So HOW and WHEN do we...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

About Greg Renoff's book? He's doing a local book signing I will attend on Friday and I'll report back. I can't imagine this guy knows more than what has been discussed historically here at RA... DLR has always been pretty candid with us.

?? more to be revealed...

is jay goin' too?

[bantonelli]

Well, this makes it all the more intriguing. Terry Kilgore may be in attendance. Looking forward... and hearing some opinions/feedback...

JHale told me he's going to be there.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

cool, would be great to meet finally

[Fairwrning]

so jeans and a tshirt, tesla style. you wanna acoustic album next?

I liked the downtown sessions

[bantonelli]

cool, would be great to meet finally

Pete - are you going to be there too on Friday?

[PETE'S BROTHER]

I liked the downtown sessions

me too, they had scarves all over that one too

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Pete - are you going to be there too on Friday?

si, wife and i, and maybe katina and her husband (we offered to go pick 'em up and bring 'em back), vain of course and not sure whom else.

[Jetstream]

Saw the show in Houston, and Dave was damn good. He is not 1981 sparkle like a diamond, but he was more than sufficient to not only do another LP but tour with that bitch!

[Von Halen]

Then you're gonna be surprised very quickly when you read the book. I was skeptical at first as well, having read other fairly lame VH books, but the level of detail is very, very impressive. It's that good....

The details of the early days is so cool, and so thorough. Fucking great book. Unless the Van Halen's themselves write a book, you not going to get a better snapshot of the beginnings of the baddest motherfucking American rock band on the planet. Speaking of snapshots, Greg has some very cool photo's in this book.

[bantonelli]

Wow.... the skeptic that I am ... I'm actually getting a bit excited to attend with such endorsements by RA.

[DLR Bridge]

The book is from the flies on the wall from as way back as 1967. Their stories are absolutely fantastic. This book puts you there, believe me. I never doubted for a second that it would.

[ZahZoo]

Oh yeah, no doubt....

And, I think you'd also agree that his vocal performances got better as the tour went along as well.....

Something to be said of that little thing called "practice"... especially when it involves the human body. Great athletes do it... great musicians as well... maybe it's time for great entertainers... ya think?

What's sad is the whole concept of practice makes perfect is ingrained in Dave's passion for his martial arts crap... just needs to transfer that energy to honing his voice instead of some imaginary fight he'll never be in. How many dedicated and proficient martial art's experts pay a fat-assed fucking body guard to escort them their entire adult life..?

[ZahZoo]

me too, they had scarves all over that one too

Don't forget the hippy carpets hanging around too...

[VetteLS5]

great, greg can write a sequel, how a backyard band saved metal and then did an acoustic album for von and ford to try to keep dave more in tune with his age

Van Halen Drooping

[Northern Girl]

You ungrateful bastards...

I spent many nights on this board hoping and speculating and crasping for straws when Dave was playing 1.500 seater shit holes in Tunafish Alabama...

Now we have him back with Ed and Al and we got at least one new album which has some great tunes, some brilliant lyrics and which brought the band back on the road...

Now to the "act like your 60"-topic. That's exactly what they all do. In THEIR very individual way. Dave is the guy who gets his ass tattooed with a Japanese yakooza motive and ed is sporting a grey beard, jeans and a t-shirt. If you did expect Dave to calm down at 60 and grow up you chose the wrong band back in the day.

Dave is and will always be Dave! Diamond Dave! All you whining "oh he's doing the Liberace stuff"-bitches try Bon "half Jesus" Jovi or "full Jesus" Bono. If you lost your fucking sense of humour for the greatest frontman.

I always shook my head over one or the other move he was making. But as long as he is out there trying to entertain me and to throw a hell of a party I will except his invitation.

Yeah...his is voice isn't that strong anymore...boofuckinghoo...his singing was worse when I saw him 1988...so were his clothes.

Dave or the grave Motherfuckers!

Dirk from Germany...outstanding!!!