New EVH interview (Washington Post, April 2nd)

[VHscraps]

So, it seems that the secret project was to release the band's original WB demos - but, apparently, the tapes are lost. Then they tried working on bootlegs from the club days, didn't like what they heard, and finally they let Dave pick a live show - Tokyo Dome.


Q: You just released Van Halen’s first live record with Dave, “Tokyo Dome in Concert.”

A: We were trying to figure out what to do since we didn’t have time to put a studio record together.

[My son Wolfgang] is working on his own project. Dave is off doing his thing. What I originally wanted to do was remix the original 25 song demos. That would have been really cool. But the tapes are lost. They are gone. So that was out the window.

Then we started digging through bootlegs from the club days. We tried our best to make those sound good, but ultimately it wasn’t good enough to put out. The quality of the recording was so bad that we tried to enhance them and make them better. Once we made them better, you lost that fly-on-the-wall aspect of it. It just didn’t jive. So we decided, “How about a live record?”


Here's the link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...erican-rock-n/

[philouze]

I call bullshit on this one. They just didn't want to release anything with Mikey on it. That's just my opinion. Call me nuts, but that's what I happen to think.

[DavidLeeNatra]

sounds reasonable...

[philouze]

sounds reasonable...

What, Ed's answer or mine?

[vandeleur]

I call bullshit on this one. They just didn't want to release anything with Mikey on it. That's just my opinion. Call me nuts, but that's what I happen to think.

Nuts.

[VHscraps]

"the tapes are lost" ...

Yeah, sure.

[DLR Bridge]

Now THAT... is horrible news.

[philouze]

Nuts.

The day will come where you'll say "he was right".. Maybe.

[SunisinuS]

So that is why someone was digging at Dimebag's grave?

[DavidLeeNatra]

What, Ed's answer or mine?

both...it's Ed...

[DLR Bridge]

Sad thing is, even if his story is bullshit, he's going to stick with it forever. Someone should get WB on the phone and ask if their copies of the demos are safe and sound. I'm sure they are.

As far as the bootlegs goes, this knucklehead should hear the quality of some of the stuff on the Beatles Anthology set. No one ever complained about how any of that sounded.

What does he mean they didn't have time to record anything? When you're not working a day job, don't you have more time than you know what to do with? How long did VH II take to record?

I'm very troubled by this. Sincerely hope it's a day late April Fool's Day joke on us rabid lunatics.

[philouze]

Sad thing is, even if his story is bullshit, he's going to stick with it forever. Someone should get WB on the phone and ask if their copies of the demos are safe and sound. I'm sure they are.

As far as the bootlegs goes, this knucklehead should hear the quality of some of the stuff on the Beatles Anthology set. No one ever complained about how any of that sounded.

What does he mean they didn't have time to record anything? When you're not working a day job, don't you have more time than you know what to do with? How long did VH II take to record?

I'm very troubled by this. Sincerely hope it's a day late April Fool's Day joke on us rabid lunatics.

I'm outta thanks, but

Thanked DLR Bridge for this KICKASS post:
philouze (Today)

[Whorehey]

Did EVH say something to the effect, "theres things we'd like to do, but Dave is holding us back"?

[philouze]

Did EVH say something to the effect, "theres things we'd like to do, but Dave is holding us back"?

Since "Dave has the final word", I guess so..

[neuralfraud]

OK clearly we have a mole. Within the first page, Ed has seemingly addressed every single fucking complaint I've managed to ever read on this board!

:P

Remix the demos? Check
Release some archive/bootlegs? Check
Y U NO RELEASE STUDIO ALBUM? Check
and then goes on to say "we will probably hunker down and do a studio record".

alrighty then!