DAVID LEE ROTH Blasts SAMMY HAGAR Over His 'Constant Spew Of Diarrhea Vitriol'
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For me, Van Haggar is almost unlistenable. I think they had a song on the Twister soundtrack that I thought was okay.
Van Halen's sound needs DLR on vocal as much as it does Eddie playing guitar.
I actually like a lot of Sammy's solo stuff and Montrose. His style just does not fit with what Van Halen was created to do.
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@WoolleyDoog and I had a conversation about Eddie one time in that he can’t be married to a woman or be a family man because his love and obsession is guitar. Woolley also pointed out that Alex and Eddie would be in some maniacal junkie infested prog rock band if it weren’t for Dave and his Beach Boys inspired pop music hooks
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Mother fucking this.
Sammy Hagar is a fucking JAG and sounds like every other basic bitch, hard rock lead vocalist of the late 70's / early 80s.
Eddie is on the Mt Rushmore of most important electric rock guitarists in history, but he's nothing w/o Diamond Dave.
Van Halen lost all of fun and humor that made the music great when Sammy took over.
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I don’t hate Van Hagar but I don’t think there is one song I have for our youth football teams playlist. If it comes up on any other playlist I have, fine. But for the most part, It’s all Dave.
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I was (am) all in on the first 3 albums, front to back. Fair Warning began the selective listening of a few songs off each of the rest. The synths did not work for me, at all.
I went to Monsters of Rock in 88 (shout out to Joe Albi, RIP). Saw a unknown band as an opener that, ahh, was pretty dynamic (Metallica), Dokken and the Scorpions. I loved Sammy solo and with Montrose, and went in skeptical. They rocked. Same policy as above for Van Hagar, selected cuts I like, will turn the dial for the ones I don't.
My take: Dave was great, to a point. Sammy was great, to a point. I look at Dave as an "entertainer', Sam as a R&R guy. Both are terminally afflicted with "LSD" (lead singer disease) and are insufferable attention whores. Neither would be where they are today without Ed and Al, IMO. Ed and Al shit on Mikey, so Sam gets points for picking him up. Mikey was a big part of the sound.
In summary, you just can't trust the fucking Dutch…
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Some Van Halen anniversaries
April 29th, 1981. Van Halen releases Fair Warning
April 30th, 1984. Van Halen plays the Coliseum in Seattle for the last time with the original line up. This day will stick with me forever. My mom wouldn’t let me go.
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@JoeEDangerously's Youth Football Team Playlist
The Boys are Back in Town (Thin Lizzy)
Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy)
Still in Love with You (Thin Lizzy)
Cowboy Song (Thin Lizzy)
Don't Believe a Word (Thin Lizzy)
Panama (Van Halen)
Dancing in the Moonlight (Thin Lizzy)
Waiting for an Alibi (Thin Lizzy)
Chinatown (Thin Lizzy)
Rosalie (Thin Lizzy)
Crazy Train (Ozzy Osborne)
The Rocker (Thin Lizzy)
Mama Nature Said (Thin Lizzy)
Black Rose (Thin Lizzy)
Opium Trail (Thin Lizzy)
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If we have a Van Halen pod this summer it sounds like we should have you on as a guest
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I am down for that Van Halen audio circle jerk.
I get it that some people don’t like VH and that Panama is all fucked out like Stairway to Heaven was in the early 80’s on KISW. But man, they were Gods back then and it was all about having a good time when VH was on the radio or tape deck. -
I still love Panama
