{"id":974287,"date":"2020-01-07T09:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=934423"},"modified":"2020-01-07T09:34:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:34:06","slug":"hear-a-previously-unreleased-take-of-van-halens-runnin-with-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/hear-a-previously-unreleased-take-of-van-halens-runnin-with-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear a Previously Unreleased Take of Van Halen\u2019s \u2018Runnin\u2019 With the Devil\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/van-halen-running-with-the-devil.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/van-halen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_van-halen\" data-tag=\"van-halen\">Van Halen<\/a> fans were stunned this week when a previously unreleased take of \u201cRunnin\u2019 with the Devil,\u201d complete with an extended guitar solo and an alternate David Lee Roth vocal, surfaced on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVan Halen Fans rejoice!\u201d wrote YouTube user Groovefunkel Second Helping. \u201cAs a huge Van Halen fan, it gives me great pleasure to share this remix, which features an alternate \u2018Diamond Dave\u2019 vocal AND an extended guitar solo. Made from the original 24-track session masters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, the same user shared an alternate take of \u201cDance the Night Away.\u201d They just opened up the Groovefunkel Second Helping account and are promising more \u201calternate versions, instrumentals, stripped down session mixes, demo recordings and other rarities\u201d in the future, or at least until the lawyers come knocking.<\/p>\n<p>Most bands of Van Halen\u2019s stature have re-released their older albums with bonus tracks. Their failure to do that has left not just a ton of money on the table, but it\u2019s likely impelled fans to get their hands on the material through illicit means and share it publicly. The stuff is simply too interesting to too many people to collect dust in a vault. And the Universal fire is a frightening example of what can happen to tape archives that aren\u2019t backed up anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Van Halen\u2019s future touring and recording plans are just as unclear as their plans for their archive. David Lee Roth is playing a ton of solo dates this year as part of his Las Vegas residency and as an opening act for Kiss. He\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/david-lee-roth-van-halen-reunion-rumor-893053\/\">told the press that Van Halen is essentially finished<\/a>, but the brothers have yet to comment publicly on any plans.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, how about deluxe editions of <em>Van Halen I<\/em>, <em>Van Halen II<\/em> and <em>1984<\/em>? What exactly are you waiting for? You\u2019re really going to let Groovefunkel Second Helping have all the fun?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/take-van-halen-runnin-with-the-devil-934423\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Halen fans were stunned this week when a previously unreleased take of \u201cRunnin\u2019 with the Devil,\u201d complete with an extended guitar solo and an alternate David Lee Roth vocal, surfaced on YouTube. \u201cVan Halen Fans rejoice!\u201d wrote YouTube user Groovefunkel Second Helping. \u201cAs a huge Van Halen fan, it gives me great pleasure to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 11:59:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}