Alex Van Halen - ISOLATED Drum Track "Hang Em High" Van Halen "Diver Down" (2015 ReMastered)
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- Diver Down is the fifth studio album by American rock band Van Halen, released on April 14, 1982. It spent 65 weeks on the album chart in the United States and had, by 1998, sold four million copies in the United States.
Background and recording:
Five of the twelve songs on the album are covers, the most popular being the cover of "(Oh) Pretty Woman", a Roy Orbison song. Eddie Van Halen recalled how the album came about:
When we came off the Fair Warning tour last year [1981], we were going to take a break and spend a lot of time writing this and that. Dave [Lee Roth] came up with the idea of, 'Hey, why don't we start off the new year with just putting out a single?' He wanted to do 'Dancing in the Streets.' He gave me the original Martha Reeves & the Vandellas tape, and I listened to it and said, 'I can't get a handle on anything out of this song.' I couldn't figure out a riff, and you know the way I like to play: I always like to do a riff, as opposed to just hitting barre chords and strumming. So I said, 'Look, if you want to do a cover tune, why don't we do 'Pretty Woman'? It took one day. We went to Sunset Sound in L.A., recorded it, and it came out right after the first of the year. It started climbing the charts, so all of a sudden Warner Bros. is going, 'You got a hit single on your hands. We gotta have that record.' We said, 'Wait a minute, we just did that to keep us out there, so that people know we're still alive.' But they just kept pressuring, so we jumped right back in without any rest or time to recuperate from the tour, and started recording. We spent 12 days making the album... it was a lot of fun.
Three of the original songs were around long before the album was made. "Hang 'Em High" can trace its roots back to 1976 as "Last Night", which had the same music but different lyrics. "The Full Bug" borrows heavily from a demo track called "The Bottom Line" (not the track of the same name released on Roth's 1988 album Skyscraper) that leaked in 2023 and "Cathedral" was played in its final form throughout 1981 with earlier versions going back to 1980. Additionally, "Happy Trails" had been recorded for their 1977 demos.
"Where Have All the Good Times Gone" is a cover of a song by The Kinks. During the band's bar-playing days, vocalist David Lee Roth bought a budget label Kinks double album, and Van Halen learned all of the songs on one side to use as staples of their set. Eddie Van Halen created the effects in the guitar solo by running the edge of his pick up and down the strings and using an Echoplex.
"Cathedral" was so named because the band members thought it sounded like a Catholic church organ.
"Little Guitars" was inspired by the flamenco guitar playing of Carlos Montoya. Eddie Van Halen found he was unable to imitate Montoya's finger picking, so he used a pick as an assist. Roth, who thought the music Eddie Van Halen came up with sounded Mexican (Montoya was actually Spanish), wrote lyrics intended to evoke that nation. The guitar used on the recording (and subsequent tour) was a miniature Les Paul, built by Nashville luthier David Petschulat and sold to Eddie on the earlier Fair Warning Tour.
Covering "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)" was Roth's idea, as was having Eddie and Alex Van Halen's father Jan play clarinet on the track.
Personnel: Van Halen
David Lee Roth - lead vocals, synthesizer on "Intruder", acoustic guitar and harmonica on "The Full Bug"
Eddie Van Halen - electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, synthesizer on "Dancing in the Street"
Michael Anthony - bass guitar, backing vocals
Alex Van Halen - drums, backing vocals on “Happy Trails”
Additional personnel:
Jan Van Halen - clarinet on "Big Bad Bill"
Production:
Richard Aaron - photography
Pete Angelus - art direction
Ken Deane - engineer
Donn Landee - engineer
Jo Motta - project coordinator
Richard Seireeni - art direction
Ted Templeman - producer
Neil Zlozower - photography - Sport
Alex is a beast! Hard to believe 2 accomplished musicians came out of one family. Incredible odds. One of the best drummers and guitarists in our time.
Great isolation. Drums sound amazing. Nobody really talks about how good the drums sounded on Diver Down. All acoustic, no Simmons pads.
It's when he really started getting his signature snare sound. So true, I actually like the sound of his drums on this album. Tight and focused, playing was fantastic...that helps.
This is the only album they recorded at Warner Brothers Studio. The first 4 were at sunset sound. This was WB and 1984 was 5150. I alwys felt this album had the best sound too. Truly love this album. Eddie hated it but it’s top 3 for me with FW being my fav.
So underrated as a drummer . Love it
Not underrated, he is frikin badass and everyone knows it! AVH
The King Of The Rocket-Boogie .... Man, I wish he would play again ...
GOTTA LOVE ALEX. HIS DRUMMING ON “HANG ‘EM HIGH” WAS SO AWESOME.🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
The most beautiful snare sound of all times !!!❤❤❤
The swing is astounding! I played jazz in college, hard to believe how they both were conjoined with this incredible feel as brothers.
That snare 😍🥰❤️
The double bass is awesome!!!
It’s a clever shuffle. So good.
The first time I saw Van Halen I was actually more impressed with Alex than I was with Eddie.
Alex's meter is impeccable.
sounds amazing!!
"THE MIGHTY ALEX VAN HALEN!!!"
Just a whole bunch of 🤘. Alex VH Rules.
hell yaaaa ,,, rock n roll ... alex is so unique .... even for the fact that he sold his entire equipement .... that brothership was something else
Just brilliant❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Never noticed the double kick section! Killer
Diver down was one my favs for his drum sound. Excellent!
When I was in High School and the First Van Halen album broke- of course Eddie’s guitar, MA on bass and vocals DLR fronting it was easy to sort of overlook the force that made them Van Halen. Thank you Alex - enjoy your place in music history 👍 you earned it.
AVH has always had one of the most distinctlive drum sounds for me. That snare sound is iconic.
It's a song in itself.
Coked up Van Halen is the best 🤘🤘
Agreed.
😂
Damn, that's a serious drum kit
Great
Monster
Alex rules. How tough must it have been for him to be this good and have to take a backseat to his brother? In any other band, Alex would've gotten much more of the spotlight.
...and never really discussed "His" playing ...it was always about, Ed. Brotherly Love
Maybe it's because of Alex's impeccable timing that made his brother sound so good.
Modern punk drumming years befor
Alex Alex you bad mf
🥁👑
Needs more Cowbell~!!!
What are the parts with the holes for?
nothing. Looks/ you won't see that crap in the studio with him
@@morbidmanmusic oh i see. thanks for the explanation
@@morbidmanmusiche actually said, aside from looking cool, he thought they helped focus the bottom end frequencies, too-similar to the modern day invention Kick Port.
to hide the good stuff
@@SwampEye1 😏
we don't need bad stems. These don't sound like the actual tracks. More like underwater phaze shifting....
Guessing AI was used. Probably demucs which will leave behind the artifacts. Best we have though because we don’t have access to the original stems.