Van Halen Album Covers and Questions We May Have Abou them....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002MUQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

This cover just hollers: WARNING! IMPENDING SUCKITUDE!

Haha.

Fun interview, Mr. Deeds. Wonder what he would say these days.

a year and a half ago i found "I'll Wait" in Gimme Gimme records, as an EXTENDED single, which as far as i could tell just meant a longer keyb intro

...pick up where VOA and NSGB left off and ROCK LIKE HELL!! shove some serious wailin down faggit eddie's skinny throat! SAMMY RULES, FUCK EDDIE AND FUCK ROTH!!

...Billy Corgan is a faget with no talent!!! "Those little white lies are gonna come back and haunt you"-Sammy Hagar

...DAMN CJ YOU REALLY DO GIVE DAVE'S NUT A JOB!!!!! UMMMM
WELL THAT MAKE'S A NOTHER DAVID LEE FAGOT ROTH FAN

...I could care less what happens to this band because I definitely won't go to any of their concerts to hear some fagget sing my fav VH songs.

There you go, Ned: Four different posters, four alternate spellings of the pejorative "faggot"! I can only assume they'd have an even harder time spelling your surname properly!

No, I take that back. I love every song on the album equally...as if they were my children.

1) drop dead legs is the best song on 1984.

2) david lee roth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sammy hagar

Ooooooh, I'm not the only one to have noticed this. When the video for "Jump" first debuted on MTV, that part where DLR adlibs was silent. A product of bad video editing, it just showed him yelling into the camera with no sound coming out of his mouth. Later, they dubbed some vocals in there to make that sequence not seem so awkward. So the "mix" that you're talking about is just the regular "Jump" with some crazy yelling tacked on for about two seconds.

I still swear up and down that I saw a version of The Cars' "You Might Think" video where at the end, instead of pulling off his face and a waterfall coming out of his head with the rest of the band rafting out on a bar of soap, Ric Ocasek just put his hand back down and lipsynched half-heartedly the rest of the song before just giving up and smiling as the music played out. RAW VIDEOS!

I really miss this band (i.e. Van Halen with DLR as a going concern).

I'm not a big fan of it though. I'm with the John D ("Panama" & "Hot For Teacher," fuck the rest) crew.

I didn't think it ever was a single, was it?

You need to read Crazy From The Heat NOW.

I'll Wait (4:41) -
"I'll Wait" was a synthesizer-driven song co-written by Van Halen and former Doobie Brother Michael McDonald. Dave and Ted wanted this song kept off the album, but Edward and Donn pushed for it. This song is about the girl wearing men's underwear in a Calvin Klein advertisement. Roth tacked the picture next to his Sony Trinitron TV and wrote the lyrics to her.

1984 (1:07) -
"1984" was Eddie's improvised keyboard introduction to "Jump." It was originally over 30 minutes long and titled by Valerie Bertinelli.

photograph was taken by one of my college professors! there were two lawsuits involved with the image.

the first was between the photog and record label. apparently they never received permission to use it in the first place [a designer ripped it out of some magazine/book and scanned it in]. the second lawsuit involved the family who lived in the destroyed home, who apparently didnt want it plastered all over the world and claimed they never signed release forms. i believe their case was eventually dropped.

maybe not the song "abacab" but definitely that era of genesis.

HAHAHAHA!!! Too true.

Val finally comes back with her judgement: Cut the thing to a minute and call it "1984".

-- Shelly Winters Death Clip (theundergroundhom...), March 8th, 2006.
did van halen do prog-art ?
yeah i meant the sound and chords , not the melody.it sounds like "sarah jane" too.

All I've listened to today is Van Halen; on my second run-through of the DLR6 and nearly ready to start my third. They are just owning my ass. So good.

The little "ooh" right before the first verse in "Hot For Teacher" is perfect. Dave's little exhortations are the key to enlightenment.

Just learned recently that the cover of Fair Warning is actually only a tiny portion of a larger painting:

http://files.posterous.com/burningfp/hepysowelEFjgkllCaGgiAdhHrwwkbonuEDvArnFJwxvGdeuzgsajphrzxDk/media_http1bpblogspotcomwYJ8paHNyGsSowyOUklY3IAAAAAAAABVshQ01wk9sGhks1600WilliamKurelekTheMazeAjpg_auAxBtixIqzpskg.jpg.scaled1000.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=1C9REJR1EMRZ83Q7QRG2&Expires=1264110815&Signature=VYHRDADlUk6r08N73GtP812ztlI%3D

Hmm, yeah, parts of it anyway. The upper left part of the Fair Warning sleeve doesn't match that portion of the painting. Still very cool though.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/they_tried_to_make_us_look_like_the_clash_van_halen

I picked up a vinyl 1984 last weekend with an upside down back cover. Just glanced at discogs, doesn't appear to be a common error (unlike Workingman's Dead). Not valuable or anything at least.