Van Halen - Glitter 1973

[toothdds]

Where did you get this? How do you get this?

[00DBomber]

1:34-204 reminds me of The Who's Live at Leeds Overture/Underture...quite a bit.....

[AMEwrestling]

This is the first time I hear a Van Halen song from the 1970s, this is great!

[LedWilde]

They should have recorded this for one of their VH albums.

[santageoc]

David L. R joined before Michael A. True fact. As soon as they hit the Sunset strip is when Mark Stone left...(was asked to leave nicely). Too much drugs and booze. Just the facts people....

[MrMattyHaze]

who the hell did this song originally?

[zackvanhalen]

@MrMattyHaze Van Halen.

[morleygrey]

This is the first I heard of this. Nice guitar tone for 1973. Different from what else was out at that time. Nice. Thanks for posting.

[cherrypieguy]

who cares about Mark Stoner really, i guess unless your a bass player....

[insidegoodoutsidebad]

@cherrypieguy mark stoner cares

[rfd73]

Eddie definitely had a fucking great tone since its beginnings, he must have been like 17 or something back in that year

[nickthecomedian]

i have so many bootleg albums on my ipod that i came across on the internet and saved em. i think the songs they did with Gene were really good

[GreenNamedDude]

Should be on the album. I love the solo, It really stands out.

[biodot88]

Tastey vintage toobage at the start to some volume rolloff to some nice claptonesk soloing at the end. Dave's voice cut through the mix nicely. Great song.

[steveevh1]

@biodot88 I would say this is genuine although I am not sure about it being 1973. The archives say that Mike joined before Dave. I would say that this is deffo Dave on vocals and sounds like Eddie playing a strat without a humbucker at that point. You can hear all of his blues rock influences but you can also hear the birth of his 3 semitone string bending and pushing the bar and his funky syncopated lead stile which has influenced all after him. If this is real then it is a great archive :) XX

[Gordfozzfoster]

Is this not Red Ball Jet? Got a bootleg of them doing Crosstown Traffic by Hendrix too.

[zackvanhalen]

@Gordfozzfoster No, this is Van Halen.

[steveevh1]

@zackvanhalen It was very early because Eddie did not have a Humbucker in the Frankenstrat, I will give you that, The sound is a single coil

[santageoc]

@Gordfozzfoster Did U grow up in Pasadena, CA? Only a handfull know that David L. R. was in Red Ball Jet as the singer before VH band. Eddie never played with RBJ!  I lived three houses from EVH when we were kids until signed with WB. Never heard him do Crosstown Traffic in my life. Would love to hear that one!

[Mrpretpakket]

@santageoc I think it is actually a well known fact that DLR was in a band called Red Ball Jet. I read that info way before you could read all kinds of facts on the web. It wouldn't even surprise me if i read it in a Guitar World band timeline or in some rock almanak. 

[TheMichaelseymour]

@santageoc I knew that 25-30 years ago ! ...& i'm australian..........but did you also know -

Eddie didnt just play on beat it ..he sang it too ! ...MJ -was nowhere to be seen ...

I know !..i was the engineer ! { i bet you didnt know that -that i was the engineer } It wernt casey jones -

he got railroaded ...& i was the one they asked ...naturally , i accepted.

[darksunblade]

F*CKIN' SWEET !!!...hails & cheers for posting this bro !!

[RaceWithTheDevil]

This is the real deal with Mark Stone for sure!

[wankmaster]

its amazing how much his playing changed between the years 1973-1976....

[Jmurray5150]

FUCK YEAH!! I've been wanting to hear "Glitter" and "Men of Leisure" for YEARS!! Thanks so much, man!!

Crazy to hear Eddie smokin' solos like that from his high school grad year I think!

[glpainterwindstream]

Digital master this clean it up a bit and release it

[nigellinaballerina]

@glpainterwindstream agreed!!!

[salamonetalton]

eddie and alex were playin in bands when they were 14 and 15 years old. 1968 and 1969.

[fucheduck]

intriguing...

[nehocyrrah]

Thanks Zack!!!!!!!!!!! Priceless

[sicksylvia]

They're finding themselves on this, still developing a sound. If this is '73, Ed's shit hot for an 18 year old. Whats up with the weird ending?

[johnnybeane]

@sicksylvia That ending was added by someone. It's not the original ending. Could have been from some radio broadcast?

[Soxpert]

@johnnybeane

I think it was played by Dave on his Dave TV internet show way back in the 90's, maybe he added it.

[johnnybeane]

@Soxpert

u may be right.

[VanHalenWorshiper]

omg mammoth as they were called before 1974 great post extremly rare

[Phil5150rocker]

If this is 1973, then that would mean Eddie would have been around 18 years old when this was recorded.

[eddierovbombar]

Amazing guitar playing with a killlertone. I wish music was like this to day more. It sounds like his influenced by Johnny Winter. I wish someone could put out more early demos.

[schismc]

Fantastic. You can really hear Ed's blues influences cutting through.

[zackvanhalen]

This song is supposedly from their first ever demo from 1973. Mike joined in 1974. The origional bassist was Mark Stone. I'm pretty sure this was back when the had a keyboard player in the band. There is another song on this demo that has keys in it. There is a slight chance I could be wrong though.

[Cry4her]

Before michael anthony? It must have been...hm...1974??or? when did Anthony start in the band?