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A 45-year-old tape of audio from a Van Halen show at Pasadena High School has surfaced on YouTube. Recorded on April 25, 1975, the tape features the fledgling rockers performing a number of covers, including ZZ Top’s Chevrolet, Deep Purple’s Maybe I’m a Leo, Johnny Winter’s Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo, the James Gang’s Walk Away, and Edgar Winter’s We All Had a Real Good Time.
The band also play one of their own compositions, Live With Fools, which re-surfaced five years later as Fools on Van Halen’s third album, Women And Children First.
While the band had secured a position as the house band at the famed Gazzari’s Club in West Hollywood by 1974, Pasadena – where the Van Halen brothers grew up – was very much the band’s true stamping ground.
In 1978 Eddie Van Halen told Steven Rosen, “What we basically did is we just kept playing the LA area everywhere. We used to put on our own shows at the Pasadena Civic, our home town, and draw like three thousand people on a four-dollar ticket.
“This was way before Warner Brothers. So we just developed such a following that a sister of a friend at the record company heard about us and the word got around about the band.
“Finally, Ted Templeman and [Warner Bros president] Mo Ostin came down to the Starwood in Hollywood, which was really always just kind of a bad place for us because we weren’t a Hollywood band. Pasadena is really where we’re from, and that’s like San Bernardino – that’s like Bumfuck, Iowa.”
Eddie Van Halen is on the cover of the new issue of Metal Hammer, while the new issue of Classic Rock includes a bonus magazine devoted entirely to the late guitarist.
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- Van Halen - Women And Children First - UltraDisc One-Step Super Vinyl - Sealed - US - 2-LP vinyl set - £169.99, $226.09, €198.89 (New Item) (arrived 25-Apr-2025 17:54)on April 28, 2025 at 6:32 am
VAN HALEN Women And Children First (UltraDisc One-Step Super Vinyl pressing limited edition double album 2-LP at 45RPM, an ultra-hi-fi reference recording by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab of their hard-hitting 1980 third album. Loaded with'Works of High-Volume Art' and Eddie Van Halen's Six-String Pyrotechnics: Includes "Everybody Wants Some!!" Pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl and Strictly Limited to 7,500 Copies: Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP Set Plays with Explosive Dynamics. Housed inside a deluxe gold-foil embossed slipcase, it features special foil-stamped jackets and faithful-to-the-original graphics, individually numbered & factory sealed. Recommended)
- Van Halen - (Oh) Pretty Woman - UK - 7" vinyl - £10.00, $13.30, €11.70 (New Item) (arrived 01-Apr-2025 13:54)on April 28, 2025 at 6:32 am
VAN HALEN (Oh) Pretty Woman (1982 UK vinyl 7" single featuring a superb version of the classic track originally recorded by Roy Orbson, also including Happy Trails, picture sleeve K17909)
- Van Halen - Women And Children First - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $15.96, €14.04 (New Item) (arrived 07-Mar-2025 15:43)on April 28, 2025 at 6:32 am
VAN HALEN Women And Children First (1980 UK 9-track vinyl LP , the third studio album by the American hard rock group, including Tora Tora, Loss Of Control & Take Your Whiskey Home. The picture sleeve shows some minor wear from storage and some gloss loss to the front from sticker removal, whilst the vinyl itself displays little evidence of play, therefore remaining Excellent K56793)
- Van Halen - Diver Down + inner - German - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.95, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 11-Mar-2025 11:14)on April 28, 2025 at 6:32 am
VAN HALEN Diver Down (1982 German 11-track vinyl LP, glossy red & white picture sleeve with printed photo inner. The sleeve shows only light edge wear and the vinyl is in Excellent condition, with the odd cosmetic paper scuff and minimal signsof play WBK57003)
- Van Halen - Fair Warning - German - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.95, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 11-Mar-2025 11:20)on April 28, 2025 at 6:32 am
VAN HALEN Fair Warning (1981 German 9-track LP, including Unchained & Mean Street, housed in its glossy picture sleeve complete with the illustrated album credit inner. The sleeve & vinyl remain in superb Excellent conditionWB56899)
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