Van Halen 1982 Diver Down Studio Sessions

0:00 Happy Trails
1:13 Secrets INST
7:51 The Full Bug Take 1
12:00 The Full Bug Take 2

[terrymccombs]

'83 graduate, this was and is MY Thanks Eddie, you will always be THE KING!

[shawnstarks]

Secrets my favorite VH song. I find myself listening to Diver Down more than the rest of their catalogue for some reason. Those summers back then wow. Glad I lived it.

[river]

Ed was the greatest rhythm player to ever play lead ever. No comparison

[hammerhead]

This is the stuff that us VH fans love.

[DerekBarney]

It's still mindblowing that Dave could write melodies over this stuff.

[jorgevillarreal]

Secrets! c'mon man nobody is gonna come up with something close to that ever! and just one song! Long live the king master Edward 👑🙏🕊️🌹

[kmcewenguitar]

“Secrets” is some of the most classic VH ever 🙏🙏🙏

[fernandes]

Secrets INST alone is worth this post. Thank you.

[brianp]

This is a treasure trove of material! The Full Bug with alternative lyrics! Studio jams! This needs to be made available for purchase. This is holy grail stuff!

[rter]

Our generation’s Mozart 😢 RIP Eddie. Thank you for such beautiful music. We will never forget you.

[Rob-dpvr]

What bugs me about Diver Down, or rather what Ed has said about it, is that it was my first introduction to VH when I was 12. So it has a special place in my soul.
But later, Ed talked about it so negatively. And though Eddie was my idol, and I miss him, and he was the King to me, I can not ignore the fact that he could lie sometimes to benefit himself.
I watched him say "the record company wanted us to go back into the studio and rush a new album out, and we didn't want to waste our good stuff on that. We had been taking our time writing some killer songs, so we wanted to save them for when we could take our time. And we used to be a cover band, so we did some covers, and that helped us get the album done fast. But we did them our way, and we're proud of how they came out"
Now, clearly, I'm paraphrasing. But I remember it. That was his original position on it. Because it was my first VH album, I remember.

Then later in life it became "Dave wanted to do some cover songs, and we didn't. We'd rather crash and burn with our own stuff than succeed with someone else's music". So, it was just a way to trash Dave.
It's unfortunate, because I love those covers. They made those songs VH songs to me. And the originals were awesome. No sane person would think they had to do covers because they were incapable of writing originals. After 4 scorcher albums in a row? No way.
And it was Dave's idea to have Jan Van Halen play on it. Their father. What a thoughtful suggestion. He died later, and they had that memory, and he is immortalized on the record now.

[jeffreywarner]

Van Halen The most ultimate Rock Band of all time R.I.P EVH

[billvoss]

ED was a gift from the universe and we were so fortunate to have experienced it

[christopherpolino]

Holy smokes!!! I can listen to Secrets over and over again!! I wish someone had demos of Little Guitars in this quality.

[DBroce]

Edward was the best rhythm player of all time too.

[geoffpetrie]

The government will not let Alex release the vault. If he does, nobody is gonna go to work for a year at least.

[blaklyte]

This is amazing... his RHYTHM playing is what I've always striven towards in my own playing. What amazing layers.

[jeffjeff]

I had the Diver Down in my car's cassette player for like 3 months....
Eat em and smile came out and that damn cassette was sold with the car! Never left!!
Ahhhh the good old days
Miss them and really appreciate that time!!

[ej]

Just amazing!!!! Put the EarPods in and hiding in my work bathroom …I can’t believe what I am hearing!!! This just brought me back to life thank you

[hugostiglitziii]

Love the way he brushes the strings by the 12 string bridge in Secrets