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well until they got rid of David lee Roth....
To some degree, yeah. The DLR version was better in a lot of ways, but I liked the Hagar days alright too. Reminds be a bit of how Metallica changed after the Black album.
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well until they got rid of David lee Roth....
I like a good bit of Van Hagar (apparently Hagar’s prior band Montrose was a big influence on E&A VH). Diamond Dave was obviously the better front man, but Hagar had some great stuff as well.well until they got rid of David lee Roth....
I’ve been watching a ton of EVH videos on YouTube the last 24 hours with Delta moving past. One of his comments really sticks out when he was talking about his style and how everyone does it now. Something along the lines of, ‘I never had a guitar lesson. I didn’t do it by the book. I think you limit yourself and the evolution when you don’t have your own style’
My guess is he was the talentless hack that would do whatever Eddie wanted.I like a good bit of Van Hagar (apparently Hagar’s prior band Montrose was a big influence on E&A VH). Diamond Dave was obviously the better front man, but Hagar had some great stuff as well.
Now if someone other than his agent can explain to the class why Garry Cherone had any business up there that would be informative AF.
My thoughts as well. Imo, Sammy Hager is a better musician than RothI've had the Joe Dirt "Van Halen" vs. "Van Hagar" with many. Roth is the original sound of the band and I get why a lot of fans think VH after him isn't authentic. I love the original VH, myself, but was never a fan of DLR's vocals, His trademark, screech/scream became annoying after a while. Now, I'll admit that I am a Hagar fan since his days with Montrose. DLR is the better showman, but they traded up on vocals with Sammy Hagar in this fans opinion.
For the D.L.R. Fans here is a 3 hour interview he did with Joe Rogan last year. It is worth the watch.
My 7-year-old has discovered Jump. And I have rediscovered how ridiculous the guitar solo is in that song. It isn’t very long but otherworldly masterful. It’s sublime, it’s perfection, it’s something only one man in history could have ever laid down from his body through his fingers to the tape.
I think if you were to asked EVH, or both Van Halen brothers respectively, they probably would've agreed with same sentiment most of the band's fans towards him--a decent, theoretical experiment that seems or sounds good enough but fails completely once you try and implement his singing into their sound on an album, it's just falls flat. I suspect that if EVH could've gone back and re-done things, he probably tries to placate Sammy Hagar more or be more sympathetic, less combative towards him and his delicate personal life at the time, that typified their relationship during the 1995 Balance album.I like a good bit of Van Hagar (apparently Hagar’s prior band Montrose was a big influence on E&A VH). Diamond Dave was obviously the better front man, but Hagar had some great stuff as well.
Now if someone other than his agent can explain to the class why Garry Cherone had any business up there that would be informative AF.
My 7-year-old has discovered Jump. And I have rediscovered how ridiculous the guitar solo is in that song. It isn’t very long but otherworldly masterful. It’s sublime, it’s perfection, it’s something only one man in history could have ever laid down from his body through his fingers to the tape.
I've been going back and listening to multiple VH songs off different albums. Many of the songs I had forgotten but .....BAM.....oh yeah, now I remember this riff or sequence.
The song and guitar work (and just nasty sound) that really stand out is Mean Street....I mean, wow, the rhythm playing may be better than the lead...he pulls out every trick in the book on that song...DLR remains just a tad annoying with his yelping....
I think if you were to asked EVH, or both Van Halen brothers respectively, they probably would've agreed with same sentiment most of the band's fans towards him--a decent, theoretical experiment that seems or sounds good enough but fails completely once you try and implement his singing into their sound on an album, it's just falls flat. I suspect that if EVH could've gone back and re-done things, he probably tries to placate Sammy Hagar more or be more sympathetic, less combative towards him and his delicate personal life at the time, that typified their relationship during the 1995 Balance album.
Yeah, DLR's vocals weren't exactly the best match for VH, but he made up for that with his stage presence and antics. Some might say it was distracting, but I thought it gave VH some extra flair and pop. In the DLR interview posted earlier, man, he's got energy to burn. He can talk his arse off, lol.