Van Halen - Babe Don't Leave Me Alone

[wizzzeeee]

Meet QuetzzziiiiiiLLado!!!

[rgs4x]

You know if they would sell all these unleased songs in a package true fans would buy them.

[pflo99]

This is not the Gene demo. The Gene demo has eddie through Aces amps and it sounds like shit. See "house of pain demo"

[headlesssoldier]

i really love the Warner Brothers demos. so much great stuff on there. And its really interesting to hear how Roth's delivery on the first release was so honed by the final version. I guess thats where producer comes in.

[kmtobin]

Yup Album is coming.... See VH News Desk for the GREAT NEWS!

[theShowStopper321]

I think this is from the Warner demoes from the sound of the drums, bass, an guitar. Gene's demoes sound a lot like KISS-production wise.

[Pat9201]

can someone tell van halen i had a happy 2010 so they can update their website?

[Hunkola]

VH needs to remake this song on their new album in 2011 ---- one of the best gems from early VH history

[Pat9201]

@Hunkola ya,album in 2011...LOL

[ShakeyShad]

Appreciate just how good these classic VH songs really were.

[dg1974hey]

Awesome song! Maybe they could put on their new album...

[bcancun123]

DAMM What a Track !!

[jackoliverw1]

lol 2:20 silly eddie

[skynyrdfan56]

Unbelievable that this great rock song was not released and is not to find on any CD. What a mistake. What`s the reason? Does anybody knows it? That track could have been a hit like "Jump" in my opinion. 5 stars.

[xj14y]

Ed's equipment is sorely missing here. His tone isn't working at all, if this is the session they did with the KISS gear. It still sounds like the band, but the tone isn't right, you can hear hints of it in the solo, but it's just not quite there... Anyone have the Simmons demo?

[ScottMacFie]

Wow. You really get a feel for what mid 70s, early 80s SoCal hard rock was all about. This is America's answer to LZ, the Who, and Stones.

Van Halen, followed by Green Day is arguably the greatest American rock "product" since Elvis, given that nearly all the big acts were British for nearly two decades. No disrespect to the "Boss" (it's not rock), or Journey all and all that. But VH is where it was at.

[sexyton1988]

sounds nugeified!

[mrentertainment43]

This song written by David Carradine while he was "hanging around" in Bangkok.

[vanhlnfan4life]

Hey VH freaks...My 2 yr old sons name is Halen...Rock on !!!

[salamonetalton]

as much as i love vh these classics will never be heard again. edie is too concerned about tiger woods sorry ass.

[ill3stV1llain]

this is definatly one of my favorite van halen songs and it hasnt even been released

[Hunkola]

This song would've been perfect on the VH debut album.........although "Feel Your Love Tonight" has a very similar party vibe to it.........but who says you can't have 2 party songs on a VH record ??

[cvjucla3]

Yeah, it's another classic party VH song. The background vocals are awesome as usual."Honolulu Baby" "Put Out the Lights," and the other version of "Women of Love" are other great VH party songs that just needed the Ted Templeman touch and would have been classics along with all the rest of the classic VH catalog! But these are still classics as far as I'm concern. Look at all of these awesome songs that didn't even make it on album. VH is deep!!!

[BigTroubles]

Dave had mentioned that it was THIS song that most WB execs were impressed with the most. So he was surprised it was not on the first album and surprised it was never used again. I wouldn`t mind hearing this song on the radio today. Dust it off Ed....Get everyone together.

[salamonetalton]

yeah this song was on the gene simmons demo but not this version. this is off the warner bros demos! eddie has a completely different guitar sound. remember on gene simmons demos they were using kiss's gear!

[jhop5150]

sounds like eddie learned the very beginning of cat scratch fever and tried to make it a new song

[caryg666]

i like big trouble

[cvjucla3]

The vid went well with the song. Cool vid!

[smh32]

I just wanted to say thank you so much to everyone involved in posting these incredible early club songs. They are so fucking tight and raw in sound. I wish =VH= had put out more songs these throughout their albums over the years. Not saying their album songs weren't good or anything, they were and damn good too. I just wish bands like =VH= would take it back old school before the first album and start cranking those early club songs again.

[Lemke68]

nice song! haha i wish i could ride on a wire like that playing guitar

[leehr777]

They did wright this song and it's the best demo song ever. Short and sweet.

[cvjucla3]

It's cool. 'Put Out the Lights' is my favorite.

[cvjucla3]

'Honolulu Baby' is another bitchin' song.

[TheLostTruckDriver]

Yeah this don't sound like the Gene Simmons ones. He didn't have all the guitar effects and eqs and I hope to hear all the natural sounding demos, it's cool.

[GooBooFilms]

I wonder if they wrote this song?

[foxheadspeed]

of course they did man...

[salamonetalton]

this aint the gene simmons demos from may 1976 einstein........it's the warner brothers demos from 1977.i know coz i got all of the demos.

[cvjucla3]

Yeah the Warner demos' quality is much better than the Simmons' demos. Better produced and engineered. Ted Templeman and Don Landee are highly underated.

[rockluverx2]

man 5150EVH5150 u rule cause u got all the rare stuff of my favorite band of all time and its all good! rock on !,,,! (-.-) !,,,!

[Champane97]

Wouldn't KISS kill for a song like this!! No wonder Gene Simmons tried hard to steal EVH away from VH and into KISS!! Did anyone know about that?

[rossrifle113]

actually Eddie wanted to join KISS back in '81, and Gene told him to go back to the band. He got Vinnie Vincent instead...what a tardo

[rockluverx2]

u serious wow prob cause of dave too i mean he was getting out of control towards ed. But EVH in KISS now that something id be willing to pay to see.

[BeamOut1]

They should record this one for the next album. It's better than Me Wise Magic for sure.

[Champane97]

I agree with you about recording this song for the next album, but "Me Wise Magic" is awesome, one of their best since Dave left!!

[Eddieshred]

yes, this is a good riff

[leehr777]

i love this song

[philwin1X]

great hook, can't get the chorus outta my head...shoulda been a single...not on the first but one of the other albums...the first album is perfect.

[bigdaddy40]

If I was Panamanian, I'd jump inside my 73' Camaro, drive down there, and kick your ass. I played this song at my 3rd wedding.

[bigdaddy40]

This song sounds like KISS meets Peter Frampton. I like it.

[kchamz]

Dave's vocals have to be up to scratch..Mike needs to be in the lineup and the brothers have to stay sober. That's not really too much to ask of these guys is it. Maybe they'll surprise us when they're inducted to the R&R Hall of Fame on March 12th.

[Baldmelon]

Thank you Captain Obvious:-P

[kchamz]

Your welcome Admiral Sarcasm. You outrank me.(ha)

[sbeckius]

And just as fast as this reunion was announced....it's over.

[closingcross]

Valarie will never let her son hang with dad & uncle AL to do Blow/Drink on tour.\? Wolfboy is gonna go crazy. Hey lets make lines out of the VH logo and snort em off uncle Alex ride sybol.. LOL.. True story

[Nikkisixxx07]

hahahaha lines out of the VH logo, for real ?

[coolhand71]

Agree totally

[BeamOut1]

Michael Anthony is the man, all those background vocals provide the hook. If he ain't in the "reunion" it's not VH

[RockFiend111]

Very true.

[BeamOut1]

They would go back to old songs and re-record them all the time, borrow intros and instrumental sections too. The production on this version, the background vocal layering, etc, is so much more sophistcated that the earlier versions. It has the Women and Children First production sound, it sounds alot like Young and Wild fron the same sessions. Please put up more, WACF is my favorite VH era.

[RockFiend111]

This is on the "That's All Folks" CD. It's a double CD of rarities and unreleased stuff. This is track #8 on CD one.

[haywood16]

Yes its on 'Thats all folks" ...some of that CD is the Atomic Punks

[RockFiend111]

This is on the "That's All Folks" double CD, which I have. Lots of rare unreleased stuff is on that. This is track #8 on the first CD.

[silkyblonde]

Don't worry Dave ,I'll never leave you alone-how could I ??! Smack

[BeamOut1]

Is that you Dave, writing to yourself

[BeamOut1]

Women and Children First era, they must have re-recrded this.

[irishman1133]

were do you get these demos? do you know anywere to get them?

[VanHalenVideoMan1]

No, this track is not from the Gene Simmons 1976 or the Warner Brother demos 1977. I'm positive because I have both those demos in excellent stereo quality and both of those don't match this track by the way the band plays this song. I'll check the Demo Daze CD setlist, sounds like that's where this track came from because the quality is not that good from that CD.

[sloopy16]

Sounds to me like it's from the first album sessions. Sounds alot like Feel Your Love Tonight. The bass line is fuckin' awesome...some of Dave's screams are right up there with the best of 'em...and Mikey's back vocals are great as usual.