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}} ''A Different Kind of Truth'' is the twelfth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. Released on February 7, 2012, by Interscope Records, the record is Van Halen's first full-length album of studio material with former lead vocalist David Lee Roth since ''1984''. Likewise, it is Van Halen's first studio album since 1998's ''Van Halen III''. It is the first to feature Eddie Van Halen's son Wolfgang on bass, replacing Michael Anthony, who had played bass on all of Van Halen's previous albums. Critically acclaimed it became the 6th best-selling rock release of 2012 – ''A Different Kind of Truth'' debuted at #2 on the ''Billboard'' 200.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Van Halen’s “A Different Kind Of Truth” Sixth Best Selling Rock or Pop Album Of 2012 )〕 Seven of the album's thirteen songs are musically re-worked and lyrically re-written songs that had been demoed in the late-1970s/early 1980s, but never officially released. A recent composition, "Stay Frosty," was named the 16th Best Song of 2012 by Rolling Stone Magazine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Van Halen, 'Stay Frosty' )〕 ''A Different Kind of Truth'' was recorded at Henson Recording Studios and Eddie Van Halen's own 5150 Studios and produced by John Shanks. ==Background== In 2007, Van Halen reunited with original singer David Lee Roth - who had infamously left the band near the peak of its global popularity, on April 1, 1985, for the Van Halen 2007–2008 North American Tour. That tour added bassist Wolfgang Van Halen, the then 16-year-old son of guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli, forcing out original bassist Michael Anthony, who was left to record and tour with Van Halen's second lead singer, Sammy Hagar. The Van Halen/David Lee Roth reunion tour, which lasted for 74 shows between September 2007 and June 2008, was the band's highest grossing tour in its thirty-year history, earning over $93 million. In 2009, when asked about the possibility of recording a new album with David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen stated, "we might not record something new," citing a poor reaction to three new songs recorded with Van Halen's second singer, Sammy Hagar, for the 2004 compilation ''Best of Both Worlds''. After Wolfgang Van Halen became enthusiastic about recording a new Van Halen album, Eddie Van Halen's opinion changed: "we’re doing this () for us." 〔 Eddie, Wolfgang and Alex Van Halen started jam sessions at Eddie's 5150 Studios - minus David Lee Roth - three months after the tour's completion. During this time, Wolfgang began to listen to rough, early demos from Van Halen's extensive archive. After rediscovering these (generally) obscure, unreleased demos, Wolfgang selected numerous songs that he believed had potential, and then brought them to Alex and Eddie to jam, remold, and refine. The first such demo was "She's the Woman", a song from Van Halen's club days, originally demoed in the mid-1970s, which the Van Halens re-worked in August 2009.〔 The demo was sent along with two other reworked tracks, "Let’s Get Rockin’" later renamed "Outta Space" and "Bullethead", to Roth, who enjoyed the songs and decided to join the project. Wolfgang Van Halen’s original conception for the album was a collection of previously unreleased early tracks, reworked demos, and lesser-known, early, album cuts, (e.g. "Drop Dead Legs" and "Girl Gone Bad" from ''1984''.) Eventually, however, the band chose to record an original studio album, and ultimately tracked 35 songs - including reworked demos, new songs composed by Eddie, and "Stay Frosty" written by Roth and arranged by Wolfgang.〔 After much deliberation over whether to self-produce the album or choose a producer from a list that included Rick Rubin and Pat Leonard, Roth suggested John Shanks, whom he met at Henson Recording Studios. Shanks liked the first three songs, and then agreed to work on the album, working along with Wolfgang to pick the demos that would be developed into the album's tracks.〔 While all of Van Halen's albums since ''1984'' had been produced inside 5150, David Lee Roth persuaded the band to work at Henson Recording Studios, where he had been recording for over a decade.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Different Kind of Truth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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