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 - Women And Children First + Poster - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.50, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 27-Mar-2024 14:07)on March 28, 2024 at 9:52 pm
VAN HALEN Women And Children First (1980 UK 9-track LP including a superb bonus 24" x 36" fold-out David Lee Roth poster, picture sleeve. The sleeve has only a little light edge/ringwear and the vinyl remains near 'as new' with little sign ofplay K56793)
- Van Halen - Diver Down - German - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.90, €17.55 (Back In Stock) (arrived 09-Feb-2024 08:10)on March 28, 2024 at 9:52 pm
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 signs of play. WBK57003)
- Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love - Inj - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $10.08, €9.36 (New Item) (arrived 12-Jan-2024 09:40)on March 28, 2024 at 9:52 pm
VAN HALEN Why Can't This Be Love (1986 UK injection moulded 7" vinyl single also including Get Up, housed in a 'straightjacket' picture sleeve. The sleeve displays some light general wear and the vinyl looks barely played W8740)
- Van Halen - MCMLXXXIV - tracklist sticker - German - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.90, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 19-Jan-2024 12:23)on March 28, 2024 at 9:52 pm
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 - Women And Children First + Poster - Shrink - German - vinyl LP - £35.00, $44.10, €40.95 (New Item) (arrived 25-Jan-2024 16:11)on March 28, 2024 at 9:52 pm
VAN HALEN Women And Children First (1980 German 9-track LP, housed in a glossy picture sleeve [still in its original open store shrink] complete with a bonus 24" x 36" fold-out David Lee Roth poster WB56793)
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