7/10/2009

Rock Clip of the Week - Van Halen, Ice Cream Man


This week's Rock Clip of the Week is Van Halen. Why? Well, this week I've zipped through Ian Criste's 2007 saga of the band "Everybody Wants Some - the Van Halen Saga" (You can read the whole thing at Google Books). It was a fairly entertaining read - Christe is no Azerrad, but he puts all the news items and band highlights together in a friendly, easy read. He favors the Van Halen brothers, and gets digs in at Roth, but overall it's a decent account of the band's history up until right before the reunion tour came together in Fall 07-Winter 08.

Did you know???
- Van Halen is the 20th best selling band/artist of all time with sales of over 56 million albums in the USA
- Van Halen is one of five rock bands that have had two albums sell more than 10 million copies in the USA.

So since I'm in that VH mindset, I thought I'd dig out a classic cruncher from the VH early days - Ice Cream Man for the summer! Enjoy!

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2 comments:

Van Contractor said...

Wow Really nice posting...Thanks for sharing...!!

gbvh said...

another Did You Know: The Hagar-fronted 5150 was the band's first No. 1 album.