VAN HALEN - OU812 Remembered 25 Years On In New eBook
March 6, 2013, 11 years ago
A new one-dollar short eBook tells the story – 25 years on – of the making of VAN HALEN’s 1988 album OU812.
Author and BraveWords Editor In Chief Martin Popoff explains:
“It’s always a blast talking with Sammy Hagar, and within this lively read, he’s considerably charitable in giving me the story of this 'hair metal'-era smash hit from the mighty Van Halen.”In fact, Hagar waxes lyrical about the “magical moments on OU812. We could do no wrong. We just said, let’s start recording today. We just made a date. We had come off a very lengthy tour for 5150 and Eddie had a bunch of riffs he was jamming around. I had a bunch of lyrics in notebooks that I had been thinking about and writing. And we just put them together and jammed in the studio. It was just complete, simple, magic.”
Ye Olde Metal: Van Halen’s OU812 is available as a ten-page eBook in high-resolution PDF format from Zunior.com.
Also hot off the Popoff ePress are short eBooks in the Ye Olde Metal single-album series on the making of:
Y&T;’s Earthshaker (1981)
“Y&T; assumed a more moshing position, cranking a blistered blast of traditional metal for this first record for the band on A&M;,” Popoff says.MANOWAR’s Battle Hymns (1982)
“I’ve got vocalist Eric Adams telling, at length, the story of putting together Manowar’s trend-bucking debut record of might is right.”
GAMMA’s Gamma 2 (1980)
“One of the gosh-darned coolest classic metal albums of all time. This long making of “essay” celebrates the record in considerable detail. Interview footage comes from vocalist Davey Pattison, bassist Glenn Letsch, and the dearly departed leader of the band, guitarist Ronnie Montrose.”APRIL WINE’s The Nature Of The Beast (1981)
Harder... Faster is my fave April Wine album, and I’ve written about that too, but The Nature Of The Beast is pretty cool as well, especially “Future Tense”... yeah! So here we are, chatting with guitarists Myles Goodwyn and Brian Greenway about April Wine’s most successful album in the states.”
TROUBLE’s Trouble (1990)
“Arguably the greatest doom album of all time – produced by Rick Rubin. What results is a huge slab of steaming apocalyptic riffery, and here’s the story of it.”
