Back in 1985

[Terry]

Well, I dunno.

Considering the direction Ed's writing was heading in 1985, I'd be hard pressed to think of anybody who'd be able to have averted Van Halen off the trail to pop-rock blandness, which is what the thread is really asking, right?

It wasn't just Sammy's participation that made Van Halen post-1985 so boring.

I'd have rather seen Patty Smythe in the band than some Roth clone like Torien, or Hagar, who was basically trying to pull a Roth while slamming him in the press at the same time.

[sadaist]

Originally posted by Terry


It wasn't just Sammy's participation that made Van Halen post-1985 so boring.

Wasn't that the creative differences they were having with Roth? Ed was changing the style of music and Dave wasn't for it.

[FORD]

Johnny Rotten.....



...with blonde hair.


Hey, why the Hell not?

Steve Vai and Ginger Baker worked with him around that time. Why not the Van Heineken Sisters?

[WARF]

The band could be called, "Sex In The Van".

Huh, FORD?

[The_KiD]

Alan the Panther?

KiD

[jcook11]

Why does this not sink in..............

Van Halen is
DAVID LEE ROTH
EDWARD VAN HALEN
ALEX VAN HALEN
MICHAEL ANTHONY...................PERIOD! roy hagar and Gary Cherone have nothing to do with it.

[thome]

Hagar was perfect, because , it is what it is, it all would have been like it
was, even in a parallel universe nothing would have worked other than
what it was..

You could post -up 5 billion, -Not Daves-.

[Thorman]

The Red Rocker

BAM

[Terry]

Originally posted by Thorman
The Red Rocker

BAM

37 votes, eh?

[diamondsgirl]

no one could ever replace Roth

Hagar was the worst choice, IMO

[jcook11]

Every time someone mentions "the choad rockers" name I want to vomit

[binnie]

Originally posted by Thorman
The Red Rocker

BAM

Your a gaylord

BAM

[MK5150]

I would have liked it if Dave was replaced by a Rob Halford style singer then there would be no keyboard songs on the 5150 album. Also I think it would be interesting to hear EVH's guitar playing in a heavier style

[light 'em up!]

It is impossible to replace David Lee Roth as the lead singer of Van Halen just as it would impossible to replace Steven Tyler as the lead singer of Aerosmith, or Rober Plant as the lead singer of Led Zeppelin.

LEGENDS ARE FOREVER BABY!!!

Ed and his mongoloid brother should have disbanded Van Halen, retired the name, and gone solo. If they had done that, nobody would have bitched about Sammy, Gary, or any other singer Ed and Al jammed with.

But Ed and Al tried to replace David Lee Roth (twice) and tried to bury his legacy... a huge fuckup! Now, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel and the only one who can save them is... David Lee Roth. Ed and Al are basically at Dave's mercy and they don't even realize it!!!

[WACF]

Originally posted by WARF
NOBODY!!!

Says it all.