The intro is called Intruder, but they are designed to be played together. It would have been a crime if you started the song at the track break where Pretty Woman starts. You did it right!
Intruder is just Eddie squeezing sounds out of his guitar. Using beer bottles sliding down the guitar neck, scraping the back springs on the tremolo, string scrapes, harmonics and dive bombs...its basically Eddie playing around exploring sounds. Eddie has always said he likes to make his guitar sound like it's on the edge of actually dying. It's one of the many reasons he was so AWESOME. That being said, I suggest you guys actually watch the real video to this song by VH. It's odd and humorous. It's Van Halen being Van Halen. One of the best American Rock Bands to grace planet earth.
.I agree, but it is hard to get noticed when the lead Guitar player is the most influential of a generation, not to mention the flamboyant DLR...Michael Anthony never really got his due either
@@warinsidemyhead11 . I never really saw Eddie play with another drummer, although I know he has( Starfleet project with Brian May), but , obviously, Alex new him well.I think Alex is underrated though, as stated in the original post
Without having lived it,you can not understand the impact Van Halen had on the music world and all our lives when there debut album was released.Thank you to Gene Simmons for bank rolling these guys so they could get into the recording studio.RIP Eddie.
One of the most covered songs ever, but in my mind this is the version I hear for “Pretty Woman”. I vividly remember the music video as a very young child. I loved Van Halen immediately. Nobody sounded like Eddie did on guitar. RIP. Even as a 5 or 6 year old, it sounded special on the radio.
It was actually 2 different songs, Intruder and Pretty Woman, but they were usually played together on radio stations. Another case like that was Van Halen's "Eruption" and "You Really Got Me" from their first album.
But don’t you feel like that’s how they made it their own? Obviously no one’s going to compete with Roy’s voice, so they made a little, idk, dangerous.
Yes, they did an excellent job with covers!! Their version of "You're No Good"..from Linda Ronstadt's orginal is also great. You Really Got Me is amazing, too. Eruption is all Eddie's original stuff, though, I believe
The intro, called Intruder, was added to the video for Pretty Woman because they needed extra audio to fill up the whole video. BTW Roy Orbison does the same tongue sound in the original
Think of it this way it starts from the beginning of time the beginning was a primal reaction to female and progresses to a modern version of Oh yeah!!!
Instrumental at the beginning is called Intruder, and I can't imagine VH's cover of pretty woman without it. They made a video for this that is comical, absurd, and would totally not fly today
The video was hysterical, Michael Anthony as a Samaurai, Alex as Tarzan, DLR as George Washington and Eddie as a cowboy who have to save a trans from two dwarfs.🤣
The classic rock stations around here constantly play this song without the intro and it just makes me boil inside. It makes me wanna call the cops, it should be illegal.
As you may have noticed, the early years of Van Halen featured a LOT of very short songs. To make them a little more interesting Eddie conjoined several of them with solo bits that he had written but that had never developed into full songs. 5 of 6 albums of the early Roth/VH era featured these instrumental intros (Eruption/You Really Got Me on the first album; Spanish Fly/D.O.A. on Van Halen II; Sunday Afternoon in the Park/One Foot Out the Door from Fair Warning; Intruder/Pretty Woman, Cathedral/Secrets, AND Little Guitars/Little Guitars on Diver Down, and; 1984/Jump on 1984.).
This album/tour was my first concert when I was in 7th grade. Eddie absolutely blew my doors off and he's been my favorite ever since! Still really miss him 😢
Yes, Van Halen did a great job with covers and making songs their own. Also check out their cover of The Kinks, You Really Got Me (if you haven't already).
Intruder is the intro to Pretty Woman but on the CD they are 2 different tracks. I remember on shuffle hearing Intruder by itself and then going on to a completely different song sound so weird!
This is actually two songs...Intruder is the first one (I love playing that beat on my drums) and then at the 1:50 mark Pretty Woman comes in. Many confuse them as one song. A lot of the weird eerie songs in Intruder are Eddie playing the guitar with a beer can.
I remember when this came out just playing Intruder over and over to hear those sounds and saying holy shit how is he making the guitar sound like in it is in sever pain and ready to die. This whole album is a great classic I love Happy Trials at the end of the album I was 15 when this came out.
Love their music and harmonies - Dave is baritone, Ed is 2nd tenor, and of course Michael Anthony has that very unique high first tenor. Mike had a lot to do with the VH sound for sure!
THIS is THE song that got me addicted to Van Halen...heard it on the radio (1982 I think) went out and bought the "Diver Down" CASSETTE---they've been my favorite by a long shot ever since
SHOULD check out the video that featured all the guys! IT'S FUNNY!...and the intro makes MORE sense with what's going on...VERY sketchy ua-cam.com/video/FWQRDI7mTyw/v-deo.html
You guys would love “Little Guitars with Intro” off the same album ! It really shows off how versatile Eddie’s guitar playing was !! Keep those Van Halen Reactions coming !!
That first section is called Intruder and accomplishes, I feel, a very eerie mood. EVH was truly an extraordinarily gifted musician. Electric guitarist PAR EXCELLENCE.
My dad loved Roy Orbison, so obviously loved the original. His wild child daughter (me) being a teen in the 80s, had a huge obsession with Van Halen. He heard many covers of his 50s and 60s music throughout my teen years - especially since this album was primarily covers. He actually liked this one! He often shocked me with some of "my" songs he enjoyed. My freshman year of high school MTV was just catching on. I would catch him watching groups like Culture Club. 🤣 When he brought home Prince's "1999" album (for himself), I thought he could not top that one. Yet even until a couple of years before he passed away, he was trying to do the "Stanky Legg" for the grandkids!! Proof the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I'm almost 20 years older than when he was when he bought "1999", and you cannot find any decade or genre where there isn't music that I love. When you've music in your soul, it's part of your essence. I know that's why I love watching Lex and hearing her descriptions of music. She is definitely a soul sister to MANY of us!
The Van Halen album 'Diver down' (1982) was a bit of a "filler" album... David Lee Roth wanted a batch of covers mixed in w/ original songs. Eddie Van Halen hated that record... he couldn't see the point of recording a bunch of covers that included 'Dancing in the street'. It was another platinum success and would be followed by the '1984' album (Eddie Van Halen insisted that record be all original songs and 'Jump' would be included) which was a mega hit on MTV and sold 10 million copies.
It's the ONLY version of Dancing in the Street that rocks - with a kick ass solo. Funny how everyone just accepts that fuckin dreadful mess Jagger/Bowey made of it, just 'cause it's them. Fantastic Kinks cover Where Have all the Good Times ..... kicks all kinds of ass too!
They were given two weeks by the record company to record a new album, hence its full of covers, though Pretty Woman was a single before the album was recorded.
Diver Down is a go to for me so many years later. Great covers and great originals. The Full Bug is killer. Cathedral/Secrets. There's nothing really subpar at all. After the debut, Fair Warning and this record are the ones I lean toward.
This is the version I first heard, lo those many years ago. Didn't hear Roy Orbison's original until the 90's, but I came to appreciate that sound just as much.
I've heard this song a million times but I've never heard that intro. I love it. I'm going to look for it and download it right now. Well, after you guys finish your reaction comments.
“Intruder” is the intro/solo for the song, but it was originally written for another song that Eddie was working on. Ed was pissed that it was thrown in for a cover tune & was just 1 more log thrown into the fire for him to build his own studio. Which happened by the next album & he recorded at his own studio (5150) ever since. Diver Down was his least favorite album, due to all the cover tunes … which was the result of Fair Warning not selling quite as well as the previous albums. The record company even released Fair Warning as a double cassette w/ Women And Children First, to boost album sales. But the decision was made by management to do covers of proven hits as the follow up album, since Eddie’s efforts were viewed as “sub par” by their label.
This was my first album(actually tape) Christmas 1982. I got it with a boom box. I was 10 don’t know how my parents picked this album out. I can only imagine they asked the kid working at the record store becausei didn’t know of VH. (I’ve always wanted to thank that employee) I’ve been a huge VH fan since. I had all their albums (even a double album of Fair Warning and Women and Children First). I was devastated when DLR left and 1984 was the last album I bought of VH.
Yes, Intruder is a composition written by Van Halen, and was a prelude to Orbison’s song. Love this whole album, and I have it in the living room stereo cabinet. 🎶🥰 They are two different songs, but most radio stations play them concurrently because the album plays them that way.
I've always dug how VH did this song. Started it out all sinister sounding with edgy guitar and beat then WHAM...changes up to Pretty Woman. They really made this song their own.
If I remember correctly, they sot the video (their first) while still recording the album and when the video was too late long they wrote the long intro and called it Intruder.
I am sure glad you kept the intro. It's great! And the cover (Pretty Woman) is an amazing song. Roy Orbison, Van Halen, great cover, and a more amazing original!
How is there no mention of Michael Anthony's pocket harmony through this song (or any other)? His abilities are as understated as John Paul Jones' in Led Zeppelin.
This album had a ton of covers and a quite a few VH fans didn’t warm to this album…but I love it! This song it’s great, Dancing in the Street is the best version out there, and the highlight of the album has to be Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now, with Eddie and Alex’s dad, Jan, featuring on the clarinet.
Eddie was always always ALWAYS recording. His studio (5150) has a room lined with tapes of music in various stages that may never be heard. I think it was producer, Ted Templeman, who heard these pieces of things Eddie Recorded and kinda forced Eddie to use them on Diver Down. Dancing In The Streets DEFINITELY was one of those songs on Diver Down. It was originally a idea that Ed had for something else and got, "You know what that would work with?" when Ed played it for him. Ed had other plans for his recordings and that was probably the main reason he didn't like Diver Down that much. His ideas used in cover songs. I'd say that Hang 'Em High is my favorite track on Diver Down. It has attitude and one of the most interesting solos I think Eddie ever recorded.
Roy Orbison originally sang, in 60s. Elvis didn't want Roy to open for him, not because he didn't like him, he said he was a better singer than him..... KD Lang does a great cover of Roy's song Crying. Plus listen to KD Lang cover Hallelujah Live, What vocals...I think she does a duet with Roy, but he was older, voice not a strong.
The intro is called Intruder, but they are designed to be played together. It would have been a crime if you started the song at the track break where Pretty Woman starts. You did it right!
I was waiting for it. 😆
Thank goodness
The intro has never been called Intruder. It's called eruption.
@@laruewatson6881 Its called Intruder....Eruption is on the first album....
@@laruewatson6881 wrong. Eruption is on Van Halen I. Intruder is the intro to Pretty Woman on the Diver Down album. Google is your friend.
@@laruewatson6881 what 💀
Intruder does not mean violating the woman.. it is Eddie's and Alex's bad ass intro
Intruder is just Eddie squeezing sounds out of his guitar. Using beer bottles sliding down the guitar neck, scraping the back springs on the tremolo, string scrapes, harmonics and dive bombs...its basically Eddie playing around exploring sounds. Eddie has always said he likes to make his guitar sound like it's on the edge of actually dying. It's one of the many reasons he was so AWESOME. That being said, I suggest you guys actually watch the real video to this song by VH. It's odd and humorous. It's Van Halen being Van Halen. One of the best American Rock Bands to grace planet earth.
...no arguments...I still miss EVH
Eddie will always be a legend
MTV actually banned their video for Pretty Woman because of the ending.
That video is the best
Always thought Alex van Halen was sort of under rated as a drummer. The guy was phenomenal.
.I agree, but it is hard to get noticed when the lead Guitar player is the most influential of a generation, not to mention the flamboyant DLR...Michael Anthony never really got his due either
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@@raymo6795 I agree completely
@@raymo6795 You gotta be exceptional to be EVH's rythym section....
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I never really saw Eddie play with another drummer, although I know he has( Starfleet project with Brian May), but , obviously, Alex new him well.I think Alex is underrated though, as stated in the original post
Without having lived it,you can not understand the impact Van Halen had on the music world and all our lives when there debut album was released.Thank you to Gene Simmons for bank rolling these guys so they could get into the recording studio.RIP Eddie.
Have you heard the original from Roy Orbison? Yes, it is dated compared to this but it has a charm all its own, and Roy's voice is wonderful.
I, to date, have never heard if Roy himself commented on this version....
This is one of Van Halen's better make out songs....
His voice was otherworldly
@Earl Lemal he was alive when this came out
One of the most covered songs ever, but in my mind this is the version I hear for “Pretty Woman”.
I vividly remember the music video as a very young child. I loved Van Halen immediately. Nobody sounded like Eddie did on guitar. RIP. Even as a 5 or 6 year old, it sounded special on the radio.
It was actually 2 different songs, Intruder and Pretty Woman, but they were usually played together on radio stations.
Another case like that was Van Halen's "Eruption" and "You Really Got Me" from their first album.
I cannot hear Eruption and not start You Really Got Me in my head as soon as it ends.
But don’t you feel like that’s how they made it their own? Obviously no one’s going to compete with Roy’s voice, so they made a little, idk, dangerous.
@@Maipenrai55 Definitely. Like j r said above. It's dissonance for dissonance' sake. Makes it all the more pretty when they transition.
Yes, they did an excellent job with covers!! Their version of "You're No Good"..from Linda Ronstadt's orginal is also great. You Really Got Me is amazing, too. Eruption is all Eddie's original stuff, though, I believe
But Intruder, begins Pretty Women, it doesn’t end before Pretty Women begins.
The intro, called Intruder, was added to the video for Pretty Woman because they needed extra audio to fill up the whole video. BTW Roy Orbison does the same tongue sound in the original
Think of it this way it starts from the beginning of time the beginning was a primal reaction to female and progresses to a modern version of Oh yeah!!!
That's Eddie making those strings beg for mercy. It's bad ass rock n roll..
Instrumental at the beginning is called Intruder, and I can't imagine VH's cover of pretty woman without it.
They made a video for this that is comical, absurd, and would totally not fly today
The video was hysterical, Michael Anthony as a Samaurai, Alex as Tarzan, DLR as George Washington and Eddie as a cowboy who have to save a trans from two dwarfs.🤣
@@jimtatro6550 Eddie was a cowboy lol
They added that intro because the video was too long for the song.
@@kylesommerville3716 yeah, I remembered and edited my comment at the same time you reminded me👍
The classic rock stations around here constantly play this song without the intro and it just makes me boil inside. It makes me wanna call the cops, it should be illegal.
As you may have noticed, the early years of Van Halen featured a LOT of very short songs. To make them a little more interesting Eddie conjoined several of them with solo bits that he had written but that had never developed into full songs. 5 of 6 albums of the early Roth/VH era featured these instrumental intros (Eruption/You Really Got Me on the first album; Spanish Fly/D.O.A. on Van Halen II; Sunday Afternoon in the Park/One Foot Out the Door from Fair Warning; Intruder/Pretty Woman, Cathedral/Secrets, AND Little Guitars/Little Guitars on Diver Down, and; 1984/Jump on 1984.).
totally copying what Tony Iommi did on all the Ozzy involved Sabbath records !!!!!
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Well...they WERE friends, after all. 🤷♂😉
@@fasteddie777666 who cares!!!!!
They were friends and I am sure Eddie admired Tonny and has talents
@@rothed16 who's Tonny ?
An old Roy Orbison song. Van Halen did an excellent job on it. I think they did it back in 1981 or 1982.
1982
I remember going to the corner record store in Philly and buying this album on the day it was released. Awesome! It still sounds great.
Nah, it sucks. All their covers sucked.
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@@MB-oc1nw i didnt like this one thst much but they did you really got me great. Bettrt thsn the kinks version hundred percent.
Killer riffs from Eddie on this cover. Roy Orbison did the same growl.
This album/tour was my first concert when I was in 7th grade. Eddie absolutely blew my doors off and he's been my favorite ever since! Still really miss him 😢
The Original song had that growl in it too!! Timeless song!!
Yes, Van Halen did a great job with covers and making songs their own. Also check out their cover of The Kinks, You Really Got Me (if you haven't already).
And Where Have All the Good Times Gone - on Diver Down.
They kicked ass on Linda ronstadt's "you're no good" VH II
Love Van Halen!!
Jamie’s Crying is a total jam!
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My dad was a huge Roy Orbison fan and used to sing this song in the car. I loved this cover version!
It's two songs but they're always played together. 😎
Intruder is the intro to Pretty Woman but on the CD they are 2 different tracks. I remember on shuffle hearing Intruder by itself and then going on to a completely different song sound so weird!
This is actually two songs...Intruder is the first one (I love playing that beat on my drums) and then at the 1:50 mark Pretty Woman comes in. Many confuse them as one song. A lot of the weird eerie songs in Intruder are Eddie playing the guitar with a beer can.
I remember when this came out just playing Intruder over and over to hear those sounds and saying holy shit how is he making the guitar sound like in it is in sever pain and ready to die. This whole album is a great classic I love Happy Trials at the end of the album I was 15 when this came out.
Mercy !!!!
Damn Lex is always so on it!!!!
I love what VH does to Dancing in the street, can't beat Martha but it's a different updated version. Thanks you two!!!
The intruder was a masterpiece on it's own. The sounds produced were on another level.
I'm enjoying watching all of your Van Halen reactions. I think I've watched four or five so far. My favorite band of the late '70s.
Love their music and harmonies - Dave is baritone, Ed is 2nd tenor, and of course Michael Anthony has that very unique high first tenor. Mike had a lot to do with the VH sound for sure!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You included 'Intruder'!!!! I love how the drum beat Alex has going just continues on into 'Pretty Woman'.
First part was an instrumental jam called Intruder, the second part is the cover.
Favorite band as a kid and still today.
THIS SONG IS ABOUT LEX! PRETTY WOMAN!
Lucky Brad!!!
THIS is THE song that got me addicted to Van Halen...heard it on the radio (1982 I think) went out and bought the "Diver Down" CASSETTE---they've been my favorite by a long shot ever since
SHOULD check out the video that featured all the guys! IT'S FUNNY!...and the intro makes MORE sense with what's going on...VERY sketchy ua-cam.com/video/FWQRDI7mTyw/v-deo.html
Intruder is my favorite song!!! I listen to it every day .
That intro is epic 🤘🤘🎸🎸
You guys are the best. Such good young people and totally into the music. Some of us hear it, some of us feel it too
Definitely updated an oldie into a more modern, rock vibe. A classic with Eddie doing his thing…
A Ray Orbison cover. I think they did the song justice. What you played at the beginning was the instrumental Intruder, a 1:40 minute song.
CLASSIC!!!
I'm glad you included "Intruder" with it. (The Intro)
They probably don’t know it’s 2 separate album tracks.
Love the big O and always loved Diver Down and this straight up cover from VH (plus extended jam at the beginning!).
You guys would love “Little Guitars with Intro” off the same album ! It really shows off how versatile Eddie’s guitar playing was !! Keep those Van Halen Reactions coming !!
That first section is called Intruder and accomplishes, I feel, a very eerie mood. EVH was truly an extraordinarily gifted musician. Electric guitarist PAR EXCELLENCE.
Of course I saw Van Halen play this song live at the L.A sports Arena..great great song
Intruder was the first song I could play on drums that didn't sound like crap. 1985.
Great memory.
Im glad you played the one with that intro. Alex drum intro was awesome
They did a good job making it their way. Great! Thats Rock n Roll for ya! Oh yeah!
Terrific rendition - added VH flavor without minimizing Roy's genius
Hey guys what's up! Greetings from South florida! You have to watch the video to understand the intro. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
A good update of this classic Roy Orbison song.
My dad loved Roy Orbison, so obviously loved the original. His wild child daughter (me) being a teen in the 80s, had a huge obsession with Van Halen. He heard many covers of his 50s and 60s music throughout my teen years - especially since this album was primarily covers. He actually liked this one!
He often shocked me with some of "my" songs he enjoyed. My freshman year of high school MTV was just catching on. I would catch him watching groups like Culture Club. 🤣 When he brought home Prince's "1999" album (for himself), I thought he could not top that one. Yet even until a couple of years before he passed away, he was trying to do the "Stanky Legg" for the grandkids!!
Proof the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I'm almost 20 years older than when he was when he bought "1999", and you cannot find any decade or genre where there isn't music that I love. When you've music in your soul, it's part of your essence. I know that's why I love watching Lex and hearing her descriptions of music. She is definitely a soul sister to MANY of us!
The Van Halen album 'Diver down' (1982) was a bit of a "filler" album... David Lee Roth wanted a batch of covers mixed in w/ original songs. Eddie Van Halen hated that record... he couldn't see the point of recording a bunch of covers that included 'Dancing in the street'.
It was another platinum success and would be followed by the '1984' album (Eddie Van Halen insisted that record be all original songs and 'Jump' would be included) which was a mega hit on MTV and sold 10 million copies.
Ya nailed it. Also my least favorite of the DLR era albums.
It's the ONLY version of Dancing in the Street that rocks - with a kick ass solo. Funny how everyone just accepts that fuckin dreadful mess Jagger/Bowey made of it, just 'cause it's them.
Fantastic Kinks cover Where Have all the Good Times ..... kicks all kinds of ass too!
They were given two weeks by the record company to record a new album, hence its full of covers, though Pretty Woman was a single before the album was recorded.
@@dancarter482 The video for that Bowie/Jagger collab was even worse. Ranks up there with Billy Squier's Rock Me Tonight.
Diver Down is a go to for me so many years later. Great covers and great originals. The Full Bug is killer. Cathedral/Secrets. There's nothing really subpar at all. After the debut, Fair Warning and this record are the ones I lean toward.
The definition of the Intruder going after the Pretty Women as told by Lex gives a whole new outlook to this song.
Hahaha…. you had to love it. You can feel that song 😆 Lex knows she’s a bit of a rock and roller 🤘
This is the version I first heard, lo those many years ago. Didn't hear Roy Orbison's original until the 90's, but I came to appreciate that sound just as much.
If you haven’t listened to “Mean Street”, get you right to the album version! That is one of Van Halen’s early classics, and a killer tune.
One of their best. My favorite.
Yes Mean Street! What a riff that song has!
Fair Warning has some of Ed's BEST guitar work ...
@@dancarter482 Fair Warning has always been my favorite album by VH!
They reacted to Mean street about 5 months ago mate👍👍
I've heard this song a million times but I've never heard that intro. I love it. I'm going to look for it and download it right now. Well, after you guys finish your reaction comments.
Diver Down album 1982 my senior year of High School, 40 years wow!
Van Halen could've made an album of pure cover songs, but deftly sprinkled them among the first 5 albums in the DLR years. 🤘
God bless Lex. She is so insightful.
Van Halen did a few covers which helped introduce those great songs that I might of never heard
What stands out the most to me is that awesome guitar sound. Ground-breaking.
I've honestly never listened to the drums in the intro as intently as I did just now. That shit is actually really awesome.
When EVH comes in with the Pretty Women riff is gold!!!!
The original by Roy Orbison also has the “grrrrr”….
Lex, Love your take on this song!
These guys will always be a favorite 🤟🏻
“Intruder” is the intro/solo for the song, but it was originally written for another song that Eddie was working on. Ed was pissed that it was thrown in for a cover tune & was just 1 more log thrown into the fire for him to build his own studio. Which happened by the next album & he recorded at his own studio (5150) ever since. Diver Down was his least favorite album, due to all the cover tunes … which was the result of Fair Warning not selling quite as well as the previous albums. The record company even released Fair Warning as a double cassette w/ Women And Children First, to boost album sales. But the decision was made by management to do covers of proven hits as the follow up album, since Eddie’s efforts were viewed as “sub par” by their label.
The first part is called intruder to make the song long enough for the video.
This was my first album(actually tape) Christmas 1982. I got it with a boom box. I was 10 don’t know how my parents picked this album out. I can only imagine they asked the kid working at the record store becausei didn’t know of VH. (I’ve always wanted to thank that employee) I’ve been a huge VH fan since. I had all their albums (even a double album of Fair Warning and Women and Children First). I was devastated when DLR left and 1984 was the last album I bought of VH.
1984 JUMP have real good keybords intro was someting new to in the 80's but have to see the P.Woman music video is like at hole movie🎼🎩🎸🎶🎶🎶🤘☮
The beginning is the purist rock and roll openings of all time.
The beginning is an intro, called “Intruder”.
Yes, Intruder is a composition written by Van Halen, and was a prelude to Orbison’s song. Love this whole album, and I have it in the living room stereo cabinet. 🎶🥰 They are two different songs, but most radio stations play them concurrently because the album plays them that way.
This album was an ingrained part of our lives during the summer of 1982. "Take Your Whiskey Home" is Van Halen at the deep track shredding best.
That was from Women and Children First
@@nflr92 nein scheisse Sherlock
@@maxbrazil3712 Then why'd you comment that when "this album" is Diver Down?
I've always dug how VH did this song. Started it out all sinister sounding with edgy guitar and beat then WHAM...changes up to Pretty Woman. They really made this song their own.
When I would show off my drum set to friends, I would play that drum intro for them.
If I remember correctly, they sot the video (their first) while still recording the album and when the video was too late long they wrote the long intro and called it Intruder.
I am sure glad you kept the intro. It's great! And the cover (Pretty Woman) is an amazing song. Roy Orbison, Van Halen, great cover, and a more amazing original!
Inject these VH reviews into my veins. VH, Rush, AC/DC, Priest, Maiden... give em' to me. I'm a junkie.
I recommend Faith No More cover of Easy by the Commodores 👍
Weird Science. Escalator Scene. We all loved it.
How is there no mention of Michael Anthony's pocket harmony through this song (or any other)? His abilities are as understated as John Paul Jones' in Led Zeppelin.
Lex you nailed it with the intro. Watch the actual video. It explains their artistic point of view for their cover
That whole album was great!
Thank you for sharing this with me
One of the many great Van Halen covers that Eddie hated doing, but Diamond Dave lived for.
This album had a ton of covers and a quite a few VH fans didn’t warm to this album…but I love it! This song it’s great, Dancing in the Street is the best version out there, and the highlight of the album has to be Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now, with Eddie and Alex’s dad, Jan, featuring on the clarinet.
That was them giving Eddie space to be creative. :)
Love you guys!
No woman can resist Dave the vocalist and no man can deny Eddie is the man.
Eddie was always always ALWAYS recording. His studio (5150) has a room lined with tapes of music in various stages that may never be heard. I think it was producer, Ted Templeman, who heard these pieces of things Eddie Recorded and kinda forced Eddie to use them on Diver Down. Dancing In The Streets DEFINITELY was one of those songs on Diver Down. It was originally a idea that Ed had for something else and got, "You know what that would work with?" when Ed played it for him. Ed had other plans for his recordings and that was probably the main reason he didn't like Diver Down that much. His ideas used in cover songs. I'd say that Hang 'Em High is my favorite track on Diver Down. It has attitude and one of the most interesting solos I think Eddie ever recorded.
Just like rock music, only with all the good bits taken out.
Roy Orbison also does the “Rrrrrrr” in his version. The only thing that changed was Van Halen made it their own and omitted some lyrics.
The first part ( Intruder) is a different song which leads into Pretty Woman
Roy Orbison originally sang, in 60s.
Elvis didn't want Roy to open for him, not because he didn't like him, he said he was a better singer than him.....
KD Lang does a great cover of Roy's song Crying.
Plus listen to KD Lang cover Hallelujah Live, What vocals...I think she does a duet with Roy, but he was older, voice not a strong.
Track wise it's Intruder then (Oh) Pretty Woman.
love the beginning!!!🤙🤘🤟👍🤞✌👍