Does this Generation know it was Dave's Band?

[MadCat]

Well, lemme tell you about the situation outside the US. Here, in Russia there also not many young people who know what was Van Halen. For example: there is a russian site vkontakte.ru (like an american facebook.com), which was created for communication between students, and there are around 600.000 members on it. And only 150 people wrote in music preferences "Van Halen". And among these 150 about a half are Spammy fans. It's all very pity.

[ZahZoo]

Re: Does this Generation know it was Dave's Band?

Originally posted by firestarter
I get this feeling that todays culture forgot that Dave was the leader and the main reason for getting into vh, despite ed's awesome guitar riffs. dave was the heart and soul of vh. it was daves band, everyone at that time knew it.for some reason i feel people forgot this!!

Early on-set of alzheimers?

CVH was a team deal... it was stupid bullshit thinking just as you speculate that led to Dave making the biggest dumbass decision of his life.

You don't walk away from the game at half-time in the Super Bowl when you are on the winning team!!

History has clearly demonstrated that neither DLR nor VH were the force to be reconned with... without each other.

[MUSICMANN]

Never really thought of VH being Dave's band. CVH will always be centered around Ed's guitar playing and Dave's showmanship.

[ELVIS]

At least someone else besides me has the brains and the balls to lay the blame on Roth for walking out on the greatest rock band in the world at the height of their popularity...

That in turn is the reason their legacy doesn't have the impact or staying power it should...

Oh well...

[TAKIN WHISKEY]

I have teenage daughters and they know classic VH, obviously because of me. I ask their friends if they know who Van Halen is and some do and some don't, but I can tell you this. The ones who do know, always refer to a CVH songs. Jump, Hot For Teacher, Running With The Devil, Dance the Night Away, Beautiful Girls etc.. The other day, I'm in the car with my 13yr old, and a Van Hagar song comes on, which I have never exposed her ears to. She can name almost any big name band right away. So I throw her this ugly curve ball, thinking she might recognize Ed's guitar. Nope, she says I don't know. I tell her it is Van Halen with Fat Sam. She says, no joking aside, she says, did they bring in a girl to write their lyrics for them. HA HA

[Redballjets88]

Originally posted by Binky
You've never lived where I have, have you? Sorry but I know for a fact a lot of so-called metal people called emos do listen to a load of crap. I mean take My Chemical Romance headling Download this year! As for heavier metal, it may be heavier but it's just noise not music. I listen to heavier and better metal than all the emos put together and the difference is, I know Brave New World was not Iron Maiden's first album! That is just an example of their mentality. *^_^* lml

iron maiden is old metal. go pick up a cattle decapitation album and tell me its just "noise"

[Pasadena Bunnie]

Originally posted by TAKIN WHISKEY
I have teenage daughters and they know classic VH, obviously because of me. I ask their friends if they know who Van Halen is and some do and some don't, but I can tell you this. The ones who do know, always refer to a CVH songs. Jump, Hot For Teacher, Running With The Devil, Dance the Night Away, Beautiful Girls etc.. The other day, I'm in the car with my 13yr old, and a Van Hagar song comes on, which I have never exposed her ears to. She can name almost any big name band right away. So I throw her this ugly curve ball, thinking she might recognize Ed's guitar. Nope, she says I don't know. I tell her it is Van Halen with Fat Sam. She says, no joking aside, she says, did they bring in a girl to write their lyrics for them. HA HA

Your daughter is very keen and smart!!
At her age, girls love going to card shops - so she knows a Hallmark/Spamella Lyric from a Roth/In your face & Rockin' Lyric...
Kudos to her for being educated properly. :D

[Redballjets88]

Originally posted by TAKIN WHISKEY
I have teenage daughters and they know classic VH, obviously because of me. I ask their friends if they know who Van Halen is and some do and some don't, but I can tell you this. The ones who do know, always refer to a CVH songs. Jump, Hot For Teacher, Running With The Devil, Dance the Night Away, Beautiful Girls etc.. The other day, I'm in the car with my 13yr old, and a Van Hagar song comes on, which I have never exposed her ears to. She can name almost any big name band right away. So I throw her this ugly curve ball, thinking she might recognize Ed's guitar. Nope, she says I don't know. I tell her it is Van Halen with Fat Sam. She says, no joking aside, she says, did they bring in a girl to write their lyrics for them. HA HA

thats awesome. thats how i am with my 14 yr old sister, she knows its dave or the grave. amongst my friends if i say "dude you like sammy hagar" there could be a fight

[Redballjets88]

Duh, Which way did he go george? which way did he go?

[Redballjets88]

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!”

[Binky]

Originally posted by Redballjets88
iron maiden is old metal. go pick up a cattle decapitation album and tell me its just "noise"

How about Trivium? Hahahahahaha! *^_^* lml

[DrMaddVibe]

Yeah, they know.

Any Van Halen that kids are listening to today doesn't have Spammy McGaygar on it! Those fuckheads now listen to My Chemical Romance!

[Binky]

Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
Yeah, they know.

Any Van Halen that kids are listening to today doesn't have Spammy McGaygar on it! Those fuckheads now listen to My Chemical Romance!

I know, they're the reason I decided to go to Graspop instead of Download! Spammy is just some gay dude who knows nothing, Dave is the fucking man! *^_^* lml

[Ally_Kat]

Most of the boys from this generation know who VH is/was. The rocker chicks know, too.

And just saying, "Mama" by MCR is a pretty cool song.

[Binky]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
Most of the boys from this generation know who VH is/was. The rocker chicks know, too.

And just saying, "Mama" by MCR is a pretty cool song.

DIE!!! Lol only joking. No, I don't like their style. But it's cool no one knows who Hagar is, like I said the song people know is Jump. That's no fucking Hagar song man! *^_^* lml