{"id":9532,"date":"2019-01-04T23:36:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T06:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9532"},"modified":"2019-01-10T23:58:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T06:58:34","slug":"everybody-wants-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/04\/everybody-wants-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Wants Some!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearlife.com\/music\/van-halen-original-lineup-save-rockandroll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Real Clear Life<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Van Halen: Why the Original Line-Up MUST Return to Save Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"entry-subtitle\">The rainbow belching Yeti requires Michael Anthony on bass.<\/h3>\n<p>By <i><a title=\"Posts by Tim Sommer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearlife.com\/author\/tsommer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Tim Sommer<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cn8APTMyKsg\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The year\u00a0ended with startling news. The kind of news that makes old men remember the elastic arrogance and sunny ignorance of their youth, and old women recall a time when life was so easy and full of charm that they could smoke Merit Lights in the scrubby grass behind the cafeteria, wear culottes, and sigh over the roman curls of Mark Goodman.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple sources state that the original primo line-up of Van Halen \u2014 David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, and the amazing Michael Anthony \u2014 were gearing up for a reunion tour.<\/p>\n<p>As this information \u2014 still unconfirmed, mind you \u2014 began to sparkle and ooze over the webbernet, every white American over 45 gasped with excitement, releasing a sound oddly similar to the colossal downward \u201cThwoooooooo!\u201d bass run in Gerry Rafferty\u2019s \u201cBaker Street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you believe that rock\u2019n\u2019roll is a rainbow-belching Yeti wearing a puka shell necklace and a completely un-ironic California Jam II concert tee while holding a liter of Mateus Ros\u00e9, then you already know why this is such an important event.<\/p>\n<p>When the brick-colored fog clears on the final day, when the mud-orange skies dissolve into a soot that can sustain no echoes of life or joy, when the dust from the earth meets the dust from the sky, when the mountains meet the seas and the life-salt of ocean becomes the lifeless talc of the desert, the creator (or at least the 22 year-old Nephew of The Creator who lives in the Creator\u2019s paneled basement, sleeps on a sofa bed framed by posters of Farrah Fawcett and the \u201cHang In There!\u201d cat, and when really high can explain, at great length, why you really\u00a0<em>really\u00a0<\/em>need to spend more time listening to Rainbow and UFO) will point its magical, misty finger at Roth-era Van Halen and say,\u00a0<em>that is rock\u2019n\u2019roll.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearlife.com\/music\/van-halen-original-lineup-save-rockandroll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at RCL<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Real Clear Life Van Halen: Why the Original Line-Up MUST Return to Save Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll The rainbow belching Yeti requires Michael Anthony on bass. By Tim Sommer The year\u00a0ended with startling news. The kind of news that makes old men remember the elastic arrogance and sunny ignorance of their youth, and old women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}