Van Halen How the Band Fell Apart Between David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen

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Van Halen was riding a wave of success in the early Eighties. As soon as they came off their Fair Warning Tour (1981), the label demanded a single, which was then followed up with an album - Diver Down, containing their controversial cover of "Dancing in the Street." Find out how the band started to unravel: https://youtu.be/Smi_5of4CGQ
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in may of 1982 van halen released their cover version of dancing in the street which would chart on the top 40. And help propel their 5th album Diver Down to peak at number 3 on the billboard charts and sell over 3 million copies. Now the track was originally written by 60's icon Marvin Gaye and one of the most noticable attributes of the cover song that Van Halen did was the memorable synthesizer riff written by guitarist Eddie Van Halen. Now even though the song was a success it would start the unraveling of Van Halen that came to a full head 3 years later.Even prior to the recording of the song, tensions were rising between frontman David Lee Roth and guitarist Eddie Van Halen. David Lee Roth wanted to stay in the gutter and do what they do best, which was rock out, while the band's guitarist wanted the band's sound to evolve. Van Halen had written this synth riff for an original song, not a cover, but in order to come to a medium even if it wasn't a happy one the synth riff would be used for a cover. Now Van Halen would tell guitar world in 2016 I didn't want to be half way there with someone else's stuff. Diver Down was a turning point for me because half of it was cover tunes. I was working on a great song with this mini moog riff that ended up being used on dancing in the street and it was going to be a completely different song. I envisioned it being more like a peter gabriel song instead of what it turned out to be, but when producer Ted Templeman heard it, he decided it would be great for Dancing in the street. Just to prove how much of a divide there was in the Van Halen camp, the bandmates couldn't even agree on how the song happened or how long it took to record with frontman David Lee Roth recalling it sounds more than 4 people are playing when in actuality there's almost zero overdubs and that's why it takes us such a short amount of time to record it. But Eddie Van Halen disagreed saying it almost takes us as much time to make a cover song sound original as it does writing a song. I spent a lot of time arranging and playing the synthesizer on dancing in the street. Now not only was dancing in the street a compromise the whole album Diver Down was as well. Following the huge success of the group's 1981 record Fair Warning, the band wanted to slow down and take a break to smell the roses and it was originally envisioned that a standalone single would be released as a stop gap between records and this resulted in the cover tune Pretty Woman which was a huge success and so much of a success that the band's label wanted another album right away resulting in Diver Down and in order to support the album the band had to hit the road once again. Now with no time to relax the tensions in the group only escalated and by the end of the cycle for diver down Eddie Van Halen was done with compromising his future image of the band and Van Halen wasn't just at odd with singer David Lee Roth, but the group's longtime producer Ted templeman. Eddie though found an ally in engineer Don Lande and Eddie would recall this time in the band's history saying The bottom line is that i wanted more control i was always butting heads with Ted Templeman about what makes a good record. My philosophy has always been that i would rather bomb my own music than make it with other people's music. And Ted felt that if you re-do a proven hit you're already half way there. Now Van Halen and Lande agreed on the vision of building there own studio as a message that they could create their own original works instead of doing cover tunes and that studio would be named 5150 and it would be the studio where the band's subsequent records would be recorded and Eddie Van Halen would remember "I certainly didn't know how to build a studio. It was all Don's magic we had grown really close and you know we had a common vision. Everybody was afraid Don and I were taking control, well yes that's exactly w

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