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man-oh-man, the rumblings and rumors I'm hearing...
Apparently, the finger pointing has already begun...
I have no first-hand access to the brothers, nor Dave or Sam, but have maintained close friendships in the radio and records community for over three decades due to my career there as a radio programmer for 17 years. I've worked more in the sports end of marketing/entertainment for the past dozen years... take this for whatever you consider it worth, I could care less, but speak the truth.
Also, I'm not here to start a piss-war with any hard-core Hargar fans. I must also openly admit to vastly preferring the Dave-era material, hands down, so Hargar fans will call me biased.... Whatever, I say. Business is business guys, no matter personal preference and this tour is apparently already being viewed as a failure in the making from within the various camps involved. At the top of the list is WB, from what I'm told. They have wanted Dave all along, all these years, anyway. Not out of any style preference, but because they only care about making the most money and have the research to show where the higher prencentage of fans will spend it.
For instance, there IS a real reason why the playlists of (cookie-cutter) rock stations in market after market play almost exclusively Roth era Halen tracks... RESEARCH clearly shows these as the songs the masses want and expect to hear along side their Stones, Floyd and Led Zep. The only solo songs that test especially well from Sammy are "One Way To Rock, "Can't Drive 55" and from his VH work "Why Can't...", "Finish What Ya Started" (Dave'ish by design, IMO) and amazingly enough, "Right Now". Virtually, the entire first six albums worth of material tests well in comparison, ala say, the enitre Zeppelin or SRV or Hendrix catalogs... Tunes like "Jump", "Unchained", and "Panama" test in the range of "Satisfaction" and "Stairway To Heaven". Dave told the truth when he said they were as known to the public as the Nike swoosh, he really was.
Anyway, I'm getting off topic... Besides the rumors of in-fighting already starting over the lackluster ticket sales, I'm hearing that the (mis)use of Dave era songs on the spots has NOT gone unnoticed by both some with a vested interest as well as a local fan group headed up by a wealthy attorney... He is said to be considering a class action suit filing to include each city, if not winnable, but to draw attention to the sham... I don't know about that one, but this is all so interesting and seems to have brought the Dave devotees together with a unified battlecry about as much as anything.
I'll be watching.
I have no first-hand access to the brothers, nor Dave or Sam, but have maintained close friendships in the radio and records community for over three decades due to my career there as a radio programmer for 17 years. I've worked more in the sports end of marketing/entertainment for the past dozen years... take this for whatever you consider it worth, I could care less, but speak the truth.
Also, I'm not here to start a piss-war with any hard-core Hargar fans. I must also openly admit to vastly preferring the Dave-era material, hands down, so Hargar fans will call me biased.... Whatever, I say. Business is business guys, no matter personal preference and this tour is apparently already being viewed as a failure in the making from within the various camps involved. At the top of the list is WB, from what I'm told. They have wanted Dave all along, all these years, anyway. Not out of any style preference, but because they only care about making the most money and have the research to show where the higher prencentage of fans will spend it.
For instance, there IS a real reason why the playlists of (cookie-cutter) rock stations in market after market play almost exclusively Roth era Halen tracks... RESEARCH clearly shows these as the songs the masses want and expect to hear along side their Stones, Floyd and Led Zep. The only solo songs that test especially well from Sammy are "One Way To Rock, "Can't Drive 55" and from his VH work "Why Can't...", "Finish What Ya Started" (Dave'ish by design, IMO) and amazingly enough, "Right Now". Virtually, the entire first six albums worth of material tests well in comparison, ala say, the enitre Zeppelin or SRV or Hendrix catalogs... Tunes like "Jump", "Unchained", and "Panama" test in the range of "Satisfaction" and "Stairway To Heaven". Dave told the truth when he said they were as known to the public as the Nike swoosh, he really was.
Anyway, I'm getting off topic... Besides the rumors of in-fighting already starting over the lackluster ticket sales, I'm hearing that the (mis)use of Dave era songs on the spots has NOT gone unnoticed by both some with a vested interest as well as a local fan group headed up by a wealthy attorney... He is said to be considering a class action suit filing to include each city, if not winnable, but to draw attention to the sham... I don't know about that one, but this is all so interesting and seems to have brought the Dave devotees together with a unified battlecry about as much as anything.
I'll be watching.
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