I was fourteen years old when this album came out and my head exploded. I think I wore out my vinyl LP listening to it over and over again with my buddies. It inspired me to pick up a guitar and I've been playing ever since. RIP Edward.
I agree but that's because there was nothing left after the 80's wasn't alot left to write. Those guys were so talented that it left very little to write Cinderella, skid row ,dokken,judas priest ,van halen,Pantera?
The ENTIRE ALBUM is straight FIRE!!! They set the bar for the 80's, and you can hear the inspiration in all of those bands reimagining Van Halen and King Edward.. And Diamond Dave was THE MAN. R.I.P. King Edward!!!
@@lancejameson6925 Totally agree with you there. Damn shame he left us before they struck super stardom. And I like Brian Johnson, but Bon was THE MAN in that band.
@@KarmaNDuality I miss Bon every time I hear "old" AC/DC! It took me a long time to stop calling Brian Johnson "the new guy"? 😆 Got massive respect for Brian, though!
In 1975 Eddie Van Halen realized that no existing guitar had the features that he needed to create his signature sound. A constant tinkerer, he set out to construct a guitar to fit his standards, needs and playing style, combining different elements of long-established guitar designs into one instrument. By 2006, the original “Frankenstrat” guitar had been in service for more than 30 years and was retired from performances. It is in the Smithsonian Institute of Arts!
I was driving along in my 1976 Monte Carlo this song came on the radio. I drove right to the store and bought the Eight Track yes an Eight Track cassette gotta play it in the car. Impress my friends with new music.
Hey bro David Lee Roth in one concert broke both ankles doing a high jump on the third or fourth song and finished the concert sitting in a chair and had his feet in two buckets of ice water. A friend of mine in California was at that concert. He got like a 5 minute standing ovation at the end.
Imagine what was like being used to listen to some Disco, some Rock 'n Roll, some Hard Rock, some Reggae and some Punk Rock and then dropping the needle on this record for the first time and the first thing you hear is this song, followed by Eruption and then followed by You Really Got Me. No one was prepared for it. It was like you went into a coma in the late 70's and woke up in the future. 🤯
You're correct, this is DLR. "Quote from "American Songwriter" as to what the song is about: "As for the lyrics? No, there’s nothing satanic about them. The devil is just a metaphor for the high- intensity, high-risk life chosen by the narrator. Roth doesn’t pretend there are no consequences for that choice: Yes, I’m livin‘ at a pace that kills, he boasts. That’s the price you pay when you act like there’s no tomorrow."
One of my favorite things about the first couple Halen albums was the limited over dubbing. It was Eddie in his full raw for the most part!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This brings back some good memories. My first concert as a 4th grader was Van Halen 1984. Absolutely rocked, and I felt like the coolest kid in the school wearing my Van Halen concert shirt.
I graduated in 1988 from a town called Leominster, MA and our mascot was a Blue Devil. That year Brockton, MA was the number one high school team in the country. We played them as a huge underdog not even CLOSE to their ranking, as they were always on ours schedule. Somehow we pulled it out and we defeated the number one team and we were on every television station across the country. Three is a documentary somewhere on UA-cam about that game. Running With the Devil was our School Anthem. At rallies they'd shut down all the lights and while we sat it the dark those opening beats would start and the entire gym would be building this insane amount of of excitement and as Eddie Van Halen ripped those first licks the lights would come up and we'd all be in a FRENZY! After that historical win the next rally was off the chain. Whenever I hear those beginning beats it takes me back to that high school gym and I can feel that excitement to this day!
No they weren't all great. Diver Down was more covers than new music. By far the weakest album. Followed by a different kind of truth. But this album and Fair Warning are their best
@michaelconnor1542 covers is what got Roth booted. He and Ted Templeman always wanted covers to get radio play. That got them both out after 1984 after they argued about it for 3 years. Now undetermined what i said. Its their 2nd worst album, but doesn't mean it was bad. Just wasn't the blow ur doors off stuff like they did earlier, and with Sammy as well
This is the very first track on the first side of their first (debut) album. It exploded in the summer of 1978. I had just graduated from HS, was working for the summer in a steel factory for college which would start in September. I would come home from my steel factory job at about 3:30, all dirty, grimy and sweaty, got into gym clothes and swim trunks, ran or cycled about 2 miles to a local outdoor Pool Club, showered, and then swam and cooled off. They always had a radio playing the pop/rock music of the times and throughout the summer of 78, you'd hear Runnin With the Devil blasting out as the young gals in their bikinis were strolling by and laying out. I can still picture and hear it.
DLR is martial artist ...great. you see his splits and kicks in other Van Halen videos! He lived in Japan for awhile ! I love the early Van Halen ! The Van Halen brothers were from Amsterdam ( I think) saw them speaking in their native tongue on a European documentary once.
"Jump", "Running with the devil", "Panama", "Ain't 'talkin' 'bout Love" all get played at sporting events to this day. These guys were the real deal. Dave was the singer from 1974 till 1985. He came back in 2007, and they finished their career with him at the mic.
This was the first hit off their first debut album I had never seen them or heard them before this this is about 19709 until I saw them live in concert in Detroit and they just blew my freaking mind not only how good it was but how loud the show was
Diamond Dave will always be my favorite frontman with EVH. Yes, Eddie built his own guitars (Frankenstein). and built his son a Frankenstein bass as well. Eddie only plays Wolfgang guitars, named after his son. His amps are his brand. 5150s and has all kinds of pedals as well.
This song brings back memories and this will be a long memory. In the early 80's i went to cadet camp at Ipperwash Ont. Canada. I was in charlie company and when we had reveille my sgt played this and you really got me. when i got back home i asked my mom to buy the cassette and to wake me up with it
VH had attitude, swagger, unique, fun, flying by seat of your pants and cool-ness when DLR was the singer (DLR was on first 6 albums (1978-1985) and very last album (2012) but very last album sucks)...they got soft and safe when SH became the singer.
FOUR KEYS TO THE VAN HALEN SOUND: DIAMOND DAVE’S SCREECHING WITH WHOOPS AND HOLLERS EDDIE’S GUITAR 🎸 ALEX’S SNARE DRUM 🥁 AND MICHAEL ANTHONY’S STRATOSPHERE BACKING VOCALS!!! VAN HALEN: I SAW ALL THE TOURS WITH ROTH FROM VAN HALEN 1 IN 1978 TO 1984 AND AGAIN IN 2013! I SAW 5150, OU812, FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND BALANCE WITH HAGAR. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER EDWARD VAN HALEN!!! RIP EDDIE My favorite Van Halen tour shirt is from this tour-Fair Warning. The band on the front with Worldwide Tour on top and 81 with a circle ⭕️ around it on the bottom and world tour 81 on the back with the VH LOGO and Van Halen written in the logo! My second favorite Van Halen tour shirt after Fair Warning in 81. Band on the front World Vacation Tour 79 on the back.
Too bad I was a super busy mother when the 80's arrived with all these fresh, new sounds. I was listening for a baby crying, so couldn't have this loud screaming going on!!! I am truly loving all of it NOW !!!! These guys are crazy good. Thanks BP . How about a new photo of Brightly ? #babylover🤗💕
As people told you in comments about Eddie's guitars, Brian May of Queen built his own guitar from scratch when he was 15 years old. He still has that guitar and still performs with it.
Just for clarification, Eddie never made his own guitars. He simply got the parts and screwed them together...kind of like a kit. Everything was pre made. He would make modifications to them, but as far as actually "making" them. No.
David Lee Roth was fortunate to have the great back up vocals of Michael Anthony. I was fortunate to see them at the Texxas Jam in Dallas Tx in 1978 on their first tour. I was 13yo and was able to get to the front of the stage. EVH blew me away.
Growing up in Southern California on the Monrovia/Arcadia border we often were delighted by some rock group on a weekend and their music (to me) was just a horrible loud screaming foul sound that permeated many streets around our quiet neighborhood. Now my friend lived around the corner from me, in a cul-de-sac. And the Arcadia was border was right behind their house. And they would drag chairs and blankets out to sit on... and the horrible noise went on forever. It was Eddie Van Halen and his group. The high school kids loved the free concerts. I never joined the party. I was into Country and Western music like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Dolly, Charlie Pride... you know, that whole great music stuff from late 60's and 70's. I never got into that "hard rock", noise..... but I do enjoy bragging about the band "practicing" near my childhood home. She still likes his music, me....not so much. BUT, i have mad respect for Eddie following his dream. Sorry Eddie, not my jam brother. Hugs❤
First single (i believe) from their first album. Rock music was about to change OVERNIGHT. I love this piece of footage because you can see they haven't figured out yet that Eddie is the REAL star of the show. The camera is barely on him and you can see he almost hides from it. They haven't figured out their image / style yet and they are literally doing the in-sync KISS guitar moves, trying to look badass. I LOVE it. Pretty much instantly every rock guitar player was trying to copy Eddie or at the very least TRYING to figure out how he was doing what he was doing. He was the next big leap forward in electric guitar after Jimi Hendrix (my opinion). What's even funnier is they were being called "Heavy Metal" by the music press 🤣 The songs are super catchy fun "pop" flavored hard rock. And not all of them are even that "hard".
Funny you said that about the audio. Watched Bars and Barbells just before this. They were having the same audio issue with Def Leopard's Photograph. A song you should definitely react to.
Jaime’s crying is a great song! The guitar riff by Eddie. They told a story that they were all sitting around drinking and someone spilled a beer on Eddie’s electric guitar and it made that noise so right after he says have you seen June’s grades that’s when they got that ripped by accident lol and they used it.
Saw them that summer at Oakland Colosseum with AC/DC, Foreigner and Aerosmith. Growing up in CA we heard about VH before this album even came out. They performed at high schools for a while and remember they went to one close to mine, but we couldn't leave campus. The word was out. Seeing them live at a giant venue was crazy. Didn't know a soul who didn't love them.
This was Van Halen in their prime. I was only 17 when this came out. I put it on my record player. Got stoned is hell and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. These guys went out and blew away the headliners when they opened for This was Van Halen in their prime. I was only 17 when this came out. I put it on my record player. Got stoned is hell and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. These guys went out and blew away the headliners when they opened forum. Them. Never did they ever open up for anybody ever again from that day forward
Debut album; side 1; song 1; when you bought your first VH album this was your introduction song!! What a debut! The best Van Halen is the Van Halen with Eddie!
This song was released in 1978 and it was the second single from their debut album, nothing to do with the later mid 80's hair metal. The level of David Lee Roth showmanship was already insane. I much preferred the David Lee Roth era, maybe it's nostalgia factor because I was a teen when these albums came out. And Eddie's playing style was such new, groundbreaking and fresh for the time. Later they made great songs but it was a completely new style, lot of synths, ballads, they somehow lost their boldness and flamboyancy. Why David and Eddie split? You know, two roosters in the henhouse... When that happened, David Lee Roth picked up the most promising guitar player around, Steve Vai, now a legend himself, and released a stellar solo album. The first single, "Yankee Rose", is so worth a watch.
This song was a game changer! I was in a Radio Shack when a guy came in to buy a stereo, he had a Van Halen 8 track and gave it to the salesman. The salesman put it in one of their best systems and cranked it full blast in the store. When the song finished the guy proceeded to buy the system! By the way I’m Christian now. So I just change the wording alittle to “Running over the devil”! Lol
The next Van Halen video to check out is the 1979 video "Dance the Night Away", it's textbook for what a band should be on stage... As far as songs, Mean Streets and I'm the one.... AC-DC also has Hells Bells...
The music style changed because Eddie changed the music. It wasn't Sammy that changed VH. The last album with DLR you could see the progression coming into what was to be 5150 the first album with Sammy. Sammy's voice allowed Eddie to become a different guitar player
Being a flower child from the '60s this was my theme song as a rebellious teenager in the late '70s! The bass player Michael Anthony has been jammin in Van Halens other frontman Sammy Hagar's band Chickenfoot {with Joe Satriani, Chad Smith} & later The Circle {with Jason Bonham & Vic Johnson} since 2008! Vic Johnson was with the Busboys in the 80s & had a hit song with your title song "The Boys Are Back In Town" which was in the 1982 Eddie Murphy movie 48 Hours✌💖☮
They were huge with David Lee Roth. When Sammy was hired to sing, a lot of people thought Van Halen was over. They ended up being just as huge with Sammy Hagar!!! I love songs from both singers!!
My pops had a close friend who worked at one of the local concert venues and he got my bestie and I 2nd row tickets. At some point this big burly bouncer looking dude came and handed us a couple backstage passes. We were so excited! And then my pop's friend came and snatched them away from us. I have no idea how he even saw what was going on. But, now, 40 years later, I probably would have done the same thing. We were only 14!
Dave Explained it pretty good ... Dave - was singing about Parting and getting with Girls Sammy - Was singing about Love "Is this Love"and "Why can't this be Love"
This song is my *full volume with the top down in summer* tune. When I was in high school, back when this first came out, I’d play this in my little Triumph convertible on the built-in 8-track player. Always a favorite. Also, Diamond Dave was the best. 💜💜💜
When this album broke, there was simply nothing like it before. Groundbreaking.
I was fourteen years old when this album came out and my head exploded. I think I wore out my vinyl LP listening to it over and over again with my buddies. It inspired me to pick up a guitar and I've been playing ever since. RIP Edward.
I agree but that's because there was nothing left after the 80's wasn't alot left to write. Those guys were so talented that it left very little to write Cinderella, skid row ,dokken,judas priest ,van halen,Pantera?
I like this guy I would like to know what he thinks about Dokken or old school Pantera that's the real 80's shit like metal magic?
The ENTIRE ALBUM is straight FIRE!!! They set the bar for the 80's, and you can hear the inspiration in all of those bands reimagining Van Halen and King Edward.. And Diamond Dave was THE MAN.
R.I.P. King Edward!!!
i really slept on Atomic Punk, goes so hard
Diamond Dave was the best front man at that time and there hasn’t been anyone better since.
As much as I love Van Halen (and of course Diamond Dave era VH), I gotta put Bon Scott up there neck and neck with Dave as far as front men go!
@@lancejameson6925 Totally agree with you there. Damn shame he left us before they struck super stardom. And I like Brian Johnson, but Bon was THE MAN in that band.
@@KarmaNDuality I miss Bon every time I hear "old" AC/DC! It took me a long time to stop calling Brian Johnson "the new guy"? 😆 Got massive respect for Brian, though!
"Diamond" David Lee Roth, the best front man in the business, with the best scream in the business. Incredible.
I don't know many if any singers that can scream sung and make it sound natural like DLR did.
“Ain’t talkin bout love” &
“Ice cream man” best 2 Van Halen songs!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥
VAN HALEN 70S ANY 70S
ice cream man doesn't get enough shine!
@@georgeemery3295 agree 👍🏻
Van Halen vs Van Hagar, both great in their own way.
ain't talkin' bout love vs always singing about love: I'll take Dave
In 1975 Eddie Van Halen realized that no existing guitar had the features that he needed to create his signature sound. A constant tinkerer, he set out to construct a guitar to fit his standards, needs and playing style, combining different elements of long-established guitar designs into one instrument. By 2006, the original “Frankenstrat” guitar had been in service for more than 30 years and was retired from performances. It is in the Smithsonian Institute of Arts!
Only a copy of it is at the Smithsonian.
I was driving along in my 1976 Monte Carlo this song came on the radio. I drove right to the store and bought the Eight Track yes an Eight Track cassette gotta play it in the car. Impress my friends with new music.
Hey bro David Lee Roth in one concert broke both ankles doing a high jump on the third or fourth song and finished the concert sitting in a chair and had his feet in two buckets of ice water. A friend of mine in California was at that concert. He got like a 5 minute standing ovation at the end.
Haha….thats a great story! I don’t remember that.
😆🤣 That's so funny, David was quite the showman back then. Had a chance to see VH in 2007 with David Lee Roth.
@@kushking420 Bro I miss those days so much.
Imagine the beginning..at full volume..in your car. Mind blowing!
EVH didn't scratch build his own guitars, but he did do what many of us do, and build them from various parts (frankenstein), and modify them.
That's exactly what I came here to say. He modified them.
He first-timed so much about modern guitars. Every shred guitar exists because of what Eddie did. Innovator is the title I think he deserves.
I like them both. Each one of them brought out Van Halen as a GREAT BAND
David Lee Roth is the 1st and foremost Van Halen frontman! Love him!!!
DAVID LEE ROTH is the ONLY Van Halen Frontman. VH1978-1984 Best American Hard rock band....period.
Without a doubt. DLR is the best
It’s Van Halen not Van Hagar!!!
Hagar has more talent in his toenail clippings.
@@jrshelton3398 Hagar has more vocal talent, but he doesn’t have half the frontman charisma of DLR
Entire album is fire
I don't think you talk too much. I like hearing your opinion and your perspective. Keep talking. 😊
Class of 79! Graduation trip to Myrtle Beach this was the 8 track we listened to that whole week! Ah miss those days!
Imagine what was like being used to listen to some Disco, some Rock 'n Roll, some Hard Rock, some Reggae and some Punk Rock and then dropping the needle on this record for the first time and the first thing you hear is this song, followed by Eruption and then followed by You Really Got Me. No one was prepared for it. It was like you went into a coma in the late 70's and woke up in the future. 🤯
You're correct, this is DLR.
"Quote from "American Songwriter" as to what the song is about:
"As for the lyrics? No, there’s nothing satanic about them. The devil is just a metaphor for the high- intensity, high-risk life chosen by the narrator. Roth doesn’t pretend there are no consequences for that choice: Yes, I’m livin‘ at a pace that kills, he boasts. That’s the price you pay when you act like there’s no tomorrow."
man the 80was different! lol yes Diamond dave!
ya BUT THIS WAZ THEM 70s baby
My favorite from Van Halen will always be "And The Cradle Will Rock". The guitar in that one will blow you away!
One of my favorite things about the first couple Halen albums was the limited over dubbing. It was Eddie in his full raw for the most part!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That bass line blew my Pontiac speakers out
This brings back some good memories. My first concert as a 4th grader was Van Halen 1984. Absolutely rocked, and I felt like the coolest kid in the school wearing my Van Halen concert shirt.
I graduated in 1988 from a town called Leominster, MA and our mascot was a Blue Devil. That year Brockton, MA was the number one high school team in the country. We played them as a huge underdog not even CLOSE to their ranking, as they were always on ours schedule. Somehow we pulled it out and we defeated the number one team and we were on every television station across the country. Three is a documentary somewhere on UA-cam about that game.
Running With the Devil was our School Anthem. At rallies they'd shut down all the lights and while we sat it the dark those opening beats would start and the entire gym would be building this insane amount of of excitement and as Eddie Van Halen ripped those first licks the lights would come up and we'd all be in a FRENZY! After that historical win the next rally was off the chain. Whenever I hear those beginning beats it takes me back to that high school gym and I can feel that excitement to this day!
Bassist Michael Anthony and drummer Alex Van Halen are one of the best rhythm duos in rock
Not to mention Michael's excellent backing vocals.
My favorite Van Halen is "And the Cradle Will Rock"
💯💯Have you seen Junior's grades?! .... 🤘🤘
I think BP would like that one a lot, it's one of those songs with a story that never goes out of style.
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THIS is Rockand ROLL 70s style Baby
@@theodoreritola7641 that album, "Women and Children First" came out in 1980, but yeah I'd still consider it 70s
Every VH album with DLR is awesome 🤘🏼🔥.... RIP Eddie, we miss you!!
No they weren't all great. Diver Down was more covers than new music. By far the weakest album. Followed by a different kind of truth. But this album and Fair Warning are their best
Oops I don't include Van Halen III. That was worst of all. I th9nk we can all agree on that. I don't even acknowledge its existence
@@kenkonwick6660I like Diver Down. They are the best cover band to ever exist.
@michaelconnor1542 covers is what got Roth booted. He and Ted Templeman always wanted covers to get radio play. That got them both out after 1984 after they argued about it for 3 years. Now undetermined what i said. Its their 2nd worst album, but doesn't mean it was bad. Just wasn't the blow ur doors off stuff like they did earlier, and with Sammy as well
I was in high school when this came out and it was WOW back then!
ANY 70s VAN HALEN IS FIRE PERIODThe 70s rocked their ASSES OFF
Thee guitar sound, that changed everything. That roar is timeless. A blasting Marshall Super Lead
This is the very first track on the first side of their first (debut) album. It exploded in the summer of 1978. I had just graduated from HS, was working for the summer in a steel factory for college which would start in September. I would come home from my steel factory job at about 3:30, all dirty, grimy and sweaty, got into gym clothes and swim trunks, ran or cycled about 2 miles to a local outdoor Pool Club, showered, and then swam and cooled off. They always had a radio playing the pop/rock music of the times and throughout the summer of 78, you'd hear Runnin With the Devil blasting out as the young gals in their bikinis were strolling by and laying out. I can still picture and hear it.
DLR is martial artist ...great. you see his splits and kicks in other Van Halen videos! He lived in Japan for awhile ! I love the early Van Halen ! The Van Halen brothers were from Amsterdam ( I think) saw them speaking in their native tongue on a European documentary once.
Maybe one of the best debut Rock albums of our time!!
I'll still take the Boston debut album, King Crimson's Court, Chicago Transit Authority, Kansas' debut album, ELPs debut album......
TOTO 78 THE CARS 78 THE POLICE 78 THE ROCKEN 70s baby
"Jump", "Running with the devil", "Panama", "Ain't 'talkin' 'bout Love" all get played at sporting events to this day. These guys were the real deal. Dave was the singer from 1974 till 1985. He came back in 2007, and they finished their career with him at the mic.
1st heard this on 8track in a car, 1978. Nothing like this had been heard before back then.
First Van Halen song i heard and still my favorite. My world changed right at this time.
This was the first hit off their first debut album I had never seen them or heard them before this this is about 19709 until I saw them live in concert in Detroit and they just blew my freaking mind not only how good it was but how loud the show was
I'm a Sammy hagar Van Halen fan ❤
- why can't this be love
- love walks in
- not enough
- pound cake
- Summer nights
- Dreams
VH was my first concert 1980 /81 Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens I was 19/20 yrs old ...61 in July been a great ride 💌🇨🇦💚 DLR w/o a doubt #1 💋
Their concerts were great......I saw them.....awesome
My favorite song with David Lee Roth is "Mean Streets"!
Diamond Dave will always be my favorite frontman with EVH. Yes, Eddie built his own guitars (Frankenstein). and built his son a Frankenstein bass as well. Eddie only plays Wolfgang guitars, named after his son. His amps are his brand. 5150s and has all kinds of pedals as well.
This song brings back memories and this will be a long memory. In the early 80's i went to cadet camp at Ipperwash Ont. Canada. I was in charlie company and when we had reveille my sgt played this and you really got me. when i got back home i asked my mom to buy the cassette and to wake me up with it
VH had attitude, swagger, unique, fun, flying by seat of your pants and cool-ness when DLR was the singer (DLR was on first 6 albums (1978-1985) and very last album (2012) but very last album sucks)...they got soft and safe when SH became the singer.
DLR & Sammy we’re both amazing, each brought their own unique style & loved them both!
FOUR KEYS TO THE VAN HALEN SOUND: DIAMOND DAVE’S SCREECHING WITH WHOOPS AND HOLLERS EDDIE’S GUITAR 🎸 ALEX’S SNARE DRUM 🥁 AND MICHAEL ANTHONY’S STRATOSPHERE BACKING VOCALS!!!
VAN HALEN: I SAW ALL THE TOURS WITH ROTH FROM VAN HALEN 1 IN 1978 TO 1984 AND AGAIN IN 2013! I SAW 5150, OU812, FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND BALANCE WITH HAGAR. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER EDWARD VAN HALEN!!! RIP EDDIE
My favorite Van Halen tour shirt is from this tour-Fair Warning. The band on the front with Worldwide Tour on top and 81 with a circle ⭕️ around it on the bottom and world tour 81 on the back with the VH LOGO and Van Halen written in the logo!
My second favorite Van Halen tour shirt after Fair Warning in 81. Band on the front World Vacation Tour 79 on the back.
Probably should check out "Jamie's Crying". I know he's gonna recognize the riff
YESSSS!!
Too bad I was a super busy mother when the 80's arrived with all these fresh, new sounds. I was listening for a baby crying, so couldn't have this loud screaming going on!!! I am truly loving all of it NOW !!!! These guys are crazy good. Thanks BP . How about a new photo of Brightly ? #babylover🤗💕
As people told you in comments about Eddie's guitars, Brian May of Queen built his own guitar from scratch when he was 15 years old. He still has that guitar and still performs with it.
They did some awesome songs with Sammy as the lead vocals, no doubt. But the greatest Van Halen lineup is this one.
Oh what Memories ! This is The Best
Just for clarification, Eddie never made his own guitars. He simply got the parts and screwed them together...kind of like a kit. Everything was pre made. He would make modifications to them, but as far as actually "making" them. No.
Oh snap okay 👍🏽 thanks. can’t spread fake news
David Lee Roth was fortunate to have the great back up vocals of Michael Anthony. I was fortunate to see them at the Texxas Jam in Dallas Tx in 1978 on their first tour. I was 13yo and was able to get to the front of the stage. EVH blew me away.
Growing up in Southern California on the Monrovia/Arcadia border we often were delighted by some rock group on a weekend and their music (to me) was just a horrible loud screaming foul sound that permeated many streets around our quiet neighborhood. Now my friend lived around the corner from me, in a cul-de-sac. And the Arcadia was border was right behind their house. And they would drag chairs and blankets out to sit on... and the horrible noise went on forever. It was Eddie Van Halen and his group. The high school kids loved the free concerts. I never joined the party. I was into Country and Western music like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Dolly, Charlie Pride... you know, that whole great music stuff from late 60's and 70's. I never got into that "hard rock", noise..... but I do enjoy bragging about the band "practicing" near my childhood home. She still likes his music, me....not so much. BUT, i have mad respect for Eddie following his dream. Sorry Eddie, not my jam brother. Hugs❤
I recommend Ain't Talkin Bout Love. It's a good one too.
One by of the greatest debut album of all time. Top 5 if not top 3 of all time
First single (i believe) from their first album. Rock music was about to change OVERNIGHT. I love this piece of footage because you can see they haven't figured out yet that Eddie is the REAL star of the show. The camera is barely on him and you can see he almost hides from it. They haven't figured out their image / style yet and they are literally doing the in-sync KISS guitar moves, trying to look badass. I LOVE it.
Pretty much instantly every rock guitar player was trying to copy Eddie or at the very least TRYING to figure out how he was doing what he was doing.
He was the next big leap forward in electric guitar after Jimi Hendrix (my opinion).
What's even funnier is they were being called "Heavy Metal" by the music press 🤣
The songs are super catchy fun "pop" flavored hard rock. And not all of them are even that "hard".
I love watching your reactions to all this great music. Thank you!
Funny you said that about the audio. Watched Bars and Barbells just before this.
They were having the same audio issue with Def Leopard's Photograph.
A song you should definitely react to.
Jaime’s crying is a great song! The guitar riff by Eddie. They told a story that they were all sitting around drinking and someone spilled a beer on Eddie’s electric guitar and it made that noise so right after he says have you seen June’s grades that’s when they got that ripped by accident lol and they used it.
Saw them that summer at Oakland Colosseum with AC/DC, Foreigner and Aerosmith. Growing up in CA we heard about VH before this album even came out. They performed at high schools for a while and remember they went to one close to mine, but we couldn't leave campus. The word was out. Seeing them live at a giant venue was crazy. Didn't know a soul who didn't love them.
This was Van Halen in their prime. I was only 17 when this came out. I put it on my record player. Got stoned is hell and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. These guys went out and blew away the headliners when they opened for This was Van Halen in their prime. I was only 17 when this came out. I put it on my record player. Got stoned is hell and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. These guys went out and blew away the headliners when they opened forum. Them. Never did they ever open up for anybody ever again from that day forward
Van Halen is the GOAT
Michael Anthony, the bass player, also sings all the high range harmony in their songs.
I LOVE VAN HALEN ❤❤❤EDDIE Amazing guitars,🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥
Whole album is bangers. First VH album is so influential.
ACDC song Highway to Hell is actually a song about a real highway in Australia they would drive to gigs.
This was the theme song of my 20s!!! Still in my all-time top 10!
Brings back memories of cruising around the local Dairy Queen blaring this, Drop Dead Legs, Panama etc… Lol 😝
Gotta here "Ain't talkin bout love" thanks great reactions.
Best front man ever! Diamond Dave!
Debut album; side 1; song 1; when you bought your first VH album this was your introduction song!! What a debut! The best Van Halen is the Van Halen with Eddie!
Van Halen had a third singer Gary Cherone once the lead singer of Extreme.. Check.out Extreme songs Whole Hearted, More Than Words, Get The Funk Out.
* Hole Hearted
I'd toss in Mutha, He-Man Woman Hater, Decadence Dance, and frankly a ton of others too.
Ronnie James Dio songs Heaven and hell (live), Last in line, and or Rainbow in the Dark
all 3 phenomenal
This was the 1st country concept album and it was fire, the movie came years after the album, but went in order of the songs on the album
This song was released in 1978 and it was the second single from their debut album, nothing to do with the later mid 80's hair metal. The level of David Lee Roth showmanship was already insane. I much preferred the David Lee Roth era, maybe it's nostalgia factor because I was a teen when these albums came out. And Eddie's playing style was such new, groundbreaking and fresh for the time. Later they made great songs but it was a completely new style, lot of synths, ballads, they somehow lost their boldness and flamboyancy. Why David and Eddie split? You know, two roosters in the henhouse... When that happened, David Lee Roth picked up the most promising guitar player around, Steve Vai, now a legend himself, and released a stellar solo album. The first single, "Yankee Rose", is so worth a watch.
Diamond Dave will always be THE Greatest rock frontman!!! 🤘🔥😎🎤🤗🕺
This song was a game changer! I was in a Radio Shack when a guy came in to buy a stereo, he had a Van Halen 8 track and gave it to the salesman. The salesman put it in one of their best systems and cranked it full blast in the store. When the song finished the guy proceeded to buy the system! By the way I’m Christian now. So I just change the wording alittle to “Running over the devil”! Lol
Arizona State Sun Devils football team runs out to this
Van Halen with DLR was the best, the wildest ....................LOL
The next Van Halen video to check out is the 1979 video "Dance the Night Away", it's textbook for what a band should be on stage... As far as songs, Mean Streets and I'm the one.... AC-DC also has Hells Bells...
The album by van halen called 1984 is the soundtrack to my youth.
Woo hoo 🔥
The music style changed because Eddie changed the music. It wasn't Sammy that changed VH. The last album with DLR you could see the progression coming into what was to be 5150 the first album with Sammy. Sammy's voice allowed Eddie to become a different guitar player
Being a flower child from the '60s this was my theme song as a rebellious teenager in the late '70s! The bass player Michael Anthony has been jammin in Van Halens other frontman Sammy Hagar's band Chickenfoot {with Joe Satriani, Chad Smith} & later The Circle {with Jason Bonham & Vic Johnson} since 2008! Vic Johnson was with the Busboys in the 80s & had a hit song with your title song "The Boys Are Back In Town" which was in the 1982 Eddie Murphy movie 48 Hours✌💖☮
They were huge with David Lee Roth. When Sammy was hired to sing, a lot of people thought Van Halen was over. They ended up being just as huge with Sammy Hagar!!! I love songs from both singers!!
My pops had a close friend who worked at one of the local concert venues and he got my bestie and I 2nd row tickets. At some point this big burly bouncer looking dude came and handed us a couple backstage passes. We were so excited! And then my pop's friend came and snatched them away from us. I have no idea how he even saw what was going on. But, now, 40 years later, I probably would have done the same thing. We were only 14!
The first song on the greatest debut Album of all time
Brand new sound and swag when this came out. Totally new and changed the future of rock.
Dave Explained it pretty good ...
Dave - was singing about Parting and getting with Girls
Sammy - Was singing about Love "Is this Love"and "Why can't this be Love"
Best is by far DLR
With the song Highway to Hell by AC DC, it is about a real highway in Australia
Running with the devil is about dealing with the record company, band mates, etc.This track is a story.
I love VH and I really love DLR! Don’t care for Sammy at all so you know my vote! Great song! You should react to Def Leopard ❤️🔥✌🏻🫶🏻
Yes!! 💯
This song is my *full volume with the top down in summer* tune. When I was in high school, back when this first came out, I’d play this in my little Triumph convertible on the built-in 8-track player. Always a favorite. Also, Diamond Dave was the best. 💜💜💜
Love your comments love the van halen my dream team would be eddie,Sebastian, Neil peart
Both are great and different.
Love your reactions!! My fav Van Halen song is Cradle Will Rock 🤘🤘
The original VH will always be the best to me. Atomic punk is mu favorite of thiers.
Being up to no good but having fun. Not evil. 😊
Always loved David's screeches! In my opinion best with David no doubt!!!
Best line in the song “F the Navy and all you Lifers” Dave was in the Navy.