I just bought a used copy of Skyscraper and listened to it for the first time. As far as second albums go it kills ou812!! When Roth and Halen split I went on the Halen side of things. Now I am starting to pick up all Daves solo shit, It is all like new albums for me since I have not herd them before. I credit that to this site to open my mind back to Roth. Fuck Sammy!! Is there any Roth Vids out there to down load?
There should be some stuff in here.
Yeah, Dave's stuff is great. Mind you, I don't like all of it. I think SKYSCRAPER is very under-rated. There are some great and adventurous moments on that record. Did you get EAT 'EM AND SMILE or DLR BAND yet? Both are real winners!
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Rikk - The new school of the Roth Army... this dude leads the pack... three words... The Sheep Pen... this dude opened alot of doors for people during this new era... he's the best of the new school.
Diaper, there is a separate forum for this.
EAT US AND SMILE!!!!
What would that be?
I got the DLR band cd. Thats prob my fav one at the moment. Eat em and smile , not yet. Prob pick that one up today. I got the spanish one of the net.
Don't know anything about OU812, just that crap I've heard on the radio. But I love Skyscraper!
Heres a plug for Enterprise Car Rental - I left my Skyscraper CD in one of their cars and I was bummin' out. I called them and they sent it back to me, next day, no charge.
BTW, you made the right choice Sniper!
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I honestly didn't like OU812 very much, not cause of sammy alone, but it just sucked in general. Now, skyscraper is soemthing really special. One of my favorite DLR solo albums to date.
Any of spammy's work is trash, so Sky Scraper!
Bottom Line...nah that jus' cooks...
OU812 basically sucks. Easily the worst Van Hagar album, IMO. Crappy sound, crappy filler... just a below average album.
Skyscraper is awesome. Yeah, it has synths and stuff, but it still sounds great. Quite a few underrated songs on that album!
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Skyscraper is a simple case of some tunes that are just classic...mixed in with some that aren't...
it has a bit of "Fair Warning" to it...IMO...
OU812 shouldn't even be discussed here...
wow...this was an old thread...
"Van Halen was one of the most hallelujah, tailgate, backyard, BBQ, arrive four hours early to the gig just for the parking lot bands. And still to this day is. It's an attitude. I think it's a spirit more than anything else is."
I've always said that "Skyscraper" is my least favorite of anything David Lee Roth ever recorded. Even so, it beats the living shit out of OUneedtoremixthishorridpieceofshit2(and leave the cheese ballads out).
Eat Us And Smile
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That's my point...
it's the Fair Warning of the Roth collection...
but it's good songs are damn good...
no pun intended...
i didn't really like either skyscraper or ou812, but skyscraper was much better. Looking back music in general sucked in 1988, it was in between Guns n roses albums vh sucked, REM went pop U2 was too popular and that about sums up the year. now 91 was a different story roth comes back w/ his best solo album far surpassing any hagar album out there
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I'd pay a lot to listen to the "raw" version of skyscraper sheehan talked about...
don't know about the other album...never bothered to listen to it...
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hmm... considering I don't like Skyscraper and can't stand OU812...
I'll go with ALAE.
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Worst of all... It's true..
we all know what most VH/DLR fans were raving about in '86 when EEAS and 5150 came out, just months apart....it was almost a no-contest then and it was absolutely a no-contest in '88 with Skyscraper v OU812...SS was never my favorite DLR solo record, but i still love it in many ways and most of the songs are brilliant pop-rock...OU812 is even worse than the fluffy and lousy 5150...Eddie sounds like a sloshed-out wimp on guitar, Alex (by then a wanna-be drummer) was banging pencils on beer cans, Mike was a a total buffon on bass and gosh, yea, Sammy sounded like the sleazy stupid slob that he forever was that just couldn't climax after a million attempts at the mic.....truly, OU812 was a sickeningly terrible record (perhaps Van Hagar's worst) and i never again wanna mention it in the same sentence as Skyscraper...
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anythig's better better than OU812 cause I cant uderstand what they wanted to prove with that, I still havent listened to Skyscraper properly but OU812 is just booooooooooooring ...
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Oh yeah, agreed big time! Every listen is an adventure!Originally posted by Rikk
There should be some stuff in here.
Yeah, Dave's stuff is great. Mind you, I don't like all of it. I think SKYSCRAPER is very under-rated. There are some great and adventurous moments on that record. Did you get EAT 'EM AND SMILE or DLR BAND yet? Both are real winners!
I'm very proud of what was that band and what was that show and what it did mean to people. It disgusts me that it has turned into the complete opposite. That it now represents everything that I spoke against, that we suppoesedly represented the converse of. I don't want to have to remember that the team turned into that. Makes me question what the team was while I was a member. Was it all bullshit? If nothing else, it confirms in my mind that from my standpoint - yours truly, David Lee - not a fraction. If nothing else, this kind of morbid, wounded animal anger aimed my way has caused me to look deep into that bathroom mirror and come back to you with "my shit was legit." It was for real. And perhaps the test is time. Because here I am, a decade and a half later, haven't changed much. I look a little different, but not much. My sense of humour is about the same.
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