{"id":3332,"date":"2006-02-26T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2006-02-26T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T00:17:07","slug":"van-halen-van-halen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/van-halen-van-halen\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Halen &#8212; Van Halen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1150\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1150\" title=\"Van Halen -- Van Halen\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/vanhalen.jpg\" alt=\"Van Halen -- Van Halen\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Halen -- Van Halen<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Van Halen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Van Halen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1978<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> ? ?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked Van Halen, but I was too busy trying to be punk rock when their records came out to buy them. I got &#8217;em all now though! My friend Bennie Ingram is above any type of posing and was a huge fan from the get-go. Fortunately, hanging with Bennie (Bobo) kept me clued in.<\/p>\n<p>And when I say &#8220;their records&#8221; I mean the ones when &#8220;Diamond&#8221; David Lee Roth was in the band. I know Hagar was in the band even longer but who cares? Not me. Roth is the <em>only<\/em> front man I can imagine complementing, and competing with, Eddie Van Halen&#8217;s guitar work. Both guys are so good at, and so over the top in what they do it&#8217;s hard to believe the union lasted as long as it did.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had been paying closer attention when this record first hit. I remember riding in the car with my dad when &#8220;Jamie&#8217;s Cryin'&#8221; came on and I said &#8220;I&#8217;ve been hearing a lot of Van Halen lately&#8221; and he replied &#8220;that&#8217;s too bad.&#8221; And my dad is a rocker! I should&#8217;ve known right then that this was something special, and very different. Every song on here is exciting and totally original sounding, even today.<\/p>\n<p>I had a friend, Bill Rogers, who once said that Eddie Van Halen ruined rock guitar for the next decade because <em>everybody<\/em> wanted play like him. Of course, who really could? The guy was a total innovator and the song writing matched the technique. The same can be said for Diamond Dave. Insane showmanship, crazy good voice, and really smart and occassionally smart-assed lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>Dave&#8217;s famous quip that the reason more critics like(d) Elvis Costello than Van Halen is that more critics look like Costello is pure genius, and of course true. I don&#8217;t look like either of them, but if I could choose it would be the high kicking Diamond Dave&#8230; for sure. I&#8217;m finding it difficult to stop writing about them. Just be glad you&#8217;re not in the same room with me right now. Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Van Halen Title: Van Halen Year: 1978 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 10 Owner: Tracy Acquired: ? ? Keeper: Yes I&#8217;ve always liked Van Halen, but I was too busy trying to be punk rock when their records came out to buy them. I got &#8217;em all now though! My friend Bennie Ingram [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,453,457],"tags":[501,724,46,1029,1033],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-record-collection","category-v","tag-501","tag-hard-rock","tag-music","tag-van-halen","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","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=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}