Rare Unreleased VAN HALEN Song 'Ripley' Unearthed!
September 21, 2010, 13 years ago
The VAN HALEN News Desk is reporting:
The Wild Life movie score is legendary to VAN HALEN fans, as Eddie Van Halen wrote the score for the movie (Universal Pictures, 1984). The Wild Life stars Chris Penn and was the first script Cameron Crowe wrote after the success of Fast Times At Ridgemont High. The movie was only released on VHS – never on DVD, unfortunately.
The film has an official soundtrack, but it contains only one song by Eddie Van Halen, 'Donut City' (3:57). So “Donut City” is the only officially released complete track for the movie that was written by Edward Van Halen.
But sharp-eared VH fans will recognize unreleased music from Eddie interspersed several times throughout the film. Portions of early versions of 'Right Now', 'Good Enough', 'Feels So Good', 'A.F.U. (Naturally Wired)', and 'Strung Out' can be heard throughout the film. In addition, the synthesized backdrop music for David Lee Roth’s 'Tai Chi Solo' on the 1984 tour also made its debut in this film. The movie’s score is one of the best kept secrets in rock music. The songs were recorded and mixed at 5150 by Donn Landee and Ken Deane. Ed played all the instruments on the songs.
Presented here is a compete song from the movie score which has never circulated before now. Eddie played it on a Ripley guitar and the song is rumored to be called 'Ripley'.
