Speaker 1: We're gonna come back next week and do part.
Speaker 2: Two, the Rise and Fall of Daily Roth.
Speaker 1: So hang on for that one. Come join us and
you'll get to hear some fun stuff. We'll play a
little bit of that for you right now. They came
back from the tour and they were exhausted. Eleven solid
months on tour and.
Speaker 2: Eleven months killing it every night, hard work. They get back,
the manager of the record company says, great job, you
guys did awesome. You host three million dollars in a
new record.
Speaker 1: What squeezebeak so Guinness Book World Record.
Speaker 2: They got one point five million dollars for a ninety
minute set.
Speaker 1: They make more money than anybody has for that. But
tensions are still high.
Speaker 2: Tensions are high. Even a million dollars an hour can't
cure some of the tensions that are going on now.
So during nineteen eighty three they begin working on a
new album, YEP, to come out at the very end
of nineteen eighty three YEP, and that album is called
nineteen eighty four. This is a new Van Halen.
Speaker 1: The diehard Van Halen fans are getting mixed reviews. Some
of them are sticking with them, some of them are like,
I don't know what's going on with these guys. You
get those guys who think they sold out, and so
then all of a sudden, if it's popular, they're not
interested anymore. Yeah, I don't care about you those guys.
Speaker 2: Teacher comes out with the young van Halen boys running
around the school terrorizing. Right, you've got miss fed his
ed and miss spelled and miss science or whatever, and
those spelled teachers running around.
Speaker 1: You've got his kind of awkwardly sighing mother. And then
when Waldo speaks, he's got this unusually deep voice.
Speaker 2: Oh, mom, you know, are not like other guys. I'm
nervous than my socks are too. You know who that
voice is right now? That voice is Phil Hartman of
saturn Aline.
Speaker 1: Oh Phil Hartman, God rest his soul. Their success is
beyond what it has ever been in history. They are
literally at the top of their.
Speaker 2: Game, and this is where it falls apart. So eight
o'clock in the morning, they're supposed to be there to
write and play music. Dave would show about eleven, start
a fight and then leave.
Speaker 1: He, unbeknownst to them, goes and finds another group of
guys to play with, produces an album, a four song album,
which he says, Hey, you know, any album's only got
four good songs on it. Anyway, I'm just cutting off
the fat. As it turned out, there are only really
two good songs on the album. This is the ego
speaking right here. He does an interview with David Letterman
in early eighty five talking about that album, and Dave
is trying to find out what's going to happen with
the rest of the band.
Speaker 3: I think now's a good time on New Year's to
decide whether you're going to be a hot dog or
a little weened.
Speaker 1: Fun you're doing solo work? Is the is the Does
this mean that the band will soon be breaking up?
Speaker 3: No, No, that happens. You know, I still have very
I still have very strong tribal instincts. And we'll be
going into the studio like the middle of this month
and start arguing again, and we'll come back out with
an album sometime this year, hopefully.
Speaker 1: He has this full expectation that the band's going to
stay together. But you can't be the guy who goes
and trashes the meetings, the guy who rates somebody for
going and doing work with other people, and then pull
off this stunt and expect to remain in a band.
Speaker 3: Boom Budda boom Badida, Boombadida, boom Buddave is out.
Speaker 2: Dave's out in nineteen eighty five, right at the pinnacle
of their professional career. Do van Hagar.
Speaker 1: The first time I heard it was on the movie
Joe Dirt.
Speaker 3: No, sir man, I don't like that crap.
Speaker 1: I'm a rocker dude, through and through. Here's my favorite bands,
AC DC, Van Halen, not Van Hagar.
Speaker 3: Who cureous about the clouds When we're.
Speaker 2: To Sammy officially joins the band end nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: Just sing a song and thing bout Sonny. All right, guys,
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