Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Retro Video of the Week: "Without You" by Van Halen

Sorry for the lack of posting the last few days.  I've been busy returning videotapes.  Rest assured, my annual Tuesday Top Ten of Halloween costumes will be posted tonight or tomorrow.  

In the meantime, it's time for a Retro Video of the Week.  Today marks the 15th anniversary of Gary Cherone leaving Van Halen.  In case you forgot or are blocking it from your memory, after Sammy Hagar split from Van Halen in the late '90s, the band hired former Extreme singer Gary Cherone.  With Cherone, the band made one album, 1998's Van Halen III.  "Without You" is the lead single from that album, and it became the first song to debut at #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.  The video cost over $1 million to make.  Apparently ice hotels are expensive to rent out.  I honestly have no recollection of ever hearing this song until I played the video just now.

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