From DelcoTimes.com: Rock Music Menu: Freedom’s soundtrack for going Fourth By Michael Christopher Ah, the Fourth of July; a day for fireworks, cookouts, a cold drink and maybe a dip in the pool. And whether you’re down the shore, throwing a backyard barbeque or sitting on the front lawn with your feet in a kiddie [...]
David Lee Roth’s Cryptic Message
July 2, 2011 268 Comments
Michael Anthony Clarifies Roth Comments
June 30, 2011 81 Comments
Van Halen Retrospective (Part 1)
June 6, 2011 129 Comments
Midnight Phil discusses the David Lee Roth era of his favorite band, Van Halen, in the first part of this two part retrospective. It’s basically a home-made comedic review done with a lot of effort by a young, passionate fan. We hope you enjoy it! We will feature “Part 2″ of Midnight Phil’s Van Halen [...]
The David Lee Roth Awesomeness Meter
June 1, 2011 80 Comments
From the San Francisco Chronicle: Molded by rock Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle More than 20 years later, there’s very little that I don’t remember about my first rock concert – Van Halen on the “5150″ tour at the Cow Palace in Daly City. I was 15 years old, and drank cans of Budweiser in [...]
A Brief History of the “Parodying a Bunch of Recent Videos” Music Video
May 26, 2011 79 Comments
PopDust.com has a story featuring five classic MTV videos that parody some of the iconic-but-overblown music videos of the time. One of which is David Lee Roth’s Just A Gigolo / I An’t Got Nobody” (1985). The prototypical “parodying a bunch of recent videos” (PABORV?) video, David Lee Roth used the clip for his second [...]
VAN HALEN TO HEADLINE AUSTRALIA’S SOUNDWAVE REVOLUTION MUSIC FESTIVAL
May 11, 2011 269 Comments
It’s OFFICIAL – the first confirmed VAN HALEN tourdates for 2011 have been announced! VAN HALEN will headline SOUNDWAVE REVOLUTION, an annual music festival held in major cities around Australia. The confirmed festival dates: Brisbane – September 24 Sydney – September 25 Melbourne – September 30 Adelaide – October 1 Perth – October 3 SOUNDWAVE [...]
David Lee Roth’s Hand-Written Fair Warning Lyric Sheets Unveiled
May 6, 2011 71 Comments
We have something very special for the last day of “Fair Warning Week”, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Van Halen’s fourth album. In front of your naked steaming eyes–David Lee Roth’s original hand-written lyric sheets! These contain the original (but not final) lyrics for all four songs contained on “side A” of Van Halen’s Fair Warning [...]
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary Van Halen’s Fair Warning
April 28, 2011 241 Comments
To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Van Halen’s magnum opus, we’re declaring it “Fair Warning Week” at VHND, were we’re featuring a different story about the album every day for the next seven days. Happy Birthday, Fair Warning. On April 29th, 1981, Van Halen unleashed their darkest album. From the opening out-of-this-world sounds of “Mean [...]
Q&A with Sammy Hagar autobiography author Joel Selvin
April 26, 2011 240 Comments
Examiner.com conducted a rare interview with Joel Selvin, the author of Sammy Hagar’s bestselling autobiography, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock. Excerpts are below. One milestone that Sammy’s always stood by—and it appears again in Red—that I’ve always been confused by is his insistence that he sold more records with Van Halen than David Lee [...]
Rudolph and Michael Schenker on Van Halen
April 25, 2011 48 Comments
Rudolph Schenker (Scorpions) and brother Michael Schenker (Scorpions, U.F.O., Michael Schenker Group, etc) discuss Van Halen. From the book, Van Halen 101, by Abel Sanchez. Rudolph Schenker I have known Edward since 1979, when Van Halen played in Hamburg while supporting Black Sabbath (a great concert). Klaus and I were sitting in the fourth row, [...]
