Dave's Best VH Vocal Studio Perfomance.

[Heater]

OK, I will start a thread I don't seem to recall seeing previously. Easy to read, not so easy to answer. What 1 song from the first 6 albums along with ADKOT is Dave's Best vocal performance? No "it's between 'x' and y' or if 'a' had the verse of 'q' it would be killer. Nope, what studio somg is Dave's best performance?

I'll start, and after takng it out for a windows down drive around my hood, i felt pretty badass. I think Dave's best performance on a VH record is "Mean Street".

[DLR Bridge]

Difficult indeed. Taking execution only into consideration here, I come up with I'm The One.

[BiG_Troubles]

OK, I will start a thread I don't seem to recall seeing previously. Easy to read, not so easy to answer. What 1 song from the first 6 albums along with ADKOT is Dave's Best vocal performance? No "it's between 'x' and y' or if 'a' had the verse of 'q' it would be killer. Nope, what studio somg is Dave's best performance?

I'll start, and after takng it out for a windows down drive around my hood, i felt pretty badass. I think Dave's best performance on a VH record is "Mean Street".

Id go with Women in Love

[Dave's Bitch]

Runnin' with the Devil

[hambon4lif]

Light Up The Sky

[Dave's Bitch]

hanbom4lif, I like your avatar

[perrin29]

Hear About It Later is one of my favourite vocals.

[Nigel]

Since you picked "Mean Street" which is my favorite from my fave album
I'll go with Fools from my second favorite album, cos it actually sounds LIVE just like the rest of the record.

[ELVIS]

Outta Love Again...

[Romeo Delight]

I think Dave was his strongest on Van Halen II. Hard to choose from that album...Apart from that Mean Street is so killer on many levels. So many interesting songwriting and vocals - Little Guitars, I'll Wait

[vandeleur]

Not my fav song but Dance the night away is a good example of daves vocal dynamics

[CreatureFrmTheC]

Secrets

[Kristy]

'Ain't Talking 'Bout Love'

All others were nothing more than homoerotica for his strange, strange fans.

[Jetstream]

"Push Comes to Shove" and "Easy Street"

[chefcraig]

"Could This Be Magic" from WACF. Raggedy, fun-filled, full of promise and humor, it helped define an attitude that set apart and above Van Halen from all other hard rock low lifers in the late 1970s. Take that Jourknee, Styxnks and REO Spentwagon...

[smorgdonkey]

Light Up The Sky

That's my choice too. I don't know if I am influenced in that I find it also perhaps the strongest lyrically or not but it is a great vocal performance.

[ELVIS]

I think Dave was his strongest on Van Halen II.

I've been saying that since 1999...

[ELVIS]

Romeo Delight is great too, BTW...

[ELVIS]

And mean Street...

[ELVIS]

And So This Is Love...

[ELVIS]

And On Fire...

[ELVIS]

"Easy Street"

Some unlazy fuck like WARF should start a post VH Best Dave vocal thread...

[Jetstream]

Cool, I get a freebie... "Fools"

[ashstralia]

Skyscraper the song. Massively underrated.

[Seshmeister]

Really?
Good for testing your new speakers but as a song it's more a lesson in why we need producers to stop the artists asking what does this button do.

[ashstralia]

I'm in a little subset here. A skyscraper lover. (the album)

[vaijuju]

Hina for me !

[DLR Bridge]

Really?
Good for testing your new speakers but as a song it's more a lesson in why we need producers to stop the artists asking what does this button do.

Oh that producer (Vai) knew exactly what he was doing. He pulled out all of his Flex-Able tricks on that album. I'm amazed he didn't convince Dave to take a stab at a cover of Little Green Men.

[ashstralia]

Large Heads!

[ashstralia]

Something off of a movie screen.

[DLR Bridge]

Little Green Men about four foot
Maybe they want to kick some butt

[VHscraps]

Not my fav song but Dance the night away is a good example of daves vocal dynamics

That tune, in vocal terms - like a lot of VHII - has quite interesting melodic turns and ups and downs. It was pretty obvious that Dave didn't listen to the likes of Ian Gillan or Robert Plant or the popular hard rock singers. I'm not a musician, but his vocal melodies, patterns and fills just come from somewhere else.

I get tired of people saying Dave could never sing. He was a great vocalist, and a unique vocal stylist within the hard rock field - sure, he wasn't Pavarotti, but this is rock'n'roll.

I was visiting another VH forum where a lot of Hagar fans hangout, and someone recently posted some film of VH in 1996. The band opened with a tune called 'The Seventh Seal' and the first thing that occurred to me was that this was a song with almost ZERO in the vocal melody department, or zero vocally interesting. I mean, cookie-cutter hard rock metal melodically boring vocal.

That's the difference. Dave had a wider palette to draw from because he didn't just listen to hard rock.

People maybe tend to overlook what made VH unique was also the fact that they were a vocal band in a way that no other hard rock band had really been before.

And a lot of Dave's vocal melodies, you can subtract the music / instrumentation, and there is still a song there that does not need music to hold it up. DTNA is a good example of that.

I pick 'Light Up the Sky' - but it is near impossible to perform live, because of the almost overlapping lines in the verses. You'd need two sets of lungs to sing it like the record, or two Daves onstage.

[Seshmeister]

Dave's last solo band being CVH fans tried a couple of times to get him to do LUTS but he wasn't having it.

[ELVIS]

or two Daves onstage.

Hahahahaha...

[ELVIS]

How 'bout these two...

[ELVIS]

Or these two...

[VHscraps]

How 'bout these two...

Yeah, these two.

He reminds me of Jerry Lewis in the Nutty Professor in that high school photo - before the transformation.

[BITEYOASS]

I'd go with the "Women and Children First" album. Mainly because he was able to sing that good all while driking JD. That was the most relaxed party album out of the whole six-pack.

[Jetstream]

Dave had the most control of the 'scream' of any rock singer. The man could actually pull off a scream with vibrato and could put a decrescendo on it. People talk about how he did not take care of his voice with the cigarettes and all but there is no proper way to scream and save ones voice over a period of time. If Dave could still do his trademark use of screaming, I doubt we would have to endure his attempt at singing past his octave register lol

[BumBahDeeDah]

BOOM! Top of my head, very little thinkin! In a Simple Rhyme?!