Music with the VINTAGE VAN HALEN SOUND
Every now and then we get reminded of why we love Van Halen so much. It happens on sunny days when “Beautiful Girls” or “D.O.A.” comes on blaring through the radio, or at night when we hear “House of Pain” or “Romeo Delight”. Or when we come across an old bootleg video of a tour we wish we had seen.
Well, the last time we were reminded why we love VH so much happened to be when we were surfing the internet and stumbled across a musician who wrote and recorded some original music that we think TRULY captures the sounds and feel of old Van Halen.
His name is Craig Parker Adams. He’s a California guitar player who wrote and recorded some songs that we feel have the essence of vintage VH. The music from his homemade Youtube videos blew us away.
We thought about doing a news feature about his music for the VHND. We wondered, would our readers want to hear about some music that was NOT written by Van Halen, but which, in our opinion, kicks some serious butt and SOUNDS like early Van Halen? Since there is no word on when Van Halen themselves will be making new music anytime soon, we figured we might as well share these songs with all the Van Halen fans out there. If people like Craig’s music HALF as much as we at the VHND do, it will be well worth it!
It turns out, he couldn’t get enough of the vintage Van Halen sound, and he got tired of waiting for Van Halen to crank out some more of it, so he decided to take matters into his own hands and write some instrumentals that sound like Roth-era Van Halen.
So, here are three of his instrumentals that sound the most like early Van Halen. Hope you enjoy them!
| “HOLD EVERYTHING” sample: |
“FIVE NINE” sample: |
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“POSSIBLE” sample: |
To purchase the full songs: All 6 of Craig’s instrumentals are available for just 99 cents each. Purchase them at iTunes, or at Amazon. Craig’s Youtube page, and Myspace page. To read more about these songs & to read a short interview we conducted with Craig, just click the “Read the rest” link, below. |
