Van Halen - Pasadena 1975
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- Опубликовано: 26 янв 2025
- Van Halen
Pasadena Hilton
Pasadena, CA
1975-06-13
00:02 Intro David Lee Roth Talking
01:05 If You Can't Rock Me (The Rolling Stones)
03:10 The Jean Genie (David Bowie)
08:44 Woman In Love (Unreleased Original)
13:30 Rock Steady (Bad Company)
19:50 Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo (Rick Derringer)
27:47 The Fool And Me (Robin Trower)
32:43 Keep Playin' That Rock 'N Roll (Edgar Winter)
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im 63, and every band member was integral to making these guys legends
I'm 63 also saw the original band play at the Cumberland county Civic center in Portland Maine in 1982general admission total mayhem right up front my ears are still ringing Dave was smoking joints we all threw up on the stage and the band was guzzling jack Daniels it was real he was pouring it all over us up front Michael had a jack Daniels bass spinning in circles on the floor playing Eddie was amazing alex hammering away and Diamond Dave wailing away like a banshee once in a. Life time I still talk about it to this day RIP Eddie we all loved you I'm a true Maniac I was born in York Maine ye haww can't get here from there rock on everyone peace out man !!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I’m 64 and I agree. I get tired of the “Dave or Sammy? Stuff. They were both perfect for their time. This band blew me away in 1978 in my senior year of high school, so I’m kind of a Dave guy, but loved Sammy.
I went to so many garage parties with Van Halen in the Day. I grew up in Pasadena and I was lucky to see these guys before they made it big.
cool...lucky you for sure.
You asshole!
Hahaha
How cool that was …..
Awesome- are any places still around where you saw them? Any cool stories? I’d like to time travel with you 👍
Without each individual member van halen never would have been VAN HALEN.
Yeah they were advised more than once to get rid of Dave......Ted Templeman seems to have figured out how to make Dave into Diamond Dave, looking back........... you absolutely have to have Dave to be Van Halen.
But Thanks to Dave , He named the band !
I wish I would have kept the Fliers given out for the party gigs back when I was at Mark Kepple high back in 76 !
No doubt
I used to go to Gazarri's at the time they were pretty much the resident house band. First time I saw them, I turned to my friends and said "this is the next huge band," and I was right. I was in the third row for their very first official concert at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Eddie had all his effects in a hollowed out bomb shell with a little door on it. He kept it shut so people couldn't see his settings. He also played certain lines with his back to the audience. Great times with my very dear friends.
That sounds amazing. You're extremely lucky! Thanks for posting your memories.
@@chrisb8655 I was lucky, and in the right place at the right time. At Gazzari's, they were pretty much a cover band, playing songs like "I Shot The Sheriff," which I hate to "The Rover" by Led Zep, which Eddie nailed both parts on the guitar lines at the same time. He was literally playing it better than Jimmy Page. Glad you liked my memories. That means a lot.
@@chadbennett7873 You're welcome.. Eddie was just incredible, and the whole band was tight. Did you ever see George Lynch's bands or Quiet Riot? Thanks again for posting.
Grateful to whoever hit the RECORD button here, 45 years ago.
It sounds like a soundboard. The mix is too clear for this to be a regular amateur recording.
The Fool and Me sounds great
Yes it is a soundboard !!
Im the alpha and the omega for this show,im the motherfucker who first put it to CD out of Italy (legal at the time ) way back in 1994 on a title 77+plus 76 on babyface records ,i got 10 free copies !!!,later in my career at unreleased gem would command 75 cds in advance,and 75 free finished cds not cdrs.The first part of the cd was the infamous 10 song demo,shopped around without much interest(?!),even kiss manager bill passed on them.
I could only go by what was written on the tape i got in trade for the date,sorry i was off .
Now the hilton show was soundboard jack mono,but fairly well mixed except the drums are a bit low.my tape trader filled out the end of the demo tape with this show .Eddie is on fire here,playing better than the original guitar Gods -Trower,Derringer,Richards,Ronson ,all at 19 !!
If anyone has an alternate source please share it,check for cuts in the tape to match mine
All copies ive heard on the 100s of cdrs came from my tape directly,cause my tapes had cuts in many spots.
may God bless Eddie,he was second only to hendrix,way above Page,Clapton,etc.
Ive been sick with the big c myself ,im being seeing eddie soon
@@patrickalloyssius9138 great material
@@patrickalloyssius9138 awesome stuff Patrick! awesome you were there at the beginnning. Thank you!
Dave is a flamboyant extrovert. That band needed that chemistry to be on fire. They had a good run.
cherylb2008 Yeah but back in the day when they would play at clubs and parties a lot of people didn’t like him because he was so arrogant. I remember back then when I lived in Huntington Beach California people making comments about his personality
@@texasgina It is called confidence
Yes. Dave kinda Made Van Halen, although I found Him way to self centered off stage. Very arrogant! VERY VERY!!
@@texasgina OMG I WAS GONNA SAME THE EXACT SAME THING! IT WAS A TURN OFF! I saw them at The Cars of Stars n Cypress College in 76! Before thet were famous. They used to hand out flyers to their shows. Oh the 70's! Oh the parties! 300 to 500 strong. At least 5 a night. Yards would be trampled n muddy!
@Steven Turner
Plus he had a PA
Michael Anthony was the heartbeat of Van Halen. His bass and vocals held it all together. The unsung hero of vital importance.
Yes he was a major facet to the band.
Anthony was the Al Jardine of Van Halen.
Pint-sized whiskey sipping bass player!
Saw VH when Gary Cerone (sp) was with them, after the first two songs Gary was nearly booed off stage. VH realized the crowd wasn't into him, next thing I know... Gary is gone and Michael Anthony took the main mic to finish what then became an enjoyable show.
Absolutely one of, if not THE, greatest bass players and background vocalists of all time. He’s mesmerizing. The other members basically pale in comparison to his untouchable skill and talent. The great Michael Anthony. What would Van Halen be without him? Would they have even been signed? I doubt it. Where could they have found another bass player that could compare?
Putting the myth that Roth wasn’t too good in the early days to rest. He’s on point the whole time and his raps and interaction with the crowd is brilliant even in these early years.
Agree, his banter with the audience was epic! It really added to the live shows.
Totally agree!! Diamond dave is the man , even in these early days with his surfer dude accent.
I mean he was what ... 20 years old at this time !? I sure as hell hope he was good at some point in his career lol . He wasnt very good vocally for the majority of his career. Plain and simple .
@@j2martnz348 plain and simple, you're clueless! Go listen to bon jovi
@@alspencer3826 Lmao ...yeah I'm clueless because I'm being objective in saying DLR has never been a good singer in a live setting .
The signature earmark of an up and coming arena rock band (in their infancy) is their ability to make cover songs their own and more interesting than the original. Throw in a diamond studded singer and the greatest guitar player known to mankind and there was never a doubt Van Halen would become an American rock classic band! This recording is priceless! Thanks for sharing! Long live VH
Wow, would be awesome for Alex, Michael, Wolf, Dave...mainly Alex & Wolf...❤😢
Eddie was just 20 years old...his sound was still evolving. Dave, on the other hand, was already there.
Yea he sucked then as well
Where not? Lol someone hates Dave
@@wherenot2236 Bands with awesome guitarists but without a capable front man go nowhere.
Saw them as mammoth. Dave sucked then too. No talent.
@@jeffwisener1378 Yeah he sucked so bad they sold tens of millions of records. Get the fuck out of here.
Dave was always the entertainer especially in the beginning way underrated for his contribution to the band
Dave is the man!
I had the privilege of seeing them I was there at this performance even then I felt they were special ! RIP brother EDDIE !
Please share some insight and background as to the the night, the gig, the crowd, the "other" band(s) that played...etc......any info you can share would be a treat and appreciated....
@@richrojo2010 / well they were great sounding & entertaining it was so long ago that I can not remember alot of details I am now 64 when this event happened I was 18 .
@@harrynelsonjr3921
So it was at the Pasadena Hilton? Yeah i hear ya...im 55 and its hard to remember things now and then. Lol
It must had been a small room? Sounds like maybe 50 people were there? Probably a ballroom or something. Do you think the still pictures they show throughout the "video" are from that show? Any info you could remember and share would be awesome!!! Thx!
@@richrojo2010 Well as far as pictures go I have not seen them since I left home in 1976 however I will look for them and if they are found i will put the on this sight . All I can remember is that it was in a garage or Hall of some sourt it was so long ago Eddie's style that he played I had never Hurd ! In till then ! Because of him I do hammer on,s on my guitar as well he was a great ASS kicking gutairest ! a gutairest gutairest !
@@harrynelsonjr3921
Cool...yeah, they put pictures in the "video", which is basically an audio only of the show. Several times DLR mentions that they are at the Hilton in Pasedena. They did play alot of backyard parties around that time also..so maybe it was another show you were at and mixed them all together? Im just curious about what that show was like. A few others have said they were there, but nobody has given us any exact details about the show. Its an amazing piece, regardless! Yeah perhaps if you have some pictures that you took and they match the pictures in the video on RUclips, it may jog your memory...or at least well know if the pictures in the video are actually from that performance. Some pictures look similar, while others look like a differant venue all together. I doubt the Pasedena Hilton had a huge theater. Again, probably just one of the ballrooms were used for this performance..thanks again for responding. Appreciate it!!!
A 19-year old should not be able to play like this in any universe! EVH, truly amazing and a once in a once in a century singularity of man and music!
Should have heard me at age 11 , lol??? A lot better but EVH was a great guitar player !!!
@@docholidayoutlaws104 hur dur
To be fair . No young person shouod be as good an MC and front man as DLR here either . Most musicians have squat for banter . Dave could actually sing a little here but he is more comfortable being master of ceremonies and trying to get people to have fun and ultimately trying to get people to have sex you could see why people would want to go see them / him considering you go to all these types of things with the hopes of a good time and meeting and hooking up with somebody . The show / music is important and enjoyable but all just the back set for reason to get loose and Dave is encouraging people to bump ass . He actually sounds sincere and before he became a kind of parody of himself game show host . He reminds me of some Jewish friends older sister who was kinda pretty which turns out makes for a good looking man somehow, how would you guess ? Minus the recording quality it's a neat look back . VH was just soo BIG , NEW and different despite having hits with some standard covers .
The music managed to be fun and party music but appeal to people who wanted a gunslinger face melter guitarist , or liked black sabbath and all kinds of music . Van Halen was also PERFECT FOR M TV . Dave selling the full on idk or give a fuck attitude and California vibe and his shtick worked really well and then the videos with Eddie just killing it also looking like somebodies sister and his stage moves , stances for playing runs and jumps etc and SMILE , came across great on the new format . It's for young people and Van Halen represented LIBIDO as a band and FUN . That's what people want . That and all the dudes had a legitimate guitar hero so they need not feel bad about liking something CHICKS LIKED and so you could go to a show and find women all horned up by the vibe and still get a face melt from Eddie .
@@RandyJM21 I totally agree! Dave was a beast! Who cares if could sing. He was a vibe, was more than talented enough as a vocalist, and contributed to the ultimate on stage chemistry regardless of what happened backstage. Incredible stuff!
Graduated from LaCanada high school in 1970 . After the army I was sitting in Oak grove park, across from the high school with my future wife. Eddie and the boys were playing in the park sucking power from his dads motor home. AWSOME! That was 1974 or 5
I’ve always given DLR a hard time over the years but I gotta give credit where it’s due. His command of the stage and the audience is the most impressive part the whole thing here. He is totally at home and an absolute natural talking to the crowd and getting the band thru the rough spots. Not the easiest thing in the world to do sometimes
He sounded even gayer here than he does now. I don'y know what you are listening to.
Que the Sammy Hagar fans and the people who will respond with the predictable Jim Dandy comments
The front man’s up front, that’s where he oughta be-Ben Vaughn
No, my singer could have taken tons of lessons from DLR
@@christopherwood2290 What the hell does that have to do with anything you assclown?
Damn, Eddie at 20 is already playing at a level most can't reach in a lifetime of playing. Really great to hear. A Mozart of the guitar!
Steve Lukather and Eddie van Halen both supertalented guitar gods. Love the fact they knew eachother well and played/recorded with eachother.
All he’s doing is riding bar chords with effect boards and has the shit turned up! Eddie was over hyped by white media, muddy waters played circles around him and so does Ernie Isley, but their skin has color so they get ignored, Jeff Beck was 10 times better than Eddie!
Holy shit. Lifelong VH fan and never heard this. Like being there. You also realize how much Dave and Mike keep the show alive.
I love this stuff. Now that EVH has left us, I still get deeper and deeper into my love and respect for his talent and innovation.
Boy Howdy !
They're right here HS
You sound like a sappy Harlequin romance novel.
@@cattnipp I would not know how those sound - but it seems you are quite knowledgeable in the ways of sappy romance novels- leads to more questions, but we'll stop there for now 🙂
He didn’t invent shit! Name it?? What he did was try to imitate Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Beck, and Muddy Waters… and they fucked up Bad Company’s song!
" i didn't become a rock star so I can behave this way...I am this way so rock star is all I could be" DLR
Also worked as a paramedic.
@@fishfire_2999 I heard about that, and I have respect for DLR. That's a way to keep one down to earth.
@@fishfire_2999 I thought he was only an emt
Another great David Lee Roth Quote "Sammy throws a party ...I am the Party"!
WOW. Cool how Dave would try and get the crowd to dance as he called em out for just standing around, yet no one tried to boo him off stage or said fuck off to him. Born to be a Master of Ceremonies and sing. These guys are awesome and worked their way to success. Thanks for making this available. Thank God for putting all four of them on this planet
Nobody listened they just kept standing around
@@KeithPorter07 You were there?
Yeah! 5:15 Eddie's solo in The Jean Genie is unbelievable! Way ahead of his time.
Omg that’s amazing!!
He knows Kung Fu!
Damn that is sick!
@@maineumphreak4630 He got Kung Fu Mate! He go CHOP CHOP HI YA! on guitar that is..
Yes that solo was way outside, energetic, spacey and very amazing. I never heard ANYONE solo on a song like that in that fashion! More than anything, it is psychedelic. It also seemed to outside the key not only in a very psychedelic way, but an also jazzy fusion, high energy modality. I think the jazz improv classes those of us took specifically at that time in history while we were at Pasadena City College with Gary Foster, Bobby Bradford and Truman Fisher helped many of us guitarists and bass players in the area become real musicians, instead of self-taught blues scale parrots. lol.
I remember seeing Michael Anthony (Mike Soboleski) walking out of jazz improv 141 while I was coming into the bungalow for my jazz improv class. Mike was a very nice guy and quite humble I think even now as far as I can see.
It always amazes me with youtube, that stuff like this will show up....rare gems...Great upload.
Yeah really.
No doubt!
Excellent stuff
I got one myself I need to upload.
Well put
David had the personality in the early days to make the band memorial. Eddie and Alex truly owe him a lot in their early days with him carrying the band until all four were solid and confident
And they still owed him until the day he left. DLR was Van Halen!
@@krackamann2152 Respectfully disagree. Van Halen wouldn't be Van Halen without EVH. And IMO, Sammy Haggar was and is a better vocalist than DLR ever thought of being. But that's just my opinion.
@@bretttrommler756You don’t know the history of the band too well then.
@@nomandad2000 I grew up with VH. What does history have to do with it? SH was better than DLR and that's all there is to it. Now did VH do some amazing music with DLR? Of course! But for me, the vast majority of the success of that music was because of EVH. I mean, think about it. How many guys wanna play guitar just like Eddie? Uh huh, exactly. So then, how many guys wanna sing just like DLR?
@@bretttrommler756 DLR was a much better frontman than SH, by far. Sammy was able to sing better for a longer period of time though.
True story. I was at this show and talked with Ed afterwards. He was a good guy
Tell us more Mike!!!
I was there too!! Me and DLR snorted some coke then hit the Snake Room and got laid!!!
I was there. You weren't there.
Details please. That is so cool- it’s like talkin to Mozart- I gotta know more
Don't leave us hanging!
Definitely a cassette recording placed at the sound board, very cool! Roth was born to be a front man!
A chick stance DLR
In the end he turns out to be g a y ...who knew ?
@@nickmalone3143 For a gay man, he sure banged a lot of hot chicks who wouldn't have given you the time of day.
LMAO....Roth sounds like Spicolli !!!!!!!! Which is perfect for 75'
Or Spicoli sounds like DLR since the movie came later.
I grew in SO Cal in the 70's and everybody sounded like Spicolli LOL no shit didnt change till the 80's
"Get up and dance, Mr. Hand."
Tbe guys a FUCKING Genius! Go listen to him for 3 hours on the Joe Rogan Experience! Phenomenal Dude!
He sounds nothing like *Spicoli. You're an idiot. He references West Side Story.
Born in Pasadena , I'm 70 now. Some great LSD+ van Halen times.
I can’t believe I’m listening to VH roughly three years before there first album................and they sound this good! WOW
Dave had stage presence even then and WHOA Eddie was amazing so early on, you would think that both would have had to mature but they were both ready for the big time even then. Quite a gem of a find this recording is.
Man these guys should have made it big
They did.
They had potential
😂
They were the best even at this stage 🎉
😂
Can’t believe Eddy’s gone. I guess I just thought he’d always be around (like a national treasure). He’ll live on in our hearts! RIP man.
He had such a "peter pan" youthfulness it's hard to believe he'd ever die.
Every time I saw them live I always thought of him as this force of nature and he was always so damn happy on stage I guess I just never thought about him ever getting sick it just wasn’t something that entered my mind. We love you Eddie.
I just want to thank God for allowing Eddie to ever exist! He was an excellent musician! May he rest in peace.
20-21 yrs old and Dave already has that swagger sound
Dude, those early harmonies of Michael and Eddie, Alex choppin’ wood like a chipmunk on crack, Dave pimpin’ the schmooze and screams and Eddies riffs, Michael’s thumpin’ bass runs...man I was NOT IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME. THANKS FOR PUTTING THIS OUT FOR EVERYONE
Eddies talent was undeniable, his signature brown sound and fingerboard wizardry grabbed your soul..
The moving fingerboard. Yes sir.
@Kal El Hair helmets WERE the 70's! LOL
God, Eddie certainly hadn't found himself on the guitar yet. Out of tune bad. He was only 20. (No disrespect intended)
@@mandanglelow1442Of course, nobody denies that, guitarist also understand that a signature style and tone takes time to develop, its a long bumpy road to perfection. Once Eddie found it, he took it to the highest level possible..
@@precbsfender Yes I'm a player and understand. I was commenting more on how badly the guitar was out of tune in the beginning.
Wow Dave sounds amazing already..
My thoughts exactly. 21 years old and in FULL COMMAND and demonstrating an amazingly genuine rapport with the audience, and so self depracating (payin' dues, payin' dues lol gotta love the truth in that).
I never thought he sounded amazing. Hes frequently off key and talks more than he sings. He was a showman and apparantly that's what was needed at the time.
@@Ali-yh9qi All the times I saw him (sometimes back to back concerts three nights in a row) he was on-key. One of those times was at the conclusion of their last US tour before they left for Europe.
Sounds like you weren't as fortunate to have a similar experiences at the live shows you attended.
@@Ali-yh9qi Guy can't sing at all. Listen to the isolated vocals of " Running with the Devil "
He was charismatic, that's about it.
EVH's playing blows me away time and time again. Ferocious and joyous.
This is great. They were my 1st concert but that wasn’t until October 1979. I was 15 & the great thing about it for me was I got a 6th row floor seat for $40 right in front of Eddie. I was in shock at what I was witnessing. 1st concert or not, they were not messing around that night. It was at The Forum in So.Cal. Home turf & they were there to make a statement & they were just unbelievable. I just couldn’t believe what Eddie was doing on his guitar. He was playing the Black & Yellow striped one. He just blew me away. Saw them again in 1980, 15th row floor seats, $35 each, Jesus, again in 82 & at the US 83 festival. I have seen so many bands live it’s ridiculous & I can still honestly say that even 40 years later, that 1st time I saw them is most definitely 1 of the best live shows I have ever seen. They all just kicked ass that night. It was just in your face, rock n roll let’s friggin party tonight & it was just that. I obviously still remember bits & pieces of it. Very high energy. I loved it !
VH🤘🎸
Love your post very positive and chew message I listen to this whole show and I'm a black guy I loved it
Hello US Festival 83 alumni. We were part of history. Triumph, Priest and Scorpions ruled the day. Dave was a little too drunk, unfortunately, but it was still a good time. 🍻
@@quintbromley2112 Were those bands "big" in the States at that time? Did you know of them before the show? Triumph I think, won the day.
@@therapist6328 They were all popular in the states. Triumph was amazing, yes, as were Priest and Scorpions. Those were the three best bands of the day. The Triumph set is on DVD. Priest is on RUclips, and some of the Scorpions as well. 🍻
80 and 81 here...with VIP backstage passes as my friend's family business advertised on KDKB in Phoenix so we got the VIP passes. I literally hung out with the band on a couch after the show...and there WAS M&Ms in a big bowl with the brown ones removed. (PS, Eddie and Alex were drunk jerks while david was sober and nice)
Are you kidding me?! Eddie playing Trower? WOW. This so AWESOME. What a gem of a recording; i.e. covers of Bad Company's "Rock Steady", Derringer's "Rock-n-Roll Hoochie Koo" and Trower's "the Fool and Me" and Edgar Winter. AMAZING.
Oh Fuck yeah! Some great guitar rock music.
I have never been a huge Van Halen fanboy but I do love a hard rock electric guitar. I have to say that Van Halen pretty much helped save electric guitar hard rock during the 80's
@@southboundsuarez9832 When it comes to 80's metal guitar, Michael Schenker (UFO) laid the foundation but EVH built the house by taking things like finger taps and the Floyd Rose locking tremelo to an insane level (you could add Randy Rhodes in there as well). If you listen to British metal bands like Iron Maiden, Def Leppard etc. it's Schenker's licks that PERMEATE all of their guitar solos. That's because they were all watching UFO concerts in England in the 70's absorbing Schenker's brilliant work. Glenn Tipton is the exception because he was already well established as a metal guitarist by the late 70's.
@@GTX1123 Don't forget Ulrich Roth's work with the Scorpions. All those wild whammy bends, and great licks. I think most of the big name LA metal guitar guys were into him. I think EVH was into Ulrich Roth as well. As for Michael Schenker, agreed. He laid a lot of groundwork for what happened later on, too.
@@chriscampbell9191 Uli was great but was a bit more psychedelic / "Hendrixy" in his style. I am by no means knocking that because other great guitarists of the time were as well (Robin Trower & Frank Marino). What really sets Schenker apart is how his obsession with originality blazed a trail that became foundational to 80's metal. IMO UFO's "Force It" album was his finest work in riff creation and soloing.
@@GTX1123 I was referring, I guess, more to the whammy bar use. No one else was doing it like Ulrich Roth -- like say in Drifting Sun. Guys were using their tremolo bars, yeah (Blackmore is an example of that), but not as extreme as Ulrich Roth did, until Eddie Van Halen hit the scene. And the other LA metal guys, like Warren DiMartini, stated that they were really into Roth, too. No real argument here on Schenker.
In 1975 and 20 yrs old, you can hear the talent that propelled these guys to stardom and I can imagine the "talent scout" from Warner Bros. who heard these guys for the first time. He probably couldn't get them signed fast enough. DLR was a great vocalist and frontman. Michael Anthony's harmonies were classic to the VH sound and Eddie was one of the greatest guitarist ever. Four guys who worked well together. Good stuff.
Dave's interactions with the crowd didn't change a bit. The guy was exactly the same at 21 haha
The only difference is he could actually sing well back then.
The guy always gets slammed but I think he was the secret to their success. Go check him out on the 3 hour Joe Rogan Podcast. What a Humble Fucking Dude!!
Whatever his personality, his singing was just incredible for "the garage band" that they were back then. I heard a lot of startup rock bands in my life and none of them sounded like that guy
@Steven Turner DLR was a health freak...He didn't drink or smoke!!
Dave was starting his flamboyant style right here no doubt . He's only 20 or 21 years old at this point and that makes it more amazing especially Eddie shredding like a veteran already 🤙 #RIPEddieVanHalen
That was the best version of Rock Steady I’ve ever heard!!! The solo and the tone for 1975! They should’ve recorded that one for a album!
Lee Roth voice is rocking class
I love VH, but, nope. It sounds like an average garage band version and DLR Vocals vs Paul Rodgers are sub par at best. It's just not VH's style.
Great Robin Trower cover by Eddie!
Dave Roth. The Great Rock'N'Roll Salesman. It's easy to see here how integral he was to the band's success. Ed used to say that they were with him because he owned a P.A. system. Dave was more than that.
I remember being in high school english class. My friend was in printing shop the class before. She came in and started handing out black and white copies of an enlarged pic of David Lee Roth to all the girls and said check this band out; it's called Van Halen and this is the lead singer David Lee Roth. He was gorgeous! That was my introduction to the band and i will never forget it. Van Halen would not have been Van Halen without him!
Oh yea, my Sister and her friends were in love with DLR and EVH. She was responsible for introducing me to Van Halen!
Dave really is channeling Jim Dandy of Black oak Arkansas :-)
DLR wasn't just a front man, he was the lyricist and melody writer. Without him, there is no Running with the Devil, etc. etc. Eddie would have made a name for himself as a guitar player, but without DLR, there is no Van Halen.
Van Halen was a Big Mac and Dave was the special sauce. Without him they were just another hamburger.
This stuff is just the best. I absolutely love the old Van Halen shows. Gosh this is ferocious.
All original members played at my “welcome freshman” dance in la Canada as “Mammoth” back in 1975. I clearly remember the girls didn’t like most of the hard stuff and I remember the guys passing a bottle of jack behind the huge stack of marshal amps on their break. Not long after that I saw them as Van Halen at the Long Beach Arena with my sister. Good old days. 👍 Edward? Thank you.
So that’s where Wolfgang VH got his name for his band, got it.
la Canada? did you happen to know Susan Murray who lived on Starlight crest drive? when i flew from Toronto to visit her in 1984 i happened to see DLR at LAX, and asked him for an autograph..he was very kind to me...
I was at one of these back yard jams and I could see greatness in the making I knew these guys would make it big 😮.
Smokin' That Jean Genie would make Mick turn his head! R.I.P. to the axe master! Also It's sweet to hear Dave sound so great here.
Aestro Ai "Jean Genie " was composed by David Bowie/Mick Ronson in 1973 for Aladdin Sane, the follow-up 2 the smash The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
Did you mean Mick Ronson would turn his head?
his vocals were brilliant!
They were very raw and primitive. It's incredible that only 2 years after they made VH1 !!!
R.I.P. EVH
Gotta give some credit to Ted Templeman. He added the polish to their early albums.
@Spermwhale1000 Yes, overall for evh guitar. Eruption , I'm the one and other songs were revolutionary at that time.
@Spermwhale1000 It's more romantic , but evh was famous for other songs.
@@bakstabbath Yeah, Eddie got tired of arguing with him, but I suspect that without Ted, there’s a good chance that Van Halen would be known as a great LA-area band that never quite made it to the national stage. (I could be wrong, too-just talking here. . . .)
Thanks be it that this recording exists what a true treasure to have this available for all to hear. “keep playing that r-n-r”
I grew up in Huntington Beach California and back in 1978 I think it was one of my neighbors dated Eddie Van Halen for a very short time her name is Trudy and she was a really pretty blonde young lady I remember that’s the first time I ever heard about Van Halen she was talking about them playing at a party and then I started buying their records
Gina B that’s a cool human intersection!
I herd the exact sam estory but her name was Stanley
Was her name Trudy Noak?
Trudy Butt? One of the Butt sisters?
So...... how did Eddie taste?
This an ABSOLUTELY AMAZING recording. You can hear so many foundational things to what eventually became Van Halen's signature sound just a short time later; from Eddie's playing, to David Lee Roth's stage banter and his vocal style, to what always was Van Halen's solid backing vocals. This was right before Eddie worked with Floyd Rose to develop the locking tremelo which was pivotal to taking his guitar playing and their sound to the next level on their first album.
Good stuff
Those backing vocals-that’s one of those things that separates the great bands from the good ones.
Funny, I was thinking of the Floyd Rose lock nut tremolo yes a few hours ago and how it allowed so many like Eddie and others wallop on the whammy bar and not usually go out of tune. A brilliant invention to be sure...
@@cherylfugate7517 At one point around 1978 Randy Rhodes and Eddie met for the first time. They both well knew who each other were because Randy was in Quiet Riot and they both were revered as the guitar greats of So Cal. This was during the time when Eddie already had Floyd's floating bridge installed on his Frankenstrat but had not yet developed the locking nut. When Randy asked Eddie how he could dive bomb his tremelo and it not go out of tune, Eddie said "sorry, can't tell you. It's a secret". Randy was a bit put off by this because as a guitar teacher, Randy was always willing to share anything with anyone that would help them be a better guitarist. But he didn't understand that Eddie was really frustrated by how many local guitarists were already copying him, even including his own backyard paint job on his black and white striped Frankenstrat. That was why Eddie went from a black on white pattern to a black, white on red to yellow on black pattern. This first time meeting was right before Van Halen's first album came out so Eddie was probably paranoid that some other guitarist would steal his innovations and get a record deal before Van Halen did. They eventually did become friends and Eddie was crushed when Randy died in 1982.
@@GTX1123 can you back this?
Never expected to hear VH play a Bowie tune, DLR was really a charismatic lead vocalist, listening to him work the crowd..he was special.
Me too. Eddie took it to a place Bowie never could, but still, to do that song it's like they were still searching for their own sound..
I saw them play at Pasadena City College on Halloween I think. It was a holiday and my friend invited me to go. When I saw them, I told my friend that they were the best local band I had ever seen! 😮 I knew they would be famous but DAMN, NOT THAT FREAKEN FAMOUS!!!! PASADENA ROCKED BACK THEN!!!!
Philip Cornelius RIP
When everyone in this band gets together something beyond any one of them happens.
Everything about them is just unique.
They’re all great on their own merits but as a unit they changed everything.
Its almost hard to believe that in just 3 short years from this recording Eddie discovered the brown sound and his playing and writing abilities went through the roof like he discovered some ancient text somewhere. RIP KING EDWARD
Sounds like the brown sound to me....
@Black Magick Sorcerer got a hold of the pick of Destiny!
Yeah! Eddie sounds good here, but nothing like that brilliant playing on VH 1!
3 years of intense practice will do wonders for your playing 🙂
@@x3a3x3 There has never been a truer statement. I did it myself after finding the brown sound.I could not put my guitar down. I was just merely making a statement of Eds progress in leaps and bounds. It was just a pointing out of where he was and what his progress was when they launched. I know he walked around with a guitar on 12 hrs a day every day. And I miss him already
That's right down the road from where I was born in Fontana, Ca.
Eddie was doing his own thing, forging his own path even back then. Turned all those covers into his own. Probably spent 5 minutes learning the song and then just went off. truly amazing. Great set list too.
Van Halen. Everybody’s favourite American band! I was 11/12 years old in 1975 but remember the first time I heard “Eruption” in 1978. Mind blower!
Me too! I was 11 in fall of '75
That's almost like me! Except I was -11 =D. Cheers mate.
@17:40 in the middle of Rock Steady ….Eddie throws in the solo to running with the devil…. You can hear his regurgitation of riffs from the very beginning… what a legendary sound and act.
David Lee..."my pal Stanley delivered flowers here".....lmao..priceless
Dave had an excellent voice back then
You are as high as he was
@@ultimatedriversofmachineryWhat's wrong with his voice?
Back in the 1970s, Eddie and his band used to play at my high school, St Francis, in La Cañada, a suburb of Los Angeles, right next to Pasadena, where the Van Halen brothers grew up. They were called Mammoth then, shortly before changing their name to Van Halen. They played at other high schools in the area and a bunch of backyard beer parties. This was before my time, I went to high school in the late 80s. I found this out from an older alumnus who used to book them for these school concerts.
So cool!
They played at my high school (Bishop Amat) about 8 years before I started there.
Computers, DJs & MCs predated those old times where a Local Band in a House Party was A Big deal ...
Soon, Just Net access, Sex Dolls, Extended Reality Tech and AI will be enough for a Big Party ...
Who needs humans gathering together to feel like a Demigod ???
AWESOME! I sing for a van Halen tribute here in Dallas. We are doing a tribute for Eddie this Saturday
Mitch Carpenter
That's awesome!
lincbond442
Hey what's up! Bishop Amat. Del Rey League.
RIP Eddie - gone too soon. But you can still hear the sound even in 1975. He was the best of the best.
How did he die
@@rockystelone21Cancer that he beat but it came back and he died from it . Mouth or throat cancer if I remember and he was saying he thought it was because he used to use a guitar pick made of steel and that somehow caused it but more than likely it was because he was a cigarette smoker amongst others things they all did back then .
@@peteloomis8456 think the picks were copper or brass. He had them in his mouth.
Amazing!Wish I could have been at just one of these early shows!
Back in the day when EVERY SINGLE ROCK SONG on the radio had a guitar solo.
Back in the day when there were still rock songs on the radio. RIP rock n roll.
Yea man that’s BLUES influenced rock. Grunge was the last of it, at least I got to grow up with that. This modern metal shit is devoid of blues influence. There are some exceptions and even some straight up blues players still around, like Bonamassa, but it’s not main stream music anymore. As a guitar player it fucking sucks.
It isn't a rock song without a guitar solo.
The bands true talent was the ability to write great songs, Van Halen 1 blew me away when I first heard it back in 1978, My older brother brought it home one day, we listened to it over an over for years.
Dave sounds like a kid and he was. Say what you want it took a lot of balls to go out there and be a front man like that especially in the early days.
Without Dave here, entertainment wise this is nothing. And I LOVE EVH.
Mike's vocals...the VH sound secret
Ain’t that the truth
@C.NashI’m putting my money on Ed’s guitar too
@@WmLJohnson Optimistic Outreach said sound secret. Not the captain obvious. You too Nashy. Yeah......Rock Steady.
Rumor is he uses a variac on his voice....
Mike's HARMONIES :D
It's interesting to hear Van Halen cover David Bowie's Jean Genie. A great song, and a really impressive cover for such a young band.
Ziggy Stardust
it stunk
Listening to Dave as a polished front-man at 20 makes me wonder just what some label people were thinking when they suggested replacing Roth. I'm assuming the people who advocated replacing Roth before they went into the studio never actually saw them live because Roth carries the whole band. Then they play and Eddie shines on the solos with fully developed chops and tone.
Couldn't disagree more. Roth 'carries the whole band?' If anyone carried VH it was without doubt EVH and the masterful guitar work he routinely displayed. Adding Hagar not only increased the band's sound but added a true frontman who both engaged with audiences and contributed musically to the VH's continued success.
If Roth were such a talent, why was he not picked up by another band to front for them after his VH days? His very brief solo career was just that - brief and underwhelming.
@@joem5386 Its all about timing and chemistry, if not for charismatic, flashy, talkative, dancing, Dave, they might not have had the right look and presentation for the first record deal. Guitar solos were not the highest priority in the mid 70s, to get international FM radio hits. It took the whole band, including their idiosyncrasies, that gave them character.
It was a formula that worked.
What would Stairway to Heaven be without Robert Plant. He had a raspy live voice at times as well. It would be Jimmy Paige playing a lute
Could’ve been a really really special band..
A special band, that could’ve accomplished more than they have…
DLR was a one trick pony, and he was jealous and resides on the other side of the coin,
Miles away from the musicianship quality and caliber of the players in that band
Need a Vocals / not another “lead singer”
DLR is basically a hype man for EVH skills… but I smell jealousy, etc. from their relationship dynamic
Immeasurable, the specialist guitarist EVH was…
(And I’m a musician, but I’ve only heard early, early demos of VH - aside from radio hits play)
So to the mechanics & skills regarding techniques beholden to time to the prowess of instrumentation and in regards to the 80’s party/pop in composition, musically oriented / multifaceted talent
substituting DLR the Frontman phenomena ie. Lead Singer syndrome
Lead/Vocalist artistically musicianship killer.caliber.bands 10X more prolific & respect well rounded and respected w/more than what DLR was capable , or equipped x10 exaltation prolific &
potentiality) to have lead vox on par / in the realm of EVH
In 1976 I got a phone call from a friend's brother about a patty at his house in Castro Valley, California. I got there as the last song was being played . As they was loading up the equipment I asked the guitarist what his name was. He said Doug Van Blairiken. Well when the first album was released I knew he had joked me. Rest In Peace Doug Van Blairiken.
Wow! When a band takes a classic song like Rick Derringer’s “Rock & Roll” to a whole nuther level like they did, you know something’s brewing! My favorite band as a teenager and still lov’em !!!
Wonder what Diamond Dave thinks of these archives? Be proud David! We think it's awesome!
I imagine this band at this age playing this gig every two weeks in an alternate universe. Magic.
How freaking cool would that be!!!!!!?????
When this happened I was sharing a room with my roommate with four of us guys renting a two bedroom duplex paying $37 apiece per month ($150) and within a few short years would see the release of ACDC's Back in Black. What I wouldn't give to go back to this time to see Van Halen's rise to fame all over again (among others). If you're young and just getting your start in life then my advice is to cherish this time because it'll go by VERY fast and before you know it you'll be in your 60's wondering where the time went because the longer you live the faster it goes.
wow so depressing
@@MrLemmy2000 Depressing? Not at all. Life isn't perfect but its been very good. It seems you're mistaking my "advice" as if it's some kind of regret when that just isn't so. I'm just saying life will go by much faster than you think it will... nothing more.
@@ComputerLearning0 True words spoken here. Les T does not seem to get it.
@@ComputerLearning0 I'm 61 by 1972 I was 13 so the 70s and 80s were fun times and not only some of the best music to get on vinyl ever recorded the La Lakers had a great run with Magic Johnson great years I saw Eric Dickerson great running back with the Rams of course saw the Raiders win some games Jim Plunkett a less known great quarterback great sports and great rock and roll
Truer words were never spoken. I was a teenager in the 70s and it sure doesn’t seem like that was 40-50 years ago! The time has flown by. Glad I was able to grow up with such awesome music. It has withstood the test of time.
Pretty awesome to be able to drop in to 1975 and listen to Van Halen before they werer Van Halen.... David is already a star, he's waiting for the band to catch up.
I've been been hooked big time since 78 I saw them three times one of my all-time favorites brilliant recording right here diamond Dave definitely has the ear of the crowd , what's funny is asking people come up and dance to VAN HALEN ,..👍❤️✌️🙏 rest in peace Edward Van Halen
A perfect example of how even early on, nobody sounded like Eddie.
He was still crafting his sound, but it's the guy playing the guitar, not the effects or guitar playing him. He remains one of a kind.
A great bar band too. They rocked.
YES.. I grew up (almost), on these guys. What good times they were!!
Eddie caused my guitar fascination, and I'm still at it at 50 yrs old.
The Eddie sound I think of as “his” is the darker shit like running w the devil, bottoms up, unchained, Panama. This show was much more blues inspired. I kept hearing almost a SRV vibe
millions sounded like him here...it's Roth who's unique here
Yes. AFTER him. He revolutionized guitar sound.
I’ve watched a hundred videos on RUclips of Van Halen live with DLR. This is the best live recording of DLR Hands down.
RIP Eddie Thanks for all you gave us in music
Eddie doing Robin Trower- Even had Trower's tone nailed- KUDOS !!!
Dave announced to the crowd: "We're VAN HALEN."
Hardly any crowd reaction... WOW!
It was definitely back in '75.
That’s probably because they didn’t know what to think of them until they heard them.
Dennis F. Towle - OMG, I know, right??? That gave me chills...to hear that silence of the indifferent crowd. I'm sure there's been many a time those people thought back to that night.
jesus, 45yrs ago!
VH rules!
Crowd? Sounds like 60 people at a club 😂
This could be Roth from like last night. Pretty amazing how he had his thing down this early.
Last night? His voice has been shot for years.
It's funny how so many of the frontmen in rock during VH's heyday got their energy mostly from white powder. But flamboyant Diamond Dave was off-the-charts hyper from birth. Not to say that on top of it he wasn't doing big, fat Elvis rails off the taught, tanned buttocks of $1,000 an hour escorts before concerts...
I remember hearing "You Really Got Me" preceded by "Eruption" for the first time on the radio and being just blown away. I was 14 and it was the talk of the high-school the next day because NOBODY played like that! He broke so many barriers and charted new territories in what a guitar could do. I'm so glad I grew up during the time it all happened - they were the big thing in my high school years.
in 78 they warmed up for black sabbath at the spectrum in philly. the crowd was literally dumbstruck. then they booed ozzie off the stage wishing van halen would come back out... they didn't. but the next day they were all over wysp and wmmr. they didn't look back till 84.
he fucking sucked. All he did was finger tapping. You can take someone who doesn't play guitar and teach them that garbage and they will sound like they know how to do a guitar solo in 1 day. Absolutely flashy shit that takes no talent at all.
@ I dunno man - I've been playing guitar for 30 years professionally and have recently attempted to learn Eruption and I'm the One via RUclips lessons. It's *FAR* more complicated than just finger tapping. He had a very intricate knowledge of scales and an impeccable sense of rhythm (as they all did). You don't get to be the biggest rock band of the era just because of flash.
@@arnoldfernbladst3875 I heard their record for the first time in 1978. Runnin’ with Devil, Eruption, You Really Got Me, the entire album. Friend’s basement in Kensington, MD. One year later I saw them at the Budokan in Tokyo - my first arena show - haven’t seen or heard anything like that before or since. They worked their asses off and earned their success. RIP EVH
I was there..
That's really cool. Was the crowd big that night? Had you heard of the band before? That must have been something to catch those guys when they were that young and just starting out.
Oh no no no no! You CAN'T leave us hanging like that. You have GOT to tell us more than just that you were there. lol
I was too and I don’t remember you
sure
@@dougg1075 hahahaaa
This is and always will be dave…..imagine …two years later stars…..
Wow! I now know what it is like to discover Van Halen. This is amazing footage. Eddie we miss you already
That Robin Trower sound was just right!!! Excellent performance!
I love stumbling across these early Van Halen tapes especially now that Eddie’s gone (sigh). The stuff that wound up on their first album may not be quite as polishes, but that raw sound makes it cool. Thanks for all the kickin’ rock and roll Van Halen!
EVH's solo in rock steady is a clinic in rock guitar. RIP Recorded in summer of 1975. The summer of "Jaws." Time sure does fly by.
Wow the summer of Jaws!!! Yup that movie traumatized me, lol...
Yeah, his playing is totally solid. Some clown on here said that this recording shows that DLR had his shit together before Eddie did! WTF? Eddie’s playing his ass off!
Man we were a touring band when this happened...trying to get ppl up and dancing. Bc that’s all the bars wanted....I also had a cigarette in the neck of my guitar...what good times these were! Drink and party all night and get on the bus or van whatever we had and hit the road! Did not remember what town we had just played. Thank you VH for the gr8 innovations and performance. Man David was the top of what a “front man” was suppose to be....fly on Eddie!
For us guitar players, this is very enlightening, thanks! And the sound quality is amazing!!!😊
This tape is probably an Ampex or BASF normal bias.
Simple, proper mixing can do wonders.
A+ to those soundboard guys back then!
Maybe recorded on Scotch, TDK or Maxell.
They should release this
Performance cant be embellished , tape does not lie! Thats why i gave up
The Trower tune sounded sooo good. Man he nailed that tone....other than the spontaneous stuff.....you'd swear it was Trower playing! I'm shocked at the accuracy of this cover. You can tell Ed liked Trower to be that accurate. Bravo Edward.....R.I.P. brother....
Uba Tooba,
While it was certainly a good cover of The Fool and Me, it was not particularly accurate.
@@firstnamelastname1101 I actually couldn't tell EVH from Trower.....except for the parts he improvised. Other than the improvisation, I couldn't tell the difference, and I'm very familiar with that Trower song.....even his tone was spot on.
@@ubatooba8467,
You're the kind of people we like in our audience if ya can't tell the difference between EVH and Trower. Maybe ya wouldn't be able to tell the difference between me and Trower - makes me sound that much better.
It's just a chorus pedal (or maybe a phase shifter). Pretty common sound in the 70s. Interesting that Eddie has never really showed respect to Hendrix, but covered Trower - who obviously LOVED Hendrix
@@aquamarine99911 I forgot which famous guitarist said it but I clearly remember reading in Guitar magazine "Eddie says he loved Clapton but he sure took a hell of a lot more from Hendrix than Clapton. Eddie likes to pretend he just popped out of the ground but his debt to Jimi is clear." And I think that was an accurate assessment. Who else worked the feedback, invented the dive-bombs that Eddie was so fond of and even did three note one hand hammer-ons (yeah ed added the right hand but even that wasn't a first) if not Jimi? I LOVED early Van Halen, they lost me at 1984, but even though I thought Ed was the shit it always irritated the hell out of me that he didn't acknowledge Hendrix's still unsurpassed influence on guitar and rock music. I mean we were just a few years passed "I wanna hold your hand" when Hendrix blew everyone's head off with the still amazing "Are You Experienced?" album. Whatever, love them both but Jimi will always be the mad scientist inventor king of hard rock. Period. Cheers P[>
Great Eddie solo on rock steady! No one played guitar like that in 1975 or since
So far I’ve lived long enough to see a lot of great bands come and go…..been awesome too….
These guys were CLEARLY ready for arenas even by this relatively early date. Eddie’s skills and creativity are simply astonishing here. A genius.
Really? I thought they sounded terrible,,especially the Rick Deringer song ,,yikes ,,obviously they got a lot better ,,ALOT BETTER 😅
They were still finding themselves as a band. They sounded a little sloppy, but it was a party, not a stadium. Just local guys rocking out with the stuff they had at the time, doing covers. They pushed themselves, though. By the time they were making records, they were tight. There's no substitute for practice.
They sound a bit like KISS in 1975. No wonder Gene Simmons was interested in producing them 18 months later.
I'm not sure we're all hearing the same thing here? Eddie SUCKED! Can't tune his guitar, can't play in key... it's just a mess! I actually feel bad for DLR tryin' to hold it together! Thank God they improved a bit in the future! 😃😃
What a great find! Eddie and the lads playing Bowie. Amazing how much Dave sounds like Bowie too.