5151 Parrothead
10-03-2004, 05:41 PM
Here's a DLR question that I'd love see how you all answer:
OK, obviously a hypothetical situation...
You've been good, and God has granted you a choice.
a)You can rewind time, back to 1984-85, and you can change history, in that David Lee Roth never left Van Halen, and then immediately be returned to today, the only change being that Dave is still fronting Van Halen in 2004, and never left. Keep in mind, that this means that in this new 2004, Sammy Hagar was never a member of Van Halen; Gary Cherone was never a member of Van Halen. Therefore, nothing that happened in the Hagar and Cherone eras ever happened. None of the songs or albums as we know them from 1985- today exist. Nothing that any of them did from '85 to today ever happened. This means no Cabo Wabo Cantina, no Eat 'em and Smile (band, or album), no 'Your Filthy little mouth', none of Dave's solo albums ever existed. We can probably also extrapolate this out to presume this would mean that things like The Atomic Punks never formed, since there's no "Early" Van Halen... it's all just "Van Halen". Anything that Van Halen did from '85 on never happened, since that would have happened with Sammy or Gary. Nothing that happened with Dave since '85 ever happened, since he never left Van Halen, to do his solo work, or anything else.
OR
b) Just leave it alone... leave everything just as history as we know it has played out.
OK, obviously a hypothetical situation...
You've been good, and God has granted you a choice.
a)You can rewind time, back to 1984-85, and you can change history, in that David Lee Roth never left Van Halen, and then immediately be returned to today, the only change being that Dave is still fronting Van Halen in 2004, and never left. Keep in mind, that this means that in this new 2004, Sammy Hagar was never a member of Van Halen; Gary Cherone was never a member of Van Halen. Therefore, nothing that happened in the Hagar and Cherone eras ever happened. None of the songs or albums as we know them from 1985- today exist. Nothing that any of them did from '85 to today ever happened. This means no Cabo Wabo Cantina, no Eat 'em and Smile (band, or album), no 'Your Filthy little mouth', none of Dave's solo albums ever existed. We can probably also extrapolate this out to presume this would mean that things like The Atomic Punks never formed, since there's no "Early" Van Halen... it's all just "Van Halen". Anything that Van Halen did from '85 on never happened, since that would have happened with Sammy or Gary. Nothing that happened with Dave since '85 ever happened, since he never left Van Halen, to do his solo work, or anything else.
OR
b) Just leave it alone... leave everything just as history as we know it has played out.