The Van Halen Story: The Early Years

Starring:David Lee Roth, J.J. Jackson
Studio: PASSPORT VIDEO
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
"The VAN HALEN Story: The Early Years", chronicles the rise of four young musicians from their formative years to their transformation into a worldwide phenomenon.

Description

"The VAN HALEN Story: The Early Years", chronicles the rise of four young musicians from their formative years to their transformation into a worldwide phenomenon.

Customer Reviews:

Not a single lick of van halen music ???.......2007-06-12

What kind of "early years" band documentary doesn't even have a lick of music from the band its covering ? A bad documentary you say ? Correct. This reminds me of something you would see in 1985 high school science class...projector and all. The narration is horrible, clearly from some old guy who had never heard of Van Halen prior to excepting the minimum wage job of "narrarator" for this C class documentary.

The box is way misleading. There are no interviews with anyone from the band. They play a few public recordings of Alex or Eddie saying something that you have heard before on VH1. And thats what this is, a bad VH1 documentary. The bulk of the interviews are from people like "Childhood friend of Alex" or "childhood friend of David Lee Roth".. also they interveiw some guys in totally unrelated bands that were influenced by Van Halen.

Do yourself a favor and don't spend $$$ on this. If they show it on Vh1 (bound to happen eventually), then you MIGHT want to watch parts of it...but if you spend money on this, you'll probably regret it like I do.

Dont pay attention to the hype by these other so called fans..........2007-05-17

I must say that this video is worth the cash. Totally!! If you don't want to purchase it then make a copy. Don't listen to any of these other so called fans. This video covers the inception of VH to the Roth departure. It even starts off with when the band members were born & traces their roots until they form Mammoth and then go from there. All of the people in this video are relevant to VH's history & have great things to say. Christ, Mark Stone is on the DVD as well as roadies, Zloz, Jim Dandy, band members from Snake and other music industry contributors that are associated with the band. If anyone like myself has any VH boots ( I have 20, from 1973-1984) and knows anything about this website: [...] you will be able to enjoy this video. Anyone who doesn't know about the boots is not a fan in my opinion. Just buy the video and you will be satisfied. There are plenty of rare still photos ranging from 1973-1978 for the club days. Lots of memorabilia shown on the video as well. Interviews with Dave Roth/EVH/Owner of Whiskey and voice recordings of Mikey & Alex as well as Gene S. Again this video will give you a nice perspective of how the band came about and what they went through to get to be "The Mighty VH!!!!!!" In a nutshell, JUST BUY IT for your VH collection, you cant go wrong. EVH-I hope your recovery is going well and we all hope to see you and Dave, Alex & Wolfie tour next summer of 2008!!! Long Live VH!!!

WB, what are you waiting for?????.......2007-04-12

OK, I get it now after all these years. WB (Warner Bro's) decided to hold all the early Van Halen footage in a vault hidden somewhere until the next life killing asteroid blasts the earth. Then evolution will recreate man and the new explorers will dig up the vault and find the vintage footage, watch it, and say, wow, what a cool band, lets sell this stuff on the black market. Thats about the time your gonna have to wait until you actually see a good DLR erra DVD, so, back to my 5th generation copied VHS to DVD US Festival from "83"........

Van Halen: Early Years.......2007-02-19

COMPLETE WASTE! DO NOT PURCHASE THIS DVD. Grade A piece of junk with ABSOLUTELY no early V.H. Footage. What a joke!

Might As Well JUMP... not for joy........2007-01-09

I was hoping for early video/film footage. It's not in this DVD! The creators of this DVD realized that too... so they put in lots and lots of cheap stock footage of other things that don't relate. Any shots of the band are just photographs and a few talking head shots are on video, but some of the interview snippets they couldn't even get the rights to show the video, just the audio. If you're a Van Halen fan, you'll give it 3 stars. If you are not a fan, you'll give it 0 stars. Nuff said.

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