Van Halen - Diver Down - Big Bad Bill video free download

Anouk Steenbergen

Van Halen swinging:)

Jumpin' JAKE Flash

Good morning everyone! Here's an unusual sounding Van Halen tune from their 1982 album Diver Down. It sounds like something straight out of the 1920's or 1930's. Eddie and Alex's father Jan plays clarinet here. #enjoy!

Dwayne Vincent

Diver Down has a lot of cover tunes on it which I know Ed didn't like that much however they did a great job on this song. Not sure if anyone mentioned it yet however E'ds father (Jan Van Halen) played clarinet on this song.

Donnie Hamato

Why does this song remind me of +Raphael Hamato?

circlecloud11

The ultimate tribute to their dad. How great it must have been for all them to play together, father, son and son and do something that would be shared with everyone. Makes me think of my Dad and how great and inspirational he was to me. 

G. Brooks

This is the shit only VH could make this sound cool... and reminds me of someone I knew...lol

Midnight

Big Bad Bill

M Zach

Eddie's dad playing the clarinet?

cooky monster

A lot of this LP was Dave's idea's (which is probably why Eddie Van Halen says he hates it ! ) He got the Van Halen's father to play the clarinet on this track. The album swings from start to finish. It is definitely the most diverse mix of music they ever did. There is a lot of variety and different styles here. I read somewhere that Dave wanted to do this song as a little 'dig' at Eddie, because he'd recently got married and he no longer wanted to be the wild and crazy guitar hero.

astralplainer

I'll say what's been said a million times already...only VH! ;-)

LaZy CaTz LoVeR

My name is HALEN!

Rob Gibson

that's for EVH. 

james allen

hot hot hot...louis A meets louis P, they had a baby and gave it to the van halen family.

GeorgVanHalen

"Diver Down" was my first Van Halen record and today I think it's the weakest of Classic Van Halen but still really enjoyable. I didn't think it at first but now I reccon this track is the best of all the covers on the album. It sort of represents what I like about many of the classic bands (Led Zeppelin, Queen, Deep Purple, Blue Öyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd etc.).. Just some completely different from what the band is famous for but still sounds totally natural. 

Perry Hvegholm

I think that Dave is one cool MF'er for finding this song and putting together the idea of getting the VH brothers together with their father to make a recording together. Only Van Halen....and Dave in particular...could have pulled of covering a song like this in the 1980's and have it get airplay on rock radio. 

Name

Stefan B, Jan Van Halen is not their brother, he's the dad

Chanda Ribble

Love it 

DJNX4995

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DJNX4995

This and jump are my fans from van Galen

Mark Flemmer

I really like when Dave sings in this style---soulful, smokey, bluesy and black sounding (and that's a GOOD thing), like on the beginning of "Ice Cream Man" and on "Could This Be Magic?". Andre Viegas correctly noted the similarity to Gypsy Jazz. The master of this style, and possibly the inventor of it, was the guitarist Django Reinhardt. He was a HUGE influence on many guitarists. I'm not sure if Eddie considers him an influence (likely not), but guitarists that do include Steve Howe (from Yes) and Lindsay Buckingham (from Fleetwood Mac). Reinhardt's recordings definitely sound dated, because they are, but he was a master musician, on a level with Les Paul, who is certainly one of Eddie's heroes. 

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