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Van Halen- Fair Warning@45- Eddie & Alex Van Halen

Van Halen's April 1981 album "Fair Warning" is easily the band's most overlooked effort in the original David Lee Roth era; the most Eddie Van Halen-dominated album until the mega-hit "1984". 

Van Halen- So This is Love- Oakland- June 1981

Here's Van Halen ripping through the rock rhetorical, "So This is Love?", while playing Oakland in June 1981 on the "Fair Warning" tour. Crank it up!

Van Halen- Fair Warning 45th Anniversary 4-27

"For Fair Warning I watched Ed (Van Halen) being creatively frustrated," Alex Van Halen lamented about Van Halen's April 1981 fourth album. "Ed probably worked harder on the music for that record than anybody had ever seen...almost to the…
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Van Halen II- Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, the late Eddie Van Halen

Van Halen's  1978 debut probably guaranteed their election to the Rock 'n'Roll Hall of Fame on the first ballot. Six years later they even topped that with "1984". Every one of the four Van Halen albums in between, "II" released in March 1979, " Women and Children First", "Fair Warning",  and "Diver Down"  would all sell a million-plus and chart Top 6 on Billboard  album sales. The late Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, & original bass player/background singer Michael Anthony join me In the Studio.