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| The History of Van Halen |
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| The brothers' Alex and Edward were born in Holland in 1953 and 1955 respectivly,where they lived until 1965,when the Van Halen's moved to Pasadena,California. They were a musical family. Jan,their father, was an accomplished clarinet player and Alex and Ed were bolth originally trained as concert pianists. Their interests then shifted towords more popular music,so they changed their instrument of choice;Ed's being drums,and Alex's the guitar.Ed had a paper route to pay for his drum set,so while he was out delievering them,Alex would play his drum.Eventually,Alex got better than Edward,so he started playing Alex's guitar.This seemed to work out rather nicely,so this way it stayed. After high school,playing in various cover bands,Ed was handling the lead singing duties.They rented their p.a equipment from David Lee Roth,who was in a local band "The Red Ball Jets." He had moved to Pasadena with his father from Bloomington,Indiana,in 1972.Ed,hating to sing lead vocals,convinced Dave to join the band which was later named "Mammoth." One gig they shared the bill with a band called "Snake",whose lead singer and bass player was Michael Anthony,from Chicago,Illinois.The band invited Mike to jam with them,then later asked him to join the band. Being very impressed with them,he agreed to join Mammoth. Realizing another band had layed claim to the name mammoth,the boys tossed around some new names until they finally decided upon Van Halen. while playing at a Los Angeles club called The Starwood, Gene Simmons spots them and decides to produce a demo for them, complete with car horn which served as a transition between the two songs. Ed was alittle uncomfortable in the studio,playing on someone elses' equipmentand not being used to the idea of a multi-trac recording.The demo is rejected by all major studios. In 1977, a year after making the demo, Warner Brothers produced Ted Templeman spots them at the same club Gene first saw them. He convinces partner Mo Ostinto sign the band, and in Febuary 1978 "Van Halen" is released. Six platinum albums later in 1985, Dave decided to leave the band to persue solo intrests.The band tossed around the ideaof doing an album with different singers on each song, before deciding to look for a permanent replacment. While at a Lamborghini repair shop called "Claudio's" Ed mentionsthat they are looking for a new lead vocalist. Claudio, in turn, mentions Sammy Haggar, who was in the band Montrose and now a sucessful solo artist, who's lamborghini is also in the shop. Ed calls him, and they set up a time for him to meet the band. After a short buisness meeting, they decided to jam.Eddie plays a song he has been working on, which Sammy began singing imprompt lyrics to. This song,with much of these original lyrics intact became "Summer Nights." They got along great, and the new lineup was found. Their next album was "5150,"which went to number one, a first for the band. After they had continued sucsess, with ever one of thei studio albumsbeing certified multi-platinum. Now after 11 years with Sammy Haggar, he leaves after Ed told him on the phone that because he wouldn't make any new songs for the greatest hits album, they had hired Dave to do them instead. Amist the confusion, Sammy believed he needed to be a solo artist again and left Van Halen. David Lee Roth returns to the band to be part of the greatest hits album and records two songs to be included in the material. He is not offically a member of Van Halen, because Edward was still looking for the departing Sammy Haggar. Dave finds out that he really wasn't back in the band, and finds out that the band has hired Gary Cherone as the new lead singer. Dave leaves once more probably never to return. ____________________________________________________________
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