Van Halen removes Michael Anthony from Song writing credits!

[WARF]

There has been many rumors than Van Halen has removed Michael Anthony from the songwriting credits. Well... it's official... he's been removed from 1984. There are also rumors that he is being removed from Album Artwork that will be shipped out from WACF and VH1

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Then type 1984

I'm looking at my copy of 1984 and MA is listed.

That's fucked up!

[WARF]

Also the new film, "Superbad" doesn't have MA listed for the credits to panama.

[PlexiBrown]

He is on all of the other Van Halen songs that I checked. Didn't he sign his rights away anyway?

[WARF]

Wait until you see the new version of WACF with him airbrushed out of the picture!

[Ra Power]

How petty! I know Ed is proud of his kid and all, but this is getting ridiculous.

[hotdog@ a shake]

Originally posted by WARF
Wait until you see the new version of WACF with him airbrushed out of the picture!

So, Where can we see this ?

[WARF]

That is the rumor which is not confirmed.

There is a rolling stone article... let me find it.

[philouze]

That's a bit Fucked Up.

[jhale667]

Holy crap, is he still getting performance credits/royalties at least?!?!?
As happy as I am to see Dave and Ed playing together again, that is seriously f*ed up....

[SRK]

It seems like there may be a lot more to this story ...then we know...

It seems VAN HALEN was looking for a bass player or rumored to be as far back as the first few albums.....Dave talks about it in his book,
Sheehan talks about how he was asked to join once...and I remember
Eddie in an early interview hinting that maybe the bass player was not pulling his wieght......It seems very stupid to give up your rights just to tour in 2004 I Mean he had to know that was a bad move....I just think there must be alot we don`t know about.....may be Ed thinks he came up with the bass lines .... I dont know? and we may never know.....

[PlexiBrown]

Looks like we have a few people here who may be interested in buying the Brooklyn Bridge.

[philouze]

I don't wanna know, for sure. This is the kinda thing that goes way over my head. Never mind what happened with Bozolewski, this is past history.
Now, Wolf is in, MA's trolling around with Cheddar.. Get on with it !

[SATAN BUSH]

I'm sure fanboi's (such as Dick) are celebrating this move. And, if they aren't voicing it just yet, I'm sure they will be VERY soon. Just look at the number of people who suddenly HATE Michael Anthony now for no apparent reason (except for the fact that EVH hates him, and the sheep of course HAVE to follow what EVH says).

I also love how these same said sheep-boi's believe to the core that there is NO WAY that EVH&Co. would stoop so low to the fans...you know, they would NEVER do something as, oh I don't know, have Wolfgang supported by a bass backing track on stage. You know, they'd NEVER do such a thing. Never. Just like they'd NEVER try to rewrite Van Halen's history. RIGHT??? Because, you know, the Van Halen's have SOOOOOOOOOO much integrity.

Completely lame.

[SRK]

I have a hard time believing that he gave up his rights to tour on that 2004 tour but he and Sam both say bad things went down before he was able to tour....I `m not saying its right... just saying with these guys you never know what really went down..But you would have to be stupid to give up your rights just to be part of a tour...who knows

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by jhale667
Holy crap, is he still getting performance credits/royalties at least?!?!?
As happy as I am to see Dave and Ed playing together again, that is seriously f*ed up....

Well, here's the situation on that. Mike told a few people I know who met him back in 2004 to get some shit signed after the show out here that, conditional to him playing at all in 2004, he had to sign off on everything to Ed and Alex - all future royalties to the name Van Halen, the music, the songwriting credits, every fucking bit of it. He won't ever again make ONE red cent off of anything he ever did in Van Halen. Nothing. No performance credits, no royalties - jack shit, essentially.

One of my friends literally flipped his wig and went "What the fuck did you do THAT for???"

Mike's answer was that he assumed Van Halen was fucked anyway and that 2004 tour was going to be it, forever (seemed like it to us at the time too, as I remember). Him and Sam were absolutely disgusted with Eddie (although they were on semi-OK terms with Alex, but Alex would side with Ed about everything), and they both were fed up of everything about two and a half to three weeks into the tour. He said they would complete the tour, but him and Sam were already travelling separate from the sisters. He also said both of them hated being there, but they were doing it for the fans and the payout, bottom line.

My estimation in all this was the Mike was telling the truth. I don't think it's any great stretch to say that Ed's a fucking prick and we all know that he was nailing down anything with the name Van Halen on it between 2001 and 2003 anyway. Makes perfect sense that he'd want Mike out of the picture for future revenue, considering how many nails he was driving down into the Van Halen money machine to keep it on his ground.

This is why I laugh more than a little bit whenever anybody says Mike "betrayed" Eddie and is a "traitor to the fans" for playing with Sammy. It's so completely inane when you stop to consider that he literally tossed himself into the breeze financially just to try and be with the band on what was, at that time, potentially their last hurrah, for better or worse.

I tell you, you can wash it away however you like, but the Michael Anthony affair, in my opinion, is a sad fucking shame on Van Halen's part. I don't care that Mike never contributed to the songwriting...that guy was with the band for nearly 30 YEARS, touring, recording, playing, promotion, videos, interviews, whatever. All of it.

Frankly, I don't give a shit what anybody has to say about, Mike deserves better and the name "Van Halen" will always leave a bitter taste in my mouth because of all the bullshit that's went down since 1985. This tour isn't enough to ever completely erase that. NOTHING will be.

Man, thank God for the memories...

Let the flames commence!