{"id":4203,"date":"2018-07-22T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T19:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2018-09-27T10:29:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:29:17","slug":"van-halen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/van-halen\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Halen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the first issue of\u00a0Bands I Useta Like,\u00a0<\/em>I explained the story behind my thought bubble in panel 2, as part of a brief series of reprinted strips with added commentary. This site became a better receptacle for that kind of thing, particularly since I can link videos as examples, so I stopped doing it in print. Here’s the “DVD commentary” for the above strip, from\u00a0BIUL<\/em> #1:<\/p>\n

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I still feel bad about calling the Boy Scouts “fascists” when I was 14. I had a great troop and we did lots of wholesome, fun things. I didn’t have the motivation to earn any badges, and our troop included the Gandhi brothers, two Indian boys who made the rest of us look like lazy bums. Anything I could do, the Gandhis could do faster and better. My dad would ask, “Why can’t you deliver papers like that Gandhi kid? He’s a ball of fire.” I said “Dad, he’s\u00a0Indian.\u00a0<\/em>Plus all I’ve had for breakfast is a jelly donut.”<\/p>\n

“Happy Trails” is the reason a lot of folks don’t like\u00a0Diver Down.\u00a0<\/em>The album is padded out with covers like this, because Van Halen was running short on original tunes by 1982, and Warner Bros. was pushing for more product. “Happy Trails” was originally recorded for the band’s demo in 1977, as a joke. Can you tell?<\/p>\n