Yippee!
Dave Lee Roth finally rejoined Van Halen a few years ago and they have got round to making a new album, which is the first one with the original line-up (glossing over the fact that Eddie Van Halen's son Wolfgang replaced Mike Anthony on bass, they sound exactly the same) for... er... twenty-eight years.
It's not a towering work of genius like their first six albums* (politely ignoring side one of the fifth), but it's still incredibly good and Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing is as astonishing as ever. For a fuller review, click on the cover:
My new 'blog header is a line from the song "Bullethead".
* Update, having listened to it for a few days, actually it is just as good as the other albums, it's just really badly recorded/mixed.
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Van Halen: A Different Kind Of Truth
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7 comments:
Mark,
Don't know about VH. But I do like a sreamlined, NYC Hudson!
MikeW
MW, wow, that's a real existing locomotive. I assumed it was just some heavy metal fantasy of how people in the 1930s would have imagined locomotives of the year 2000.
Mark
>>towering work of genius<<
Yep - VH were awesome with Roth the first time around. VH1 was astonishing considering it was released at a time when three-chord punk ruled.
Saw them supporting Black Sabbath at Bristol Colston Hall in '77 and twice in Birmingham in 78/79. Fantastic exponents of hard rock (don't like the term Heavy Metal) before they went 'soft' with Hagar.
Actually as a teenage drummer it was Alex that really got me (!!) rather than Eddie.
Shiney
Wow, it's great! I like his style! Van Halen is a legend of world's musicians!
I've only just realised that the Van Halen brothers are the Dutch versions of Cliff and Engelbert.
SM, Alex is undoubtedly as fantastic a drummer as Eddie is a guitarist, but there's a limit to what you can do with drums, but there does not appear to be a limit to what Eddie can do with a guitar.
Anon 12.50, I knew they were born Dutch, i didn't realise they were half-Indonesian, because they look quite white-European.
dunno abaht all that but i do know 'sensible shoes' is a true rock classic
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