If i am not mistaken before van halen was signed they were playing MONTROSE cover songs? yes they were but since it old age sammy or roth's shot voice , there once was a band named SAMSON!!!To whom ,if you loved the eighties the list is long then these CREED want a be a___holes or limpdiscuit and or HEY lets just crawl ......The ? is who does the acrobatic badass things that roth did? answer is no one !!!! Roth is the showman that no one can compete against . Today's is crap just [WE'LL SUE EVERYBODY ,INCLUDING R FANS OF METALLICA, CUZ AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED METALLICA CARES ABOUT ONLY THEM .... SO FUK'M] also in twenty years[ eventhough when VH was at there prime james,kirk,r.i.p.cliff,and dickhead laars[failed tennis player]were just getting off the ground] anyhow the person who has the better voice out there is BRUCE DICKINSON [all 5'8'' of him,bar none !!!! from'76 to'04 -the man has the voice but ROTH steals the show. ohhhh and for those who know that voices from a star can destroy a carreer [laars killed KINGDOM COME for ripping off LED ZEPP][a song called GET IT ON ]