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You never know until you look at the books. Johnny Depp blew a $800 million wad. People assume he's rich. He still has a line of credit because he still has leaches working for him.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Wouldn't hurt either if he learned a bit about MA's clean sound and timing synchronization with Uncle Al too..."If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”Comment
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Boris Becker’s spending has been pretty spectacular too.
Wolfgang really doesn’t strike me as being that interesting though...Comment
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Wolfang is about as interesting as the people who pick up your trash. In fact. Those people might be even more interesting.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Haha! Mike is fuck em all. He downsized to a smaller home closer to the beach. Still has enough fast cars to have lot's of fun until he kicks the bucket. He's slowed down on his Jack Daniel's consumption to last a few more years.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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If he doesn't play Two Sides Of Love, I'll just...die!!!!
Just thinking about it makes me feel like Marcia in that Brady Bunch episode where she tries to get Davey Jones to sing at her school dance.Scramby eggs and bacon.Comment
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I agree with not enjoying the record from a sonic perspective... the only mix I enjoy is the vinyl version. It's only helped by the limitations of the vinyl itself. But my ears prefer those limitations because the sonic range breathes much more.
Here's a good article on the mixing of ADKOT... the 3rd to last entry details the technical aspects of what they aimed for in the final mix targeting CD's, MP3's and fucking ear buds. SMH... fucking ear buds!! Translating it down to those mediums fucked up the end result immensely... This is where the great Van Halen sound went to die in my professional assessment...
http://www.vhnd.com/2012/07/15/ross-...kind-of-truth/
When the album first came out and I was listening to it frequently, I was always wondering why it was mixed the way it was...as in, why the hell was it mixed that way.Scramby eggs and bacon.Comment
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That article actually makes the way the product was mixed make more sense to me, as the only time I could really get it to sound halfway decent at a loud volume was to put the CD into my boom box and listen to it with headphones or put the cd into my hard drive and listen to it with headphones: my attempts at playing it loud without headphones always resulted in a mid-range mush just the louder I turned it up.
When the album first came out and I was listening to it frequently, I was always wondering why it was mixed the way it was...as in, why the hell was it mixed that way.
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Because fucking everything nowadays is mixed that way. If it's music or movies. If you watch "old" music on proTools it looks like mountains and a forrest. Now it looks like a fucking sausage. Normalized crap for iPhones and shitty headphones.
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A CVH tour with Wolf opening won't happen for the same reason nothing happens with these guys: it makes too much fucking sense. Vh rides off in to the sunset with the original lineup and Ed gets to hang out with his kid while touring. Works for me. New album with Mike? Yeah, the odds of that are even less than a tour with Mike, imo.
If the tour was to happen, I'd hope Dave would see it for what it is and step up his game like he did in 07-08. He coasted through the last couple of tours, with obvious results.Comment
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I agree with this and it takes me back to a thread I started here a long time ago and was reminded of when reading Monk's book. He basically stated what I thought, that Van Halen was burned out by the constant touring by the end of 1981 and needed a break and some vacations that might temper the constant drug and alcohol use indicative to a young band on the road in their era. But of course "(Oh) Pretty Woman" changed that and Warner pushed for more and yet more constant recording and unbroken touring took place until everything was untenable. Although, perhaps a breakup was inevitable in any case IDK. It does seem that Ed wanted to stand back a bit and slow down but lost any ability to collaborate in this period with the building of 5150 coinciding with Alex Van Halen consolidating his power as the (alcoholic) leader of the band and pushing Roth out...
The problem is process, as in there isn't any. The six pack featured creative input from nearly everyone and Roth was able to give Eddie much needed feedback on what was good and on what sucked. As Monk stated, despite all his problems with Roth being a "sociopath" narcissist, he "knew what the people wanted" whereas Ed was becoming entranced with less pop and a more artistic approach that brought Fairwarning, perhaps their best (but least commercially successful) album, one that required payola to reach platinum sales. Ed basically turned his back on a winning formula and gradually became the king of his hermit kingdom at 5150. That's why AKOT sort of sucks in my opinion, it was done by phone-in. That's now how real bands work...Comment
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