There is a new documentary about the life of artist William Kurelek, who’s painting, “The Maze” was used
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 [...]
Kicks Like You Ain’t Never Seen: Van Halen’s Fair Warning Album and Tour
May 4, 2011 82 Comments
Marriage delayed work on the band’s fourth album. Torn between his new domestic bliss and a helter-skelter career in Van Halen, Eddie grew disillusioned with the band and wanted to quit. In his book Kiss and Make-up, Gene Simmons reported that a distraught Eddie at least halfheartedly made motions toward defecting Van Halen and joining [...]
The Story Behind Van Halen’s Fair Warning Album Cover Art
May 2, 2011 35 Comments
When Van Halen fans first listened to a copy of the Fair Warning album in the early eighties, few could miss the fact that the band’s sunny subject matter had turned to a more somber and threatened perspective. This tone was set by the album’s opening track “Mean Street”, and was continued through a song-cycle [...]
Dark Victory: Billy Corgan assesses his favorite Van Halen album, Fair Warning
April 30, 2011 51 Comments
It’s Day 2 of VHND’s “Fair Warning Week” celebrating 30 years of Fair Warning. So grab a cold one. First, here’s what Smashing Pumkins founder, Billy Corgan, said about the album (from the April 1996 edition of Guitar World): If you’ve ever seen the “Unchained” video, you’ve seen a band at its public epiphany. Beautiful [...]
