Full New Michael Anthony Interview

[degüello]

Originally posted by bantonelli
The Van Halens... would still be playing backyard parties as a hobby and working at some mundane 9 to 5, Monday - Friday job at AAMCO or the like if it weren't for the aggressive, will not take "NO" for an answer, persevered ROTH attitude...

That's a stretch.

[DavidLeeNatra]

Originally posted by Jamocha Joe
How tight can Mikey and Sammy be? Mikey admits he didn't play on any of the god awful new songs and, in fact, wasn't even in the band at that point. Sammy was recording with the sisters and planning a tour without his lifemate. Time to wake up and smell the meth cooking girl. That boy is using you.

I find it incredibly disturbing that a group of 50 year old men can't get over problems from 20 years ago. And the silly fights. He's advertising hot sauce, the arena sells his tequila, I don't like you, you're trying to have an opinion, I need a separate jet, my teeth are falling out, you spilled your wine and stained my capri pants, i burned my retinas out of my eyeballs when my meth lab exploded. Wahhh Wahhh Wahhh! And how about the complaint that the most flamboyant lead singer of all time, that helped launch your band into the stratosphere, has a big ego? What a revelation. After all these years I find out Dave is not an introvert. Who knew? Apparently everyone on the planet except his bandmates.

dave said on the radio: "oooooh...dave wasn't sensitive...yeah...I'm the lead singer, so what..."

[bantonelli]

Originally posted by degüello
All that shit just bums me right the fuck out. The image of Dave bringing in music to the sessions, trying to get things going, the brothers hating it... just makes me fucking sad.

And the shit about making MA a lesser-paid employee, just fucking ridiculous.

Arrgghh...

The ironic thing about being the lesser-paid employee is what ROTH ended up experiencing and became his reality...the shit end of the stick, with the royalty percentage being a huge notch below the Sisters and MA.

Something completely wrong with this picture and the fact that ROTH humbles himself twice a year to give the Sisters a call to bother getting together with them, despite how they and their lawyers play "dirty" with the business percentages, etc., is certainly not an ego driven maniac as the Sisters/MA would like to think Roth is.

YEAH, ED, You say you are not in it for the MONEY $$ - then why did you make sure that you, Al & MA get $1.00 to Roth's getting $0.30 ???
You can blame it on your attorneys, but attorneys are there to "serve" the client, based on what YOU want....the end result is your call.

[PlexiBrown]

We can only hope that someday they release the stuff they recorded with Roth. Other than that, it is over. The once mighty Van Halen is no more. If they all can't get along and are still fighting like little bitches after all these years then there is no chance that they can ever suddenly get it together now. They had a window of opportunity. They missed it in a big way. What a waste!!!!

[PlexiBrown]

When Hagar joined Van Halen they should have called the band something else other than Van Halen. That band should have been called Happy Meal or Ronald And The Hiney Holes.

[audiospectrum]

Originally posted by Warham

Dave is just too damned controlling,

I think the guy has standards, and wants to do a reunion the right way, 100% flame on. Now how's that going to happen with these other three dickwads who've spent their last 20 years in great material comfort? They're still living off what Dave helped build, they haven't done anything credible without Dave. They have exposed themselves in the music to be nothing but average musicians. Don't believe me? Just listen to everything Van Hagar and Cherone. For the most part, it's very very mediocre music.
I enjoyed the article and think Mike really opened up and let out a few of his own frustrations about the whole filthy little mess. But Mike, why didn't you go solo when it all started to go pair shaped? Too comfortable? Liked having the Van Halen status?
I fully realize Dave's big ego, but if he didn't have it he'd have stayed with Van Halen back in 1984, trudging around like a meek little pussy keeling to Ed's stupid misguided ways. And I've always been convinced that Ed's ego is BIGGER than Dave's. So a lot of this doesn't add up. Dave isn't doing this because he's not willing to settle for second best. I say fuck 'em Dave. Fuck nostalgia, something a few of you are guilty of. Fuck sentimentality. What does it matter? Dave doesn't want to fuck the 'real' fans and dish them up anything less than 'Classic Van Halen'. With these three turkeys, I'd rather it stay a memory. I want to see healthy, living large, kick arse attitudes up there on stage, not a bunch of 'old buffoons, waddling around like they're at the family barbecue, trying to imitate what they used to do for a living.'
It's over, don't fucking settle Dave. Fuck the money.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Originally posted by Full Bug
But yeah, before that tour yeah, we tried to make it work. We went into the studio and it was kind of funny because we first got together in the studio and we were all in the one room together and we did Hot For Teacher, Mean Street and a few other songs and it's the weirdest thing because once we started playing it was like, son of a bitch, there it is, that's the magic! It was like a big déjà vu because it was the original band playing again and it sounded pretty fuckin' good too!

Absolutely INFURIATES me reading shit like this !!!! Egotistical motherfuckers....

Originally posted by Full Bug
and I go on the Internet everyday and I'm checking out what fans are saying and try to keep in touch with what's going on as much as I can with our fan base and people do want to hear the music.

Not from the official site, that's for fucking sure....

THIS is the official site !!!!

[ULTRAMAN VH]

The fat lady has sung. Lets hope for some boxsets this Christmas. Anybody remember CCR, they were in the same boat. John Fogerty would have walked through the pit of hell before stepping on stage with the original Creedence line up. Hell the HOF could not even get these guy's onstage together. I have a feeling if VH doe's get voted in, it will be an ugly scene. DLR will get fucked again. It will be Van Fagar accepting the award.

[Terry]

Dave wants the payout as much as anyone else from a CVH reunion (of course, he wants to make sure he's gonna get the same payout percentage as the Van Halens, and THAT is a major reason, IMO, that the reunion hasn't happened yet: Ed and Al won't split the proceeds evenly with Dave, and are holding out until Roth lowers his price).

The financial aspect is an inducement, but I firmly believe Dave wants to make sure a CVH reunion would be undertaken in a way that is going to live up to the high standards of excellence CVH set and is going to thrill fans, rather than have them leaving the arena shaking their heads, wondering why they even bothered. If I were Dave, I'd be a little wary of the Van Halens and wouldn't want to go about a reunion the way Van Hagar did in 2004: with three weak tracks on a greatest hits collection as an excuse to hit the road.

Anthony saying he told Dave off on the Sam and Dave 2002 tour isn't something I buy, although I'm sure they ran into each other at some point. Even if it did happen, Mike has been so far up Ed, Al and Sammy's asses for so long that he's entitled to no credibility in my book, and MA played his dirty little part in all the bullshit of 1996.

Van Halen on temporary hiatus, might become permanent? Well, DUH! Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Most of us figured that out around 2001.

Bottom line is the Van Halens and Anthony want Dave to be their bitch and come back begging for the reunion, take whatever they offer him and do what he is told to.

Dave ain't gonna play it that way, and no fucking reason why he should. The remnants of Van Halen have already demonstrated that they aren't capable of making smart choices. If they are the board of directors and the fans are the shareholders, well, then the response to what has happened since the fall of 1996 is a vote of no confidence.

Ed, Al and Mike just need to focus on the music if CVH reunites. Let Dave handle the media and all the interviews (he's clearly much better at both). Do not let Eddie produce the band. He's got an ear full of shit when it comes to producing records. Get a producer Ed and Dave agree upon, and record somewhere else other than 5150. Ed and Al don't deserve to have control of the band if Dave rejoins; they just aren't capable of it. Perosnally, if I were them I'd be relieved not to have the responsibility. Even if they agree to an equal 4-way split with Dave and Anthony, they'll still be making a shitload more than they're ever gonna futzing around with a Roth-less Van Halen.

[bru87tr]

if MA says they still got it with dave then I believe they would still kick ass, again!!!

if all that stuff about dave being difficult and dave admitting to MA he was in the dressing room, I am gonna say if its true I am very disappointed in the Diamond one!!! if its true than dave doesnt want it as bad as he says he does. things are different. people have grown up and obviously changed and you cant go back to being the man in a band from many years ago in its youth.

dave man..... you gota just cool it a bit so you can get this thing off the ground with ed and the boys. as much as that would suck you gota do it. #1 for the fans an the band and #2....jesus the fucking money your throwing away.

get it together Dave.


I really believe dave could talk ed into it if he could convince him he could cool it for a new album and tour.

if Dave is impressing MA that tells me ed is even more affraid of a reunion and wont do it because he knows it will be about dave and ed will take a back seat.... so he will think. even after all these years I still think ed gets insecure when he is around dave. I think he doesnt like the way dave makes him feel when hes around him.


but fuck guys!!! one of the huge bands of the 70's that are still alive and fairly young. you gota do it now or the boat will be missed.


fucking dave man! put the ego aside for a bit. the boys control it all and thats the way it is. it is Van Halen and they own the rights to everything. before I said I didnt want dave to do a reunion but fuck I am not getting any younger and I want to feel the VH power one more time before I die or get too old.


dave put that ego shit aside. lets get it on!!!!

[bru87tr]

terry, you make alot of sense dude! good post!


I totally agree. didnt think of that.

[bru87tr]

your right, eds ego is much bigger than daves. no doubt about that. but ed will never budge because of that and I still say do what it takes.

lets see .....

me going to a VH reunion concert or see Dave take a stand and say fuckem' ?

I say me going to a VH concert reunion. sorry dave.

yes I am selfish. its been way to long.

[Terry]

Yeah, but Dave is headstrong. And he was there at the beginning, before the money, before the home studios, before Van Halen was anything anyone was talking about or going to see.

He was there from the ground floor and helped build the fucker. Hagar and Cherone remodeled the building a la Queer Eye, but what everyone remembers is CVH.

So why should Dave tone it down? It's just like Roth was saying in the late 1990s after the first reunion flopped, along the lines of bringing all that anger and sonic fury along with them into the songwriting process, into rehearsals and on the road...competition between Dave and Ed was what ignited the whole thing to begin with. Holding hands in some Some Kinda Monster group therapy bullshit isn't what Van Halen needs.

These are grown fucking men, here. See, I get the sense that Dave knows who he is and is comfortable in his own skin and has an overall positive attitude, whereas Ed is really a whiny bitch who is just plain jealous of Dave and unhappy with himself.

But none of that needs to prohibit then from making music together. Ed and Sam were constantly hugging when Van Hagar first came to be, and them getting along didn't make for exciting music in my book.

Ed and Al just need to decide that they're gonna do it, that they're gonna treat Mike and Dave as equals in this thing and stop thinking of Van Halen as their band and realize people want to see all four of them together. Meth mouth needs to lay off the pipe, go back and relearn the CVH catalog, and maybe playing that music will spark some new killer riffs and ideas, which will in turn prod Dave to do his thing...I mean, is it just me who sees how fucking EASY this should be?

[DavidLeeNatra]

but I can also read one positive aspect out of bass player's interview...there will NEVER be a hagarized version of =VH= again, either...take this, sheep!!!

[PlexiBrown]

It makes no sense to blame just Eddie or just Dave. It is both of them. Eddie is always drunk and Dave is impossible to deal with for any length of time. Just ask the musicians in his other bands or anything he gets invoved with for thet matter. Eddie and Dave are their own worst ememies. Also, it is normal for a lead singer to have a big ego but Dave's ego is extraordinary.

I met Eddie in 2004 and he was hammered as usual. He doesn't even know what is going on most of the time. He probably doesn't even recall what he says or does most of the time.

It got to the point with Van Hagar where the four of them split up while traveling. It would be the same thing with Dave.

It seems like Alex wanted to meet Dave half way as far as what kind of stuff they would record. Eddie wouldn't give in this case.

Out of anybody that has ever been in Van Halen, I would believe what Michael Anthony says over any of them. He was always the level headed one who generally kept his mouth shut over the years. When he speaks, I would listen.

Here is a message to Eddie and Dave.....grow up, make some kick ass Rock and give your fans what they deserve!

Won't happen but I guess I can dream.