Latest Eddie van halen Podcast Episodes
Fair Warning Episode 16: Several Kinds Of Truth
Fair Warning - April 30, 2023 15:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMike 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.
Fair Warning Episode 15: Fan, meet sh!t.
Fair Warning - April 05, 2022 02:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAll 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'...
Fair Warning Episode 14: VHIII. Get it?
Fair Warning - January 30, 2022 23:25 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis brings us no pleasure.
Fair Warning Episode 13: C'mon Dave. Gimme a break.
Fair Warning - December 01, 2021 03:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor 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 ab...
Fair Warning Episode 12: 1995 Balance, Cruel Irony.
Fair Warning - November 10, 2021 00:40 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThey 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 Bi...
Fair Warning Episode 11: 1991 Van Halen Spells It Out For You
Fair Warning - October 05, 2021 23:42 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 rating1991 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 Statesm...
Fair Warning Episode 10: 1988 "OU812 and Other Dad Jokes"
Fair Warning - August 21, 2021 20:04 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOnce 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 i...
Fair Warning Episode 9: 1986 Toppermost of the Poppermost
Fair Warning - July 11, 2021 23:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHello baaaaaaaaby! Van Halen Mach 2. Van Hagar. Whatever you want to call it, smells like somebody stepped in hit. Junior Gen Xers like ourselves welcomed Sammy with optimism. We also stayed in touch with Dave. As far as we were concerned, it was joint custody. The band now found...
Fair Warning Episode 8: 1985-1986 Enter Sam, man.
Fair Warning - May 29, 2021 20:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe middle of the 80's found VH at a fork in the road. Pack it up or soldier on. One of those was never actually an option. Who could step into these be-dazzled, platform shoes? Very famous/not famous names were thrown around and jam sessions were had. But nothing "jived" until the...
Fair Warning Episode 7: 1983-1984 Too good to last
Fair Warning - April 12, 2021 07:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingVan Halen was poised to take over the world in late 1983. Eddie had just finished his new "5150" studio and was enjoying the creative freedoms that came with it. Alex had finally found that drum sound he'd been looking for. Dave was wondering if he needed these dudes at all. Last, b...
Fair Warning Episode 6: 1981-1982 and the release of "Diver Down"
Fair Warning - March 25, 2021 01:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDo you love it when Van Halen does a cover song? Do you have sheep in need of hiding? Is 5150 Studio still technically a "racquetball court" in the eyes of the Los Angeles Permitting Department? We answered none of these questions but we tried really hard. In fact, I'd say we gave ...
Fair Warning Episode 5: 1981 and the release of Van Halen's "Fair Warning"
Fair Warning - March 01, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWell, 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 ...
Fair Warning Episode 4: 1980 and Van Halen's release of "Women And Children First"
Fair Warning - February 16, 2021 00:35 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 rating3rd album in the can. Took a whoppin 3 weeks. Go on tour for 8 months. No problem. What could possibly go wrong for our heroes?
Fair Warning Episode 3: Van Halen II and the Never Ending Road
Fair Warning - February 02, 2021 00:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingYou 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 o...
Fair Warning Episode 2: The Debut Album Van Halen
Fair Warning - January 20, 2021 23:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin Augie, Chris, and Jared as they dig deep into the making of Van Halen's first album and the tours that followed. How did Eddie get the idea for the iconic striped guitar? Where did Diamond Dave get all those moves? What will guitar players in the 70's going to do now that the bo...
Fair Warning Episode 1: From The Broken Combs to Van Halen
Fair Warning - January 20, 2021 23:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow 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.
Respect The Wind
Van Splainin (or, The Cultural Significance of Edward Van Halen) - October 14, 2020 14:00 - 1 hourWell, Edward Van Halen passed away and we are reeling. Aaron and Justin show the internet how to mourn public figures with this meandering conversation about life, death, heroes, music, and bandanas. RIP Ed - we shall not look upon your like again. Good grief? No, Charlie Brown - great ...
"5150"
Van Splainin (or, The Cultural Significance of Edward Van Halen) - June 18, 2020 14:00 - 3 hoursAaron "The Schemer" Bales makes his triumphant return to the Sauropod and kindly endures a rambling lecture about one of Van Halen's signature tunes. Show Rule #1 is temporarily broken in a big way, but fortunately Ed's face-melting riffs and solos are here to carry us on a thrilling jo...
House Of Pain
Van Splainin (or, The Cultural Significance of Edward Van Halen) - December 28, 2017 15:00 - 2 hoursThis episode gets a check-in from Quincy Jones, Aaron and Justin talk about how they're not going to talk about "Jump" for about 40 minutes, then wind up with some sweet backstage passes to the year of 1984. Song structure and nasty riffs are the name of the game in this visitation to t...
I'm The One
Van Splainin (or, The Cultural Significance of Edward Van Halen) - December 21, 2017 15:00 - 1 hourAaron and Justin's rockin' adventure continues as they dive deep into the past to hear a young Edward Van Halen lay waste to all who came before. The historical context is set and the subject of virtuosity is primed for takeoff as the fellas take in some blistering hot licks from the cl...
The King
Van Splainin (or, The Cultural Significance of Edward Van Halen) - December 21, 2017 15:00 - 50 minutesIt's pretty simple: Justin Zeppa is trying to convince his old bandmate, Aaron Bales, that Edward Van Halen is the greatest rock and roll guitar player of all time. Why? Shhh, it doesn't matter. They start by laying some groundwork of the hows and whys, discuss their takes on what makes...