I remember they hit the stage and went into “Runnin’ With The Devil” after Diamond Dave made his drum riser leap. Usually the opener was a blur but this time it was a band called Van Halen. There was an opening band that actually stayed in the memory. On the third voyage to the Nuge there was a great change. His band was lethal, and Nugent had amazing tone with that hollow body Gibson. It was the best show you saw that year, every year. I forget what year it was but I made my annual trip to the arena to see Ted Nugent. It sounded horrible but I played it a few times before I bought the album. I taped it by putting my very bad tape recorder up to the radio and sat very still. I remember the night before Van Halen II was released, the played the album in it’s entirety on WPGC FM in Washington DC, where I lived. One of the only things that kept me going was the music I was listening to. I was stuck right in the middle of high school. I bought the album the first chance I got. I was in California at a skate contest I think it was and heard a song with that lyric over the PA system. It was probably getting some airplay and I had not heard it yet. Someone told me about a song called “Runnin’ With The Devil” and that it was really cool. I will always consider myself lucky for being teenage when the first Van Halen album was released. Henry Rollins: “To this day, perhaps some of my most played records that I own are the Van Halen albums with Dave.” From the book, Van Halen 101, by Abel Sanchez. Henry Rollins talks about classic Van Halen.
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