These guys are the DeFranco Family of 80s Metal but for some reason their image continues to be rehabilitated as time advances. Bring on the Camaro T-Tops, Pan boots and mullets!
Meanwhile, Van Halen can’t get it together.
I personally can't stand VH any more than Poison, but this does speak to RockinRight's point: Eddie Van Halen sees himself as a creator of high art, whereas his vocalists are just party guys Cabo Waboing and Just A Gigoloing their way through life.
Eddie Van Halen is a curmudgeonly perfectionist. And, let us not forget, a drunken mistreater of Valerie Bertinelli - who is now reduced to doing Weight Watchers commercials.