Track Listing

1. Unchained - Jack Russell
2. I'm the One - Mark Slaughter
3. Dance the Night Away - Joe Lynn Turner
4. Light up the Sky - Doug Pinnick
5. Panama - Jani Lane
6. Hot for Teacher - John Corabi
7. Running With the Devil - Stephen Pearcy
8. Pretty Woman - Gunnar Nelson, Matthew Nelson
9. Atomic Punk - Fee Waybill
10. So This Is Love - Jeff Scott Soto
11. Little Guitars - David Glen Eisley

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #181731 in Music
• Released on: 2000-09-19
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Interesting to see other attempt VH
Even though this complication wasn't as good as i expected, it was very interesting too see how other artists sang and played Van Halen tunes, if you want to hear it for free go to www.classicvanhalen.com where you can dl it, then decide if you want to buy it or not.

Could This Be Magic? Maybe not....
I bought this tribute album for a couple reasons. 1. I LOVE Van Halen. 2. I have a similar tribute album for Alice Cooper that was produced by Bob Kulick that totally ROCKED! 3. I was anxious to hear some of the artists renditions of Van Halen. Problems arose when I figured out that each song was almost a carbon copy of the original. The artists weren't allowed to do THEIR interpretations of the music. The only 2 that seemed to have some amount of creative liberty were George Lynch on Panama and Dweezil Zappa on Unchained. Jake Lee who played on Runnin With The Devil said in an interview that he was told how to play the song. The Alice Cooper album had a lot more creative liberty it seems. I would have loved to hear Lynch, Reb Beach, and a couple of others have a lil more of their own influence in their playing. The 2 best vocal interpretations were Jani Lane on Panama (he has such a raw power in his voice) and Jeff Scott Soto who is the only person I've heard who can perfectly mimic Dave's patented screams. My favorite song on this cd is So This Is Love. It wasn't a carbon copy, but it was still close enough to do justice.

Good and Bad
I didn't know what to expect when I got this CD, but some of it isn't bad and some of it is. I loved Unchained, Dance the Night Away and Atomic Punk. I liked Light up the Sky except that it sounded like Yngwie Malmsteen was trying to sqeeze every lick known to man into one solo, but the overall sound was good. The rest of the tracks were pretty good for the most part except for Running with the Devil, So This is Love and Little Guitars. Jake E. Lee's guitar work and solo in particular aren't very good on Running with the Devil. The solo is nothing even slightly resembling the original. I also didn't care much for the guitar work and tone in So This is Love either, but everything else sounded okay. And lastly, Little Guitars sounds like it was recorded in a home studio for $200 in someone's basement, although the arrangement and musicianship were good. These are just my opinions though so check it out for yourself.