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Zimm - I liked Van Hagar as well and 5150 and OU812 were perhaps the best of them. Like you I saw Van Halen on tour for 1984 and it stuck with me. The album reminds me of some great times, always crank it up when I hear songs on the radio, especially at home \:\)


The Grinch?!? Good call. And yes, OU812 should have gone down as a watershed event. But they tried to go "old school" after that. To me, they just sounded old and reaching as they tried to get harder as they got older. OU812 had a mature sound they could have rolled forward with. Oh well, not the first or the last to fade away.

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