View Poll Results: In which era did your VH love skyrocket?

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  • High school / backyard party days

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  • Club days

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  • 1978-79 - Opening act

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  • 1980-81 - World invasion

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  • 1982-84 - Monster band

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  • 1986-95 - Sammy years

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  • 1996-97 - Reunion blues

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  • 1998-99 - Mock III

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  • 2000-06 - Dark years

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  • 2007 - Dave's back!!

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    How far back does your worship go?

    Well my age is against me. However, I was a fan of the radio hits as a kid and then I picked up Best Of Vol. 1 and loved the fold out section with the discography at the end of 1997. Started going back and checking out the back catalogue (Hagar too.) Weird I guess but not unusual to pick up new DLR fans around that time. Just missed the reunion blues but started getting into it like crazy in '98 with the release of III and the first Australian tour.

    So when did you cross over into an obsessive DLR/VH fan?
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    I remember listen to Van Halen I with my older brother 1978/79.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Etienne View Post
    I remember listen to Van Halen I with my older brother 1978/79.
    Cool!
    Does he still like VH or did he move on to other muse?

    I never grew out of VH (a sign of my immaturity/stubbornness or a good ear I dunno I'm too one-eyed to tell!)

    I'm expecting the '82-'84 years to come up trumps here.
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    Their monster band years of 82-84 were it for me. Introduced to the band in '82, became a lifelong fan in '83, and 1984 was just a great year to be a VH fan all around - total obsession at that point!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yount View Post
    Cool!
    Does he still like VH or did he move on to other muse?
    He still listens to them, sure. Apart from VH he is into 70s Classic Rock and earlier stuff like The Beatles or The Rolling Stones.

    My brother can still remember how it was, when he was in a london record store, and first heard Van Halen I. It was something new, very wild and unheard till 1978. A new chapter of rock music.

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    I was an 11 year old punk kid in 78' heard eruption from my brothers album and that is all she wrote. Seen VH live in 81' and haven't look back since. I have seen every tour since then. I was at the famous Largo Md. Show . I can remember always going to the Capital Centre and hearing DLR saying " Baltimore -Washington " .
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    I was in Jr. High when VH debuted. Heard it the day it was released nationally and been a fan ever since. Seen them on the 1984 tour on the second night of a two night stand. Most excellent.
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    Same older cousin who got me into KISS in 1976 got me listening to Van Halen in 1979.

    I really got into Van Halen in 1982, when I first started taking guitar lessons.

    When I was 13, in 1983, my parents started letting me go to concerts. That whole year of 1983 wasn't really an active one for Van Halen aside from the US Festival, but I was listening to Van Halens records non-fucking-stop (trying to figure out how in the hell Eddie played like he did - remember, there was no youtube back then and guitar tabs weren't readily available...there wasn't even much in the way of EVH footage being played on tv). Couldn't WAIT to see the band live. Got to see 'em once on the 1984 tour, then Roth split.

    It's perhaps difficult for people who were too young to be around when Roth was in the band the first time around...just how bad it sucked getting the news that Roth left the band...then one year later along comes Hagar and 'Why Can't This Be Love'. Me and my buds heard that shit and went 'fucking gayness' while preppies who were turned off by the band when Roth was in it were suddenly saying how much they liked Van Halen now that Roth was gone.
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    We had the best jukebox ever at the pizza joint we used to hang out at. That's where I first heard RWTD when it came out. (Actually, I think I may have heard Jamie's Cryin' first). .

    My first concert was 79, and I've been a fanatic ever since. Saw them 5 times from 79-81. Then I moved to a city they were banned from, got knocked up and married, and was only able to follow the band on Much Music, radio, etc.

    Cried when Dave left the band, turned the radio off the first time I heard Van Hagar, and have been turning it off ever since.

    I remember saying that if they ever reunited, I'd pay $100 to see them, and would camp out in line for a week to get tix if necessary. (No internet then, and $100 ticket price was unheard of).

    Flash forward to 07, Mom buys me a ticket for my bday, I pay for flight, hotel, meals, etc. Way more than that $100, but worth every penny.

    Unfortunately, unless I win a fucking lottery, I won't be seeing them this tour. Being both a student and an artist means I have no fucking money to my name anymore.
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    Well, in 1978 I was 15 years old, we had a Military Goverment and the Communist Guerrilla was very, very active. We didn´t have any concerts, scarce radio broadcasting and a rock magazine. Nobody heard about VH. To have access to new music you needed to travel abroad .
    In 1978 I met a young man who bought VH1 in USA. He asked me to listen to a new band called Van Halen, we were alone and I was scared, but when I heard Runnin´with the Devil I was sure he was not a "guerrillero comunista" and not trying to recruit me.

    While listening to the LP, I remember that I grabbed the LP trying to know who the lead singer was, and I read David Lee Roth, from the very beggining it was HV and DLR for me.
    When Dave left the band, I followed him.
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    I had seen Unchained on the midnight on Friday 1/2 hour rock video show on a local channel and liked it. But it doesn't show the guys real personal, just on stage from afar pretty much. It was seeing Jump world premier on New years Eve I think and then the follow up Panama video soon after that totally had me hooked. I then started getting the 6 pack & realizing "hey, I've heard this song before!"

    Before that I liked Jamies Cryin, Runnin With The Devil, etc...from hearing it in the pizza joints, arcades, and bowling alleys in the late 70's/early 80's. Just didn't realize who it was until 1984 came out and ruined me for other bands.
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    Quote Originally Posted by katina View Post
    When Dave left the band, I followed him.

    Yep. Just like the wise men following the brightest shining star.

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    After hearing 'RUNNIN' WITH THE DEVIL" in late 1978 I knew my kind of music..........

    A year later I got a cassette-tape with a 'live' show from VAN HALEN and also started buying bootleg LP's , first bootleg lp : LA the Forum 1981, amazing show........

    Still collecting cd and dvd bootlegs from VH//DLR and have over 400 cd's and over 200 dvd's of both and will go on till they stop or till I die...

    VH forever.............
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    Quote Originally Posted by sadaist View Post
    Yep. Just like the wise men following the brightest shining star.
    Hahaha!!! I have a very funny story (at least for me) about following the brightest shining star!!! David of course.
    And I was not very wise !! It happened beggining of 1980. I need some time to put it in english.

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    As an 11 year old, I remember seeing the Fair Warning album on the rack at the music section of a K-Mart. I vividly recall thinking, what the hell is going on here?! I was officially hooked by the Pretty Woman video, prior to it's banning of course. I was blown away by the whole blend of humor and kick ass music. My first avatar here was the hunchback goon from the video. I was heavy into Kiss from Alive II to the disappointing Unmasked. To me, VH grabbed the football out of their grip, then tackled them! Unfortunately, my concert going days began in 1986. Fucking sigh.
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    84 video juke boxes were the fashion , I was learning to play guitar maiden the damned etc and a guy a work said did i like van halen .. I was like van who ... He was like u play guitar and you ain't a fan so he put the panama video on the juke box ... Man I nearly shit .. I was like wtf is that a guitar and whose the crazy mother hugger singer , bought the single on the way home and the album at the weekend . Hook , line and sinker loved them straight away , missed them
    At donnington and then the split happened . Hey I picked sides I went the path of the Dave and stood by it ever since ... Refused to listen to van Hagar listened to 5150 once and actually giggled it was like get the fuck out that ain't my band they turned THE shite to just shit . But fuck it the comeback kings of all time came thru , they guve me a break and gave me one last round .....
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    Quote Originally Posted by DLR Bridge View Post
    As an 11 year old, I remember seeing the Fair Warning album on the rack at the music section of a K-Mart. I vividly recall thinking, what the hell is going on here?! I was officially hooked by the Pretty Woman video, prior to it's banning of course. I was blown away by the whole blend of humor and kick ass music. My first avatar here was the hunchback goon from the video. I was heavy into Kiss from Alive II to the disappointing Unmasked. To me, VH grabbed the football out of their grip, then tackled them! Unfortunately, my concert going days began in 1986. Fucking sigh.

    It's funny how you can pretty much place when a person fell for VH by their age. You being 2 years older than me sounds just right. We all pretty much start to love music at that same age of 11-12. Sure I wish I found them in 1978 and was a few years older so I could have seen them live originally. But I can't control when I was born. Eat Em & Smile was the first time I ever laid eyes on David Lee Roth in person. And oh boy did that mofo deliver some bang for my $17 ticket.

    5150 was my first time seeing Eddie. I know, I know. But Eddie was really good on that tour. Glad I saw it.

    Shuffle EEAS Dave with 5150 Eddie? OMFG! I can hardly imagine the fireworks.

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    I was introduced to Van Halen and other things by a young lady named Tracy back in 1979.
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    My older kin
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    Still can visualize that moment on that day
    My cousins looking at me and telling me to get ready

    I've been hooked ever since
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    After the split in '85 I wasn't very happy I remember, but on the other way there still was VH and Dave with a brand new band so more good music to buy!!

    Van Hagar wasn't bad but I was way more into Dave and am still disappointed he didn't make it across the sea in 1986 to tour in Europe!!

    Gladly he came twice in 1988 and returned succesfully in 1991. In 1994 his show was cancelled overhere and he came back in 1999 to do 2 'warm-up' gigs and

    I've seen all these shows ofcourse!!

    Have seen Van Hagar in 1993 and 1995 as opening act for BON JOVI, can you believe this???

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    I got Van Halen II as a birthday present. We went off to see a movie after I opened my gifts and when we came back my older sisters were listening to it laughing and singing along to You're No Good. They thought it was a funny song and loved Roth's screams.

    Then Someone Get Me a Doctor came on and I was hooked.
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    The minute I heard "Runnin With The Devil" on the radio in February 1978. That car horn came on and I'm like "what the fuck is this? One of those Emergency Broadcast System tests??". Then the bass..... guitar.....drums....Diamond Dave....and finally the harmonies on the chorus. Fucking perfect.

    Of course if anybody had told me then that I would be sitting here writing about this 34 years later, I would have laughed in their face. Probably because my Baptist church had me convinced that it was all over by 2000 anyway and Reagan becoming president two years later only made that seem more likely. So Van Halen became part of the soundtrack for a life that I never expected to last as long as it has, at least not at the time.

    But in the end, I guess I'm OK with the fact that God delayed Armegeddon long enough for us to finally get a 7th album from these guys.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    The minute I heard "Runnin With The Devil" on the radio in February 1978. That car horn came on and I'm like "what the fuck is this? One of those Emergency Broadcast System tests??". Then the bass..... guitar.....drums....Diamond Dave....and finally the harmonies on the chorus. Fucking perfect.

    Of course if anybody had told me then that I would be sitting here writing about this 34 years later, I would have laughed in their face. Probably because my Baptist church had me convinced that it was all over by 2000 anyway and Reagan becoming president two years later only made that seem more likely. So Van Halen became part of the soundtrack for a life that I never expected to last as long as it has, at least not at the time.

    But in the end, I guess I'm OK with the fact that God delayed Armegeddon long enough for us to finally get a 7th album from these guys.
    LOL! 34 years later. DAMN! Longest wait line ever!

    Aint Talkin Bout Love was the song that blew me away....but not until I bought VH I in 1984 on vinyl & played intro a gazillion times over. (It's my ringtone now)

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    The summer of 1981. I was 10 years old and in full on KISS / AC/DC worship. I lived in a neighborhood full of kids and my family was packing up to move across town where it was essentially known as "the sticks." An older friend of mine felt bad that I was moving and handed me Van Halen and Van Halen II on vinyl and told me I'd dig the band as I was enthralled with rock guitar.

    VH II was the first album I listened to in it's entirety and was so hooked I neglected the debut album for a month or so. When I finally heard it I officially had a new favorite band. I immediately bought the "Fair Warning" cassette and the band came into town of September 5, 1981 and my mother took me (and the friend who introduced me to VH) to my first Van Halen show.

    The following year on July 24, 1982, my Uncle took me and the same friend to see the "Diver Down" tour. I'd received the tickets on my 12th birthday (July 1st) and freaked the fuck out. My Uncle was like an older brother and the second we walked in the door of the coliseum he said, "See you guys later..." We were on our own and it was amazing. The opening band After The Fire was booed mercilessly off the stage. I'd won a guitar on a VH promo contest where they play a one second clip of ten songs and mash them together. I won the contest on the second day it was running. I got backstage after the show and the band's tour manager told us that Dave and Eddie were not getting along....I didn't believe it then.

    My third time seeing Van Halen on January 28, 1984 was with a group of friends and my Uncle. Was my first time seeing the band really up close. We ran for our seats (was GA seating)....and landed the front row on the side right next to Ed's riser. To this day I wish I'd brought a camera.

    So yeah I'm going on 31 years of worship...
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    It started when I was four years old, back in 1984. Hell, for a few years I thought Dave's solo band was Van Halen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sadaist View Post
    5150 was my first time seeing Eddie. I know, I know. But Eddie was really good on that tour. Glad I saw it.
    Yep. Same here. Didn't see Dave until '88 at the Hartford Civic Center. Met Pete Angelos. Only my gang recognized him sans Picasso Bros. attire.

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    Discovered them in '78 on the radio and social talk amongst burnouts . Finally saw them live in '81 for the first time .
    Still have the =VH= seared in my mind and emblazoned on my forehead . Completely hated the Sammy years , still do .
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    Their monster band years of 82-84 were it for me. Introduced to the band in '82, became a lifelong fan in '83, and 1984 was just a great year to be a VH fan all around - total obsession at that point!
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    Actually I was sneaking through my older brothers bedroom, age 10 or so, looking through his albums. He was 17, so he was cool...ya know. I actually grabbed a Black Sabbath album, there was some creepy bitch in a coffin in the centerfold, and thought "shit this must be cool." Although he mistakenly put VH1 in the Sabbath album (perhaps the Warner label is very similar) and I remember hearing Eruption and almost shitting myself. For a week I was the biggest Black Halen fan in town. I didn't realize it was VH for a week or so later. Nonetheless my brother was pissed that I was playing his albums and he rubbed his armpits in my face. Fair trade off....he inadvertently got me into VH

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    I was living just down the hill from Sunset Blvd in West L.A. in the Pico and Robertson area. I was only 7 when the first album came out. Little did I know the greatness that was going on just a few short miles up the hill from me at the time. ...I first saw the So This Is Love Video in 83. A budy at that time had also turned me on to VH 1. then 1984 after that. BLAM!! The rest is history. No other band was as good as VH. They stood out WAY above the rest. Everything about VH was just special to me and it still is.
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    I didn't get turned on to VH until hearing them on my own on my tiny little alarm clock radio in 1984. I so wish I had a cool sibling, uncle, or something, but no such luck. Was listening to pop until hearing Jump on that little radio. Then I started putting 2 and 2 together - the guy singing that song is the same guy I've been seeing in all the magazines? Didn't take much more that that. Went to the record store with my grandparents soon after and bought the entire 6-pack in one shot. Never looked back after that. Didn't get to see them live til 2007, which sucked. Tried Spammy live, which was not good. Saw Dave live lots, which was very good, but was not VH. Actually saw Dave live a couple of times in 2006 - once at Nokia Theater in NYC and once at Foxwoods. Both were general admission, which meant my poor hubby had to stand on line with me for about 8 hours - but we were front row. Dave took my hand during Unchained in NYC and lifted his shirt for me a couple of times. At Foxwoods there was no security in front of the stage, so we were actually able to rest our elbows on the stage! I think I may have been slightly inappropriate with my hands at that show
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    Just realized how that sounded - the show did not suck, the wait sucked!!

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    I grew up on metal, however, while I got hit with the "popular" songs like "Jump" and "Panama", I never bought an album or anything. I was probably more familiar with all the Sammy songs. In 2007, I met my soon to be husband, "Sniper", and I guess when you are engaged to the biggest Van Halen fan in the world, you are bound to get educated. We took a road trip to Jackpot, Nevada, and he played EVERY Van Halen album for the drive there and back. Needless to say, the second I heard "Light Up the Sky", I was sold. In 2008, "Sniper" took me on the best date EVER! Front row, VIP package/tickets to see Dave and the boys in Reno, Nevada. I was absolutely blown away! Since then, I have been a Roth-Van Halen die hard. I try to keep up on all the news, buy WAY too much stuff for "Sniper" and I from the VH store, etc...then in March, I made the big step of joining the Army. I guess you can say, the rest is history.
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    I was born in 1981. The first rock music I really heard was grunge/alternative in 1991 or so. I didn't know what classic rock really was other than the Beatles. I used to only listen to "alternative" music and whatever was on MTV. There used to be a great independently-owned radio station in Philly called WDRE, which branded themselves as "modern rock." They played the more mainstream stuff that was current at the time like all the Seattle bands, they played a lot of "retro alternative" from the late '70s to the late '80s, and then they played many obscure bands just starting out. I think it was one of the greatest radio stations that ever existed and I listened to them religiously. But they didn't play anything prior to the late '70s and only a handful of those bands at that so I still had a pretty narrow perspective of music.

    WDRE went off the air in Feb. 1997; they changed ownership and became a rap station. I didn't know it yet but this was also right around the time music would begin an unthinkably steep decline. So I turned to WMMR and WYSP, the two rock stations that played current music but also mixed in a healthy dose of classic rock. At that point my eyes were opened and all the great bands were exposed to me, and it was all new music to my ears. Van Halen were one of the bands that struck me and I bought all the classic albums as well as the first three Van Hagar ones. But I was more drawn to the hits, the radio songs, and not so much the deep cuts. I used to hate WACF and Fair Warning (moreso WACF) as my taste in music hadn't gotten sophisticated yet. When the Gary era was going on I was tempted to see them (basically to see Eddie) but decided against it just because the songs I had heard off that album were so awful.

    Then something happened in my freshman year of college around 2000 where I started to take my interest in VH to another level. Napster helped too as I discovered all these bootlegs and full concerts and that's really what did it for me. WACF and FW finally "clicked" for me, and I began to realize that the Hagar era wasn't very good. You have to understand that not having grown up with the DLR era, the draw of VH was simply Eddie to me. I didn't understand just how much DLR brought to the band, and how the Hagar years were just generic, boring fad music. It's the same way with other generic bands like Foreigner that I used to think were pretty good but later realized how lame they actually were. What's sad to me are the people older than me, and who even saw the real VH, and still dismiss DLR's talents. It's a shame. I hope the Links isn't representative of what most VH fans believe.

    So anyway that's how it happened, I took to them completely on my own, well after their heyday. Also I have no older siblings and my dad wasn't really into VH, so thank God for the classic, radio-friendly songs that got me interested to explore them further. I tried getting into DLR solo (thanks to this website) but I'm sorry, those songs just don't do it for me other than DLR Band, which was the closest he ever got to sounding like VH without singing for VH. I'll never be a person that supports him no matter what (e.g. the ill-fated radio show). I know he has more interests than hard rock music but I don't share those interests. But classic Van Halen...I can't imagine my life without that music in it. There is no music that hits my soul harder.
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    I thought Ace Frehley was a guitar god until I heard EVH. Then it was goodbye Ace. LOL! You have to remember I was young and disco and soft rock was ruling the airwaves. There wasn't much hard rock on the radio. You had Ted Nugent, KiSS and a few southern rock bands and they hardly got any air play. Then VH rolled in.

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    First heard Van Halen I on the school bus in early 1979. I was hooked immediately. I entered in a bike-a-thon thing to raise money for downs syndrome and if you got over $35 in sponsors, you got a free album at Caldors. Of course, I grabbed VH I! I had it bad after listening to it all the way through. I bought II, WACF, and FW when they came out with my allowance money. My Dad got re-married in 1981 and I ended up having to share my room with a step-sister I HATED. We were also living with my grandparents at the time, and my grandpa was a hardcore alcoholic who would come home and verbally abuse everyone. If it weren't for a record player, headphones, and Van Halen posters all over my half of the room, I wouldn't have made it through this period of my life without serious mental issues. I don't say this lightly, either. I spent a lot of hours with the headphones on trying to block out my life. Van Halen was one of the best things to happen to me. I could slip on those headphones and let the riffs and lyrics take me away!! So, I guess my love of Van halen is a really personal thing. It truly saved me!
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    My buddy found vh 1 at kmart in 1978. He said listen to this and WOW! I was fucking in love. Seen them live aug,79. And that was it. Every tour since.
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    Tough poll. I'm a DLR fan first and a VH fan second.

    Regardless, it's tough to forge a lifelong 'worship' of anything that included Sammy Haggar for so many years.
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    Though I always enjoyed VH as a small child, my love of VH really started with DLR in 1986. I couldn't get enough of the Yankee Rose video on MTV. We gathered around the TV every afternoon for the Top 5 at 3 that summer to see it, and those chicks' boobs hanging out. So, I guess my worship of VH began, technically, during the Sammy Years, LOL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yount View Post
    So when did you cross over into an obsessive DLR/VH fan?
    I don't know what you mean. Obsessive fan?
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