Van Halen: A Mammoth Legacy | Full Documentary |

[@mikesanguin4727]

Best American Rock Band EVER!

[@JohnnyBeane]

Love =VH= I talk about them all the time.

[@Poolman76]

Me too. I even watch the the same documentaries over and over.

[@samzach2057]

12:00- The VH split was t becasue Eddie wanted to be a guitar virtuoso and David Lee Roth wanted to be a pop star. It was quite the opposite. Eddie VanHalen wanted to start using more keyboards, and David Lee Roth wanted to make rock music.

[@darrelavery9809]

This is quite true. You can't expect Mozart to pigeonhole himself.

[@darrelavery9809]

This is quite true. You can't expect Mozart to pigeonhole himself.

[@20cencool]

The day Ed dropped his body. My daughter called me to let me know. I had VH 3 and only listened to it a few times. I put it on, played it non stop for a week. I think they should have kept going with Gary. He wrote great lyrics, Ed plays fantastic guitar on it. The songs are mature and great mix of piano & acoustic Now it’s my favorite Van Halen Lp. Garey said there’s another collection of songs in the can. I hope they release a cd of VH 3 and the rest of what they recorded

[@friguy4444]

Apparently there's lots more that Ed had squirreled away in 5150. But it is or was all mixed up with all kinds of stuff but that there are hundreds of 2 inch tape up there all in rows upon rows. I'm sure a lot of is just Ed messing around trying to write a lot of the music eventually released but I hope we all find out.

[@patrickleets4285]

For me van Halen is my only band, some albums I know word for word, but you know I've never ever have listened to VH 3... never cared to give Gary a chance... I'll have to check it out I guess

[@BruceStephan]

​@@friguy4444 I like VH3 more than Balance

[@SilverSurfer5150]

VH3, apart from a couple of songs is a hot mess. Surprisingly depressing.

[@BruceStephan]

@@SilverSurfer5150 not so different than Balance

[@MarshallAmpMan]

Well Done!!!

[@rockingsteady4019]

Oh ,you are so right Wolf: there will be no Van Halen without Ed and the two brothers together were Van Halen Premium more than 40 years💙💜

[@Knome-Ansland]

23:07. I was at the opening night at Greensboro. Something seemed off, especially Eddie.

[@johnfletcher948]

1984 was the 6th studio album ya big goof!!!!

[@billyc6678]

Awe, did someone get their wittle feewings hurt? You DONT make mistakes??

[@garytom1935]

Awesome story 👏😎

[@ExploreAmerica]

This would be a good video for anybody who just crawled out from underneath the rock

[@paulbattifora7617]

The critics actually turned their noses up at Van Halen when they released their debut album

[@akfreed6949]

And just about every album afterwards .

[@Dan-nt2yb]

5:20….”By 1964 the brothers started playing together as a band with their friend Mark Stone calling themselves Mammoth”. Oh really? That’s pretty impressive for a 9-year old lead guitarist. And here I always thought it was 1972.😮

[@michaeloneill1360]

BTW: It was Michael Anthony who used to Chug the (Ice Tea) in a Jack Daniels bottle On Stage!!

[@まーくん-n8m]

結成当初はヴァン・ヘイレンのレコーディングにKiss の方が資金提供した事は有名な話しかもしれませんが、全く知りませんでした✨ Kissもかなり昔からの ロック・バンドです。私も好きで良く聴いています。ヴァン・ヘーレンの結成からのエピソードや歴史が今回の映像で 知る事が出来大変嬉しく思います。 しかしエディーが他界して何だか淋し過ぎますがロック・スターの歴史的ギターリストだしディビー・ロスとサミー・ヘーガーも全てヴァン・へーレンの家族の様に思ったし 感じました。

[@loucaruso3971]

Real History Will Tell Ya, Roth After The New York Trip, Back In Cali On The Raidio Got Them In The Door & As Time Went On, You Can"t Have Van Halen Without Eddie !!!!

[@24theMoney]

The solo is called Eruption, not Interruption.

[@sleepinglionarchives]

Gary was a mistake, I can see why they didn't continue after Van Halen III, but man, the Sammy and Dave years were incredible. Their first live album was Live: Right Here, Right Now after the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge tour, not the one you mention. I mean... basic discography stuff, man, Live is in the title

[@claymorrigan9]

1984 was their 6th album

[@CupidsCrackhouse]

If Eddie stayed with drums, I'm sure he would have squeezed a unique sound out of them. Franken drums-

[@BruceStephan]

He stayed with drums enough for demos and the adult movie he did the soundtrack for .

[@JHobartMusic72]

Man I can’t stand filler clips that don’t fit the narration. It’s getting even worse with people making lazy AI videos. Talking about the fans in the 80s and showing people standing there videoing with a fucking cell phone. Irritating

[@davidfischer6923]

MTV Should,ve kept music videos on not change at all MTV sucks now

[@DK-gy7ll]

Van Halen was a murderer's row of talent. What caused them so much turmoil was that each one was a larger-than-life personality and had trouble sharing the spotlight.

[@friguy4444]

NO. Just Dave.

[@BruceStephan]

I think Dave and the rest of the band finally saw how much they were really worth . They got a new better contract where Warner Brothers couldn't screw them anymore . And he didn't like being called weird and shit . And it was no more fun at the Sunset Studios when it was more fun .

[@ABoyandHisDog-pd3lb]

Never even heard of nor heard VH with Gary Sherone. Then again I never cared much for Van Hagar, i quit listening to them after Roth left

[@NeilAloha]

There’s a live mean street version on KZbin that is the best I’ve ever heard that song check it out kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYDSh5yAnNB2d6ssi=zYhYyjh_ebIUXtMU

[@NeilAloha]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYDSh5yAnNB2d6ssi=zYhYyjh_ebIUXtMU

[@SilverSurfer5150]

Such a shame. You have missed a lot of great music. I would equally be so saddened to hear that fans of Sammy wouldn’t listen to Roth era Van Halen.

[@NeilAloha]

Look up mean street live in Japan with Gary It is great the vocals are better then the album And I love DLR’a voice on all those records ✌🏽✌🏽

[@josephlinnell9855]

I felt the same as you but I admit some but not all of the Sammy era grew on me. Never heard 1 song with Cherone. Van Halen was the outdoor summer party band of all time

[@ENGlishJELLo-yk7up]

Elvis sighting 3:03

[@loucaruso3971]

6th Studio Albums !!!!!

[@friguy4444]

This won't be up here in this form for long seeing as they have used actual VH music and the Live Eruption solo. But even though it has that it's VERY Parochial. If you've been a long time fan or even watched any other VH docs this one will let you down. But there's a few nice shots and pictures. They go straight from The first album to "and then came Jump their biggest hit yet" so it's kind of lame really. Both the strength and the weakness of this one is that they have an excellent eye witness. But that's one of the problem. Only ONE and so all you get is the opinion of that one witness and not the multiple views of many. Plus they really don't look into a lot of what the guys said themselves in some cases.

[@FundamentalsUK]

Er. Michael Schenker was around long before EVH?,…….lots have copied Eddie since he came on the scene I agree.

[@grants7752]

What about right here right now live

[@grants7752]

I believe that was their first live album

[@ABoyandHisDog-pd3lb]

I never liked the addition of keyboard. That is why 1984 is love and hate with me. You got amazing tracks like Panama and Hot for Teacher which just crushes...but then Jump was just annoying to me.

[@deanrane1961]

Lookin back & listening to those songs like "I'll Wait" today bring back loads of happy/sad memories & nostalgia, and c'mon they weren't as bad compared to that Godawful Van-Hagar stuff🤭😁🥲.

[@ABoyandHisDog-pd3lb]

@@deanrane1961 Oh No... No No No No Nooooooo Way were they ANYWHERE as bad as those Van-Hagar songs. I mean a couple mights have been catchy but they were just WAY To Pop Soft Rock for my tastes. I don't know what it was about that mid 80's period where all the great rockers from the 1970's just got weak as shit? They all started wearing those loose flowy button up shirts and styled and or shortened their hair, music just suffered so bad... then hair metal bands began following suit! For what I can only guess is because most of those OG Rockers were their heroes growing up. So I am guessing that one or two of the big hair ( no pun intended) metal acts decided that they were going to adopt the same look as Ozzy and Jimmy Page and Mick Jagger and The Van Halen Brothers were all sporting. Then, they make their first live appearance with the new look, probably saving it for a really Hot bill at the Whiskey A Go Go some Friday night, when EVERYONE who was Anyone would be there and depending on how the females in the audience acted.... and what the scenester journalists wrote in their weekly nightlife articles, would decide how many other of the big and growing big acts would fall in line behind them and also adopt the new look. And I guess it's pretty obvious how that all went down. 😂

[@deanrane1961]

@@ABoyandHisDog-pd3lb Agreed! When these Gen Z kids look back at 80's music with rose-colored glasses, I always try to explain to them what a hellish time the mid to late 80's was for music - with maybe the exception of GNR's "Lies" & "Appetite". I mean you can tell those dudes were seriously influenced by 70's bands like Aerosmith in their heyday & the NY punk scene goin way back with protopunk & metal acts like The New York Dolls. All the other shit in the mid to late 80s was corporate or just plain industry plants.

[@ABoyandHisDog-pd3lb]

@@deanrane1961 basically yeah, you had Guns and Roses or Janes Addiction or Red Hot Chili Peppers (pre Mother's Milk days) and that basically described the main tribes of Los Angeles's 3 newest rising stars who were basically dominating their club scene. Obviously there were other popular acts coming up but those 3 were the ones riding tidal waves of popular growth.

[@peterjansen4281]

They where born in Nijmegen

[@rockingsteady4019]

They were born in Amsterdam and the family has moved to Nijmegen when they were totlers

[@danielodom3839]

So if that story is true about the moment eddie and alex decided to switch instruments alex saying he came home to see eddie still sitting on his bed and having learned all of claptons crossroads in order lick for lick . If that's true then at that moment when it became obvious to alex that means up till that moment alex was playing guitar and as this story suggests alex must have been pretty damn good on it or the decision to switch would have happened the moment eddie was better than alex on guitar . so lets see alex play something that would be good enough for this story to be true. Its bullshit story they made up . Just saying.

[@rockingsteady4019]

Well, first of all the content of the text is definitely not correct.So I am not interested. And the way one has written down these words without using any Capitals etc. have made the text too poor to read anyway. I am sorry.

[@carlosvila77]

I would've loved to see Chris Cornell as lead singer instead of Gary Scherone.

[@AnonYmous-jp8uu]

gary never lead that band for a second

[@BruceStephan]

He was an employee . It became a business in the end . Like when Roth quit the band . Roth was under a contract with the Van Halen family business . He went public saying he just fulfilled his contract with Van Halen when he said he quit publicly .

[@c.e.anderson558]

That pic wwith all the guitars has a badly badly reprocuced Frankenstrat. Milling a whole empty pickup slot.

[@damianbowyer2018]

Gr8 Doco Guys....Can never understate how important Gene Simmons was in taking The Band under his wing and paying for their Fantastic Demo, as well as believing in them as the next big thing in the U.S. He was right of course and ultimately, that terrific Demo got them picked-up by Warner Brothers shortly after KISS Management and Casablanca Records rejected them...The rest is history, eh Guys....Cheers fm Damo😄

[@curtisnewton895]

that tatoo song is so bad, geee

[@frankorobinson1540]

Van halen 1974 to 1989 thats it seem like most get that 10 year explosion of great artistic writing great chemistry together then it happens 😮they disagree disappoint them fight testosterone and alpha male syndrome kicks in 😂😂😂 those first 3 to 8 albums are usually a bands absolutely best years folks just can't get along😂😂😂 but hey that just who we are.i know 77 t0 89 was my favorite vh years greatest years for rock in general seems to be 65 to 95 after that we have well mmmmm its debatable 😂😂😂❤

[@SLiMCHiCKeN5150]

In Alex's new book he doesn't even acknowledge anything VH related after 1984. Typical VH dysfunction 🤟

[@jeremywanner4526]

Eddy was a two faced moody little pre Madonna.

[@c.e.anderson558]

Research better.

[@jacestephenweatherall1732]

I really wish Sammy Joined the 2007 from 2015 tour instead of Dave, Dave’s in good shape but now a days he just can’t sing anymore. Rip Eddie and Mark.

[@OrangeManGood2024]

You have a very off-putting voice.

[@joecalabrese5254]

Everything before jump was better karma everything