Which of the Replacement Singers Damaged Van Halen most ?

[cwsmith17]

Originally posted by Panamark
Hagar or Cherone.

Who did the most damage to the legacy ??

Cherone wasn't trying to be Dave........it almost sounded like he was trying to be Sam. Sam was trying to be Dave, but failed miserably. Go figure?

[Chaz Rock City]

I gotta go with Cherone, even the Sammy fans hate him.

[DavidLeeNatra]

ed..."how many say I"...final song...final replacement singer...final nail in the coffin...

[lms2]

Gary was screwed going in. He knew it too-but didn't want to pass up the chance of playing with Van Halen. Can't really blame him him for wanting to play with Van Halen or for their demise as they were ailing before Gary signed on.

[dave_is_vh]

I can't answer this question. I stopped listening to Van Halen after Dave left.

Roth = Van Halen

Van Halen = Roth

[Switch84]

Both of them!

This is a non-issue, folks! Hagar and Cherone ruined it. There is no replacement for David Lee Roth PERIOD!


Anything else won't get you a Superbowl win, hoss.

[Dan]

Spammy the sheep fucker.

[bru87tr]

sam! cause he had the longest run with VH. cherone was not in long enough to do any damage. sam ruined VH!

to go from a classic rock band that changed the rock world to a soft, cheese soft rock band totally tarnished VH as a band, the originals who are left look like the wimps and they will realize it later down the road when they are very old and people talk about the classic compared to the cheese.

its a damn shame. VH should have gone down in history like zep and all the classic rockers as the best. now thats tarnished cause of sam. although a dave reunion would save it and reverse the curse.

[flappo]

..sammy sucked

..gary just liked to suck

[flappo]

Originally posted by dave_is_vh
I can't answer this question. I stopped listening to Van Halen after Dave left.

Roth = Van Halen

Van Halen = Roth

TRUE DAT !

[VH LINKS SUCKS]

Re: Which of the Replacement Singers Damaged Van Halen most ?

Originally posted by Panamark
Hagar or Cherone.

Who did the most damage to the legacy ??

Eddie Van Halen and his sister! ( Something Dave would say )

[DLR_EngineRoom]

Originally posted by Mezro
Sam "the scam" fucked a huge screaming chunk of the legacy of VH.

He never inspired or pushed Ed to a higher creative plateau and wore his intimidation of DLR like armor.

Sam was a clock puncher, a cock muncher, a free luncher and a water cooler joke to most music fans. Only he views his contribution to VH as "classic."

Gary was a humble guy, idolized Roth and got ED to play some of the DLR era material live. He took a "dream job" that no singer in their right mind would turn down. It was a lose/lose situation at best.

To summarize:

Hagar = VH fraud
Cherone = VH fan

Mezro...and I forgot my standard closing...

Originally posted by lms2
Gary was screwed going in. He knew it too-but didn't want to pass up the chance of playing with Van Halen. Can't really blame him him for wanting to play with Van Halen or for their demise as they were ailing before Gary signed on.

A Dave-Era fan gets to live his dream and perform the favourites that he grew up listening and rocking out to. He agrees to do a few Spammy era stuff, at the request of Ed, but continues to do the (Roth-Era) favourites he loved as a kid. When doing autographs with the band, he is noticeably humble. On record, he puts out music with the 3 remaining members of Van Halen, that, according to the synergy of those four, felt right.

You can't blame synergy or vibe, it just is. Just like you can't blame DLR for having the best synergy with the remaining 3 members of Van Halen, you can't blame Gary, a Roth fan, for his synergy with the remaining 3 members.

Gary's lived quite an amazing life, for a Roth fan! He opened for Roth himself on the biggest CD of his band's history, then years later is asked by the remaining 3 members of Van Halen to join them for an album and tour.

No blame whatsoever goes to Gary, he's a homeboy, he's one of us, a massive Roth fan. Our homeboy did his best, and if anything, should be saluted by fellow Roth fans for not only chasing his dream, but living it.

[Coyote]

Originally posted by Mezro
Sam "the scam" fucked a huge screaming chunk the legacy of VH.

He never inspired or pushed Ed to a higher creative plateau and wore his intimidation of DLR like armor.

Sam was a clock puncher, a cock muncher, a free luncher and a water cooler joke to most music fans. Only he views his contribution to VH as "classic."

Gary was a humble guy, idolized Roth and got ED to play some of the DLR era material live. He took a "dream job" than no singer in their right mind would turn down. It was a lose/lose situation at best.

To summarize:

Hagar = VH fraud
Cherone = VH fan

You said it, Mezro.

[Terry]

Cherone made a decent attempt. He had respect for the classic era. Unlike Sammy, who approached the classic era from a viewpoint of the music being great but Dave's limitations as a vocalist and lyricist holding the band back.

Yep, Cherone had some stage moves that raised more than a few quizzical eyebrows, but he served up the classic catalog large, and put some effort into the songs he did. Sam played the same 3 to 4 classics and phoned them in.

All about attitude. And in terms of that, Eddie and Alex's own attitudes have done more in the last 8 years in terms of tarnishing the band's image than 10 years of Van Hagar ever came close to.

[lms2]

Originally posted by DLR_EngineRoom
A Dave-Era fan gets to live his dream and perform the favourites that he grew up listening and rocking out to. He agrees to do a few Spammy era stuff, at the request of Ed, but continues to do the (Roth-Era) favourites he loved as a kid. When doing autographs with the band, he is noticeably humble. On record, he puts out music with the 3 remaining members of Van Halen, that, according to the synergy of those four, felt right.

You can't blame synergy or vibe, it just is. Just like you can't blame DLR for having the best synergy with the remaining 3 members of Van Halen, you can't blame Gary, a Roth fan, for his synergy with the remaining 3 members.

Gary's lived quite an amazing life, for a Roth fan! He opened for Roth himself on the biggest CD of his band's history, then years later is asked by the remaining 3 members of Van Halen to join them for an album and tour.

No blame whatsoever goes to Gary, he's a homeboy, he's one of us, a massive Roth fan. Our homeboy did his best, and if anything, should be saluted by fellow Roth fans for not only chasing his dream, but living it.

Very well said. Rock On.