Sep 18, 2026 · 1 hr 45 min · 12 segments
This week Corey gives his review of the **Foo Fighters/Queens Of The Stone Age/Mannequin Pussy** concert he attended this week plus we spin another cut off of **Iron Maiden's Powerslave**, ***"Flash…
All right, well, if you search the Van Halen News Desk, there's a big, big piece that dropped this week, and that is the TED Talk from Fargo, North Dakota, of all places, featuring Alex Van Halen and Dave Lee Roth.
I've been a little busy this week, but it's called Beyond Boundaries, How Human Experience Informs Art and Music.
He says, quote, I think that the most important thing in art is that you do your homework and you learn the basics and then you break all the rules.
I know you, you can't even musicians, right? Like, you know, the music, you, you learn the part, you perfect it, and then you fuck it up at the end.
You can kind of stray from it and bring it back because you know the underlying kind of message of everything.
But you get on set and all of a sudden it's like, you know what? Let's change this line to this.
You can actually have an informed opinion of where you're going to go with the story.
And I think Alex hits it dead on the head here when he says it's the same thing in music.
All right, well, if you search the Van Halen News Desk, there's a big, big piece that dropped this week, and that is the TED Talk from Fargo, North Dakota, of all places, featuring Alex Van Halen and Dave Lee Roth.
I've been a little busy this week, but it's called Beyond Boundaries, How Human Experience Informs Art and Music.
He says, quote, I think that the most important thing in art is that you do your homework and you learn the basics and then you break all the rules.
I know you, you can't even musicians, right? Like, you know, the music, you, you learn the part, you perfect it, and then you fuck it up at the end.
You can kind of stray from it and bring it back because you know the underlying kind of message of everything.
But you get on set and all of a sudden it's like, you know what? Let's change this line to this.
You can actually have an informed opinion of where you're going to go with the story.
And I think Alex hits it dead on the head here when he says it's the same thing in music.
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