The summer tour fans really wanted.

[ULTRAMAN VH]

The hardrock music scene has been taking a beating for the past 5 or more years. With the influx of Rap, Rapmetal and Hip Hop being rammed down our throats by corporate music raiders and lets not forget the Britney- Boy band domination, we fans of guitar oriented
music have become almost obsolete. Yes there are a few still trying to carry the torch such as Zakk Wylde and Joe Perry, but HARDROCKIN good time music is taking a major dirt nap.
If there was one band that could have risen out of the ashes and breathed new life into the pathetic state of music, it would have been the MIGHTY VAN HALEN. But folks it isn't going to happen. Instead of a DLR led VH, doing there imitation of GODZILLA laying waste to cities with high octane tunes like UNCHAINED, Ain't Talkin Bout love and Mean Street, we will instead be subjected to the Summer Of Love. Yes, the Peace be with you bore tour, coming to your local town, spewing nursery rhymes like When It's LOVE, Why Can't This Be LOVE, LOVE Walks In and Dreams. God help us all!

[gslinger]

Correction.....hardrock has been taking a beating ever since the early '90's when the music industry dicks shoved Nirvana and that alternative crap up our wazoo. They destroyed the late 70's & 80's rock movement overnight and it has been downhill ever since.

[Warham]

I was actually glad that that late 80's crap got washed down the drain.

I was getting tired of listening to Poison, Warrant, Slaughter, and all those other pseudo Van Halen bands.

I'll always praise Nirvana for being the draino that cleaned up the pipes. Only problem is, it plugged them up again with that grunge shit.

[Satan]

The problem with ANY musical trend is label oversaturation. For example, once Van HALEN made it big, and Quiet Riot got signed, purely by the reputation of their dead guitarist, after that anybody with long hair and a guitar could get a contract. Talent was optional. The same thing happenned in the 90's in Seattle. Let's face it, for every Poison, there's a Candlebox. Two completely useless bands that never deserved a deal, and neither band was even from the town whose trend they cashed in on. Just as Van Halen knocked the Village People off the air, Nirvana didn't kill anything that didn't desperately deserve to die.

[ULTRAMAN VH]

Good points, hair bands did wear out there welcome, but for crying out loud, guitarist's today don't even play solo's anymore. SHEESH!!!!!!
EDDIE could have inspired a whole new generation of Axe slingers, but he will be playing more keyboards on this tour due to the spammy fluff.

[madraoul]

It's gonna take a real VH reunion or a ressurection of Hendrix to get me to an arena show anyway. Overpriced tickets, lame music, no frisbees, no beachballs, and gasp....NO SMOKING! Watered down Budweiser and Hagarita. Yes, we live in sad times my friends.

[Terry]

No kidding. I gotta tell you, wouldn't bother paying more than a $100 for a Roth-led Van Halen show in an arena with 19,000 other people there. Would be able to get just as much enjoyment in the comfort of my own home from a boot of the same thing.

A lot of those bands that were kncked down by G n R and then finished off by grunge I never considered hard rock in the first place. Posion, Warrant, Winger, White Lion, Bon Jovi...the hair bands were just top 40 pop rockers with too much Aqua Net and spandex on their hands.

Van Halen inspired a lot of those 80s groups, but it seems like the Halen inspiration for many of them ended with having a blonde singer trying to be sexy and a guitar player with two hands on the fret board.