Dave Played A Corporate Home Depot Gig Last Week In Vegas

[Von Halen]

No, I'm not posting pics or video, because I'm too lazy to look for them. But, they're out there.

[Rikk]

I once prank-called Home Depot and asked them to go down the list of all the construction pieces I would need to re-build as LOVE GUN-era KISS stage in my backyard. They were surprisingly helpful, didn't notice my giggles and let me waste a lot of time.

I was young and stupid...but they did help me come up with a great way to construct the dual lit-staircases.

[Terry]

No, I'm not posting pics or video, because I'm too lazy to look for them. But, they're out there.

Truth be told, I think I'm gonna pass on looking for them.

[twonabomber]

https://consequence.net/2023/03/davi...nes-las-vegas/

[Von Halen]

Truth be told, I think I'm gonna pass on looking for them.

I would recommend NOT watching the video. At least not with sound.

[Nickdfresh]

I once prank-called Home Depot and asked them to go down the list of all the construction pieces I would need to re-build as LOVE GUN-era KISS stage in my backyard. They were surprisingly helpful, didn't notice my giggles and let me waste a lot of time.

I was young and stupid...but they did help me come up with a great way to construct the dual lit-staircases.

They don't give a fuck, they're paid by the hour. You probably helped them by blocking the really annoying construction co. asshole calls...

[Nickdfresh]

When did Dave become Don Rickles?

[Rikk]

I would recommend NOT watching the video. At least not with sound.

Poor Dave. When I was nine-years-old, I could not in my wildest dreams imagine a guy cooler than him.

[Von Halen]

So, if Dave cut those waste of time Van Halen remakes in the studio with no affects and no auto tune, how the fuck does he sound so BAD at that HD corporate gig?

[Terry]

I would recommend NOT watching the video. At least not with sound.

I had a feeling.

Good for him if he wants the work and somebody is willing to pay, but...nope. I'm out.

[Von Halen]

Just think, if I were over at the Links and posted the truth like that about Clichegar, that bitch boy Bertt would ban me!

[Seshmeister]

It's kind of odd that Dave posted those new versions of CVH songs on Spotify with his new band showing he can still sing and then does a corporate for an amount of money that will be insane to any of us maybe 5 figures but just can't be life changing to him and then put in that performance.

It's so strange that he doesn't realize that the audience will not accept him changing the vocal melodies of his most famous songs.

Who else ever did that and everyone was fine with it?

[Terry]

Poor Dave. When I was nine-years-old, I could not in my wildest dreams imagine a guy cooler than him.

Dude was the shit back in the CVH days.

Started to get a bit cringeworthy with that Sam and Dave tour...bizarro appearance.

Pulled his act together for that first VH reunion tour. Far as I'm concerned, Roth CARRIED that fuckin' tour.

Since then, he hasn't sung worth a damn and I can't even get through a full-length interview with him.

I will say the newer solo tracks he has put up online over the last several years had some good stuff to my ears. I guess doing the CVH stuff is his bread and butter, but he has been mangling that stuff live for so long now...bit of a shame...I mean, shit, I don't even have an interest in hearing him sing that stuff for free anymore.

Bozdy bozdy bop dede bop.

[Rikk]

Just think, if I were over at the Links and posted the truth like that about Clichegar, that bitch boy Bertt would ban me!

He's an online Nazi Cunt.

[Kristy]

Gee, I'm stunned by this wonderful news. While the other Dave, you know sex rock god Dave Gahan is playing to sold out shows every night to audiences of 60,000 or more your sad little has-been is doing a corporate gig for CEOs and managers to cheap to play their employees Christmas bonus much less a raise in the back room of a Home Depot warehouse. Let me guess, did Mr. Roth play the "hits"? I'm sure he did with his backing band of union musicians and a rented P.A. system - just like the good old days. Shame this gig was not in Las Vegas, he would have already cancelled it.

[FORD]

So, if Dave cut those waste of time Van Halen remakes in the studio with no affects and no auto tune, how the fuck does he sound so BAD at that HD corporate gig?

Maybe he wasn't kidding about mixing the vicodin & vodka? That combination would make anybody sound like shit. Assuming they could stay conscious long enough to sound like shit.

[Terry]

He's an online Nazi Cunt.

He's a lame piece of shit.

Was a thread here once about his site. Commented that I had been there once or twice, looked around, didn't care for the vibe of the place and didn't bother posting there.

Guy comes over here to post HIS comment about my comment about the links, his comment being along the lines of he was awesome/his site was recognized by the band/he was friends with Eddie Van Halen/who the fuck am I to say anything about his website. Mind you, I wasn't going onto HIS site and commenting that I had no use for it. Never even had an interaction with the guy prior. Fucking dimwitted psycho with delusions of grandeur over the importance of his website comes over here to be cyber tough guy.

It's like, you run a popular website about Van Halen. Okay. So?

Based on the slant I saw on the site however many years back it was now since that interaction, wouldn't surprise me if he was sniffing Ed's kid's shit-stained underwear and swearing it smelled like roses: if you're a fan of someone to the point where you find zero fault in anything they do ever, you might as well call yourself a cult member.

Whatever. Fuck that guy and his Hagar-friendly site.

[Terry]

It's kind of odd that Dave posted those new versions of CVH songs on Spotify with his new band showing he can still sing and then does a corporate for an amount of money that will be insane to any of us maybe 5 figures but just can't be life changing to him and then put in that performance.

It's so strange that he doesn't realize that the audience will not accept him changing the vocal melodies of his most famous songs.

Who else ever did that and everyone was fine with it?

He was dicking around with the vocal melodies live in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2006. Cut him some slack during those years because they were either opening gig slots or headlining slots at small venues with fairly inexpensive ticket prices.

He pulled it together quite well (for him) in 2007.

Come 2012, he's out there fucking around with the melodies but now he's fronting Van Halen and sounding terrible at premium ticket prices (vs. now, where he sounds terrible at any price). Seeing that ADKOT tour show was when I finally acknowledged Roth was no longer good enough to do the material justice live and the spectacle of him as a performer had waned to where he was just this weird anachronistic shadow of what he had formerly been. That point, it's like fuck it, it's over.

[Seshmeister]

He was dicking around with the vocal melodies live in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2006. Cut him some slack during those years because they were either opening gig slots or headlining slots at small venues with fairly inexpensive ticket prices.

He pulled it together quite well (for him) in 2007.

So you and I saw the 2007/2008 'Dave saves the fucking day tour' where he somehow dragged a 16 year old child and an old drunk guy through an arena tour.

Panama like DTNA and a few others over the last 10 years have always been not good to the extent that that they made you forget about the ones that were fine.

Anyhoo as it happens the gig I was at in Baltmore back then has a great video and I went back and looked tonight and even Panama was absolutely fine vocally.



Maybe around the last time Dave didn't ruin Panama which is a bit of consolation as it was the most I have ever spent going to a gig and ever will ...?

[ZahZoo]

It's kind of odd that Dave posted those new versions of CVH songs on Spotify with his new band showing he can still sing and then does a corporate for an amount of money that will be insane to any of us maybe 5 figures but just can't be life changing to him and then put in that performance.

It's so strange that he doesn't realize that the audience will not accept him changing the vocal melodies of his most famous songs.

Who else ever did that and everyone was fine with it?

Far as I could tell by what was posted Dave only performed Panama... Doubt he was paid 5 figures for that and his performance sucked elephant balls...

[Seshmeister]

I bet he got more than $10k, you would be surprised at the cash these guys get, Vince Neil minimum appearance rate starts at $65k.

Couldn't find a price for DLR but Sammy Hagar is quoted at $80-$116k !

https://seattletalentbuying.com/artists/

[twonabomber]

Sammy Hagar is quoted at $80-$116k !

https://seattletalentbuying.com/artists/

yeah but Sammy "doesn't need the money..."

[Nitro Express]

He's a lame piece of shit.

Was a thread here once about his site. Commented that I had been there once or twice, looked around, didn't care for the vibe of the place and didn't bother posting there.

Guy comes over here to post HIS comment about my comment about the links, his comment being along the lines of he was awesome/his site was recognized by the band/he was friends with Eddie Van Halen/who the fuck am I to say anything about his website. Mind you, I wasn't going onto HIS site and commenting that I had no use for it. Never even had an interaction with the guy prior. Fucking dimwitted psycho with delusions of grandeur over the importance of his website comes over here to be cyber tough guy.

It's like, you run a popular website about Van Halen. Okay. So?

Based on the slant I saw on the site however many years back it was now since that interaction, wouldn't surprise me if he was sniffing Ed's kid's shit-stained underwear and swearing it smelled like roses: if you're a fan of someone to the point where you find zero fault in anything they do ever, you might as well call yourself a cult member.

Whatever. Fuck that guy and his Hagar-friendly site.

I think true fans are honest. If the entertainer you like is starting to suck let them know it. You definitely would do this in your favorite restaurant if the food started to suck. Anyways if you say a sucky performance is great you are an enabler and not a fan.

[Nitro Express]

He was dicking around with the vocal melodies live in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2006. Cut him some slack during those years because they were either opening gig slots or headlining slots at small venues with fairly inexpensive ticket prices.

He pulled it together quite well (for him) in 2007.

Come 2012, he's out there fucking around with the melodies but now he's fronting Van Halen and sounding terrible at premium ticket prices (vs. now, where he sounds terrible at any price). Seeing that ADKOT tour show was when I finally acknowledged Roth was no longer good enough to do the material justice live and the spectacle of him as a performer had waned to where he was just this weird anachronistic shadow of what he had formerly been. That point, it's like fuck it, it's over.

It’s been over for a long time. Some things just don’t age well. Dave is like beer. He was great when he came out of the brewery fresh but he’s really skunked now.

If Sam wants to charge to be a party clown then whatever. That’s capitalism and fools and their money are soon departed.

[Nitro Express]

Dave is like the washed up actress in the movie Sunset Blvd. He’s living in his own delusion now and it’s ugly to see. It’s called narcissism.

[Nitro Express]

I once prank-called Home Depot and asked them to go down the list of all the construction pieces I would need to re-build as LOVE GUN-era KISS stage in my backyard. They were surprisingly helpful, didn't notice my giggles and let me waste a lot of time.

I was young and stupid...but they did help me come up with a great way to construct the dual lit-staircases.

The Home Depot was started by some great guys and once was a good outfit but as soon as the the controlling shares get sold and it becomes owned by the capital investment firms everything goes to shit.

[Nickdfresh]

yeah but Sammy "doesn't need the money..."

If I didn't think it abhorrent to pay sam money, I'd start a Go Fund Me to pay him not to play....

[Nickdfresh]

I bet he got more than $10k, you would be surprised at the cash these guys get, Vince Neil minimum appearance rate starts at $65k.

Couldn't find a price for DLR but Sammy Hagar is quoted at $80-$116k !

https://seattletalentbuying.com/artists/

[Nitro Express]

I will give a guy like Ed Van Halen a hall pass for some fuckery. I mean these guys don’t live the healthiest lifestyles in the world but nor do they claim to be a saint. Ed needed a better woman in his life. I mean Val has a wake of failed marriages behind her and she uses social media like a psychiatrist. I’m like holy shit! This bitch is nuts. No wonder Ed isolated himself and crawled into the bottle. Years of that and feeling you needed to stay in it for your kid. It drove Ed so low he literally became a bum.

Ed gets a new woman and he becomes a new man. Fuck. He’s got a twinkle in his eye. A big smile. He started playing great again. If anything Ed got to go out on top and thank’s Janie and sorry for your loss but you brought Ed back to a dignified place.

Roth just ran out of gas. He tried. He really did but Father Time sometimes is a cruel son of a bitch.

Sam? The best way I can describe him is he’s like pubic lice. He’s always crawling around and irritating and hard to make go away.

[Nitro Express]

He's an online Nazi Cunt.

Ha! That place is still around? It was the lamest of the lame. I guess it still is.

[Nitro Express]

I can remember all the turds that would say they had VH inside information. The VH forums were full of them. Hungry fans were wasting their time on the internet hoping to hear some truth. None to be found. Everyone was full of shit.

The truth was Valerie had driven Ed into being a walking corpse. VH was doing nothing because years of her and then feeling like you are a failure to your kid because of a divorce took ol Ed into the Devil’s rectum. But nobody knew anything because Ed had become Howard Hughes and locked himself up and I guess his house started to look like the haunted mansion with cobwebs, dust and shit.

[Terry]

So you and I saw the 2007/2008 'Dave saves the fucking day tour' where he somehow dragged a 16 year old child and an old drunk guy through an arena tour.

Panama like DTNA and a few others over the last 10 years have always been not good to the extent that that they made you forget about the ones that were fine.

Anyhoo as it happens the gig I was at in Baltmore back then has a great video and I went back and looked tonight and even Panama was absolutely fine vocally.



Maybe around the last time Dave didn't ruin Panama which is a bit of consolation as it was the most I have ever spent going to a gig and ever will ...?

I'd say Ed started off well on that 2007/2008 tour...from the videos I've seen of the dates on the first leg of the tour, he sounded like he was playing well. Perhaps not quite 100% up to where he had been in the CVH days, but well enough.

I think Ed relapsed in early 2008 then sort of recovered again toward the end of the tour.

But, yeah, Dave upped his game for 2007/2008. A noticeable improvement over what I'd seen at those 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2006 gigs. And rightfully so, because in 2007/2008 he wasn't opening for Bad Company or on a double bill with Hagar or playing a slot sandwiched in a multi-band lineup at a State Fair/County Expo/Ribfest or doing a solo gig at a 1,000-seat theater: he was fronting Van Halen and headlining 15,000 seat arenas.

[Terry]

I can remember all the turds that would say they had VH inside information. The VH forums were full of them. Hungry fans were wasting their time on the internet hoping to hear some truth. None to be found. Everyone was full of shit.

The truth was Valerie had driven Ed into being a walking corpse. VH was doing nothing because years of her and then feeling like you are a failure to your kid because of a divorce took ol Ed into the Devil’s rectum. But nobody knew anything because Ed had become Howard Hughes and locked himself up and I guess his house started to look like the haunted mansion with cobwebs, dust and shit.

From what I remember, Blabbermouth was always getting the 'inside story' wrong.

[Terry]

Headlining a club in St. Louis that holds 60 people at $10 to $15 a head?

A preview of where the career is heading after the corporate gigs dry up.

[Rikk]

He's a lame piece of shit.

Was a thread here once about his site. Commented that I had been there once or twice, looked around, didn't care for the vibe of the place and didn't bother posting there.

Guy comes over here to post HIS comment about my comment about the links, his comment being along the lines of he was awesome/his site was recognized by the band/he was friends with Eddie Van Halen/who the fuck am I to say anything about his website. Mind you, I wasn't going onto HIS site and commenting that I had no use for it. Never even had an interaction with the guy prior. Fucking dimwitted psycho with delusions of grandeur over the importance of his website comes over here to be cyber tough guy.

It's like, you run a popular website about Van Halen. Okay. So?

Based on the slant I saw on the site however many years back it was now since that interaction, wouldn't surprise me if he was sniffing Ed's kid's shit-stained underwear and swearing it smelled like roses: if you're a fan of someone to the point where you find zero fault in anything they do ever, you might as well call yourself a cult member.

Whatever. Fuck that guy and his Hagar-friendly site.

That's EXACTLY what he did to me.

I tried to remain pretty neutral during the few years I was at that site. I (FORD too) made it clear that Dave was the singer for me...no competition. But I basically tried to be peaceful.

Summer of 2000...little Bretty was a lot more patient with posters like me and FORD because everyone in the VH world was excited about the so-called reunion album "Tabula" whatever. And it never happened.

Early 2004, the Sam reunion tour talk started. I'd previously been a little patient with Shammy-fans, even posting things like, "The music in BLACK 'N' BLUE is very good," which I still think it is. But as 2004 went on, and the sheep started joining the site in droves and attacking the Dave die-hards with talk like "So I guess Sammy really is the band's singer-of-choice," I started getting angry. I started arguing with them...

...AND THEN BRETT JUMPED IN AND YELLED AT ME AND THREATENED ME WITH BANNING FOR "STARTING UNNECESSARY SHIT," YELLING AT ME FOR STARTING THE "STUPID DAVE VS. SAM SHIT."

MAX contacted me and told me to get out of there and go to the Army. "You can post whatever you want there. And they hate Sammy, just like you."

I care far less about this shit now. It's not even an argument anymore. Dave won. It's over.

So I came over here. Soon after, I started the Sheep Pen.

And Brett FUCKING FOLLOWED ME OVER HERE AND YELLED AT ME, calling me names for betraying him and daring go somewhere else.

And I told him to fuck himself.

Later I saw I wasn't Banned there. I couldn't give a shit.

But him actually following posters to other sites after he starts shit with them, trying to teach them a lesson in a new environment in which he has NO CONTROL...

...it's incredibly pathetic. It blows my mind that someone's insecurity could be so fucked up.

If I ever get really bored, I'm going to go back there with the express purpose of getting BANNED.

[FORD]

I was banned over there for 3 years or so. 2002 to 2005. Then in 2007 I got "segregated" to their so-called "retard barn" for an alleged one month sentence, based on fuck knows what... it was never explained to me why that even happened.

It's now 2023 and that "one month sentence" is still going. I would have more respect for him if he actually banned me again, than pull some cowardly pussy move like that.

[Terry]

That's EXACTLY what he did to me.

I tried to remain pretty neutral during the few years I was at that site. I (FORD too) made it clear that Dave was the singer for me...no competition. But I basically tried to be peaceful.

Summer of 2000...little Bretty was a lot more patient with posters like me and FORD because everyone in the VH world was excited about the so-called reunion album "Tabula" whatever. And it never happened.

Early 2004, the Sam reunion tour talk started. I'd previously been a little patient with Shammy-fans, even posting things like, "The music in BLACK 'N' BLUE is very good," which I still think it is. But as 2004 went on, and the sheep started joining the site in droves and attacking the Dave die-hards with talk like "So I guess Sammy really is the band's singer-of-choice," I started getting angry. I started arguing with them...

...AND THEN BRETT JUMPED IN AND YELLED AT ME AND THREATENED ME WITH BANNING FOR "STARTING UNNECESSARY SHIT," YELLING AT ME FOR STARTING THE "STUPID DAVE VS. SAM SHIT."

MAX contacted me and told me to get out of there and go to the Army. "You can post whatever you want there. And they hate Sammy, just like you."

I care far less about this shit now. It's not even an argument anymore. Dave won. It's over.

So I came over here. Soon after, I started the Sheep Pen.

And Brett FUCKING FOLLOWED ME OVER HERE AND YELLED AT ME, calling me names for betraying him and daring go somewhere else.

And I told him to fuck himself.

Later I saw I wasn't Banned there. I couldn't give a shit.

But him actually following posters to other sites after he starts shit with them, trying to teach them a lesson in a new environment in which he has NO CONTROL...

...it's incredibly pathetic. It blows my mind that someone's insecurity could be so fucked up.

If I ever get really bored, I'm going to go back there with the express purpose of getting BANNED.

I can't even remember the chronology of my encounter with the guy here now re: what year it was...I may have even signed up as a member there, looked around a couple of times then split (early 2000s I joined several VH/Roth websites).

I do remember I looked around there, determined it wasn't my kind of site then didn't bother with it. Never a case of me going over there and posting "this place sucks" or whatever.

But, yeah, for him to come over here and start shit was weak enough. To pepper his shit with this attitude of his, this "I'm the king of all things Van Halen online, sing my praises or keep silent" nonsense was beyond laughable. More like...hey, you start up a website and it is (or was, or still is or whatever) successful in terms of site hits: fantastic. Probably not an easy thing to do in terms of time/money/effort involved. But that dude came across like he thought his Van Halen website was the internet equivalent of Van Halen's music in terms of importance.

Yeesh. Fuck outta here with that stuff.

To have your sense of self-worth so tied up to a website you made - which is ultimately only highlighting the achievements of someone else anyway - I mean, shit, Sarge never came off that way.