You just had one of the hottest debut albums ever.  You have opened for your heroes and blown them off the stage.  What next?  Sit back and take it all in?  We think not.  Time to get right back into the studio and do it all over again.  Strap in.  Van Halen won't be taking their foot off the gas anytime soon ..read more

Well, well, well.  Isn't this the episode we've all been waiting for?  Hands down, our favorite Van Halen album unanimously.  No shit.  We named the show after it.  Join us as we try to contain ourselves while gushing all over this record.  Want fair and balanced coverage? Go somewhere else.  We love this shit ..read more

How do 4 kids from Pasadena become one of the hottest bands on the planet?  Turns out it's kinda easy if you know how.  This is the history of Van Halen ..read more

Mike is out.  Wolf is in. There's a "superfan" behind the board.  Old songs and fresh blood.  Just goes to show, you don't know what you've got until it's gone.  How did the final Van Halen album come to be?  Well, it almost didn't ..read more

All the chickens come home to roost in these dark times.  Even a "Greatest Hits" record and a reunion with Sammy can't slow the freight train.  Of the rare highlights, most of them were musical.  We're going to listen to those too.   It was either Jesus , or Gandalf that once said, "It's always darkest before the dawn." VH forever ..read more

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For the first time in perhaps ever, The Mighty Van Halen are forced to take an "L".  When Dave can't seem to keep "monkey hour" in check on live TV, all future plans with him are put on ice.  However, we did get a couple new tracks out of the deal.  That was cool. This episode is all about the proverbial "he said, she said bullshit ..read more

They did it!  Van Halen held their own against the grunge tide.  While many of their contemporaries fell under the wheel of the new "corporate rock" paradigm shift, Eddie and Co. managed to keep their trajectory.  For a while.  All that goes up, must come down.  I think that's in the Bible somewhere.  Cracks are starting to form in the once impenetrable unit.  Eddie and Alex are battling the bottle with mixed results.  Sammy is expanding his family.  Mikey?  Right now, Mike really might be envisioning that solo album.  All that said, "Bala ..read more

1991 was a strange year for pop music.  "Grunge" was in.  80's metal was out.  Unless that is you were actually a 70's metal band who happened to influenced a lot of these Seattle upstarts.  This is where Van Halen finds themselves at the turn of the decade.  Ascending to "Elder Statesman" status while still keeping it in the top 10.  Perhaps that is why they are "America's Greatest Rock Band".  If you don't agree, go ahead and hit that back button.  We don't serve your kind here ..read more

Once again, it's all success.  Turns out 5150 was not a fluke. Our heroes can apparently drop hits with or without a producer.  Who could blame them for a solid "victory lap" with the "Monsters of Rock" tour?  Not us.  Especially a young El Pagano who saw this one in person.  Let's do it til we're black and blue ..read more