Oh, I love Van Halen (RIP EVH!) and DLR. I regard them as the soundtrack to my late teenage and early adult summers! **** Van Hagar and Sammy. Sammy was okay on his own and personally I felt he didn't need to front Van Hagar. If his pride would've said "NO!", then Dave's return to the fold would've happened more naturally and sooner than it did, but he wanted it and the brothers used him as the clown to agitate. DLR is without a doubt a Top 10 frontman. He was an integral part of Van Halen and their success. When you go back and watch the interviews you hear him talking about the band. Not about himself. I was really shocked when I just found out that DLR was given a contract to make a movie and he went back to the band to record a soundtrack and the brothers said "No". It wasn't about him. Now, the ugly separation without Dave was just awkward. Yes, I bought the releases of both Van Hagar and Dave's solo work. Van Hagar had very little in regards to material worth a 3rd listen. Dave's unfortunately did not garner the radio play it deserved. Saw Van Hagar at the Monsters of Rock and it was a laughable event. Sammy pranced out dressed like Ronald McDonald with a Britney Spears headset microphone. This was the first exposure to Van Hagar and the Pontiac Silverdome wasn't having it. Dave especially with Billy Sheehan, Gregg Bissonette and Steve Vai assembled a band around him that was made for success. He took the best parts of Van Halen and found players that were as good or better than the originals. It's a shame it didn't last. I get why it didn't. I will say in the shows I did see with Dave he didn't crap all over the Van Halen catalog. It was done respectfully and he added touches like harmonies (that he probably wanted there all along!) that made sense. The Coup de Grace was the ill fated Dave & Sammy tour. What a torturefest THAT was. In the end I was glad that Dave FINALLY made it back home and the 2 tours (5 shows) I saw from them made me smile that they were back and like Dave said...3 parts original, 1 part inevitable. Wolfgang was able to cover anything and everything Michael Anthony was able to do. His crime was being friends with Sammy Hagar and choosing sides against the brothers. Oh well.
Enough of the talk of Music...this is a thread devoted to EV's or as I can now call it...their demise. Once the government tit is out of stooges mouths and they have to exist on their own...it will become obvious that there was bamboozling, hoodwinking and people lead astray.
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