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

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  • vandeleur
    ROTH ARMY SUPREME
    • Sep 2009
    • 9865

    Originally posted by DLR Bridge
    But back when it counted, I thought he did a great job.
    So you're saying ed has a great voice
    fuck your fucking framing

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    • private parts
      Sniper
      • Jan 2007
      • 926

      Originally posted by katina
      In the country where I live citizens can only spend 25 $ on shopping online abroad per year, and customs officials steals everything they like. So to get the two RA t-shirts, I bought the online but sent them to a friend who lives in USA and another friend picked them up and travelled with them to finally give them to me. I know it was a lot of effort, and I am really happy to have them.
      No one on this site should complain about SQUAT EVER AGAIN! KUDOS to KATINA!
      sigpic" You ever notice when I scream I sound like Mr. Bill on acid" DLR

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      • Von Halen
        ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

        • Dec 2003
        • 7500

        Originally posted by private parts
        No one on this site should complain about SQUAT EVER AGAIN! KUDOS to KATINA!
        Why not? She should have just stayed here, instead of going back to that shithole!

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        • private parts
          Sniper
          • Jan 2007
          • 926

          Yep. She missed her chance, but Trump would send her packing.
          sigpic" You ever notice when I scream I sound like Mr. Bill on acid" DLR

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          • cadaverdog
            ROTH ARMY SUPREME
            • Aug 2007
            • 8955

            Originally posted by DONNIEP
            But she retwatted a twit so that has to make it so.
            That was a wasted twit. I'd have asked her for a few pair of her used panties. One for me and a couple pair for the first annual Val's panties auction to help rebuild Cadaverdog's bank account and credit rating. I'm sure she'd be willing to help out a worthy cause like that.
            Beware of Dog

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            • cadaverdog
              ROTH ARMY SUPREME
              • Aug 2007
              • 8955

              Originally posted by Von Halen
              Why not? She should have just stayed here, instead of going back to that shithole!
              Does sound like a pretty fucked up place but I'm sure it has it's good points too. I'll bet they get plenty of sunshine there.
              Beware of Dog

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              • PETE'S BROTHER
                DIAMOND STATUS
                • Feb 2007
                • 12678

                Originally posted by Von Halen
                Bottom line, Van Halen wouldn't be Van Halen, if Ed had cuntinued as lead singer. FACT!!

                Val is probably pissed Greg didn't mention her name one fucking time in his book! Not that he should have, she wasn't a part of it back then. Fucking Yoko Bertinelli.

                As far as the vocals being piped in on the '07 tour, I was told that first hand. However, Wolf was fucking 16 years old. He went from 5150, to the big stage. Also, his voice wasn't fully developed at that time. I think he and Ed did a phenomenal job with the background vocals on this tour.

                Why are we talking about how great of a singer Ed is, anyway?
                got to page 189 and couldn't stop gigglin' and thinkin' about you
                Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!

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                • cadaverdog
                  ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                  • Aug 2007
                  • 8955

                  Originally posted by private parts
                  Yep. She missed her chance, but Trump would send her packing.
                  Only if she tried to stay here without going through the correct legal channels. Trump's not anti immigrant, he's anti illegal immigrant. All though he probably employs thousands of them as dishwashers and maids in his hotels and casinos. If someone really wanted to discredit Trump they'd check into that. I hope Ford doesn't see this.
                  Beware of Dog

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                  • DONNIEP
                    DIAMOND STATUS
                    • Mar 2004
                    • 13373

                    Originally posted by Va Beach VH Fan
                    OK, let's back up a second...

                    My opinion (that's what it is, just like yours is an opinion) that Ed's singing voice is underrated was specifically based on Greg's statement in the Salon interview that "EVH was not much of a singer"....

                    It was THAT that I replied to Val that I 'somewhat disagreed' with, along with other comments about EVH's voice in the past, hence me saying that IMO his voice was underrated.... That is, underrated based on a comment like "EVH was not much of a singer"....

                    And it was THAT that Val replied back to me with the "yup!" (not a Retweet, you Twitter amateur), meaning that she concurred with that...

                    In fact, I completely agree with your "decent backing vocal singer" opinion... I just don't think his voice, especially in the early years, was that bad at all...

                    And lastly, I have to correct NG, that was full chub material coming from Val....
                    Twitter amateur?? Well, you are right about that. I have no clue how it works. I see all these random comments that are directed at someone and it's all just too confusing. I do like the pictures though.
                    American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.

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                    • Va Beach VH Fan
                      ROTH ARMY FOUNDER
                      • Dec 2003
                      • 17913

                      Review...



                      "Van Halen Rising" Documents The Band's Decadent Early Years

                      A new book reveals Van Halen was originally named Genesis, David Lee Roth once out-partied Ozzy Osbourne, and other strange tales.

                      ENTERTAINMENTOctober 12, 2015 By CHRIS WILSON

                      I've got it bad, got it bad, got it bad for vintage Van Halen. Sure, they're technically still around — an aging version of the party rock gods recently played the last show of their U.S. tour at the Hollywood Bowl — but old-school Van Halen remains the peak period of their bombastic glory. Back when Roth still possessed all his hair, "no brown M&Ms" had yet to be written into the tour rider, and "Runnin' with the Devil" was cranked to 11 inside Camaros and keg parties alike.

                      Years before the band found MTV mega-stardom with "Jump" and "Hot For Teacher", they were undeniably on their way to world domination. A new book out this week, Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal, traces their dizzying ascent from Pasadena cover band to 1978's multi-platinum debut. Here are five revelations from Van Halen Rising author Greg Renoff:

                      1. Van Halen was originally named Genesis

                      Eddie and Alex Van Halen's first cover band was actually called Genesis—which they didn't realize was already the name of the British prog-rock group that brought us Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins. "In late 1971, Eddie and Alex were in a record store in Pasadena. Eddie was thumbing through LPs and saw the Nursery Cryme album by Genesis," says Renoff. "He pulled it out and laughed and said, 'Hey, we've got a record out, Alex.' They really didn't know there was a band called Genesis." The brothers then changed their band's name to Mammoth before eventually settling on Van Halen.

                      2. David Lee Roth was almost replaced by Sammy Hagar in 1977

                      Hagar fronted the band during the controversial "Van Hagar" period after Roth left to pursue a solo career in 1985. But the tequila-loving "Why Can't This Be Love?" belter nearly nabbed the lead singer's slot eight years before that.Van Halen producer Ted Templeman got them signed to Warner Bros. mostly because he loved Eddie's guitar playing. Roth's vocals? Not so much. After hearing Roth sing on the band's demos, he nearly replaced him with Hagar, who had just left the band Montrose. But Roth stayed put, namely because he worked so hard to improve his voice in 1977.

                      3. Ozzy Osbourne was reported missing after an epic coke binge with David Lee Roth

                      After Van Halen opened for Black Sabbath in Birmingham, Alabama in 1976, Roth and Ozzy “snorted enough cocaine to stop the hearts of a half-dozen men.” The next day, they staggered to their respective tour buses bound for Nashville. Ozzy, who had been up for days, stumbled into the hotel and walked into the wrong room, which was being cleaned. He yelled at the housekeeper to leave, locked the door and passed out for 24 hours. Black Sabbath's panicked management couldn't find him and canceled the Nashville show, and police even considered the possibility that he had been kidnapped. But just before the bus left, a bleary Ozzy wandered into the hotel lobby. "Guys were literally yelling, 'Ozzy's alive!' Renoff reports. That's probably not the first or last time anyone said that, but still...

                      4. There was a bitter"fashion clash" between Roth and the Van Halen brothers

                      Before Roth teamed up with Eddie and Alex in 1973, the brothers wore flannel shirts, jeans and desert boots when they played live. The considerably glammier Roth wore gold lame' platform shoes, hip-hugger pants and loudly-colored, open shirts. "The brothers didn't like his look," Renoff says."Roth went to a heavily integrated, black and Latino high school, so he was dressing like someone from Super Fly or Shaft. It was a real fashion clash." Little did the Van Halen brothers know that the freewheeling Roth would go on to regularly wear assless chaps onstage in the '80s.

                      5. Journey singer Steve Perry once stopped them from destroying a Sheraton hotel

                      While opening for Journey in 1978, Van Halen decided to destroy the entire 7th floor of a Sheraton in Madison, Wisconsin. They smashed lamps and mirrors, ripped bathroom doors off the hinges, had fire extinguisher fights and threw TVs, furniture, toilet seats and rotary phones out the window. Alex Van Halen was the worst culprit, but settled down after Perry stopped him and warned, "You know you're going to have to pay for that stuff." Nerd alert! The band later blamed the damage on Journey and thanked "Sheraton Hotel (seventh floor) Madison, Wisconsin" in the liner notes for Van Halen II.
                      Eat Us And Smile - The Originals

                      "I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth

                      "We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee Roth

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                      • private parts
                        Sniper
                        • Jan 2007
                        • 926

                        Originally posted by cadaverdog
                        I hope Ford doesn't see this.
                        Me too. Thread would be DE-railed
                        sigpic" You ever notice when I scream I sound like Mr. Bill on acid" DLR

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                        • cadaverdog
                          ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                          • Aug 2007
                          • 8955

                          Originally posted by private parts
                          Me too. Thread would be DE-railed
                          You mean re derailed. Derailing doesn't bother me because that's what happens in normal conversations. subjects get changed along the way.
                          Beware of Dog

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                          • PETE'S BROTHER
                            DIAMOND STATUS
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 12678

                            Originally posted by katina
                            Thank you very much, I had a great time in Pasadena, going there and back by taxi was one the funniest moments of this trip. I can say that we have one more VH fan. Being at Dave's hometown for the VH Rising book release was a moment that I will never forget. Tomorrow I have a long flight home, I am glad I have VH Rising with me and plenty of time to read it at the plane.
                            i wanna do it again!
                            Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!

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                            • Va Beach VH Fan
                              ROTH ARMY FOUNDER
                              • Dec 2003
                              • 17913

                              Mark Stone playing ATBL with Fan Halen....


                              Eat Us And Smile - The Originals

                              "I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth

                              "We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee Roth

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                              • PETE'S BROTHER
                                DIAMOND STATUS
                                • Feb 2007
                                • 12678

                                that was so much fun!
                                Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!

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