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Posted on 09/30/2019 7:19:32 PM PDT by DoodleBob
“This has everything...Boogie, groove, licks, attitude, finesse, tone, aggression...and no overdubs.”
Everything. Except melody. And soul.
FREAKING HATE THEM! Used to be a fan and waited 35 years only to see them on “Ellen” with the worst rock performance ever.It was insulting to every fan who waited patiently. They suck. They should apologize to their fans.
Not.
I swore off the geriatric bands when Steely Dan went on the road for the first time in 25 years back in 1993.
Your anecdote reminded me of something I read about Jimmy Doolittle long before he became famous for his air racing or his raid on Japan...
They took him to the hospital, where they casted both of his lower extremities, but because he had to do the demo, he signed himself out of the hospital against the advice of the clearly angry doctors. When he took the plane up, he destroyed both of the casts, putting the plane thorough a violent performance.
He landed and went back to the hospital, where they refused to cast his legs again, and he had to find some unlicensed doctor somewhere to cast his feet and he gave specific instructions to the doctor on how to make the cast smaller so he could fly.
He went up the next day, and broke one of the casts, and was unable to push that rudder pedal, so he did the entire show with only using the other rudder pedal, nobody noticed, and they bought the planes!
After a few more days, he ended up ripping the casts off himself, IIRC. I think he had to have both of his ankles later re-broken to get them to heal correctly.
He was the first pilot to perform an outside loop, then thought impossible. First pilot to perform an instrument blind takeoff, flight, and landing. Won all the aeronautical trophies. First American to obtain a doctorate in Aeronautical engineering. For his doctoral thesis at MIT, he wrote a brilliant, groundbreaking paper on test flight and handling characteristics. In WWII, besides planning and flying the Doolittle Raid, he changed fighter doctrine when he was assigned to the Eighth Air Force, breaking the convention that the fighters had to stay with the bombers at all costs, freeing them up to go after the German fighters.
A real wild man. A boxer, gymnast, world class flier, war hero, pioneer aeronautical engineer, and...Hell raiser!
A real man.
A recent photo.
EVH was simply amazing! I was lucky to be right in the middle of their rise to fame & fortune as a vinyl & cassette-buying teen...
David Lee Roth will always have a special place in my heart. Always. *HEART*
BUT - when the first single with Sammy came out, ‘Why Can’t This Be Love?’ I was totally - TOTALLY blown away! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZqslE6Gvl4
They can always call up Gary Cherone.
I paid good money to see them back in 84. After several delays, almost an hour late, they attempted to start the show. Unfortunately, Roth was still too drunk, fell down and couldn't finish the opening song. Some 30 minutes later, they finally got him back on stage and they played an abbreviated show that I wish I had skipped.
Saw Hagar a few years before that and he put on a fantastic show lasting well over 3 hours.
On his radio show today, Andrew Wilkow said he is a fan of both.
My FRiend, you are off. In 1978 rock was being dethroned by punk and disco. The top albums were Some Girls and Darkness on the Edge of Town - wretched output by dinosaurs and NJ flatuelence. Who are You was followed by Keith "Not to be Taken Away" Moon's death. Rock is dead, they say....
Van Halen and the Cars and The Police had debut albums that ushered in what would drive the 1980s.
I'm The One is a throwback swing/boogie tune in the middle of molten rock - the vocal melody is punctuated by Michael Anthony's background vox. When I hear the guitar in isolation, I hear lots of heart and soul - in one take with no punch-ins.
By 1984, Van Halen became a caricature of itself. But they had fulfilled their role as a key element to the rescue of rock, from a future that may have been dominated by The Talking Heads, techno pop, and every other horrid band on MTV.
When I saw Sammy, he was a mad man. He free-climbed the scaffolding over the stage, sometimes at least 30 feet over the stage. At one time, he jumped from the scaffolding to the stage from at least 15 feet. A great show.
De Facto is an electronic reggae band. It will be an interesting partnership.
Actually mid-70s into the 80s.
‘Heavy drinker and smoker gets tongue cancer and thinks it’s from guitar picks? Quite a rationalization.’
General Grant please pickup the white service phone.
Excellent band. Excellent thread. Van Halen played local high schools in the San Gabriel valley before “making it.” Sad how Roth thought he was god and turned the Van Halen talents into a freak show. Hagar was rough and boring. Too bad Michael Des Barres from Detective did not sing with Van Halen
U2 is still rocking and VH burned out with Hagar. Roth’s mind is gone. Anthony is the only normal guy and he was excluded from the glory. Edward’s talent was super natural and amazing. After listening to Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf and Black Sabbath for hours, Van Halen was refreshing in 1978. Then came the boring, big, one-name bands (Toto, Asia, Whitesnake, Foreigner, Boston, UFO, yawn) that were improved by Grunge from Seattle. There is talent everywhere in every kind of music and in every city. The first album from Led Zeppelin is amazing. The first album from Van Halen is really great. And the Minutemen are still amazing.
Imagine having all the fame and wealth of Van Halen and use it to become unhappy, unhealthy, and unfit. Such fools. God Machine: https://youtu.be/tMFvN6Cf6I0
I couldn’t agree more. As Eddie was almost ahead of his time and inspired countless shred guitarists for years to come. I still to this day prefer DLR over Hagar a lot of it was Eddie’s playing in those days was over the top. He was always pushing the boundaries. After Hagar arrived it seemed like he settled into being just another guitarist.
If anything it being over for good is the best in all reality since some bands become an embarrassment when they come back years later. Case in point would be Eagles, they should have just left things alone. The long Run was the perfect album to end on.
I know they had great videos in the 80s
But hey landed with a bang in 1978 and 1979 and 1980
Along with AC/DC
A bit late for my era but still I heard them rotate a lot.....college years 76-81
Sammy also said on his radio show, toward the end, he actually feared violence from the brothers when he was in the studio with them. He thought they wanted to kill him. So he left. Ended up making bank flipping a Vodka company. Now sells Rum from Hawaii. And has a radio show. He spills a lot of juicy inside old info after he is half way through the bottle. Lol.
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