Van Halen - Amsterdam

[bridgit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj3FXsXn0w4

[lildreamer316]

1. I knew I liked you for a good reason.

Looooooooove me some VH. The Balance album was sonically incredible.

[bridgit]

2. lildreamer316...how you & yours do'n, girl...

Love your spirit, always have! :hi:

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. That ain't Van Halen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD1KqX1paDs

THAT is Van Halen!

[bridgit]

4. My GOD I'm getting old. I remember Van Halen doing keggers in people's backyards...

in Pasadena, oh well :ricketyoldladyonwobblycaneemoticon:

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. And yet you tolerate the Hagar screech?

Even if he wasn't a Repuke, I still couldn't tolerate what he did to that band :evilfrown:

So.... is it true what Dave said on the last tour, that they used to keep the beer cold in the ice cream truck? :beer:

[bridgit]

6. I'm able to separate the issue & matters...I personally think that Hagar...

actually had the better voice, yes I understand; a form of sacrilege = whatever...I do have a short attention span however, when it comes to the Roth's 'running with the devil', 'hot for teacher', 'yeah baby, just pull your stockings down just a little wait, wait let me pull them with my teeth' shit.

Hagar's voice; his VOICE was all of that up to the roof and back to the floor again. But his poetry was more utilitarian at least to my way of thinking than, "Gee! I sure hope Satan likes what I just squeezed into my Peachy notebook."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZTYYusUl6M

The band remained the same stone-ass tight...Eddy? What are you going to tell me about Eddy? And one of the tightest, thumping, rock-steady jamming rhythm sections in rock & roll period; Roth blew it. He should have been humble instead of thinking it was all about him. He actually thought the band would break up if he wasn't in it. Now *that's* ego! Have you seen his pic lately?

He looks like a sleazy moyle, oy! With the moyle already!

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. Eddie became a synthesizer player

Sure, the song 5150 was an exception (obviously written before Hagar joined the band, aside from his lyrics) but all those crappy synth pop cheese ballads with the Hagar Hallmark Card lyrics. God, how can anybody stand that crap?

As far as Dave's solo career goes, he certainly had his highs and lows. "Eat Em and Smile" was what Van Halen's 7th album would have been. Skyscraper was crap, aside from "Damn Good". ALAE was hit and miss, and Your Filthy Mouth was lyrically brilliant, but musically all over the map.

The two songs that Van Halen made together in 1996 were better than anything either of them made in the previous 11 years. Now I'm hoping that they'll finally put out that album I've waited 23 years for.

And don't even get me started on that whole Cherone episode! :puke:

[bridgit]

8. hahahaha, you know, I've never seen, "Wham Bam!! Oh Amsterdam!!"

on a Hallmark Card but if David Lee Roth is your bowl of porridge you can barrow my spoon...no even better keep it when your done I won't be using it again ;)

[KG]

9. that aint van halen

some goofball named hager was singing... :eyes:

[bridgit]

10. You mean Van Hagar?

The Van Halen' play drums & guitar ;)