Music Appreciation

marble falls

(72,531 posts) Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:29 PM Jul 2025

Van Halen - Jump

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Van Halen - Jump (Original Post) marble falls Jul 2025 OP

Awfully Good ProfessorGAC Jul 2025 #1

Van Halen wasn't really open about his techniques, but I think the trick was how clean the production was ... marble falls Jul 2025 #2

My Wife To Be & I Were At A Chinese Restaurant... ProfessorGAC Jul 2025 #3

They were sort of a guilty pleasure, but the fact was they were one tight band. marble falls Jul 2025 #4

Whenever I hear the opening, I think of Harry Caray and Steve Stone. Harker Jul 2025 #5

ProfessorGAC

(77,281 posts)

1. Awfully Good

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Wed Jul 16, 2025, 05:41 PM

Jul 2025

The band I was in at the time, because I had the same synthesizer Eddie plays on this song.
I also learned the guitar solo.
Way harder than the keyboard solo.

marble falls

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2. Van Halen wasn't really open about his techniques, but I think the trick was how clean the production was ...

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 16, 2025, 08:28 PM

Jul 2025

... even while he was blowing out eardrums. I think the echo helped, I think the original David Lee Roth Van Halen was the best.

This song really sold me on Van Halen. I was working as a draftsman in a job shop in Phoenix. There was another drafter there that would drive while I supplied doobage. He only played Van Halen and It was all right with me.

ProfessorGAC

(77,281 posts)

3. My Wife To Be & I Were At A Chinese Restaurant...

Reply to marble falls (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 16, 2025, 08:53 PM

Jul 2025

...at a time nobody was there.
We were talking with the bartender & his friend came in and said "We need to put this new tape on the sound system."
Bartender asked if it was ok with us, and we said sure.
It was VH 1.
In 11 minutes, I heard Running With The Devil, Eruption, You Really Got Me & Ain't Talking 'Bout Love & I knew the game had changed!
What a debut!

marble falls

(72,531 posts)

4. They were sort of a guilty pleasure, but the fact was they were one tight band.

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #3)

Thu Jul 17, 2025, 08:19 AM

Jul 2025

Harker

(18,159 posts)

5. Whenever I hear the opening, I think of Harry Caray and Steve Stone.

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 17, 2025, 01:05 PM

Jul 2025

It's Pavolovian.

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