Van Halen ; Van Halen Debut Retrospective

GO HERE: http://LouLombardiRocks.com if you love great guitar driven rock from the 70s, 80s, 90s and even today. This is the place to hang out with the coolest fans and musicians ever collected, in one place online! On this week's Loudini Rock & Roll Circus podcast we celebrate the album that changed guitar playing forever. We will give you the inside story of Van Halen's self titled debut. You will learn all about this legendary recording that introduced the world to Eddie Van Halen Topics Discussed: What Happened in 1978 https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1978 https://www.historycentral.com/20th/1978.html This day in Music: https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/ 1. The group recorded the album in just three weeks and most of it was done live with very few overdubs. 2. The cover photos were taken at LA’s Whisky a Go Go 3. David Lee Roth has said Van Halen is his favourite of the band’s records. 4. “Runnin’ with the Devil” has been misinterpreted as satanic. While the band has never said what it really is about, it’s believed to be about what it’s like being a young touring band. 5. “Runnin’ with the Devil” starts with a bunch of car horns. Those horns actually came from the band members’ own cars. They removed the horns and put them in a box, powering them with two car batteries and a foot switch. They were then slowed down in production. Including car horns on a track had been Gene Simmons’ idea. The Kiss bassist produced a demo for Van Halen in 1977. 6. The lyrics to “Runnin’ with the Devil” were inspired by funk band Ohio Players’ song of the same name. 7. The instrumental “Eruption” had been part of Van Halen’s show since at least 1976. 8. “Eruption” introduced Eddie Van Halen’s two-hand tapping technique to the rock world. 9. “Eruption” almost didn’t make it onto the album. Eddie didn’t think it was right for the band but producer Ted Templeman overheard it while the guitarist was rehearsing for a live show. The engineer just happened to be recording so Templeman had it go on the record. 10. While recording “Eruption,” Eddie made a mistake and to this day, whenever he hears it he thinks he could’ve played it better. 11. The band released their cover of The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” because of an encounter Eddie had with a group called Angel. Eddie showed Angel’s drummer a demo of their version of the song and the next day he learned Angel were recording their own cover of it to release before Van Halen’s. VH rushed to get theirs out first. 12. Edd