'Van Halen Rising' Book Chat with Greg Renoff - Oct. 17th, 9pm ET

[DONNIEP]

You guys are insane, drunk, or high as hell. Ed can't sing worth a shit. I don't care how much you hate Mike - Ed adds next to nothing to the vocal mix.

[DLR Bridge]

Disagree. All of my live bootlegs from back in the day, Ed held his own. You keep listening to VH III though. It's liable to grow on ya.

[vandeleur]

Disagree. All Of my live bootlegs from back in the day, Ed held his own. You keep listening to VH III though. It's liable to grow on ya.

[DONNIEP]

Disagree. All of my live bootlegs from back in the day, Ed held his own. You keep listening to VH III though. It's liable to grow on ya.

I don't think I own the same bootlegs you guys own. Ed has zero ability. Running around saying he does won't make it so, no matter how many retwats Val posts.

[DONNIEP]

After what, 45 years of smoking !! Not to mention cancer....

In the early years he had a good singing voice... Probably not good enough to be a permanent lead singer, but a good singer nonetheless....

Exhibit A....

Smoking, blah blah blah, age, yadda yadda yadda. I watched that video and I don't hear any "underrated" singing.

[DLR Bridge]

I don't think you do, either. You're a DLR solo years aficionado. Ed wasn't there. I have numerous boots of him adding more grounded vocals to offset the pitchy Mr. A.

[DONNIEP]

After what, 45 years of smoking !! Not to mention cancer....

In the early years he had a good singing voice... Probably not good enough to be a permanent lead singer, but a good singer nonetheless....

Exhibit A....

Next you're gonna say I'm exaggerating when I say almost all of Dave's routine was ripped off from a high school cheer routine. And I think I've proved my point with that...

[DONNIEP]

I don't think you do, either. You're a DLR solo years aficionado. Ed wasn't there. I have numerous boots of him adding more grounded vocals to offset the pitchy Mr. A.

Grounded must equal F L A T. Cause that's what Ed adds, including the US Fest VA posted - flat vocals. I don't hear any underrated singing. But, since I'm probably wrong again I'll put in my favorite boot and listen really hard to try and hear Ed and his awesome magic singing.

You guys do know Val and Ed ain't gonna post here or kick in any cash to run this site, right?

[vandeleur]

[DLR Bridge]

No, you were right about that (cheer).

[DLR Bridge]

You guys do know Val and Ed ain't gonna post here or kick in any cash to run this site, right?

Just so long as you know my opinion differing from yours has nothing to do with a tweet from Ed's ex-wife.

[vandeleur]

Dave had the pom poms photoshopped out.

We need more revisionist stuff like this

[DLR Bridge]

Cheer + martial arts = jumping up and down and kicking ass.

[DONNIEP]

You guys are nuts - and that's not a bad thing

But to call Ed's vocal contribution "underrated" on Twatspank is ridiculous. It's funny, I seem to recall a hell of a lot of angst over Mike being piped in to the first "reunion" tour. What, couldn't Ed's "underrated" singing voice cover up the backing vocals? His amazing voice couldn't "blend" with Wofie's? Or did I get a shitty copy of the latest live album too, along with my crappy bootlegs?

[vandeleur]