Fair Warning Re-visited

[DVH225]

Fair Warning to me is the perfect CD to fit anger...As someone said. There is absolutely nothing like cranking "Unchained" in a Corvette going 80 MPH, sending the obvious message of "Screw You"...A moment which I got to experience lately, I am still trying to regain my hearing completely.

Long live CVH, Sammy can choke on a turtle wang!

DVH225

[Panamark]

Excellent review Rikk (as per usual)
I actually agree with you on Dirty Movies.
The melody is the same as the Beatles,

"Baby you can drive my Car"
"Yes Im going to be a star"

"Pictures on the Silver screen"
"Greatest thing you've ever seen"

Compare the two melodies...
Its always bothered me.....

but the rest of the album is the best !!!

Hear about it later, Unchained and Meanstreet on the
same album ???

How can it fail ?

Another great post, Rikk.....

[ELVIS]

That similarity never struck me...

I hear what you're saying, but I think it's a bit of a stretch...

[DeadOrAlive]

Hear About It Later... you HAVE to love this song!!

[Terry]

Even if I don't agree with everything he writes, totally dig what Rikk has to say in his reviews, and have been looking forward to this particular review for a while.

Fair Warning was the apex. CVH went on to become bigger after 1981, but this was as good as it gets.

Sinner's Swing.....man, I listen to that track and by the time the guitar solo has ended and they launch into the chorus again, that band is just fucking splitting the earth open.

Would almost agree that Eddie dominated the album to a degree, but the WHOLE BAND was just smoking.

Always looked at Sunday Afternoon in the Park and One Foot Out the Door as one track. Great solo by EVH on OFOTD. Kind of did wind the album down in that SAITP/OFOTD wasn't quite as strong as what had come before it, agreed. But Dirty Movies is a classic.

Fantastic stuff, Rikk! Great detail on the background info, too. As usual, you put it all into the context of the times surrounding it.

Want to believe you on the rumors of the footage in the can from the 1981 tour. Getting any previously unofficially released classic live footage/audio along with CVH studio outakes/alternate cuts put out to the public is about all Alex and Co have left to offer.

[DLRdelight!]

This is personally one of my favorites, but then again, they all are, but this one is special, every song just kicks so much ass......."and nothing stays the same!!"

[Rikk]

Originally posted by Terry
Even if I don't agree with everything he writes, totally dig what Rikk has to say in his reviews, and have been looking forward to this particular review for a while.

Thanks for the very kind words, Terry. Seriously...that's some really cool shit and I appreciate it, brother.

I now raise my glass to you.

Roth on, brother!

[Panamark]

Originally posted by ELVIS
That similarity never struck me...

I hear what you're saying, but I think it's a bit of a stretch...

I dont think the whole song sounds like it. Just that part of
the chorus. In fact after getting to know Dirty Movies,
whenever I hear "Baby you can drive my car",
I think of Van Halen.

Ive got a bad habit of hearing melodic similarities between
songs. I could probably start a whole thread on it..

I think Dirty Movies is a cool song, but I can hear that
melodic similarity quite clearly on those two lines..

And its one of those things, where once you notice it,
you notice it for good..

[diamondsgirl]

Originally posted by Panamark
I dont think the whole song sounds like it. Just that part of
the chorus. In fact after getting to know Dirty Movies,
whenever I heard "Baby you can drive my car",
I would think of Van Halen.

Ive got a bad habit of hearing melodic similarities between
songs. I could probably start a whole thread on it..

I think Dirty Movies is a cool song, but I can hear that
melodic similarity quite clearly on those two lines..

And its one of those things, where once you notice it,
you notice it for good..

I never noticed it before you said it, but now I do. And you're right, I probably always will.

Cool idea for a thread, btw.

[Panamark]

DG !! Thanks, you can hear it too.

I promise not to ruin any other Van Halen songs :p

(Theres another one that springs to mind, but its
too good a song to use as an example)

[diamondsgirl]

Originally posted by Panamark
(Theres another one that springs to mind, but its
too good a song to use as an example)

Now I'm curious.

[Panamark]

Trust me, its too sacred, its one of those things that you are better off not knowing

[diamondsgirl]

I trust you...

[Rikk]

Originally posted by Panamark
DG !! Thanks, you can hear it too.

I promise not to ruin any other Van Halen songs :p

(Theres another one that springs to mind, but its
too good a song to use as an example)

K...now I want to hear this! Which song?

[Panamark]

Damn, Ive incited the curiosty demon !!!