better voices technically, but Dave was light years ahead of them as the FULL PACKAGE. The real King Of Rock n Roll, right there after Elvis. Hell Elvis was even slothful compared to Dave. There's really just no comparison. Dave got hooked up with the right back up boys and forever set the bar. Pretty simple to see.🎉
This is as close as you get to a time machine that takes you back to a house party in the mid 70s where a new local unsigned band nobody ever heard of called Van Halen is playing to a bunch of people having a great time.
Can you imagine if their parents never met hahaha we would be screwed
......smell of weed in the air , nobody can understand anyone cause they've all eaten a couple of quaaludes and sound like have a mouth full of marbles & $3 charge for the keg & you get a plastic cup with it .........those were the days
My first concert, unintentional as it was, occurred when a babysitter dragged me to a backyard party in the Pasadena area when I was 9 yrs old. All I remember is the smell of weed and a really good guitar player up on a semi-truck flatbed. It was loud.
It was Van Halen about a year before their first album was released. I had no idea at the time what I was witnessing, nor the influence those 4 teenagers would have on me down the line.
Imagine how epically white trash the people at that party would have to be....
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This is like getting a brand new VH album hot off the press in 2021!! I am so glad I never heard this before!! WOW!!! It certainly eases the pain of my hero passing away.
you are in pain ...sorry for you bro ...not good to be in pain because of someone who never known you and does not give a shit about you...look after your family better....
@@nebod1556 piss off
I saw this stuff.
@@nebod1556 You my friend , are messed up in the head! You don't know this guy & we don't give a shit about you!
@@nebod1556It's a fucked up world we live in. There are a few people left who aren't egomaniacal self centered POS,s.
For the most part, I agree with your comment. It's one reason people chose to escape reality. Reality sucks.
This just makes me feel good. There will never be another late 70s early 80s. Lord thank you for putting me there.
@markd9410 there is ONE coming please be ready
This is just like rediscovering Van Halen for the first time but,in a whole new light!
+lastcall170 I thought the same thing. These demos blow the roof off.
+lastcall170 this shit is brilliant, out of this world
I got to see Ed & Alex at backyard/ kegger/block party before Michael Anthony or any singer, 3 piece band, covering Hendrix, Santana, Clapton note for note, dual Marshall stacks in a living room, loud as hell & every song was perfectly played, some even better than the originals, glad Van Halen's came to this country & decided to go to Long beach community College for piano, music & play backyard parties, no tapping stuff but note for note covers & played perfectly! I'd known a few guitarists & musicians that were very good too, ( John Grahm, Rick Romano, Scott Bottomley, Tony Radcliff, Elefante's from Brotherhood) lots of great talent from the 'hood, so this was pretty impressive, David Lee Roth didn't have the voice, but his showmanship combined with the 2 brothers. Chevrolet from ZZ Top was on the demo.
Why did I JUST find this after ALL these years?????WOW!!VH really WERE HUGE before we knew it!!Love it!!
I was just thinking that. I got some real nice headphones on it isn't bad. Voodoo queen is a good ons
Eddie's not dead. He lives forever.
No he's dead.
Eddies gone forever and his creativity is gone with him. His work does live on, everything he ever recorded and saved is with us, his gift to humanity. To recognize the value of the gift, one must recognize the immensity of the loss and its total finality. I get where you are coming from and assume you are a fan like I. Rock on brother!!
Eddie's mortal form is gone, but his work lives on the minds and heart of millions, and it will always be thus. I could go on for hours about all the things I learned and did as a direct result of being a VH fan; I could never begin to approach the level of technical expertise Ed brought to the instrument, but my rhythm guitar playing and songwriting improved a ton, just from copying what I could off the first coupla albums. Being dead is an inevitability; being dead and forgotten is what most of us face, apart from our families and friends.
Millenials will be blown away when they eventually discover his sound.
Consummate musician still he did die in tobacco addiction and denial. Blaming his metal picks for cancer-I've had thousands of nails, screws and fasteners in my mouth-ridiculous! Not to mention we all eat with metal cutlery!
Does it get any better than stumbling across this for the first time? Holy shit!
Nope. Im doing it right now
This is my first time hearing this!
WOW!!!
It's like having a hot date with an old fling you dated decades ago and she became 17 again for the occasion! 😵
Outrageous! Unbelievable! So good! This might be the end of me! LOL
Listening for the first time now.Hungry,rough n ready,the way I like it.Sensational.
Nope
This is like having a new VH album!These songs rock! The Mighty Van Halen!!
Most of these songs ended up on “A different kind of truth” about 35 years later
AGREED!!!!🎸🔥😎
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY, OUR MOST BELOVED AND CHARISMATIC GUITARIST OF ALL TIMES PASSED AWAY. WE REMEMBER YOU WITH AFFECTION AND TODAY WE CELEBRATE LISTENING TO YOUR BEST CREATIONS, GOD BLESS YOU EDDIE.
As far as demos go, this has to be the greatest one ever made.
I concur!
I remember hearing it about20 years ago the first time,it freaked me out because it's so good!
This one and No Life Till leather by Metallica are quite possibly the best.
why ? because you are a vh fan ? lol
@@maniaque37 no I hate vh!
This is GOLD. Seriously, this could be released and it would do better than some of their latter stuff. Eddie's guitar tone is menacing.
fucking menacing. That's exactly the best way to describe it. He just attacked every solo
Yeah. At 15:30 into the recording, Eddie is already doing the Mean Streets intro to the lead. He was so gifted.
My understanding was this demo session was very trying on the band's patience. Gene Simmons flew them out to New York and they could not bring any of their equipment. All of this was done on studio gear and all they could do was get as close as they could to their sound. Ultimately it was a bust as KISS's manager just didn't want to take on another act. Gene, I think had a little egg on his face. He had to send them back to L.A. with nothing. But they got a free professional recording studio demo tape out it. But in subsequent months Gene wouldn't leave Eddie alone. He was trying to steal him away to be fire Ace and replace him with Eddie. Dave knew it and he and Gene had a acrimonious resentment over it. Actually, dave was fucking pissed. But ed wasn't going anywhere. His name was on the band.
This will BLOW AWAY ANYTHING OUT TODAY. I was 10.....damn it i wish I knew it then.... Good time party music 🎶 the keggers acid parties...Where have all the good times gone 😪?
And Dave is at top of his live career vocally !!!
This is like finding gold!
Why isn't this a album, I'd buy this record in a heartbeat
I would too
Well you do know how to copy right? It's not like you're taking away from the band now
Its called Van Halen 1... available anywhere!
This needs to be released! The raw energy of all band members is awesome. Best demo I’ve ever heard!
Yeah it’s long overdue. I just hope that if it ever does get an official release, they don’t mess with the mix, like *AT ALL*
Just a good remaster is all it needs. The mix is already perfect as it is.
RAISE YOUR GLASSES! a big & proper send off to Mr. Eddie Van Halen! RIP Buddy.
Van halen as they were meant to be . Lean, mean and aggressive. Amazing recording, you can just feel how hungry these guys were for success.
yeah, you can just tell they left nothing on the table. Just threw all they had at every night's performance.
Without a doubt! 100%!
I’m doing it today!!! Love it!!
or big trouble
@@glentheriault3318 just heard big trouble for the first time… goosebumps. EVH is the greatest ever.
This is seriously my favorite album of them. It’s the most raw and full of youthful energy. Eddie’s tone is fricken fierce. He’s and absolute beast!
Absolutely pure in filtered rock
This has to be their best Album EVER. RAW MUSIC.
Raw
Every moment of this is amazing. So fascinating to see how songs started, knowing how they ended up. This is absolute gold. What a treasure.
We're sitting here listening to this with our minds being blown!
Geez I'm 53 and saw them twice in the early '80's - this IS gold!! I'm ruined. I don't think I'll ever listen to a studio album again, this is unreal - and thanks Gene Simmons, Michael Anthony stands out!
+Michael Pordan It ticks me off. I just (5 minutes ago) read an article on Rolling Stone where Eddie once again slags Mike's bass playing and vocals, then says DLR should start acting like he's 60. I love Eddie - but damn, bro! Eddie is a genius, but he has issues.
+garcemac I've said this before.
Michael Pordan dd
garcemac k
@@garcemac BS!!
This is absolute dynamite. A fitting way to remember Eddie. Rock on in the heavens, man.
Every guitar player on the planet needs to hear this. This is as real as it gets
Every drummer(which I am lol), and every other musician while they’re at it!🫡 they are All on Fire 🔥
Like discovering fire.
Could'nt agree more. Long live
VH.
Um, bass players could learn a lot from this too. Mikey’s really shining on these recordings. They all are.
When I was a kid I had the VH symbol all over my school folders, on my t-shirts and even in the back window of my first car. So to find a demo album like this is like a gift from the past. THANK YOU!
Man! Ed wrote so many bad ass riffs!
Someone should get this into a studio and release it. This is too good to be a hidden gem. The stuff here is as good as anything they've done since Fair Warning!
LOL! Someone did go into a studio and record this. It's called Van Halen and Van Halen II, Women and Children First etc.
Mike Sor Bass - Since Fair Warning? This is the original essence of VH and kicks the crap out of everything they did after Fair Warning !!!!
@@depedro9119 not all tracks were used?
@@gt-37guy6 That's what Mike's saying man ... think you read him wrong ;)
As good? Man o man this material here rivals their best album whatever the bleep you think their best album happens to be. Even with the sub par sound quality its soothing golden dynamite.
Who's here after hearing that Eddie died? Big thanks to Myrddin Wild for turning me on to above video. RIP Eddie Van Halen.
First time hearing this! RIP Eddie Van Halen 💔 🎼🎼🎼
I am...sadly. I was a freshman in high school when Van Halen debuted. As a young guitar player he became an instant iconic figure in my life. . I lived through the days of anticipating a new album, buying the concert tickets, waking up the day of the concert knowing that night was going to be very special. Those early tours will never be matched.. I’m so grateful I lived through those days. Such awesome memories. I often come back and listen to these tracks. We can only hope that musical gems of Eddie’s and Van Halen as a band will be released now. Certain things need to be heard. Rest in peace my hero.
Had found a bootleg copy a few years ago. Need to find it and which flash drive I copied it to.
Sucks getting old and forgetful...
Rest well Ed. I imagine he’s assembling a Frankenharp as we speak.
I am there is no words do describe him
1st time hearing this as well. Eddie will be missed❤
This can be easily mistaken for 80's hard rock. this is how ahead of time Van Halen is!
might as well jump
This is what inspired 80's rock...so yeah, this is what it came from.
70s rock blew 80s rock out of the water... 80s was mostly the 70s guys going sappy. And what new 80s bands emerged were nothing compared to what came in the previous decade.
@@slowride9994 Van Halen is amazing bruh. But to me theyre a 70s band and I like their first two albums best
@@slowride9994 I agree with this. Most bands who had their own unique sound in the 70's creating classic after classic, started to try and hop on the trends, watering down their hard driven guitar sound and cranking up the synths. Few went and got heavier trying to go into a more metal direction, but most of them seemed to start doing yacht type of rock. The 80's did produce some stellar stuff, but I think a lot of people have a nostalgic bias going on. Things got pretty sh*tty when the keyboards started to overpower the guitars in the mix. Hell, even Ozzy Osbourne in the mid 80's had the synth as loud as the guitars. A lot of that stuff sounds so dated when you go back and listen. Queen is another example. Such great riffs from Brian May in the 70's, only to give way to some of their weakest albums.
I love both Rock and Metal but it's very clear that 70's Rock kicks the sh*t out of most of the Rock that appeared in the 80's. Even the overall tone of the albums changed. EVH is a special case and an outlier, modifying his strat to get his own unique sound. With that said, I much prefer the sound and thick tone of a Les Paul ran through Marshalls over a lot of the whammy yanking super strat sound players were trying to get copying Eddie. The great thing about Ed is that he wasn't just some boring shredder. He implemented his impeccable lead playing with his ferocious rhythm parts, adding quick little fills in between to color the song even more, same with Randy Rhoads.
The 70's seemed more centered around big memorable rhythm parts where the leads would be there to compliment the song. In the 80's we started to see a lot more of the lead guitarist taking center stage and noodling away. Like the song was only there so the guitar player could show you how fast he could go and how many tricks he knew. Quit trying to be Eddie because it's a lost cause. It wound up over saturating the genre with everyone doing the same thing.
I can actually hear Michael Anthony play and he's kicking ass. I wonder why we don't hear him as loudly on the studio albums
very noticeable
I’ve never heard or read a reasonable explanation as to why Michael’s bass was consistently buried in the mix on every VH album he plays on. Even the bits you can hear were forcibly dumbed down from what they were when you’d see them live or listen to these demos. Obviously *SOMEBODY* wanted him way off in the background, and wanted him to play down his abilities… but why? It’s not like he was going to steal the spotlight from Eddie or Alex. If anything, when you listen to this stuff you can really hear how the killer bass playing enhances the songs without taking anything away from any of the other players. So then, *WHY* was the bass always so… ‘non-existent’ on the albums? I really don’t get it.
R cuz they only wanted you to hear Eddie Van Halen the greatest guitar player
Probably because Ed & Alex never really valued him as a player. Ed was even quoted as saying that he hardly noticed the bass in the studio.
Novelty aside, this is a terrible mix. Very amateurish, but typical for a demo, especially for the time. There's WAY too much bass and a ton of separation between everything. You want to feel the bass, not so much hear it. The bass is actually burying the drums.
Wow! This is how I remember Van Halen. Raw, powerful, and explosive! No other band before or after can come close to this once in a life time band. I was amazed and in awe when I first heard them and Eddie's guitar playing/solos was nothing anyone ever heard. He changed the way the guitar was played forever with his unique style.
I post the Lucas Thiago message =) :
1.Intro 00:00
2.On Fire 0:11
3.Women In Love 3:44
4.House of Pain 7:05
5.Runnin' With The Devil 10:42
6.She's The Woman 14:05
7.Let's Get Rockin' 16:56 (equals song Outer Space, in ADKOT)
8.Big Trouble 19:57
9.Somebody Get Me a Doctor 23:30
10.Babe, Don't Leave Me Alone 26:31
11.Put Out The Lights 29:24
12.We Die Bold 33:02
13.Voodoo Queen 36:07 (Mean street)
14.Little Dreamer 39:48
15.Bring Out The Girls 43:00 (Beautiful Girls)
16.Young & Wild 46:50
17.Last Night 49:26 (Hang em' High)
18.Light In The Sky 52:56
19.Get The Show On The Road 57:36
20.D.O.A 01:00:34
21.Somebody Get Me A Doctor 01:04:35
22.Show Your Love 01:08:35 (I'm the One)
23.I Wanna Be Your Lover 01:12:45
24.Feel Your Love Tonight 01:15:48
25.In A Simple Rhyme 01:19:45
26.Piece Of Mind 01:24:28
27.You Really Got Me 01:28:25
28.Happy Trails 01:31:15
29.Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love 01:32:40
Don't forget Big Trouble is now Big River on ADKOT and others as well...
There’s a special place in heaven for people like you
@@allanforbes7720 and Put Out The Lights is Beats Workin'
1976, 2 years before the first album was released, vh recorded these songs, representing each of their first 6 albums (released one every year 1978-1983). A true demo of an entire career at it's beginning. Astounding.
funny how eruption was never a part of their official lineup, it was just the solo spot for eddie the same way the rest of the band has their solo sections for live shows. imagine if it was never recorded and was something you HAD to pay to see live...
Rest in Peace Edward Thanks for the memories..
Gotta love Michael Anthony all day long - always tight with Alex in the rhythm section keeping the VH motor running so Eddie and Dave can make all the fast turns. Behind every hot rod looking good and going great is a pair of oil smeared mechanics keeping it tuned to the max. This awesome upload lets you into the garage so you can see and hear what's under the hood, and how the engine was made to purr. It's no wonder what happened when the doors to the showroom were finally pulled back and that sleek shiny VH mark 1 headed out onto the highway ....
heavy
Excellent description.
With a thumping mechanical bass part introduction. Within 2 months, Smeared Disco off the face of America. Really. Truly. Exactly what happened, 1978. Haleluya
Not to mention Mikes great voice.
🕊 🤎 🤍 Y u p 🕊 🤍 🤎
I bought the Album, running with the Devil in summer of 78" , I believe. That Album put Van Halen on the Map at the top of the pack. Young people Spent hours and years even, trying to figure out how eddie did his Solos, specifically his Eruption Solo, Which by the way was Played at EVERY High School Graduating Class at the time and for years after. No one could figure out how he could get the Solos the way they sounded. We had NO INTERNET, No Social Media, AND WE SURVIVED.....!!!!!
Eddie's playing is timeless! These four men created magic together
I have to point out what a solid lead guitar player Eddie van Halen was WITHOUT all the Floyd Rose tricks.
before aint talk bout love's intro seems eruption phrase
this is unreal.....how they practically came up with "all" their great riffs in 1976 for the next 10yrs..!!
I know right these dudes had great amounts of talent
@NADS IQ ..bieber is god...these guys suck,,,damn drug addicts cant play for shit..
I knowed this story..
Before the album in 1978, they had already something like 30 songs ... It's incredible this band !
And 2012 dkot
let us prey and your parents said your music was shitty but hey you didn’t think so, now you’re saying the same thing about the next generation, old man.
How the hell didn’t ‘We Die Bold’ ever make it to an album. Absolute classic.
Great tune bro! 🎸🎸👍
Its atomic punk
@@rickjensen2833 Not even close.
I agree. Ted Templeman made the songs and the albums so short they could have added 5 more songs and still fit on a vinyl record. The albums were too damn short. So there was no excuse.
it's definitely a gem !!!
One of the greatest sounds ever found on the internet.
Kevin Herndon, IYHO, that is.
@@4thandinches imt
I Grew up as a Military Brat ....Japan / Philippines / Spain...came to California January 1978 bought a 68 Camaro got a Job at 16- Construction...Hot Perfect Blazing Cali Sun pumping down in the Warehouse yard....Company Stereo playing the Radio in Escondido Warehouse yard and Running with the Devil comes On...LOVED IT/ for I was the kid who at 10 in the Philippines listened to Black Sabbath/ Alice Cooper/ Deep Purple/ SteppenWolf / Iron butterfly / Zeppelin / Hendrix etc.
Also people don't get how different this was to the other rock acts out there in 76.
Hrh Fish that’s because most people didn’t know who they were in 1976.
I wonder about how different rock music history would've been if Gene Simmons had been able to get them a contract in '76, as well as if Tom Scholz hadn't taken so long to produce the first Boston album and come out with it in '75. I have to think it would've knocked the legs out from under punk *just a little bit*, and what then?
Toys in the attic wouldn't have seemed so strong.
Hearing Eddie Van Halen for the first time, it was kind of the musical equivalent of Star Wars. There'd been nothing quite like it.
Don't forget about Heart. They were badass
My teenage years was the 80's! Seeing eddie on MTV back then was awesome!!!! Eddie to me seemed like a immortal rock guitar god! I never thought I would of seen the day where eddie wouldn't be around no more! I still can't believe he's gone! I'm glad he's not in pain no more! Rest easy eddie!
Agreed. The second live concert I ever saw was when my mom took me with her to their 1984 tour stop in Boise, ID where I grew up I learned drums a few years later in grade school and eventually learned guitar and still play guitar now. Part of my inspiration was that VH show. Rock on in Heaven, EVH!
@@mikeshaffer4912 awesome ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Listening to VH for 41yrs! And STILL get excited for this stuff!! I'll be listening for the rest of my life ! Love u Dave, Alex, Michael and the greatest guitar player in the history of this world!!! Think about that for a minute, it's mind boggling! RIP EDWARD VAN HALEN, ur music will live FOR AN ETERNITY
My brother, A Professional Drummer, Saw VanHalen in Seattle in 77 or 78, I believe. He sat or stood by the side of the stage where he could watch Eddie and his playing very closely. He told me that Eddie appeared to kept his fingers hovering just above the strings but not touching them. This gave him instananeous timing to make the notes and release them, so fast. I cant believe I am talking about this 45 years later. A ticket to see him was only 7- or 8 bucks. All you needed was a bic lighter to flick as the song played. VanHalen was only one of a Handful of Great Bands of that era. ACDC broke out in late 78 with Highway to Hell. Great Live Band. Journey was Great. Ted Nugent Rocked. RUSH was just getting started and their timing was Impeccable. FOreigner had great songs but not really that good, to me, Live. I watched Bryan Adams get started. Bee Gees were big but Disco was fading in early 1980. Aerosmyth, my first concert I saw in 76. Toys in the Attic Tour, Great Band. The nice thing about the past is that a band HAD TO HAVE TALENT to make it. You had to be able to play an Instrument and Sing or you were Invisible. Elvis was Rocking Hawaii and Vegas at the time. There were so many good bands that I should have watched live. Billy Idol started in 80. My brother was a member of the Kiss Army when the black and white Dressed to Kill album came out in 73.? LoverBoy was the Absolute BEST sounding band I saw in the KingDome, the old Kingdome in 1981. Almost caused a Riot, they were so Good. Times were good and we HAD NO INTERNET, just a Payphone for 15 cents and 12 channels on the non remote color tv. I wish I could go back but Sadly, Time Marches On.....RH DSD
I read DLR said when they recorded, Eddie would lay down 6 different solos, then slowly piece them together ro dwliver greatness. He always brings a smile to my face.
You are a true, educated fan.1st concert for menthey opened for Ozzy and Sabbath. Blew them away. Loved Foghat, Rush, Ted, Heart, AC/DC, Aerosmith, etc....
Listening to Eddie’s playing, I actually burst into laughter when my mind can’t process any more “are you kidding me!!!?”s.
Roth sounds fantastic
He really does.
Before the cigarettes, drugs, booze and partying took their toll .. love DLR
@@davemis40 and the personality took over the music
What's shocking is that Van Halen/Anthony sound like a bunch of brats/snotty kids while Roth sounds like a man in his prime.. and there's less than 1 year age difference between them. Roth was one hell of a vocal talent in his youth
Roth is fierce here!
How the fuck can this be a demo?!! Amazing sound and I actually like some of these demo versions better. Discovering this made my night man, thanks so much! :-)
what is even crazier, is how this was shopped around to record companies, and they said no...... just nuts
@@davidferrare3746 because it was not the kind of music that the people listened in that days
"Van Halen Rising": (How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal) by Greg Renoff. You will not find a better book anywhere about Van Halen. It covers their very beginnings all the way through the end of their first worldwide tour supporting VH1. Just an outstanding read if you're a fan, check it out.....
+dwk67 So true, and I surely wish someone would give him a BIG advance and get him to write the next part of the story, of the separate bands, and solo work, and the get back tours and work, and all............I went to the Pasadena book signing and it was just like those old back yard and club days, it did not matter if you knew the people or not, it was just fun.
I totally agree. Great book. I'm from Decatur Illinois and didn't make it out to Southern California till 86. But that book made me feel like I was there. If you're a fan read it.
VH is not metal it’s Hard Rock !!!
Greg has a new book coming out on Ted Templeman. These demos are good and raw but Ted’s genius was simple in capturing them on VH 1 .
My house is in that book!!
I cannot believe that I have never heard this gem of a collection. Brings me right back to the time when I first heard VH in 1978.
Same I’m confused … I was raised on VH , any one near me wanted to kill me or at least my turn table .. how did I not know about this ….
I’ve seen VH 8 times in a row starting in 80, and hearing this to me is like hearing VH1 for the first time in 78 at friends, it changed how I started listening to music, I couldn’t get enough of VH, RIP EVH, he may be gone but will never be topped, he’s the GOAT.
He is the GOAT!
I love these types of recordings. We're all just completely giggling and diggin" it because it's pure Van Halen.... This is for those of us who weren't able to see them when these songs were played like this live.
+Dave Henriod the shows were fkn LOUD!
Grew up w/70's greats - Zep Nuge Aero Queen Kiss Priest AC, but even VH demo is iEXTRA-inter-galactic!
Ziggyzag Zi Same here: +++Bowie, T-Rex. REO Speedwagon, Alice Cooper, Mott the Hoople, Kiss, Thin Lizzy, Silverhead, Montrose, UFO, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Sabbath, Steppinwolf, Aerosmith.....
A bunch of these songs ended up going on their newest album, A different kind of truth, But they changed them alot for the new album.. They fucked up by changing them... These songs are pure gold
Never mind that it’s a “demo.” This is the BEST VH ALBUM ever! Raw!
Raw
not better than the debut, IMHO, but beats every other VH studio LP for sure..
I'm mean, what a machine Ed was. Some of the coolest riffs ever written and ever to be written.
I'm 39 and I've always been a Vanhalen fan. Eddie Vanhalen is the reason I play the guitar!! There are songs on here I never knew existed until I recently stumbled across this demo!! This truly is like finding gold!!
This guy fell out the womb listening to VH.
He was always a fan. Dead ass.
silver not gold cos sound is atrocious
@@nebod1556it's not THAT bad
@@nebod1556 Who’s the dum-dum that clicked like on your misguided comment? Just goes to show that no matter how wrong or ridiculous some people are about certain things, there’s always others who will follow suit.
God bless Edward Van Halen. Absolute legend. There will NEVER be another like him. RIP King Edward !!!!
Damn, this has balls! Eddie’s twenty-one here.
Twenty one? Unreal!
yep, eddie was only 23 when Van Halen 1 was recorded and produced. Absolutely unreal talent that we may never see again. RIP. Love him and VH forever 🤟
Blows your mind that Eddie already had six albums of iconic rock songs developed by the time he was 21 --- he makes Prince look like a hack!
OMG!! WOW!! What an awesome discovery from vault of Van Halen!! Incredible!! This just proves VH was truly ahead of his time. I would have liked to ask him when and how it all came to pass in that moment of clarity he knew the signature sound, style, and technique he was searching for, never looking back and made it his life's work mastering those elements that made him quickly become a phenomenon on the strip to be discovered, made famous, inducted into the music hall of fame with a name suited for a King, King Van Halen and what legends are made of. Van Halen invented, developed, pioneered and reinvented guitar playing capabilities exceeding beyond limits with a sound and style that was his gift to give the world and become the greatest guitar player who ever lived. Van Halen was chosen to be the one to hold that title and reign supreme forever legendary King, Van Halen.
Finding this was the best thing to happen to me all week
How is this a Demo?! The whole band was great. EVH received transmissions from elsewhere. Some serious cosmic wave length. So happy Ed did what he did for us. Sad he has gone.
I have never heard this demo before !!! Wish I knew about it back in 80s!
@@marshawoolard4230 it’s as good as most finished albums
Thanks for everything Eddie. You changed my life.
Sounds like they wrote most of their albums in 1976.
They executed the perfect business plan!
Yep, used to see them play all over SoCal back in the day. They were playing all these songs live back then.
I’m a couple years late to this, so glad I found it! As to your comment, VH were for the most part a garage band before Simmons discovered them, and they’d been playing these songs at clubs and backyard parties all over Cali for a couple years! Awesome demo stuff!
Yeah, they basically did.
Couldn't be more obviously incorrect on that corny comment 😑
I'm just going to listen to this for the rest of my life. OMG this is unbelievable! My favorite band, my favorite guitarist.
R.I.P EDDIE VAN HALEN - ROCK STAR OF ROCK STARS
ty Vince for putting this on TH-cam. Awesome!!!
I've never heard this.. This demo is bonkers.. It's so RAW.. Nothing sounded like this in 76.... Sheesh!!
godamn Raw is right but amazing, roth and micheals vocals kick ass, also the brothers so tight!
Ted Templmen is credited with the big Van Halen sound of the first album. Sounds to me like the individual who mixed and mastered this demo should get the credit!
I agree totally
Hear, hear!
Gene Simmons of KISS
This absolutely an eye opener. Ted certainly added some polish, but they clearly went into the studio with everything already basically in place. It's the most remarkable thing. Genius is a inadequate description.
Templeton made them radio friendly
Michael Anthony's bass and vocals are in my opinion what made them really stand out. Really glad I found this. Metal magic!
Bass thumper. Name one song he wrote. Was replaced by a 15 yr old. All backing vocals in studio are Ed and Alex. Live they were pre recorded
@@junserafin5241 Wrong...watch the live stuff...he was nailing those high notes consistently...Half the time Eddie wasn't even near the microphone...
@@junserafin5241 LIAR!!
Michael Anthony's high pitch vocals really are the shit. Sammy even commented on it in interviews later in the bands history. As far as bass, MA played the perfect part. You can't play like Geddy Lee or John Entwistle when you have the power of EVH on the guitar. The bass part needs to complement the guitar part, not be overly busy. RIP EVH.
In order to come to that conclusion you have to step right over the singular talent that is EVH both in terms of creative writing and playing, and the signature DLR vocals. That said, MA's contribution is critical for their sound.
I too was a teenagr in high school when Van Halen was in their prime & selling out stadiums. Unfortunately i never got the chance to see them live, but i remember VH #1 was released in 1978 & i was 12 years old that year. I remember when VH#2, Women & Children First, Fair Warning, 1984, & Diver Down albums were released. Then came the Van Hagar era which i was not really a fan of but still they put out some decent stuff. I've always liked the song Poundcake. Anyway i guess what im saying is it was a great time to grow up! I am absolutely stoked to have this album in my music collection. A HUGE THANK YOU to you, Mr. Vince S. for putting this classic masterpiece on TH-cam!
Now THIS is Van Halen!! At least 4 of these they re-recorded and released on their last studio album "A Different Kind of Truth" CD. It's become a permanent selection in my car's CD player! (I know I'm old-school. lol!) Eddie returned to his early-years tone on ADKOT, and that just makes me REAL happy!
I love this version of She's the Woman. Mr. Simmons really put some effort into helping these guys. It didn't work out, but cool stories like this one are pretty rare. Usually, this story ends with their publishing rights being stolen.
Totally a super group. It's rock, party, melody, strut, metal, heavy, pop, very tight musicianship, blues, screaming guitar leads and solos, excellent vocal harmonies and range, and a ton of wide ranging influences mixed all together with no too much of anything. This is how you appeal to a massive audience that's into music of various kinds for different reasons. And it doesn't happen overnight. Back when bands took their craft seriously but not their personal lives. How many bands these days can play completely wasted every night and still be awesome for years to come? None. Back when bands would practice 4 or 5 days a week and each member would totally practice on their own like maniacs.
i feel like all the innovations in studio tech have made raw talent not as necessary as it used to be. seems the main focus for "pop music" these days is to be as overpolished and overproduced to market and sell. they'll usually hire amazing studio musicians to fill in the roles they need at the moment. obviously great bands still exist but thats not what the industry strives for anymore at least in my opinion.
@@musek5048 I completely agree. Plus with the internet and social media there is less of a need for bands to be bands. Somebody can put a band together real quick or even do their own control freak experiments and never have to play a live show. I miss when bands took their craft extremely seriously without taking themselves too seriously and had to work their asses off to get known. You hear about bands like black flag playing 6 shows in one day and having massive flyer campaigns in socal or bands that would practice 5 days a week and sacrifice everything for music. Like def leppard. They practiced every night after work and were hardcore drug/alki's but still put in the time and effort playing endlessly. By the time some of the members were just 21 yrs old they were millionaires but had been a band for 6 or 7 years of hard touring to get there. Seems that dedication and work ethic is largely gone.
@@justsomedudeyouknow8372 that ethic still exists but since you mentioned social media, it came with its pros and cons. yes of course having such easy access to new music is amazing and there has never been a time like now where we can all share our ideas with each other in an instant but with that comes the problem of oversaturation, probably what happened towards the end of the 80s where rock guitarists were trying to outdo each other on fast and flashy solos, hence grunge happened. the difference i see before mainstream music videos became a thing was that the radio and live concerts were mainly the only ways to enjoy bands, making the avenue of how to put your music out there more challenging and requiring more effort, thus creating the drive that people like van halen had to try things no one had tried yet and really giving their fans something to look forward to.
Where on earth did you find this beautiful display of perfection? Fantastic!!!
Shit sounds better than the albums. The 1st album scared the crap out of me, it was so good I had to sneak up on it. 64 yrs old came up with Rush, Kiss, Purple, Heep, Who, you get idea, then came these guys and shit terrified me. Black man from the hood so they're universal.
Wow, just discovered this. Love Eddies’ tone. Mind blown
I just had a buddy send this! I'm 61 and been a diehard since that 1st album.
@@BeaverThomas
I read somewhere than Van Halen was gigging as Mammoth in 1973! They are definitely guys who paid their dues!
Hearing Van Hallen back then as a kid i was thrilled by EVH guitar...Hearing them now on this one i am amazed by Michael Anthony.What a killer player !!!!
This is awesome some might think im crazy but this is one of my favourite Halen album I've heard I like running better this way stripped down and real and still technically proficient with out being boring Eddie is bringing it. I love how much you can tell it's in his hands.
Amazing! My favorite all time band. This blows me away! How can this be a demo? It's tight!!
Amazing how many songs they had two years before their first album. Incredible.
Well of course. The summer of '76 was around when it was originally supposed to come out but Gene Simmons turned it down so they got Ted Templeman and did some changes and then 1 1/2 years later you've got one of the best albums ever.
The energy is off the charts. Epic! This is historically important. Outta Space is on here with different lyrics. Edward was a musical genius.
Roth was a good singer. His partying arguably ruined that, but at least he still does okay in the studio. This demo is great. I'm glad they made use of some of this great material on their newest album.
+Music Planet Good point, most voices change with age.
They are my grandfather's age. I doubt Gramps could hit the high notes he could in his 20's either.
He abused his vocal cords with the growls and screams. His ability to move with ease between growling, singing, and screaming was amazing. It's a wonder he can sing at all now.
GTAfan421 smoking did him in 50yrs of it.
The reason David was so good in the studio was because of producer Ted Templeman. He's also the one who convinced Warner Brothers to sign Van Halen and the voice on the song Unchained saying "Come on Dave, gimme a break!"
Woke up like 4:00 in the morning on the east coast and just had Van Halen on my mind and been watching all kinds of videos from them from early early days the beginning, thanks for putting this out, 🤘 RIP 🎸 EDDIE 🤘
SO SICK THANKS FOR THIS R.I.P EDDIE THANKS FOR ALL THE MEMORIES WHILE GROWING UP YOUR MUSIC WAS A HUGE PART OF THE WORLD WHILE WE ALL WERE GROWING UP
Holy shit!!! Im just now stumbling across this gem and this has to be the greatest fucking demo ever recorded.
Almost 5 months since Eddie passed us by and im still sobbing like a 5 year old with a stubbed toe
Absolute gold! No one was playing at this level in 1976 and know that some of these riffs were written before 1976. My god! Let's not forget the song writing! Even his solos were fairly well formatted as well... just amazing.
This could be one of the best posts ever. If I heard this in 1986 when I was starved for any VH sound I would have popped myself.
THE most Van Halen sounding Van Halen ever! Love it! My dad showed me this on cassette when i was about 8 years old. RIP buddy.
My kids always heard my music from day one of their existence. They have their own likes these days, but they always have some of my stuff on tap. VH is at the top
The single best case for building a time machine.
Dave's high screams are epic! Incredible vocal range. Van Halen was the perfect storm of talent. Eddie's revolutionary playing and songwriting, the GOAT, Dave the greatest front man in rock history and brilliant intelligent lyrics, an incredible rhythm section Michael and Alex , the vocal harmonies....
I would think that those screams are probably Michael Anthony
This is an absolute treasure of young Eddie laying it down with song after song flying out of that guitar of his. What a catalog of tunes.
The rhythm/riff that comes on at 2:10 of "I'm on Fire" is so awesome. Dave's vocals are fantastic, including his "whistle/scream"!
Was always my favorite part of the studio version too...
Whistle scream ahahahaha! Describes it perfectly and if I didn’t know I would still guess you’re talking about diamond dave lol
Tracks I’ve never heard like this before! Great EVH classic sound! Love Diamond Dave, and the original band.
"Shes the woman" is so fucking sic,badass & amazingly EVH that it should be re released immediately!
It's actually on A Different Kind of Truth, the album from 2012, such a killer song
+1dabirdman I prefer this version to the one on ADKOT.
+1dabirdman F*ing EXACTLY?!
I was 17 when the first VH lp came out and it was like a bomb had hit.Now I am in my early 60s and these unreleased stuff is hitting like it did back then.Unreal.
Best band ever!! Just listen to the Mighty Van Halen!! Unbelievable how great they were!!