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Van Halen - The Van Halen Story - The Early Years [2003]

Michael Anthony (Actor), J.J. Jackson (Actor) Rated: Exempt Format: DVD
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Documentary chronicling the rise of rock band Van Halen through their formative years and their first world tour; featuring interviews with childhood friends, fellow musicians, roadies, bodyguards, producers, and the band members themselves.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Rated ‏ : ‎ Exempt
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.69 x 14.61 x 1.27 cm; 90.72 g
  • Manufacturer reference ‏ : ‎ 025493154498
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Colour, Full Screen, PAL, DVD-Video
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 10 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 24 Nov. 2003
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Michael Anthony, J.J. Jackson, David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen, Edward Van Halen
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Passport International
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000DJYPW
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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Space
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Van Halen video.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2019
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Great Van Halen video. Play many times, saw them in seventies.
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M.I
3.0 out of 5 stars It's okay
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 April 2021
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Pretty enjoyable documentary but with hardly any involvement from anyone of note. There are a couple of phone bits from some of the band members but that's it, no VH music at all. It's also pretty died and not I. The correct format for today's TVs. Still, fairly enjoyable for the casual VH fan like me.
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CDA
4.0 out of 5 stars Good doc on the formation.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2020
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Good insight to the Van Halen formation and early years although concert is bootleg and there is no Van Halen music in this , but worth a watch none the less.
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jonathan Anthony
1.0 out of 5 stars Truly terrible
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2020
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Obvious after the first five minutes they've haven't got the rights to music or film. Really shoddy that Prime bought this crap
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Mr. G. Stubbs
2.0 out of 5 stars Dave Era Van Halen at Last? I'll Wait........
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2003
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Desperate for the greatness of the Dave Lee Roth era Van Halen on DVD (or video or flip book or just plain anything) you would instantly jump at this one (no pun intended). High hopes fall well short because although there is a constant music track throughout it's certainly no Van Halen but typical MTV2 background music fayre. In fact barely a VH note is ever heard and apart from minor Dave and Eddie Clips with disembodied contributions from Alex and Michael (I think I heard him at one point) with the whole package falling well short on genuine VH material. You already know the stories - just as well because they don't appear. We are in comfortable slippers, pre-watershed territory here - believe me this will appear on cable tv soon and it'll be well before bed time. All pretty vague stories along with repetitive stock footage to embelish will have you crying out for a proper DLR VH release. God please make it soon, we've waited so long and it's not for this. Two stars just because there is nothing else out there at the moment. In the meantime put on the headphones, play the cds and read Daves 'Crazy from the Heat' - you'll get far more mileage doing that. Somebody call me a Doctor........
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M. G. Stoner
1.0 out of 5 stars Wasted opportunity
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 November 2003
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I am a huge Van Halen fan and especially love the early Dave Lee Roth era. This DVD sounded as if it would be fantastic but it is a major disappointment. Basically the whole package is very shoddy. I was hoping for some revealing interviews and footage of the early gigs at "keg parties", Gazarri's, The Whiskey and so on. Instead I got 70 minutes of still shots mixed with talking head interviews - mostly people with only the vaguest VH connection. The intermittent background music was all VH soundalikes - not the real thing. The snippets of the band themselves playing live probably total 30 seconds across the whole DVD! The video and audio was sometimes well out of synch. Basically the whole thing is a cheap and nasty rip-off - AVOID!
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Dr David Bellamy
1.0 out of 5 stars A documentary about musicians but without any of their music is a waste of time
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 August 2016
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No Van Halen music played; just meaningless gossip from those who may have known them in their early years. I learnt nothing of any real value about them;
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Lars Harder
1.0 out of 5 stars wertloser Datenträger ohne Musik
Reviewed in Germany on 9 September 2004
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diese DVD enthält nur zusammengestoppelte Interviews von Leuten, die mal was mit VH zu tun hatten, Musik nur im Hintergrund, Fotos nur als Überblendung.
Wahrscheinlich hat der Autor diese Machwerkes nur unlizensiertes Material verwendet um Kosten zu vermeiden
Finger weg !
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tachyon-x
1.0 out of 5 stars イタタタな、DVD
Reviewed in Japan on 19 February 2004
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ライブDVDかと思いジャケ買いした所VAN HALENのインタビューも無く何か色んな人が色々VAN HALEN事について喋ってるイタタタなDVDでした。
勿論音声は、英語で字幕も無しなので英語の勉強にもならないですね～
ちゅう事で英語が判ってVAN HALENの全てが知りたい人には、買いかも知れませんが大多数の（俺みたいにライブ、PVが見たい）人には、お勧め出来ないですね～
一応リージョンフリーですがどうでも良いですね～
ハハハハ・・・ハァ～
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フレディ宮古
1.0 out of 5 stars 残念です・・・
Reviewed in Japan on 22 February 2004
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せめて2曲位はディブ在籍時のライブ映像が観られるかな～、なんて期待してたのに全然なし。ＰＶすらありません（悲）同時に購入したジャーニーのグレイテストヒッツＤＶＤ（ライブ映像とＰＶが約半々）が良かっただけに、本当に残念です。
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Anelise P. Oliveira
4.0 out of 5 stars VH early years - Young & Wild rock heroes: amazing bend, amazing story
Reviewed in the United States on 20 September 2010
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I first thought I had bought another boring 'friends interview DVD' ('Inside...' type...) on this astonishing hard rock band which together with Led Zeppelin is my favourite of all times! But as the video progressed, very interesting pieces of old firends's and crew interviews, comments and rare (short) VH member footage/audio appeared to form a very cohesive (!) portrait of how this amazing rock band began to wow! in the US and then around the world. You only feel sorry that it takes so short to cover this incredible story and that no further material is made available from some anthological gigs we would like to taste, even if in small bites. But early VH is a complete celebration of excellent hard rock (or whatever you call it!), a fantastic achievement these 4 excellent musicians experienced and made us experience, with all their flavors, tastes and multifaced, extreme talents! This DVD gives us an idea of how this all happened. These 'so-called' Pasadena rockers have really made it and we feel as their success was all ours! It is impossible not to enjoy early VH (to be read> VH with DLR, of course, the original VH!) to the guts, impossible not to learn of how dedicated and talented they really were and not to come on board this extraordinary story of the lives/ carrers of the four musicians who formed the best rock band in the US. And this is a contemporary story, it is still happening (the VH Reunion!) and there's much more to come with DLR! So buy the DVD, learn a lot more about these guys, then watch all your official (or not...) early VH show DVDs, and enjoy the ride! You deserve it! We deserve a band like this!
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Michael Lamantia
5.0 out of 5 stars Great DVD, must see for true Van Halen Fans!!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on 8 January 2004
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I have been waiting for this DVD for 20 years. I can remember when I just could not wait for the next Van Halen "album" (I almost said CD) to come out. This takes me back to that time. I have always been interested in how Van Halen started and this DVD takes you back to the very beginning and tells all the stories I have always wanted to hear.
I was very entertained by the DVD and couldn't turn it off. I just wish there was more of it. I would love to hear more about the band. Maybe they will make another DVD to pick up where this one leaves off.
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