Here's a make you feel old post for the old guys...

[Hellbat]

40 Years ago today, Van Halen ( aka VH1 ) was released. The track I always wanted to hear the most off that album wasn't "Eruption"or "Atomic Punk". The one I always repeated was "Ice Cream Man". I love all the dynamics changes and the full tilt boogie it turns into.

 

[pauly]

Nooooooooo!

 

[Sixstring]

It doesn't seem that long ago to me

 

[Axehole]

It doesn't seem that long ago to me

Then I've got bad news for you, my friend

 

[USMC_Trev]

I was almost 3 and a half years old. My mom played 1984 a lot. Amazing stuff for a 4th grader.

 

[dpeterson]

Remember my mom buying it for me at K-Mart.

 

[R.D.]

Just like the generation before us remembers where they were the day JFK was assassinated ....

I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when my buddy showed up with an 8-Track of V.H.I ....

Completely changed my "musical" life !

 

[Sixstring]

Then I've got bad news for you, my friend

And that is...??

 

[Axehole]

And that is...??

That we're old. I say "we" because I'm right there with you!

 

[Rain]

I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for this Album....

 

[Sixstring]

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I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for this Album....

Here Here! The Album that changed my guitar path!

 

[Muad'zin]

I unpacked my old record collection a few days ago, having recently moved. Surprise surprise there were two Van Halen albums in it, VH-1 and the one where they all stand next to Eddie holding an Explorer. And I'm not even a Van Halen fan. Never listened to a single album of them. How they made it into my collection, who knows?

 

[aens]

Who's Van Halen?



jk

 

[unix-guy]

We are all F@@king old!

 

[Geezerjohn]

I am the Geeze. I had my first paid gig 14 years before that album was released. 'Nuff said.

 

[paranoid]

Didn't that album just come out yesterday?

 

[Geezerjohn]

Didn't that album just come out yesterday?

I think it was the day before yesterday.

 

[Project Mayhem]

I was 11 when that album came out. Changed everything.
Saved up until I could afford to buy it....from the record section of the local hardware store.

That record was the match that started everything for me in the beginning and has stood the test of time ever since.

 

[nccarg]

As a resident of small-town Alabama I didn't hear about Van Halen until after the 2nd album came out. I was in junior high for those of you keeping score. And Hellbat, Ice Cream man was my favorite VH song to perform.

 

[Genghis]

Yeah, I heard it was the anniversary. I started getting seriously into guitar about the time Van Halen II hit, but picked up this album first. At the time, I had really only heard You Really Got Me on the radio. (Small town with no real rock stations.) I put on the record and that sound going into Running With the Devil was just the most amazing tone I had ever heard. Then when eruption came on my jaw dropped to the ground... I was done! From that moment on I knew all I wanted to do was play the guitar. (Of course there were a lot of things that led up to that... I was kind of a wanna play guy before, but I started practicing like my life depended on it after that.)