Van Halen Thanks The Madison, Wisconsin Sheraton On The Van Halen II Album
Van Halen II was released March 23, 1979 and if you look in the liner notes, you’ll see that the band thanks the Sheraton in Madison WI. Why??? It’s because they trashed the 7th floor ambassadors row of that hotel during their first tour. Lamps drummed to pieces, smashed hotel room mirrors, bathroom doors off their hinges, fire extinguisher fights, TV’s, furniture, toilet seats, telephones thrown out the windows. Alex Van Halen used to like gluing people’s door knobs shut or putting vaseline on the door knobs so people couldn’t turn them. They blamed the whole thing on their headliner…Journey.
Also, David Lee Roth injured himself during the photo shoot for the back cover. For the shoot, Roth did his famous splits leap 3 times, the third time he landed badly and allegedly broke his right heel. That photo made the back cover as well as a photo of Diamond Dave bandaged up a few days later.
