Dave confirms in interview with Dave Flourintine that he has been jammin with Eddie,Alex ,an Wolfie at 5150 and should be ready in 18 months.
Dave confirms in interview with Dave Flourintine that he has been jammin with Eddie,Alex ,an Wolfie at 5150 and should be ready in 18 months.
Dude they had the interview up here somewhere
fuck your fucking framing
It's been talked about in here already - funny enough, VHND.com are only mentioning it now, though it's old news (last August 23rd) because
... but they don't say why they didn't post the info in late August.The interview was posted online a month ago and has been getting a lot of attention. It seems that all the websites who mention it are under the impression that it’s a recent interview. However, this interview was actually conducted on Aug 23rd, over 3 months ago.
When the interview was uploaded a month ago, we decided not to report on it, because it was already old news, as David had been saying pretty much the same thing in other various interviews that we featured over the summer.
We are presenting the interview now because a lot of people think it’s new. And, let’s face it, people really get excited when a member of Van Halen mentions the possibility of new music, even when the news isn’t particularly fresh.
Read more: http://www.vhnd.com/2013/12/01/new-v...#ixzz2mLB6PrL5
http://www.vhnd.com/2013/12/01/new-v...-tour-in-2015/
UPI News service has picked up the story, and "Van Halen" is "trending" #1 on Yahoo right now (whatever the fuck that means... I'm assuming it's a Twitter thing)
http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/12/02/V...1201386001956/
Eternally Under the Authority of Satan
Originally Posted by Sockfucker
It's cool to know that they're still working.
I think they can do better than ADKOT - but hiring a producer who will bust their balls is essential to it.
The Power Of The Riff Compels Me
Huge Yawn!
When you turn on your stereo, does it return the favor?
We need a :hugeyawn: smiley...
***does a shot of Jack Daniels***
***builds a sandcastle out of couch crumbs***
the statement about the new album is as true as the one about the tour to Europe and the rest of the world.
Roth Army Icon
First official owner of ADKOT (Deluxe Version)
That's true, unfortunately. It sure sounds good, but things change in a blink. So what's the count down at, 15 months now? Sheesh, that's a long time with the window left wide open.the statement about the new album is as true as the one about the tour to Europe and the rest of the world.
It is odd Jerome, but the story gained traction (again) over the weekend as if it was "breaking news." I heard it on several different places including XM Radio, and my son came running to me with the news because he saw it on the web.
"Soon" is always a relative term when it comes to new music from VH-land....so I take it all with a grain of salt.
Originally posted by perilouspete
fryingdutchman you pretty much own everyone.....sick comebacks, well put. top class wit.
Good news. WTG…want a cookie or something? Remember the span between VH and VHII? Yeah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLlUgilKqms
That about sums it up for me….tell me what you're doing and HOPEFULLY it'll get done…when it is it will roll over me like a steamroller and I'll like it. Until then…mat that sonofabitch…time's a wastin'!
Interesting that VH is still trending on Yahoo three days after this non-news story dropped.
My karma just ran over your dogma.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen Hawking
Did everybody read the entire interview? I think Dave is either senile or he's started repeating his answers from 1982. They spent how much time on the last album cover??
American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
And they spend how much time on stage design and lighting design??? How long does it take to draw a little drum riser, a square for that gay dance pad and some rectangles for those couple of amps they tote around? Five minutes, if you figure in a smoke break. 45 if you take a call from Warf in the middle of it. Dave sounds like he's pretty far removed from anything going on at Ed's house. And he tends to say what he wants to see happen, as opposed to what is happening. Which is good - maybe it'll get Ed off the couch. I know Al's up for another record and tour - he probably blew through all his tour money three weeks after they wrapped it up, lol.
Consider how boring the rest of the world is at the moment...
"If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”
lol it is the next day and it is now: Trending Now on yahoo...
Watch the show »
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David Lee Roth
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Lena Headey
Can't Control your Future. Can't Control your Friends. The women start to hike their skirts up. I didn't have a clue. That is when I kinda learned how to smile a lot. One Two Three Fouir fun ter thehr fuur.
This should earn you a thanks from Heater, who's convinced all we do is kiss ass around here.
Dude - nobody's sacred. Not even the once Mighty Van Halen or Dave. Besides, the stage does suck balls. Now, let me put on my headphones so I don't have to listen to a chorus of "you should be happy with what you get!!" Yeah, where was that little mantra when Gary was doing the Dance Of The Flaming Assholes?This should earn you a thanks from Heater, who's convinced all we do is kiss ass around here.
Disagree on the stage.. It's flat and the guys are on it. That screen is really where it's at. Not a bad seat in the house with that sucker lit up! Keep spending the money on that!
You got me on the screen - it is pretty killer.
True, but I remember not being so thrilled with the '07-'08 stage. Watching clips from that tour (thanks to whomever mans the RA FB page) and I now like it. It has something going on. It has a shape. This past tour, they may as well have been standing on a flatbed 18 wheeler. Screens are nice, but I try to watch the actual people as much as I can at shows.
The best staging is center floor...in the round...
I think for the next tour Wolfie should do a bass solo while flying around the arena in a jet pack!
Agreed. I saw Metallica a few years back and they did the stage in the round... VERY cool! I'd LOVE for VH to pull that off with a nice wrap-around jumbo-tron screen..
But where would they hock their loogies and puff their e-cigs?
And bang those 45 year old groupies wearing leather skirts and high heels and too much make up? Where would they keep Wolfie's stash of foot long meatball subs??
I'm not sure they can do better than ADKOT, although if they manage to come up with an album's worth of tracks that are on par with AS IS and Honeybabysweetiedoll THAT would be an album worth getting.
They'll never work with a producer who gives them a proper ass-kicking. They've been too successful for too long to bother with tolerating someone behind the mixing board saying "yeah, guys, that's a good tune, but not a great one... and I think you guys can do better."
But, you never know. Frankly, I was surprised they even bothered making ADKOT, and they didn't just phone the whole album in, to boot! They were all actually making an effort.
Anything else Van Halen does, even with Dave fronting, is just gravy to me at this point. The band said all it ever needed to from 1978 to 1984. Anything beyond is just icing.
Scramby eggs and bacon.
Yeah, pretty much this ^. I mean, what are the actual expectations at this point? Are they looking for something like a hit? Something ground breaking? Something classic sounding? What is it that they want to hear from themselves? Who are they trying to appeal to most at this point? They've satisfied much of the die hard fans. Are they looking to pull in more? I know, I ask a lot.
Personally, I'm still hoping for a cd of Drop Dead Legs meets Hear About It Later with a sprinkling of Coconut Grove topped off with some Stay While The Night Is Young. Sans floor music.
It's just...see, by the time 1995 rolled around, I had pretty much stopped even caring about what Van Halen did. And, truth be told, I hadn't really been keeping up with what Roth was doing, either. I wasn't bowled over with YFLM (it took a long time to grow on me, and even THEN I only REALLY enjoyed about half the tracks, with the other half falling along the lines of 'well, I guess I'll give Dave points for trying something unexpected even if the results weren't so great).
Then a year later I hear the Humans Being track and it kinda demonstrated some of the spirit and sonics that I liked so much when CVH was around - even with Hagar on vocals, the track conjured up some of old magic in a way that precious few tracks released after Roth left managed to.
Then the band is back in the studio with Roth, then they all make an appearance at the VMAs, and I'm just fucking stoked. I dug the two new BOV1 tracks they did with Dave: they sounded like a great starting point for a new era of CVH. Was anticipating a new album, new tour, then...kaput. But the whole pathetic biz of the 1996 Roth debacle rekindled my interest in Dave's career.
Like many, from 1997 on I hoped Roth would rejoin the band. But I gotta tell you, ten years is a long time to wait, and by the time he finally came back in 2006 it wasn't really the same feeling of ten years prior. It was more like "about fucking time." And in those ten years, while I lost not one iota of appreciation for what CVH did back in the day, 3/4s of of a reconstituted CVH was no longer like the Second Coming for me. Yeah, it's good they finally got back together and toured and I got to see 'em in 2008 and 2012. Yeah, ADKOT is a good album. However, nothing they've done since 2006 is on the level of what the band did from 1978 to 1984. I suppose there was really no reason to think it would be, aside from my own overblown expectations ("Man, if Dave rejoins the band, it'll be like 1981 all over again!"...um, not quite). I'm not even thinking that Mike Anthony rejoining is the missing piece that's gonna somehow return the band to their halcyon days. Those days are gone forever. They were probably gone forever back in 1996 even when Roth was in the studio working on the BOV1 tracks.
If Van Halen keeps on putting out records, I'll probably keep buying them, but even if they keep touring I can easily envision not even being bothered enough to go see 'em. In 2008 Ed was too fucked up to play well. In 2012 Dave seemingly couldn't be bothered (or was unable) to sing well half the time he was onstage. You know, how many tours do I need to see to confirm that the band ain't what it used to be, and is never gonna be what it used to be? I'd rather remember them when they were kings than keep shelling out premium prices every few years to witness a band in a steady decline. All of this isn't necessarily a slam against the band, but...it's just age, you know?
Damn well said, Terry.
I feel the same way but wasn't gonna get all heady. Thanks for doing the dirty work Terry!
Back to what a follow up might be like to ADKOT, I think they can squeeze a few more gems outta the vault and another batch of new songs as they did before. I'd be fine with that, but I think they need to be done in a way that could be pulled off live. We can't have a Chinatown incident again and As Is was ducked out of clearly because it would have been a work out for Dave live. I hear ya Terry on the live front, but you can't let what their doing now tarnish your vision of the glory days. Every band goes through this victory lap phase of their career and you just take it for what it is. People haven't stopped seeing the Stones and there is nothing creative or energetic left in their tank. If VH hangs it up, I'm ok with that. If they keep on puttering around at their usual snails pace, I'll take that too. It's holding my breathe for anything that has finally ended.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the '07-'08 stage was a castoff design from Prince.
Does anybody else remember hearing or reading that? Or am I barking mad? It's been awhile and in my advanced years my powers of recollection are waning.
Anyway...if it's true to any extent it further undermines Dave's claims that they do it all themselves....
LMFAO at "Dance of the Flaming Assholes"
Prince cast offs .... That's a sign of the times
That was the stage formerly known as Prince.
But Dave personally made 80 phone calls to design the stage for Prince, so they could use it when he was done with it.
For some of you that are still wearing the DLR goggles, welcome to Dave's World.
That's news to me, but sounds totally believable.
After the 1996 MTV blowup --- a big chunk of the VH spirit within me died and never fully recovered. I attended 2 shows on the 2007-08 tour and I loved it, but I agree with your sentiments that it felt more like "well it's about fucking time" than any sort of real excitement about the greatest rock band reuniting and blazing a new trail.
Plus, the '96 MTV fiasco opened my eyes about the true nature of EVH. He was no longer the innocent genius guitarist who was picked on by mean ole Dave. He was now the deceptive dickhead who tricked all the fans into believing something they desperately wanted, only to sell a few extra records. I saw how evil Eddie could be after that moment, and it ruined my image of him forever.
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