![]() “Where did it come from? I don’t remember”īy the time Van Halen received the silverware, Jump had already elevated them into rock’s big league, and it remains one of the best Van Halen songs. Though effectively a straight performance clip, its energy was palpable, and it ended up receiving three MTV Video Music Award nominations (winning the Best Stage Performance category) and only narrowly missed out at the Grammys, where Prince’s Purple Rain shaded it for Best Rock Performance. The song’s cause was also strengthened by its promo video, directed by Pete Angelus and David Lee Roth. Propelled by its grandstanding keyboard riff and a pumping rhythm section, and further bolstered by one of Eddie’s most expressive guitar solos, Jump bore all the hallmarks of a substantial crossover hit. It’s easy to translate it the way you hear it on the record as a ‘go for it’ attitude, a much more positive sort of affair.” I wrote it down and it made it onto the record, although in a much more positive vein. “There was a whole crowd of people in the parking lot downstairs yelling, ‘Don’t jump, don’t jump!’ and that gave me the idea of ‘Jump’ for the title. “I was watching the news on television one night and there was a fellow standing on top of the Arco Tower in Los Angeles, and he was about to check out early, take the 33-storey drop,” Roth told Classic Rock. “He was about to check out early – take the 33-storey drop”Ĭonfirming that he penned Jump’s lyric while band roadie Larry Hostler drove him around as he listened to the tune on repeat, Roth revealed that an incident he’d previously seen on the news inspired the words. Dave wrote the lyrics that afternoon on the backseat of his Mercury convertible.” “We recut it in one take for sonic reasons. “Engineer Don Landee and Ed put the track down alone in the middle of the night,” Templeman said. In Neil Zlozower’s Van Halen: A Visual History 1978-1984, producer Ted Templeman recalled that much of the finished track came together in Eddie’s then newly constructed home studio in California. The song was dusted off during the 1984 sessions, during which Eddie was keen to make synthesisers more prominent in the band’s overall sound. While the blueprint for Jump was initially shelved, it wasn’t forgotten. The way I like sound is on the verge of dying.” It started smoking, you know – everything I touch blows up. “Not quite the way it’s on the record, but musically, it was – note for note – exactly the same.” Jump was, the guitarist recalled, written on “a Prophet 10 synth that blew up on me. ![]() “I wrote it either before or during the sessions,” Eddie later told Classic Rock. However, Eddie had perfected Jump’s infectious keyboard riff as early as 1981, when his crew were recording their fourth album, Fair Warning. Released as the lead single from Van Halen’s multi-platinum sixth album, 1984, the song shot to No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and its runaway success skyrocketed the band to superstardom. I heard him on NPR.Eddie Van Halen’s name demands inclusion among rock music’s best guitarists, yet, ironically, it was his lesser-celebrated keyboard skills which provided the bedrock for his band’s signature hit, Jump. He's been making the tour of as many radio and TV shows as he can. He's also the guy who wrote "My Way" for Sinatra, the "Tonight Show Theme" for Johnny Carson, Puppy Love for Donny Osmond, and who can forget his own hit, "Havin' my Baby"! ![]() He picks up the beat with Oasis' "Wonderwall," enunciating Liam Gallagher's lyrics with the crispness that has always marked Anka's music, followed by Bon Jovi's "It's My Life," the Pet Shop Boys' "It's a Sin," Lionel Richie's "Hello," "Eyes Without a Face" by Billy Idol and Michael Jackson's 'The Way You Make Me Feel," "Tears in Heaven," Eric Clapton's eulogy to his dead son, Conor, wraps up the CD with a reverent, moving salute to Clapton. Performed by Anka, REM's "Everybody Hurts," another single, is a bluesy wonder. ![]() Smells Like Teen Spirit, EVH, a BonJovi song are all part of the mix.įrom The 14-track album opens with a surprisingly jazzy version of the theme song from "Rocky III," "Eye of the Tiger," transitioning into a cover of Van Helen's "Jump" that features a touch of Sinatra. He's turned a bunch of 80's rock tunes into "swing" big-band type material. ![]()
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