Van Halen Interview (June 2, 1988)
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- Van Halen (/væn ˈheɪlɛn/ van HAY-len) was an American rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1973. Credited with "restoring hard rock to the forefront of the music scene",[2] Van Halen was known for its energetic live shows[3] and for the virtuosity of its lead guitarist, Eddie Van Halen.[4][5] The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.
From 1974 until 1985, Van Halen consisted of Eddie Van Halen; Eddie's brother, drummer Alex Van Halen; vocalist David Lee Roth; and bassist/vocalist Michael Anthony.[6] Upon its release in 1978, the band's self-titled debut album reached No. 19 on the Billboard pop music charts and would sell over 10 million copies in the U.S. By 1982, the band released four more albums (Van Halen II, Women and Children First, Fair Warning, and Diver Down), all of which have since been certified multi-platinum. By the early 1980s, Van Halen was one of the most successful rock acts of the day.[7] The album 1984 was a commercial success with U.S. sales of 10 million copies and four hit singles; its lead single, "Jump", was the band's only U.S. number one single.
In 1985, Roth left the band to embark on a solo career and was replaced by former Montrose lead vocalist Sammy Hagar. With Hagar, the group released four U.S. number-one, multi-platinum albums over the course of 11 years (5150 in 1986, OU812 in 1988, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge in 1991, and Balance in 1995). Hagar left the band in 1996 shortly before the release of the band's first greatest hits collection, Best Of - Volume I. Former Extreme frontman Gary Cherone replaced Hagar and recorded the commercially unsuccessful album Van Halen III with the band in 1998, before parting ways in 1999. Van Halen then went on hiatus until reuniting with Hagar in 2003 for a worldwide tour in 2004 and the double-disc greatest hits collection The Best of Both Worlds. Hagar again left Van Halen in 2005. In 2006 Roth returned, but Anthony was replaced on bass guitar by Eddie's son, Wolfgang Van Halen. In 2012, the band released their final studio album A Different Kind of Truth, which was commercially and critically successful; it was also Van Halen's first album with Roth in 28 years and the only one to feature Wolfgang.
As of March 2019, Van Halen is 20th on the RIAA list of best-selling artists in the United States; the band has sold 56 million albums in the States[8][9] and more than 80 million worldwide, making them one of the best-selling groups of all time.[10][11][12] As of 2007, Van Halen is one of only five rock bands with two studio albums to sell more than 10 million copies in the United States[13] and is tied for the most multi-platinum albums by an American band. Additionally, Van Halen has charted 13 number-one hits on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart. VH1 ranked the band seventh on a list of the top 100 Hard Rock artists of all time.[14]
Eddie was diagnosed with cancer in 2001, and died of the disease on October 6, 2020.[15][16][17] A month after his father's death, Wolfgang confirmed that Van Halen had disbanded.[1]
It's so strange to look back on stuff like this. It feels familiar and yet so distant at the same time. It's also surreal to think about just how HUGE rock bands used to be, mega stars. Whatever you think about music today, culture and media distribution has changed such that there really aren't rock bands of equivalent stature anymore.
Metallica is the last of the huge bands like this. Oddly enough they opened for Van Halen on the tour mentioned in the video.
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AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Judas Priest, White Snake, Def Leppard, The Rolling Stones, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Aerosmith, KISS, the Who, ZZ Top, etc…
@@timothya.olmeda7299 while I agree all these bands are legends, they are all older than Metallica which the exception of guns and roses. And they do not have the drawing power of Metallica, who just started a world tour selling out football arenas. My point in my comment was that there is no new generation of huge stadium rock bands. Rock music as a whole has lost a lot of popularity sadly.
I get what you’re saying Kelly. Rock is dead. Yeah there is a bunch of dinosaur rock bands hanging on but where is the new rock bands of substance?
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Every band mentioned has sold out football stadiums at one point or another.
And the age of a band has nothing to do with it.
And the point that there is no new generation rock band that is as popular today, well, that’s mostly due to the fact that today you don’t need to go buy a band’s music or purchase a ticket thanks to technology giving it to us free on a daily basis. Crowd numbers are down.
As for Metallica, a band that I had seen beginning in clubs throughout the Los Angeles county back in their humble beginnings up until their tour with Guns ‘n’ Roses in the early nineties, Metallica only plays a few dates at a time now, choosing a major city or two throughout the world at a time.
For example, in 2019 they played 61 dates, played in California, for example, twice in San Francisco, and once at the Forum in Los Angeles. Both places were arenas.
Metallica for the past two decades has a habit of playing fewer cities, fewer states, fewer areas throughout the world which draws their fan base from neighboring areas throughout the world.
2021 ~ 20 concerts
2020 ~ 18
2019 ~ 61
2018 ~ 64
2017 ~ 70
2016 ~ 21
2015 ~ 25
2014 ~ 42
2013 ~ 30
2012 ~ 44
2011 ~ 25
2010 ~ 68
2007 ~ 16
2006 ~ 21
2005 ~ 3
It’s a motto of theirs, hit them hard not as often as they had used to decades ago.
Love these guys! 88 was my era!
IM still stuck in the Ned genre back when fur was king and tabby strips were the fashion of the day,shoot I still wear my polished cotton tabby striped parachute pants . 😳Im sure glad you know me or otherwise you would be saying-WHO IS THIS GUY!!
@@KeenanNeighbors haha! Who is this? hehe!
That tour was at big venue stadiums with an unforgettable lineup of bands. It was my first time at the LA Coliseum and witnessed folding chairs being thrown and a mosh pitt as Metallica jammed. Rock concerts like that one don't exist anymore. Indeed, this is an interesting VH clip.
I was 22 hanging out there and was going holy 💩🤣
I remember the chairs Metallica had AND JUSTICE FOR ALL record
This was back when my buddy Zeke Clark worked for Eddie as his guitar tech and I see him 2 times in this clip, he was all hair!
I hope Zeke will do an interview some day and tell us all some VH stories from back in the day!!
My favorite band of all time , I have never seen that before. Thanks
I got the worst sunburn of my life watching the show at the Akron Rubber Bowl during this tour, but, it was worth it. The energy was there for all of the bands that played and VH delivered. Man, that short clip brings back the happy feeling of that moment and that Summer! Summer Nights and my radio... that's all I needed (along with my guitar).
Wow! Very rare monsters interview! Thank you so much! History right there!!
Van Halen The most ultimate Rock Band of all time R.I.P EVH
“10 years after they first blasted onto the music scene with rip-roaring heavy metal party tunes, Van Halen has morphed into a slightly heavier version of Journey” 😂
I love Van Halen (I prefer Hagar era) but some of the early hagar singles felt journey-ish. I could see Journey singing Dreams, Love Walks In, When its Love. Great stuff nonetheless
The good ole days
Was at the Akron Rubber Bowl first show - what a day and show!
The good ol days!
I saw that show at JFK in Philly! Great day and night!
It's interesting to see them rehearsing the songs even without Sammy there. Sammy was like: hey, I ain't cutting my vacation short. Lol .
Broken tailbone from the opening show
When I would play whiffle ball in the backyard of our house, my wife pitching our son in the outfield - we had over an acre back there - when i would hit a massive home run I would call myself THE MONSTER OF ROCK as the ball flew into the stratosphere - those were the days
00:46 again Alex clarifying something that is totally clear
Cool stuff
I saw it at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Alex. Edward. Michael. The core.
I was at the opening show in Alpine Valley, WI. Fantastic show! Why did she mention opening act Kingdom Come, but not Metallica or Dokken?
EDWARD LODEWIJK VAN HALEN
26 DE ENERO DE 1955
06 DE OCTUBRE DE 2020
68 AÑOS
65 AÑOS
03 AÑOS
Ed looks healthy and sober here.
He was drinking heavily during this period! The only time he was sober was a brief stint in 95 and from the beginning of 2007 onward 🙂
Historic indeed in 2033
I was there. It wasn’t Woodstock.
Lol 😆
Better bands than Woodstock 😂
= THEY DIDNT SAY METALLICA ??????????? SHOW THE DENVER SHOW ... IT ROCKED !!!!!!!
Looks like Alex was wrong on that one. It was no historic musical event.
Well, I mean, the man was trying to sell it, you know? Good pitch.
At 0:55 some goofy guy with his socks pulled up to his knees walks beside Eddie and violates his space, watch as he turns his head as to say, "who is this jerk"....lol.
What's the first song they played, right before Black and Blue?
soundcheck of why cant this be love and the clip in the middle from live without a net is them doing best of both worlds
When It’s Love, Black n Blue, Why Can’t This Be Love
@@knightfall9394 way to not answer his question.
@@Sektorauuu Hehe. Thanks a lot!
I didn’t love the Sammy years.
Sorry Alex no one remembers
The culture war killed rock.
Rock will never die!🤘🎸
@@frogbones1968 💯
AVH looks like a gangter
Best band on that tour by a million miles was Metallica.
van halen 3 paquets of marlboro a day ! whisky and wine ! and every morning a big cream cake cause he loved sugar ! and died of what ? nothin at all ! lol !
He lived more in 5 minutes than your whole miserable life 😂
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Such a POS album to support.