Eddie Van Halen’s battle with David Lee Roth & Co to record Jump in the 80s | Professor of Rock

A philosophical battle between music icons held back the recording of one of the most popular rock anthems in history. It was “Jump” or the highway for Van Halen as Eddie Van Halen fought with producer Ted Templeman and David Lee Roth to get his synth laden song Jump released as the lead single from the diamond selling smash 1984, as well as the band’s battle with the Clash at the US festival.

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Van Halen was busy working on their upcoming blockbuster album 1984 in early ’83, when they were offered one of the 3 headliner slots for a new music festival to be held over Memorial Day weekend in San Bernardino California, just east of Los Angeles.
The offer to headline was lucrative, and the look was huge.
The US (us) Festival was conceived to be one of the largest music festivals in history, with a projected attendance of 500K people.

The other two headliners were to be David Bowie, and The Clash.
The US Festival did, in fact, have a massive audience of just over 400K, but it turned out to be infamous for losing over $10 million for the creators, which included Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
The US Festival was also notorious for the hostility & resentment it caused to the relationships between some of the performers.
Most contentious was the rift between Van Halen and The Clash.

The Clash were incensed because they discovered, on site at the festival, that they were being paid only half of what Van Halen was getting. Van Halen received $1.5 million- which was then a record for the biggest payout for a single performance by any artist.

David Bowie, reportedly, also received $1.5 million, and that is the main reason Van Halen got the same amount, since they had a clause in their contract that they were to be paid no less than any other act playing at the US Festival.

The Clash were apparently OK with Bowie getting paid that kind of cash, but they called Van Halen “hamburger music.” Which I love the Clash and have always looked up to Joe Strummer as one the greatest forces in rock ever but They were dead wrong on their assessment of the titans of rock. Apparently Joe Strummer & David Lee Roth got into a full on shouting match backstage. Um how unbelievable would that have been to witness.. Yes please.

The Clash felt so disrespected, and devalued, that they came close to pulling off the show, before finally relenting when Woz agreed to give a portion of the proceeds of the US Festival to charity, adhering to the demands to appease Strummer and Mick Jones. and remember, The US Festival would be Jones’s last live performance with The Clash.
POSSIBLE BREAKAWAY
The Clash were plenty pissed. They came out to play their slot with a huge Banner that said The Clash will not be Bought. with upset the Festival organizers who actually flashed a copy of the 500K check up on the video screen.

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