Even though I’m an old dude, I never did get to see VH with DLR, unfortunately.
At the time Sammy was touring with VH’s “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” tour, I was already way past Sammy/VH, and listening to new bands from the Pacific Northwest.
However, my brother-in-law was a die-hard VH fan and was going to the concert alone. I felt sorry for him and said I’d go along with him (and I’d suffer through a night of mediocrity). To my great surprise, we arrived at the venue and I found out that Alice In Chains was opening for VH! I was beaming! We took our seats and young women sitting behind us played with my hair half the night, Alice In Chains grinded through an angry set, then VH took stage and were like a well-oiled machine.
So all in all, even though Sammy was the frontman, it still ended up being a great night.
“Tattoo” by Van Halen…the latest: http://www.vhnd.com/
I like it.
Not old school awesomeness, but hard and rough sounding.
DAvid Lee Roth needs to relearn how to lipsync during music video shooting though.
[quote]buffd_samurai wrote:
“Tattoo” by Van Halen…the latest: http://www.vhnd.com/
I like it.
Not old school awesomeness, but hard and rough sounding.
DAvid Lee Roth needs to relearn how to lipsync during music video shooting though. [/quote]
Yea - I’m impressed. This has that old school VH swagger, a great riff, and a catchy chorus with those big VH harmonies.
[quote]buffd_samurai wrote:
“Tattoo” by Van Halen…the latest: http://www.vhnd.com/
I like it.
Not old school awesomeness, but hard and rough sounding.
DAvid Lee Roth needs to relearn how to lipsync during music video shooting though. [/quote]
Yea - I’m impressed. This has that old school VH swagger, a great riff, and a catchy chorus with those big VH harmonies.
[quote]buffd_samurai wrote:
“Tattoo” by Van Halen…the latest: http://www.vhnd.com/
I like it.
Not old school awesomeness, but hard and rough sounding.
DAvid Lee Roth needs to relearn how to lipsync during music video shooting though. [/quote]
Yea - I’m impressed. This has that old school VH swagger, a great riff, and a catchy chorus with those big VH harmonies.
Plus an awesome Eddie solo! [/quote]
X2
If only Dave still had the hair.[/quote]
Beat me to it!
Was watching the vid saying to myself “Wheredafuck is all the hair!!!”[/quote]
At least he’s not like Axl, looking all portly and rocking the dreads.
[quote]buffd_samurai wrote:
“Tattoo” by Van Halen…the latest: http://www.vhnd.com/
I like it.
Not old school awesomeness, but hard and rough sounding.
DAvid Lee Roth needs to relearn how to lipsync during music video shooting though. [/quote]
Yea - I’m impressed. This has that old school VH swagger, a great riff, and a catchy chorus with those big VH harmonies.
Plus an awesome Eddie solo! [/quote]
X2
If only Dave still had the hair.[/quote]
Beat me to it!
Was watching the vid saying to myself “Wheredafuck is all the hair!!!”[/quote]
At least he’s not like Axl, looking all portly and rocking the dreads.[/quote]
Man, I am all Van Halen today…I mentioned above that “She’s the Woman”, a demo Van Halen did back in the 70’s (and I believe they did 4 versions, with the 4th coming out on their new album due this February) and they played it at Cafe Wha? recently, but here’s the demo version (for comparison later when we hear the new album version): - YouTube.
You can catch the hook and riff from this song that was used on Mean Street.
From what I’ve read so far, the new album will have alot of reworked previously unreleased material from back in the 70’s. Eddie apparently has libraries of riffs and hooks captured on tape that were never used in any recordings or were modified for some songs that WERE released. He apparently went back into them to forge the new material on the new album in order to recapture that original 70’s Van Halen sound.
Believe it or not, when Van Halen was moving on from DLR in 1984, guess who the probable replacement singer could have been?
Patty Smyth.
At the time, Eddie, Valerie, and Patty were very very good friends. Here’s what it could have sounded like (an actual song with Eddie and Patty together, live):
[quote]buffd_samurai wrote:
“Tattoo” by Van Halen…the latest: http://www.vhnd.com/
I like it.
Not old school awesomeness, but hard and rough sounding.
DAvid Lee Roth needs to relearn how to lipsync during music video shooting though. [/quote]
The song blows. Bands like this should just stay dead. Nothing will ever compare to the great music they use to make.
Will there ever be another Mega-Rock band like VH again?
Sure there is tons of nostalgia and great music from what these guys did all the way up to “1984,” but are people only going to see them because of their catalog, or are people ravenously hungry for a rock show that blows their insides out leaving them numb from the awesome?
Off the top of my head, there is no other band thats’ active and touring who can provide the kind of mojo VH did back in their day, even when Sammy was the frontman.
U2? Too preachy
Bon Jovi? Too Lame
Kiss? Too old
Journey? No Steve Perry = no real Journey
The Boss? Not “hard” enough, plus Clarence has passed.
Wolfmother maybe?
Mastodon? Probably too narrow an audience…
