Guys, as a 50-something Black male whose favorite band is Van Halen, you have no idea how happy it makes me to see the joy you get from listening to in my opinion, the greatest rock band of all time! Love it, keep it up!
So many Van Halen songs. Drop dead Legs, Hot for Teacher ( the drum entrance is a thumbs up ) Only scratched the surface. Their album 5150 features Sammy Hagar on lead vocals..
That candid moment you mentioned is actually Dave spontaneously calling out the band’s producer in the recording booth. They decided that it sounded cool and kept that take. Classic. Genius. This is my favorite VH riff amongst many, many, many brilliant VH riffs. I think you will both REALLy enjoy the the official video for Right Now. If you react to the song definitely do the official video because it really adds an important element.
Back when I was taking bass guitar lessons, the guy who was teaching me said Michael Anthony only plays one note per song , so maybe the touring manager was on to something.
Since Summer is now here...try Van Halen's "Ice Cream Man" for a real COOOOOOOL guitar solo plus David Lee Roth's voice...it's guaranteed to satisfy!! 🍦🍦
As a 63 yr old metal fan since 1974 I saw Roth era Van Halen 4 times in Cincinnati! Eddie’s playing is truly indescribably epic! His tone & technique are groundbreaking & unparalleled IMHO!!! R.I.P. Eddie! You are truly missed & our hearts are still shattered at your passing!
If you feel like hearing Eddie at his most explosive, "I'm The One"........off the 1st album is a track that displays the tone, aggression and chops that put EVH at another level. I'd put the guitar work in that song against anything in the genre.
This was my first rock album. A friend got this as part of his Columbia House membership and he didn't like it. He asked me if I wanted it. I listened and it not only blew me away . . . it totally changed my life. I've been a rock and roll fanatic ever since. Thanks Joe! 😃
Was 14 in 1980. A new VH every summer. The greatest party band of all time. Fair Warning was the dark album, gritty and dirty with the full brown sound. You have only scratched the surface my friends.
Awesome song, as a teen in the mid 80s had a double sided cassette with Fair Warning album on one side and Women and Children First on the other side. when getting in shape for basketball season. Every night I would start running from the house listening to one album on my Walkman, when that side finished I would flip the tape and run back home to the other side. Some of y’all already know I went through a ton of AA batteries.
Wife here..This song is pure 🔥FIRE 🔥!!!..My FAVORITE Van Halen song..!! .Everything they do is AMAZING!!.."One break coming up"...The ad Libs in this song pure genius!!
I feel I'm in the twilight zone 😂😂😂😂 thank you to all of you reactors who are music lovers and open to any genre. I'm 58. Was in the music industry for decades. And to see younger people discover and appreciate the 1980s rock scene and excellence is truly satisfying.
Please try "Little Guitars" and "Where Have All the Good Times Gone", both from "Diver Down". As others have written, so many songs in the VH catalog. "DOA" from II is awesome, and some great Sammy tunes are "Poundcake" and "Judgement Day".
Where Have All the Good Times Gone is a Kinks cover. Ed & the boys have a real knack for covering a song, regardless of the era or genre, and making it their own!
The guy who said" hey Dave....gimmie a break" was Ted Templeman, their producer, he really thought Dave was a clown, and originally didn't want him during the recording of the first album, he wanted future vocalist Sammy Hagar, but, Dave proved he could handle the songs and the rest as they say, is history.
Written by the Van Halen lineup of the first 6 albums. Produced by Ted Templeman. The sound is raw because this was improvised. Ted Templeman speaks, "Come on, Dave: give me a break!" L0L RIP Eddie van Halen. Suggested next song: I'll Wait. Live in Montreal.
That 'interaction' in the middle of 'Unchained' was Eddie Van Halen... his brother is drummer Alex Van Halen. This album was their 4th album 'Fair warning' in 1981. Despite the playful lyrics, this album was regarded as Van Halen's "angry" record... Van Halen was not a band that exposed their internal turmoil publicly; their image was "America's party rock band" and they kept their issues private. Years later tho, it came out that in 1981, Eddie Van Halen was frustrated w/ David Lee Roth's constant demands and Eddie wanted to work on new songs w/ keyboards and effects. The song "Jump" was actually composed that year, but Roth refused to sing on it... The story was that Eddie wanted to 'branch out' and record a solo album w/ different singers... but Roth put a hold on that and quickly wrote lyrics for the new songs to make it a Van Halen record. In the studio, Eddie reflected that the producer Ted Templeman was really not serious about the record - one instance, he claimed that Templeman kept rejecting this guitar solo in the studio... After Templeman went home, Eddie came back, recorded the same solo... and the next morning, Templeman came in, heard that same solo on tape and said, "That's good!"🙄 The album 'Fair warning' is a favorite amongst Van Halen fans... but it was not a big commercial hit as the previous 3 albums, despite selling platinum in the US. In 1982, Van Halen's next album 'Diver down' was half cover songs, mixed in w/ originals... and Eddie was really not happy w/ that record. The Roth era of Van Halen was over after the '1984' album was a mega hit, selling 10 million copies... But David Lee Roth could not work w/ Van Halen any more. Insiders in Van Halen were surprised the original band lasted until 1985...
“Big bad Bill” With Alex and Eddie’s father Jan Van Halen on clarinet. or “Could this be magic” Two totally different from what you would expect from VH.
Could This Be Magic features the only female vocals VH ever used. Nicolette Larson was also working with Ted Templeman and Eddie traded work with her by appearing on her song Can't Get Away From You.
Closing my eyes and transported back to my teens wearing my Walkman turned up as loud as possible listening to one of the all-time best bands ever! Van Halen was my go-to for all out rock and roll. They never ever disappointed. Alex, Eddie, Michael and Dave. I swear i can STILL recall every guitar sound, every word, every drum beat like it's yesterday and no time has passed. Their music always made me feel so alive and into it!
Amber’s reaction to Eddie’s solo when she just freezes in her tracks at 3:42 and then just laughs a few seconds later at the sheer genius of EVH makes me so satisfied
Another band you'd love to check out is Mammoth WVH. Eddie Van Halen's son, Wolfgang Van Halen, wrote and recorded his own album, playing every instrument on the album and singing all the vocals. He formed a band to tour with and used the name Mammoth which was one of the original names his father and uncle used before they decided to just use Van Halen for the band's name. For a real tearjerker, check out his video for "Distance" which is a tribute to his father. And for a really fun video, check out "Don't Back Down." Just make sure you keep watching the end of the video after the song ends.
I have also seen all 3 singers. 4 times with DLR , once with Sammy & once with Gary. I love Gary Cherone and he & Eddie had more time to mesh before putting that album out. I think the record company rushed them to release that record cause Sammy had released his solo album Marching To Mars , which is a great album by itself. Love Gary's other bands - Tribe Of Judah & Hurtsmile as well as of course Extreme. One of my favorite singers.
@@rogerdaly6326 the closest I’ve seen Van Halen is when I saw Sammy Hagar at Rock the Bayou in Houston back in 2008….Michael Anthony was already playing bass with him & half the set was Van Hagar hits & the other was Hagar solo hits….you can’t go wrong 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
This entire album, "Fair Warning", has a little different feel than their others, and is one of my favorites.....like an "I'm a bad ass" vibe.....but also like living your life as a young adult....you're finished with high school but you remember it so well.....and now you're trying to figure your life out....living another stage of it...and having as much fun as you can, along the way........that's what I get out of it. This album was release in early 1981, a few months before I graduated.....so it carried on with my friends and I as part of the soundtrack to our lives as I described. And yes, the brothers, for whom the band is named, are Alex on drums and Eddie on guitar....Alex is older by a couple of years.
I was a teenager when this came out and it was listened to non stop. Amber you are so right, each member has personality. More than just rock, VH mixes in blues with a funky rhythm swing that almost is disguised! 🔥 ❤️🎸
This is probably their heaviest album with David Lee Roth….the riff is so bloody heavy. Their tour with Black Sabbath & Eddie’s friendship with Tony Iommi influenced his tuning his guitar lower & making his riffs chunkier. Very cool!!!! Great reaction. This is definitely my favorite song in the Roth era 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
@@markwilliams6394 damn. I’m jealous. That sounded like the dream concert. I’m sure it upped Sabbath’s game(they got a little more flashy with Dio) & influenced Eddie to create heavier riffs 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
This song ruled my world from day one as a 14yr old all the way through today. It just sprays fire while still retaining a fun edge! I feel so fortunate to have seen them 7 times.
They had sooo many good songs. Try Dreams (The Blue Angels video), Can't Stop Loving You, Right Now (Cool piano intro), Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do) with a beautiful clean guitar distortion in the beginning and I think you should do Jump again but this time together with Amber. Van Halen Rocks!
Van Halen is quintessential brothers! Edward and Alex! It’s still refreshing to hear newbies talk about Van Halen! My son who is in his 30s doesn’t even talk about Van Halen! However my youngest son in his 20s talks about Van Halen all the time. Keep going and doing what you do my friends
Van Halen, banger after banger, but I will surprise you...yes, there are definitely some soft sides. For DLR period try Secrets. Really great song. Also for Van Hagar, (Sammy days) try Dreams. Lot's more soft during the Sammy days. Finish What You Started is another great choice that's a bit softer.
Funny how things change. I didn't like Van Halen in High School - they were overplayed in the jukebox in the cafeteria, and I preferred the less popular groups (Rush, Triumph, Def Leppard, before they went nuts, etc.). Now I love listening to them, and not just for the cafeteria memories, but respecting the music.
As a player, you truly appreciate the genius. Not just of his playing, but of his sound, his "tone". To get those "tones" Ed butchered and created not just on his guitar, but on the electronics. The deep guttural growls of low mixed with distinct, clear, mid-range and high end? Unreal. That's why it sounds like two guitars, he chose where and when in his equipment to split, separate, and bring together all three. The sound was his. He owns it and always will.
The stereo effect you talk about is based on how The Beatles would isolate the sound as if it was a live performance. So, Eddie would be stage left, thus the riff is coming at your left ear.
Van Halen is one of those rare rock bands where, even after replacing lead singers, can't do a bad song! They actually became more successful after switching singers, which is practically unheard of. Don't get me wrong, David Lee Roth is definitely a showman but in my opinion, Sammy Hagar was a much better singer. 🤘😎
I wore out sooo many VH cassettes cruising around the main loop in my '73 Cutlass, both windows down, mullet blowing in the wind, and looking through my mirrored aviator shades for some leg back in the 80's. I went through 3 or 4 Woman and Children First albums. My favorite.
I heard their 1st single just before I turned 13 in the spring of '78 and was an immediate fan. I have several of their albums that have been played so much they're nearly see-through.
The guitar in the left ear was the way engineer Don Landee recorded the guitars was to pan the guitar left and there is the eco, reverb of the guitar in the right side. It was to give it a live, on stage type of feel.
I will always bow down to the late great god of guitarists that is known as Eddie Van Halen. His band released a seemingly never-ending string of awesome songs that still dominate my playlist to this day. RIP Eddie!
Trust me it was a blast growing up in the 70s and 80s. Saw Van Halen several times. They were so magical and full of energy. Eddie was so talented and so genius not only on the guitar. But the piano and keyboard, there was nothing he couldn't do. RIP EDDIE we miss you.
Van Halen has been my fave group since the mid 80s. They absolutely have a light side- Eddie's jazz musician father's influence, and even his playing, show up in many songs. One of my faves is Little Guitars, which begins with a guitar intro, also call Little Guitars (that is acoustic)- all light and fun. They also have Big Bad Bill- very jazzy, with Eddie's father playing clarinet (his father was so nervous, he couldn't get it right, and Eddie told him it was the mistakes that made it good and real.) There's an acoustic song Could This Be Magic, and also another acoustic guitar solo called Spanish Fly that are lighter, as well.
I was a senior in HS when VH's first album came out. After that I was lucky enough to see them 3 times. Donington park in 1984 (in England), In Shreveport, LA and St. Petersburg, FL. Once with DLR and the other two with Sammy. Eddie was a force of nature! RIP. Alex is Eddie's brother and the drummer. Alex is trying to get a tribute tour going. We'll see how that works out? VH has had its problems with getting things like this to come to fruition as of the last decade. Fingers crossed. 🤞
The drummer is Eddie's older brother Alex. One of the most underrated drummers of the past half century. He and Eddie had a synchronicity that only brothers can have. Eddie said that he actually started on drums and Alex played guitar. Coming home from his paper route he saw Alex play his drums and was better than him. So they switched places and the rest is musical history. But check out Mean Street from Fair Warning, And The Cradle Will Rock, Beautiful Girls, and Dance the Night Away. All bangers.
Greatest Van Halen riff of all time! The rhythm during the lyrics is played almost like guitar solo. Ted Templeman the producer pots the sounds with guitars out of one side of the speakers and the vocals on the other
Eddie & Alex (drums) Van Halen were the constants throughout every incarnation of Van Halen. David Lee Roth was lead singer 1974-85, 1996, 2007-2020. Michael Anthony, bass 1974-2006. Sammy Hagar sang 1985-‘96 & 2003-‘05. Gary Cherone sang 1996-99. Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie’s son, played bass 2007-2020.
Can't forget who the drummer is...Eddie's older brother Alex with KILLER drum beats highlighting and enhancing Eddie's masterful riffs. He's one of my favorite drummers ever!!
Love this tune. Killer guitar and overall a banger. The drums just hold it all together while driving it like a hurricane. No denying the drive of this song. Glad you responded to this tune. Still encourage you to check out "Finish What You Started" from the Van Hagar era.
So we've got Eddie, and brother Alex on drums. Their father Jan (sounds like yawn) was a Jazz musician. He joins them on the song, Big Bad Bill (is Sweet William Now) on clarinet. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Cool again. :) One thing you might want to know about Eddie is that when he recorded his tracks, he played the solos on the same track as the recording and recorded the rhythm for the solos afterwards on a separate track. It gave a more "live" feel to the recorded tracks and defo worked well for them. :)
As a person that did grow up with this song. Was 10ish when I heard it for the first time from my older neighbor. This holds a special place in my heart and will never loose it's luster no many how many times it is played. If you heard it at the age I did....you would be a philosopher and just want to make everything around you better. That is 100% what this song is about in my view. Looking good and getting a "leg up" is life in a nutshell. Take it how you may!
Loved the Fair Warning album. Women and Children First which followed was great as well. So lucky to have seen Van Halen on their 1980 tour, row 4 on the floor. Right up against the crush barrier the whole show. RIP Eddie!!
"Blue eyed murder in a size 5 dress" - one of the most obscure, yet killerest lyrics ever!
Right up there with Mouse wife to Momshell...
Im 58. First concert was Women and Children.For years i fckd that lyric up. Lol
Mean Street is also a great song that is also on this Fair Warning album, you guys definitely have to listen to that one!
Yes!
If they think Unchained's riff is good, wait til they hear the riff on Mean Street! It'll blow them away!
2nd that!
The best
Michael Anthony’s bass work in “Mean Street” is so. damn. funky. Some of his finest work ever is on this song.
Guys, as a 50-something Black male whose favorite band is Van Halen, you have no idea how happy it makes me to see the joy you get from listening to in my opinion, the greatest rock band of all time! Love it, keep it up!
So many Van Halen songs.
Drop dead Legs, Hot for Teacher ( the drum entrance is a thumbs up )
Only scratched the surface.
Their album 5150 features Sammy Hagar on lead vocals..
Also the albums OU812 and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.
Drop Dead Legs is so great!
Hagar era was garbage, you can't beat or replace roth
@@BrainMeltGaming 🤣sure you can
It’s not hard to replace someone with limited vocal range.
That candid moment you mentioned is actually Dave spontaneously calling out the band’s producer in the recording booth. They decided that it sounded cool and kept that take. Classic. Genius. This is my favorite VH riff amongst many, many, many brilliant VH riffs.
I think you will both REALLy enjoy the the official video for Right Now. If you react to the song definitely do the official video because it really adds an important element.
I think it was Ted Templeton, Not sure if my memory is good enough.
@@trastonwarrior Yes it was
@@trastonwarrior That is correct. It was Ted.
Yes, I was going to point that out if nobody else did....thanks for doing so.
My favorite Van Halen song!!
If you want a Van Halen song that really cooks, it’s got to be “I’m the One” off the first album. Would love to see you guys review that one.
One of there best and most guitar orientated. Kinda underrated with reactors.
Been requesting I'm the one for awhile now. They will lose their minds! 🎸🔥
Right on!!
Awesome tune ! I won an air guitar contest back in the 80's at Diego's in San Diego
'Light Up the Sky"
Late 70s high school.... Van Halen was the best... Running with the Devil and Jamies Crying ROCKS
💣💣💣
I believe they did both of those songs.
Michael Anthony just beating the crap out of that Bass the whole song.
This one is a definite Jam and the live version is awesome to watch
They need to hear "Sunday Afternoon In The Park", then "Ultra Bass", the live rendition.
Always love the way Michael Anthony plays. Very under rated. Even their touring manager bad mouthed his playing.
Back when I was taking bass guitar lessons, the guy who was teaching me said Michael Anthony only plays one note per song , so maybe the touring manager was on to something.
He plays more than one note per song, and even so the ones he plays he plays perfectly
He may only be playing one note, but his background vocals are peerless
Since Summer is now here...try Van Halen's "Ice Cream Man" for a real COOOOOOOL guitar solo plus David Lee Roth's voice...it's guaranteed to satisfy!! 🍦🍦
Stop me when I'm passin' by...
I never stop
Amber was wondering about a softer side of Van Halen. First half of this song is about as soft as they get.
@@williamtaube1411 In Van Halen yes. Van Hagar was quite soft.
And Dave on the acoustic guitar intro
This country could use a big dose of Van Halen, Led Zeppilen and AC/DC right now
You’re not kidding
Well at least we got a new ACDC album a few years ago.
Sooooo agreed
The SNOWFLAKES will MELT!
Yes indeed
J& Amber, you'll love their "You Really Got Me(Kinks cover) and "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" !!
Kinks "Summer Afternoon"
Don't forget Where Have All The Good Times Gone!
As a 63 yr old metal fan since 1974 I saw Roth era Van Halen 4 times in Cincinnati! Eddie’s playing is truly indescribably epic! His tone & technique are groundbreaking & unparalleled IMHO!!! R.I.P. Eddie! You are truly missed & our hearts are still shattered at your passing!
If you feel like hearing Eddie at his most explosive, "I'm The One"........off the 1st album is a track that displays the tone, aggression and chops that put EVH at another level.
I'd put the guitar work in that song against anything in the genre.
Agree. One of there best. Kinda underrated with reactors.
Absolutely agree, Eddie pulls out all the stops!!
FACTS! I'm the ONE SLAPS!
@@POWER-LINKS Great song, but guitar wise, not in the same league as "I'm The One".
@@geneticrex Exactly why I'm keeping up hope they'll do Mean Street
Van Halen is awesome, both with David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar. RIP Eddie Van Halen.
Horrible Hagar are you kidding me
@@robertbreedon9137 It's been 30 years. Can you please grow up?
@@robertbreedon9137he was not horrible. Sammy Hagar was a great singer & musician. Dreams is one of Van Halen’s best songs.
VH is all good!!!
Alex and Eddie Van Halen...
Eddie actually started on the drums and when he got home his brother was always on his drums so he started playing guitar.
This was my first rock album. A friend got this as part of his Columbia House membership and he didn't like it. He asked me if I wanted it. I listened and it not only blew me away . . . it totally changed my life. I've been a rock and roll fanatic ever since. Thanks Joe! 😃
Ah man! The Columbia House reference brought back memories! Started with 8 tracks then upgraded to cassette!
thats awesome. 5150 (I know thats a different album lol) was my first hard rock album that a friend gave me and it changed my life! so cool. cheers!
One break...coming up!!! What a super line that carries the song into the change in pace. Super fun.
The bass here is phenomenal...
Was 14 in 1980. A new VH every summer. The greatest party band of all time.
Fair Warning was the dark album, gritty and dirty with the full brown sound.
You have only scratched the surface my friends.
This is the one Van Halen song I never ever get tired of. I can listen to it 20 times in a row. There’s always something new every time you hear it.
Awesome song, as a teen in the mid 80s had a double sided cassette with Fair Warning album on one side and Women and Children First on the other side. when getting in shape for basketball season. Every night I would start running from the house listening to one album on my Walkman, when that side finished I would flip the tape and run back home to the other side. Some of y’all already know I went through a ton of AA batteries.
Sinner's swing was for wind sprints!
Remember the white covers with pink lines on the spine of the tape covers from Colombia House?
I also had that double sided cassette from Columbia House...brings back memories from the mid 80's
Wife here..This song is pure 🔥FIRE 🔥!!!..My FAVORITE Van Halen song..!! .Everything they do is AMAZING!!.."One break coming up"...The ad Libs in this song pure genius!!
This has a great riff. I suggest "Dance The Night Away" and "You Really Got Me." So many great hits even the ones with Sammy Hagar.
I feel I'm in the twilight zone 😂😂😂😂 thank you to all of you reactors who are music lovers and open to any genre. I'm 58. Was in the music industry for decades. And to see younger people discover and appreciate the 1980s rock scene and excellence is truly satisfying.
Please try "Little Guitars" and "Where Have All the Good Times Gone", both from "Diver Down". As others have written, so many songs in the VH catalog. "DOA" from II is awesome, and some great Sammy tunes are "Poundcake" and "Judgement Day".
Don't forget "Little Guitars Intro", right before.
Where Have All the Good Times Gone is a Kinks cover. Ed & the boys have a real knack for covering a song, regardless of the era or genre, and making it their own!
The guy who said" hey Dave....gimmie a break" was Ted Templeman, their producer, he really thought Dave was a clown, and originally didn't want him during the recording of the first album, he wanted future vocalist Sammy Hagar, but, Dave proved he could handle the songs and the rest as they say, is history.
One of my favorite Van Halen songs!! ❤❤
Oh and the cradle will rock and I do love drop dead legs don't really hear that much
Written by the Van Halen lineup of the first 6 albums. Produced by Ted Templeman.
The sound is raw because this was improvised.
Ted Templeman speaks, "Come on, Dave: give me a break!" L0L
RIP Eddie van Halen.
Suggested next song: I'll Wait. Live in Montreal.
That 'interaction' in the middle of 'Unchained' was Eddie Van Halen... his brother is drummer Alex Van Halen.
This album was their 4th album 'Fair warning' in 1981. Despite the playful lyrics, this album was regarded as Van Halen's "angry" record... Van Halen was not a band that exposed their internal turmoil publicly; their image was "America's party rock band" and they kept their issues private. Years later tho, it came out that in 1981, Eddie Van Halen was frustrated w/ David Lee Roth's constant demands and Eddie wanted to work on new songs w/ keyboards and effects. The song "Jump" was actually composed that year, but Roth refused to sing on it...
The story was that Eddie wanted to 'branch out' and record a solo album w/ different singers... but Roth put a hold on that and quickly wrote lyrics for the new songs to make it a Van Halen record. In the studio, Eddie reflected that the producer Ted Templeman was really not serious about the record - one instance, he claimed that Templeman kept rejecting this guitar solo in the studio... After Templeman went home, Eddie came back, recorded the same solo... and the next morning, Templeman came in, heard that same solo on tape and said, "That's good!"🙄
The album 'Fair warning' is a favorite amongst Van Halen fans... but it was not a big commercial hit as the previous 3 albums, despite selling platinum in the US.
In 1982, Van Halen's next album 'Diver down' was half cover songs, mixed in w/ originals... and Eddie was really not happy w/ that record. The Roth era of Van Halen was over after the '1984' album was a mega hit, selling 10 million copies... But David Lee Roth could not work w/ Van Halen any more. Insiders in Van Halen were surprised the original band lasted until 1985...
Dave said you'll get some leg tonight for sure. Ted Templeton the producer said come on Dave, give me a break
The Brown Sound Album !!
Damn shame they split and same with Gunners young guys who if only they knew that the window for being brilliant is a small one
The reply to Dave in the breakdown is Donn Landee, the album engineer.
AIN'T TALKIN 'BOUT LOVE is a must!!!
“Big bad Bill” With Alex and Eddie’s father Jan Van Halen on clarinet.
or
“Could this be magic”
Two totally different from what you would expect from VH.
two great ones there!
Love how the band shows versatility with styles.
Could This Be Magic features the only female vocals VH ever used. Nicolette Larson was also working with Ted Templeman and Eddie traded work with her by appearing on her song Can't Get Away From You.
Closing my eyes and transported back to my teens wearing my Walkman turned up as loud as possible listening to one of the all-time best bands ever! Van Halen was my go-to for all out rock and roll. They never ever disappointed. Alex, Eddie, Michael and Dave. I swear i can STILL recall every guitar sound, every word, every drum beat like it's yesterday and no time has passed. Their music always made me feel so alive and into it!
Amber’s reaction to Eddie’s solo when she just freezes in her tracks at 3:42 and then just laughs a few seconds later at the sheer genius of EVH makes me so satisfied
Another band you'd love to check out is Mammoth WVH. Eddie Van Halen's son, Wolfgang Van Halen, wrote and recorded his own album, playing every instrument on the album and singing all the vocals. He formed a band to tour with and used the name Mammoth which was one of the original names his father and uncle used before they decided to just use Van Halen for the band's name. For a real tearjerker, check out his video for "Distance" which is a tribute to his father. And for a really fun video, check out "Don't Back Down." Just make sure you keep watching the end of the video after the song ends.
I've been lucky enough to see Van Halen with all three different lead singers: DLR (twice), Sammy Hagar, and Gary Cherone (from Extreme)
That’s awesome 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
I have also seen all 3 singers. 4 times with DLR , once with Sammy & once with Gary. I love Gary Cherone and he & Eddie had more time to mesh before putting that album out. I think the record company rushed them to release that record cause Sammy had released his solo album Marching To Mars , which is a great album by itself. Love Gary's other bands - Tribe Of Judah & Hurtsmile as well as of course Extreme. One of my favorite singers.
@@rogerdaly6326 the closest I’ve seen Van Halen is when I saw Sammy Hagar at Rock the Bayou in Houston back in 2008….Michael Anthony was already playing bass with him & half the set was Van Hagar hits & the other was Hagar solo hits….you can’t go wrong 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
I recently started watching you two and I love your reactions to the music I listened to as a teen. You're my favorite..lots of love
This entire album, "Fair Warning", has a little different feel than their others, and is one of my favorites.....like an "I'm a bad ass" vibe.....but also like living your life as a young adult....you're finished with high school but you remember it so well.....and now you're trying to figure your life out....living another stage of it...and having as much fun as you can, along the way........that's what I get out of it.
This album was release in early 1981, a few months before I graduated.....so it carried on with my friends and I as part of the soundtrack to our lives as I described.
And yes, the brothers, for whom the band is named, are Alex on drums and Eddie on guitar....Alex is older by a couple of years.
I was a teenager when this came out and it was listened to non stop. Amber you are so right, each member has personality. More than just rock, VH mixes in blues with a funky rhythm swing that almost is disguised! 🔥 ❤️🎸
This is probably their heaviest album with David Lee Roth….the riff is so bloody heavy. Their tour with Black Sabbath & Eddie’s friendship with Tony Iommi influenced his tuning his guitar lower & making his riffs chunkier. Very cool!!!! Great reaction. This is definitely my favorite song in the Roth era 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
Definitely my favorite VH album. Not a bad song in the album. Mean Streets is my favorite VH song, this is a close second.
@@melprophet1936 I concur sir!!! It’s miles above the 1984 album or anything else from the Roth era 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
Cool info!
Saw them open for Black Sabbath back in 1978. Amazing concert.
@@markwilliams6394 damn. I’m jealous. That sounded like the dream concert. I’m sure it upped Sabbath’s game(they got a little more flashy with Dio) & influenced Eddie to create heavier riffs 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
"one break coming up" classic Diamond Dave the ultimate frontman/showman! Love that you all appreciate VH
Women in Love is a gem, especially when you realize what the songs about 😁
Probably my favorite VH song! They opened with it when I saw them 10 years ago.
Awesome!!! They were so great in concert!!!🤘🔥
What I really appreciate Van Halen in the DLR era is how guitar forward some of the songs are, and this is no exception. Great choice, great reaction.
Best VH song imo. RIP Eddie. The greatest.
Mark Anthony, the bass player, was the real backbone of the band. Awesome backing vocals and the driving bass made him the glue for their music!
Michael Anthony
Running with the Devil has some really good EVH riffs!!
This song ruled my world from day one as a 14yr old all the way through today. It just sprays fire while still retaining a fun edge! I feel so fortunate to have seen them 7 times.
They had sooo many good songs. Try Dreams (The Blue Angels video), Can't Stop Loving You, Right Now (Cool piano intro), Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do) with a beautiful clean guitar distortion in the beginning and I think you should do Jump again but this time together with Amber. Van Halen Rocks!
Sadly every one of those choices sucks besides Jump because it’s the Vanfaggar era…..
That's all tame Van Halen for kittens. There's no Van Halen like their first era, it was simply incomparable.
@@MrDantres I meant only DLR era…Van Haggar not on the radar
Van Halen is quintessential brothers! Edward and Alex! It’s still refreshing to hear newbies talk about Van Halen! My son who is in his 30s doesn’t even talk about Van Halen! However my youngest son in his 20s talks about Van Halen all the time. Keep going and doing what you do my friends
Van Halen, banger after banger, but I will surprise you...yes, there are definitely some soft sides. For DLR period try Secrets. Really great song. Also for Van Hagar, (Sammy days) try Dreams. Lot's more soft during the Sammy days. Finish What You Started is another great choice that's a bit softer.
I'm the One -Van Halen (studio version ) and...the song also features barbershop quartet vocals from the Band 😁😁
Funny how things change. I didn't like Van Halen in High School - they were overplayed in the jukebox in the cafeteria, and I preferred the less popular groups (Rush, Triumph, Def Leppard, before they went nuts, etc.). Now I love listening to them, and not just for the cafeteria memories, but respecting the music.
As a player, you truly appreciate the genius. Not just of his playing, but of his sound, his "tone". To get those "tones" Ed butchered and created not just on his guitar, but on the electronics. The deep guttural growls of low mixed with distinct, clear, mid-range and high end? Unreal. That's why it sounds like two guitars, he chose where and when in his equipment to split, separate, and bring together all three. The sound was his. He owns it and always will.
Probably a controversial take but I make “Unchained” the best work VH ever did. I’m gonna get shredded but I believe it.
No you’re not 🤘🤘
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Wonder who will get the BR549 reference?
SALUTE!!!!
your reactions after, "One break, coming up!" bopping to to the beat and riff was perfect. That's what Van Halen is, too me! Thank you again!
The Mean Streets album from Van Halen was their most best produced and well written songs. It's just too bad it was way to short on minutes.
The stereo effect you talk about is based on how The Beatles would isolate the sound as if it was a live performance. So, Eddie would be stage left, thus the riff is coming at your left ear.
I was looking for someone to address this . I heard this before but also wasn't sure if it was because of their headphones 🎧.
Give Queensryche a listen song Silent Lucidity.
Yes! Please!!
Can’t forget Micheal Anthony Thumping on that Bass!! The Whole Band was and still is one of my favorite’s!! And yes I grew up in the 80’s!!!🤘🔥
Van Halen is one of those rare rock bands where, even after replacing lead singers, can't do a bad song! They actually became more successful after switching singers, which is practically unheard of. Don't get me wrong, David Lee Roth is definitely a showman but in my opinion, Sammy Hagar was a much better singer. 🤘😎
RobertG, won't argue voices. Matter of taste and I like both. But Sammy brought another level/option with guitar. Not EVH, but no slouch on his own.
I wore out sooo many VH cassettes cruising around the main loop in my '73 Cutlass, both windows down, mullet blowing in the wind, and looking through my mirrored aviator shades for some leg back in the 80's. I went through 3 or 4 Woman and Children First albums. My favorite.
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I’m glad you watched “Back to the Future” after getting into Van Halen.
I heard their 1st single just before I turned 13 in the spring of '78 and was an immediate fan. I have several of their albums that have been played so much they're nearly see-through.
The guitar in the left ear was the way engineer Don Landee recorded the guitars was to pan the guitar left and there is the eco, reverb of the guitar in the right side. It was to give it a live, on stage type of feel.
I bought both Van Halen 1 & 2 together in 79 or so -and was blown away - they have always been one of my two top fav groups 🤘🤘🤘
So right!! You can never go wrong with Van Halen!! ✌❤
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This is one of their best. Thanks for reacting. I really enjoyed this one. :)
Van Halen's best song ever!! Gets me pumped every time I hear it.
Van Halen...a rock band whose sense of humor can be fully heard through their music!!! It's always a party!!!
A must on any playlist !!!!!!!!!
Van Halen has been my hero since I was a small child. RIP Eddie the world won't be the same without you.
I will always bow down to the late great god of guitarists that is known as Eddie Van Halen. His band released a seemingly never-ending string of awesome songs that still dominate my playlist to this day. RIP Eddie!
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Trust me it was a blast growing up in the 70s and 80s. Saw Van Halen several times. They were so magical and full of energy. Eddie was so talented and so genius not only on the guitar. But the piano and keyboard, there was nothing he couldn't do. RIP EDDIE we miss you.
Van Halen has been my fave group since the mid 80s.
They absolutely have a light side- Eddie's jazz musician father's influence, and even his playing, show up in many songs. One of my faves is Little Guitars, which begins with a guitar intro, also call Little Guitars (that is acoustic)- all light and fun.
They also have Big Bad Bill- very jazzy, with Eddie's father playing clarinet (his father was so nervous, he couldn't get it right, and Eddie told him it was the mistakes that made it good and real.)
There's an acoustic song Could This Be Magic, and also another acoustic guitar solo called Spanish Fly that are lighter, as well.
I was a senior in HS when VH's first album came out. After that I was lucky enough to see them 3 times. Donington park in 1984 (in England), In Shreveport, LA and St. Petersburg, FL. Once with DLR and the other two with Sammy. Eddie was a force of nature! RIP. Alex is Eddie's brother and the drummer. Alex is trying to get a tribute tour going. We'll see how that works out? VH has had its problems with getting things like this to come to fruition as of the last decade. Fingers crossed. 🤞
Off the first album "I'm the One" and "Atomic Punk" are great songs from EVH. The whole album rocks but those two show off his unbelievable talent.
The drummer is Eddie's older brother Alex. One of the most underrated drummers of the past half century. He and Eddie had a synchronicity that only brothers can have. Eddie said that he actually started on drums and Alex played guitar. Coming home from his paper route he saw Alex play his drums and was better than him. So they switched places and the rest is musical history. But check out Mean Street from Fair Warning, And The Cradle Will Rock, Beautiful Girls, and Dance the Night Away. All bangers.
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This song is a total classic!!!!
My 2 favorite Can Halen Albums are:
1. Diver Down
2. 1984
Nothing but FIRE 🔥 👊🏼💯🇺🇸💙
My favorite VH song. That riff is amazing 👏
Love watching you both react to songs that I grew up with!!! Reminds me of the first time I heard these songs.
Greatest Van Halen riff of all time! The rhythm during the lyrics is played almost like guitar solo. Ted Templeman the producer pots the sounds with guitars out of one side of the speakers and the vocals on the other
You guys have come so far. I’m so proud!
My first concert. They were in their prime. Thank you God I got to see most of the cool bands!
Eddie & Alex (drums) Van Halen were the constants throughout every incarnation of Van Halen.
David Lee Roth was lead singer 1974-85, 1996, 2007-2020.
Michael Anthony, bass 1974-2006.
Sammy Hagar sang 1985-‘96 & 2003-‘05.
Gary Cherone sang 1996-99.
Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie’s son, played bass 2007-2020.
One of Van Halen's absolute bests!!
Can't forget who the drummer is...Eddie's older brother Alex with KILLER drum beats highlighting and enhancing Eddie's masterful riffs. He's one of my favorite drummers ever!!
Love this tune. Killer guitar and overall a banger. The drums just hold it all together while driving it like a hurricane. No denying the drive of this song. Glad you responded to this tune. Still encourage you to check out "Finish What You Started" from the Van Hagar era.
So we've got Eddie, and brother Alex on drums. Their father Jan (sounds like yawn) was a Jazz musician.
He joins them on the song, Big Bad Bill (is Sweet William Now) on clarinet. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Cool again. :) One thing you might want to know about Eddie is that when he recorded his tracks, he played the solos on the same track as the recording and recorded the rhythm for the solos afterwards on a separate track. It gave a more "live" feel to the recorded tracks and defo worked well for them. :)
As a person that did grow up with this song. Was 10ish when I heard it for the first time from my older neighbor.
This holds a special place in my heart and will never loose it's luster no many how many times it is played.
If you heard it at the age I did....you would be a philosopher and just want to make everything around you better. That is 100% what this song is about in my view.
Looking good and getting a "leg up" is life in a nutshell. Take it how you may!
Nice I was 10 also in April 1981…11 that September I remember this song coming out of the cars of all the high school kids….
Great example of the fun vibe that was Van Halen. Diamond Dave is such a ham. Greay reaction
My favorite Van Halen song (Tied with "Little Guitars") From my favorite Van Halen album! This whole album is fantastic!
"Blue-Eyed Murder in a Size Five Dress".... one of the coolest lines in rock and roll... EVER!!
Glad you discovered the magic of the original VH lineup! They were simply unstoppable i “n that era.
"Take Your Whiskey Home".... from Women and Children First... great blues tune from VH.
Loved the Fair Warning album. Women and Children First which followed was great as well. So lucky to have seen Van Halen on their 1980 tour, row 4 on the floor. Right up against the crush barrier the whole show. RIP Eddie!!
First LP my dad bought me in 1981 when i was 12, still have it. (My dad passed away in 2019, miss you so much dad).