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 - Van Halen II - UltraDisc One-Step Super Vinyl - Sealed - US - 2-LP vinyl set - £169.99, $219.29, €202.29 (New Item) (arrived 17-Jul-2024 11:43)on July 27, 2024 at 1:02 am
VAN HALEN Van Halen II (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 1979 sophomore album. How do you follow up one of the most groundbreaking albums ever made? For Van Halen, the answer was obvious. Treading the same path the band took to stardom on its debut, and upping the fun factor and musicianship, Van Halen II extinguished any possibilities of a sophomore slump. 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 - German - vinyl LP - £12.00, $15.48, €14.28 (New Item) (arrived 10-Jul-2024 15:39)on July 27, 2024 at 1:02 am
VAN HALEN Women And Children First (1980 German 9-track LP, including And The Cradle Will Rock and Could This Be Magic, picture sleeve. The sleeve has only light edgewear and the vinyl shows minimal signs of play WB56793)
- Van Halen - MCMLXXXIV - tracklist sticker - German - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.35, €17.85 (New Item) (arrived 23-Apr-2024 14:42)on July 27, 2024 at 1:02 am
VAN HALEN MCMLXXXIV (1983 German 9-track LP including the classic songs Jump, Panama, Hot For Teacher & I'll Wait, complete with the illustrated inner & uncensored 'cigarette' picture sleeve with angled tracklist sticker on the back in red. The sleeve shows some light scuff marks & the vinyl reveals very little play)
- Van Halen - Top Of The World - Complete - UK - vinyl box set - £150.00, $193.50, €178.50 (New Item) (arrived 24-Apr-2024 17:53)on July 27, 2024 at 1:02 am
VAN HALEN Top Of The World (1991 UK limited edition 4-track 12" vinyl box set, also featuring Why Can't This Be Love, When It's Love & Dreams, housed in a unique picture sleeve & 12" square numbered box and complete with a Bonus Enamel Badge & Logo Sticker. This example remains in an outstanding condition with minimal wear and little to no evidence of play W0066TB)
- Van Halen - Don't Tell Me - Purple Vinyl - UK - 7" vinyl - £20.00, $25.80, €23.80 (New Item) (arrived 10-May-2024 16:27)on July 27, 2024 at 1:02 am
VAN HALEN Don't Tell Me (1995 UK limited edition 7" single pressed on Purple Vinyl, also including Baluchitherium, individually numbered picture sleeve. The sleeve shows light wear, with the vinyl appearing barely played W0280X)
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