What went down with Gary Cherone?

[thefive]

Did any of you read any interviews about how it ended with Gary Cherone? What I am asking is what the details were? Did Ed come up and say to Gary this isn't working out or did Gary say I am not happy and I want to go back doing solo. I never read anything on this subject.

Thefive

[Panamark]

Gary realized everybody wanted Dave back. Simple as that. At least he had the grace to step aside in the hope it might happen.

[ashstralia]

there was a hole in his heart.

[Wayne L.]

Gary Cherone will be mostly FORGOTTEN in VH history in the years ahead so who cares one way or the other while VH3 is a great rock album if you're not expecting another Van Halen, Women & Children First & 1984.

[Sarge]

Didn't it have something to do with VH losing their Warner Bros contract?

Other than that I never thought about it.

[L.S.D.]

Originally posted by Panamark
Gary realized everybody wanted Dave back. Simple as that. At least he had the grace to step aside in the hope it might happen.

Actually He told them to go get dlr or sammy, and as recent as last year he said they should get Sammy.

To answer the question, he bailed because he knew he'd never be accepted.

[DavidLeeNatra]

Originally posted by L.S.D.
he bailed because he knew he'd never be accepted.

something you experienced big time...

[Cathedral]

Um, lets not gloss over the fact that empy seats and shitty ticket sales for the first time in VH history played a major part in Gary's withdrawl from the band.

It wasn't just the CD sales that sucked...

Face it, the Tour started out like all the others but word of mouth that Gary rolled around the stage like a flaming faggot spread quicker than his ass cheeks and there isn't a true VH fan alive who can tolerate the vision of a hairy ass when thinking about the original woman loving Mighty Van Halen...

[DavidLeeNatra]

man...I was at the show in berlin - germany (with less than 2000 people in the audience) - a friend who worked for the tour sponsor invited me - totally fucked up ed and neckbraced al...totally boring till the crowd startet to chant "we want dave"...never seen somebody more pissed than alexis...while ed was too drunk to realize what was going on around him...no encore...rest of the germany-tour was cancelled because of alexis' neck problems...truth was they couldn't sell out the venues toilets...

(told that story before, but I still laugh, when I think back of that experience)

[Shawn]

I heard Gary himself say in a radio interview that he wanted to do another Van Halen album.

[L.S.D.]

They did another album, but it got scraped when they realized it would tank harder than 3.

[Catfish]

Record sales.

[Catfish]

Eddie.

[Catfish]

Wait--Eddie went down ON Gary, not with him. My bad.

[ELVIS]

Hey thefive

Go hang out at the links if you want to discuss garbage...

theking