Van Halen Before the Breakthrough | Documentary - "Edward Van Halen: A Musician" (Part 4)
Vložit
- čas přidán 3. 03. 2024
- An unofficial, fan-made documentary on the life and career of Eddie Van Halen.
This fourth part covers the completion of the classic Van Halen lineup, as well as the struggles Edward and the band faced before making their breakthrough.
It features some previously unreleased photos and documents, courtesy of early Van Halen promoter and photographer Daniel Sullivan. An extra special thank you to Daniel for all his help.
Music by Ceiri Torjussen (under license from Audio Network)
Thanks (in no particular order) to:
Alan Berry
Daniel Sullivan
Dave Swantek
Jan Velasco Kosharek
Julian Pollack
Jas Obrecht
Dave & Dave Unchained Podcast
Adam Roach
Johnny Beane
Steve Rosen
Recommended reading:
Buy Greg Renoff's Van Halen Rising bitly.ws/3aG7h
Buy Steve Rosen's Tonechaser (3rd Edition) bitly.ws/3aG8b
Buy Elizabeth Wiley's Could This Be Magic bitly.ws/3aG7q
Buy Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill's Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen bit.ly/43nkIOj
Buy Noel Monk's Runnin' With The Devil bit.ly/3OCElxW
Buy Paul Brannigan's Eruption: The Eddie Van Halen Story bitly.ws/3aLcP
Dude, can't get enough of this stuff. I can't believe it's 2024 and the way things are now.. I remember 1978 like it was yesterday all because of Van Halen. Keep up the great work, I wish there was something I could do to help, it's so great. Subscribed. rip evh.
Thanks so much for saying all that man. And you're already helping by writing and subscribing 👍🏻 Means a lot 😊
The production value is TOP shelf. Thank you for the thousands of hours that you’ve put into this. 🙏🙏 I’m sharing with everyone I know.
I really appreciate that man. It is a lot of hours! But totally worth it when people respond like you have. Thank you 🙏🏻
This well done! I really enjoyed all of them. ❤
Thanks for that 👍🏻 It's been a lot of work, and still more to come, but comments like this make it worthwhile. Really appreciate it.
Watching now!
Well, what did you think? 😉
Great stuff! Long live the King of swing!!
Thanks! Hope this plays a small part in keeping his memory alive.
Michael Anthony gets beat on a lot by a lot of people and I just don't get it. You take his vocals out and a MASSIVE part of Van Halen dies, it's a secret sauce and it worked with Sammy in Van Halen, too. That chorus in 'Love Walks In'? Crazy good.
Quite simply the greatest backing singer in rock history to me. Worked especially well on the first two albums, but he always had a great range and still does today.
Also, you take the guitarist out, it's just not quite the same band
@@danfoss1535
Obviously, bro. I'm just saying, as a BAND, Anthony had a great role and his contribution helped the songs.
Eddie WAS Van Halen, he wrote ALL the songs.
Eddie sang the chorus in Love Walks In as well as Michael.
Great Job on this!
Cool stuff!! Can't wait for the rest of the series!!
Another belter!
This was great, really enjoying the series so far! Can't wait for the next part 🤘🎸
This is good! Thank you!
Glad to hear it! Thanks.
Great video. Thanks for sharing it.
Thank you very much for saying. It hasn't been easy, especially with views really trailing off recently and me not being able to understand why. But comments like this help keep the motivation up. I appreciate it 😊
Great job. Loving this series
Thank you! - very glad to hear. Appreciate you letting me know.👍
Great documentary , really looking forward to each new part. Really nice style to it. Incredible persistence from the band to hang in there. Reminds me a little of the Anvil movie, it might be rock n roll, but there is little glamour when you're hustling at the start to get your name out there and keep the dream alive
Awesome stuff! Please keep going with this! Very well done!
Thanks a lot - I hope to. Working on the fifth part now, which should be out early next week. I might take some break after that, but hope to do more covering the 1978-1984 era, and before that would like to do some extra episodes covering Ed's gear and technique.
Another great video Simon😊. Looking forward to the final part of this series.🎉
Thanks a million Dan 😊 Not sure if the fifth one will be the final part, but it'll be the last one for a little while at least - need a break 😅
Very well done! Saw some photos and heard some audio I hadn’t before. Great job pulling it all together into a great narrative!
Thanks again! When the hardcore fans tell me that something is new to them, that's some of the coolest feedback I can get 😊 Really glad you like it 👍🏻
Seen all parts up until now and looking forward to more. Please keep doing these. Subscribed.
Thank you for that. I would like to keep doing them, even though views etc. seem to have crashed a bit. Kind words and gestures like yours help a lot though - it means a great deal 👍🏻
I love that handwritten note from Dave to collect a payment!
Thanks - yeah it's really cool. Huge credit to Daniel Sullivan for that and for some of the previously unseen photos in the episode.
Loving the series so far, so well made. 🍻🤘
Thanks Alan - means a lot coming from you man 😊
AWESOME!!!
Thanks - it means a lot cos this one took a lot of work the past week or two. Tell your friends!
Right on , Thx
Thank you!
Great job on this!👍
And thanks for this, it means a lot! One funny thing referring to your username - I heard an interview with Ed from 1980 (two years before Spinal Tap came out), where he talks about turning up to eleven. Probably just coincidence, but who knows if that wasn't the influence for that Nigel Tufnell dialogue?
@@iconsremembered Yeah dave freidman the amp maker tell's how eddie would turn every knob to 10 then still say he wished it had more!🤣
I am sure Eddie had something to do with the going to 11 reference in that movie.
Great 🤘
Special musicians Mike,Al,Ed,Dave - and yes, Sammy too
I hope there's more.. I love the photos of old newspaper articles! I hope for this to succeed, but will tell you that everyone I know has listened to every Obrecht/Rosen interview, and probably read every book. The more specific (quotes, for example) the better. I've posted this on a few music sites and hope you see a bump today.
Thanks for the comments - it's all pretty valid. I understand what you mean, and I realise the hardcore fans will have seen/heard most of this. But I am still trying to occasionally uncover something new. And if not, then at least I think there's something valid in arranging and presenting the stuff in (hopefully) a decent way. Aside from some exceptions (especially Alan's 1984 doc), I feel like that hasn't been done enough.
It's also worth saying that this isn't only aimed at the hardcore fanbase. Of course, I want them to like it, but I hope that this will appeal beyond the long-time fans and be something that can also show and tell newcomers a little about EVH and the band.
Even though i ALWAYS sided with Ed(been a Ed head since 1978) and Alex i still do respect a lot of the things Dave brought to the band and i often wondered? How ego'ed out could he really have been in the earliest days? I mean it was Dave that suggested and was all for naming the Band after the two brothers.
Egomaniac's do not do something like that because it takes the focus off of them. I think Dave was just a intensely eccentric person who could come off as a jerk
if you did not get his humor. He certainly is one of a kind you gotta give him that!😁
For what it's worth, I completely agree. I'm sure Dave became very difficult to deal with as time went on, but in the early days, I do think there was a sense of "all for one, one for all" about the band. Up until about 1981 or so, I think the band was still mostly a family. Ed said as much in interviews.
Dave was/is complex, eccentric and not well-adjusted to normal relationships (he's said this himself in interviews), but he was extremely driven and had a grand vision for the band. As much of a genius as Ed was (and Al was very talented too), I do think there's every chance that without Dave, the VH brothers might never have made it.
@@iconsremembered 👍 That last part i have seriously thought myself. I think it took all of them as a unit for the chemistry that made them
so sought after.
I have really enjoyed watching all 4 parts of this documentary. I listened to your interview about the doc on the Dave and Dave unchained podcast. I am sure that this endeavor is a ton of work on your end. I know we have one more installment to come which I am looking forward to. Have you considered possibly continuing to make more parts beyond part 5 once the band had become successful (past 1978 and their first record)?
Hi, and thanks for saying all that - really happy to hear. Yeah, I hope to do that, but I guess it depends on a few things - one is that I have to find a way to get permission to use photography of the band without infringing too much on copyrights etc.
It also depends on whether the audience maintains or keeps growing with these parts - if people stop watching, then I'd have to think about whether it's worth the work. Not financially necessarily (I don't think I'll ever make much or any money out of this), but more that it feels more worth doing if you know there's a public appetite for it and people dig it.
The final challenge is that it's maybe trickier to cover the years from 1978 without using the music. That's one I really have to think about!
But in general, I would certainly like to do more. And comments like yours help with the motivation to do it, so thanks again 😊
BRAVO!!! STELLAR!!!
Wow, thank you for that! Can't get over how positive the comments are sometimes, but it means a lot 😊
@@iconsremembered Beautifully put together with perfect pictures, audio and editing. I hope you continue at least through the Diamond Dave years including A Different Kind Of Truth 2012!
SWEET JESUS!!!
Will there be anymore of these episodes?
Hi, yes I'm working on part 5 at the moment. Hoping to have it out by Tuesday or Wednesday this coming week. That'll be the end of this initial run covering the early years, but I'm intending to do more after a short break.
@@iconsremembered man you are awesome, thank you for doing this.
@@robhasenwinkle Really appreciate that man. It's a lot of work, but really motivating when people like it. I'll keep going as long as I can 👍🏻
EVH
He didn't graduate High School I heard he got kicked out over drugs.
He's definitely said in an interview with Jas Obrecht that he got kicked out of school for smoking pot, but I think he was talking about junior high. I'm quite certain he graduated from PHS. His graduation photo (two versions of which are used in this part) is there in the 1973 yearbook.
@@iconsremembered Thank you !
OK...maybe this has been asked but why in the hell is Roth missing teeth?
Think he says in that Joe Rogan interview that it happened falling off his bike. It's weird in that clip - he looks really unkempt compared to normal. Seems a little better lately though.
EDWARD WAS IS AND STAY THE BEST,, BUT I HAD A VISION FROM THE AFTERLIFE THAT EDWARDS GIFT GO ON ,ON WOLFGANG, SO WE WILL HERE HEAR MORE VAN HALEN, I HOPE WOLFGANG WILL DO SOME WITH MY PALL ALEX VAN HALEN. JUST FOR THE LOVE OF THAT SUPER OCTOPUS DRUMMER, THE ALEX AND WOLF PROJECT HOLLAND LOVE VANHALEN AFZ. BOR777 ❤❤❤