Guitar Hero: Van Halen Announced Alongside Release Date
by Pedro Hernandez - August 10, 2009, 12:08 pm EDT
Total comments: 10Source: MTV
Guitar Hero: Van Halen will see release before the end of the year.
Activision has announced the release of Guitar Hero: Van Halen. The third Guitar Hero game based around a band will feature band members Eddie, Alex, and Wolfgang Van Halen alongside front man David Lee Roth.
Like in previous band based Guitar Hero games, other bands will be featured, including Weezer, Queen, and The Foo Fighters.
Guitar Hero: Van Halen will feature the following songs:
Van Halen Songs
“Ain't Talkin Bout Love”
“And The Cradle Will Rock”
“Atomic Punk”
“Beautiful Girls”
“Cathedral” (solo)
“Dance The Night Away”
“Eruption” (solo)
“Everybody Wants Some”
“Feel Your Love Tonight”
“Hang ‘Em High”
“Hear About It Later”
“Hot For Teacher”
“Ice Cream Man”
“I'm The One”
“Jamie's Cryin”
“Jump”
“Little Guitars”
“Loss Of Control”
“Mean Street”
“Panama”
“Pretty Woman”
“Romeo Delight”
“Running With The Devil”
“So This Is Love”
“Somebody Get Me A Doctor”
“Spanish Fly” (solo)
“Unchained”
“You Really Got Me”
Non Van Halen Songs
Alter Bridge - “Come To Life”
Billy Idol - “White Wedding”
blink-182 - “First Date”
Deep Purple - “Space Truckin”
Foo Fighters - “Best Of You”
Foreigner - “Double Vision”
Fountains of Wayne - “Stacy's Mom”
Jimmy Eat World - “Pain”
Judas Priest - “Painkiller”
Killswitch Engage - “The End Of Heartache”
Lenny Kravitz - “Rock And Roll Is Dead”
Queen - “I Want It All”
Queens of the Stone Age - “Sick, Sick, Sick”
Tenacious D - “Master Exploder”
The Clash - “Safe European Home”
The Offspring - “Pretty Fly For A White Guy”
Third Eye Blind - “Semi-Charmed Life”
Weezer - “Dope Nose”
Yellowcard - “The Takedown”
Guitar Hero: Van Halen will be released on December 22.
I think it's ridiculous that Wolfgang is in it (I still think it was stupid that Eddie let his 16 year old son join the band in 2006), but Sammy Hagar won't be.
I am bad when it comes to rock and roll history, but was Sammy Haggar kicked out of the group or did he voluntarily left?
Hagar left in 1996 after a variety of issues (including objecting to recording 2 songs for the soundtrack to the movie Twister since the band had agreed to take time off after their 1995 world tour). He left again at the end of their 2005 tour after Eddie Van Halen relapsed on his alcoholism.
I don't know much about GH: Aerosmith, cuz i'm not into them much, but I recall hearing that for at least GH: Metallica, the non-Metallica bands featured in the game would at least be related somehow; ie a band that inspired/was inspired by Metallica. Right?
So i kinda figured that GH: Van Halen would be the same way, but then I look at that set-list and have to think "What the fuck are blink182 doing there?" and this is coming from someone that actually likes the band lol!
The songs in spinoffs are also from bands that the the game's artist likes (which means you are correct in that at least someone from Van Halen likes blink-182). I have never heard a Van Halen song before but I love some of the songs from other artists in the game.
The songs in spinoffs are also from bands that the the game's artist likes (which means you are correct in that at least someone from Van Halen likes blink-182). I have never heard a Van Halen song before but I love some of the songs from other artists in the game.
Ah ok, that makes some more sense now. Like i said, i'm a fan of blink182 and i've never once heard of them mention VH as an inspiration or anything, so it was just a little odd to me. A band like Weezer i can imagine (look at their =w= logo, clearly VH influenced) but blink threw me off.
I'm going to guess if anyone in the band likes blink, its Wolfgang :P Oh and I'm sure you've heard a VH song or two, and just never realized it.
