From Loudersound.
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 - 5150 - Fifty-One-Fifty - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.75, €30.25 (New Item) (arrived 17-Dec-2024 18:00)on December 18, 2024 at 11:45 am
VAN HALEN 5150 (1986 UK/German-pressed 9-track LP, their seventh album & first to be recorded with Sammy Hagar on vocals, complete with the illustrated lyric inner. The glossy picture sleeve shows minimal wear & the vinyl still looks barely played W5150)
- Van Halen - Van Halen - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.05, €18.15 (New Item) (arrived 12-Dec-2024 12:16)on December 18, 2024 at 11:45 am
VAN HALEN Van Halen (1978 UK 11-track LP, the debut album including the singles You Really Got Me, Runnin' With The Devil & that classic riff on Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love', not forgetting On Fire & the tapping guitar revolution of Eruption, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimal shelfwear and a couple of creases, whilst the vinyl appears barely played K56470) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Van Halen - Van Halen - UltraDisc One-Step Super Vinyl - Sealed - US - 2-LP vinyl set - £189.99, $241.29, €229.89 (New Item) (arrived 21-Nov-2024 18:15)on December 18, 2024 at 11:45 am
VAN HALEN Van Halen (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 now legendary 1978 debut album. Experience Van Halen's original blend of raw power, Hollywood flair, and vaudeville fun with reference-setting sonics, this definitive version provides a clear, clean, transparent, balanced, and turn-the-volume-up-to-11 view of an album that birthed entirely new styles. 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) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Van Halen - Women And Children First - UK - vinyl LP - £10.00, $12.70, €12.10 (New Item) (arrived 30-Nov-2024 09:49)on December 18, 2024 at 11:45 am
VAN HALEN Women And Children First (1980 UK 9-track vinyl LP manufactured in Germany for the UK market, the third studio album by the American hard rock group, including Tora Tora, Loss Of Control & Take Your Whiskey Home. The picture sleeve displays minimal shelfwear & the vinyl remains excellent with only light signs of play K56793)
- Van Halen - Women And Children First - UK - vinyl LP - £10.00, $12.70, €12.10 (New Item) (arrived 30-Nov-2024 18:00)on December 18, 2024 at 11:45 am
VAN HALEN Women And Children First (1980 UK 9-track vinyl LP manufactured in Germany for the UK market, the third studio album by the American hard rock group, including Tora Tora, Loss Of Control & Take Your Whiskey Home. The picture sleeve displays minimal shelfwear & the vinyl remains excellent with only light signs of play K56793)
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