What the next classic VH album would have sounded like.

[Terry]

Don't think it would have sounded like EEAS at all.

Probably would have sounded more along the lines of 5150, although I can't imagine what Dave would have sung over music like Love Comes Walking In, Why Can't This Be Love and Dreams (and don't really want to...the music was just too girlishly giddy for my tastes). Tracks like Good Enough, 5150 and Get Up were better suited to Roth.

I'd like to think had Roth and Ted stuck around, someone would have prevented Ed from totally hacking his great CVH tone to bits at the very least, even if the music had stayed the same.

[Matt White]

"What the next classic VH album would have sounded like."


LIKE SHIT


Which is why DAVE quit the band....EVH wanted to be JOURNEY....

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by Matt White
"What the next classic VH album would have sounded like."


LIKE SHIT


Which is why DAVE quit the band....EVH wanted to be JOURNEY....

Good point to that.

[GAR]

Re: What the next classic VH album would have sounded like.

Originally posted by The Dime
.. so do you think it would have been 5150 but with Dave's lyrics?

Supposedly there were 10 albums ready to go like this "in the can, ready" according to EVH by his own words in 2003..

[Brett]

Originally posted by sadaist
I remember an interview where Eddie said Dave was pissed about Jump. Dave's line to him was something like "You're a fucking guitar player, not a keyboard player", which pissed Ed off. No one tells Ed what to do. Dave still made Jump into a hit though. Talk about the golden touch.

The song would have been a hit no matter what Dave sang over it. It was a perfect pop tune for where music was in 1984. The band made it a hit, not just Dave. Some of you will never get it, that what made Van Halen great was the sum of their parts.

[Terry]

Originally posted by Brett
The song would have been a hit no matter what Dave sang over it. It was a perfect pop tune for where music was in 1984. The band made it a hit, not just Dave. Some of you will never get it, that what made Van Halen great was the sum of their parts.

I think we get it here a bit more than people do at, say, the links, where everytime Ed so much as farts it's hailed as the work of a genius, and every album is brilliant no matter who was in the band.

CVH was magic. Took all four of them to make it happen. Once Dave left, just became an ordinary rock band with a better-than-average guitarist.

[DavidLeeBroth]

Originally posted by sadaist
Dave still made Jump into a hit though. Talk about the golden touch.

No particular fan of Jump but it's mainly the corny keyboards that made Jump a hit, not Dave.

[Apollo]

Originally posted by sadaist
I remember an interview where Eddie said Dave was pissed about Jump. Dave's line to him was something like "You're a fucking guitar player, not a keyboard player", which pissed Ed off. No one tells Ed what to do. Dave still made Jump into a hit though. Talk about the golden touch.

Golden touch my arse.
Jump is just a catchy tune and the cheesy keyboard is the icing on the cake. It's Van Halens first pop song and a good indicator for what was to come later on.
If anybody is to get credit for that song becoming such a big hit its Ed rather than Dave.