European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Van Halen life after Roth by Mary Campbell associated Pressy is there s life for Van Halen Slier David Loo Roth. Roth who has a now up and a tour this summer. In it Van Hatch Las summer. Van Halen has a Warner Bros album 5150, including Iho song summer nights the up bounded to no 1 in april and Hall fallen Only to no. 2 by ate june. Touting through november he group is doing 1he most business since in began in 1971. Singer Sammy Hagar joined the group alter a Jam session. Edward Van Halen had a new Lune halt written and the group blamed playing it Hagar improvising a Jive rhyme Alx iut simmer nights at the Enn trial s a Post history still there wore a 1ev\ at Rolfi we gel for Dave now Hagar said. A certain rat Manl of Van Halen tans never liked him Bui in such a Good musical band you just wanted to be part of it he is doing Well. So there is an element of people who like him and Are glad to Sec him a. Alex Van hafe Flet Sammy Hagar Emio Van Halen front. Out on his Hagar. Born in Salinas calif., his father a Boxer and Steelworker. Grew up in Southern California. He Tell the group Montroso in 1975 Lobo a Solo heavy Metal guitarist and has been increasingly successful. He May earn loss in 9s6 than he made in 1985. I Don t like to Lalk about Money Hagar said. The Only reason 1 Ever brought Hal up was hat one Guy assumed i d jumped into a millionaire situation. Said. Wait aminul my accountant put Pencil to paper on that. It said Van Halen would have to do five times As much As i did before for me to end up with the same Money. As a Solo artist i got in All and Inen paid my people Van Hafer splits i up. There Are very few limes we re Ever going to do five times the business f did. I think 5 50 will sell 5 million copies. It has to for me to to Clear if Ere. La s enough so i m nol starving. And it had no bearing on a joining the band. There was a time i certainly would have done something Lor Money Whan i did t have any Money. When you gel enough you Start looking Lor other reasons to do concert reviews compare him with Roth. Audiences Don to Hagar says la s a journalism thing. Audiences Are watching a Rock n foil show. They re nol Silling there judging. They know there s someone new in the band. They re having a Ball. The review Here said it s not working and i can t replace Roth. The Guy paid me a compliment said i can hit the Low growls of role and the High notes of Robert plan. But a put in in a negative form like so what in i for the audience. Van Halen is no louder than his band was. Hagar said it feels Good Lor it to be powerful. You have to Leel in in your body. Of have my voice a Idle softer than the music on stage. It s whal i do on recording too. It makes me push to try to hear myself you get this Ras piness and screech ii makes you sing harder with an aggressive sound and kind of overdrive in. I i let my voice get too loud in in t As Anthony who was born in Chicago his father a big band trumpeter who now plays in Southern California. Me the Van Halen Brothers at Pasadena cily College. The group now has four front men instead of one. I even talk a Lille Bil during the show he said. Before i d get looks trom Dave that s my Job raising hell with master rappers . By Joh Swenson United press International Iam great gel it straight that s what i say my name is run i m number one that show Fate run d m a. The biggest group in the history of rap music is largely responsible for the style s transition from an inner cily cult following to a nationwide popular audience. The group s third album raising hell is the first double pm Linum rep album. The album is currently in he top 10 of the billboard Charls. . Also has a hit single in the top20, walk this Way. The raising hell Lour a 45-ciy Arena series headlined by . And also featuring rappers who dim and . Cool in sold out across the country. The tour also generated tremendous controversy after gang violence erupted outside concerts in new York. Pittsburgh and Atlanta. The fiercest violence though occurred inside the auditorium Al Long Beach. Calif., on aug. 16. When 300 gang members savagely attacked the audience with makeshift clubs fashioned irom broken chairs. They was Rippin up Robbin and Beatin Down Allol our tans says Joseph Simmons who Calls himself Ron you could see 300 people All mown against one Section. Beam and Robbin them. Ii was Wrigt itching. I was really scared for our fans out there " the situation got so out of hand thai the gang members tried to storm the backstage area. They could t get Back there said Simmons. The Entrance was Loo Small and they put up a the concert was called off before run c. Took the stage. The band immediately cancelled a planned Page 16 the stars and stripes los Angeles show and issued a statement blaming poor Security for the violence. ". Refuses to play los Angeles until police or other authorities take sterner measures to protect . Fans against focal gangs the group said last night approximately 14.000 lans were victimized by the members of a few gangs the gangs stand for everything rap is Only two years ago it was inconceivable that rap music would attract this kind of nationwide attention. The style is the unique product of an underprivileged Urban lifestyle. Ghetto kids with no Money to Purchase musical instruments created heir own performance style by rapping through a microphone Over instrumental sections of disco records. . Expanded the style to include heavy Metal bands like Aero Smith As the background far their raps. In order to safeguard their secret the band scraped the labels Alt the records hey used to confuse their competitors. A three members of the group Are 20 years old and have been friends since childhood when they grew up Only a few blocks from each other in Hollis Queens. Simmons and Darryl Mcdaniels . Attended St. Pascal s Catholic grammar school together. Simmons and disc jockey Jason a Ell Jam master Jay were teammates on the St. Pascal s basketball team and later went to Andrew Jackson High school together. Run s older brother. Russell Simmons managed one of the original rapport Kurlis blow and run got to be blow s of in 1977. Run saw himself As the master rapper taking the Mike and Irving out his Skull. He recalls his earliest rap do run. Son of a gun always plays music and has big in not that old but that s All right makes All other emcees bite All Back Al Home. Run and . Practice rapping wednesday september 3,1986 Ogather until they developed the exciting Call and re Ponse slyly that made them masters of the playground. After run graduated from High school his older brother agreed to produce the fledgling group s music the first release was the 1983 single it s like that sole m c s the Rifesi album run dec. Came of if Tho group s second up Kins �1rock, broke run . Out o cull status on the strength of the electric Lille track an exceptionally Elf Active Tup boast the a a video to Uay 9�l heavy airplay on mtg. . Went on to make the Sun City and King Holiday recordings and were featured prominently in the rap film Krusoft Groove. Raising Hett takes rap into new dimensions using he do turntable effects As Only part of an instrumental background Hal now includes electric guitars keyboards and Bass. Aero Smith s Steve Tyler and Joe Perry pay on walk this Way while the humorous you be Lebn employs coasters like saxophone fills crossover Success has been chilled by the violent incidents on the concert Lour Rock riots have always been used As a convenient excuse Lor anti music forces to Call for bans alter the Pillsbur Fly show or. The raising hell tour. Public safety director John Norton said there s no question in my mind the disturbance wis drug and alcohol related. The lyrics in the songs Are provocative and pornographic. They incite part Isburgh mayor Richard Caliguiri threatened to ban All Roc shows As a result. Of a m ? veennbn1y in such charges. Wecoma to party and have a Good Lime says Simmons and our fans Are Here to parly but he Gan sat Lor another thing which we Are against. Our rap has nothing to do with what hey stand for. We say no to school be Cool a dig y 9 �
