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Just two legends in the prime. Sorry for the quality, but it was 1984
I was living in London and went to American School of London in the late 70's. Several of my buddies and I were in London last year and got a private tour of the school. Due to 9/11 and a Russian oligarch sending his kids there, security is super tight.
A better quality video. Them live in 81.
This is Eddie only 5 years ago. And this is me 😮
Are you the only person on the planet that went to HS in north London and Corpus Christi?
This might be my favorite Van Halen song. The tone of Eddie's guitar is so haunting and there's just a great driving beat to this song.
If you are between the age of 45-60.....VH is in your wheelhouse. Awesome band. And Eddie was great.
Tough loss.......however, if you would have told Eddie in 1980 that he would live to 65......he would not have believed you.
Nice. I went to London Central.
Where was that located? ASL is in St. Johns Wood.
No. My senior year my dad got orders to NAS Corpus Christi. Just so happened that my very best friend's dad got orders to CC at the same time. He was our starting QB at LCHS and I was the kicker and starting WR. Neither of us had a chance as new guys in Texas. We basically went from being BMOCs at a 1A school to backups at a 5A school. Also, the year before, two girls from LCHS their dads did the same. All four of us even went to the same HS in Corpus (Flour Bluff). Moving your senior year sucks, but having 3 good friends there really helped a lot.
High Wycombe (pronounced wick-am). It used to be somewhere in downtown London, thus the London Central name, and eventually moved to the north London suburbs to an Air Force base.
Did we ever play you guys in sports? I can't recall.
No, we were a Department of Defense school. We only played other DoD schools in England (Alconberry, Croughton, Lakenheath, forgot the other...there were 5 schools).
lol - I've almost certainly played Jump on the keyboard at Costco. That and the intro to "The Final Countdown". Nothing peaks the interest of 50-year old soccer moms passing by with a cart full of bottled water and Kirkland chardonnay than a little Europe on a Saturday afternoon 🤣
So many great clips @RxDawg and others have shared here. Really brings one back to a specific place & time in our collective youth. Also reminded me that Michael Anthony might be one of the more underrated backing vocalists in rock.
PS - not a complaint as I have pretty thick skin on DVs but curious as to what someone's issue is/was on the video I shared? Did they disagree with the riffs that were chosen? Dialogue & debate are encouraged!
This guy says, "Hold my beer."
I know......unbelievable
I played a Rugby match at Lakenheath.
I got a DV for sharing 7th Seal by VH. Bizarre.
BTW, there was a Marine barracks in St. Johns Wood, about a 5 minute walk from ASL. Every year the all English school called Quinton Kennison (I think) would protest outside ASL and throw rocks and bottles at us. One year I grabbed a couple of guys and ran to the Marine barracks. I told a Marine what was going on and he called out to some fellow soldiers and they ran with us back to our campus. That protest ended quickly once they saw who was running down the street. The Marines roughed up a few of the kids, but nobody got hurt.
Must not be a Van Hagar fan! hahaha
For the record - I was firmly in the "David Lee Roth VH is way better than Hagar VH" back in the 80s, but I've definitely softened on that position over time. If I was stuck on a desert island with just the DLR catalog or Hagar, I'd still likely pick DLR; but many of my favorite VH songs have Hagar on vocals.