Van Halen

[Pandemonium]

after watching a few of the videos of last weeks NY show on youtube, it seems wolfie has gotten much better on bass.... I'm not sayin' he's MA, but he has put some practice in.

Yeah, his playing on "She's The Woman" is pretty sharp.

[JOEinPHX]

far from their best but I was expecting worse than this

Really?

I expected better.

Even a generic song about a woman would have been better than that.

[trevor ayer]

i like the tatoo song .. they always were a pop band and its really a pretty good song .. yup wierd mix but its a relief just to hear something nowhere near as bad as TGEA .. and wolfie is coming along on bass .. he is eddies kid after all .. its just a matter of time before he starts blowing us away .. the video itself is pretty bad .. who is directing these things .. horrible

[Pandemonium]

i like the tatoo song .. they always were a pop band and its really a pretty good song .. yup wierd mix but its a relief just to hear something nowhere near as bad as TGEA .. and wolfie is coming along on bass .. he is eddies kid after all .. its just a matter of time before he starts blowing us away .. the video itself is pretty bad .. who is directing these things .. horrible

Some fan put together this video that's not only better synced between music and video but just a better overall clip:

http://vimeo.com/35173319

[Tyler Durden]

i like the tatoo song .. they always were a pop band and its really a pretty good song .. yup wierd mix but its a relief just to hear something nowhere near as bad as TGEA .. and wolfie is coming along on bass .. he is eddies kid after all .. its just a matter of time before he starts blowing us away .. the video itself is pretty bad .. who is directing these things .. horrible

Some fan put together this video that's not only better synced between music and video but just a better overall clip:

http://vimeo.com/35173319

Nice find. I'm not a VH fan...but this really sells the song.

[Matz]

the song seem to grow on people. When I first heard it I didn't think much of it, now I'm pretty impressed. Apparantly it's doing well on the charts as well. Pretty cool comeback

[SR]

Nice shout to Anthony in that fan vid.

[Tyler Durden]

Nice shout to Anthony in that fan vid.

Yeah, I thought that was cool.

Okay, now someone here make a new video for "End To The Lies" and use some footage from Sonny's interview with Eric.

[trevor ayer]

Nice shout to Anthony in that fan vid.

Yeah, I thought that was cool.

Okay, now someone here make a new video for "End To The Lies" and use some footage from Sonny's interview with Eric.

ok ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp2BI1y1 ... e=youtu.be

[SR]

Nice shout to Anthony in that fan vid.

Yeah, I thought that was cool.

Okay, now someone here make a new video for "End To The Lies" and use some footage from Sonny's interview with Eric.

ok ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp2BI1y1 ... e=youtu.be

Unlistenable

[Tyler Durden]

Nice shout to Anthony in that fan vid.

Yeah, I thought that was cool.

Okay, now someone here make a new video for "End To The Lies" and use some footage from Sonny's interview with Eric.

ok ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp2BI1y1 ... e=youtu.be

Unlistenable

[Pandemonium]

Preview of another new song called "Blood and Fire."



It's actually an update of an old 1984 instrumental song Eddie wrote for the sound track of "the Wild Life."



They should have called the new album "Cleaning Out The Closet."

[Matz]

not feeling 'Blood and Fire'

[Tyler Durden]

not feeling 'Blood and Fire'

I LOVE "Blood and Fire"!

[Pandemonium]

More tracks are out. I looks like Amazon UK fucked up and has several tracks available for download 2 weeks early. This one sounds like an updated "Ice Cream Man:"

[Deconstruction]

New 90 second clips are out of every song, and full versions of Blood & Fire/The Trouble With Never. The album is amazing.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2607563/Van%20H ... amples.zip

[Matz]

it's ok I guess, but we've heard it all before in a higher quality

[SR]

More tracks are out. I looks like Amazon UK fucked up and has several tracks available for download 2 weeks early. This one sounds like an updated "Ice Cream Man:"

[Pandemonium]

The album is excellent, way beyond anything anyone who's been aware of the band's history, especially Eddie's fuckups and decline the past 15 years had any right to expect. Listening to it, it's remarkable to think how it sounds like the logical follow-up to the "1984" album as if all the Hagar and Cherone albums never existed. Most impressive, is I can't think of another band that went almost 30 years before reuniting with their singer and releasing a new studio album that sits comfortably with the best of their original work.

It helps that about 2/3rds of the songs are reworked demos from '76 - '77 but Eddie has been mining his first few year's work through the 80's and 90's anyway, so that's nothing new. What this albums shows, is that even with a David Lee Roth who's vox are more limited than ever, Van Halen still sounds totally unique, even compared to the Hagar era. It's nice to have a Van Halen record with no Hagaresque songs with simple bone headed lyrics that equate sex with food (Poundcake, Good Enough, Up For Breakfast, ad nauseum) or sappy, keyboard driven love songs. What better, is the band actually exhibit energy and enthusiasm and Ed's son actually shows some great chops on bass.

My only complaint is that Roth's vox sometimes sound wincingly weak and obviously recorded apart from the rest of the band. Plus having him mixed dry and up front on most of the songs does him no favors. But the music is just flawless. Welcome back, Eddie.

[trevor ayer]

glad to hear u diggin the new record .. is it out or did u get some leaked version .. i kinda dig tatoo and get frosty so far .. i've never been to gaga over vh like i was for some other bands but i like them enough to be curious every once in a while and the snippets i have heard really do sound like the ole vh i always dug .. never was into hagar altho 5150 still isn't so bad .. its pretty normal to mine old riffs and licks .. i kinda wish janes had done that and put out the proper follow up to ritual with kettle divers suffer city maceo blood rag so what and a couple new tunes .. i am glad vh is out there proving it possible to comeback with a solid effort

[Matz]

you really think it's that good? Hmm, maybe I should give those songs another spin

[Warped]

Well, i listened several times and i don't like it. That Tattoo song is the worst.

[Matz]

I like the Tattoo song the most of what I've heard so far

[Pandemonium]

Van Halen played another "secret show" last night at Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood to about 150 invited guests, mostly music industry toads, friends and various fan website owners. For the hour set, they played a few more new songs as well as including a Brazilian drum and conga line during set closer "Jump."

[JOEinPHX]

Well, when everyone was wondering what they were doing for the last 2 years, i guess the answer for Eddie was "getting fat and old"

I can't believe he goes onstage dressed like that.