New Van Halen album/tour with David Lee Roth FINALLY made official

[BrokenVisage]

I have no idea why Fair Warning is so underknown in the Van Halen discography. So many great songs.

Unchained is an epic song obviously, Mean Streets and So This Is Love? were pretty good too, but other than those I didn't really find the album all that good. With all the other albums before then (and several after it IMHO) you couldn't go 2 songs without hearing something that wasn't good enough to be a Top 10 single, Fair Warning just didn't have many "catchy" tunes out of the 9 songs on it and is probably why other albums are recognized more, though I will say that I do hear big VH fans sing its praises when in discussion.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I'd watch them with DLR.

 

[Dedpuhl]

I love hard rock and heavy metal but never got into them. I heard Eddie Trunk talking about VH last night and thought "who cares..."

 

[lowrider69]

Unchained is an epic song obviously, Mean Streets and So This Is Love? were pretty good too, but other than those I didn't really find the album all that good. With all the other albums before then (and several after it IMHO) you couldn't go 2 songs without hearing something that wasn't good enough to be a Top 10 single, Fair Warning just didn't have many "catchy" tunes out of the 9 songs on it and is probably why other albums are recognized more, though I will say that I do hear big VH fans sing its praises when in discussion.

Mean Street, Dirty Movies, Sinner's Swing!, Hear About It Later, Unchained were all great tunes. So This Is Love?, Push Comes To Shove(great guitar work) were good tunes as well. One Foot Out the Door was a weak tune. Maybe they weren't as poppy as their other tunes off other albums but that's why some people loved FW. It was a darker album and Ed's guitar work took a leap forward IMO on it. It's music, it's subjective, some people love that album some don't. I'm one of those VH fans that likes VHII more than VH1.... ducks for cover. Although I'm The One from VH1 is one of my top five VH tunes.

 

[IronWing]

I remember when I was about nine years old peddling down to the arena with my older brother (age 11) so he could buy a Van Halen concert ticket. He told our parents he was staying at a friend's house and he and his friend went and got their eardrums blown out. It is still one of the highlights of his childhood.


P.S. I was joking about Sammy. I don't care for his voice and Van Hagar was just that.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I remember when I was about nine years old peddling down to the arena with my older brother (age 11) so he could buy a Van Halen concert ticket. He told our parents he was staying at a friend's house and he and his friend went and got their eardrums blown out. It is still one of the highlights of his childhood.

P.S. I was joking about Sammy. I don't care for his voice and Van Hagar was just that.

That puts you at about 42 years old maximum. I cannot believe this.

 

[IronWing]

That puts you at about 42 years old maximum. I cannot believe this.

Hmmm, maybe I was a couple years older at the time. I know neither of us was in high school yet. And I am 100% positive there is no way my parents would have let him go to a rock concert. Of course, that was true straight through high school as well. Not because of the music. They went with some friends to see Sha Na Na figuring it would be packed with geezers like themselves (you know, over forty years old, old people) and ended up getting high from all the pot smoke in the air. So they figured any show aimed at the younger crowd could only be worse.

 

[Hugh Jass]

VH sucks.

 

[BUTCH1]

Always loved "Everybody wants some", what a fucking epic rock song..

 

[TrueBlueLS]

Well as long as tickets aren't too outrageous, I'll be at the Detroit show.

 

[Eos]

Well as long as tickets aren't too outrageous, I'll be at the Detroit show.

Looks like $40 to $162. They're on sale this week through Ticketmaster.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Full video of Tattoo

The preview didn't do it justice, much better than I expected.

 

[alkemyst]

 

[mrrman]

Full video of Tattoo

The preview didn't do it justice, much better than I expected.

I heard it today for the 1st time...not bad....not sure if I will go to the concert though

 

[broon]

Who's playing bass? Michael Anthony or Wolfgang Van Halen?

 

[alkemyst]

Did you bother to look at the video?

Michael Anthony is pretty much out for good.

 

[LookBehindYou]

Who's playing bass? Michael Anthony or Wolfgang Van Halen?

Wolfgang

 

[spacejamz]

I love me some VH (both Halen/Hagar) versions and will definitely be at the Dallas show in June...

Tattoo is pretty meh to me though....hopefully there are better songs on the album...

 

[13Gigatons]

boring new song....boring video.....sigh Van Halen is dead.

Oh well...still have the first 4 albums.

 

[shiner]

She's the Woman is actually a song that dates back to 1976 and has never been released.

Follow the link above to hear the new version and the version from 76

 

[jalaram]

Got an email from LiveNation about a presale that starts tomorrow for the Boston show. General public goes on sale the 14th.

I think the AMEX presale has been on since the 10th also.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

The first rack released is usually the best track and if Tatoo is what they consider the best the entire album will be a bust.

A song I expected to hear from Fred Durst in 1998. Its 2012, the lyrics are out of touch - DLR has no crazy high pitched wailing and the guitar riffs are just OK.

 

[alkemyst]

The first rack released is usually the best track and if Tatoo is what they consider the best the entire album will be a bust.

A song I expected to hear from Fred Durst in 1998. Its 2012, the lyrics are out of touch - DLR has no crazy high pitched wailing and the guitar riffs are just OK.

Fred Durst??!?

In reality most critics are saying Tattoo is the closest they have come to the original Van Halen sound before they went more pop.

 

[DaTT]

Should be a drunken shit show

 

[lowrider69]

I think Tattoo is a good tune. Van Halen sounds like Van Halen, they have their own style.

From what I've been reading from people who heard the entire album is that it's very good. Tattoo is a lighter track on the album...supposedly there's heavier material on it.

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