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Speaker 1: Hey, Jason, what's up.

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Speaker 2: D how's it going? Man?

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Speaker 1: Oh, run a little bit hot tonight We're back.

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Speaker 2: I don't feel tardy.

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Speaker 1: How exciting. I love that we're going to talk about

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the van Halen van Hagar dispute today. And I love

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that you really like van Hagar because I really like

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van Halen.

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Speaker 2: This is a very interesting argument to get into because

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this is a definite line in the sand. There's different

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people on both sides of this argument, but it's one

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of the biggest arguments of the nineteen eightes we're going.

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Speaker 1: To talk about. It's nineteen sixty two.

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Speaker 3: They get on a large boat and then after a

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few nights, they had them get up in between sets,

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and then the next night they were sitting at the

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captain's table. Because the star little boys won everyone's hearts,

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and so they became the star of the show. At

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that point, the seed was planted and they were ready

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to be stage musicians for the rest of their lives.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't take very long to figure out there are

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benefits to being the performance, and.

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Speaker 3: So they would pay somebody ten bucks per show to

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go rent the system. And one of the guys they

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were renting from was this kid named Davie Ross kid

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named David Lee Roth. And so after a while, Alex

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just said, you know, we need a lead singer, and

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we need his pa system. Might as well get two

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birds with one stone here and just have him join

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the band and be our lead singer.

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Speaker 2: In a matter of ten dollars, they land one of

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the greatest frontmen of any rock band of all time.

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Speaker 3: And then David Lee Roth was like, you know what,

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Van Halen sounds cool and it's your name. Let's make

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the band name.

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Speaker 2: That was Daily Ross's idea.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely yeah. Once they had gained that big following, they

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finally landed a gig as kind of the house band

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for a place called Gazari's. That's right, that's in hod

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And oddly, from time to time Bill Gazari would come

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up to David and say, hey, Van, you guys did

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last night? Let a couple extra bucks. I guess he

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thought he was like Van Morrison or something. So he

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had a special guitar. Yeah, absolutely, I had a special guitar.

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So here's something. Here's something that many people don't know

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about Eddie, which is just absolutely amazing. The man was

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an inventor. He wasn't he didn't just redefine the way

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that you played the guitar, He created his own guitar.

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Geene Simmons said, I don't think you guys should call

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yourselves in Halen.

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Speaker 2: I think you guys ought to change your name to

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Daddy Longlegs.

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Speaker 3: Which who knows, maybe that would have worked.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so.

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Speaker 3: No, it's not the same bad and they do the

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right thing.

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Speaker 2: When Geene Simmons tells you to do something after he

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had branded kiss, there's gonna be a big temptation to change.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you not How do I mean, if

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you're if you're with that iconic figure, how do you

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not go? Yeah, that sounds great.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you say, Gene, you're the man.

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Speaker 2: You're worth a bazillion dollars. Mister Simmons, I'll do whatever

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you say, right, but they say no.

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