{"id":265,"date":"2006-09-04T23:41:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T03:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2006-09-04T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T03:41:08","slug":"van-halen-diver-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/van-halen-diver-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Halen &#8212; Diver Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1135\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1135\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1135\" title=\"Van Halen -- Diver Down\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/vanhalendiverdown.jpg\" alt=\"Van Halen -- Diver Down\" width=\"500\" height=\"1500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Halen -- Diver Down<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Van Halen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Diver Down<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1982<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> Used. Can remember when or where&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the fifth Van Halen record, and at least the third time I&#8217;ve mentioned how cool there were because they performed covers on their records. Name another multi-platinum selling hard rock group that did this on a regular basis. It was a tradition that mostly died in the 1960s, when bands were covering even comtemporary hits. On &#8220;Diver Down&#8221; they might&#8217;ve gone over the top. There are <em>five<\/em> covers here, and from all types of music and periods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where Have All The Good Times Gone&#8221; by The Kinks is my favorite cover, and maybe my favorite song on the album. I&#8217;ve always loved The Kinks. &#8220;Diver Down&#8221; was a rush job and that&#8217;s probably why there are so many covers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicvanhalen.com\/albums_dd.shtml\">ClassicVanHalen.com explains the whole sitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Van Halen Title: Diver Down Year: 1982 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 7 Owner: Tracy Acquired: Used. Can remember when or where&#8230; This is the fifth Van Halen record, and at least the third time I&#8217;ve mentioned how cool there were because they performed covers on their records. Name another multi-platinum selling hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,453,457],"tags":[506,724,46,1029,1033],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-record-collection","category-v","tag-506","tag-hard-rock","tag-music","tag-van-halen","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}