Originally Posted by
Jetstream
This is the sad state of affairs for Hagar, it does not matter if his voice has held up. It does not matter if he can sing in an unoriginal typical AOR voice on lame ass songs with a total lack of imagination be it good or bad. Hagar is fucking boring. His songs are fucking boring and therefore he sucks. Hell, I heard he did a couple of Zeppelin songs on his new 'live' LP. Can't blame him, his songs suck. The stellar music David and Edward have created is also the very problem that allows Roth to get away with a bunch of crap for the most part, because classic Van Halen is so damn great. Roth singing through a respirator and Alex on a water bucket, joined by Eddie attempting to play a bagpipe would be better than Hagar at his best, because the Van Halen catalog is light years better and uniquely legendary compared to the cliché run of the mill junk Hagar has to peddle with his healthy boring tone of a voice... Hagar at his best is average, and Van Halen at their worst is still more interesting