Absolutely Y'all! I was 8 years old when this came out and my older stepbrother took me to see their tour for this album, the "1980 Invasion Tour" - yeah, I was hooked immediately (if not SOONER - LOL). RIP EVH.
Every 14 year old kid should be able to remove the shrink wrap from that vinyl album and listen to it for the first time ... life would never be the same after
Hey M S, So true!! I was there and did that.. I got a tattoo in Hong Kong ... The letters say "Rotten to The" then I told the cat at Pinky's (Famous tattoo parlor in Hong Kong) to drawn an eaten apple below the words.... suffice it to say... one of my favorite songs!!!
I have seen some people reacting to this album and not be impressed. But they are listening to it in the context of now. Eddie's playing at that time was completely new. There was nothing like it. Then there were a million EVH clones. The guitarists of today are standing on Eddie's shoulders. Eddie added whole chapters to the guitar playing lexicon!
Eddie's fingerpicking style was not "completely new." Eddie was inspired by Jimmy Page's solo on Heartbreaker. Not a diss on Eddie, one of the true greats, but give respect where it's due.
@@tektoniks_architectsEddie's tapping technique goes way beyond what page did in Heatbreaker. He was just doing hammer ons and pull offs on an open string. Yes, it inspired EVH. But Eddie took it to a whole new level using both hands.
@@jamesreding6336 Hooooooooooold it! Gotta RESPECTFULLY disagree. Fair Warning...the very pinnacle of the "brown sound". But, on the first album it's hard to beat "I'm the One" and "Ice Cream Man". 🤙
My favorite Van Halen song! The swagger in this song is off the charts.... this legit sounds like it could have been recorded this year. This song is real rock and roll in its best form
This song brings me some good memories.. Running with the Devil was played every day at Fort Carson, Colorado.. running every day to this song. Good times!!
David Lee Roth is probably THE most confident front man ever. He and Eddie, Michael and Alex were the best. Eddie was the Hendrix of his time in my opinion.
I was 13 and went with my brother. We drove down from Green Bay. I seen them again at The Brown County Arena, in 1980. Man the music was amazing, Diamond Dave was something else and Eddies guitar playing. Wow
One time I am sure I saw a documentry on Sabbath where they were touring and it wasnt going right in the band then they started to notice that Van Halen were getting a better crowd reaction on that tour than Sabbath who were headlining. It was just before Ozzy left and went solo.
Saw them tour together in the UK. The difference between a jaded shambolic Ozzy and a vibrant in your face DLR was like light and day. You just knew Van Halen were gonna be massive.
WE'RE OLD, LOL, i just Turned 52 this past November but EVERY TIME i Hear MY FAV. 60's, 70's and 80's Rock Bands, i feel AS IF i was Still back in those Times. 🎸 🎼 I MISS those Times SO MUCH, Today's Shitty "Music" SUCKS, ha ha. 👎 😢
@@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome Today's music isn't garbage, you just need to know where to find it. The good music definitely isn't mainstream anymore like it used to be.
Dave's over the top personality, Eddie's classic riffs, Michael and Anthony holding down the backbeat, the song wouldn't be the same without any of them. It's pure musical alchemy, magic for the ears.
Don't get me wrong, obviously its the whole band and this raw energy time of their career.... It's just this song isn't Eddie's flashiest, or Dave's most outrageous. It's a straightforward rocker, and Mike just bludgeon's you in the face the entire time.
Not exactly trying to argue, just another fan loving it my way. I'm a guitar player, so Eddie's guitar always stands out to me, but the rest of the band is just as important to the sound imo. This album was released the year I was born, so it's been a lifelong love affair for me. I'm just happy to see the newer generations learning about and appreciating the badassness that is and always will be the mighty Van Halen. Stay frosty my friend!
The year they were the top grossing touring band, Roth got busted trying to buy a dimebag of weed from an undercover cop in NYC. I think that qualifies him as one of the dumbest people in rock history. But he was a cool frontman.
The bass player , Michael Anthony, is the glue that holds it all together. (As is usually the case with bass players) It was quite enjoyable watching the music move you around. Van Halen is great for that.
Victor Waddell the combo of Sunday Afternoon in the Park/One Foot out the Door is one of the sickest things in the entire VH catalog. Always been a favorite of mine.
Literally every song on this album is fantastic. Maybe their best album. The first. When this album came out I would put the home stereo speakers right up next to my head like they were headphones and rock this whole album!
VH's "I'm The One" is absolutely the hottest song VH ever did. Just the fact that it's a boogie causes it to be high energy, and Ed makes it so hot, you can charge your phone just listening to it.
So glad you’re doing Van Halen now. Too many to name but..... Running with the devil is a must...... unchained.... beautiful girls.... Panama..... even some of the covers, pretty woman, you really got me.
This video makes me wish I could hear this for the first time again. Been listening to this for well over 35 years and it’s still smokin no matter how many times I hear it in a day.
I'm late to the party, but thanks for having me! I have heard most of the these songs hundreds of times, seeing your reactions is the next best thing to hearing them for the first time myself. I guess in a way YOU are late to the party, but all the better. Anyway, "EVERYBODY WANTS SOME" BY Van Halen is just what the doctor ordered too.
I've been fortunate to have seen Van Halen 8 times in concert because growing up, they were my dad's favorite band and Roth was his idol. He saw them 14 times since 78 so November 1st 2007 at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. during the Roth reunion tour, I took my dad with the 5 star VIP package with front row seats and a meet and greet. He got to meet his idol, get an autograph and pics plus Roth signed my guitar. Best 1600 bucks I ever spent to see my dad's face when they shook hands.
once again, I love seeing you have the same reactions we did in the 70s/80s to these great tunes!!! Thank you for sharing and have us older folks relive our youth... Appreciation for music not only soothes the soul, but can unite us with fewer connections in life...
The tone on that guitar cuts like a well-honed hatchet. It takes me back to those stoned evenings in the late 70s, in that smokey basement this album was played and we sat with jaws agape. Listen to that guitar! Mind blown.
Double Entendre song? “Ice Cream Man” Diamond David Lee Roth, The quintessentially best Van Halen frontman and just a hoot to watch. Definition of the more than fun 80’s😉
Brother I'm a white dude that grew up with this band, and your reactions are priceless, I love ya and I don't even know ya. I love the way you really get into the tunes. You make me laugh every time I watch you. Nothing but love brother 😂
My first concert....VH, 1982 on their Diver Down tour.......when they got to that part in this song the whole crowd was shaking their fist and yelling "HEY-HEY-HEY!" Great and very intense concert!
i just freakin love you man! Youre always with an open mind and attached to nothing! So igniting! A big bright light and its infectious man! Thank you for your love and light - souls like yourself make this world a wonderful and beautiful place
My first exposure to Jamel was when I was recuperating from a total knee replacement. Not able to sleep I stumbled across his reaction to"Foster Brooks Roasts Don Rickles" at 3:00 in the morning. I didn't even know he had this music channel at the time. But he's become one of my Top 3 YT personalities. Keep up the great work, Jamel.
I got story for this one.... threw a party @ a Malibu estate I was renting and my studio/competitor friend got a band to show up for my post Halloween blow out party, and they set up outside my rental on the lawn at the estate up the road from Zuma beach and played Ain't talking bout Love at 2:00 am very loud till the police eventually arrived. I was so drunk from this large punch bowl of "Toxic sludge" which was frozen Hawaiian punch, every kind of alcohol you can imagine and chunks of dry ice. The police finally found the place after getting lost because there were no street lights and when the band took a break they had no idea where they were supposed to go. So there I was holding a drink with dry ice floating in it steam spewing out of the glass when they finally showed up to do the good cop bad cop routine.... the good cop just couldn't stop laughing.... after they left me with a warning "have you ever been to jail?", my "friend" wanted the band to crank up the tube Marshall amps for another set. I was like dude I don't want to wind up in the slammer. You see the property owner had rented the guest house to me then left the country leaving his 12 year old son in charge, so I threw a party with like 300 people... the police showed up at kid's door at the main house instead of my rental house and the kid was like "It's not my fault, it's that Steve guy in the guest house!" Crazy dayz
This is my absolute favorite VH track! Yes, I'm a girl and I know what he's singin' bout! 😈😈 I was fortunate enough to see VH live in 1978 (the year their debut album was released). They opened for Black Sabbath (I've been a fan since 1973) and TBH, Van Halen blew them off the stage!
I remember when they first came out. You just got the VIBE instantly when you heard that 1st album! You instantly knew it was HOT AND FRESH! Those first two albums were incredible!
Thank you, Jamel! And all those who have requested reactions of VH, commented so passionately on the unique talent of all that is VH. As a newer subscriber, the timing is right. I've enjoyed a few VH reactions today and now listening to one of my fav tunes of all time. It would've been difficult to listen any sooner without a box of tissues close by and that sadness feeling not so good. Is it selfish, with all the gifts we've already received from Eddie, to feel so ? (pissed off, sad) that we will never hear any more of his original genius?!? RIP, Ed.
Total underrated classic! [and, likely, the best song on that album!!] "Secrets" displays the more melodic, almost "pop"-flavored element of VH (which few people recognize -at least, until Sam Hagar came around, maybe) or, sometimes, even, outright reject. The song s a GREAT composition and the melodic elements (guitar and vocal!) are excellent and strong and the atmosphere"/mood/"feel" of the entire thing is, somehow, majestic ...magical ...beautiful but with a, slight, lingering sense of ...I don't know... "melancholy," maybe?? ...I'm glad to hear other fans recognize these same things and are as bug fans as I have always been. 👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥 🤘🤘
Oh YEAH. I love this tune. I still have the vinyl LP. I saw Van Halen at Day on the Green in Oakland, CA during their first world tour. I was sun burned bad that day. It was worth it.
So of course the whole band is great. But id like to point out theeir secret weapon: Michael Anthony on backing vocals. His bass was always good, not amazing. But his backing vocals is what really made everyone want to sing along.
I've been a VH fan for the past 42 years and it ALWAYS makes my soul smile when I see people TRULY enjoy for the first time what it was that enjoyed so many years ago.
One of the greatest debut albums of any band ever.
Agreed Jason!🤟
No doubt! Straight fire from beginning to end!
Hell yeah!!
Agreed! I first heard this album around 1986, it blew my mind!
Absolutely Y'all! I was 8 years old when this came out and my older stepbrother took me to see their tour for this album, the "1980 Invasion Tour" - yeah, I was hooked immediately (if not SOONER - LOL). RIP EVH.
Every 14 year old kid should be able to remove the shrink wrap from that vinyl album and listen to it for the first time ... life would never be the same after
I was 16 when it came out. Was pretty epic. I think it dropped over summer and I heard it at a party for the first time.
Hey M S, So true!! I was there and did that.. I got a tattoo in Hong Kong ... The letters say "Rotten to The" then I told the cat at Pinky's (Famous tattoo parlor in Hong Kong) to drawn an eaten apple below the words.... suffice it to say... one of my favorite songs!!!
@@jgilbertify Nice - Atomic Punk never got the love it truly deserves
Exactly.. What a time to be a teen in the 1980's
I was closer to 25, but I know exactly what you mean!!
I have seen some people reacting to this album and not be impressed. But they are listening to it in the context of now. Eddie's playing at that time was completely new. There was nothing like it. Then there were a million EVH clones. The guitarists of today are standing on Eddie's shoulders. Eddie added whole chapters to the guitar playing lexicon!
Eddie's fingerpicking style was not "completely new." Eddie was inspired by Jimmy Page's solo on Heartbreaker. Not a diss on Eddie, one of the true greats, but give respect where it's due.
@@tektoniks_architectsEddie's tapping technique goes way beyond what page did in Heatbreaker. He was just doing hammer ons and pull offs on an open string. Yes, it inspired EVH. But Eddie took it to a whole new level using both hands.
If somebody listens to this song and isn't impressed they should give up reacting to Rock n Roll, they don't get it and apparently never will.
no doubt brother. I was 11 when this came out and it was a game changer!
RIP
When VH ruled the world
And they really did.
There first album was there best period
Shit, Van Halen still rules my world for at least a couple of hours a week! lol
Amen! Saw them on the Diver Down tour!
@@jamesreding6336 Hooooooooooold it! Gotta RESPECTFULLY disagree. Fair Warning...the very pinnacle of the "brown sound". But, on the first album it's hard to beat "I'm the One" and "Ice Cream Man". 🤙
My favorite Van Halen song! The swagger in this song is off the charts.... this legit sounds like it could have been recorded this year. This song is real rock and roll in its best form
Swagger is david lee Roth, vintage 1980s💯♥️
Van Halen - “Running with the devil” is a track you’d definitely like for sure!🤘
Yep, the best VH song!
This song brings me some good memories..
Running with the Devil was played every day at Fort Carson, Colorado.. running every day to this song. Good times!!
Use too say I wanted that and Highway too hell when I died.. A barbecue in the yard would be fine with me.
Definitely. The best VH song ever.
That whole album is awesome!!!
Zero filler 🤘
From start to end!!
Absolutely agree, probably my favourite Van Halen album!
I personally think it's possibly the best debut album that any band has released. Let me rephrase that comment. One of the best debut albums.
I love it just I love my cigars!!!
David Lee Roth is probably THE most confident front man ever. He and Eddie, Michael and Alex were the best. Eddie was the Hendrix of his time in my opinion.
Fax
Freddie mercury too
The rock n roll clown 🤡 lol
I think Axl Rose is up there with him when it came to confidence lol. Both are elite frontmen and two of the goats so guess you need confidence.
@@ScubaDiverPicker Weren't you with BSF Recovery Team?
This was the loudest song I've ever heard live on 8-22-1977 in Milwaukee, They opened for Black Sabbath.
@Gregory Ochalek yep 78, typo
I was 13 and went with my brother. We drove down from Green Bay. I seen them again at The Brown County Arena, in 1980. Man the music was amazing, Diamond Dave was something else and Eddies guitar playing. Wow
One time I am sure I saw a documentry on Sabbath where they were touring and it wasnt going right in the band then they started to notice that Van Halen were getting a better crowd reaction on that tour than Sabbath who were headlining. It was just before Ozzy left and went solo.
@@gm2407 The reviewer for the Milwaukee concert said it was like a battle of the bands and it was a tie!
Saw them tour together in the UK. The difference between a jaded shambolic Ozzy and a vibrant in your face DLR was like light and day. You just knew Van Halen were gonna be massive.
'You know, you re semi-good looking. ' imagine someone said that to you, lol
I'd love that hahaha.. I'd take it
@@shweetpotato YOU KNOW you're semi-good looking, ;)
David Lee Roth had some of the smoothest lines and some of the smoothest breakdowns in songs ever. Not to mention the best cat call In the Biz.
The ultimate hate-fuck song.
Yes they have told me that. No problem.
42 years ago ..imagine that
Shitting hell, i'm old.
WE'RE OLD, LOL, i just Turned 52 this past November but EVERY TIME i Hear MY FAV. 60's, 70's and 80's Rock Bands, i feel AS IF i was Still back in those Times. 🎸 🎼
I MISS those Times SO MUCH,
Today's Shitty "Music" SUCKS, ha ha. 👎 😢
You got me by 11 months LOL !!
And yeah, modern music is absolute bollocks.
@@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome Today's music isn't garbage, you just need to know where to find it. The good music definitely isn't mainstream anymore like it used to be.
No kidding....best rock album of all time imo
Diamond Dave at top of his game
THE MIGHTY VAN HALEN AMERICAS ROCK N' ROLL HOT ROD
Nice
That's a funny way of spelling ZZ Top...
This song got me started on Van Halen! That guitar intro is out of this world!
3 components to a good song, GEAT LEAD SINGER, GREAT LEAD GUITAR, GREAT HARMONIZING.
This song is 100% MADE by Micheal Anthony's bass line and high back up harmonies.
Classic bad ass-ness.
They really did him wrong! Great bass player and vocalist!
Thanks to all VH combo to made this masterpiece.
Dave's over the top personality, Eddie's classic riffs, Michael and Anthony holding down the backbeat, the song wouldn't be the same without any of them. It's pure musical alchemy, magic for the ears.
Don't get me wrong, obviously its the whole band and this raw energy time of their career.... It's just this song isn't Eddie's flashiest, or Dave's most outrageous. It's a straightforward rocker, and Mike just bludgeon's you in the face the entire time.
Not exactly trying to argue, just another fan loving it my way. I'm a guitar player, so Eddie's guitar always stands out to me, but the rest of the band is just as important to the sound imo. This album was released the year I was born, so it's been a lifelong love affair for me. I'm just happy to see the newer generations learning about and appreciating the badassness that is and always will be the mighty Van Halen. Stay frosty my friend!
1978. The world wasn't ready yet. RIP Eddie Van Halen....
" Eddie goes to parties.....I am the party"
David Lee Roth
Classic DLR!
100% TRUTH
The year they were the top grossing touring band, Roth got busted trying to buy a dimebag of weed from an undercover cop in NYC.
I think that qualifies him as one of the dumbest people in rock history.
But he was a cool frontman.
VH in their prime
Pre Panama
@@rightoftheline6521 it was on the same album (1984)
@@nwmonk3105 Ain't talkin about love came out even before women and children first, same album?
@@nwmonk3105 nah aint talkin bout love is from VH1, their first album.
@@Luca-bv5ic true 1978.
I was eighteen when I bought this album listened to it 3 to 4 times a day for six months. I think the best debut album. Hands down.
The bass player , Michael Anthony, is the glue that holds it all together. (As is usually the case with bass players) It was quite enjoyable watching the music move you around. Van Halen is great for that.
Vocally, too!
Michael Anthony carried the high notes and most people do not know that, but obviously me and you do. VH is my all time favorite 🤘🎸
❤️Van Halen! Saw them in the early 80’s at the LA Forum great show!
Me too!
I was there every time they played in LA until Dave left. What a freaking party those days were. And those KLOS rainbow stickers?
Karen M i would have liked to have seen you from the 80s....
@@Gator805 don't forget the KMET Immoral Minority buttons - I won one for being the 10th caller!
At that point Van Halen and the Police were the biggest mainstream rock acts before Guns'N'Roses and then Metallica came along ...
"mean street","drop dead legs","runnin with the devil"," little guitar" anything by Van Halen rocks. Especially older VH.
I find Little Guitars is very underrated. One Hella song!
@@Briansgate little guitars is my favorite rhythm playing from Eddie. That main riff is HARD.
Take your whiskey home or I'm the one. Absolute badass tracks
Van Halen - “Mean Street” or really anything by them in general 👌
Mean Streets is an awesome song and an awesome album too . It was the most ' Punk ' album that Van Halen ever produced .
Best song Van Halen ever did.
@@victorwaddell6530 Definitely, and also it's probably one of the sickest intros to a song with that 100 mph tapping haha
Victor Waddell the combo of Sunday Afternoon in the Park/One Foot out the Door is one of the sickest things in the entire VH catalog. Always been a favorite of mine.
@@corey1788 Agreed .
gotta listen to the entire album
It's their BEST IMO
Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth: PURE SWAGGER!
My favorite Van Halen song.
My second and third:
Runnin' With The Devil
Jaime's Cryin'
Literally every song on this album is fantastic. Maybe their best album. The first. When this album came out I would put the home stereo speakers right up next to my head like they were headphones and rock this whole album!
@@Will_Wel really??! That's fkn nuts, I saw a halfwit do that once!🤣😂😂
Little dreamer is better
@@gizzy2403 og headphones. And i was 7.
@@Will_Wel oh that's funny! As long as u weren't eating Elmer's Paste while u did it!🤣
Try “Ice Cream Man”.
So much fun.
Maria Batastini love the double entendres in that song!
David Lee Roth is a smooth dude
And I'll second that recommendation
D Mills the Lion troll Casada. No thanks troll.
this X1000
The entire first album holds up 41 years later.
Eddie Van Halen's guitar is one of the most recognizable sounds in music. One of the very best to do it.
Music is so powerful it has saved lives man.
Running with the devil is a banger!
I remember when that record first came out. It was like it came from outer space. Nobody had heard anything like it. #1978
The 70s HAD THE START OF SO MUCH GREAT MIUSIC ,,
Every time I hear Eddie play I just shake my head in disbelief of how insane he is at playing that guitar 🎸🤯
My all time favorite Van Halen Song With Diamond Dave . All Time Best Album ! Party On .Oh Memories .
Timeless rock my brother. EVH...one of kind....🙏🏻
VH's "I'm The One" is absolutely the hottest song VH ever did. Just the fact that it's a boogie causes it to be high energy, and Ed makes it so hot, you can charge your phone just listening to it.
Just discovered this one and I’m absolutely hooked
I saw them in 84. It was epic!
Me too Cincinnati Gardens! Awesome show
@@tomh5006, I saw them at The Omni, in Atlanta.
@@Tuesdays_Gone back when you could have a good time!
@@tomh5006, exactly.
THERY WERE EPIC IN 1978 When this was RELEASED ,,
Yay one of their rockinest songs off one of their best albums..i💕❤thanks for rockin it
What a great song,especially in concert. hey! hey! hey! hey! hey! hey!
So glad you’re doing Van Halen now. Too many to name but..... Running with the devil is a must...... unchained.... beautiful girls.... Panama..... even some of the covers, pretty woman, you really got me.
Love this song. Yeahhh. Thank you for reacting to this one.
VAN HALEN 1978-1984 were Un-touchable, pure molten gold. Check out the studio/record version of UNCHAINED.
This video makes me wish I could hear this for the first time again. Been listening to this for well over 35 years and it’s still smokin no matter how many times I hear it in a day.
Some reaction You Tubers only "hear the music"... I just LOVE how you " listen to the songs"!!!!!
YASSS! You back in my wheelhouse!! 🤟❤👏
"Cradle Will Rock"
I'm late to the party, but thanks for having me! I have heard most of the these songs hundreds of times, seeing your reactions is the next best thing to hearing them for the first time myself. I guess in a way YOU are late to the party, but all the better. Anyway, "EVERYBODY WANTS SOME" BY Van Halen is just what the doctor ordered too.
I've been fortunate to have seen Van Halen 8 times in concert because growing up, they were my dad's favorite band and Roth was his idol. He saw them 14 times since 78 so November 1st 2007 at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. during the Roth reunion tour, I took my dad with the 5 star VIP package with front row seats and a meet and greet. He got to meet his idol, get an autograph and pics plus Roth signed my guitar. Best 1600 bucks I ever spent to see my dad's face when they shook hands.
Eddie Van Halen played the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'
And the great Steve Lukather from Toto played the other riffs you hear in that song.
and for free, just for fun
"I'm The One'......from the same album, absolutely KILLS. Swing and funk woven into hard rock. One of Eddie's best efforts.
This maybe the best hard rock song . 40 plus years later it still kicks ass
Yeah baby, my favorite Van Halen song! Glad you love it just as much as I do.
once again, I love seeing you have the same reactions we did in the 70s/80s to these great tunes!!! Thank you for sharing and have us older folks relive our youth... Appreciation for music not only soothes the soul, but can unite us with fewer connections in life...
You would love Ice Cream Man by them trust me 😉
The tone on that guitar cuts like a well-honed hatchet. It takes me back to those stoned evenings in the late 70s, in that smokey basement this album was played and we sat with jaws agape. Listen to that guitar! Mind blown.
Thank you to reacting to so much different stuff! Your reaction to this one put a smile on my face for sure
This is my fav Van Halen song! I'm woke now! ✌🏼🎼💖
JAMEL THIS WAS THE SOUND OF 1978 ,
Double Entendre song? “Ice Cream Man”
Diamond David Lee Roth,
The quintessentially best Van Halen frontman and just a hoot to watch.
Definition of the more than fun 80’s😉
How about Crown Heights Affair ---Sexy Ways
I know someone who has been to hundreds of concerts and says Van Halen's "I'll Wait" live, is best he's ever seen
Ahh, my very first Van Halen song. Ever since that opening guitar riff, little 6 year old me was hooked! XD
Love how you turned this into a danceable tune 😂🤣😂
When Van Halen had an edge.
Perhaps the sharpest edge of all time.
Brother I'm a white dude that grew up with this band, and your reactions are priceless, I love ya and I don't even know ya. I love the way you really get into the tunes. You make me laugh every time I watch you. Nothing but love brother 😂
My first concert....VH, 1982 on their Diver Down tour.......when they got to that part in this song the whole crowd was shaking their fist and yelling "HEY-HEY-HEY!" Great and very intense concert!
i need a jamal bobblehead dang you killed another review aint talkin bout love hell yeah
The bass line is pretty simple, but it drives this song very well.
GROOVE GROOVE GROOVE!
EVH required Michael to keep his bass parts simple.
That Bass is right on point!!!
i just freakin love you man! Youre always with an open mind and attached to nothing! So igniting! A big bright light and its infectious man! Thank you for your love and light - souls like yourself make this world a wonderful and beautiful place
My first exposure to Jamel was when I was recuperating from a total knee replacement. Not able to sleep I stumbled across his reaction to"Foster Brooks Roasts Don Rickles" at 3:00 in the morning.
I didn't even know he had this music channel at the time. But he's become one of my Top 3 YT personalities.
Keep up the great work, Jamel.
You're just scratching the surface, check out mean street, unchained, ,ice cream man. Atomic punk..so many good songs by this band.
Atomic Punk is great.
I got story for this one.... threw a party @ a Malibu estate I was renting and my studio/competitor friend got a band to show up for my post Halloween blow out party, and they set up outside my rental on the lawn at the estate up the road from Zuma beach and played Ain't talking bout Love at 2:00 am very loud till the police eventually arrived. I was so drunk from this large punch bowl of "Toxic sludge" which was frozen Hawaiian punch, every kind of alcohol you can imagine and chunks of dry ice. The police finally found the place after getting lost because there were no street lights and when the band took a break they had no idea where they were supposed to go. So there I was holding a drink with dry ice floating in it steam spewing out of the glass when they finally showed up to do the good cop bad cop routine.... the good cop just couldn't stop laughing.... after they left me with a warning "have you ever been to jail?", my "friend" wanted the band to crank up the tube Marshall amps for another set. I was like dude I don't want to wind up in the slammer. You see the property owner had rented the guest house to me then left the country leaving his 12 year old son in charge, so I threw a party with like 300 people... the police showed up at kid's door at the main house instead of my rental house and the kid was like "It's not my fault, it's that Steve guy in the guest house!" Crazy dayz
Guitar in this song always sounds fresh no matter the decade.
Plead for it baby!!
Love it!!
Diamond Dave was the best showman on stage!!!
This is my absolute favorite VH track! Yes, I'm a girl and I know what he's singin' bout! 😈😈
I was fortunate enough to see VH live in 1978 (the year their debut album was released). They opened for Black Sabbath (I've been a fan since 1973) and TBH, Van Halen blew them off the stage!
I think you are more than semi-good looking!
Running with the Devil and Panama just 🤘. I think they were the progenitor of hair metal but no one else had their swagger (until GnR)
I remember when they first came out. You just got the VIBE instantly when you heard that 1st album! You instantly knew it was HOT AND FRESH! Those first two albums were incredible!
that guitar was a revelation at that time, 1978. loved another one of ur reactions, tnx...
First album breakout, and that they did. IMHO, their best album.
I became a VH fan with Fair Warning. I went to check the 1st 3 albums later. First time I heard the 'edge' part, I was like 'oh, shiiiiit!!!!'
One of the first albums I had as a 7 year old kid, 40 years later! I still workout to that song EVH, best band ever
Good god, that guitar tone. An old cranked Marshall Plexi just about ready to explode and that MXR Phase 90 and delay. It's beyond amazing.
"I'm The One"!! Check that song out!
You’d love the VH song “I’m the One” with its shuffle beat and a do-wap section in the mid.
Thank you, Jamel! And all those who have requested reactions of VH, commented so passionately on the unique talent of all that is VH. As a newer subscriber, the timing is right. I've enjoyed a few VH reactions today and now listening to one of my fav tunes of all time. It would've been difficult to listen any sooner without a box of tissues close by and that sadness feeling not so good. Is it selfish, with all the gifts we've already received from Eddie, to feel so ? (pissed off, sad) that we will never hear any more of his original genius?!? RIP, Ed.
My favourite Van Halen song of all time, RIP Eddie Van Halen.
"secrets" is a great song that isn't really known to many except diehard VH fans. One of my favs
Mine too!
Love Secrets. Diver Down gem. The brown sound tone makes it classic Van Halen.
Total underrated classic! [and, likely, the best song on that album!!]
"Secrets" displays the more melodic, almost "pop"-flavored element of VH (which few people recognize -at least, until Sam Hagar came around, maybe) or, sometimes, even, outright reject.
The song s a GREAT composition and the melodic elements (guitar and vocal!) are excellent and strong and the atmosphere"/mood/"feel" of the entire thing is, somehow, majestic ...magical ...beautiful but with a, slight, lingering sense of ...I don't know... "melancholy," maybe??
...I'm glad to hear other fans recognize these same things and are as bug fans as I have always been. 👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥 🤘🤘
Atomic Punk.
“All day long. All day long.” Love you, brother.
Love the South Park version.
Love me some VH... Grew up listening to them in the 70s and 80s... Diamond Dave is a excellent front man.
Time for a fun song from Van Halen! Try ice cream man! Guarantee it'll put a smile on your face
from the same album check out "i'm the one" & "Feel your love tonight"
Definitely my favorites on VH1!
Definitely !!!!!!!!
I love "Feel Your Love Tonight"........such a cool vibin' jam....and denoting things that are important to a young man.....both sides of it! ;-)
Actually check the whole album 😃
There's not a single bad song on it...
Oh YEAH. I love this tune. I still have the vinyl LP. I saw Van Halen at Day on the Green in Oakland, CA during their first world tour. I was sun burned bad that day. It was worth it.
Seeing you get to experience and enjoy all the music I grew up listening to back in the 80s and 90s is cool.
So of course the whole band is great. But id like to point out theeir secret weapon:
Michael Anthony on backing vocals. His bass was always good, not amazing. But his backing vocals is what really made everyone want to sing along.
His scream at the beginning of this song on Right Here Right Now sends the song off at 100mph.
Van Halen the greatest guitar player period... greatest band ever, they just kept getting better, and got better again with Sammy
They were just so very tight, I mean Eddie and Alex were reading each other's mind's
Thanks Jamal, that's cool man, real cool. I was born in 66 so I'm hip to what you are doing 👍 love all the reaction's
There’s an ARMY of DLR fans that would vehemently disagree with that statement.
No David Lee Roth better than Sammy...
My man late 70's early 80's is the most raw and true rock music from any era.
I've been a VH fan for the past 42 years and it ALWAYS makes my soul smile when I see people TRULY enjoy for the first time what it was that enjoyed so many years ago.
😎🤘
Haha I like your Martin T-shirt!
What you are hearing...is the guitar changing forever...I was 16 in 78 and wore that LP out. Had to buy another vinyl a few months later.
100% pure Van Halen, the kickin' tune in the ay, and still one the killer intros (and bridge) in rock.