Ep088: Noel Monk - Runnin' With Van Halen
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2017
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
From 1978-1984, Van Halen were becoming the biggest band in the world before they hit a brick wall of drugs and ego. Noel Monk was manager of the band through those years and saw it all. Today he shares about his time with David Lee Roth, Michael Anthony and Eddie & Alex Van Halen and his new book "Runnin' With The Devil". Today he tells us more stories that didn't make the book so tune in and enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Let's see a guest, Alex Van Halen and David Roth from the Van Halen band. |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah! Rock fans! |
| 0:07.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:08.0 | Well, David, I wonder if, first of all, you can tell me how Van Halen came together as a band? |
| 0:12.0 | We were local rivals. None of us are from Los Angeles, but we did get together there, you know. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm from the Midwest, a steel town in Indiana, and the bass players from Chicago, and these guys |
| 0:22.4 | are from Amsterdam, Holland. And, you know, Los Angeles is as good a place as any to get |
| 0:27.8 | discovered. So we wanted to play a lot of bars and throw our own shows. You know, we put out our |
| 0:32.6 | own posters and whatnot, promote our own shows, and we wanted to be discovered. |
| 0:36.4 | I live my life like there's no tomorrow, and all I've got I had to steal. |
| 0:46.5 | Least I don't need to beg or borrow. |
| 0:51.7 | Yes, I'm living at a baste keels. |
| 1:00.6 | No, we played all around, and we started throwing our own shows. |
| 1:04.1 | That was the big thing. |
| 1:05.3 | Eventually, we could draw 2,800, 3,000 people on our own, you know. |
| 1:10.1 | No radio play, no record out. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.6 | Just flyers. |
| 1:14.6 | And we felt that if we were truly cool enough to do some traveling and make records and have people |
| 1:19.6 | buy the records, then somebody would come to us, which eventually, what, the president of Warner Brothers |
| 1:26.6 | came in one night with our producer Ted Templeman and found us. |
| 1:30.6 | I found the simple life. |
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