Does Van Halen really deserve to be considered one of the greatest bands of all time?

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  • BrownSound1
    ROTH ARMY FOUNDER
    • Mar 2003
    • 3025
    #16
    A historian will look at it as one band, and I'm afraid that much of the influence they created will be overshadowed by the frontman musical chairs.

    Musically speaking though, the original incarnation was light years ahead of anything the following versions put out. I always found it funny that the Sam lovers thought that it was a souped up version after he joined. Yeah, let's see Sammy pull off Romeo Delight or Hear About It Later. Hell Hagar couldn't even pull off Runnin' With The Devil or Unchained convincingly, and what songs did they put out with him or Cherone that even compare to any of the songs listed above?

    Van Halen IS legendary... Van Hagar and Van Cherone aren't.

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      • flappo
        Banned
        • Jan 2004
        • 8223
        #17
        hagar was awful , but the cherone error ( sic ) was the final nail in the coffin imo

        very very sad

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          • Golden AWe
            DIAMOND STATUS
            • Jan 2004
            • 34245
            #18
            Originally posted by DR CHIP
            But therin lies the issue...Van Halen history includes ALL the mess and Van Halen as far as I am concerned (and actually sad to say) deserves nothing more than ridicule for the comedy of errors they have become...

            I realize more and more that I am NOT a Van Halen fan, but a DLR fan...
            Well, Johnny Cash had his 10-20 years of complete crap too...especially during the 80's...but he's still THE MAN IN BLACK.

            Aerosmith...they made less legendary hard rock albums than VH...but still...those few from the beginning were amazing...

            The Stones have had their weak moments as well...

            The point is, they still did something that changed the world and nothing can change that.
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              • Terry
                DIAMOND STATUS
                • Jan 2004
                • 12135
                #19
                It is unfortunate that one has to clarify which era of the band is Van Halen to them.

                Wouldn't quite take it to the point of saying I'm not a Van Halen fan, but am a Roth fan, as far as CVH goes (although it does describe where I'm at today with the remnants of 1974-1984 Van Halen).

                Pretty much choose not to recognize what the band did after Dave left.
                Scramby eggs and bacon.

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                  • tcc_dc
                    Full On Cocktard
                    • May 2005
                    • 36
                    #20
                    Terry, you hit the nail on the head. 99% of the people on this board when we hear VH, we think of VH with Dave. Essentially anyone born 1980 and aftger thinks of VH with Hagar and others. Which means they think of VH as an average band at best.

                    tcc

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                      • DR CHIP
                        Foot Soldier
                        • Jan 2004
                        • 618
                        #21
                        And DLR is anything but average....

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