The album ended with an untitled twenty-second muscular vamp after “ In A Simple Rhyme” that the band referred to sometimes as “Tank” or “ Growth.” If the band was not rushed to finish the album, the mystery riff would probably have been developed into a full song. She was repaying a favor, as at the end of 1978 Eddie had stealthily recorded a guitar solo for her hit Nicolette album against Roth’s wishes. This neo-skiffle treat also featured harmony vocals by former Linda Ronstadt session vocalist Nicolette Larson.
David Lee Roth, whose parking-lot fingerpicking skills remained unsung, joined on second guitar. Templeman suggested that Eddie use a guitar slide for “ Could This Be Magic?” creating the old-timey bottleneck sound that made this original song sound like a traditional sea shanty. The rest of the band wore green surgical scrubs (see left), and Alex had X-ray films taped all across his drums. MTV was more than a year away from launching in the States, but the band produced a strange concept video for “ Loss of Control” in Europe with Roth vamping onstage in a hospital gown and white gloves, groping and grinding with a pretty young nurse. “ Tora! Tora!“–which Eddie had wanted to call “Act Like It Hurts”–began with backwards guitar before lurching into a Sabbathy dirge that introduced the spastic “ Loss of Control.” Though Eddie had written the music the same day as “ Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love,” Roth’s lyrics were still incomplete, so he improvised a helicopter pilot transmission at the start of the song. Forum, for example, some scheming stoners had broken into Jan and Eugenia Van Halen’s house and stolen two dozen framed platinum albums, thinking the awards were cast from precious actual platinum.Įddie in scrubs on set of the “ Loss of Control” music video. Onlookers saw the silver outfits and limousines and started thinking about what they could get from Van Halen. The song was also a concert staple through the 1984 tour, and continued to be played by David Lee Roth after he left Van Halen. The song’s subtext was the band blowing off steam about a syndrome they were experiencing of former friends, rivals, and complete strangers hitting them up for handouts. “ Everybody Wants Some!!” was a hymn to horniness, with Roth launching off-the-cuff into some trash talk directed toward a woman visiting the studio control room. “ Cradle” was the only single released from the album. Although the single was not a success like previous singles “ Dance the Night Away” or the cover of “ You Really Got Me“, the album itself was well received and further entrenched the band as a popular concert draw Roth’s basement two hours a day for two weeks to fuse the feeling in all the right places. No longer allowed the endless club dates that had honed their past material and defined the songwriting process, Eddie and Alex played the main riff to the song together in Dr. The powerhouse opener, “ And the Cradle Will Rock…,” featured the band’s first use of keyboards, an old Wurlitzer disguised by bristling distortion that came from playing it through a Marshall guitar amp. Notably, for the first time there were no cover songs. The record benefited from three magnificent tracks on side one: the slow-motion power anthem “ And the Cradle Will Rock…,” the explosive “ Everybody Wants Some!!,” and the frisky “ Romeo Delight,” which became the band’s new show opener. “How boring can you get, man? I like to think that all we’re really trying to do is capture some of our youthful enthusiasm.”
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“I don’t think we’ll ever be confused with Fleetwood Mac or Steely Dan, who spend jillions of dollars and years in the studio just to make one record,” Roth guffawed in Hit Parader. Inside of a week later, they had a finished record. The instrumental tracks were recorded in four days and the vocals added afterward in six days. View these lyrics by clicking on the song links at the top of this page. We have unearthed David Lee Roth’s handwritten lyrics for every song on the album.
The real“Van Halen III”, Women and Children First, is the third studio album by Van Halen, released on March 26, 1980. – Eddie, on the verge of the album’s release. It’s got acoustic, it’s got piano, it’s got the ball-bustin’ rock. It’s not too guitar dominated it’s just got a little bit of everything on it. I think it’s our best one yet because it’s got more variety.
“The ’80s is it, it belongs to Van Halen.”
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