Last year, we featured a story about a podcast from The Guardian’s film & music editor, Michael Hann, where he professes his passion for Van Halen, whom he describes as “the most important and influential white rock band apart from the Beatles.” Hann really gets how Van Halen totally reinvented hard rock and how David Lee Roth helped make them much more interesting than the other rock bands at the time.
VHND reader DrGuitaritis created a video from that podcast. Watch the video below.
Warning: After watching this video, you might feel compelled to concede that Van Halen is the most important, most influential rock band ever to have set foot on Planet Earth. There is – as yet – no treatment for this condition, so proceed with care…