Sam Quote For The Week: "It Was A Complete LOVEFEST"

[meanstreet]

OK. We all know that there was/is much LUV in Van Shagar. However, Sam just REALLY confirmed what we've known all along.

Holy shit, I still can't believe he said this:

"So, you don’t know until you go head-on, and we went head-on, and it was like a complete love fest. It was just, ‘Wow, I really miss this friendship, and then, of course, like Al said, once you start playing music, it was all over."

http://www.gotriad.com/article/articleview/9020/1/17/

UP FOR LUNCH

[FORD]

Actually it was a Cheesefest.

Watch the Chedheads in action

[PETE'S BROTHER]

[minkahed]

Yeh, I see Sammy taking it hard from Michael.

Not so much from the sisters tho ...

[sadaist]

What period is he speaking of? It has to be 2004 because he says he really missed the friendship. And with all the shit he has spewed about 2004, and the condition we all know EVH was in....no fucking way. Fat fuck is lying again.




DLR - "I don't need so much to remember. That's how it is when you tell the truth."

[chefcraig]

What period is he speaking of?

Who knows? The initial post originates from 2004, and includes a dead link. Matters little, if anything, since Hagar has repeatedly put his foot in his pie-hole to this very day.

[Halen High]

"you don’t know until you go head-on, and we went head-on"

This line reminds me of the kind of lyrics he comes up with...oh man, imagine if he'd stayed on after 2004 and had gotten his hands on what became ADKOT. Be thankful for what we've had since 2007...

[Halen High]

"...and then, of course, like Al said, once you start playing music, it was all over."

Yep...can't argue with him on that. Once they started playing Up For Breakfast, it was over alright.

"Wow, I really miss this friendship..."

Lol...I assume he said this BEFORE the '04 tour.

[Coyote]

"you don’t know until you go head-on, and we went head-on"

This line reminds me of the kind of lyrics he comes up with...oh man, imagine if he'd stayed on after 2004 and had gotten his hands on what became ADKOT. Be thankful for what we've had since 2007...

Unfortunately, that reminds me of "only time will tell if we'll stand the test of time".

(I dare claim it should've been "...if we'll make it 'cross the line", but that probably would've sounded "too Dave" back then... )

[Halen High]

Unfortunately, that reminds me of "only time will tell if we'll stand the test of time".

(I dare claim it should've been "...if we'll make it 'cross the line", but that probably would've sounded "too Dave" back then... )

HA HA! If only Clunk Head Hagar had thought have that!

[Silexxx]

Here's the Cheese Head talking about Dave and VH once again.

With all the collaborations on this album, would you ever do a duet with David Lee Roth?
[Sighs]

I know, that's probably a shitty question.
No – but it's so hard. It's so hard! Because, probably, if he came to me, fuck yeah. I'll do anything. But to go to him and put myself in that vulnerable position, I would get probably the wisest fucking crack that ever came out of his mouth. I don't think Dave wants to sing with me. I don't think Dave wants to be in the same room with me, to be honest with you. I don't know if I intimidate him or if I piss him off or if he just flat don't like me, or if he's afraid of me. I don't know what it is, but he and I do not get together. We tried. I gave it every shot I had on that tour. And I could care less. I mean, I'm totally over the guy.

As a matter of fact, the whole idea of Van Halen – people ask me all the time, "What if Eddie called you up and asked you to be back in that?" I just hope he doesn't do that. I'm so past it, and I'm so happy and proud of what we did, I wouldn't want to tarnish it again like that '04 tour. And now what they're doing, acting like I was never in that band, just playing all that early material . . . How can they do that?

But Dave can't sing it, so what the fuck. It is what it is, and I'd just as soon let it be. Let them finish it off in their own way, and whatever happens, it's all good. I would love to be friends with those guys. Michael Anthony is one of my dearest friends, and I don't see why Ed and Al shouldn't be that, someday, in our lives. But until then, it's all fine.

I don't want to go backwards anymore. At my age, I have a hard enough time rehearsing and playing those old songs at a rehearsal. And I certainly can't go back and listen to them. I just want to keep moving forward, and I'm so anxious to play my new songs in the set that the thought of going back and playing with a band that hasn't recorded since 1994 or something like that – ewww. That sounds painful to me.

You don't want to go back and re-tarnish. Van Halen was so great and is so special for the time that they had their reign, that to leave that alone – they're smart, in one sense, in that they don't do a lot. When they do, everybody's horny again: "Oh shit, I got to go see it again!" I'm proud of being in Van Halen. I really am. I'm really proud of that time in my life. It was great shit, man.

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[sadaist]

Unfortunately, that reminds me of "only time will tell if we'll stand the test of time".
)

Like the dumb NFL player:


"If it was not for football, I would not be playing football today"

[damngoodtimes]

that fat fuck can't help himself.

He could have just said, "no". A one-word, or maybe one-sentence answer. But he has to word barf for 5 minutes about it.

[twonabomber]

I don't understand why he feels he's gotta be friends with Ed and Al. They shit on him, he took Ed out on tour in '04 knowing it could be a disaster...how the hell would they sit around and be cordial to one another?

[sadaist]

You don't want to go back and re-tarnish.

You guys catch this line? So he admits he tarnished it the first time around. Good for him for finally realizing that.

[chefcraig]

You guys catch this line? So he admits he tarnished it the first time around. Good for him for finally realizing that.

I think he meant to say "You don't want to go back and re-varnish," in this case spraying a buttload of Lemon Pledge on his past "work" in a vain attempt at polishing the enormous and all-encompassing turd that was the Hagar-era of VH.

[DLR Bridge]

that fat fuck can't help himself.

He could have just said, "no". A one-word, or maybe one-sentence answer. But he has to word barf for 5 minutes about it.

His absuuurdly long answers are living proof that he lays awake at night dwelling on what he claims he's "all fine" with.

[Nigel]

[QUOTE= he took Ed out on tour in '04 knowing it could be a disaster..[/QUOTE]

Do you think Dave would have gone on tour with Ed knowing he was fucked up?

Just shows Sam's lack of character, although Al was surely to blame as well. All in the name of $$$$.

Pathetic cunts all of them.

[FORD]

The irony here is that the argument Sammy made against making a greatest hits album in 1996, was that a band only does that when they are admitting their career is basically over and they have nothing new to contribute.

It was actually an argument with some merit, and while Hagar himself had just done the same with his own "Unboxed" album (yeah, I know about his "divorce settlement" excuse) he is mostly correct about the motives of bands who release far more repackagings and remasters than they do new material.

But by the same token, what about somebody who does press interviews for years, and all he ever wants to talk about is the band he left in 1996? Isn't that pretty much the same thing, Sam? Is that why Chickenshit seems to be disintegrating, because Joe and Chad got sick of you blabbing endlessly about your Velveeta-drenched "glory (hole) days" in Van Hagar??

[DLR Bridge]

Glory (hole) days...

[Northern Girl]

I don't understand why he feels he's gotta be friends with Ed and Al. They shit on him, he took Ed out on tour in '04 knowing it could be a disaster...how the hell would they sit around and be cordial to one another?

He probably doesn't give a shit really. It's his MO to talk about Van Halen whenever he's hawking something. He's got a new album, so we'll be hearing this shit endlessly for awhile until it flops.

[Zing!]

Haggar has a new album? What happened to his supergroup?

[chefcraig]

Haggar has a new album? What happened to his supergroup?

Apparently, it's a "duets" album of remakes, in which he once again sponges off the talents of others. To paraphrase Bob Dylan: "A covers album is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings."

[VHscraps]

Apparently, it's a "duets" album of remakes, in which he once again sponges off the talents of others. To paraphrase Bob Dylan: "A covers album is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings."

Although, counsel, we respectfully claim a disclaimer for the 'Diamond Dave' and 'Crazy from the Heat' records, as clearly what was going on there was that our man Dave was infusing / reanimating some notable ditties that younger and more ignorant types might be unaware of (as well as reminding those of us who once knew, for example, how damn good and overlooked Steve Miller has been these last few decades).

So, as well as the paraphrased Dylan maxim, which we should by all means apply to the Crimson Clown, I say that we pay heed to the wise words of Dave when it comes to the intrinsic value of cover tunes in the hands of a specialist who knows what he is doing:

"It's a bit like stealing hubcaps. Sure you got 'em somewhere else, but pretty soon they're looking good on your car."

Thanks Dave!

[chefcraig]

Forgot all about that Diamond Dave album, mainly because I have yet to meet a soul on the planet that has ever heard it, let alone seen a copy. So based upon the argument that if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around to hear it...

As for Crazy From The Heat, it was mind-fuckingly cool, with attention and insight applied to each track. Hagar on the other hand (for example), misinterprets (or is far too moronic to notice) the irony of the Beastie's "Fight For Your Right" tune and turns it into Limp Bizkit-styled date rape rock. I wouldn't trust this halfwit with a pancake flipper, let alone somebody else's work.

[Grit]

The EX-PSYCHO GIRLFRIEND at it again! Trying to claim she's moved on but yet can't help herself but to trash the ex AND at the same time says "yeah, I might get back together with him".

I also loved how the reporter was trying to say "Hagar Era VH" was somehow "Classic Van Halen". I think that's right before he bent over in the "Ferrari" and tried to blow Spammy but found out there was a little kitty down there! If anyone thinks "When It's Love"(the ass-kicking ballad?), "Why Can't This Be Love", "Dreams", "Can't Stop Loving You", or any other of the Spam cream-puff crap is "Classic Van Halen" they should have a stick of dynamite crammed up the a$$ and lit.

Spam cant understand why he doesn't get asked to play major festivals... " See, now I'm upset. Because that pisses me off. I never get asked to do those things. And Chickenfoot neither. Chickenfoot wanted those festivals so bad, and [there's] something weird about my image or something I've done to where they don't want me on those shows. And I begged to be on the one right here, Outside Lands – it's right in my fucking backyard. I called my manager, I called my agent. I want to do it" Yes, there is something wrong with your image Spam! LOL!

Great stuff once again from the EX-PSYCHO GIRLFRIEND!!!

[DLR Bridge]

Didn't Sammy also do a ham-fisted version of I'll Take You There? I guess that would be date rape soul, yes?

[chefcraig]

Didn't Sammy also do a ham-fisted version of I'll Take You There? I guess that would be date rape soul, yes?

Brace yourself: According to a recent CMT article, the clod is doing a version of Buffet's "Margaritaville" with Toby Keith. I'm not certain exactly how one could categorize that, yet the word abomination springs to mind.

[FORD]

Brace yourself: According to a recent CMT article, the clod is doing a version of Buffet's "Margaritaville" with Toby Keith. I'm not certain exactly how one could categorize that, yet the word abomination springs to mind.

And yet another commercial for his overpriced tequila, no doubt. Which he will probably work into the lyrics somehow.......

[chefcraig]

And yet another commercial for his overpriced tequila, no doubt. Which he will probably work into the lyrics somehow.......

Yeah, I can hardly wait to hear his "I got my ass against the record machine"-styled lyrical felonies played out in Buffet's tune.

[twonabomber]

Maybe Spammy isn't waiting breathlessly by the phone waiting for EVH to call...but I really doubt he'd say "no" if Ed said "let's do it again."

[VHscraps]

Forgot all about that Diamond Dave album, mainly because I have yet to meet a soul on the planet that has ever heard it, let alone seen a copy. So based upon the argument that if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around to hear it...

As for Crazy From The Heat, it was mind-fuckingly cool, with attention and insight applied to each track. Hagar on the other hand (for example), misinterprets (or is far too moronic to notice) the irony of the Beastie's "Fight For Your Right" tune and turns it into Limp Bizkit-styled date rape rock. I wouldn't trust this halfwit with a pancake flipper, let alone somebody else's work.

I only heard the 'Diamond Dave' album long after it was released. I like it. I mean, I like Dave's voice and he's damn good at picking tunes that it works well with.

And I think that is one reason why when you hear Dave sing cover tunes, it is still always his character that comes though.

And that, in my view, is why no one can cover DLR-era VH tunes. Not 'cos they don't have Dave's 'technical' abilities, but 'cos everything he sings - whether he wrote it or not - becomes a vehicle for expressing the essential Daveness that lies within many and varied tunes and not only his own compositions.

That's why I always laugh when that ass clown Hagar says "Dave can't sing my songs 'cos he doesn't have the range". That's like saying Bob Dylan can't sing 'em, or Muddy Waters, or Van Morrison, or Leonard Cohen, or Keith Richards singing 'Happy' - I'm sure none of them could, but then that's because they have their own distinctive voices that are intimately revealing of who they are.

They ain't mere screamers who think voice and singing has something to do with hitting fucking high notes. It's about character, personality, etc.

Hence Spamalot has to resort to singing "can't you see I've got my ASS against the record machine" in a sad attempt to stamp his (non) character on someone else's song.

That's why Dave is really the essence if VH - he really is the one element that cannot really be copied. More than Edward, and I am a huge believer that Ed has remained distinct from the players that followed in his wake.

Cheers Dave.

[Halen High]

"We tried. I gave it every shot I had on that tour."

Really Sammy? Do you call turning up overweight, being criticised by journalists for being sluggish on stage at numerous shows, putting in minimal rehearsal time before the tour and further trashing the band's legacy by writing some of the most embarrassing lyrics we've ever heard....giving it "every shot"?

"And I could care less. I mean, I'm totally over the guy."

Of course... that's why Sammy talks about Van Halen and David Lee Roth in every interview, coming across as bitter, angry and delusional in every one of them, rather than simply telling the journalist, 'no Van Halen questions - unless you want to talk about my time in the band'. Standard practice in music interviews, which I'm sure the PR savvy Hagar is well aware of.

I think the point that really gets to him is that other than a few people at the Links, everyone is "totally over" Sammy Hagar and his mediocre music.

[Terry]

Well, it wouldn't be surprising to find out that in many of those interviews Hagar was asked questions about Van Halen by the interviewer, as opposed to Hagar bringing up Van Halen first. After all, Hagar's in a band with Van Halen's old bass player. Hagar and Anthony are going to be asked questions about Van Halen virtually every time they give an interview. I suppose they could just say they would rather not comment, but whatever. I mean, these are men who are either approaching or are already in their 60s. You know, how long do they need to carry these decades-old grudges around? Who really gives a shit anymore, besides us? I'd be hard-pressed to imagine the various former and present Van Halen members spend a ton of time thinking about other members they aren't currently in a band with.

As to some of the other stuff Hagar said, from my viewpoint Hagar still just either doesn't get it or doesn't want to admit what is clearly obvious to most rock fans: far more people prefer Van Halen with Roth than they do Hagar. I don't think Hagar doesn't understand that - while he may not want to admit it in an interview, deep down I think he knows it. And even if he doesn't, and has deluded himself into thinking otherwise, so what?

It is kind of funny reading about Hagar being pissed that the current Van Halen lineup aren't playing material recorded from when Sam was in the band. Who would want to hear Roth sing a Hagar tune? Putting the whole "Dave doesn't sing my material because he's not as good a singer than I am and is afraid to even try" blather to one side, it's puzzling as to why Hagar would assume anyone would even WANT to hear Van Hagar material with Roth now back in the band. Honestly, if I went to a Van Halen show with Roth fronting and they started playing Van Hagar tunes I'd start hucking rocks at the stage. I'll go to a Chickenfoot show if I wanna hear that music.

Dumb, fat fuck.

[ELVIS]

Roth Army...

Your one stop shopping headquarters for Sammy Hagar news and events...

LMAO !!

[Zing!]

Haggar's playing the state fair here in a few days. I thought about going just so I could throw rocks at the stage, but I'm not shelling out $45 to see cheeseball and Sauce.

[Northern Girl]

Here's another lovefest!

Seems like I've seen pieces of this but not this video...but when Sam is involved I usually ignore it...some one made a comment that this is better than the actual documentary, so it may be different...

[Zing!]

Haggar was plugging his novelty record all weekend on Pandora's Van Halen channel. Still riding the Van Halen coattails.

That's the only time I've heard his voice on that channel, as every Van Haggar song has already been 'thumbs downed' by me.

[DLR Bridge]

Haggar was plugging his novelty record all weekend on Pandora's Van Halen channel. Still riding the Van Halen coattails.

That's as bullshit as the columns inside his shitty vacation bar remaining Frankenstriped after all of this time.