Actually, I LOVE Sammy as a solo artist. With VH he had some good tunes - “Right Now” was among them.
However, VH was best with DLR. DLR solo, however, blew chunks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2mQpYG2POM
Dave had plenty of good solo stuff, he did release a couple of bad albums though. Yankee Rose video for your enjoyment.
You saved me the trouble of writing pretty much what you said.