Van Halen Put Out The Lights from their 1978 demo "zero"

Heres another song off the 1978 Gene Simmons produced Demo Zero.This one has a 70s sound to it. Enjoy

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• Halen
• Eddie
• Alex
• David
• Lee
• Roth
• Michael
• Anthony
• Demo
• Put
• Out
• The
• Lights
• 70s

[tubewrestler]

They shouldn't even redo these..just clean em' up in the studio and release as you indicated . Best of VH 1 Sessions (Zero). You can't recreate that youthful magic. That is PURE VAN HALEN

[B5Erik]

Wow. Great, great song. Eddie really should clean these demos up (sonically, fixing any dropout or EQ fluctuations from the 30+ year old tapes - not altering any of the performances) and release this as an official Van Halen rarities album. Yeah, call it Van Halen Zero, that would work.

[MikeyZnuff]

@ShakeyShad They did.... it's the new album haha



[doublestrokeroll]

like the new one better. 

[zackvanhalen]

@Mosconi526 This song made it on the new album. It's called "Beats Workin."

[Mosconi526]

Think "Fair Warning" style songs mixed with "Humans Being"/ "Catherine" (instrumental.. look it up), "Me wise magic" and "Hot for teacher" all combined... hopefully with the new album they might do a couple of ballads or acoustic style songs too!!! Dave has a great Acoustic sound! Wolfgang is young too and he thinks alot like the youth of the world as far as what they want to hear from VH... combine all this and it should be ROCKIN!!!! :)

[Mosconi526]

Yeah i totally agree!! They should totally release these songs!!! Just as they were recorded (but re-mastered) ... sadly... we probably won't get that until Eddie Dies.. :( Im sure once that happens then the family would be likely to release some of this type of stuff... but as long as the Master is Alive.. he's in control :) BUT ive heard that the NEW album is supposed to sound alot like "Fair Warning" type songs with a "new age, new Eddie" feel to them...

[viletantrum]

sounds like Gene was trying to make them sound like Kiss...thank God they didn't stick with him. I love Kiss but, I love classic Van Halen. This sounds generic in my opinion.

[Yapostadodat]

From a HUGE Van Halen fan since the 70's, this might be their BEST album. It might even be better than Diver Down! The sound and style is so friggin California, from Dave's hangin ten on a sonic boom with On Fire to Eddies surf music speedy sounding solos and INCREDIBLE hot dog virtuosity. They knew they were going to make it big and you can really hear it in this demo's enthusiasm. Great post, love this stuff.

[ShakeyShad]

Thanks for posting these great songs I never heard before. They need to make a whole new album of old songs!

[TheGovernorJason]

You hear Eddie's tone on this and it sounds nothing like his other stuff. You really see what a genius Ted Templeman was in refining Eddie and the band's sound.

People here have mentioned about cleaning up the old demos. Maybe do that and Eddie add or replace some of the guitar tracks with his more modern tone. Although, his tones from '77 to '88 were my favorites. For some reason, none of my favorite guitarists have gotten better tones in recent years compared to their older stuff.

[MsEVH5150]

MAGIC! Go fast Eddie hehehee amazing real, raw VH