Happy Anniversary

**FanHalen** · 03.11.02, 08:15 AM

This Day in Hard History...
March 11, 1978: VAN HALEN's self-titled debut is released.

**Burning Tires** · 03.11.02, 08:25 AM

Now that's good news I can use!!!!

I'm going to get out my VHI remaster and crank it up TODAY!!!!!!!!!!

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**Dennis** · 03.11.02, 08:31 AM

From '78....

http://www.vhlinks.com/pages/intervi.../gu072378.html

Guitar.com: Did it take long to cut the album Van Halen?

EVH: Three weeks. The album is very live with no overdubs – that's the magic of Ted Templeman. I'd say out of the 10 songs on the record, I overdubbed the solo in two or three songs. One of them's doubled in "Ice Cream Man" and "Jamie's Cryin'." All the rest are live! I used the same equipment I use live, the one guitar, soloed during the rhythm track, and Al just played one set of drums [laughs]. And Mike, you know. And Dave stood in the booth and sang a lot of lead vocals at the same time. The only thing we did overdub was the backing vocals, because you can't play in the same room and sing with the amps – otherwise it will bleed on the mikes. The music, I'd say, took a week, including "Jamie's Cryin'," which we wrote in the studio – I had the basic riffs to the song. And my guitar solo, "Eruption," wasn't really planned to be on the record. Me and Al were dickin' around rehearsing for a show we had to do at the Whiskey, so I was warming up, you know, practicing my solo, and Ted walks in. He goes, "Hey, what's that?" I go, "That's a little solo thing I do live." He goes, "Hey, it's great. Put it on the record." So the music took a week, the singing took about two.

**Glenn** · 03.11.02, 08:40 AM

Originally posted by FanHalen:
This Day in Hard History...
March 11, 1978: VAN HALEN's self-titled debut is released.

The official site (and every other reference I've ever come across) says the debut album came out on February 10, 1978.

**mikeno55** · 03.11.02, 08:59 AM

So, based upon the VHI release schedule, we should expect a killer new Van Halen release in 3 weeks --one month tops?!

**ED-A-HOLIC** · 03.11.02, 09:43 AM

Everyday is a good day to play VHI it defenetly ROCKS!

**FanHalen** · 03.11.02, 10:12 AM

Originally posted by Glenn:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by FanHalen:
This Day in Hard History...
March 11, 1978: VAN HALEN's self-titled debut is released.

The official site (and every other reference I've ever come across) says the debut album came out on February 10, 1978.</font>[/QUOTE]Oops! I was just passing on some info from where I found it. ( www.hardradio.com )