Wild thing. The song uses an uncredited sample of Van Halen's "Jamie's Cryin'". Van Halen's management at the time asked for a flat fee (credited in some reports to be US$5,000) as payment to have the song sampled by Tone Lōc. Apparently, the sampling decision was made without consulting the band's original members (credited as co-authors of the song). They had no idea "Wild Thing" would become a major hit. A subsequent civil lawsuit was settled out of court with Van Halen receiving US$180,000 as settlement payment.
I was 16, it was a summer day, 1983, walking out of DMV with brand new driver's license... Climbed into the driver seat of the car I used for the test and this was the first song that came on the radio....good times.
Van Halen management asked for a flat fee ($5000) for the sample without consulting band members (co-authors). A settlement was later reached ($180,000), but they had no idea Wild Thing would become a major hit. The song made millions. Alex Van Halen said, "At least we got something."
Not one bad song on this debut album...way ahead of it's time. Perfect storm of talent and production, Ted Templeton was the producer of this masterpiece album ❤
Eddie's SIZZLING Guitar Sound changed the Guitar world forever. Just listen to the tone - nobody has that kind of Guitar sound! Great background vocals - Eddie is 2nd Tenor and Michael Anthong (bass) has the highest and purest High 1st Tenor voice ever. Eddie called it the "the range from Hell" - he had such a high and clear voice. And, of course, Diamond Dave was the greatest front man ever. That first album changed everything Brothers! Play, I'm the One and Ice Cream Man - you will FREAK! The were so Talented and could play all types of music and just tear it up! Listen to Beautiful Girls on the 2nd Album - it's a fun song! David Lee Roth Shines!
I was in charge of ordering 12” singles, 45s, and cassette singles while working at Sam Goody in the late 80s/early 90s. When I first heard Wild Thing I immediately recognized the Jaime’s Crying sample and knew it would be a hit. I ordered 100 copies of the cassette single and my boss was pissed! We sold 89 of them within a week but I never got an apology.🖖🏼
Van Halen was white hot when they broke out. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing someone blasting Van Halen. Eddie and Roth were really fantastic early. Roth's voice was perfect for Eddie's rips.
Similar to and together with that first Boston album, this first Van Halen album from 1978 are regarded as some of the most famous in rock history. They're just so consistently good and they exploded the scene wide open and were cutting edge, each in their own way. This album is definitely worth working your way through but if you do the Eruption guitar solo, which by the way is only a couple minutes compared to the long live one from years later that people react to a lot, but it leads directly into the Kinks cover Girl you really got me. So you gotta play them back-to-back, just like they dud it on the radio a lot. And they flow together on the album too.
Jamie's Crying was the first VH song I ever heard. I loved it. It's still my favorite VH song. I mean, they had a half a dozens _good_ songs after that, but I didn't think any of them ever matched this one. I think those back up vocals & the bass riff were the best part of it...
Jaime's Crying got overplayed on the radio, but it was because it was so great. Runnin With The Devil was also great and also overplayed same period. I think if they had come out 5 years apart it would have helped Van Halen. Van Halen was played as much as Journey, which I really can't handle due to that ear worm from that era. Van Halen was good enough to go back and listen to again!! (God no "Nah Na Nah Na naaa"!!!). FM radio had a bad habit of playing some songs until it they ruined them, then others never played. Like Trapeze Medusa album. Why wasn't that on FM radio burning up my ears?
Tone Loc didn't get permission, I don't think you needed it back then, Eddie says he was in the car when TL's version came on and he said "hey, that's my brother's drums!!!" Don't recall anything more coming out of it. Great song, great album. As a guitarist you have appreciate Eddie's right hand technique as much as his left. This album blew all our minds, everyone wanted to sound like Eddie after this.
I really appreciate your reaction gentlemen, Please let me know the best way to request a VH1 reaction, the entire first record that would not only go on to achieve Diamond status, but completely changed the music industry and created a shift in culture. No one sounded like this before or after them. Make no mistake, VH were a seventies band that completely shaped the 80’s. All those hair metal bands were just chasing some of that VH magic, but those bands were just cheap clone imitators. Please gentlemen, the full album reaction 🙏🏻 🎸 Long live EVH, the king of six strings and ten fingers johnny mac The Bronx/LA
I remember we were in really great shape and went to the beach, cranking up the Van Halen. Surf boards on the car, 2 foot Texas Waves, imagining all the ladies wanted us when Van Halen was cranking on the Pioneer with Aiwa amp, Boston Acoustics speakers (the 5 speakers setup was a new thing; Jensen 3 way stereo gave way to 100 watt 5 way speakers, as if this, our shirts off, tanning butter, and 2 foot waves would get us some dates...well, we tried! We didn't know how far "Hi, I love your hair" or "Hi, I don't mean to be forward,but you have beautiful eyes, I just wanted to tell you" could get us at that age when we were still good to look at ourselves. If they would have just given a class on dating 101, we could have jammed Van Halen on the home stereo, a nice girl wanting to practice nursing a baby... without being around other guys with their shirts off going nowhere LoL!).
Yes, Eddie said he was out and heard the opening drums of Wild Thing by Tone Loc and said, 'That's my brother!" He was pissed. He ended up seeing Tone Loc somewhere and really let him have it, according to Tone Loc, lol.
Tone loke..w t..was released in the 90s. This in what..78. this is a bad ass jam. I lived in LA..tone, and I used to buy our 40z beer's from the same liquor store on Olympic Blvd..😊
First saw these guys back in 1978ish at the Oakland Coliseum at a “Day On The Green “ They were the opening act then AC/DC with Bon on vocals, Pat Travers Band, Foreigner and then Aerosmith All I remember about them was David Lee Roth doing a standing back flip on stage. I turned to my buddy and said you just see that dude Haha. They apparently did Ok.
Thanks for pointing out the beginning of Van Halens work was used by Tone Loc's Wild Thing. I like both tracks but I never caught on to it. Great reaction..I was hooked on this Van Halen Album the moment I heard it on the radio!
Feb 1978 walking into the record store and there sat this album in the display for new releases. Just turned 17 in Feb and I bought it because I liked the cover had no clue about their sound. Boy were we pleasantly surprised just how rocking a band they were. Seen four times
The "harmonizing" done has bassist Michael Anthony singing that high end part... He still has it some currently when he plays with supergroup "Chickenfoot"
Back in high school, a girl named Jamie had a house party (without her parents' knowledge), and it quickly grew out of control. She began crying, trying to get everyone to leave. Of course, some wise guy put this song on.
The singer David Lee Roth, in particular, had a personal love for Motown music of the 1960s-1970s, went to high school in a majority black school, and had a passion for the vaudeville showmanship style in general. You can see it in this song especially! Yes, the catchy hooks, groove, funk, STYLE harkens back to some fabulous pop, Motown, and vaudeville roots.
From one of the Greatest Debute Albums of All Time. DLR a Frontman’s Frontman EVH One of the Greatest Guitarist of All Time Slapping that Bass and those Amazing background vocals is Michael Anthony and AVH’s Killer Drum Fills is a Lethal Combination. Every Track on this Album is Absolutely Amazing 🔥🔥🔥
Michael Anthony was definitely a solid bassist. There he was doing his job, Eddie and Roth getting all the girls. I don't think anyone today who wasn't living in this time as a teenager or in college can understand how popular Van Halen was at parties. And if you could get a girl on a date to like Van Halen or already a fan, oh baby, you might get on a base, maybe Home Plate!
People forget about drop dead legs and Little guitars Eddie had a way of getting strange textures and tones out of the guitar sort of like Hendrix Zappa and Steve Howe some very hard hitting stuff ground breaking stuff
Guys Prior to their creation as Van Halen, brothers, Eddie and Alex started out with Eddie on drums while Alex on guitars. But they switched to their iconic instruments. Their father was accomplished jazz musician. Both of them born in Netherlands. Their mother was from Indonesia. Both of them felt mistreated in the 50's Netherlands their parents' mixed-relationship. Family moved to California (Pasadena) in 1962. Both of them didn't speak English when they went to school. They were bullying by their classmates. Both brothers learn to play piano at young age. Both of you can hear Eddie on the keys on some of VH's albums.
True story. And it was not well told when Van Halen was popular. Van Halen cult fans knew, but it wasn't a story well told I believe because Van Halen was going for that party image that wasn't a niche yet. Robert Plant and Zeppelin cultivated a female fan base, but it wasn't anything compared to what Roth drummed up as front man of Van Halen. There aren't many concerts I've been to where women planned ahead to flash their boobs. Tom Jones had women flashing him and throwing panties at him. Probably the most adult aged women to go nuts over a guy or band (Beatles and Elvis didn't have women undressing in public often to my knowledge, and KISS was Jr High girls flashing Simmons for wiggling his tongue, promising to deflower them later). But I think the worst live concert I ever went to was Van Halen after their 4th album I believe, mid 80's, Roth so dunk he wobbled off after 30 minutes, and they were the headliner! But in that 30 minutes, I saw more bare boobs in one place probably than anywhere else in my life. Including Houston's biggest strip clubs, which at that time, were biggest and wildest places on Earth. Terrible really, but misogynistic dynamics in culture were not rare, as women were backdrop in the job place and it was part of breaking out, ironically. In a failed way of course. But in the 80's, bands like Van Halen were totally saying women should make 'careers' pleasing men. It was probably the most sexist era of our history, but yet women took the chance as if to say: "You won't hire us to run your company? Well we have ways of emptying your wallet, haha!"
I’ve heard this song and Tone Loc’s “wild thing” so many times and never caught the sampling until you two mentioned it on your first listen. Great ears, gentlemen.
Another great Van Halen song - I for sure hear "Wild Thing"😊Thanks guys for posting and reacting to this funky tune! Also check out "Beautiful Girls" by VH - there are so many songs to choose from. Hope this message comes through - I posted two on the Joni Mitchell video but don't think it got to you, so thank you for reacting to Joni as well!🧡
I was at a Van Halen concert after they were big time mid 80's, Roth wasn't sober, and they were the headliner, played only 30 minutes! Because Roth was plastered, guzzling a bottle of whiskey from the opening, staggering off in the middle of an unrecognizable song. But before he was too far gone, "Beautiful Girls" was done recognizable enough that I'm guessing about 200 women flashed their boobs. We didn't ask for a refund LoL!! There was a story next day in a Houston newspaper some fans wanted their money back, but I was a Rush fan. We didn't get girls pulling their shirts off so I left satisfied LoL!! Rush concerts were amazing, but mostly sausage fests back then. Guys who liked girls, but still figuring out how to ask girls out on dates. Which apparently is what college was really mostly for.
@@Greg-io1ip That's a great story Greg - like you said, despite Roth being wasted it still turned out to be a positive for you guys! I only saw VH once live when they opened for the Stones. The volume was sooo loud that we had to move back. Fun show though. Thanks for sharing your experience - my friends will enjoy that one!😊
@@Greg-io1ip with all the deserved praise VH gets, they could be hit and miss live when dave was there because of their condition. Saw them live twice within a yr and 1 show was def better/tighter
Yes, Tone Loc sampled the drum intro and the main guitar riff for “Wild Thing”…and, while we’re at it, he sampled the main guitar sequence from Foreigner!s “Hot Blooded” and a short guitar riff from “Christine Sixteen” by Kiss for his other big hit “Funky Cold Medina”. You should really listen to this entire debut album by Van Halen….there is so much more on it….and different. This is where Eddie Van Halen forever changed the way people looked at and played guitar, mostly for his legendary guitar solo track “Eruption”, which is second on the record and leads straight into their fantastic version of The Kinks song “You Really Got Me”….. and don’t miss “I’m The One”, later in that album, for some amazing, complex, fast-paced rocking with an unexpected interruption towards the end!
On the early VH records Eddie’s unaffected guitar was hard panned into one side and the thick echoplex reverb on the other. Made for a unique sound at the time.
You guys got me right off the start with the Ton Loc (hope i spelled that right). Was not a big fan of alot of the music, but it you got me to listen all the way through. As always fellas great reaction. Much appreciated 🙏
Don't get me wrong, I graduated in 76 but you are groovin, I was there for the rap game also. I saw dougy fresh, digital under ground, and a few others but can't remember cuz of the good good sticky icky and I'm a little clouded right now but appreciate what you do.....
I always get so annoyed when younger people who grew up listening to rap don't know who Tone Loc is. Then they listen to this song, and the thrill is gone! I'm so glad you guys immediately caught it. Backing vocals for VH during these days are usually Eddie and bassist, Michael Anthony, with some DLR on the studio versions, so yeah, just about the whole band. VH backing vocals are just as iconic as the guitar. When you hear it, you immediately know it's Van Halen.
That opening beat? that Tone Loc used for 'Wild Thing"? Van Halen wrote it and recorded this song with it. A goood friend of mine's friend (stay with me on this -lol), had the foresight in the early days of publishing rights in regards and how much $ was going to be in it, approached the group and PURCHASED the publishing rights, to JUST that opening,........for $5k in 1986. You know what kind of annual royalty checks he gets for owning the rights to that diddy? $300k a year, for over 35 yrs now. That's almost $10 mil for a $5k investment. That practice EXPLODED just after that. (see today's sampling practice)
When we all heard ToneLoc signing on, we ALL knew where he got his sample from right away. There wasn't a lot of time in between when "Jamie's Cryin' " came out and then "Wild Thing". Maybe a few years, not a lot of time for our memories of Jamie to go away.
I was 14 when my buddy brought this album over and we put the needle to the vinyl and KABAM! Total head explosion! The 1st four VH albums with David Lee Roth are their best IMHO. (But I do dig Sammy Hagar too. :-)
Those were good times Randy. We would be at the arcade playing pinball, and someone was always playing Running with the Devil on the Jukebox. They had such a charismatic fun energy about them, I think everybody loved it...
Van Halen and Black Sabbath have similar paths in terms of their band instability and switching out lead singers. Now to me, Black Sabbath are on Mt Olympus with Rush, Pink, Zep, Beatles and a few others where Van Halen won't be. But Van Halen was making great music. Party rock, but it wasn't fake music and didn't need agents and singing shows on TV to sell itself. Unfortunately Van Halen did indeed bring the party full tilt wherever they were and Roth didn't have the sobriety and stamina after all those orgies or something. But early Van Halen was groundbreaking and great. Every kid in suburbia had a Van Halen phase or story to relate to.
@@randyallaben9900 Mom, can I have a couple quarters?! Thinking back, that was a cheap for our parents to get some peace and quiet for a few hours. Lol. Of course, Captain Fantastic was my favorite. I play pinball every Tuesday, thinking about buying one for the house!
Back in those days they did not play white rock and black R&B on the same radio stations, but as soon as you heard the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat It" you know that was Eddie van Halen.
Eddie Van Halen was an Incredibly gifted musician. ....He was arguably the best rock guitarist ever. ....Although there were some other great guitarists in his league....he was so.... Absolutely Brilliant on that guitar.
Tone-Loc sampled for: "Wild Thing". (I made a mistake and said ""Funky Cold Medina" earlier 🤦-dumbass!🙄) --A 100%, stone, classic (as is everything VAN HALEN recorded from 1978-1984, actually).🌩🌩⚡⚡⚡⚡🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘‼
@@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra classic rock spawned a lot of what was later to become known as hip hop thru use of sampling. I'm so glad I grew up when I did, we had the best music ever!
@@AirplayBeats I F'ed-it-up, man! 🤦🤦🙄 "Funky Cold Medina"actually, samples a Foreigner guitar-blast [from: "Hot Blooded" -as I recall!🤔] a KISS riff and ...there's something else, in there, too (I can't recall what, right now...) ...but: yeah: You were correct. Tone took "Jamie's Cryin'" for "Wild Thing". Yeap!
In 1984 I bought their record 1984. Their biggest album. I turned 12 that year. I'm trying to justify putting VH onto a Metal mix. Perhaps the 1984 song Girl Gone Bad 🎸🔥🥁
I saw VH in 1978 in Indianapolis. They opened for Rush and Black Sabbath and VH blew them both off the stage. 1st time I had ever heard of them. Went out the next day and bought this album.
I listen to you guys often on UTube television. I am anxiously waiting for another reactionI. I really like your reactions and insight. I would like a reaction to Eric Burdon: 'Spill the Wine' 1970 LIVE I think you'll really like it. I also have always loved Van Halen (they rock) and this song....my names Jani!! PLEASE!!
NICE!!! great song...when this first came out.....WOW WEE!! ATOMIC PUNK next please...you guys should also do ERUPTION Studio VERSION....mind blowing!!
Never listened to Tone other than funky cold, but seen him in a movie or two and some interviews.....Tone is Rifhteous. Fine Man.....and I miss Afros. Brothas look great in a tight fro......
Hey La and Che; You know Eddie's guitar now? If you haven't already, go listen to the guitar solo in Beat It. 🔥🔥🔥 Eddie recorded it on the sly--can you imagine when the rest of the band heard it? Good times!
Nice catch on the Tone Loc! That lick after Dave sings “Jamie’s crying” is the melody for his hook “Wild Thing” (it might be in a slightly different key; my ears aren’t perfect lol)
Great song choice, fellas 👏🏼 If you wanna hear one of their bangers, check out Summer Nights. This song was recorded with their second vocalist, Sammy Hagar off their album 5150 (1986). This is the first song they wrote together on the first day they jammed together 🤘🏼🔥⚡️
This sounds like the 80's because nearly every band on earth wanted to sound like VH after this album.
Agreed
But recorded in the 70s
@@3rdeyewide758Yeah I bought the LP in 78.
Van Halen's debut album is appropriately noted in the top 10 of debut albums. Milestone!
Check out David Lee Roth on "Damn GoodTime." The acoustics, hopefully, you'll enjoy.
They're an R&B band with the greatest guitar player and most flamboyant front man that ever lived. They're called The Mighty Van Halen for a reason.
One of the greatest debut albums ever.
Every song was mind blowing
Wild thing. The song uses an uncredited sample of Van Halen's "Jamie's Cryin'". Van Halen's management at the time asked for a flat fee (credited in some reports to be US$5,000) as payment to have the song sampled by Tone Lōc. Apparently, the sampling decision was made without consulting the band's original members (credited as co-authors of the song). They had no idea "Wild Thing" would become a major hit. A subsequent civil lawsuit was settled out of court with Van Halen receiving US$180,000 as settlement payment.
I was 16, it was a summer day, 1983, walking out of DMV with brand new driver's license... Climbed into the driver seat of the car I used for the test and this was the first song that came on the radio....good times.
Van Halen management asked for a flat fee ($5000) for the sample without consulting band members (co-authors). A settlement was later reached ($180,000), but they had no idea Wild Thing would become a major hit. The song made millions. Alex Van Halen said, "At least we got something."
I saw them in 78. Eddie was introduced as “The Guitarist of the 80’s”.
Album was released in early 1978. The 80’s sound was everyone doing their best VH
and largely failing.
Exactly
“Jamie‘s crying” and “Running with the Devil” is what made everybody know who Van Halen was, never really seen anybody dancing to it lol 🥁🥁🎸💣
😂 it made me want to get out my seat and dance. Lol
Not one bad song on this debut album...way ahead of it's time. Perfect storm of talent and production, Ted Templeton was the producer of this masterpiece album ❤
Very well said Mark Y!
@@supertal6074 ...I was 15 yrs old when I first heard it in '78...I'm still rocking out to it at 59yrs old...it's still fresh
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Eddie's SIZZLING Guitar Sound changed the Guitar world forever. Just listen to the tone - nobody has that kind of Guitar sound! Great background vocals - Eddie is 2nd Tenor and Michael Anthong (bass) has the highest and purest High 1st Tenor voice ever. Eddie called it the "the range from Hell" - he had such a high and clear voice. And, of course, Diamond Dave was the greatest front man ever. That first album changed everything Brothers! Play, I'm the One and Ice Cream Man - you will FREAK! The were so Talented and could play all types of music and just tear it up! Listen to Beautiful Girls on the 2nd Album - it's a fun song! David Lee Roth Shines!
Written in ‘76-‘77 - recorded in ‘77 and released in early ‘78
I was in charge of ordering 12” singles, 45s, and cassette singles while working at Sam Goody in the late 80s/early 90s. When I first heard Wild Thing I immediately recognized the Jaime’s Crying sample and knew it would be a hit. I ordered 100 copies of the cassette single and my boss was pissed! We sold 89 of them within a week but I never got an apology.🖖🏼
Wow. Sam Goody!!! That takes me back.
What a great debut album! It was great music to get the party going in 78.
Van Halen was white hot when they broke out. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing someone blasting Van Halen. Eddie and Roth were really fantastic early. Roth's voice was perfect for Eddie's rips.
@@Greg-io1ip Great backing vocals. I always thought that Eddie would adjust his guitar tone to enhance the comedic effect of Roth's vocals.
I saw Van Halen open for Journey in 78. Journey was good but Van Halen blew them away.
@@billschafer9668Yeah I saw them in 78 open for Journey in Birmingham. As much as I like Journey, it was a bit boring after VH.
Similar to and together with that first Boston album, this first Van Halen album from 1978 are regarded as some of the most famous in rock history. They're just so consistently good and they exploded the scene wide open and were cutting edge, each in their own way.
This album is definitely worth working your way through but if you do the Eruption guitar solo, which by the way is only a couple minutes compared to the long live one from years later that people react to a lot, but it leads directly into the Kinks cover Girl you really got me. So you gotta play them back-to-back, just like they dud it on the radio a lot. And they flow together on the album too.
The whole VH s/t debut album is fire!
Tone Loc took the drum intro and the *hwa hwa* guitar riff in the chorus right after "Oh, whoa, whoa, Jamie's crying!"
People sleep on VH 2. "Outta love again" "light up the sky" some 🔥 tracks on that album
Agreed…
VH 1 is so played out for me. I cant listen to it.
But I can still listen to VH 2
Jamie's Crying was the first VH song I ever heard. I loved it. It's still my favorite VH song. I mean, they had a half a dozens _good_ songs after that, but I didn't think any of them ever matched this one. I think those back up vocals & the bass riff were the best part of it...
Jaime's Crying got overplayed on the radio, but it was because it was so great. Runnin With The Devil was also great and also overplayed same period. I think if they had come out 5 years apart it would have helped Van Halen. Van Halen was played as much as Journey, which I really can't handle due to that ear worm from that era. Van Halen was good enough to go back and listen to again!! (God no "Nah Na Nah Na naaa"!!!). FM radio had a bad habit of playing some songs until it they ruined them, then others never played. Like Trapeze Medusa album. Why wasn't that on FM radio burning up my ears?
Tone Loc didn't get permission, I don't think you needed it back then, Eddie says he was in the car when TL's version came on and he said "hey, that's my brother's drums!!!" Don't recall anything more coming out of it. Great song, great album. As a guitarist you have appreciate Eddie's right hand technique as much as his left. This album blew all our minds, everyone wanted to sound like Eddie after this.
You did need permission.
@@Cosmo-Kramer and he didn't get it, settled out of court
Yep. Crazy Tony had to ante up.
and the wha wha guitar too
*Wah Wah 🎸
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Another band that broke out in 78 with their own sound was The Cars. Their debut album by itself could be a Greatest Hits record.
Guys, I can't wait until you get around to "I'm the One" it leaves you breathless - it's cranking from the first click!!! Enjoy!
Agreed…. I suggested that too!
I really appreciate your reaction gentlemen,
Please let me know the best way to request a VH1 reaction, the entire first record that would not only go on to achieve Diamond status, but completely changed the music industry and created a shift in culture. No one sounded like this before or after them.
Make no mistake, VH were a seventies band that completely shaped the 80’s. All those hair metal bands were just chasing some of that VH magic, but those bands were just cheap clone imitators.
Please gentlemen, the full album reaction 🙏🏻 🎸
Long live EVH, the king of six strings and ten fingers
johnny mac
The Bronx/LA
I remember we were in really great shape and went to the beach, cranking up the Van Halen. Surf boards on the car, 2 foot Texas Waves, imagining all the ladies wanted us when Van Halen was cranking on the Pioneer with Aiwa amp, Boston Acoustics speakers (the 5 speakers setup was a new thing; Jensen 3 way stereo gave way to 100 watt 5 way speakers, as if this, our shirts off, tanning butter, and 2 foot waves would get us some dates...well, we tried! We didn't know how far "Hi, I love your hair" or "Hi, I don't mean to be forward,but you have beautiful eyes, I just wanted to tell you" could get us at that age when we were still good to look at ourselves. If they would have just given a class on dating 101, we could have jammed Van Halen on the home stereo, a nice girl wanting to practice nursing a baby... without being around other guys with their shirts off going nowhere LoL!).
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Got it in one! "That's what happens when bodies start slappin' from doin' the wild thing..."
Alex is one of the best drummers in concert I have seen.he killed it live
The 70s and 80s was not the stone age!!! These songs were made to sound great on vinyl and they were!!
Yes, Eddie said he was out and heard the opening drums of Wild Thing by Tone Loc and said, 'That's my brother!" He was pissed. He ended up seeing Tone Loc somewhere and really let him have it, according to Tone Loc, lol.
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My old anthem!! ❤❤
Love you guys - you guys are Great! No doubt about it!!
_DUDES_ ! Good shout on the Wild Thang -sample.
Tone loke..w t..was released in the 90s. This in what..78. this is a bad ass jam. I lived in LA..tone, and I used to buy our 40z beer's from the same liquor store on Olympic Blvd..😊
Classic ! I listened to this album for the first time when I was 12 years old !
First saw these guys back in 1978ish at the Oakland Coliseum at a “Day On The Green “ They were the opening act then AC/DC with Bon on vocals, Pat Travers Band, Foreigner and then Aerosmith All I remember about them was David Lee Roth doing a standing back flip on stage. I turned to my buddy and said you just see that dude Haha. They apparently did Ok.
Ain't talkin bout love-Van Halen 1. One of the greatest riffs in rock History. R.I.P. King Edward 🎸🎸👑👑
Thanks for pointing out the beginning of Van Halens work was used by Tone Loc's Wild Thing. I like both tracks but I never caught on to it. Great reaction..I was hooked on this Van Halen Album the moment I heard it on the radio!
Fellas! Wild Thing came out in Oct 1988. Jamies crying was 1978. That was Van Halens' beat.
Feb 1978 walking into the record store and there sat this album in the display for new releases. Just turned 17 in Feb and I bought it because I liked the cover had no clue about their sound. Boy were we pleasantly surprised just how rocking a band they were. Seen four times
Ditto, never heard of them, bought the Album put it on and was blown away.
The "harmonizing" done has bassist Michael Anthony singing that high end part... He still has it some currently when he plays with supergroup "Chickenfoot"
Back in high school, a girl named Jamie had a house party (without her parents' knowledge), and it quickly grew out of control. She began crying, trying to get everyone to leave. Of course, some wise guy put this song on.
Love it and your reaction. We played this Album a lot in house n car. Best album I think by VH
The singer David Lee Roth, in particular, had a personal love for Motown music of the 1960s-1970s, went to high school in a majority black school, and had a passion for the vaudeville showmanship style in general. You can see it in this song especially! Yes, the catchy hooks, groove, funk, STYLE harkens back to some fabulous pop, Motown, and vaudeville roots.
From one of the Greatest Debute Albums of All Time.
DLR a Frontman’s Frontman
EVH One of the Greatest Guitarist of All Time
Slapping that Bass and those Amazing background vocals is Michael Anthony and AVH’s Killer Drum Fills is a Lethal Combination. Every Track on this Album is Absolutely Amazing 🔥🔥🔥
Michael Anthony was definitely a solid bassist. There he was doing his job, Eddie and Roth getting all the girls. I don't think anyone today who wasn't living in this time as a teenager or in college can understand how popular Van Halen was at parties. And if you could get a girl on a date to like Van Halen or already a fan, oh baby, you might get on a base, maybe Home Plate!
@@Greg-io1ip Can Confirm 🤘🏻
Lucky enough to have seen them in Philly in 1979. They were on the Top of their Game
People forget about drop dead legs and Little guitars Eddie had a way of getting strange textures and tones out of the guitar sort of like Hendrix Zappa and Steve Howe some very hard hitting stuff ground breaking stuff
Drop Dead Legs is an AWESOME song..By far my fav on 1984 album...that guitar solo outro...man oh man!
Drop Dead Legs is in my top, top VH songs! Little Guitars is also incredible.
@@jenniferfoster1692 little guitars has a little bit of a prog bounce you hear little hints of RUSH In there I love it
Loved when Tone Loc used Alex's drumming.
Awesome respect!
Guys
Prior to their creation as Van Halen, brothers, Eddie and Alex started out with Eddie on drums while Alex on guitars. But they switched to their iconic instruments. Their father was accomplished jazz musician. Both of them born in Netherlands. Their mother was from Indonesia. Both of them felt mistreated in the 50's Netherlands their parents' mixed-relationship. Family moved to California (Pasadena) in 1962. Both of them didn't speak English when they went to school. They were bullying by their classmates. Both brothers learn to play piano at young age. Both of you can hear Eddie on the keys on some of VH's albums.
True story. And it was not well told when Van Halen was popular. Van Halen cult fans knew, but it wasn't a story well told I believe because Van Halen was going for that party image that wasn't a niche yet. Robert Plant and Zeppelin cultivated a female fan base, but it wasn't anything compared to what Roth drummed up as front man of Van Halen. There aren't many concerts I've been to where women planned ahead to flash their boobs. Tom Jones had women flashing him and throwing panties at him. Probably the most adult aged women to go nuts over a guy or band (Beatles and Elvis didn't have women undressing in public often to my knowledge, and KISS was Jr High girls flashing Simmons for wiggling his tongue, promising to deflower them later). But I think the worst live concert I ever went to was Van Halen after their 4th album I believe, mid 80's, Roth so dunk he wobbled off after 30 minutes, and they were the headliner! But in that 30 minutes, I saw more bare boobs in one place probably than anywhere else in my life. Including Houston's biggest strip clubs, which at that time, were biggest and wildest places on Earth. Terrible really, but misogynistic dynamics in culture were not rare, as women were backdrop in the job place and it was part of breaking out, ironically. In a failed way of course. But in the 80's, bands like Van Halen were totally saying women should make 'careers' pleasing men. It was probably the most sexist era of our history, but yet women took the chance as if to say: "You won't hire us to run your company? Well we have ways of emptying your wallet, haha!"
They make it seem so effortless
I’ve heard this song and Tone Loc’s “wild thing” so many times and never caught the sampling until you two mentioned it on your first listen. Great ears, gentlemen.
Seen them perform this when it came out in meadowslands new Jersey in high school late 70's.. a couple of bones n Boones farm strawberry wine ..lol
One of my fav VH songs...So glad you did this one! 1978 driving to the beach blaring this song amongst others....❤
1:52 to 1:59 He was so lost in the music he had no idea he was pointing to pause it. HAHA!
Another great Van Halen song - I for sure hear "Wild Thing"😊Thanks guys for posting and reacting to this funky tune! Also check out "Beautiful Girls" by VH - there are so many songs to choose from. Hope this message comes through - I posted two on the Joni Mitchell video but don't think it got to you, so thank you for reacting to Joni as well!🧡
I’ll go back and look for your comments. Thanks for rocking with us!!
@@AirplayBeats Thanks guys, it may be a youtube glitch - just glad you got this one!☺
I was at a Van Halen concert after they were big time mid 80's, Roth wasn't sober, and they were the headliner, played only 30 minutes! Because Roth was plastered, guzzling a bottle of whiskey from the opening, staggering off in the middle of an unrecognizable song. But before he was too far gone, "Beautiful Girls" was done recognizable enough that I'm guessing about 200 women flashed their boobs. We didn't ask for a refund LoL!! There was a story next day in a Houston newspaper some fans wanted their money back, but I was a Rush fan. We didn't get girls pulling their shirts off so I left satisfied LoL!! Rush concerts were amazing, but mostly sausage fests back then. Guys who liked girls, but still figuring out how to ask girls out on dates. Which apparently is what college was really mostly for.
@@Greg-io1ip That's a great story Greg - like you said, despite Roth being wasted it still turned out to be a positive for you guys! I only saw VH once live when they opened for the Stones. The volume was sooo loud that we had to move back. Fun show though. Thanks for sharing your experience - my friends will enjoy that one!😊
@@Greg-io1ip with all the deserved praise VH gets, they could be hit and miss live when dave was there because of their condition. Saw them live twice within a yr and 1 show was def better/tighter
Yes, Tone Loc sampled the drum intro and the main guitar riff for “Wild Thing”…and, while we’re at it, he sampled the main guitar sequence from Foreigner!s “Hot Blooded” and a short guitar riff from “Christine Sixteen” by Kiss for his other big hit “Funky Cold Medina”.
You should really listen to this entire debut album by Van Halen….there is so much more on it….and different.
This is where Eddie Van Halen forever changed the way people looked at and played guitar, mostly for his legendary guitar solo track “Eruption”, which is second on the record and leads straight into their fantastic version of The Kinks song “You Really Got Me”….. and don’t miss “I’m The One”, later in that album, for some amazing, complex, fast-paced rocking with an unexpected interruption towards the end!
On the early VH records Eddie’s unaffected guitar was hard panned into one side and the thick echoplex reverb on the other.
Made for a unique sound at the time.
Fun Fact: The guitarist, Eddie Van Halen was good friends with Michael Jackson and did the guitar solo on his track "Beat it"
They had Kool and the Gang on tour with them on their last tour
yall gotta do, and the cradle will rock, hear about it later or take my whiskey home. 3 bangers (classics)
Now yer cooking with gas!
Just like Zeppelin, start at the beginning and their first album to fully appreciate Van Halen.
Great reaction as always guys! I've heard this song a million times, and just realized how much this song sounds like the early Motown stuff.
You guys got me right off the start with the Ton Loc (hope i spelled that right). Was not a big fan of alot of the music, but it you got me to listen all the way through. As always fellas great reaction. Much appreciated 🙏
You guys are the best!!!!!
Would love to hang with you fellas!!!! Best channel on RUclips. 👍😊🔥🔥🔥
I knew you would catch the tone LOC ✌️
Don't get me wrong, I graduated in 76 but you are groovin, I was there for the rap game also. I saw dougy fresh, digital under ground, and a few others but can't remember cuz of the good good sticky icky and I'm a little clouded right now but appreciate what you do.....
Great reaction...
Y'all need to do the whole album...
Great catch on the Tone Loc thing. I had no idea.
I always get so annoyed when younger people who grew up listening to rap don't know who Tone Loc is. Then they listen to this song, and the thrill is gone! I'm so glad you guys immediately caught it. Backing vocals for VH during these days are usually Eddie and bassist, Michael Anthony, with some DLR on the studio versions, so yeah, just about the whole band. VH backing vocals are just as iconic as the guitar. When you hear it, you immediately know it's Van Halen.
Eddie also played gutair solos for MJ Albums
Now you're talking baby!!!
That opening beat? that Tone Loc used for 'Wild Thing"? Van Halen wrote it and recorded this song with it. A goood friend of mine's friend (stay with me on this -lol), had the foresight in the early days of publishing rights in regards and how much $ was going to be in it, approached the group and PURCHASED the publishing rights, to JUST that opening,........for $5k in 1986. You know what kind of annual royalty checks he gets for owning the rights to that diddy? $300k a year, for over 35 yrs now. That's almost $10 mil for a $5k investment. That practice EXPLODED just after that. (see today's sampling practice)
When we all heard ToneLoc signing on, we ALL knew where he got his sample from right away. There wasn't a lot of time in between when "Jamie's Cryin' " came out and then "Wild Thing". Maybe a few years, not a lot of time for our memories of Jamie to go away.
I was 14 when my buddy brought this album over and we put the needle to the vinyl and KABAM! Total head explosion! The 1st four VH albums with David Lee Roth are their best IMHO. (But I do dig Sammy Hagar too. :-)
Those were good times Randy. We would be at the arcade playing pinball, and someone was always playing Running with the Devil on the Jukebox. They had such a charismatic fun energy about them, I think everybody loved it...
@@twobeer3316 Pinball at the arcade! Now you are making me sentimental, two beer! Haha
Van Halen and Black Sabbath have similar paths in terms of their band instability and switching out lead singers. Now to me, Black Sabbath are on Mt Olympus with Rush, Pink, Zep, Beatles and a few others where Van Halen won't be. But Van Halen was making great music. Party rock, but it wasn't fake music and didn't need agents and singing shows on TV to sell itself. Unfortunately Van Halen did indeed bring the party full tilt wherever they were and Roth didn't have the sobriety and stamina after all those orgies or something. But early Van Halen was groundbreaking and great. Every kid in suburbia had a Van Halen phase or story to relate to.
@@randyallaben9900 Mom, can I have a couple quarters?! Thinking back, that was a cheap for our parents to get some peace and quiet for a few hours. Lol. Of course, Captain Fantastic was my favorite. I play pinball every Tuesday, thinking about buying one for the house!
@two beer why were there always a few guys that could play Foosball with skills like actual soccer players? The ball control was crazy.
Back in those days they did not play white rock and black R&B on the same radio stations, but as soon as you heard the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat It" you know that was Eddie van Halen.
Great background music for doin the Wild Thing!😂 Horizontal Mambo…
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Thanks!
Love your guys reactions to VH!😀👌
Entire first album is all killer no filler.
Picked that one up in two notes, good ear!
Eddie Van Halen was an Incredibly gifted musician. ....He was arguably the best rock guitarist ever. ....Although there were some other great guitarists in his league....he was so.... Absolutely Brilliant on that guitar.
Would have hit this yesterday but such a earworm .
Tone-Loc sampled for: "Wild Thing".
(I made a mistake and said ""Funky Cold Medina" earlier 🤦-dumbass!🙄)
--A 100%, stone, classic (as is everything VAN HALEN recorded from 1978-1984, actually).🌩🌩⚡⚡⚡⚡🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Funky Cold Medina. Yes!!!
It's funny, I was a kid when VH debut came out (9 years old) the day I heard the new Tone-Loc tune I instantly knew it was sampled from early VH.
@@michaelfried3123 Of course!
...As I did and so did every other kid I knew, as well! 😛😛
...but it was a cool expropriation of the song, I thought!
@@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra classic rock spawned a lot of what was later to become known as hip hop thru use of sampling. I'm so glad I grew up when I did, we had the best music ever!
@@AirplayBeats I F'ed-it-up, man! 🤦🤦🙄
"Funky Cold Medina"actually, samples a Foreigner guitar-blast [from: "Hot Blooded" -as I recall!🤔] a KISS riff and ...there's something else, in there, too (I can't recall what, right now...) ...but: yeah: You were correct.
Tone took "Jamie's Cryin'" for "Wild Thing".
Yeap!
In 1984 I bought their record 1984. Their biggest album. I turned 12 that year. I'm trying to justify putting VH onto a Metal mix. Perhaps the 1984 song Girl Gone Bad 🎸🔥🥁
I saw VH in 1978 in Indianapolis. They opened for Rush and Black Sabbath and VH blew them both off the stage. 1st time I had ever heard of them. Went out the next day and bought this album.
I listen to you guys often on UTube television. I am anxiously waiting for another reactionI. I really like your reactions and insight. I would like a reaction to Eric Burdon: 'Spill the Wine' 1970 LIVE I think you'll really like it. I also have always loved Van Halen (they rock) and this song....my names Jani!! PLEASE!!
We can do that song for you Jani. Thanks for rocking with the us!!
NICE!!! great song...when this first came out.....WOW WEE!! ATOMIC PUNK next please...you guys should also do ERUPTION Studio VERSION....mind blowing!!
but this song came out quite a few years before wild thing... I loved wild thing and I never realized.
Released: February 10, 1978
You were correct on Ton Loc Wild Thing!!
Y'all are cracking me up!! Nice sh#t!!!
I remember when this album debut i was in the 8th grade. New sound we went ape shit😂
U guys are the 1st guys to pick up on Tone Loc sampling the drum riff and the guitar wa wa
Great Stuff VH
Never listened to Tone other than funky cold, but seen him in a movie or two and some interviews.....Tone is Rifhteous. Fine Man.....and I miss Afros. Brothas look great in a tight fro......
Yesterday I watched Ace Ventura Pet Detective..it has been years since Ive watched it and totally forgot Tone Loc was in that movie!
Great channel! Ty.
Hey La and Che; You know Eddie's guitar now? If you haven't already, go listen to the guitar solo in Beat It. 🔥🔥🔥
Eddie recorded it on the sly--can you imagine when the rest of the band heard it? Good times!
I'm pretty sure the rhythm guitar was also sampled for that Ton Loc song.
Nice catch on the Tone Loc! That lick after Dave sings “Jamie’s crying” is the melody for his hook “Wild Thing” (it might be in a slightly different key; my ears aren’t perfect lol)
Might I recommend Van Halen - Ice Cream Man. That will be fun!
Great song choice, fellas 👏🏼 If you wanna hear one of their bangers, check out Summer Nights. This song was recorded with their second vocalist, Sammy Hagar off their album 5150 (1986). This is the first song they wrote together on the first day they jammed together 🤘🏼🔥⚡️
You guys catch a lot of groups sampling !
Eddie made fun of the guitar riff on "Wild Thing" saying "that's my sound."