A legendary live act consistently criticized for their terrible live performances. ![]() Van Halen is, in many ways, the high-profile exception to otherwise inflexible rules: classically trained virtuosos who make music for getting hammered in parking lots. With the lone exception of AC/DC, no other rock group has ever bifurcated its career so successfully (though Fleetwood Mac and Genesis come close). In fact, it’s a bit disingenuous to even say they’ve been “together” these five decades - the Van Halen timeline is notoriously comprised of two strikingly different units (and officially three different units, and arguably four). The band has now been together for more than 40 years and is technically still active, although it doesn’t really seem like it. Their debut album was the first rock music I ever loved, before I knew who they were or what they were doing. ![]() This article originally ran in 2018 and is being republished in light of Eddie Van Halen’s passing.
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