A Cool Van Halen Cover

Like most Americans, I watch a lot of football on Saturday afternoon and evenings in the fall. Last night during the Notre Dame/Michigan State game, ABC used what sounded like a cover of Van Halen's "Dance The Night Away" for one of their bumps. Of course I immediately went to YouTube to try and find said cover, but I didn't have much luck. I'll be honest: I just don't know many modern pop bands and I'm sure some young band covered the VH classic. So, I didn't find exactly what I was looking for... but I did come across a video of Train and Butch Walker covering "Dance The Night Away" and I was impressed. I'm not necessarily a big Train fan, but I think the band did a great job here. Watch:

Comments

[Chris Gardner]

Train is a great band that does an excellent cover of a lot of songs. Check out Ramble On if you can find it. They do a very good cover of it as well. On top of that. They write great tunes themselves. They are a pop rock band that can rock!!!

[fletch]

They performed this on Howard a few months ago along with a Guess Who song. This song was my wedding's "second" dance (where the bridal party dances with the bride and groom after their dance). Good times. Damn, good times.

Train does the song justive.

[fletch]

I remember being @ St. John Bosco Church for Sunday morning mass and the priet said to his congregation, "please bow your head and make a special request for our Lord." the kid behind me whispered, "I hope that the Eagles win today so my dad is happy and my mom won't be in a bad mood."

[scott whitt]

Several years ago MTV did one of the ICONS specials and it was for Aerosmith. Train played one song and it was killer. Can;t remember but worth your while.

[Metalboy!]

Bass player exempted, this looks like a "Nerd Party Royale", if you ask me. Something tells me they need to do stuff like this to jack up the excitement level at their shows.

And while I'm overdissin', is that dude seriously wearing a T-Shirt with the image of his own face on it? That's a read-out right there. Still, a very professional and technically proficient cover.

p.s. I think I was foolish enough to buy Train's first album when I got off track (no pun intended) with so many others and tried to get into their brand of crap, not realizing that, oddly, in the words of Sammy Hagar, "There's Only One Way To Rock" and I think you know by now which way that is!

It sure as h*ll ain't Train's way! Sorry 'bout that!

[fletch]

well said and thank you, MB. meanwhile, I was anticipating you writing something like this:

Huh-uh-lo-oooh Fletch! What does Train's cover of Van Halen have anything to do with your Bosco story? Stay on topic, Fletch!

For which, MB, I was prepared to respond, 'a lot, MB." Stay with me for a bit. Indulge yourself, perhaps.

As I've written before, "I'd rather rock out in the audience than hang out backstage because the former is usually much more fulfilling than the latter." Hence, I'd rather 'dance the night away' where I am almost guarenteed to have a good time (hence, marrying my wife and selecting that song for our wedding party song) versus "sitting on the sidelines" (euphamism for hanging out backstage) at a sporting event.

At the very least, when I walk out of a concert, each and mostly every time, I leave satisfied and feeling good. I don't know if fans at sporting events can say the same thing.

I recently told the following story, so forgive me if I told it here, but back in the day, I was at a work-related "training" (unintentional pun). In order to get the audience comfortable and interactive, The guest speaker asked that each audience member say, one-at-a-time, our names, favorite sport and favorite team. People were replying, "football/eagles" or "hockey/flyers" or "basketball/bulls", etc... When it came my turn, I replied, (I kid you not), "Rock-n-Roll/Van Halen".

Is it any wonder why I get strange looks. There may be only one way to rock, but there is more than one way resolve a problem...or, at least, address one.

[fletch]

and remember BBG readers: while there might be 'one way to rock", dave sings, "you're old enough to dance." so, "dance, dance, dance the night away."

That's what this song mostly means to me.

[Gary]

They nailed it. 8-)

[Metalboy!]

They nailed it, alright, Gary. Too bad you can't say that for ANY of the rest of their catalog.

[Gary]

I will admit to likg "Calling In All Angels". Thats about my extent of their catalog. LOL

[fletch]

train was one of my teenage foster kids favorite bands. He argued about everything...and then some...with everybody. drops of jupiter was his holy grail of music at the time. he said to me one time how much better train is than van halen and I replied cockily, "Train wishes they were Van Halen. They'll probably do a Van Halen tribute album after their career tanks singing, "Runnin' with the devil." OK, so it's dance the night away instead.

[Todd M]

So, I'm not a train fan by any means but Butch Walker is the truth. He puts on the best live show you will ever see. He's also one of the top 5 producers in the world. Oh yeah, and to wrap this up nicely into the glam world...he was also the lead guitarist and song writer for this awesome glam band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42u6THtPEew

Also had a hit in the 90's with the Marvelous 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Obkkxng-0g

[Metalboy!]

And he has Desmond Child and Virgin Records to thank for that.