1996 Mtv Awards Reunion

[janarak]

I have never seen the MTV awards were DLR goes on stage with the rest of old VH.
What's it like ?
Word on the street is it was not good.
Any comments ,any idea if I can download it?

[bueno bob]

"Word on the street"??? What, are you hanging out on bowery blvd with Eddie? It was fuckin' magnificent (other than Ed wasting time telling everyone about shit they didn't want to hear and trying to steal the spotlight away from the reunion and claim it all for himself). Anybody that told you otherwise is a fuckin' Hagar fan.

[Carmine]

that was the best 11 minutes of VH anybody has seen since 1985! I agree with Beuno here, anyone who says otherwise is a sheep!

[diamondsgirl]

I loved it!!
When VH walked out folks applauded and then when they saw Dave they friggin' erupted. They/He received a thunderous standing ovation and Dave was the only one to take a moment to recognize it. The other band members just wanted to get on with it and announce the winner of the award and Dave was like "no,no,no, we are going to talk about whats happening here". He was so friggin cool, IMO.

I loved the way he announced Beck by saying "B B B B BECK!"
Beck was friggin thrilled! He had no problem with anything Dave was doing. And fuck EVH for expecting Dave to be anything other than DAVE!

[rustoffa]

Yeah buddy!
I remember seeing various interviews afterwards....EVERYONE just going "hell yeah! Van Halen"!

Billy Corgan sticks out.....I think it was something to the effect: "THE HALEN IS BACK MAN"!

[frenchie]

i 've seen so many personn here talked about this famous reunion but it's crazy not to found it on internet.i'm trying to find this video somewhere on the net.i can't believe it!

[tydhurst]

it's always on vh1.

[kennyboy]

That moment made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I really thought it was going to happen. I was jazzed.

But NOOOOO- the sisters fucked it up. Read Dave's "Crazy From The Heat" for the details...

Just think, we'd have maybe 3, 4 or 5 new VH albums by now. The band would be on top and the sisters would have plenty of $ to pay thier ex-wives!

It woulda been fucking huge!

At least Dave has maintained his dignity through all of it.

[bueno bob]

It's truth...all truth...

[thepunisher]

Still haven't seen it, but its probably the last time VH has had that kind of ovation.

If it happened now, a reunion that is, there would be a certain percentage of people who wouldn't believe it and another percentage who would say so what, that was then. the VH brothers have irreversibly damaged their name.

[bueno bob]

I don't think any damage is irreversable...they had ten years of shit with Hagar and Roth turned it around almost overnight for two new tunes...keep the faith, anything can happen.

[Mezro]

Imagine watching a moment that made you feel like Santa Claus was real, hookers were a free benefit provided by the government and an 8 hour work day could be spent between the legs of a supermodel.

Mezro...this my friend is what watching the VH reunion in 1996 felt like...

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by Mezro
Imagine watching a moment that made you feel like Santa Claus was real, hookers were a free benefit provided by the government and an 8 hour work day could be spent between the legs of a supermodel.

Mezro...this my friend is what watching the VH reunion in 1996 felt like...

What he said

[Vinnie Velvet]

It was one of the most exciting things ever to see on TV.

I remember when Dennis Miller announced them, and then BOOM! With the sounds of 'Runnin With The Devil' playing (ironic since, Ed looked like he made a deal with the devil knowing that Cherone was already picked as the next singer), Ed, Al, Mike and the DAVE came around the corner, walked up on stage and met the crowd.

I couldn't believe my eyes! That's fucking Dave, Eddie, Al, Mike....THE REAL VAN HALEN!!!!

Shit, it really seemed like Van Hagar never happened. It was unreal. Maybe too good to be true I guess.

And when the crowd stood up, it was awesome. THAT's when Dave took it all in and it was the US Festival all over again. But you could notice Eddie trying to calm the crowd down knowing that what just transpired wasn't real (he had no intention of keeping Dave).

And in light of the moment when they first hit the stage, Eddie ruined it with his behaviour, mving Dave away from the Mike after Dave gave a funny quote saying:

"Ya know how things have changed a lot since the last time we were up here....It used to be 'I want my MTV', now its like "Gimmie my fucking MTV or I'll blow your head off man!"

Classic Dave.

It was truly a moment that VH could've built on as in a sold out tour (promoters were everywhere throwing huge money at them). It wouldve made the big KISS Reunion tour seem like a club tour.

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by Vinnie Velvet
....But you could notice Eddie trying to calm the crowd down knowing that what just transpired wasn't real (he had no intention of keeping Dave).....

It's funny that you should mention that, because I thought Ed and Al looked kinda wierded out about the whole thing and were acting funny, myself...

....lo and behold, we found out later it's because they were both thinking the same thing at the same time:

"We done fucked up, here"

They must have known at that point that they were screwed with Cherone.