Van Halen- In a Simple Rhyme 1976

[laboarder]

This is one of VH top 5 songs of all time!

[hiterss]

WHERE CAN I FIND THIS AWESOME SONG?!!!!! PLEASE ANSWER ME!!!!!!

[DemoBoy350L]

@hiterss on women children album my fav to!

[hiterss]

@DemoBoy350L But I mean this exactly version of the song

I already got WACF

Great album by the way

[Wilkster5150]

An epic, classic VH track that SHOULD have been released as a single off WACF. Damn shame this song NEVER gets played on classic rock radio.

[thewhatsupquiqui]

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing it! :D

[StoneyMcJuicyBuds]

YEAH YEAH YEAH, GOOD SHEEEEAAAAT!

[bingrasm]

just great

[bcancun123]

MY GOD EPICNESS!!!

[loadbearingmember]

thanks for posting such cool shit!!! 

[DTPVH]

now if only one could cut the vocal track out of this and replace it with the album version. that would be sweet.

[zackvanhalen]

@DTPVH I agree.

[DTPVH]

@zackvanhalen it's weird how he sang so bad on the demos and then a couple years later made one of his best recordings on the same song. maybe he wasn't drunk enough for the demo.

[MrRokinrob]

fantastic guitar playing for 1976

[YallSuckTheBig1]

Perhaps it's just me but this sounds like something off of The Who's Quadrphenia

[residentflea]

Gotta love the clubbing sound....you know when your walking the streets and you can hear that stuff coming from the club--- then hightail it in there and feel that live vibe  house music...you don't hear that anymore.....what a shame... VH ROCKS!!!

[hotdaveog]

This song is great but it makes me laugh. This is 2 years before the first record. How many record execs do you think saw them and said to himself "Nope, these guys don't got it!!!!"

[vbeek2002]

Kick ass.

[hammer5475]

Man your vids are killer, I just can't believe the recordings you have. What a treasure and thank you!!!

[satchbooggy]

why cant Ed impovise all his songs/solos now like he did then? lol

damn the 1980 WACF era was my fave :)

[DeluxeReissue]

There's a real Who influence here.

[nerdflanders8710]

is that a gibson with a kramer neck or is it a kramer

[uzamakifan40]

It's actually a Ibanez Destroyer, very rare now-a-days, Ibanez got sued by Gibson since it looked waaay to similar to the Gibson Explorer so the production of them stopped. For some reason the Destroyers always sounded 10x better, I bet if Eddie didn't "customize" his Destroyer he'd still be using it.

[hicks727]

whats with the fucking hockey glove lol

[primolilla]

Dude, there is no explanation, its Van Halen. They rock out, wear hockey gloves, have parties with midgets running around, and get laid constantly. At least back in the day they did. Some things just stay a mystery LOL!!

[stjames888]

god to be in the clubs these days, I was 6 yrs old when this was made... now I got all the motivation in the world to mod a DELORIAN- lol

[cvjucla3]

I always like the way Eddie played the rhythm sections of 'Simple Rhyme" here live more than the version on "Woman and Children First."

[funds450]

great song! The most underrated VH song ever

[Reg197844]

I'm with you.... one of their best. I love the slow break in the middle....closest thing the old VH had to a ballad (unless you count Secrets from Diver Down).

[zackvanhalen]

Or Push Comes to Shove off of Fair Warning.

[Reg197844]

That's right.....good call there.

[mockinator15]

also try the song light up the sky its a very good song and pretty underrated

[bosoxyaz8]

and one of the heaviest songs ever i might add !!!

[bosoxyaz8]

Light up the sky that is.

[wilkyx]

just when i thought id heard every vh bootleg....this is gold dust

[ouluvme2]

no kidding! thank you youtube!

[SROShaker]

WoW Never heard this version.Keep this in Archives hehe Thanks for sharin the very best of the best ^^

[Rattlehead930]

Oh yeah, you can totally hear their The Who influence in this song!! Hell, this sounds like it came straight off Tommy!!!!

aawesome, tbh:D

[ecarromeana]

Absolutly amazing...youtube stuff all toguether allready¡

[tluckbrown]

This is absolutely fantastic. My favorite song on Women And Children First. Still can't believe Eddie was playin' like that in the early seventies. Thanks for sharing, man.

[zackvanhalen]

Yes, he was pretty crazy.

[sparkles67]

love this, we were learning it last night at rehearsal. i love romeo and could this be magic as well. about the star fleet project, that is actually quite weak, in my opinion, and ed has said it wasn't his proudest moment. now, to all the hardcore vh fans out there, does anyone know where i can get/hear this looney tunes album i've heard of, it's an early 70's recording of vh covering everything. any help????

[zackvanhalen]

I could post stuff from the "Looney Tunes Merry Meledies" bootleg if you'd like.

[sparkles67]

i'd really appreciate that. is there anywhere i could go to download the whole thing??

[theshredmann]

Das ist lustig

[stjames888]

o god would you please, since WMG must be an a-hole about it, please post it...the music is what matters...

[dlechler1]

@sparkles67 Smoke Pot! Woohooo

[StoneyMcJuicyBuds]

@dlYou're God Damn right!

[Rattlehead930]

Yeah, Eddie was the man. It's weird how it took 6 years for them to get noticed.. I mean, Ed was kicking every other guitar players ass in the 70's (except Michael Schenker!). IMO they should of get signed in 73.. then we'd have a few more albums with roth too :D

would be pretty cool

great song anyway=D

[careypeak23]

He kicked schenkers ass, listen to this solo here, that alone was far more advanced and revolutionary in every way from the tone to the attack to the choice of notes. Schenker was dethroned by eddie in1978.

[Rattlehead930]

He was/is a lot better than Schenker, technical-wise. And, Ed plays a mean blues too (listen to some of the stuff he did with Brian May).

Anyway, I still prefer Schenker's style.

Also, I think Schenkers style "evolved" more than Ed's, to me, Ed has been playing the same solos since 78 :x

He still rules though:D

[takeuchitb007]

@tluckbrown you got it man!

[fender51503]

once again man,great stuff!!! Much different from the album. This was off fair warning right?

[zackvanhalen]

Thanks. This was off of Women and Children First from 1980.  This song was written in 1973 though.

[wimpyliberalbuster32]

@fender51503 no. its off women and children first.