![]() Women And Children First emerged from sessions with the band’s long-term studio team, producer Ted Templeman and engineer Donn Landee, at Sunset Sound Recorders, in Los Angeles. It’s not hype.” The recording: “Wow! What the hell is that?” The only thing that sells us is the live show. “With us, actually, there’s more mania and more feel and more excitement live, because that’s where it’s based,” he said. As Eddie Van Halen told US rock writer Jas Obrecht, most of the Women And Children First songs were honed through live performance before the band entered the studio: However, while Van Halen couldn’t be accused of over-thinking their music during their early days (“The best parts of our songs are made up on the spot,” Roth had told Rock Stars magazine), that doesn’t mean they were slapdash. “How boring can you get, man? I like to think that all we’re really trying to do is capture some of our youthful enthusiasm.” “I don’t think we’ll ever be confused with Fleetwood Mac or Steely Dan, who spend jillions of dollars and years in the studio just to make one record,” vocalist David Lee Roth added in an interview with Hit Parader. “I don’t understand how people can take any longer.” ![]() “We finished the music in six days, and the whole album took eight,” Eddie Van Halen told Guitar Player magazine. The concept: “We’re trying to capture our youthful enthusiasm” Indeed, the Californian quartet saw no reason to meddle with their MO when it came to recording Women And Children First early in 1980. Van Halen’s acclaimed self-titled debut album and its quick-fire follow-up, Van Halen II, reaped multi-platinum sales, yet – like classic early albums by the band’s heroes such as The Beatles and The Jimi Hendrix Experience – both records were done and dusted within days. It helped, of course, that the band had gotten off to such a flyer.
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