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Originally posted by cow_de_dow
Eddie would have made it on his own anyway. No one cares about some egocentric drunk singer, always singing about the same thing. Listen to Unchained and tell me DLR's little rant in there is intelligent. I'm not saying Sammy's any better, but they're both losers. You should buy Van Halen for the guitarwork, not the drunk frontman.
Eddie would have made it on his own anyway. No one cares about some egocentric drunk singer, always singing about the same thing. Listen to Unchained and tell me DLR's little rant in there is intelligent. I'm not saying Sammy's any better, but they're both losers. You should buy Van Halen for the guitarwork, not the drunk frontman.
Here's an even better example....
Around the same time Van HALEN was gigging around the LA club scene, there was another band who rivaled them. That band was called Quiet Riot. Oh sure, you know the name NOW, but that's not the point. Van HALEN got signed in 1977, they didn't. Randy Rhoads was an extremely talented guitarist, as was Eddie. So what tipped the scales to Van HALEN?
The answer is a great frontman named David Lee Roth.
Kevin Du Brow sucked then as he sucks now. It's doubtful that anybody went to the Quiet Riot shows to see him. DLR, on the other hand WAS the show. He got your attention. He demanded it. And then, once he got it, then he directed your attention to that crazy guitar player standing next to him.
It made all the difference in the world. Randy Rhoads eventually got his due, but not without the efforts of another crazy frontman named Ozzy Osbourne.
I guarantee you that if you went into a parallel universe where David Lee Roth was the lead singer of Quiet Riot with Randy Rhoads, and Kevin Du Brow was the frontman for Rat Salade (remember that it was DAVE who named the band "Van HALEN"), there's no doubt that Quiet Riot would be signed first. And the Gene $immon$ in that universe probably would have succeeded in stealing Eddie away from his band.
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