Van Halen has always insisted they have a "brown sound", the nice part is, no one can sound like them, but they also had trouble playing cover songs early in their career.

In this part 1 of David Lee Roth interviews Van Halen (Ed and Alex), we learn about Eddie and Alex as kids and how they both started on piano. Who wore the pants in the household. We also get some early days of Van Halen in the younger high school days.

 

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