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a9AdsViewNamespace.No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet.With the exception of Van Halen 3, (with vocalist Gary Cherone) "Fair Warning" was the least commercially successful Van Halen album."Fair Warning" is by far the band's darkest album.The overall vibe of the album, as well as Eddie Van Halen's riffs and solos, while undeniably catchy with great hooks, also have a cloudy somberness to them.David Lee Roth's lyrics, for the most part, are also somewhat more cynical than most of his work, before or since."Fair Warning" shows Van Halen at their zenith.Van Halen albums are all masterpieces and essential to any great rock collection, but "Fair Warning" is the crown jewel of VH's output.Even more so than the classic debut album."Fair Warning" simply shows each member of the band, and the band overall as a unit, at their finest."Fair Warning" demonstrates Eddie Van Halen's best riffs, solos, and overall playing.It was on "Fair Warning" that Eddie found the "brown sound.""Fair Warning" is also singer David Lee Roth's finest hour.On "Fair Warning," David Lee Roth is immortalized as the world's coolest frontman, ever."Fair Warning" also shows Van Halen's rhythm section at their best.Bassist Michael Anthony has never been hailed as the world's greatest living bassist.On "Fair Warning," although his lines are pretty straightforward, they are also right upfront.You can hear the bass throughout the entire disc, it really stands out and enhances the sound and vibe of the album overall.And then the main riff kicks in, a mean, killer riff, one of 80s rocks' finest."Fair Warning" then moves into the dark, highly underrated "Dirty Movies."The underwhellming drums at the beginning add the perfect effect."Unchained" is undeniably the albums' highlight and one of Van Halen's, and rocks' greatest songs."Sunday Afternoon in the Park" is a foggy, somewhat offbeat instrumental.Van Halen was rightfully called the Mighty Van Halen, and "Fair Warning" proves it."Fair Warning" is simply one of the best, coolest rock albums you will ever hear in your life.The 2000 remaster sounds especially clear and sharp.You can make out subtle things that were easy to miss on the original CD pressing.Now "Fair Warning" can be enjoyed in all its greatness."Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.Fair Warning in '81.Partly because the band was beginning to age a bit, but mostly due to the fact that David Lee Roth's lyrics were being shaped by recent holiday trips to Haiti (of all Places).Thus we see the change to darker, more frank lyrics (Mean Streets, Unchained).There is a bit of the ol' Diamond Dave represented here (Sinner's Swing, One foot out the Door) but the dark edges never quiet leave the entire collections of tunes."Classic" Van Halen lineup, which preceeded the melancholy Sammy Hagar era.Fair Warning stands on its own merits as a classic Van Halen offering, it stands toe to toe with any other effort from the band.It seems that the direction the band took for Fair Warning could have moved them into the direction of such "serious" bands such as The Who or Led Zeppelin as their careers progressed, and would have allowed them to leave the "party band" image that Ed Van Halen is so intent of shedding nowadays.Was this review helpful to you?In my opinion, FAIR WARNING was the heaviest album VAN HALEN had made up to that point.While the first albums have some killer songs with great melodies, on this album I think the band decided to throw all that to the wind and just get down and play some hard,heavy music.While other reviewers are right in stating that songs from this album are hardly played on classic rock stations, if you base you opinion on that fact, then you will be missing out on some great music.The album starts off with the heavy rocking MEAN STREET, which is a very good way to kick off any album.Of course the next song is the classic UNCHAINED, which is about the only song you will hear on rock radio these days.Hands down the definitive track off this album.See all 122 customer reviews...Dave and Sammy, but this album was just solid.This is one of my favorite albums,love the concept and their production
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a remarkable amount of success with their self titled debut
album, especially in Japan where sales went absolutely ballistic.To be honest, we'd expected
a bit of a positive reaction in Europe at least because the
reviews were so good, although in the end, the record didn't do
as well as we'd hoped it would.We weren't all that impressed
with how WEA handled it, although the Japanese response did make
up a little bit for some of their promotional shortcomings in
Europe.In fact, I think we had about five major labels who
wanted to sign us, but we went with WEA because we knew the guy
in charge and we were very impressed by their commitment, which
to be fair, in the beginning their intentions were very good.Whitesnake on their European tour as
well, but that had to be pulled because of Helge' accident.Whereas the 'Fair Warning' album had an upbeat, almost party
rock type of vibe, its successor was a much more mature sounding
record.American type of sound, whereas on
'Rainmaker' my tastes had shifted a little away from that.Aardshock magazine voted it their album of the year I
think.Tommy (Heart) made a great
leap forward on that album as a singer, he seemed to grow
immensely.In a way, I suppose that 'Go !If you're thinking
along those lines all the time about everybody else's
expectations, especially if it's just commercial expectations,
then it tends to narrow your inspiration considerably.So I
normally just try to go with what I feel and to follow that
through, and so do the rest of the band really when we choose the
songs we want to record.There's always some kind of pressure on
you as a band when you've reached a certain level , but I suppose
one of the things that we've never had is time pressure on top of
that.We've always pretty much had the freedom to make up our own
schedules for recording or whatever, and I think if we didn't
have that, we'd feel it a lot more.The record company over there was
quite willing to invest in the product to give it an edge, and I
think they pressed something like the first 80,000 copies with
that cover.Europe,
three years seems a long time to write and record your follow up
album.We didn't really want to do
it because we felt it looked a little too much like cashing in,
we only had three studio albums out, and already they were
wanting us to do another live album.But they kept coming back to
us, and in the end we said Ok, but only if it had songs on which
weren't on the first one, and if we could add some unreleased
stuff.So we did that and it was supposed to come out at
Christmas time in 1997, but then Helge (Engelke) our guitar
player had an accident.In fact, we were supposed to support
Whitesnake on their European tour as well, but that had to be
pulled because of Helge' accident.He broke his arm in two places
which put him out of action for about five months, and that
caused serious delays on the post production for the live album,
especially in the recording of the new tracks.In the end it cost
us something like nine months because the album finally came out
in the summer of '98.BMG, the band
moved labels yet again to Frontiers for their new album '4'.This album too was originally going to come out on
GUN, but Frontiers came back to us and made us a really good
offer.So we went back to GUN and said 'look guys, we've had this
great offer, guaranteeing us a release in the States and in
Canada, what can you do for us ?They didn't let us go because they weren't
interested any more, it was more a case of simple fairness, they
could see what was best for the band.That's how it's always
worked for us in the past, I've always been very interested in
the song writing process, which I guess is unusual for a bass
player.I'll write
complete songs, lyrics and everything, then take them to the band
and together we pick out what we all feel are the best one's to
record ...Recently though, Tommy has been
coming up with some really cool ideas for songs, so in future I
guess he'll start to contribute more.Sometimes it can be something quite
personal to me, or it could be something I've just seen in a
movie, or heard on the news ....As with all previous Fair Warning albums,
'4' represents good value for money in the number of tracks you
get for your 20 bucks.I'm not
really that happy with their choice of bonus tracks because they
took away at least one track that I would've liked to see on the
album, but that's something we've traditionally kept out of.But
yeah, they're always hungry for more in Japan.He didn't want to be
tied to a strong band situation like Fair Warning because he
wanted to have more freedom to pick and choose what he did.However, since we always remained very good friends, he's always
been our drummer, even though he wasn't officially a member of
the band anymore.Phillip
Condos, who's a French drummer living here in Hanover.We only
found him a couple of weeks ago, but he's got a real kick ass
style.It's good fun playing with him, so we'll see what develops
from there.The drummer situation is something that you just get
used to, especially when you have very capable people available
to you, so we don't really think about the fact that we don't
have a firm drummer.Whereas most bands spend a lot of time holed up in some dingy
studio, the Fair Warning approach to recording is much more
relaxing.Hanover, a beautiful place.It was
pretty run down, but that didn't really matter to us that much
because it had big rooms with high ceilings and wooden floors,
hence we could get a great sound.And then on top of that, you have the
money situation.That kind of situation doesn't occur if you rent
a nice place for a few months.Andy (Malecek) is a great player, but he's not the
kind of person who likes to work in that kind of studio
atmosphere for too long.Although we're not in a studio as such,
you still have to look at your work through a microscope when you
record, so that's something you've got to enjoy doing to actually
do effectively.Just yesterday, I got the news that the
album had been voted album of the month in one of the big Italian
magazines.The album
went into the Japanese charts at number two, and the single was
number one for about a month in the international charts.With a prestigious support slot on the upcoming Status Quo
trek, a full Japanese tour and a string of summer festival
appearances to look forward to, it looks like momentum is really
beginning to gather behind the Fair Warning bandwagon.When Love Fails
5.Call Of The
Heart 11.STARS AND THE
MOON 2.THE HEART OF
SUMMER 5.Without You (Diff version) 15.Light In The Dark
16.Out Of The Night
4.All On Your Own (different version) 5.Still I Belive (Bonus) 14.Saturday morning during football season.ESPECIALLY NOT TO THROW THINGS OFF.In the intervening generation, however, nothing of the sort
happened.So why am I peddling doom today?The difference is that the insane nuclear standoff is a dangerous
relic in changing times.Just as the monsters learned to make
energy out of giggles instead of screams in Monsters Inc.As we choose to follow or not to follow them over the
precipice, we must do so with our eyes open.Together they run The
Greenhouse School.Earth was infinite and would always provide the resources needed for human prosperity.Most of the scenarios pointed to a major economic crisis happening in the early 1990s.This is not what happened.In retrospect, was "Limits to Growth" a fair or a false warning?The cover of 'Limits to Growth' showing a globe in chains.It sold twelve million copies in 37 languages.The book was very controversial.This study became the basis of the "Limits to Growth" book.The essence of the warning from The Club of Rome remains valid.Growth", they are too busy making the most of today.Finally, it is possible to win battles but lose the war.Additionally, there are mixed signals from the voters.They often do not want to hear about the world's problems.To sum up, the warning from The Club of Rome remains valid. |
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