Van Halen - JUMP (PROMO CLIP) - CLASSIC or DUD?

We've had threads here devoted to the song itself and the album it comes from, but what about the promo clip folks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq0lYB3iSM

For me the best part of the video is a tie between everything that Michael Anthony does vs. the guitar/keyboard solo where Eddie Van Halen spews out this hot solo and he's like "yeah man, I am totally playing this hot solo", and then it cuts to him doing the keyboard solo and he's all like "yeah man, I can totally play this hot keyboard part too".

iirc chuck quoted rob sheffield in accidental evolution over the idea that this is a better van halen video than "right now" because it sells van halen, where right now, with a few tweaks, was used to sell crystal pepsi. i agree.

I love his expression while playing the solo

"I can play this keyboard like Valerie Bertinelli!"

i like how a lot of '80s rockers did performance videos in actual stadiums, and some just simulated it by stomping around a soundstage that looked like a venue (like that one Poison video) but in "Jump" they're totally just rocking out in a drab little room.

"Hot For Teacher" is obviously their video masterpiece though.

yeah and "panama"'s a classic too, but this is the most educational for bands today. only have yourselves, your instruments and a room? As long as every non-seated member mugs and dances (and you have a competent camera operator who knows how to catch the mugging and dancing and a competent editor who knows which bits of mugging and dancing to keep) you will either make the best video or the worst video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG2b3VhSCC4

you can debate whether this files under best or worst but no clip they've made since has been as memorable

what a coincidence! "jump" director david lee roth just posted a clip about "the language of video" on youtube!

2:30 in and he's talking about faking a british accent

Not lip-syncing "Hey you!" so he can "respond" with "Who said that?" is genius.

And adding that one shout that isn't in the recorded so g.

I like the part where they might as well jump.

DLR fixing his hair at 0:17 or doing air splits at 1:17

best ever

Not lip-syncing "Hey you!" so he can "respond" with "Who said that?" is genius.

Oh shit! Never thought about that.

Is there even a bass on this song? Michael Anthony is one of those bassists who is always moving, but I can never quite jibe his motion with the notes.

I'm convinced this entire album was ghostwritten by some legally anonymous team of ringers.

Y'all are mostly pretty young whippersnappers but I remember the world premiere of this video, they made a pretty big deal out of it.

"Van Halen Goes New Wave!"

Was this before or after the infamous Lost Weekend with Van Halen promotion?

It was either Mark Richards or Martha Quinn and it may have been in tandem with some sort of awards show? Sorry, memories a little foggy, I'm a bit geriatric.

honestly "Jump" may be the earliest music video i can remember seeing, before even any Michael Jackson videos. either that or "Born In The USA."

Love Bruce, was totally the right age, but I somehow don't remember ever seeing the "BitUSA" video. "I'm On Fire," sure, "Dancing in the Dark" and "Glory Days," but not this one. Or "My Hometown," either. Was there a video for "I'm Going Down?"

As great as this video is, I still can't think it's anything but a tribute to this even better video from a few years earlier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGyOaCXr8Lw

i like how alex is the only one who looks like he's trying hard instead of just having fun

Alex is definitely the stoic eye of the of the goofy early VH hurricane

he's like the anti-Ringo

Always found it amazing that such a leaden drummer could direct the occasional hyper-cool rhythmic turnaround like he does in the bridge here, or the one in "Unchained." My pal chalks it up to fraternal telepathy.

I first saw this when I was a little kid and it put me off Van Halen for a long time. I was like "who are all these old guys doing aerobics?"

I mean, they were all probably like 25, but Michael Anthony had a beard.

Y'all are mostly pretty young whippersnappers but I remember the world premiere of this video, they made a pretty big deal out of it.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, January 8, 2013 2:03 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I remember this, too.

Alex Van Halen's drumming is leaden?

Totally man. He's the least swinging, most plodding drummer, with moments of inspiration/syncopation. Perfect for VH, though.

he's not bringing the funk or anything but i feel like you're describing ac/dc or something more than vh

I'm not a huge Alex fan or anything, but "leaden" and "plodding" aren't terms I'd ascribe to his approach. In fact, I'd say he's downright sprightly.

And his snare sound cannot be fucked with.

as someone who is bored by most double bass pedal-abusing hard rock/metal drummers i am forever O_O at "Hot For Teacher"

Yeah, that song is awesome, and also literally unplayable as recorded.

yeah i've never heard them do it live so i dunno if him actually playing is nothing like that

When he does it live, he goes straight to the bass drum shuffle part, skipping all the crazy overdubbed stuff at the start. Fast forward to around 4:15 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG-nntlGsIQ

I suppose I should have guessed, but kinda disappointed to learn that was overdubbed

What's fun is googling dudes trying to do it all, anyway. I remember reading that Stewart Copeland used to love checking out Police cover bands for their drummers, who try manically to cover what he did with all the overdubs with only four limbs. "Message in a Bottle," for example, is something like three drums parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNyZA0vRpLA

And adding that one shout that isn't in the recorded so g.

When the video was first running on MTV, I remember that there wasn't any vocals here. DLR just turned around and opened his mouth while the solo went back into the verse.

They must've missed up the editing and had to get DLR to go back in to dub an artificial AYO-WO-WO.

The first time I saw the video/heard the song for Van Halen's "Jump", I was around eight years old. It was lunchtime, and I was eating pizza and drinking Pepsi. I thought the whole video/song was so ridiculous, and I just laughed so hard at it. I laughed so hard that Pepsi came out of my nose!

I feel like it is kind of a good song now though, sure.

That's appropriate, given the amount of coke that's gone up DLR's nose.

Classic.

Things I love about this video:

1) The fact that it looks like Alex has the Black Flag bars on his kick drum heads
2) All the shots of Eddie playing guitar during parts that don't have guitar
3) All the shots of Alex playing during the verses (which sound like drum machine, though that could just be '80s production)

That said, the greatest Van Halen video is clearly "Panama."

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5nvae6kes1rq0vbmo4_r2_250.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dg_0cl6EJU

Actually, best Van Halen video ever is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9GmDisoEQo

Two thoughts:

(1) Eddie IS Valerie Bertinelli

(2) damn is Michael Anthony out of shape

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjFsgGeyvw-ohDOyHVqMRHS3XUAQI62hx_GyJYobhbwiYmSq2ODT8kxFxYnA

best parts - all the slow-mo DLR as rock god

"promo clip" ?

Yeah, haven't you ever seen that show Pop-Up Promo Clips?

I suppose I should have guessed, but kinda disappointed to learn that was overdubbed

― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, January 8, 2013 3:27 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not only that, but iirc the bass drums are electronic (Simmons) on 1984. Eddie and Ted Templeman had trouble getting the bass drum and tom sounds they wanted, so they went electronic on the bass drums and had Alex use rototoms.

The video is probably more funnier with the sound off!

Surprised it's taken this long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUnT78ut9-k

Hahahahahaha! Yeah, I was mulling over whether to post that or not! :D

That is sheer brilliance. The queen one rules too.

DLR always makes me think of big-haired-Murphy-Brown-era Candice Bergen in this video. They look like they're having a laugh and it always makes me giggle. (Same with Start Me Up, too.) Classic.

I'm gonna go ahead and say I think this is one of the greatest singles of all time.

I agree, it absolutely is.

I also agree!

Can't. It's a great video but I kinda hate it as a Van Halen song. :/

There was another 80s song with a weird bad edit:

At around 3:13 of ''Something About You,'' King just looks up in the camera and starts mouthing more words. But there are no words.