#INTRUDER VAN HALEN FULL#

#INTRUDER VAN HALEN FULL#

David Lee Roth said the group could have done any number of Kinks songs since they knew tons of them and played them nightly when they had club gigs.Ĥ-Eddie thought “Cathedral” sounded like a Catholic church organ, so that’s how the song got its name.ĥ-The lyrics to the song “Secrets” came from greeting cards and get-well cards that David bought in Albuquerque, New Mexico that were written in the style of American Indian poetry.Ħ-“The Full Bug” got its title from a saying that originates from killing a cockroach by stepping on it. The network shunning it because in it, two little people appear to molest a woman, who is actually a drag queen.ģ-The album opens with a cover of The Kinks’ “Where Have All the Good Times Gone,” Van Halen’s second time doing a Kinks cover – their first was “You Really Got Me” on their 1978 debut.

The band put together the video for “(Oh) Pretty Woman” but the clip was too long so the band added “Intruder” to put before “(Oh) Pretty Woman” and run at the beginning of the video so the film they made would fit.Ģ-The video for the band’s cover of “(Oh) Pretty Woman” is one of the first to get banned by MTV. I SAY THE CRITICS CAN SUCK IT !! ‘DIVER DOWN’ SPENT OVER A YEAR ON THE CHARTS AND TO DATE HAS SOLD OVER 5 MILLION COPIES.ġ-The instrumental track “Intruder” was written as a kind of filler. I FREAKIN’ LOVE THIS ALBUM, HOWEVER THE CRITIC’S CRAPPED ALL OVER THE BAND BECAUSE IT CONTAINED FIVE COVER SONGS. That’s the first time I ever saw him play.LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 14, 2019- YOU WANNA FEEL OLD !? IT WAS 37 YEARS AGO VAN HALEN RELEASED THEIR 5TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘DIVER DOWN’ And it was just the three guys: Eddie, Mark Stone and Alex And Eddie was doing the singing also. “On the weekends, they would have a few local bands play. “We were just out of high school, and in the city where I lived, they were having a carnival on the field for the school,” recalled Anthony.

We all knew he was ill, but it was a real shock to all of us ”ĭespite all of this, Anthony still has fond memories of his time with EVH, and he discussed the first time he saw the guitar icon play. But Eddie was very private about how ill he was. In response to Roth, Anthony said, “You’d have to really know Dave to kind of understand a comment like that that he would make…And I mean, this would only be my take on it that maybe he’s thinking that he’s the guy you got to come and see play now because he’s waving the Van Halen flag now, which, obviously, Sammy and I will be out there playing Van Halen songs as long as we can. This is not a gainful, sort of ironic ‘Remember how anything was.’ This is how it’s going to be.” not mine to tell it. But want to hear the classics? Want to hear the Van Halen catalog…and ‘Just A Gigolo’ played religiously? This is not a representation. Carry this proudly.’ Van Halen isn’t going to be coming back in the fashion that you know, and that being said, Eddie got his own story to tell.

I’ve been hearing in the band ‘de facto,’ whatever that means. In a September 2019 appearance on Talkin' Rock with Meltdown, Roth said, “I think Van Halen’s finished, and I think this is the next phase. As for the future of Van Halen, David Lee Roth alluded to how he was the face of the band long before Eddie passed away.

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