Van Halen- Diver Down 35th Anniversary- Eddie & Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony
Yet by 1982’s “Diver Down” , Van Halen had become a series of contradictions , and are equaled only by Pink Floyd as the longest-running soap opera in rock …(more)
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Van Halen- Fair Warning- Eddie & Alex Van Halen
/in Medium RareThe upside/ downside comparison of Van Halen‘s April 1981 album Fair Warning can probably explain why it is easily the band’s most overlooked effort in the original David Lee Roth era. Pro: Fair Warning is the most Eddie Van Halen-dominated album until the mega-hit 1984. Con: as AllMusic.com‘s Stephen Thomas Erlewine nails it,”Fair Warning was […]
Van Halen-5150 30th Anniversary w/ Eddie & Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsIn 1985,the shock of David Lee Roth’s announcement that he was leaving the lead singer slot of America’s most popular band ,Van Halen, was equaled (but not eclipsed)by the band’s announcement that multi-platinum rocker Sammy Hagar had agreed to fill the role.How did that musical merger happen?…(more)
Van Halen-1984 30th Anniversary-Eddie & Alex Van Halen,Michael Anthony
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsTo truly comprehend just how massively popular this album was, it helps if you actually write it out numerically: 12,000,000 copies of Van Halen‘s sixth album, 1984 , were sold in the U.S. alone in the three decades since it was released. Propelled by Van Halen’s very first #1 hit “Jump”, three million of those […]
Van Halen 35th anniversary-Eddie & Alex Van Halen,David Lee Roth,Michael Anthony
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsThe four original members of Van Halen, guitarist/songwriter Eddie Van Halen, big brother drummer Alex Van Halen, lead singer/lyricist David Lee Roth, and ex-bass player/backing vocalist Michael Anthony are all unanimous in this classic rock interview in their recollections of their unaided efforts before signing their record deal and releasing that now-legendary debut, Van Halen, […]
Montrose 10X10- Sammy Hagar, Ricky Phillips, the late Ronnie Montrose
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock Interviews, sliderClassic rock interviews with the late guitarist Ronnie Montrose, plus original Montrose singer/songwriter Sammy Hagar who takes a personal look back at the first Montrose album, widely cited by members of Van Halen to Def Leppard as the missing link in the evolution of hard rock. That album and the follow-up, Paper Money , have […]
Sammy Hagar-I Never Said Goodbye 30th Anniversary
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsFor over four decades, Sammy Hagar has answered the bell and come out swinging: from co-writing and belting out the songs on that first classic Montrose album in 1973, to a decade of undercard matches night after night as a solo bandleader. Finally breaking through to an arena headliner in the mid-Eighties with million sellers […]
Cream Reunion London May 2005- Eric Clapton, the late Jack Bruce
/in Medium RareOne of the most unlikely reunions in rock history wrapped up May 6 2005 when Cream performed the final of four nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Sammy Hagar- Standing Hampton 35th Anniversary
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsIt is the 35th anniversary of the pivotal album in Sammy Hagar’s long career, “Standing Hampton”…
David Lee Roth- Eat ‘Em and Smile 30th Anniversary
/in Medium RareTo quote David Lee Roth himself in this lengthy 1991 conversation,”You can’t stand what he says but you LOVE the way he says it!” Gregarious, colorfully verbose, but interestingly not prolific as a songwriter, Roth cranked out a number of pop-metal ditties after saying “sayonara” to the biggest American hard rock band, Van Halen, in […]