Anyone Else Think The $i$ter$ Are just After Money.

[Antonella]

hmmm interesting..Dave...alot of money, but no control.....Spammy...all the control in the world, but hmmmm not enuf money....wow!!! i think we're onto something here.....i think i smell a rat!!!!

[DlocRoth]

Originally posted by Terry
Money is a part of it, no doubt. But they're not really after the maximum payday, because even they admitted in 1996 that they were offered a shitpot of dough to reunite with Roth (you never heard them making such claims re: getting back together with Hagar in 2004), and they didn't seal the deal.
dave_is_vh mentioned that they want control of the band, and that I agree with but I think it goes beyond that.
Seems like EVH and AVH want fans to remember CVH as solely revolving around Ed's guitar playing, to the extent that Roth was disposable/the group would have been legendary regardless of who fronted them, to the point where they seem to come off interviews post-1984 as saying that Roth was what held them back from being a great band.
It's a quixotic attempt at historical revisionism, because there are too many people out there who do remember CVH and know that Ed wasn't the whole enchilada, Al and Mike were both lucky to be there in many ways (someone should explain nepotism to Al - think he'd come to appreciate the impact it had on his life, cuz' he's not all that on the drums...doesn't suck, but is fortunate his last name is Van Halen), and that Roth brought a lot to that group. Quite a bit more than the Van Halens have given him credit for.
Think that's why we haven't seem classic box sets, live videos and a CVH reunion. For them to do those things is admitting Roth's importance. With Hagar at the helm, it's easier to say it's Ed's band, cuz' with Van Hagar you're only gonna concentrate on Ed anyway. Roth in the group changes the dynamic and siphons some of the focus off of Ed.
For a couple of guys who bitch about Dave's ego, the sisters have shown that they have plenty of their own. In Ed's case it may be warranted; he has a lot of talent that he used to display proudly until he started coasting. With Alex, not quite sure where his pumped-up sense of self comes from. If his last name had been anything other than Van Halen, methinks his life would have turned out quite differently.

Great post Terry! Here's a 5'er for ya.

See Dave DID make that band. The showmanship, the videos, the mouth. All of that added up to owning MTV and piling up all the dough. Without Roth in the band, Eddie would be on the G3 tour right now with NO legacy to sit on. He wouldn't have been able to call Sammy in the first place cuz he never would have been at Ennio's cuz he wouldnt have owned a Lambo. Which Dave's personality paid for, thank you very much.

Not downplayin Ed's chops but....

MTV should send Dave a buck every fuckin day in royalties.

Well, him and Cyndi Lauper.:D