Montrose

[FORD]

Well this should help clean that disco cheese out of your ears....

Yeah, it's still Hagar singing, but at least the guitar's good.......

[DLR Bridge]

In that first vid, he's wearing whatever Kate Smith was wearing at the time. Very odd man.

Oh and, way to fall flat on the easy notes. I feel a Ched Chunker thread jump start coming on.

[cadaverdog]

Sam asked Dave to do it because he loved taunting the brothers. You make it sound like he was being a good samaritan. It's always been about his own interest. He knew more money would come in if he toured with Dave rather than some upstart flavor of the month band. He loved doing anything that he knew would piss Ed and Al off. He put out a live album that featured Gary fucking Cherone and Mike Anthony performing Dreams with him FFS!! Would he ever have asked Gary on stage if he didn't think it would get Ed's goat? Fuck no and fuck him.

It doesn't bother me that it pissed off the sisters as well. Or that Sammy made money doing it. It still benefited Dave. Spin it how you want. His career was going nowhere then. He was playing the club circuit in Orange County right before he took the Sam and Dave gig.

[DLR Bridge]

It doesn't bother me that it pissed off the sisters as well. Or that Sammy made money doing it. It still benefited Dave. Spin it how you want. His career was going nowhere then. He was playing the club circuit in Orange County right before he took the Sam and Dave gig.

I'm not arguing that the tour didn't give Dave's solo career a shot in the arm. It surely did, but it was both of them who benefited from the pairing. Like Nick said, where was Sammy's music career going?

[cadaverdog]

I'm not arguing that the tour didn't give Dave's solo career a shot in the arm. It surely did, but it was both of them who benefited from the pairing. Like Nick said, where was Sammy's music career going?

Sammy was still playing arenas with the Waboritos and whatever he called his band when Mikey played bass. And still putting out albums. A lot more than Dave was doing at the time.

[Nickdfresh]

Sammy was still playing with Mikey's balls. And suffering from a prolapsed rectum. A lot more than Dave was doing at the time.

Fixed...

[Hardrock69]

Curling?

Where someone slides a giant weightlifter's weight down the ice and some moron goes after it with a broom?

[cadaverdog]

Trolled..

It was inevitable.

[chefcraig]

Sammy was still playing arenas with the Waboritos and whatever he called his band when Mikey played bass. And still putting out albums. A lot more than Dave was doing at the time.

By and large, I'd have to agree, yet you have to admit that by that point (2002) both of these guys (Dave Roth and Hagar) had fallen well beneath the radar in terms of public taste. Just think of the bands that were on the radio (Sorry, I refuse to do so, as the mere thought sends my bowels shivering toward the crapper) like Creed and Hoobastank. As a result, either one of 'em was merely a step away from doing car shows with David Hasselhoff and Adam West dressed up in an ill-fitting Batman costume.

In fact, the only true highlights of the year occurred when The Simpsons featured Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, the Glimmer Twins and Brian Setzer on an episode where Homer went to a rock and roll fantasy camp vacation and PBS broadcasted the highly moving Concert For George Harrison.

[sadaist]

Montrose sucks.



There, I said it.

[78/84 guy]

Sammy was still playing arenas with the Waboritos and whatever he called his band when Mikey played bass. And still putting out albums. A lot more than Dave was doing at the time.

Sammy was not playing arenas. He was playing clubs & theaters. And his albums were nothing like what he did before Van Halen. Shit some of what I heard was country almost ! I did like one. Ten 13. Got it for five bucks. It had a few tunes that reminded me of that Twister song. But his albums didn't sell after VH. I think his first one did o.k.

[Zing!]

Almost positive Haggar was playing the casino circuit during this time (as was DLR). I think they both played at Mystic Lake Casino here in MN around that time.

[sadaist]

I'm not arguing that the tour didn't give Dave's solo career a shot in the arm. It surely did, but it was both of them who benefited from the pairing. Like Nick said, where was Sammy's music career going?

This tour with Dave was the peak of Sams post-VH career. After VH 1996 he had a short string of very popular albums and was playing large theaters & ampitheaters. The Jimmy Buffet Wabo thing was a huge success and everyone was enjoying it, the party rock beach lifestyle, and Mikey coming out for a couple VH tunes. But after the Sam/Dave tour it all went south for Sam. Country album, crappy live album, crappy anthem song, failed reunion tour with 3 god awful songs, and an enormous loss in the amount of people still in to the Wabo party concert thing. He toured so much that these people in their 40's mostly had already seen him 3 times and were just staying home with the kids now. Except for the dedicated red heads. Sammy was offering nothing new to keep them coming out.

And now we got us a Chickenfoot that even less people are following.


On the flip side 2002 was probably the lowest point of Daves solo career. This tour reignited interest in DLR. After which he had the radio gig, Boston Pops and bluegrass thing. 5 years of crap yes.....but 5 years of a lot of press. His name was out there quite often which right up to 2002 it wasn't.

Daves name = reunion rumors = good thing

and we got us 2007. Since Dave still had the taste of failure strong in his mouth, he performed on this tour like never before. And WOW! was he awesome! His voice & performances were the strongest perhaps we had ever seen.

So there it is. I was at the Sam/Dave tour & enjoyed both acts. Sammy closed and had the better stage setup. Dave had the better setlist.

[78/84 guy]

Almost positive Haggar was playing the casino circuit during this time (as was DLR). I think they both played at Mystic Lake Casino here in MN around that time.

Hag was playing small places right after Van Halen. I went to his first two tours. Both in smaller places. At the U of M the first time. About 3000 seats and he was horrible. People up close were giving him shit about the Wobo's. How sloppy they were. He said hey man it's only our third show ! I thought what the fuck. Maybe you should have practiced more dude ! I just went because I was bored. Then he came back a few years later with Mike and the original Montrose. At a casino. His band still sucked. Montrose was awesome. Not sure why people think he was playing big places. He wasn't. Not that I really care.

[Nitro Express]

Hag.