You're kidding! There is no thread on Van Halen? I bought all of their albums ages ago and recently ripped them all onto my external hard drive. Today has been Van Halen Day for me! I think that there was a thread on them in the old Metalstorm, but whatever.

Van Halen are a very innovative band. Without Eddie's distinctive virtuoso style of guitar playing, there wouldn't have spanned all the guitar vitruosos that were inspired to pick up a guitar and play simply because Eddie's guitar playing caused quite the riot back in the day. David Lee Roth used to tell Eddie that he should play with his back to the audience so that people in the audience didn't rip off his playing technique!

They're all about good time fun music about getting into trouble, loving hard, living fast, all of that good stuff. Based was based around the outgoing and almost flamboyant front man David Lee Roth. If anything, Van Halen has a vocalist problem; the core members just can't get along with a vocalist for many years because personal problems always arise. Michael Anthony has recently left the band, so it might be curtains for the band...

Anyway...fans? Obviously...