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All this shit from Hagar is human nature. It's a nervous defense mechanism. It's uncontrollable. He knows that everything thing he did in VH is about to be eclipsed, it already has been for that matter, by A Different Kind of Truth. It's the old playground fight "My dad can beat up your dad" shit. When you get nervous (and he's nervous) you find every way possible to rag on whats causing your nervousness. He knows he is about to be destroyed, erased, put out in the chicken pasture and unless he rips on VH...nobody will talk to him and he knows it. His new band sucks that bad...even though he tried by bringing in a kick ass guitarist and drummer to rival VH...Chickenfeed, is an epic failure..no one cares, at all. You wanna talk about a lack of creativity and the lack of anything that is musically profound...Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you: Chickenfeed.
Tattoo gave his first opportunity. It was weak compared to what I've heard since it's release on the 10th. I admitted already, at first listen...it was a clunker in that, it wasn't what I expected and lacked any real punch. That has since changed. But, casual fans ripped it...and he jumped on that bandwagon. He cited them "Reworking old riffs" as a lack of creativity? Oh no...more on that later...but many people, a lot of us included, kind of went "Huh?" when we first heard Tattoo. Web wars ensued over the song...here, there and everywhere...and there he was...shooting off his mouth. It still went to #1...
Here is what I think on them going back to the early 70's for some classic riffs:
It's a statement, to me, that says this: We're going right back to where we left off! We're going right back to some of the music that fueled this band from Day 1...where it all began...when we were young and hungry...you can't get any more Classic Van Halen sounding than that. (for the record, that will be the last time I ever use the phrase "Classic" when I refer to Van Halen from this day forward. They are simply Van Halen again....now and forever) They are some riffs that could have been on any of the first 6 albums, we all know that but, for whatever reason, weren't. The old team (Dave and Edward) are back together again and there is nothing, nothing more creative than going back 40 years and saying to each other "Fuck yeah...pure Van Halen...the essence of what we are today...what we were then. Van Halen has always been "timeless music" to me. If Unchained was released tomorrow as a single, it goes to number 1 and stacks up against anything out there today. These riffs are older than most of us...the fact that are about to be released on an album in 2012 says everything about just how creative their music is, was and always will be.
Its a statement as if, musically...the last 28 years never happened...and he knows...that includes 1986-2004
You Sir...will always be remembered as "The 2nd singer", "The other guy"...you were never IN Van Halen...you were part of a band that made some music while Dave, Ed and Al sorted out their differences...and nothing more.
All this shit from Hagar is human nature. It's a nervous defense mechanism. It's uncontrollable. He knows that everything thing he did in VH is about to be eclipsed, it already has been for that matter, by A Different Kind of Truth. It's the old playground fight "My dad can beat up your dad" shit. When you get nervous (and he's nervous) you find every way possible to rag on whats causing your nervousness. He knows he is about to be destroyed, erased, put out in the chicken pasture and unless he rips on VH...nobody will talk to him and he knows it. His new band sucks that bad...even though he tried by bringing in a kick ass guitarist and drummer to rival VH...Chickenfeed, is an epic failure..no one cares, at all. You wanna talk about a lack of creativity and the lack of anything that is musically profound...Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you: Chickenfeed.
Tattoo gave his first opportunity. It was weak compared to what I've heard since it's release on the 10th. I admitted already, at first listen...it was a clunker in that, it wasn't what I expected and lacked any real punch. That has since changed. But, casual fans ripped it...and he jumped on that bandwagon. He cited them "Reworking old riffs" as a lack of creativity? Oh no...more on that later...but many people, a lot of us included, kind of went "Huh?" when we first heard Tattoo. Web wars ensued over the song...here, there and everywhere...and there he was...shooting off his mouth. It still went to #1...
Here is what I think on them going back to the early 70's for some classic riffs:
It's a statement, to me, that says this: We're going right back to where we left off! We're going right back to some of the music that fueled this band from Day 1...where it all began...when we were young and hungry...you can't get any more Classic Van Halen sounding than that. (for the record, that will be the last time I ever use the phrase "Classic" when I refer to Van Halen from this day forward. They are simply Van Halen again....now and forever) They are some riffs that could have been on any of the first 6 albums, we all know that but, for whatever reason, weren't. The old team (Dave and Edward) are back together again and there is nothing, nothing more creative than going back 40 years and saying to each other "Fuck yeah...pure Van Halen...the essence of what we are today...what we were then. Van Halen has always been "timeless music" to me. If Unchained was released tomorrow as a single, it goes to number 1 and stacks up against anything out there today. These riffs are older than most of us...the fact that are about to be released on an album in 2012 says everything about just how creative their music is, was and always will be.
Its a statement as if, musically...the last 28 years never happened...and he knows...that includes 1986-2004
You Sir...will always be remembered as "The 2nd singer", "The other guy"...you were never IN Van Halen...you were part of a band that made some music while Dave, Ed and Al sorted out their differences...and nothing more.
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