Word: halen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through a strange musical journey. For a time, rock music was their essential cultural touchstone, a vein of deep feeling that seemed to flow through nearly every one of them. If the oldest boomers grew up on early Stones and the youngest arrived just in time to catch Van Halen, at least they possessed a lingua franca...
Metallica is not the only band turning heavy metal into pure platinum. Skid Row's latest, Slave to the Grind, has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide since last June. Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge entered the charts 13 weeks ago at No. 1 and sold 2 million copies in less than a month. Poison's past three albums, Look What the Cat Dragged Down, Open Up and Say Ahh and Flesh and Blood, have sold a combined total of 12 million copies; all five of Motley Crue's have sold more than 1 million each...
...conclude: if Tone-Loc making millions from a riff and beat he took directly from a Van Halen record isn't "outright thievery," then what is? Ron Fein...
...audience wants to see them that's fine. But if he samples the bass line to "Superfreak" by Rick James and makes millions from another artist's work while giving James no credit whatsoever, that constitutes plagiarism. Anyone who has heard both "Jamie's Crying" by Van Halen and "Wild Thing" by Tone-Loc can easily see that Tone-Loc in the most obvious sense of the word stole the guitar riff and drum beat (Van Halen, understandably, sued...
...they've determined that 33 music groups--curiously, exactly half of 66 groups--"carry negative messages within their music." Included are heavy metal bands like Slayer, Wasp, Black Sabbath and Megadeath as well as more mainstream performers such as "Led Zepplin" [sic], Guns-N-Roses, Styx, AC/DC and Van Halen. Students may no longer wear t-shirts from these bands, or write the band's name on their t-shirts or notebooks...