![]() ![]() Order it online and have it delivered straight to your door.The onstage banter from the Blink-182 boys – now middle-aged fathers – has barely changed in a quarter-century. Read our in-depth interview with Wolfgang Van Halen in the brand new issue of Classic Rock, out now. But then I love all of the Van Halen albums. I like how he leaned more into the melodic stuff - some of the most beautiful melodies he's ever written have been in the Hagar era with things like Dreams or the song Not Enough from Balance. The Hagar era shows another side of my father's playing as well. It might be the best-sounding Hagar album, maybe the best sounding Van Halen. Sonically, it's phenomenal-sounding album - it sounds incredible. You could argue that For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge was a better album, but Balance, for me, means more. Technically I was alive for For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, but Balance was the one that I kind of remember being around when it was happening. It's such a great, dark, fun album that I think it gets overlooked.įor the Hagar era, Balance was the album that meant a lot to me. And it’s so quick - it goes by in 36 minutes or something, but it just makes you want to start it again. Again, it's another dark album, but then there's classics like Unchained. But I think it's a really important because it's where dad just went hard. I think that’s why it’s a cult classic - it was never really a huge album compared to the others. It was an album where my dad just said, “Fuck it” and did what he wanted. But I've kind of fudged, because I don't think you can fully represent what Van Halen is without looking at both the Roth era and the Hagar era.įair Warning, the Roth era album, is a very special album to me. I've lived and breathed it my whole life. I wanted to pick a Van Halen album, because obviously that can't be ignored in my upbringing and influence. ![]() Van Halen - Fair Warning (1981)/Balance (1995)
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