EDDIE VAN HALEN - '(Nearly) Good Enough' Instrumental From The Wild Life Streaming

September 17, 2013, 11 years ago

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The VAN HALEN News Desk has unearthed another rare track from the The Wild Life movie score, which VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen wrote for Universal Pictures in 1984.

"Here’s what we call '(Nearly) Good Enough', written and performed by Eddie Van Halen in 1983. This track is part of the musical score from the movie The Wild Life, released in 1984. Eddie wrote the entire musical score for the movie, playing guitar along with his electronic drum machine. This piece features some of what ultimately became 'Good Enough' on 5150. But this isn’t just an early version or demo of 'Good Enough', this contains lots of other cool playing that’s never been released elsewhere. Viewers can hear only bits and pieces of this track in the movie, but here’s the full unedited 7:32 track."

The Van Halen News Desk will be releasing all of Ed’s music from The Wild Life score throughout the coming weeks. These will all be the full, raw tracks that Eddie recorded, before they were edited for use in the movie.

The Wild Life starred 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.


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