The Schvaneveldt Family Blog

The Director’s Cut (Extended Version For TRUE Megan fans)

The Short Version (for mere acquaintances, distant relatives, and random web surfers)

The Trailer

We love you Meg…Happy Birthday!

Dear Grandpa, Nana, Uncle Silly, Aunt Barbara, Simone, Zoe, Aunt Megan, Uncle Eric, Aunt Leah, Daddy, Mommy, Haley, Grace, and Josiah.

Who is your favorite Super Hero? Mine is Spider Man and Green Arrow and the good Green Lantern.

Is he strong? Listen bud. He’s got radioactive blood.

Now tell me who your favorite is!!!

Love, James

Here are the liner notes to the album “Van Halen III.” Check out the “special thanks” section. Yeah that makes sense.

Release Date: March 17, 1998
Band: Gary Cherone (Lead Vocals), Edward Van Halen (Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals), Michael Anthony (Bass, Vocals), and Alex Van Halen (Drums, Percussion)
Recording Time: N/A
Copies Sold (US): 549,095
Highest Chart Position (US): 4
Lyrics: Yes

Complete Track Listing:

1. Neworld (1:45)
2. Without You (6:28)
3. One I Want (5:31)
4. From Afar (5:19)
5. Dirty Water Dog (5:24)
6. Once (7:40)
7. Fire In The Hole (5:27)
8. Josephina (5:38)
9. Year To The Day (8:32)
10. Primary (1:27)
11. Ballot Or The Bullet (5:37)
12. How Many Say I (6:04)

All songs written by Van Halen
©1998 Van Halen Publishing, LLC ASCAP

Produced by: Mike Post and Edward Van Halen
Mixed and Fixed by: Robbes and Edward
Studio: 5150 (where else?) also Renegade And Westwind Studios, Burbank
Mastered at: Oasis by Eddy Schreyer, Robbes and Edward
Programming: Ian Dye, Ed Rogers and Paul Wight
Additional Programming: Florian Ammon
Recorded by: Erwin (Mucho Mic’s) Musper and Edward Van Halen
Studio Manager: Ken Deane
Guitars and everything from here to the moon: Matthew Bruck
Tour Manager: Scotty Ross
Art Direction: Stine Schyberg
Photography: Dan Chavkin, Color: F. Scott Schafer
Agency: CAA (Los Angeles), The Agency (London, England)
Management: Ray Danniels, SRO Management Inc., Toronto, Canada

Special thanks to: Chris Bellman, Richard Alexander, Mark Baxter, Les Bider, Al Cafaro, Pegi Cecconi, C.J. Devillar, Kevin Dugan, Ian Dye, Pete Elia, Jason Gladden, Steve Hoffman, Michael Karlin, Rob Kern, Drew Lavyne, Colleen Lightfoot, Steve Lukather, Shelly Nott, Barbara Page, Aaron Postil, Ed Rogers, George Saer, Jane Scobie, Shad Scott, Rick Shoemaker, Roger Sommers, R.C. Sproul, Kimberley Sylvester, Paul Wright, Steven Zeitel, the entire staff at Warner Bros. Records, past and present–thanks for all your support and friendship.
Love to: Valerie and Wolfie, Sue, Elisha and Taylor, Aric and Stine, The Cherone and Glynn Family, Kelly’s kids Andrew, Michael and Richie, and Sat-Kaur Khalsa.
Dedicated to our fans.

Singles: “Without You,” (2/19/98), “Fire In The Hole,” (4/16/98) and “One I Want” (7/27/98)

Videos: “Without You,” “Once,” and “Fire In The Hole”

Mom and Dad, thanks again for the books of writings by the church fathers. I came across these inspiring words the other day from Clement of Alexandria. I thought they might be a blessing to all, and so I share …

“How womanly it is for one who is a man to comb himself and shave himself with a razor, for the sake of fine effect, and to arrange his hair at the mirror, shave his cheeks, pluck hairs out of them, and smooth them!…For God wished women to be smooth and to rejoice in their locks alone growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane. But He adorned man like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him as an attribute of manhood, with a hairy chest–a sign of strength and rule.” 2.275

“This, then, is the mark of the man, the beard. By this, he is seen to be a man. It is older than Eve. It is the token of the superior nature….It is therefore unholy to desecrate the symbol of manhood, hairiness.” 2.276

“It is not lawful to pluck out the beard, man’s natural and noble adornment.” 2.277

And Megan, I’m not one to point fingers, but you may need to print this out and leave it under Eric’s pillow. A lion, not a horse.

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