The Story of Van Halen II the band's spectacular sophomore album. They only had a few weeks to create it. The Hijinks of Eddie and Alex Van Halen, David Lee Roth and Michael Anthony as we breakdown the album including classic cuts like Beautiful Girls, Dance the Night Away, D.O.A. and Bottoms Up.
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After the incredible success of their debut self-titled album, one would think that Van Halen was living the dream…..Wrong!!!!
When the band came back from a year of solid touring, they were welcomed by their record label, Warner Brothers, with the sobering news that they owed the label $2 million, and…by the way…you guys owe us another record- STAT!!
P.S……Even though you're coming off a groundbreaking debut album…. we cut your recording budget…... Welcome home, gentlemen… The band had only 3 weeks to deliver their next album, or be in violation of their contractual agreement with WB.
Fortunately, VH recorded most of their music playing their respective parts live, so they could turn a record around in the studio very quickly.
The band's eponymous debut album took 7 days to complete, and Van Halen banged out II in less than three weeks- just in the nick of time to fulfill the terms of their record deal. After they turned in the finished record, they went back on the road for another leg of touring. In order to make the recording deadline, Van Halen pulled out four tracks from the original demos they recorded with Gene Simmons, and Ted Templeman.
The tracks that they dusted off were "Bottoms Up", "Outta Love Again", "D.O.A.," and "Somebody Get Me a Doctor." They also covered "You're No Good," which, only a few years earlier, was a huge #1 hit on the Billboard 100 as a remake by Linda Ronstadt Coming up with a new batch of songs in such a short period of time was what DLR called "extreme labor."
Mixing things up for VHII, Eddie created a thicker guitar sound by overloading the circuits on his amplifier. Michael Anthony used a smaller bass amp to get a sharper sound. David Lee Roth hammered the maxim of loose, organic, audacity with his full arsenal of grunts, yells, squawks, and howls. For the 'all eyes & ears are on us' follow-up to their monstrous debut, the four members of Van Halen did not put on a tense game face, and soldier into the studio with steely moxie to show the world they were not a fluke.
Instead, they decided to take it to the edge, and wing it. They arrived in the studio totally unprepared. In Dave's words, it was like "bang- stick it on the plastic- next please." Van Halen II was going to reflect the Van Halen attitude and the Van Halen lifestyle.
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