Van Halen have delivered another song preview from “A Different Kind Of Truth.”
“Beats Workin’” is the final track in sequence on the album, due next Tuesday.
Like the bulk of the project, the tune is based on some earlier VH work: a mid-70s VH song/demo called “Put Out The Lights.”
The song first recorded for the Gene Simmons-financed demos in 1976, and was re-recorded a year later as part of the 1977 Warner Brothers demos.
David Lee Roth is keenly aware of the VH legacy and the need to live up to it with the new album and tour.
"Are there second chances? I don't know, Mr. Faulkner, I'm tending to agree with you: No.,” Roth tells the Los Angeles Times. “We've managed to stretch our adolescence like a Chiclet to the moon and maintained the respectful dignities along the way that got us on that turnpike up in the first place. We love what we do for a living. Even in our wildest, most beer-soaked days we never missed rehearsal."
VH fire up their world tour February 18 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Van Halen – Beats Workin’ (preview)
Van Halen – Put Out The Lights
Warner Brothers demos (1977)
See also:
AUDIO: Van Halen – As Is preview
Van Halen: David Lee Roth’s handwritten lyrics to Stay Frosty