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IF YOU HATE VAN HALEN YOU’RE WRONG

Remnants of the flash hangover.

July 1, 1980
Dave DiMartino

One thing thats always bothered me about myself: I enjoy offending people. I've done it for years and see no need to stop. I

have offended people by the way I look, the way I speak, the way I act, the films I see, the hamburgers I eat, the people 1 know,

and the snotty, elitist musk I most often listen to. This is not a healthy way to live and I realize it. I can'1 explain the essential why

behind it all, so I don't And I nuess I'm an asshole.

But you aren't readining this magazine beause of me and I'm going to -(nit up in a

minute, so doni worry -lust consider the above paragraph and answer the following question;

Why do I love van I laten?

First of all, red Nugent, on§,Rush, let's round up some n.urx",. IJFO, Judas Priest, S; orpl Foghat, Aerosmith, Blacak

consider the () reasons this trainload turkeys will he remembered 10 years from now Ted Nugent: funny guy, song

like "Wang Dang Sweel Poontang"; : covered 'i song by Love; Judas t: funny clothes, aid "Diamonds And the wrjy it should have

Foreigner; mw racisl iloaan. not much d-.c

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