Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
No Result
View All Result
Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
Home Music

Van Halen’s ‘Jump’ Video Points to End of an Era

rmtsa by rmtsa
December 26, 2023
in Music
0
Van Halen’s ‘Jump’ Video Points to End of an Era
74
SHARES
1.2k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


You might also like

Taylor Swift, Luke Combs, Leon Thomas & More

Foo Fighters Drop Live EP For Bandcamp Friday

Sheff G Gives His Girlfriend $50,000 Before Heading to Prison

By waiting until January 1984 to issue their 1984 LP, Van Halen broke an impressive one-album-a-year streak that dated back to 1978. They made up for it by picking up their first No. 1 single in the U.S. with the record’s lead-off single, “Jump.”

The December 1983 release was accompanied by a cheerfully low-budget video that showed the band goofing around on a sound stage, with David Lee Roth pulling out some of his most advanced preening techniques while the rest of the guys just generally looked happy to be there. At a time when dry ice and inscrutable storylines seemed to be the order of the day, the “Jump” clip was refreshingly simple, even if the story behind the video included more than its share of complications.

Producer Robert Lombard, who supervised the shoot with director Pete Angelus, said the video exposed tensions that soon came to a head between Roth and the other members of the band. Lombard and Angelus wanted to put together a clip that Angelus described as “something very personal.” As he put it, “Let’s see if we can get Edward [Van Halen] to smile.” But Roth insisted they film footage of him engaged in stereotypical rock-star pursuits, like driving sports cars and hanging out with gorgeous women.

READ MORE: Ranking Every David Lee Roth-Era Van Halen Song

They gave in but their misgivings remained, and according to Lombard, the duo eventually approached other members of Van Halen to plead their case.

“I said, ‘Guys, I’m taking a stand here,” Lombard recalled later. “If you put in this crazy footage … the video isn’t gonna have the impact it should have.'” He says they backed him up, but Lombard still ended up paying the price: “Two days later, I got fired. Noel Monk, their manager, said, ‘You don’t do that. You don’t go behind Dave’s back. Here’s your check, never want to see you again.’ That video won the award for best performance video at the first VMAs, and I still don’t have my award.”

Roth’s footage actually ended up going into the “Panama” video, but the incident highlighted one more disagreement in the history of a song that Van Halen later claimed sat around for years because other members of the group – particularly Roth – didn’t want to record it.

Watch Van Halen’s Video for ‘Jump’

‘Jump’ Had Differing Origin Stories

Van Halen said he wrote the song “during or before” the sessions for 1981’s Fair Warning album, when asked about its origins of ‘Jump’ in a 1984 interview. “Not the way it’s on record, but musically, note for note, exactly the same,” he said, adding that the song was composed on a “Prophet 10 synth that blew up on me. It started smoking. You know, everything I touch blows up – the way I like sound is on the verge of dying.”

Roth disputed Van Halen’s version of events in a separate interview. “Well, there are always bits and pieces of music that go flying by, you can never tell exactly what form it was in two years ago,” he argued. “I doubt if it sounded exactly the way it does this year two years ago when Edward played it for us, because I can’t imagine us passing it up.”

According to Roth, “‘Jump’ is a song that we wrote for several different reasons, primarily because it is leap year and secondly, because I was watching television one night and it was the 5 o’clock news, and there was a fellow standing on top of the Arco Towers in Los Angeles and he was about to check out early, he was going to do the 33-story drop – and there was a whole crowd of people in the parking lot downstairs yelling ‘Don’t jump, don’t jump’ and I thought to myself, ‘Jump.’

“So, I wrote it down and ultimately it made it onto the record, although in a much more positive vein,” Roth added. “It’s easy to translate it the way you hear it on the record as a ‘go for it’ attitude, positive sort of affair – an I-jog-therefore-I-am approach.”

Whatever the song’s origins – and however people chose to interpret it – “Jump” was a raging success for Van Halen, taking the top spot on the pop charts from Culture Club’s “Karma Chameleon” during the week of Feb. 25, 1984, and staying there until the week of March 24, when it fell to Kenny Loggins’ “Footloose.” One of three Top 40 hits from the album, “Jump” helped 1984 become Van Halen’s most successful album to that point.

Roth began a long hiatus from the band the following year, but “Jump” nevertheless kicked off a period of massive crossover success for Van Halen that continued until the mid-’90s with successor Sammy Hagar.

The ’80s Most Outrageous Rock Fashion

In the same way that ducktails defined the ’50s and bell bottoms became shorthand for the ’70s, neon-lit sartorial choices can be firmly placed in the Reagan years.

Gallery Credit: Nick DeRiso

Think You Know Van Halen?



Source link

Tags: eraHalensJumpPointsVanVideo
Share30Tweet19
rmtsa

rmtsa

Recommended For You

Taylor Swift, Luke Combs, Leon Thomas & More

by rmtsa
October 3, 2025
0
Taylor Swift, Luke Combs, Leon Thomas & More

Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be...

Read more

Foo Fighters Drop Live EP For Bandcamp Friday

by rmtsa
October 3, 2025
0
Foo Fighters Drop Live EP For Bandcamp Friday

Foo Fighters are rewarding fans who didn’t get a chance to see them at four surprise club shows in recent weeks with a live EP, Foo Fighters –...

Read more

Sheff G Gives His Girlfriend $50,000 Before Heading to Prison

by rmtsa
October 3, 2025
0
Sheff G Gives His Girlfriend ,000 Before Heading to Prison

Sheff G gifted his girlfriend with $50,000 before turning himself in to serve a five-year prison bid.On Tuesday (Sept. 30), a day before the Brooklyn rapper was officially...

Read more

Chris Dreja of the Yardbirds Dies at 79

by rmtsa
October 2, 2025
0
Chris Dreja of the Yardbirds Dies at 79

Chris Dreja, one of the five original members of the Yardbirds, has died. The guitarist was 79.His death was confirmed by his sister-in-law, Muriel Levy, on Threads."This is...

Read more

Metallica Producer Still Doesn’t Understand ‘Justice’ No-Bass Mix

by rmtsa
October 2, 2025
0
Metallica Producer Still Doesn’t Understand ‘Justice’ No-Bass Mix

Former Metallica producer Flemming Rasmussen once again mused on the conspicuous, endlessly discussed lack of bass on the band's fourth album, ... And Justice for All.Spoiler alert: He still doesn't understand why they made the...

Read more
Next Post
The Five Christmas Movies That Are Fun for Everyone • Hollywood Unlocked

The Five Christmas Movies That Are Fun for Everyone • Hollywood Unlocked

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Browse by Category

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized

CATEGORIES

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized
No Result
View All Result

Recent News

  • Taylor Swift, Luke Combs, Leon Thomas & More
  • Chris Meloni Deleted Scene Law and Order Organized Crime Season 5
  • Elizabeth Hurley Crowned ‘The Queen of MILFs’ In Bold Black Bikini Snap

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In