Van Halen – Van Halen

Description

The album contains some of the band’s most well-known songs, including “Runnin’ with the Devil”, “Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Love”, “Jamie’s Cryin'”, their cover version of the Kinks “You Really Got Me”, and the 1 minute and 42 second instrumental “Eruption”, played and written by guitarist Eddie Van Halen, it is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitar solos of all time, having popularized two-handed tapping.

The cover photos for Van Halen were taken at the Whisky a Go Go, a Los Angeles club at which Van Halen often performed during the mid-1970s. The guitar pictured on the cover is Eddie Van Halen’s signature Frankenstrat (before he added the red paint), a highly customized Stratocaster style guitar built out of replacement parts.