{"id":5404,"date":"2012-03-16T03:28:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T10:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5404"},"modified":"2012-03-16T07:26:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T14:26:31","slug":"van-halen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/03\/van-halen\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Halen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cWORKING WITH A ROCK GROUP IS ALWAYS A challenge,\u201d says photographer Norman Seeff, remembering his 1979 shoot for the cover of Van Halen\u2019s third album, Women and Children First<\/em>. \u201cThere are times when a group comes in for a session and I perceive there is tension among the members.\u201d One sure way to defuse that tension, he says, was to ask the musicians to bring their instruments\u2014and sure enough, Eddie Van Halen was soon happily riffing away on his guitar to the sounds of his band\u2019s new album playing on the stereo in Seeff\u2019s studio. \u201cHe and the guitar became one unit,\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like a guy holding a guitar; it was more like an extension of his body.\u201d Meanwhile, singer David Lee Roth\u2019s \u201cathleticism and physical innovation,\u201d Seeff says, helped encourage the group to pose tightly together, all the better given the space limitations of an album cover. \u201cEveryone was fully present, with intense eye contact into the camera,\u201d Seeff says. \u201cThere is often a constellation in a group, where a frontman stands out and some of the others step into the background. In the case of Van Halen, everyone was a frontman in the most creative way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u201cWORKING WITH A ROCK GROUP IS ALWAYS A challenge,\u201d says photographer Norman Seeff, remembering his 1979 shoot for the cover of Van Halen\u2019s third album, Women and Children First. \u201cThere are times when a group comes in for a session and I perceive there is tension among the members.\u201d One sure way to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1629,3262],"tags":[10164,10166,2615,3279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5440,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions\/5440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}