Van Hagar sucked Big Time, but why did it sell from 86 to 95?

[Sarge]

agreed. At least this is a music thread... instead a thread about feces, which is what the other dump threads are about.

[vanshipman]

I'm just glad Ed got clean and sober, Wolf became a musician and reminded his Dad what his best work was, and who the real singer of Van HALEN is and should always be. Now we've got a new album (that kicks MAJOR ASS)and tour happening. Life is great, let Hagar fade away with his club touring band and enjoy his tequila money as he approaches his twilight years.

[ThatArtGuy]

Grunge came and took over, the only traditional metal band to survive with stronger sales was Metallica.

*cough* Dave Mustaine might have something to say about that.

[wolfsbane]

Let Van Hagar die.


I will swear an oath to never mention or refer to Van Hagar again.

[VanHalenI]

personally I think it was just beacuse it was the 80s and 90s! those times where rock music and ballads rulled the world!!! don't you wish those years back? rock, booze, girls... oh the girls...

[Bad Muthafucker]

van hagar sucks, but they did have number 1 albums, and big tours, who were these people buying and why??

They had number 1 albums? They had big tours?

[sadaist]

They had number 1 albums? They had big tours?

5150 tour was sold out. Added a 2nd night in San Diego & that sold out too.

VH was at the top of the music world and nothing was gonna stop that short of Eddie dying.

The continued success after that dropped significantly with each album & tour. You bought the album cause it was VH. If Pink Floyd or The Who puts out an album, you buy it. It might suck, but you still buy it in hopes of finding a couple good spots on them. The tours people still went to because wtf else you gonna do on a Thursday night when VH is in town? Plus tickets in the 80'-90's were still under $30. Fuck it right? $22.50 to see Eddie van Halen play live? I'm in.

But you can only put out sub-par material for so long & still be successful. hell, the VHIII tour they played at my county fair. Sad.

But by 1984 VH was such a juggernaut that it took a decade of sub-par music to slow them down. Most musicians & bands can only dream of even getting anywhere close to that pinnacle of 1984-85 that VH was sitting on top of. And in Van Halen bizarro world, once Eddie got there he spent the rest of his time trying to climb down.

[Bad Muthafucker]

I didn't pay attention to Spambo.

[Catfish]

The band, after Roth left, rode the wave of Eddie's legend, which helped it keep some of its fan base while reaching out to new fans (read: fat, single women) with the love songs and sap they were producing.

Fact of the matter is Ed didn't come up with a single significant riff or guitar moment after Roth left. By the time Van Hagar's third album was being recorded, Ed had to go into his fucking tool shed to grab his drill to find a way to make his guitar sound fresh again.

It's always been about Eddie's legend status.

[Catfish]

That is such BS what you just posted. Nobody went there yelling for Dave, they knew who was singing, they knew what they paid for. If they went there to hassle Sam, nobody heard it, and they're fucking idiots for wasting their money to do that, if indeed there were morons who did. I think some of you live in your own alternate universe. Let me introduce you to earth and reality.

You "heard reports?" Reports from who? Your 3 friends? The boogie man? Dave?

And what the hell would you know WHY anyone went to see Van Halen with Dave or without. You were still in diapers.

I get laugh out of the children here who run around telling those of us who were actually there why we went to see Van Halen. Like me telling my parents why they went to see the Beatles live, as if I have the first fucking clue.

Brett's cuntparing Van Hagar to the Beatles

[MUSICMANN]

I know this may piss some people off here, but fuck Brett and his love for Hagar.

[Catfish]

I know this may piss some people off here, but fuck Brett and his love for Hagar.

I used to make a lot of posts like this.