Speaker 1: Hey, Jason, what's up.
Speaker 2: D how's it going? Man?
Speaker 1: Oh, run a little bit hot tonight We're back.
Speaker 2: I don't feel tardy.
Speaker 1: How exciting. I love that we're going to talk about
the van Halen van Hagar dispute today. And I love
that you really like van Hagar because I really like
van Halen.
Speaker 2: This is a very interesting argument to get into because
this is a definite line in the sand. There's different
people on both sides of this argument, but it's one
of the biggest arguments of the nineteen eightes we're going.
Speaker 1: To talk about. It's nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 3: They get on a large boat and then after a
few nights, they had them get up in between sets,
and then the next night they were sitting at the
captain's table. Because the star little boys won everyone's hearts,
and so they became the star of the show. At
that point, the seed was planted and they were ready
to be stage musicians for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 2: It doesn't take very long to figure out there are
benefits to being the performance, and.
Speaker 3: So they would pay somebody ten bucks per show to
go rent the system. And one of the guys they
were renting from was this kid named Davie Ross kid
named David Lee Roth. And so after a while, Alex
just said, you know, we need a lead singer, and
we need his pa system. Might as well get two
birds with one stone here and just have him join
the band and be our lead singer.
Speaker 2: In a matter of ten dollars, they land one of
the greatest frontmen of any rock band of all time.
Speaker 3: And then David Lee Roth was like, you know what,
Van Halen sounds cool and it's your name. Let's make
the band name.
Speaker 2: That was Daily Ross's idea.
Speaker 3: Absolutely yeah. Once they had gained that big following, they
finally landed a gig as kind of the house band
for a place called Gazari's. That's right, that's in hod
And oddly, from time to time Bill Gazari would come
up to David and say, hey, Van, you guys did
last night? Let a couple extra bucks. I guess he
thought he was like Van Morrison or something. So he
had a special guitar. Yeah, absolutely, I had a special guitar.
So here's something. Here's something that many people don't know
about Eddie, which is just absolutely amazing. The man was
an inventor. He wasn't he didn't just redefine the way
that you played the guitar, He created his own guitar.
Geene Simmons said, I don't think you guys should call
yourselves in Halen.
Speaker 2: I think you guys ought to change your name to
Daddy Longlegs.
Speaker 3: Which who knows, maybe that would have worked.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: No, it's not the same bad and they do the
right thing.
Speaker 2: When Geene Simmons tells you to do something after he
had branded kiss, there's gonna be a big temptation to change.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you not How do I mean, if
you're if you're with that iconic figure, how do you
not go? Yeah, that sounds great.
Speaker 1: Whatever you say, Gene, you're the man.
Speaker 2: You're worth a bazillion dollars. Mister Simmons, I'll do whatever
you say, right, but they say no.
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