Eddie Van Halen on Black Sabbath documentary
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Eddie Van Halen appears on the new Black Sabbath special airing this month on the Biography channel. The Van Halen interview was filmed this Spring and edited into several short clips sprinkled into the episode.
He also appears very briefly in parts 1, 3, and 7, found on Youtube.
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July 28th, 2010 at 4:55 am
Love hearing a great black sabbath story , theres a few with Gillan that are funny as .
Great to see Eddie in good health and seems pretty happy .
Black Sabbath with Van Halen wow that wld of been a great concert n a funky ride
July 28th, 2010 at 5:21 am
Ed is a class act.
July 28th, 2010 at 5:38 am
Great vid…wow what a story these guys have and this is only 7 minutes hah. I would lvoe to see this whole thing. Van Halen and Black Sabbath…sheesh I can’t even tell ya what I would pay to see that! Amazing, amazing. =VH=
July 28th, 2010 at 6:33 am
Definitely looking forward to seeing the whole documentary! Both are amazing bands. Great clip until that phony Sharon pokes in at the end. Well…at least it wasn’t her spoiled whiny kids…
July 28th, 2010 at 8:09 am
Hmmm. What ever happened to OZ after Sabbath?
July 28th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Wow Eddie looks so good, so happy, healthy and full of energy!!!!!!
…..ok, ok…someone had to say it.
July 28th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Ha ha, so funny to see Ozzy has his own subtitles!!! He`s talking English guys! And yep, Ed looks great, nice to hear him just talking normally about whatever without having to worry about what everyone will read into it.
July 28th, 2010 at 9:57 am
Great segment!
July 28th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Ed looks and sounds great!! If Ed ever does the solo thing with different singers, I would love to see ED, Alex and Ozzy write a song together!! Could you imagine???
July 28th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Looks like must see TV!
July 28th, 2010 at 11:06 am
It’s a little sad to think Van Halen ended the career of the Sabs, but heavy metal had become too stale and depressing by the late 70′s. Thankfully, the party-loving dudes from Pasadena stormed onto the scene and brought the fun back into rock ‘n roll when it was about to die at the hands of punk and disco.
Still, it would’ve been awesome to be backstage on that 1978 tour. Can you imagine a wild man like Ozzy teaching a young Dave and Eddie how to act like hedonistic rock gods on the road? The amount of booze and drugs and pussy on that tour had to be insane.
As a side note, I’ve always longed for a 2-hour “Behind the Music” special on Van Halen, or something similar on the Biography Channel. A really interesting documentary with all parties involved just airing out the truth as it happened. Probably wont ever happen because of the bad blood with Hagar and Mike but I’d love to hear Dave and Eddie talk about those early years from their unique viewpoints.
July 28th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Cool shit!!!!
July 28th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
oh my god.. you guys.. I think Eddie was trying to deliver us a message about a new album in the Black Sabbath interview on the Biography Channel… I mean it says right there.. they edited his interview into several smaller pieces.. what did they cut out?????? It has to be about Dave!!!
July 28th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
good to see Eddie !
cool!
July 28th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Roth Zealot you did it again . You said exactly what i was thinking ! Are you my long lost Brother! Thats the problem with being a Van Halen Fan . No DVDS no b sides , no bootlegs nothing! Hey I still want that bromance !
July 28th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Man wrong hotel room hahaha classic Ozzy nice insights from Eddie its always coo lto see 5150 studios lurking i nthe background with the prototype wolfgangs on the all and frankenstrat ect…. Haha badass stories too
July 28th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Just watched the whole thing and now i wanna rock!!!!!
Great show!!
July 28th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
I did watch the Sabbath bio and it was a great show, aside from Ed’s commentary. Would Have really neat to hear some more from Ed on how that tour in ’78 was so wild and more funny Ozzy stories and I’ll bet he’s got quite a few.
July 28th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Screw Sabbath, where’s the =VH= documentary??
July 28th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Off Topic But:
You know who does a great job of releasing their archeived material?…….AC/DC. Why wouldn’t the task master (Ed) allow for any filming of VH gigs ….shit they would have had video footage to trump Motley, Leppard and GNR and think about the girls. Oh, baby.
July 28th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
We all know when it comes to marketing,”EVERYBODY” in the vh camp is clueless.Since Ed has a heartfull of hatred toward Mike and the fans alike,archives will never be released.
July 28th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
I believe that when VH opened for BS in ’79 in Anaheim, they parachuted onto the stage.
Now how could BS ever hope to top that??
July 29th, 2010 at 8:22 am
Arthur, that was the US Fest in the early 80′s. And they actually used stunt doubles to parachute in and then the actual band ran onto stage in the same clothes so everyone thought it was them. It was a great DAVE idea. Needless to say it was still very cool.
July 29th, 2010 at 8:47 am
I heard the ’79 Anaheim parachute jump was just a PR hoax — actual skydivers did the jump and then the band came out in jumpsuits to fool the crowd?
Then again, Eddie is seen wearing those silly pink parachute pants in the “Live Without A Net” video so maybe Van Halen does know how to skydive after all. Dave climbs 2000-ft. sheer cliffs for fun so I know he’s up for the adrenaline rush. Somehow, I cant see wimps like Mikey and Alex jumping out of an airplane!
July 29th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
The famed parachute gig was actually on Sept. 23, 1978, at Anaheim Stadium (nearly five years before the US Festival). It is true that stunt doubles parachuted out of a plane, and looked to be headed for the stage before changing course and landing behind the backstage area (out of view of the fans). Van Halen then ran onstage in duplicate parachute outfits as if it had been the jumpers.
Boston was the headliner, Black Sabbath just below them and then Van Halen. And who preceeded Van Halen? None other than Sammy Hagar. Eddie met Sammy for the first time earlier in the day.
There was a story on all this in Issue 14 of the Inside magazine.
July 31st, 2010 at 7:00 am
I love that Ozzy needs subtitles. He does speak a different language
July 31st, 2010 at 8:12 am
Sharon’s hot!!
July 31st, 2010 at 1:21 pm
With that interview with Ed, it makes me wonder IF Biography Channel is ACTUALLY doing a bio on =VH=…
THAT WOULD ABSOLUTELY KICK AZZ!!!
August 1st, 2010 at 12:04 pm
eddie looks well!!! i bet that wall behind him is worth a few bob aswell.
August 18th, 2010 at 11:09 am
“As a side note, I’ve always longed for a 2-hour “Behind the Music” special on Van Halen, or something similar on the Biography Channel”
‘Probably won’t happen. Eddie has everyone clamped shut.
Roth didn’t say a word to the press on the last tour.
I guess Eddie learned not to air his laundry out in public after the Roth/Sammy feuds. Biography would have to do the cheesy version like they do with other bands, they can’t play the original music and they would interview people “close to the band”. It would be a dissappointment to all true VH fans.