What's a SHEEP? We've been using this word in VH-land for years.
Well, I see a VH fan sheep as someone that will accept whatever shit is thrown their way by the band and then defend the fuck out of it with other fans as if they are spokespeople of the very band that has screwed them in the ass so many times before.
I've seen it for years with this band...pinheads on the VHML telling me that Gary Cherone being picked over Dave is the best decision for the long-term future of the band...even going so far as to tell me that this is what they were hoping for all along...even when the rest of us could quote this same fan's e-mails raving on about how great it was that Dave is coming back.
Now there are some fans saying, "Fuck it...I'll see Dave."
That's cool. I probably will too.
But to sit and talk about how this is great, the best-case situation, Mike deserved it?
Not one fucking person here hasn't raved on about how the ultimate would be to see the original thing.
And this AIN'T the original thing.
It's Dave, an extra-drunk version of the guitarist, the drummer with a neck-brace and enough hate to start a genocide...and a kid that really doesn't deserve to be up there, no matter what his last name.
This is all agenda-pushing.
Again, will I see it? I may give in.
Hell, I may do that and then call RIKK the Sheep of the Week.
Cuz the truth is, I'm giving in.
But whether I end up seeing it or not, I think it stinks.
As I said in another thread, this ain't about a bunch of fans praying for the return of the mullet head that has betrayed the name of VH plenty of times himself, now by touring with the cheesehead. This is about a bunch of fans sick of being dictated by the guitarist what the ultimate version of Van Halen is...and most fans refuse to accept such dictation when they know the band selling out MSG in 1984 was simply the best this band could be.
Just remember when you're out justifying with other rock fans or in threads how this is all the best situation for Dave and VH...
If the band gets back together with Wolfgang on bass, the band will only be able to tour during the summer for the rest of its existence (or at least for the next few years...if this were more than a quick one-off)...because Wolfgang has school.
Is that rock 'n' roll? No, it's sad. Very, very sad.
Ed knows there's only one way to tour with Dave and keep the spotlight: bring his son along and make the evening as much a father and son story as anything else.
And I would hate to be putting money toward that...
...I wish I could choose which band member gets my dollars.
:ssmile:
Well, I see a VH fan sheep as someone that will accept whatever shit is thrown their way by the band and then defend the fuck out of it with other fans as if they are spokespeople of the very band that has screwed them in the ass so many times before.
I've seen it for years with this band...pinheads on the VHML telling me that Gary Cherone being picked over Dave is the best decision for the long-term future of the band...even going so far as to tell me that this is what they were hoping for all along...even when the rest of us could quote this same fan's e-mails raving on about how great it was that Dave is coming back.
Now there are some fans saying, "Fuck it...I'll see Dave."
That's cool. I probably will too.
But to sit and talk about how this is great, the best-case situation, Mike deserved it?
Not one fucking person here hasn't raved on about how the ultimate would be to see the original thing.
And this AIN'T the original thing.
It's Dave, an extra-drunk version of the guitarist, the drummer with a neck-brace and enough hate to start a genocide...and a kid that really doesn't deserve to be up there, no matter what his last name.
This is all agenda-pushing.
Again, will I see it? I may give in.
Hell, I may do that and then call RIKK the Sheep of the Week.
Cuz the truth is, I'm giving in.
But whether I end up seeing it or not, I think it stinks.
As I said in another thread, this ain't about a bunch of fans praying for the return of the mullet head that has betrayed the name of VH plenty of times himself, now by touring with the cheesehead. This is about a bunch of fans sick of being dictated by the guitarist what the ultimate version of Van Halen is...and most fans refuse to accept such dictation when they know the band selling out MSG in 1984 was simply the best this band could be.
Just remember when you're out justifying with other rock fans or in threads how this is all the best situation for Dave and VH...
If the band gets back together with Wolfgang on bass, the band will only be able to tour during the summer for the rest of its existence (or at least for the next few years...if this were more than a quick one-off)...because Wolfgang has school.
Is that rock 'n' roll? No, it's sad. Very, very sad.
Ed knows there's only one way to tour with Dave and keep the spotlight: bring his son along and make the evening as much a father and son story as anything else.
And I would hate to be putting money toward that...
...I wish I could choose which band member gets my dollars.
:ssmile:
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