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Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do) - Van Halen

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Published on 11 Mar 2023 / In Rock / Hard Rock

"Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)" is a song by American hard rock band Van Halen from their 1995 album Balance. It is one of four singles issued for the album, and was the only one to reach #1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, where it stayed for three weeks.

The song's main theme is about the power of universal love. Sammy Hagar says in his autobiography that he wanted the song to be uplifting, for the chorus to be 'I wanna show you what love can do', but that his relationship with the Van Halen brothers was becoming strained and that they were very critical of the lyrical treatment, wanting something with more attitude.

In addition, the story about the death of Nirvana's frontman, Kurt Cobain, is also told in the song through the lyrics "Is it right to take the easy way" and ends with "I can't tell you what's right for you" with the bridge, repeated towards the end of the song, saying "I see the damage done, yeah/oh Lord, I heard the shotgun".

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Bass Electric YvesC YvesC
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thx1138
thx1138 6 days ago

SingingWomble Grant rrbrass YvesC - Incredible Collab All ! Thank you very much ! I think this one is ready to be closed ?

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Grant
Grant 6 days ago

Yeah sounds fantastic to me, thx1138 , thanks for having me on this one.

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YvesC
YvesC 7 days ago

Hi Frank thx1138 , rrbrass sent a bass track, awesome tone with his 6 strings!
I've removed BT, re-sorted tiles, re-balanced levels and published. Hope it's ok :)

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thx1138
thx1138 6 days ago

YvesC - Thank you so much my friend ! Appreciate it ! Looks great ! Sounds great ! Thank you rrbrass for the Bass ! Awesome !

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thx1138
thx1138 2 years ago

SingingWomble - Awesome just awesome ! Thanks for the new track ! Woo ! Powerful !

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SingingWomble
SingingWomble 2 years ago

You're most welcome, Frank, thank you! :)

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Grant
Grant 2 years ago

Great job Frank thx1138 and SingingWomble Here is a drum track I hope you like :-)

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thx1138
thx1138 2 years ago

Grant - Vantastic ! Excellent job ! Thanks so much ! I love the Frankenstrat stripes effects ! Brilliant ! Have I mixed u in ok ? Lemme know please ?

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Grant
Grant 2 years ago

@thx1138: Always a pleasure Frank levels sound good to me, I think you have betters ears for it than me :-)

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thx1138
thx1138 2 years ago

SingingWomble - Awesome track Sir ! Love it ! Published !

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SingingWomble
SingingWomble 2 years ago

I thank Frank. :)

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