I was Stunned to see that you were doing THIS Deep cut by VH!!! Whoever requested it is a TRUE VH Fan, Like ME!!!! It's Badass!!! Thank you!

Everybody Wants Some, Romeo Delight, Take Your Whiskey Home-all off Women And Children First. If you like the bass player(Michael Anthony), he’s all over this record. And for lack of a better way to say it, the whole album just sounds HUGE. I think you’ll dig it.

Same album "Women in love" Great harmonies on that song.

I'm gone woo yeah Baby, let me run I'm a spark on the horizon.... RIP Eddie. Thank You for some of the best Rock music mankind has ever been blessed to hear.

Michael Anthony plays bass and is that distinctive high vocals on the choruses. Alex is one powerful drummer

The way Roth talked about it when asked why VH was so likeable to so many people, did they plan it that way? And he said hell yeah they did, they played hundreds of shows in SoCal before they ever got a record deal, playing for all kinds of audiences; high schools, bar mitzvahs, weddings, the VFW, the biker bars, the chicano bars, anywhere & and played all kinds of music covers, so they learned to have an ear for cool, fun, catchy riffs, hooks and lyrics. They wanted to entertain any crowd, they never wanted to be known as just a heavy metal band or a hard rock party band.

I love the whole Van Halen 2 album !!!

3:50 So about the panning; that was a choice by their producer at the time, Ted Templeman. He wanted to take advantage of stereo panning and mimic a "live" sound as much as possible, so he panned Eddie way the hell to the right and just had his slapback echo on the left. The problem though is that he didn't bring the bass up enough in the left channel to compensate, so it sounds somewhat empty on headphones. This kind of stuff drove Eddie crazy, so when Sammy Hagar came on, he settled on a more balanced mix so you could hear guitar and bass just fine in both channels.

"Outta Love Again" and "Beautiful Girls" from this album totally slap!

Little Guitars and Dirty Movies.

I watch a lot of reaction videos to The Mighty Van Halen. And I’m impressed with the respect Edward gets from all you guys that not generally a rock n roll community. Thanks for this reaction and keep on rockin!

DOA is a great example of his rhythm chops!

Excellent song choice! A deeper cut....one of my favorites. Bass player Michael Anthony. One of the great things about him is that he's largely responsible for the high vocal harmonies. If you like the sound of Van Halen's background vocals then kudos to Mikey.

Thanks for the reaction ,,,DOA and Mean Street,, 2 of the best VH songs ever IMO.. Almost never hear these songs on the radio.

By far one of my favorites. RIP EVH

Santana. All I Ever Wanted. Thanks

I'm new checking out your channel. I was listening to D.O.A with headphones and thought I'd look up a reaction. Your's was the first that came up! I love your enthusiasm. I'm 63. I started attending The Mighty Van Halen concerts in 1979. I went to 9 shows in 40 years. I attended their final tour in 2015. They looked old as did I, but they still knocked your socks off with their excitement and the pure fun they were having living their music. I miss Ed. I cried the day he passed and jammed on my guitar to old Van Halen albums the rest of the day. I really like your attention to detail. Ed's really singular rhythm playing on this song catches your ears because the double muted "rake" Ed does in on the 3,and 4 beat in the main riff. As trash as Ed makes it sound, it is fucking catchy because of that minor harmonic fast up-down. Van Halen makes your eyes smiles which shows your feeling that groove. Thanks for the open eye and ear observation. ✌️ and joy brother. GT

"Eruption" Caught our ear. "You Really Got Me" had us thinking "okay cool". 'D.O.A." came out the speakers of my brothers stereo and me and all my buddies went "This here is our shit now." Then 'Atomic Punk' made us say "Keep the old dogs, we got a monster here."

Yes! Awesome!

Something that I love about Dave, that sets him apart from other singers, is his yells.

Drop Dead Legs Dave at the beginning, with some some good back-up by Micheal Anthony on voice. And then Eddie with his classic guitar at the end. And the soundtrack that makes your soul wiggle.. 😄 Good song...

Hey Jay Rah, Bass by Michael Anthony, Lead guitar by Eddie Van Halen, Drums by Alex Van Halen, Lead vocals by David Lee Roth. Rock n Roll at it's finest. Be good, best, C.

One of their best songs...

My favorite Van Halen song ... So many

Bass player was Michael Anthony. Great reaction🖖🏽

Eddy is playing the first lead and he mentions the bass!! LoL!!

Great stuff. Eddie's tone you refer to was his "Brown sound". Often imitated....never duplicated. R.I.P. Edward.

My favorite VH tune.

SO THIS IS LOVE- VAN HALEN!!!!!!!!!!

have never seen a reactor do SO MANY perfect VH song selections...love all you've selected...(maybe a few more Sammy, but these are all fire) subbed!

1979 Reno NV. VH show blew me away. No doubt it has already been said, the answer to your question. Who's on the bass? Michael Anthony.

React to Van Halen - Take Your Whiskey Home

This is a good one...

Van Halen - On Fire👍👍

The bass player is Michael Anthony....all the way through until their reinvention in 2012 with Eddie’s son, Wolfgang, as the new bass player.

Michael Anthony Bro! His key vocal harmonies are the VH sound!!!!

Right on, Jay, you got that tune. You remarked upon all the good aspects of it. Glad you enjoyed. Eddie really was a master, The first guy to move things to a new level after the crop of original masters: Jimi, Page, Blackmore, Beck, Clapton, Townshend.

Always loved the harmonizing on this tune between Michael Anthony and Roth.

Van Halen II is great all the way thru. Great reaction!! New follower here!

This is one of most amazing songs that nobody talks about

Crunchy and spicy on that track

Riff is exactly what it is.

For love of the spicy riffs and beautiful harmonies

Well if you love drums, you need to check out Hot for teacher and Pound cake.

The Bass player is also the guy who did the real high harmonies

Jensen speakers in my car! Back in the late 70s early 80s!

Outta Love Again!!! Short sweet n Spicey I might add, from this same album 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The acronym here stands for Dead or Alive which is the title

This is my dad’s favourite van halen song because when he was a kid his siblings used to tell him his parents found him in a garbage can lol

Deep cut Bro...Love it!!

Great song and reaction. Great tribute.

Van Halen I and II are two badass mufukin kickass albums!! The first? You just can't touch it in the history of Rock. But, the second album was incredible too! What's great about the second album is that it had a really great single, in "Dance The Night Away". You had to hand it to this amazing Hard Rock band to pull off a sweet little radio-friendly gem like that! But, lest you think they were letting their Heavy-Cred slide, all you have to do is listen to just about every one of the other songs on the album. Great, great music!

Hey man i love your Format keep on rollen

One of their best deep cuts!! Great reaction, you covered all the bases! Keep VH flowing!

Van Halen , "The Cradle Will Rock "

I don't think there is a downer of a VH song. Even those that are a bit more serious still have an upbeat sound. It's a gift because I don't think every artist can straddle that line so consistently. Atomic Punk has a very cool riff, shoot they all do. Drop Dead Legs, Top Jimmy. But there is a bit of a softer side too. Im not even talking about Van Hagar. Give a listen to Secrets, Cathedral and Little Guitars. That isn't really "soft" but it has an acoustic intro and it's straight up 🔥

Love this song, next time try Fools or Take Your Whiskey Home from Women and Children First album

You do the deepest cuts. Props to you.

Girl Gone Bad. IMO, best VH jam from the six-pack. A must listen.

I'll never get tired of listening to VH. Truly unique sound that thousands of guitarists tried in vain to duplicate. There are so many great VH songs you haven't heard yet. Maybe it's time to give the Sammy years a listen: Cabo Wabo, 5150, Best of Both Worlds, Poundcake, or Top of the World will all impress.

Michael Anthony plays with Sammy Hagar with Chickenfoot and now their most recent band The Circle check them out!!

Bass guitar - Michael Anthony

eddie's guitar was recorded with dry sound on the left and effects on the right

you need to react to VH's: 1. Dont Tell Me (What Love Can Do) 2. Mean Streets 3. House of Pain three of their nastiest songs

Listen to On Fire from the first album. Their heaviest song ever! Van Halen on steroids!! Heavy artillery!

The Original VH is one of the greatest bands. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Rush, King Crimson and VH 78'-83', Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Deep Purple, Yes, ELP.... Lots of fantastic rock music. I'm Jazz/Fusion drummer. I love Jazz and I love Rock. Frank Zappa is out there and is a genius. Billy Cobham from Mahavishnu Orchestra is nasty

Most all the older Van Halen albums have the guitars heavy on one side.

The chorus! RIGHT!

Pretty Deep cut. I love it. Some more great VH tunes are Outta Love Again, Light Up the Sky, On Fire, Girl Gone Bad, House of Pain, Drop Dead Legs, Somebody Get Me a Doctor.

You know your stuff, man

Riffs are key to guitar based music

Michael Anthony on bass also did great background vocals with Eddie

Intruder/Pretty Woman. Plus it's a crazy music video to review as well.

This is Van Halen at it's finest.

No, it didn't have to be recorded to one ear. How is it, that the equipment back then, was so inferior, but the music is some of the best ever made? The reason they put sounds in one ear or the other was that was the purpose of stereo. Separation of sounds. So, they used it. To great affect, in my opinion.

You're right about the recording, they were recorded in mono!🤘🎸👊

Eddie did that with his rhythm tracks (one side) and then his solos were in both speakers (ears). A lot of bands with two guitar players, say Judas Priest, will have one player on the right, the other on the left..... VH`s bass player- Michael Anthony... A true bass monster.. Beautiful Girls... greatt bass song.

Eddie Van Halen-guitar.Michael Anthony-bass.Alex Van Halen-drums.David Lee Roth-vocals.David went on to do stuff with Steve Vai. Micheal Anthony joined up with Joe Satriani.Sammy Hagar and former drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers to form ChickenFoot.

Definitely an overlooked album by VH. Great stuff!

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Cool video. Would love to see some stuff that no one else is doing, like In a Simple Rhyme, 5150, or As Is. (Studio tracks, not live.)

You like drums? Outta Love Again off the same album is his funkiest beat

Michael Anthony on Bass

If you want absolute SAUCE from VH you gotta check out And the Cradle will Rock and Romeo Delight.

Keep the Van Halen Monday’s coming !!! For a unique Van Halen song try Little Guitars with the intro.....Another example of EVH unique guitar playing....

If ya like Alex Van Halen’s drumming you definitely need to check out Girl Gone Bad! Off the 1984 album and probably there best song from that album!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

You need to check out this gem from Stl the band I's.. The Urge ..the song Brainless...this has the bass line your looking for

Great ssd song by the gods of American r n r.

Cool tunes... huh? 😎

You can almost hear where Theory of a Deadman got their tone a little bit. I'm not saying that to be insulting, but Van Halen is just that fine example of how they've influenced other bands later and how they got their sound.

Bass player Micheal Anthony who is in chicken foot n the circle with sammy hagar n Jason bonham son of john bonham of led Zeppelin

Check out....Van Halen- TAKE YOUR WHISKEY HOME!!!!

No, they mixed it that way on purpose, but not all bands were recorded well back then. Van Halen was recorded well, but tastes and styles were just different back then, so the mix sounds unusual to your young ears. Eddie wanted all his guitar notes to stand out -- not get lost in a mushy wall of sound. There's so much detail to his playing. Rock drums were not quite as heavily emphasized back then like they are now -- maybe with the exception on Led Zeppelin's John Bonham. Bonham's drumming was captured so well, especially on a song like When The Levee Breaks, which is why that beat has been sampled several times by rappers.

Spicy Riffs...Trademark that shite

If ya wanna go deep into VH check out House Of Pain!!🤘🏻🤘🏻

I don't think it was a matter of having limited recording ability. It could have been The Choice of the engineer and the band liked the way it sounded and stuck with it. Pink Floyd albums of this era and earlier are mixed immaculately.

Bass player Michael Anthony

That Eddie kid can play, huh

The Bass Player is MAD MAN Michele Anthony!!

Girl Gone Bad...all killer no filler