Flashback...1st time you heard EEAS ?

[Calderone]

IT was 1986 ...
EEAS came out...you got home and put your EEAS record on
what was your impression ?
what was your thoughts of the EEAS BAND ?
what was the buzz at the time ?
then you listened to 5150 ?? pararu pararu ?
did you like one better than the other ?
EEAS bad side its ...too short !

[bueno bob]

Yankee Rose on the radio. Hated Steve Vai's tone from moment one and my opinion of him has never really increased.

On a personal note, I remember thinking to myself, "Van Halen was better" and wished that they'd get back together. Liked it alright on it's own terms, though.

Here it is 21 years down the road and I'm STILL wishing Van Halen would get back together...

[JJMcClure]

I didn't get it until a few years later. Yankee Rose blew the speakers off but it was Ladies Night in Buffalo that did it for me. Inch perfect guitar solo from Vai and one of Dave's best tunes ever.

[ELVIS]

I thought the singing was good but that it was trying to sound too much like Van Halen...

I remember telling my friends it would sound better with Eddie Van Halen playing on it...

I liked it though, still do...

[bueno bob]

I remember thinking after hearing ALAE that I wished Dave would have found Jason in '86 instead...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

skipped class sophmore year in highschool, me and a buddy went and bought the cassette. kicked 5150s ass!!!!

[MUSICMANN]

Sucked, like everything else, that VH and Dave have done, since they parted ways.

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by MUSICMANN
Sucked, like everything else, that VH and Dave have done, since they parted ways.

I wouldn't go that far. Steve Vai's a worthless guitarist, yeah, but the songs themselves are good. I understand being a Van Halen traditionalist (and I am too, I'll never be caught dead saying anything Dave's done solo trumps his Van Halen material), but to say it "sucks" is taking it a bit to the extreme...

[Calderone]

it rules !

[jharp84]

Let down, looking for a more full sound(brownsound?) It was lacking something - Ed, Al & Mike, However, more balls than 5150!

[MUSICMANN]

Just in a pissed off mood, sorry didn't really mean it sucked, that was going to far.

[Hollywood Jesus]

5150 had already been out, so when I heard EEAS, I thought Oh... So, this is where Van Halen went.

As has been said, Vai's tone wasn't quite right, but his energy and enthusiasm matched DLR '86 far better than EVH '86 would have.

Got your Dreams right nere, pal!

[Bill Lumbergh]

While still a few steps below anything by CVH, it's been one of my fave albums since day one. I still play it out, to this day......the buzz was positive, everyone I knew that was a VH fan dug it.....

[Atomic Dyver]

A good album...but more so I remember it being on at all parties when it came out. It was drinkin and gettin laid music much in the tradition of CVH. Where as 5150 was a magnet for geeks who could care less about CVH.

[EEASCURLY]

I heard Yankee Rose blastin' through someone's window while delivering papers. . . .I knew it was Dave and thought it sounded good. I went out and bout the casette and wore it out. It kicked ass all the way.