VH?

Are they really getting the band back together?

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/247834/van-halen-recording-first-album-since-clinton-administration/

I'm a rocker, dude through and through! Here's my favorite bands: AC/DC, Van Halen, not Van Hagar, Skynyrd, Def Lep.

Chazz: Okay, lemme ask you a question: who's side did you take in the big David Lee Roth-Van Halen split?

Chris Moore: What?

Marcus: What kind of question is that?

Chazz: Who's side did you take: Halen or Roth?

Chris Moore: ...Van Halen

Ian: HE'S A COP!

Bill: Ted, while I agree that, in time, our band will be most triumphant. The truth is, Wyld Stallyns will never be a super band until we have Eddie Van Halen on guitar.
Ted: Yes, Bill. But, I do not believe we will get Eddie Van Halen until we have a triumphant video.
Bill: Ted, it's pointless to have a triumphant video before we even have decent instruments.
Ted: Well, how can we have decent instruments when we don't really even know how to play?
Bill: That is why we NEED Eddie Van Halen!
Ted: And THAT is why we need a triumphant video.
Bill, Ted: EXCELLENT!

Short list of things that are keeping me from being the least bit excited about this:

1. The "tour" will not last more than 2 minutes, 10 seconds.

2. Ignore the importance of a bass player all you want. It ain't Van Halen without Michael Anthony. Every time I see Eddie's little charmed-life-havin', fat berkeleyin pug-faced kid on stage, I want to kick him in the throat.

3. As much as I love Roth on record, and as much as I wish I was able to say "Yeah, man, I saw them at the Whiskey back in '77," this pretty much crossed the line for me as far as acceptable levels of sanity go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sN16fdzdMg

Never forget.

What's the over/under on them actually completing the recording process without some sort of drama?

I hope they can put aside their differences and put out a decent album. I love me some Van Halen.

EVH disappoints me. How he can be so good at guitar and so bad at life at the same time is amazing.

Unless you get Michael Anthony back on Bass, forget it. I'd prefer either Dave or Sammy, to be honest. Let's face it, however... it ain't the 80's anymore.

poopshovel wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sN16fdzdMg

What was he thinking? Who talked him into doing that?

I laughed as I imagined it was a parody of himself.......what a goof.

poopshovel wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sN16fdzdMg

That hurt my head.

I'm impressed by the 3 (different) movie references within 15 minutes of the original post...

davidjs wrote: I'm impressed by the 3 (different) movie references within 15 minutes of the original post...

Also, The Wedding Singer...when he tells his ex to take off the VH shirt.

*I was a big VH fan, Eddie is a guitar genius, and Dave is the quintessential frontman...but damn guys...c'mon. I also liked the Hagar years as well...but, then again....I like Tequila.

poopshovel wrote: 2. Ignore the importance of a bass player all you want. It ain't Van Halen without Michael Anthony. Every time I see Eddie's little charmed-life-havin', fat berkeleyin pug-faced kid on stage, I want to kick him in the throat.

YES! YES! YES!

Mike was the only stable, consistant thing in Van Halen.

I also wish Michael Anthony was in the band, but I'll take what I can get.

I know that I'm supposed to be impartial and stuff but, seriously, DLR > Sammy.

David S. Wallens wrote: I know that I'm supposed to be impartial and stuff but, seriously, DLR > Sammy.

Unless you want to listen. :) 5150 was the high water mark IMO.

DILYSI Dave wrote:

David S. Wallens wrote: I know that I'm supposed to be impartial and stuff but, seriously, DLR > Sammy.

Unless you want to listen. :) 5150 was the high water mark IMO.

Alas, we finally vehemently disagree on something.

poopshovel wrote:

DILYSI Dave wrote:

David S. Wallens wrote: I know that I'm supposed to be impartial and stuff but, seriously, DLR > Sammy.

Unless you want to listen. :) 5150 was the high water mark IMO.

Alas, we finally vehemently disagree on something.

I never purchased 5150, so I guess that's my argument right there. VH1 is currently playing in my office.

poopshovel wrote:

DILYSI Dave wrote:

David S. Wallens wrote: I know that I'm supposed to be impartial and stuff but, seriously, DLR > Sammy.

Unless you want to listen. :) 5150 was the high water mark IMO.

Alas, we finally vehemently disagree on something.

It had to happen sometime. I'm just glad I get to be the one who is right.

Ooof....

Diamond Dave all the way for me. Van Hagar doesn't do it for me nearly as much.

I went to the 1984 concert. Outstanding show, cracked the roof in the Carolina Colosseum. 17 blocks away you could understand what they were playing. I think I was deaf for three days.

I haven't seen a remake or a geriatric band yet that I truly liked. I also never did really like Hagar.

Well that posted by itself.

DLR was great as long as the VanHalens gave him some direction. When he left I think he flipped out from one extreme to the other and I quit following him. Hagar seem to take the band a little too hard rock for me.

Then again I have music ADD too go with the auto ADD. Maybe my tastes changed. I even watch Hee Haw and Laurence Welk once in a while.

poopshovel wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sN16fdzdMg

What's the difference? That's an atrocious piece of music no matter how you play it.

I hated them in the 70's, but when I met my wife, she was hardcore into VH (she says it has nothing to do with our son being named Eddy). I learned to appreciate albums like Women and children first, and (especially) Fair warning, but have no interest in any of the Sammy stuff. Can't stand the guy. I can't imagine they have anything new to offer.

how can anyone not like Sammy? he couldn't drive 55..

DLR was Van Halen. he is what kept them from being a mediocre rock band with a good guitar player- he made them into a spectacle. he is what every front man since then has tried to duplicate.

Sammy- while being one hell of a performer in his own right- just didn't fit in with VH.. but he was way better than the "More than Words" guy that replaced him for about 10 minutes..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0WjHUBVvw

As much of an shiny happy person as DLR certainly is... he gave VH an edge you couldn't ignore.

I'm wondering how much of an edge he has left in him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlsxqSgD3KM