Their first album was huge in a time when most music sounded all the same and boring. That era of music was the doldrums of sorts. Van Halen really started something. I had their first two albums. The music was both unique and groundbreaking.
Eddie Van Halen RIP. Dead at age 65
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Their first album was huge in a time when most music sounded all the same and boring. That era of music was the doldrums of sorts. Van Halen really started something. I had their first two albums. The music was both unique and groundbreaking.
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I always loved their music. He certainly had the ear and talent. Hard to find anyone who can play like him.
Fantastic guitarist!! One of a kind. How many new bands today, will be relevant 40 some years from now?
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The Van Halen brothers in The Broken Combs,1964. Their first group?
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I think Eddie Van Halen is probably one of the, if not the best rock guitarist of all time.
And his style spawned MANY other great guitarist......RIP Eddie.
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I hope they release the "vaults" of Van Halen live footage and recordings like the Oakland 1981 songs I posted above, that supposedly exist....
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Another "What makes this song great" fan!
I regret not going to one of the reunion tours now. You think when you're busy, well, I'll catch them next time. One of my co-workers went in 2015-ish I think it was they were in San Antonio? Sometimes there never is a next time.
In 7th grade back in 83/84ish, I told all my friends that I went to the Van Halen concert when they were in town in Portland, Oregon, of course I didn't go, but I really wanted to. I swore I would later, never did, despite owning their entire David Lee Roth catalog of VH albums as well as some of the Sammy Hagar ones eventually.
RIP Eddie!
In 7th grade back in 83/84ish, I told all my friends that I went to the Van Halen concert when they were in town in Portland, Oregon, of course I didn't go, but I really wanted to. I swore I would later, never did, despite owning their entire David Lee Roth catalog of VH albums as well as some of the Sammy Hagar ones eventually.
RIP Eddie!
It's a possibility. You never know what they might find when they do go in.
Van Halen Family Will Search 5150 Vaults for Unreleased Songs
Van Halen manager Irving Azoff revealed that the Van Halen family will look for unreleased music in Eddie Van Halen's 5150 studio vault in October 2020.
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I was stationed in Virginia in 1978 and had tickets to go see Black Sabbath and was pumped up to say the least but this new group Van Halen was backing them up, didn't think much about it but after hearing them my first thought was these guys are going places.
Purchased the debut album due to the cover . Played it and was 
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How would you describe their sound? I’ve heard it called “party rock” and “power pop”.
It was just different. Most music of that time was disco and bubble gum type stuff.
PimTac is right; VH brought high energy hard rock back to the forefront of music.
Their concerts were electric.
I would not call them pop.
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Van Halen definitely had their own sound and is very hard to categorize them. Lots of energy,powerful,yet very melodic.
I agree.
I've heard some say that drinking excessive amounts of alcohol can cause drunkenness and cause car accidents, I say hogwash!
Those people were terrible drivers before consuming a drop of alcohol!
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I think David Lee Roth and Michael Anthony have both stated that several concerts, especially on the WACF (or "Women and Children First, Husbands and Boyfriends Last") Tour, were filmed in their entirety. The three song Oakland 1981 footage was from an entire concert that was filmed beginning to end. There is also supposedly a lot of audio from soundboards on tape...
