Van Halen
Creem – America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine, Reviewed Issue By Issue – May 1984 (Volume 15, Number 12)
too clever for our own good
Creem – America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine, Reviewed Issue By Issue – September 1983 (Volume 15, Number 4)
so ready to buy recognition with cash
Creem – America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine, Reviewed Issue By Issue –September 1982 (Volume 14, Number 4)
if the question is could a white musician still drop the “n” word in conversation in 1982, the answer is yes
Creem – America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine, Reviewed Issue By Issue – October 1981 (Volume 13, Number 5)
Parlaying screaming chariots of thud
The 1,001 Greatest Songs of the 20th Century – 320 to 311
an articulation of unadulterated joy
A Search For An Anthem For 2020: 45 Songs To Describe This Year
it’s a year difficult to define by one single mood
Eddie Van Halen Detaches From Terra Firma With One Final Jump
Eddie achieved his dream and got us all dreaming
Eddie Van Halen Dead Of Cancer at 65: Here Is A Live Review: Van Halen At Madison Square Garden, Thursday, March 1st, 2012
RIP to the legendary guitarist
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 710 to 701
“Sammy Hagar never could have pulled any of this off”
Medium Cool: Best Talk Show Hosts Week Of March 30th, 2015
Van Halen are an immaculate conception: the bastard child of Jimmy Page and Groucho Marx. And they were immaculate on stage, they did no more and no less than every single thing they had to do.” They are back on tour this summer but I ain’t going Jone’s Beach on a Tuesday night so this great expectation at Jimmy Kimmel will have to do.
10 Songs: Friday, March 6th, 2015
“Van Halen are an immaculate conception: the bastard child of Jimmy Page and Groucho Marx. And they were immaculate on stage, they did no more and no less than every single thing they had to do.” That’s what I wrote about the tour this song is culled from, nearly exactly three years ago – A