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> Rushgedlife wrote:

>> stephenj wrote:
>>

>>>how can a band that was around for about 5
>>>minutes have a "box set"?

>>
>> They released a lot of stuff before they were signed to a major label
>> ("God's On Voodoo Moon", "Pig Heaven", "Psycho-Head Blowout",
>> "Soul-Crusher", "God Of Thunder", "Make Them Die Slowly", etc.).
>> Most of it is very rare and hard (impossible) to find.

>
> Yet despite the fact that Van Halen had been performing with Roth since
> 1974, and despite the fact that there have been numerous soundboard
> recordings in circulation during that time (including the Gene Simmons
> demo recordings), you claim that Van Halen with Roth didn't begin until
> 1978, when their first mainstream record was released:
> ...