How Van Halen Jumped Over the Edge With Their Third Album, ‘Women and Children First’
By Jeff Giles March 26, 2016 2:17 PM
“We finished the music in six days, and the whole album took eight,” Eddie Van Halen told Guitar Player. “I don’t understand how people can take any longer.” Added singer David Lee Roth in an interview with Hit Parader, “I don’t think we’ll ever be confused with
Fleetwood Mac or Steely Dan, who spend jillions of dollars and years in the studio just to make one record. How boring can you get, man? I like to think that all we’re really trying to do is capture some of our youthful enthusiasm.”
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“I just really go for feeling,” Eddie told Jas Obrecht. “All our albums have mistakes. Big deal! We’re human. It reeks of feeling, you know, and to me that’s what music is all about. Like
Fleetwood Mac spent so much money and so much time [in the studio], and my thing is, if something is too perfect, it won’t faze you. It goes in one ear and out the other, because it’s so perfect. Our stuff, to me, keeps you on the edge of your seat. It builds tension. Whether you like it or not, it slaps you in the face.”
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