Unknown band Van Halen tribute...Dance the night away

[Riff Addict]

I found this on WinMx and I think it's a great version of Dance the night away! There was no band name listed for the tribute...Does anyone know who this band is??? [img]images/smilies/headscratch.gif[/img]

BTW I also found Motley Crue doing "Hot for Teacher" and Joe Walsh & Johnny Winter doing "Dance the night away".
2 very interesting covers. [img]images/smilies/icon_cool.gif[/img]

[mikemellow]

That guy sounds like the guy who sang on wah-wah's cover of On Fire a while back. Wah??? [img]images/smilies/dunno.gif[/img]

[Mr Crumb]

Who ever it is, there's some seriously excellent guitar going on. Check out the ending lead. Very impressive indeed!

[wahwah]

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That guy sounds like the guy who sang on wah-wah's cover of On Fire a while back. Wah??? [img]images/smilies/dunno.gif[/img]

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Not guilty mate. It's of the Tribute to Van Halen album from a few years back...It's Reb Beach on guitar...I think it's Joe Lynn Turner but if you type Tribute To Van Halen album in Google, you'll get it. Guitarist wise Jake E Lee, Reb Beech, Doug Aldrich, Dweezil Zappa, the Ratt guys etc are all on there.[img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img]

[wahwah]

Here's some info...

Track Listings
1. Unchained
2. I'm The One
3. Dance The Night Away
4. Light Up The Sky
5. Panama
6. Hot For Teacher
7. Running With The Devil
8. Pretty Woman
9. Atomic Punk
10. So This Is Love
11. Little Guitars

Features: Ex-members of Black Sabbath, Kiss, Wasp, Tubes, Ozzy Osbourne, Poison, Motley Crue, Rainbow, Great White, David Lee Roth, Thin Lizzy, Slaughter, Dokken, Mr Big, Scream, Union, King Crimson, Journey and Whitesnake.

Tribute albums are normally reserved for those artists whose contributions have had a lasting influence on the industry. However that criteria doesn't exist anymore. If you undertake a cursory investigation you will find tribute albums afforded to any and every artist nowadays regardless of influence or longevity. The fact that Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync all have tribute albums is a travesty; they've proven nothing. Until the fall of 1997, Van Halen, one of the most influential rock bands of the past 25 years had not been bestowed such an honor. Unfortunately for Van Halen fans, the two tribute albums that were released were a major disappointments.

Everybody Wants Some and Hot For Remixes were more of a parody of Van Halen's music than a bone-fide tribute. Everybody Wants Some featured a ridiculous array of underground bands from every style of music imaginable, performing renditions that sounded nothing like the original songs themselves. It reminded me of Richard Carpenter's laughable Carpenters Tribute, If I Were a Carpenter, that featured acts like Sonic Youth and 4 Non Blondes systematically destroying classic cuts from the Carpenters catalog. Hot For Remixes fared no better as it housed brutal electronica versions of the band's material.

On the other hand, Little Guitars: A Tribute to Van Halen is the quintessential Van Halen tribute album. For Van Halen purists, the disc's most outstanding attribute is that it totally bypasses the Sammy Hagar/Gary Cherone periods, focusing instead on the only incarnation of the band that really mattered, which was the original lineup of David Lee Roth, Michael Anthony, Alex and Edward Van Halen.

Instead of employing the services of various established bands, producer Bob Kulick puts together a unique collection of artists to cover the material while maintaining the spirit, energy and integrity of the original versions. The pairing of musicians for each song is in itself interesting. "Unchained" features vocalist Jack Russell (Great White), drummer Eric Singer (Kiss), bassist Marco Mendoza and guitarist Dweezil Zappa while Stephen Pearcy (Ratt), Jake E. Lee (Ozzy Osbourne), Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge) and Frankie Banali (Quiet Riot) torch "Running With The Devil." The album's most stunning moment comes courtesy of "Light Up the Sky" which combines the powerful vocal chops of Doug Pinnick (King's X) with Yngwie Malmsteen's searing guitar licks and Billy Sheehan's driving bass lines. Other outstanding performances include vocalist Jeff Scott Soto and guitarist Blue Saraceno on "So This Is Love," David Glen Eisley (Guiffria) and guitarist Mitch Perry on "Little Guitars" and Fee Waybill (Tubes) with guitarist Brad Gillis (Night Ranger) on "Atomic Punk."

Little Guitars: A Tribute to Van Halen without question is the only Van Halen tribute album on the shelves worthy of being deemed a true tribute record. So if you purchase any of the other counterfeits, don't say you weren't warned!

[POD GOD]

http://home.online.no/~n-johano/ftva...tevanhalen.htm

Some great guitarists on this album[img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img] Reb Beach, George Lynch, Doug Aldrich, Dweezil Zappa, Yngwie Malmsteen, Brad Gillis, Jake E Lee, Blues Saraceno

Here's the lineup for this tune...
JOE LYNN TURNER vocals
REB BEACH guitar
MARCO MENDOZA bass
GREGG BISSONETTE drums

[wahwah]

By The Way, if you haven't heard Yngwie and Billy's version of 'Light Up The Sky'...DO! It's awesome and Yngwie really makes that his own! Also Doug Aldrich on 'I'm The One' is amazing. [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img]

[Riff Addict]

Hey thanks for the info....I gotta get that album!

[TopJimmy78]

This was aweosme I am definetly going to have to see if I can find this one!! [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img] [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img]

[mikemellow]

Wow, thanx wah-wah, I didn't even know this existed. [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img]

[wahwah]

I can post a bit in bootlegs for a bit if ya'd like? I mean these guys bootlegged the originals...look out in the boots section!

[mikemellow]

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wahwah said:
I can post a bit in bootlegs for a bit if ya'd like? I mean these guys bootlegged the originals...look out in the boots section!

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That would be awesome [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img]

[wahwah]

Let me see if I can find em mate!

[wahwah]

FUCK! And I don't mean the VH album! Looked thru 110 cd-roms of mp3's and found the VH tribute tracks. Tried to copy them and a message saying something like ' can't copy-cyclical disc error' WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ABOUT![img]images/smilies/mad1.gif[/img] However, I did sort some beautiful stuff out you might not have heard so I'm gonna post some now! I hate PC's. [img]images/smilies/mad1.gif[/img]

[Riff Addict]

Thanks for tryin' Wah....I just played Dance tribute for a friend of mine and now he wants to hear the rest of the cd. I gotta get me a copy.

Found some Gems though huh? When I get to work in the morning with the Highspeed internet, I'll give 'em a listen! My dial-up at home sucks major arse. [img]images/smilies/mad1.gif[/img]