![]() ![]() Behind the macho swagger lay four supremely talented individuals who could play and write circles around the competition. In an era already overcrowded with knuckle-dragging metal bands, Van Halen was clearly different. ![]() “That’s when we knew we had a band that could play.” “They cut 28 songs in about two hours,” recalls engineer Donn Landee. The air-brushed album cover looked silly, an over-the-top rendering of “You Really Got Me” disgusted many a Kinks fan – and yet on their massive-sounding Warner Brothers debut, Southern California’s Van Halen offered proof positive that this was no run-of-the-mill heavy rock band. Here’s some quotes from him on recording their classic albums… Van Halen’s engineer from the ’70s and ’80s, Donn Landee, rarely comments on his years with Van Halen.
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