74 Unreleased Van Halen Outtakes leaked out!

[JackieDaytona]

It's like 3 hours and 30 minutes of various takes, instrumentals, and demos. The files are sort of labeled half-assed but whatever. The quality is better than anything out there. Supposedly these were done in 2004 for a box set and then band decided against it at the time since they were in the middle of doing a reunion with Sammy and putting out a bunch of Dave stuff was bad timing. Then I guess they just forgot about it. The 1977 demos all seem to be remixed, and there's outtakes from every album. There's even a take of Eruption with just the room mics, and a great instrumental called Red Zone, which was previously known as Act Like It Hurts.

Get it while you can!

https://mega.nz/folder/TBVGCD7I#hIba-vnBRETwLVh1S209pQ

This is what's in it and probably labeled.

Demos

DOA (take 1)
Bring On The Girlz (take 1)
Die Young (false start 1)
Die Young (false start 2)
Die Young (take 1)
Die Young (false start 3)
Young And Wild
Let's Get Rockin' (take 2)
Put Out The Lights (Take 1)
House Of Pain (Take 1)
Get The Show On The Road (take 1)
No Piece Of Mind (take 1)
In A Simply Rhyme (take 1)
Happy Trails
You Really Got Me / Happy Trails (ending vocals)
Big Trouble (take 1)
On Fire (take 1)
She's The Woman (take 1)
She's The Woman (take 2)
I Wanna Be Your Lover (the 2)

Outtakes

Runnin' With The Devil (solo)
Runnin' With The Devil (vocal overdubs)
Runnin' With The Devil (sound effect)
Eruption (room mics)
Eruption (raw guitar track)
Eruption (dry guitar)
Eruption (dry mix)
You Really Got Me (dry guitar)
You Really Got Me (take 3)
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (no guitars)
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (solo and vocals)
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (dry guitars)
I'm The One (alternate take)
Jaime's Cryin' (room mics)
Jaime's Cryin' (take 1 instrumental)
Jaime's Cryin' (overdubbed guitars)
Jaime's Cryin' (early version)
Jaime's Cryin' (no reverb)
Jaime's Crying (remix)
Atomic Punk (dry guitar)
Atomic Punk (alternate take)
Little Dreamer (take 4)
Ice Cream Man (take 2)
On Fire (guitar track)
On Fire (no guitars)

Dance The Night Away (instrumental 1)
Dance The Night Away (instrumental 2)
Dance The Night Away (instrumental 3)
Dance The Night Away (instrumental 4)
Dance The Night Away (instrumental 5)
Somebody Get Me A Doctor (alternate take with longer solo)
Somebody Get Me A Doctor (takes 1 & 2, false starts)

Fools (take 7 instrumental)
Fools (alternate take)
Red Zone (take 1 but slightly different version)
Red Zone (take 1 reference)
Red Zone (false start)
Red Zone (take 1)
Red Zone (take 2)

Dirty Movies (vocal overdubs)
Hear About It Later (vocals overdubs)
Unchained (isolated guitar 1)
Unchained (isolated guitar 2)
Unchained (vocal overdubs)

Where Have All The Good Times Gone (take8)
Secrets (6:39 instrumental)
The Full Bug (take 1)
The Full Bug (take 2)

Hot For Teacher (guitar dry)
Hot For Teacher (classroom noise, backing vocals)

[JizzySynatra]

Thank you! Appreciate it

[Black Stuff]

Thanks!!!!

[Love_Industry]

Thanks! Great quality indeed! I guess the Ted Templeman demos are what was intended for the box set and therefore remixed in 2004 - can't see them releasing three discs of random demos and outtakes as a box set.

[Anthrax442]

You're a god among men, Jackie.

[JackieDaytona]

More info on what came out from the Van Halen forum:

"The guy that sent them to me got them from a person that worked on the aborted remasters project from around 2005. It was not Brian Kehew, but another person that worked on the project. This isn't a calculated thing to come out right now...these things have been traded privately for years, but the cat just got out of the bag now.

The "room mic" track of "Eruption" with the lead in to "You Really Got Me" is among these tracks and many of you are familiar with that because Brian Kehew shared it on his Sunset Sound YouTube podcast interview several years back."

"The box set of Dave stuff was mixed in 2004 and scheduled for release around that time (maybe into 2005). And CDs were sent to the band members...and the brothers cancelled it because they thought to release something with a focus on the Dave years was bad timing since they were in the midst of a reunion with Sammy.

And then, after taking the money from the 2004 tour, they went back to their hole and didn't come out for three years.

Eddie clearly didn't even remember this happening in 2004. Kehew swore up and down that the band got the CDs (4 of them) with outtakes and sent word back that they didn't want to release this stuff right now.

Then, in 2015, Eddie does an interview saying he wanted to release the '77 Demos as a new archive release but that the master tapes were lost...so they first tried to release one of the early club shows but couldn't get them sounding good enough and then finally settled on a new concert (letting Dave pick Tokyo). Eddie was wrong. Yes, it's true: the master mixes of the '77 Demos were long lost. But, the multitracks existed and new mixes (the ones we've been hearing these last few days) had already been made in 2004. Eddie never said he didn't want them released. It's just that by 2015, they forgot they had good new versions.

This is how dysfunctional and disorganized this band is/was."

[VinceVanLane]

There's not an emoji for head exploding but if there was I would be posting that! This is awesome. Between Donington coming out last month and now this, it's the most activity Van Halen has had in a decade. Oddly enough, today is the day of the last Van Halen show on October 4th, 2015. Good timing.

Thank you Jackie!

[cowpins]

I was NOT expecting to hear new VH today. Thanks!

[SikSyko]

Thank you.

[MOON]

Thank you sir!

[MOON]

There's not an emoji for head exploding but if there was I would be posting that! This is awesome. Between Donington coming out last month and now this, it's the most activity Van Halen has had in a decade. Oddly enough, today is the day of the last Van Halen show on October 4th, 2015. Good timing.

Thank you Jackie!

Thats right.. Oct 4th.. i didn't even think of that til you just said that. I photographed them exactly one month earlier on Sept 4th here in Detroit area..I tried to photograph them going back to 2007 and again in 2012.. NO LUCK.. Finally some luck came my way in 2015.. Will be forever grateful for that opportunity...little did i know it would be my only and last time to shoot them..

[Zabooka]

Once we all got it, lets send the link to Wolfie.

[Maalsa]

This is a frikkin' godsend.

You made my night.

You made my hole weak!

The gift of music is like nothing else!

-Maalsa

[BernieTaupson]

Once we all got it, let’s send the link to Wolfie.

[Van Ailin']

Downloaded and very much enjoyed.

[Psychobolia.com]

Good stuff, thanks!

Still going thru it right now, that Die Young take 3, holy shit, that's a nugget!