I still wake up everyday and google Van Halen

[vanhalendlrband]

Ive been doing this since at least 1996, any time i was in my grade 7 computer lab even, had a guitar and VH became my band after Kurt Cobain died as i was a huge fan of before when i was an even younger kid.

Not sure why just always a habit get up search for news of my favorite things, this goes back long before googling became a term even.

I just turned 37, been here since 16th bday and other sites before like the Pleasure Dome, Van Halen Mailing List which I was once well known by the community there, and its just always been a part of my day I guess.

Am I the only one that does this?

[Raldo]

I don’t Google them but I come here instead. The VHLinks family.

[track 5]

Shit. I actually still have to at least listen to a VH song every single day.

It's kind of a jinx type thing. I need VH just once a day. Out.

[Little Dreamer]

Google? Why? Nowadays the VH "news" automatically come to my phone, I imagine it's the same for everyone else. Immediate access to vh news... problem is, there really isn't any real VH news anymore. Sigh.

[PrideofPasadena]

You got some dedication.
They coulda released a record every year for the last twenty years and I still wouldn't've searched them that much. LOL.

[Bad to the Bone]

I used to search youtube daily just in case anything new popped up I could grab. Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, David lee Roth. I stopped a few months before Ed's passing

[rvk5150]

I have all kinds of Google Alerts set-up for VH and all things related.......

[DFVH5150]

Ive been doing this since at least 1996, any time i was in my grade 7 computer lab even, had a guitar and VH became my band after Kurt Cobain died as i was a huge fan of before when i was an even younger kid.

Not sure why just always a habit get up search for news of my favorite things, this goes back long before googling became a term even.

I just turned 37, been here since 16th bday and other sites before like the Pleasure Dome, Van Halen Mailing List which I was once well known by the community there, and its just always been a part of my day I guess.

Am I the only one that does this?

Same here. Since '96 when I learned how to use the Internet. VHND, VHML, Pleasure Dome, Slawterhouse/Roth Army, SHML, Extreme Forever, Melodicrock, etc, etc. But since '99, like Raldo, it's almost exclusively here (and the VHND). Pretty much every day for 20+ years lol.

[DFVH5150]

I don’t Google them but I come here instead. The VHLinks family.

We usually ARE the first to know shit.

[bsbll4]

Set up some google alerts my man. It saves a step!

Although people aren't lying about coming here first. Half of the articles that came out for a long period of time were referencing actual threads here. I know we joke about it, but it was for real. Someone would mention a rumor, a news article would pick it up (and in many cases not cite their source), we would all rejoice because now this rumor had a legitimate source, and then we were off to the races in a vicious cycle. It happened at least a dozen times.

By the end there was that Metalsludge site or whatever that was basically taking posts from here and turning it into an article. I remember reading an article that quoted Dave's Dreidel, and I was like "hey, I know him!" lol

On a related note, CNN once quoted me in an article when they announced the postponements in 2012 (which I still find hilarious). Hence my sig.

[Al Van Bundy]

Daily website perusings.

VHND
VHLinks
The Gear Page
BraveWords
PornHub

That's about it for this ol' schmuck.

[edwardv]

Its easy to live in the past on the net. I don't know how healthy it is. But I do it. I come here its more social then VH related for years now.

[belikemike]

Like Raldo, I come here. Most days.

Googling VH everyday, that’s some serious dedication!!