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 | | Van Halen: A Visual History: 1978 - 1984 by Neil Zlozower, David Lee Roth (Foreword) ISBN-10: 9780811863049 ISBN-10: 0-8118-6304-2 ISBN-13: 9780811863049 ISBN-13: 978-0-8118-6304-9 Hardcover 2007-11-12 Chronicle Books Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description From their eponymous 1978 debut through their colossal 1984 album (they've sold over 75 million albums worldwide), Van Halen rewrote all the rules. Nobody rocked—or partied—harder. Photographer Neil Zlozower first met the band in 1978, worked with them again on Van Halen II, and soon became their friend, hanging out in L.A. and hitting the road on tour with them. Van Halen collects more than 250 backstage, candid, and full rock-out photos of the all-powerful, spandexed, high-kicking, guitar blazing, stadium-shaking, original Van Halen lineup. Accompanying Zlozower's amazing photos are an introduction about his wild ride with VH, a foreword by David Lee Roth, and testimony from the rock pantheon paying homage to the band, including members of Led Zeppelin, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Judas Priest, KISS, Motley Crüe, and more. Turn it up! | ||
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This is where its at! No ifs ands or buts about it. This is the best VH book to date. Given their recent tour there were actually two books about the band released this past year. This was one. The other was EVERYBODY WANTS SOME. Friends and fellow fans there is simply no comparison. Van Halen: A Visual History 78-85 by Zlozower is the ultimate in pictures and commentary. Zloz was shooting, hanging and partying with Dave, Eddie and the rest of the gang back when the author of that other book was still wetting their huggies. If you could only buy one VH book this would be it. Why waste your money on cut-and-paste tripe pieced together by an outsider with no ties whatsoever to the band and their crew when instead you can own what will surely be considered the best VH book ever presented to us by a world class photographer who was practically the fifth member of the band during their run with DLR. This is the best book out there, at least until the band decides to tell the story in their own words. There aren't enough stars to rate this so just do yourselves a favor and grab one! | ||
The Full Bug for Van Halen fans! The reviews of this book do not do justice to this book. The pictures alone are spectacular. Neil Zlozower took nearly every famous and infamous picture of Van Halen during the DLR years. They are all here along with a plethora of never seen before photos of the band and quotes and anecdotes from a broad spectrum of the music industry ranging from Jimmy Page to Slash. The book itself is well done also, the cover beneath the dust jacket has a nice glossy finish on it and the pages themselves are nicely bound, sewn in instead of just glued in so that the book can be laid flat when open without damaging the binding. This book is a must for any true Van Halen fan or collector. | ||
FANTASTIC...GIMMIE MORE WOW, WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO GO BACK IN TIME W/ THE VAN HALEN BOYS...ESPECIALLY DAVE, CUZ W/O HIM THERE IS NO VAN HALEN!!!!! IF YOU LOVE VAN HALEN, YOU NUST MUST MUST BUY THIS BOOK!!!! | ||
A MUST for the true VH fan I remember hearing the first track of VH 1 when it was released, bringing with it chills up the spine and jaw dropped. This book brings you in a time warp to witness rock history, and realize - in case you didn't - that Van Halen dropped a bomb on the music scene. Not only a revolutionary guitar god, but songs and live performances that rose light years beyond what was coming out of the U.S.A. at the time. The kind we won't see again, either. The photos, by a master of R&R photography, look like they were taken yesterday. Crisp, clear and a great mix of group shots and live. The backstage pics of Eddie preparing his axe arsenal, for example, are priceless; Alex behind one of his monster drum kits. And yes, it appropriately culminates with 1984 - got a problem with that? | ||
Where have all the good times gone? Felt like I was back in high school, as I flipped through this book about the Rock God's -- Van Halen. Finally a Van Halen book worth looking at. Beautiful book about the Greatest Rock Band and Guitarist of all time. | ||