This is the 12 promo vinyl that warner bros sent to radio stations in january 78 to promote their brand new band named van halen.
Van halen looney tunes vinyl.
Before supporting black sabbath van halen opened for journey and montrose for a few months.
The reverse side lists the songs.
Cover art is taken from the red vinyl promo van halen ep that was issued by warner bros.
This four cd set was compiled from hundreds of live and studio outtake recordings.
One side of the special red vinyl features elmer fudd wearing a warner bros hat and says looney tunes merrie melodies.
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Before the first album came out.
Also note the use of the jagged van halen logo from the warner bros looney tunes red promo vinyl lp.
Cover art is taken from the red vinyl promo van halen ep that was issued by warner bros.
The record was only released promotionally and is extremely popular with collectors and van halen fans.
The background image is of a purplish brick pattern.
You can still see the hole in the middle where you would play the ep on a turntable.
Standard journey backstage pass used at many gigs on the 1978 tour.
Van halen s first record was not van halen 1 but the merrie melodies ep.
Today we share this rare piece of rock history and tell the background story behin.
You can still see the hole in the middle where you would play the ep on a turntable.
This disc is an extended play copy of van halen s first album.
My good friend george garrity who was our head of the rock department at warner bros.
Vinyl 12 van halen looney tunes promo 1978 red vinyl discogs.
Discussion in music corner started by raye penber aug 14 2019.
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It contains 5 songs and is commonly referred to as the looney tunes disc because of the label displaying elmer fudd and looney tunes.
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No my question is was i don t know how you can say that just because yours is.
Notice it says introducing van halen.
Decided to produce a red vinyl of van halen and it had the old van halen logo prior to their new one and the other side of the red vinyl was the looney tunes logo cuz we were bugs bunny so we can do that laughter said meyers.
This pattern is evident through the packaging.
Van halen looney tunes promo.
