Love him or hate him, David Lee Roth's incredible stage presence cannot be denied!

Eddie Van Halen one of the greatest guitar players in the world RIP

Quite possibly the most famous synthesizer riff in the history of rock.

A very young Eddie Van Halen playing his famous guitar. One of the greats. We lost Eddie a couple of years ago to cancer. Thank goodness for records, CDs and video of all of these great artists, especially, the ones who have passed on.

Blast from the past! My senior year of high school 1983. This is the song that brought them to my attention. I was already dedicated to Zepplin, but VH had that fun Rock sound & David was such a charismatic front man.

To answer your question, during the Roth era, there really wasn't another side to Van Halen; all songs were fast and hard. Most were party anthems with the occasional darker theme (Jamie's Cryin', And the Cradle Will Rock).

David Lee Roth has been a life-long martial artist. That’s where all the kicks and spins, etc come from.

"Love Walks in" is their biggest Ballad hit and got a lot of radio play.

My kids and I would JUMP every time this came on MTV!!!!

God must have had one hell of a gig planned for him to take Eddie and Peart with in a year of each other. RIP to the goats.

You have to do Eddie’ Eruption Guitar Solo from 1986… best guitar solo ever..

I got to see them live back in the day, I’ll never forget Eddie playing Eruption while swinging on a wire 🔥

RIP, Eddie.

Everybody Wants Some is so fun. It was also used in the comedy film Better Off Dead where it is the music for a stop-motion-animated sequence featuring a dancing hamburger playing Eddie Van Halen's guitar.

The lead singer David Lee Roth is a paramedic now. What a change in a profession. They were loads of fun in the 80’s.

My younger brother and I were able to see Van Halen on this tour. Fun and high energy from start to finish. A fan from their first album to this....

Van Halen was one of the best. David was so much fun.

This song came out two years after I graduated from High School. This song is from the 1984 album and another great song from VH is Panama. Both are Totally Awesome and Tubular Dude, pardon the phrase from the Greatest decade, The 1980's. Rock On 🤟🤘👊

Dreams is a softer side, as far as Van Halen goes

Yeah, DLR is definitely one of the top frontmen in rock. His athleticism alone would put him there. Add a good rock voice snd easy on the eyes. Whole package I’m a Robert Plant gal, but credit where credit is due

They were such a fun and amazing artist. Seeing them live in the late 70s early 80s was so great, always brought the energy, laughs, fun, phenomenal jams. Thanx so much, Peace

And the Cradle Will Rock isn't so party, but it's still rocking and amazing. Mean Streets also isn't really a party vibe..one of their greatest and darker.

This. Song. Makes. Me. Freakishly. Ridiculously. Deliriously. So. Very. Happy. Every scream. Every ass wiggle. Every grin. Every lick of the keyboard. Every lick of the guitar. Every whack of those drums. My God. So great.

Van Halen had 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐮𝐧! (And Dave is an amazingly dedicated martial artist - it shows!) 𝐒𝐨 pleased you're lovin' 'em! ♡

I LOVE that you’re reacting to music from the 80”s (I was in high school. I enjoyed it!

This song combines synth and guitar PERFECTLY imho 💟

The synth was an Oberheim OB 8. We had one and always, and I mean always, played this hook to warm up.

Such a great video and, if memory serves, in that era of increasingly outlandish video budgets (cracking a million or more) they supposedly filmed this with a had held camera for about $500!!! And it's a classic!

Love Van Halen.. another all-time fave since I first heard them at a party in Feb of 1978; both eras too, DLR and Sammy. A good slow one is "Love Walks In" from the Sammy era. In '96 they did a compilation cd of greatest hits and added two new songs, for which DLR came back to do the vocals. 🙏Pleeeeease check out "Me Wise Magic" which was one of them; it's became my favorite VH song with Roth. It will blow your mind, I promise. 🙏 The other song with Roth from that compilation is "Humans Being" which is used in the movie "Twister." Another fun reaction SG!

Some criticize VH for going so synth heavy during this era, but must don't realize that as a child, Eddie Van Halen was a classically trained pianist. His classical influence can be heard in his "Eruption" solo that has bits of Bach and Mozart styling worked into it.

Great Fun Song Everybody Wants Some is an Absolutely Amazing Song

Ahh!! Another great song from the 80s that I LOOOOVE!!! I remember loving the video too!! It really tickles me to see you discovering this stuff!!!

Dave said the idea for lyrics came from him witnessing a suicide attempt from a bridge in LA. People were yelling "jump"! at the guy. The guitar fadeout at the end is the beginning to "Standing on Top of the World". Listen to Mean Street next. This is the pop side and there was much more of the heavy side, especially early. Listen to the entire first album.

The late great Eddie Van Halen on keyboards and guitar 🎸!

Van Halen we’re THE band back in the day, that is, until they exploded.

You should give a listen to "In a Simple Rhyme" by VH. One of their most underrated songs from the Roth era. Also "Hear About it Later". Preferably the original studio versions

Darker songs from VH you ask, Salvo? Yep, they got you covered that way too. Check out "Atomic Punk," "Mean Street," and "DOA" for starters

When this came out we'd play it full blast while my three year-old would "jump" up and down on the couch!

Yes they have a lot of “other side” songs. Humans Being, Not Enough, plenty, though most are the Hagar era or with Gary Cherone on Van Halen 3.

Van Halen was the feel good party rock band played at all the parties when I was growing up!

If you want dark & dirty Van Halen, look no further than their Fair Warning album from 1981. Eddie was super pissed off during the making and it shows in his playing. Mean Street & Dirty Movies are 2 dark highlights off this album.

If you like this one,you will love “ Panama” video….A haunting other side of Van Halen to me is “ Mean Streets”.

Diamond Dave

I am an honorary cubs fan because in the eighties I would watch the cubs play on WGN with my dad and this was the intro to every cubs game! Having said that we were always braves fans and we would always turn it over to TBS and watch the braves when that game started. cubs suck just kidding haha... I actually love all MLB doesn't matter who's playing it's all magic to me! And I love me some VH

You need to watch Eddie Van Halen's Halen's Eruption guitar solo from the "without a net " tour. See his absolutely most incredible musical genius of a musical guitar God!!

“Finish What Ya Started” official video is a great tune with Sammy on lead vocals. “Right Now” is also fantastic

"Why Can't This Be Love"

Want more of David Lee Roth's antics? Listen to Ice Cream Man,and Big Bad Bill,with the Van Halen brothers' dad on clarinet solo! Yup,you heard me right!🎙👊

LOL. Did you watch Virgin Rick today, Sal? They had a “class” on rock keyboards and synth, and the opening synth line to this song was used as the example of an iconic synth opening riff

Yes!!! Amazing ❤

Feels So Good is a slower song of Van Halens that is awesome

There are many soft and darker sides efforts. Most are from the Samny Hagar era. Ballads i prefer are Deja Vous, and Not Enough as well as When its Love. As for darker ones , try Mean Street, Judgement Day, and Dont Tell Me What Love Can Do.

“Sunday Afternoon in the park” is a keyboard track that is about as dark as anything you’ll hear. It’s the polar opposite of Jump. Off of their masterpiece, “Fair Warning”.

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This makes me happy and sad at the same time. I miss Eddie’s smile

Saw these guys in Perth, Western Australia. Great live performers.

The Van Hagar era has several ballads. The DLR era is not a ballad band. "Little Dreamer" That might be it, but I wouldn't recommend it. It's a deep cut.

I'm confident you'll enjoy Billy Idols Rebel Yell video... Good vibes on your channel bro.. keep it up and stay blessed

Van Halen is a band that had success with 2 different lead singers, AC/DC is another. There might be more, but these two cranked out hit after hit when the change happened.

Waay back in the olden days, a buddy of mine brought his Yamaha DX7 into work and when I asked what he could play, he handed me the only audio ourput, his headphones, and played Jump all the way through perfectly, without being able to hear it for himself! As much as Eddie changed the guitar world, this one song revitalized the keyboard/synth industry, with demand from players of all skill and economic levels that all keyboards, from $150 to $1500, offer the ability to play "Jump". This sound actually became a selling point, the more accurate a copy of the original Jump synth the better. The other keyboard hit from the 1984 album was "I'll Wait", actually ghostwritten by the Doobie Brothers' Michael McDonald, who was brought in when Eddie got stuck creatively and deadlines were looming. McDonald was never credited on the album, which understandably upset him, but a private settlement was eventually reached. Similarly, another uncredited guest singer had appeared on VH's track, "Could This Be Magic", but in that case, Ed returned the favor by playing on one of her tracks as mystery guest "?". That song was "Can't Get Away From You" by Nicolette Larson, whose biggest hit was "It's Gonna Take A Lot Of Love". Nicolette and VH shared producer Ted Templeman and the same studio so the boys somehow got hold of her backing track from that song, creating a bawdy, drunken parody: "Its Gonna Take A Lot Of Drugs". Have fun checking all these songs out. They may have hidden Nicolette in the mix, but no mix can disguise Eddie's guitar playing. Definitely check out VH's magnum opus, the incredible "Mewise Magic".

When you do everybody wants some you've got to listen to the snippet from the movie better off Dead it's got to be out there somewhere it's hilarious it's a dancing hamburger I can't get it out of my mind every time I hear the song now :-)

He’s also a black belt in Karate

I grew up during the 80's, and this song was a mega hit, and is still widely known were I live. I liked it back in the days, but, I grew tired of it, because it was too massively aired. And, I'm quite puzzled by the uncanny ressemblance between the intros of "Jump" ( 1984) and " Dirty Mind" ( 1981). The rest of the songs are different, but the intros sound really alike. So every time I hear Jump, I feel like listening to Dirty Mind, actually 😅 When it comes to Van Halen, I'd chose Eruption any day.

yes, " I have seen the toughest soul around" < Benny the Jet...5 weeks no 1 Billboard early 1984

So you liked the little background guitar riff at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pK9gY8agp56-mKs.html. You might be interested to know that the riff became the basis of another great Van Halen song, in the Hagar era, "Top of the World," which is absolutely worth a listen.

Eddie did solo on "Beat it"

Everyone should see the excellent Mike Dawes' one-man-and-an-acoustic-guitar (& a couple of pedals) arrangement of this. Composed as a heartfelt tribute following EVH's passing, it's #Transcendent ;) Link in reply to this.

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This is a good song and David Lee Roth was quite the entertainer!

interesting that you picked out that little extra rif at the outro of the song. eddie actually took that little bit and re-worked it into being a completely other song on a subsequent album called "top of the world". another big hit for them...

Salvo u need to react to Van Halen's Panama music video.

Darker Van Halen would be from the "Fair Warning" album, like Mean Street. Or the Sammy Hagar era Human's Being and Respect the Wind (instrumental, the movie version not the album version). Or Mine All Mine.

The "other side of Van Halen" would probably be when David Lee Roth parted ways with the band and Sammy Hagar became the vocalist (in the mid 1980s). It isn't "darker"... just more thoughtful.

You should check out the band "Foreigner" the song: I want to know what love is? It is a power ballad by singer Lou Graham also from 1984! You will not be disappointed! 🎶

Ummmm. Wikipedia got it wrong. Dave was inspired to create this song after being stuck on the I-5 in California because some dude decided he wanted to jump off of an overpass (his words not mine). In the end (Praise Jesus) they plucked him off of the overpass and got him some attention. Nevertheless the frustration from the commuters was still there.

He practiced Northern Eagle Claw Kung Fu. So did I.

Okay...cut to the chase my brother..ya gotta do.......Eddie's .....1986 Live without a Net Eruption solo.....It's mandatory....Peace!

VH peaked with DLR on 1984 then sadly disbanded after the accompanying tour...

This song is so much fun and it's my goto song to listen to if I need to psych myself up for something. But omg what a poser hahaha.

Everybody wants some is AWESOME......perhaps you should check it out someday....... There was conspiracy theory going around about this song. There was a series of summer riots in the early 80s and this song got a disproportionate amount of airplay ......it was being played everywhere by ALL kinds of radio stations from early spring/summer onwards. The conspiracy theory was the keyboard notes were designed by scientists to appease or suppress anger. The note sequences apparently, help to release chemicals in the brain to suppress anger!!!! Sounds like something out of Close Encounters to me.......BUT YOU NEVER KNOW!!!!!! Most of VH work with Dave Lee Roth was fast hard and frenetic and usually happy.......check out "Hot for Teacher"......for a darker side maybe check out "Running with the Devil".....but for the ultimate "Happy,slow, then fast then Fun"....listen to " Ice Cream Man".

Great slower VH songs- Secrets, Little Dreamer, You're No Good, Push Comes to Shove

Running with the devil 1st album

they were a party band 100% ... from backyard partys all the way to stadiums. this final album with Dave had lots of keyboards. check out I'll Wait" its slower and soaked in synths. have you heard Rush from their keyboard period?? check out The Big Money.

You need to listen to the Fair Warning album, it's their most nasty, dirty, and dark album of them all

For darker try 'Mean Streets'

Try Push Comes to Shove for something different from Van Halen.

You asked for a darker side. Try "Running With the Devil"

Love the DLR era so much, this song, though , is a bit "meh" for me. However, I've recommended it here before, and I do it again now: Sal, if you want TRULY mind-blowing synth--including a synth solo for the ages--and great drums and an all-around awesome Vibe, then you need to "JUMP" to the 80's classic "Never Been Any Reason" by Head East. A one-hit wonder, yes, but WHAT a hit! And WHAT a Wonder!

Look up Van Halen happy trails LOL

If you want the complete opposite from this era and this song lyrically, you definitely need to check out their song Right Now

Fancy something darker? Try “Mean Street”.

Mean Street is a darker song.

Must do, Panama, Hot for teacher, official videos

They jump around is because of the drugs they are usually on!😂 But they are great

David Lee Roth the best front man

Alex is a great drummer. Ed would defend his brother to the death over this argument.

If you need a Van Halen history go ahead and shoot me a text

Yeah DLR was a performer, but the band ended up throwing him out!

David Lee Roths dedication was to David Lee Roth. He was too full of himself for my taste. Where Eddie & the rest were having fun and not taking themselves too seriously. The band was like the neighborhood guys that youd hang out with in the garage while they were playing, cuz they were totally cute, 😍😍😍and fun. David Lee Roth was like the kinda creepy guy who aspired to be a porn star. Because he knew he would be the best one ever. 🙄

Eddie Van Halen was the best guitarist ever check out Eruption