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I had a neighbor Mike who was Maureen McCormick's brother (Marcia, Marcia, Marcia). He had a restaurant/ club in Calabasas called "The Mineshaft".
I was getting ready to go in the Army and he let me hang at the club and later went to see a band down in Hollywood, Van Halen right before they broke big.
When I got to Germany after basic they would BLAST the debut VH album in the barracks. We listened to it incessantly.
Later saw them at the US Festival in '83 and Monsters Of Rock tour.
Also saw a drunk Eddie and Sammy Hagar at the theater at The Oaks mall in Thousand Oaks when they were first getting together ("We're Van Hagar" a drunk Eddie kept slurring).
The boy liked his smokes and Schlitz Malt tallboys, that's for sure. RIP Eddie.
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