Great song, great singer.
“A third fan wrote, “Traveling back to the 80’s with Dave is a fun trip.”
Probably a little off topic but I’m sorry I certainly disagree with that. I was 18 when VH first album came out and I saw them live several times.....Roth is a proper jackass.....always has been, always will be.
Last show I saw live happened to be the very last show of that tour and he was so drunk he forgot the words to several songs and eventually climed up on a speaker cabinet, layed down, refused to come down and refused to sing at all.
He resented Eddie Van Halen for his talent and mentally tortured him for that reason for years.
A very small person with very little character IMO.
Sorry, just had to get that out.
Underrated singer who can do any genre credibly, from blues to jazz to new wave.
Ping
He is weird as hell. I grew up loving VH but could never stand Roth. He just comes across as phony and not genuine. It’s like he is playing diamond dave not that he really is Diamond Dave.
Anywho, here's the entire album on YouTube.
Not a lot of point to his doing this except maybe that he wanted to. He brings nothing to it.
An Energizer bunny, that’s for sure.
1000 times better matching voice for VH than Hagar any day of history!!! IMHO...
That sounded terrible!
As for the original song, I was friends with a gal named Jennifer who was dating a musician for a time. Aside from occasional session work, writing a lyrics for a few songs for some well or semi-known artists that never charted or even made to alblum and sitting in with local bands, he mostly played solo acoustical guitar gigs in pubs, small bars from NE to the Mid-Atlantic.
One of the songs on his set list and often requested was Brown Eyed Girl which he referred to and introduced as “The Horny Drunk Rich College Girl’s # 1 Requested Song”.
“I’m from New England, I knew these girls when I was in college, they were all Women Studies majors and went to Brown or Emily Dickinson College and some of them also took up pottery. One gal was tragically killed in a kiln explosion. I think her name was Fawn. This song goes out to you Fawn wherever you are and your big beautiful brown eyes.”
LOL!
He was a very funny guy, but few except for me, got the joke.
But my friend Jennifer didn’t think it was too funny, aside from that she hated being called Jenny, when he’d sing the 867-5309/Jenny song and would sing various parts of her actual phone number like “426- Number Number Number Number” or 4 “Something” 6- Number, and there’s and 8 and a 7 in there also, then another number” and “if you want her number, you can find it in the Men’s room.
He never sung out her entire number in anyone gig though, but for obvious reasons she was not amused.
Some original songs just don’t happen when they are covered later. I listened to both versions, and Tommy’s is the best.