Van Halen "Women In Love" from their Gene Simmons produced demo 'Zero'

[skrewflanders]

Much better than their latest song.

[boddumblues]

Remember that VH was away from home playing borrowed gear, and Eddie not 100% in control like at home. So don't judge to harshly.

Actually DLR's vocal is better recorded than on VH1, which need filtering of s'es so bad!

[nerdflanders8710]

eddie must have sold his soul to the devil after this demo and before the first album.

[nerdflanders8710]

evh has guitar chops on his shit.

[Wrathdemon]

One of the greatest bands ever! (with David Lee Roth only)!!!

[eddievanhalenstoung]

sounds very pop

no edge

pass the glitter and makeup

[erik530195]

So much different than the original, i like the other one better

[darthvaderyoda]

@erik530195 This isn't actually Women in Love, that real name of this song is WOMAN In Love.

[hirskdubbi]

kiss is my fave band and i think genes a twat for tryin to snag eddie away for his own band and he didnt like diamond dave.what a douche.and the sound of the guitar on this demo SUCKS

[annst271]

Great tune, awesome pictures, thanks for the post!

[veeaitch]

was daddy long legs

[stampededbrthdaycake]

cool song

[SteveBurk]

actually Montrose came out in 1973, this demo was done in 1976, so it is ripping off Montrose, but who cares, they were just kids

[SteveBurk]

they stole this rif from Montrose, wow

[MrDunkJunk]

@SteveBurk Van Halen was earlier;)

[zer0dahero]

0:35, proof that eddie was the original bucket head.

[glysregulate]

@zer0dahero

Totally. Both are great guitarist in their own right.

[PowerMetalEuphonist]

@zer0dahero Maybe Ed IS Buckethead!

[BDPGT]

@zer0dahero Maybe he is buckethead ;)

[zer0dahero]

@BDPGT no one has seen them both in the same place at the same time. Hum...

[Exilemainstreet]

You can tell these guys wanted to conquer the world.

[bowslap]

Can tell the demo quality of this track....but damn, it STILL has POWER, even almost 40 years on. Sounds like Ed was playing a Les Paul on this recording...has that mahogany tonal characteristic

[PAULOcbi]

@bowslap LesPaul`s have a Mahogony body ,but the top is Maple,So you mean that Maple tonal characteristic.GeneSimmons didnt like the demo and told Eddie they wouldnt go anywhere after Eddie refused to change the band name from VanHalen to 'DaddyShortLegs".GeneSimmons is a twat.... DaddyShortLegs????

[marked95128]

sounds like kiss

[broxxx1138]

@marked95128 fuck off

[DarthKazi]

:38 Ed playing a Tele. Fucking awesome!!!

[GeminiDragonTV]

Gene managed to get more of Michael Anthony's bass into the mix on this demo recording than Ted Templeman got on any proper Van Halen record.

[TheCH3CCO8719]

yeaaah!!!!

[Balzinurgob01]

This is kinda same ol', same ol'--I think Templeton and Landee got more of a signature sound from them...the VH 1 record had more edge and energy and set them apart from "hair band" status. I don't think I'd have lost my mind over this like I did over the VH 1 debut

[codyjt5150]

i never thought for a second that at 0:40 Van Halen and the MotorCity Madman would be playing together. I wish I could see that, too bad i was born many years too late. but VH needs to release a Rarities compilation. Kinda like what AC/DC did with the Backtracks thing last year. Except Van Halen needs to do it with both Roth Era and Sammy Era. I never heard in Van Hagar rarities on here, they have to be good.

[splf]

who's he playing with at 0:40 ?

[robpollard]

@splf The Motorcity Madman, Ted Nugent

[cvjucla3]

VH's unreleased stuff is better than most bands released stuff. Simply an awesome band!!!!

[kchamz]

I didn't listen to this before because it's listed as Women In Love (which is on VH 2) but aren't they saying WOMAN In Love? I would have clicked on earlier knowing that it was a different title.

[saa5mtp]

i hear womAn in love - singular. I guess roth decided he needed more womEn on VH II? :)

she ran off with another womAn!

she's gone!

[1019drummer]

awsimo.........

[sammyr63]

wow look at the crowd reaction at 1.20 you dont see that no more now everybody to busy on cellphones to even get into a concert

[reedo5150]

Eddie had some badass costume back in the day, I made the us festival overalls and have the made the camo ones to.

[frankenstrat25]

look at all these MARVELOUS photos i especially love the one at 2:36 with some of his guitars

[sfonion]

Never heard this before.

Many thanks for posting the footage - you rule!

[haydenfox3]

0:25 is that David with the Frankenstraat?

[zackvanhalen]

@haydenfox3 It looks like it. And it also looks like that table eddie walks down on the Hot For Teacher video.

[dudewinky]

Great Sound Man!! Thanks for posting

[van1978halen]

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[eliizme]

U know they always ripped it up!

[van1978halen]

ya they did...and it's awesome!