What do you think of this sound ?

I don't know for sure & haven't double checked it, but I was lead to believe it really is the actual track from the album.
There's a whole bunch of other stuff included with it like really early versions of eruption and VH doing Hendrix and Kiss cover tunes plus a demo of Michael Jackson singing nonsense sounds to Billy Jean before the lyrics were completed. Maybe Digit knows more?

I get them off the binary newsgroups. I don't know where they originate but they're probably off of a bootleg CD or maybe even the artist themselves are posting them. The text info for the van halen stuff says Tracks 1-10 were recorded live at the garage Oct. 1977.
Tracks 11-16 live at Pasadena Hilton 1976.
Tracks 17-25 are all Eddie solo studio recordings. In the studio section theres two versions of Eruption and the rest are the guitar tracks alone from the first album.
Somebody must have had access to the original masters at some point and copied them. I've seen alot of this kind of thing lately in the newsgroups where theres alternate mixes of 70's and 80's tunes or demos done before the album was cut. Theres tons of Beatles, Rush, Led Zepplin and Rolling Stones stuff too.

If anyone finds them, can they post them or send them to me through e-mail. I would love to hear that. Thanks.

van halen rules. we need more tab for his stuff on this site.

I wish I could help ya out but I'm on a slow dialup & my internet provider has a cap on outgoing emails limiting me to only small attachments depending. Plus I can't risk posting them anywhere cause of my user agreements strict policies of not allowing the uploading of copyrighted materials. If I posted it on the net and they found out I could easily lose my service and unfortunately where I'm living, they're the only game in town.
All I can suggest is maybe sign on to alt.binaries.mp3.bootleg
and try doing a request for a repost. They might even still be there if your provider has a half decent retention of files.
Or just hang around for awhile on various mp3 newsgroups. A lot of this stuff is reposted regularly.

I'll send ya a private email. I got service provider issues too... already got busted once just for posting the GuitarTricks newsletter & the last thing I need is those dickwads breathing down my neck again.:rolleyes:

Originally posted by billybob12488
van halen rules. we need more tab for his stuff on this site.

Agreed!! :D

Originally posted by Digit
I wish I could help ya out but I'm on a slow dialup & my internet provider has a cap on outgoing emails limiting me to only small attachments depending. Plus I can't risk posting them anywhere cause of my user agreements strict policies of not allowing the uploading of copyrighted materials. If I posted it on the net and they found out I could easily lose my service and unfortunately where I'm living, they're the only game in town.
All I can suggest is maybe sign on to alt.binaries.mp3.bootleg
and try doing a request for a repost. They might even still be there if your provider has a half decent retention of files.
Or just hang around for awhile on various mp3 newsgroups. A lot of this stuff is reposted regularly.

Not a problem man. I'll eventaully find it. :)

Originally posted by schmange
I'll send ya a private email. I got service provider issues too... already got busted once just for posting the GuitarTricks newsletter & the last thing I need is those dickwads breathing down my neck again.:rolleyes:

Thanks schmange!

Did ya get my email VHoholic?
... not sure if the inline forum thing is working or not cause it keeps saying I'm sending my mail to "toenail" or something

Originally posted by schmange
Did ya get my email VHoholic?
... not sure if the inline forum thing is working or not cause it keeps saying I'm sending my mail to "toenail" or something

No, i didn't get it. :confused: Try sending it to my aol address. It's Guy882000@aol.com. Thanks.