I just started a YouTube channel as a challenge to try to unearth & compile some of the contents of Eddie's fabled 5150 tape vault. There are official and non-official recordings of unreleased & unheard Van Halen song and riff ideas from 1974 and throughout their career.

I've been a fan of Van Halen since the year 1984 in high school, and I've heard every bootleg you could imagine - as part of the challenge I'm trying to unearth and publish music even I haven't heard before. I've recently uncovered a recording of Eddie playing the mandolin at home in Pasadena, Van Halen performing & jamming an original new song that sounds like what Van Halen "War Pigs" would sound like during their 1979 tour rehearsals, using AI to remove all dialogue and background sounds so we can clearly hear the acoustic part Eddie played on Cafe Americain, and uncovering the first time Eddie played "Unfinished" at NAMM.

If you're interested, check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UnheardVH. And I'll say like all other YouTubers, please like and subscribe.

Thanks for listening!
stripedkramer