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Van Halen I released 40 year ago today
Posted on 2/10/18 at 11:35 am
Posted on 2/10/18 at 11:35 am
What were your impressions when you first heard it?
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Posted on 2/10/18 at 12:58 pm to haikarate
Staring at the record player and the album cover in total awe. From beginning to end, like nothing I’d ever heard before.
Posted on 2/10/18 at 1:13 pm to haikarate
Astounding guitarist wasted with an awful lead singer.
Posted on 2/10/18 at 1:41 pm to Telecaster
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Astounding guitarist wasted with an awful lead singer.
Dude...
Posted on 2/10/18 at 2:06 pm to haikarate
It was a game changer at the time. When I first heard "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" I was blown away. It was a huge shift away from the direction American music was headed.
Posted on 2/10/18 at 2:33 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Those guitar riffs...wow.
Was a great time to be a teenager.
Was a great time to be a teenager.
Posted on 2/10/18 at 2:46 pm to haikarate
Upon first listening to the entire LP, I thought it was fantastic and refreshing.
Posted on 2/10/18 at 3:51 pm to Vandyrone
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Staring at the record player and the album cover in total awe
Man no shite. Kept looking at the album cover thinking, 'I want to see them live'
Posted on 2/10/18 at 5:10 pm to Vandyrone
.....and it still sounds fresh as hell.
Posted on 2/11/18 at 11:57 am to 14&Counting
Best album opener?
Van Halen I
ACDC Back in Black
Guns N Roses Appetite
Metallica Battery
Van Halen I
ACDC Back in Black
Guns N Roses Appetite
Metallica Battery
Posted on 2/11/18 at 2:02 pm to PiscesTiger
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Best album opener?
Suite Judy Blue Eyes
Posted on 2/11/18 at 2:49 pm to haikarate
Was amazed at the awesomeness. I wholeheartedly agree with RogerTheShrubber about "Ain't Talkin 'Bout Love". Fantastic.
Posted on 2/11/18 at 2:51 pm to Telecaster
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What were your impressions when you first heard it?
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Astounding guitarist wasted with an awful lead singer.
Yeah? So that was your very first impression? Okay. Sure it was.
Posted on 2/11/18 at 3:35 pm to LSU Jax
Yeah, it was. DLR is as cheesy a singer as I've ever heard. His 'vocals' have repulsed me for forty years.
EVH redefined the electric guitar. They needed a better singer.
EVH redefined the electric guitar. They needed a better singer.
Posted on 2/11/18 at 3:48 pm to Telecaster
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DLR is as cheesy a singer as I've ever heard.
I can understand someone viewing DLR as having a cheesy personality or public image. His vocals being cheesy, though? GTFO
Posted on 2/11/18 at 5:39 pm to haikarate
Some older kids had it on cassette. I had never even heard of VH. One kid's dad had a huge stereo, and they popped it in to show off the system.
Blew me away from the opening. Went and bought it immediately.
Blew me away from the opening. Went and bought it immediately.
Posted on 2/11/18 at 5:40 pm to Twenty 49
Mine was also on cassette.
Posted on 2/11/18 at 6:03 pm to Telecaster
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Yeah, it was. DLR is as cheesy a singer as I've ever heard. His 'vocals' have repulsed me for forty years.
Wtf???
Posted on 2/11/18 at 6:48 pm to haikarate
I remember thinking I had never heard anything like it and realizing it would be huge. It was the most accessible music ever for 12-18 year old boys of that era. Bruh.
Posted on 2/11/18 at 7:11 pm to haikarate
In the late 70's we hung out in the Bonne Carre' Spillway and came across some hippies in a VW van that were stuck in the mud. They were kneeling and praying around the van and we saw this and asked if they needed us to help push them out of the mud.
We got them out of the mud and then they invited us to hang out with them for a few bowls. The were listening to some music that I had never heard previously and it was good.
It turns out that it was an early bootleg Van Halen tape. This must have been summer of '77 as best as I can recall.
We got them out of the mud and then they invited us to hang out with them for a few bowls. The were listening to some music that I had never heard previously and it was good.
It turns out that it was an early bootleg Van Halen tape. This must have been summer of '77 as best as I can recall.
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