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I read this a few weeks ago in the newest incarnation of outsider Van Halen biographies by Ian Christie: "Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga."
Christie relates an event I was unaware of - that in around 1994, while Roth was recording "Your Filthy Little Mouth" and Ed and Valerie were in NYC for some project she was working on, they had a chance meeting in the street in which Dave walked right by them, apparently oblivious. Ed caught his eye at the last moment, but Dave kept walking. Ed called out and spun around and ran two blocks back to Dave, extended his hand and wished Roth well. Roth shook his hand, but only returned a look of shock and horror. Dave was supposedly so dumbfounded that he said nothing, only staring at Ed with eyes as wide as quarters. Christie goes on to say something to the effect that Dave was not good in life's more unscripted moments like chance meetings with friends 'gone bad."
I wonder what would have happened had Dave been more congenial? What if he had invited Ed to jam on his album or something?
Would 1996 have gone to shit as it did?
Would Cherone ever have been in the band after Sammy was given the boot?
I think Dave choked big time if this is true...
Christie relates an event I was unaware of - that in around 1994, while Roth was recording "Your Filthy Little Mouth" and Ed and Valerie were in NYC for some project she was working on, they had a chance meeting in the street in which Dave walked right by them, apparently oblivious. Ed caught his eye at the last moment, but Dave kept walking. Ed called out and spun around and ran two blocks back to Dave, extended his hand and wished Roth well. Roth shook his hand, but only returned a look of shock and horror. Dave was supposedly so dumbfounded that he said nothing, only staring at Ed with eyes as wide as quarters. Christie goes on to say something to the effect that Dave was not good in life's more unscripted moments like chance meetings with friends 'gone bad."
I wonder what would have happened had Dave been more congenial? What if he had invited Ed to jam on his album or something?
Would 1996 have gone to shit as it did?
Would Cherone ever have been in the band after Sammy was given the boot?
I think Dave choked big time if this is true...
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