An odd article about Dave, just plain odd....

[Nitro Express]

The first time I saw Dave on a stage was in 1980. He was not a nice guy then either. He was a funny egomaniac who yelled at the sound guy. Van Halen is about ego. Always has been.

[Ellyllions]

Yeah, I think it was a good piece to read. But like some of you, I think he's trying too hard to put that Dave incident into some kind of deeper context than he should've.

In Greensboro, I saw Dave making fun of some of the VIP'ers and thought to myself, "Yep, love him on stage but that's one bastard I never wanna meet."

Nitro's right. Dave's just arrogant. Just as Edward and Alex I'm sure. They're the "talent". Not a bad thing to be, and I've got no qualms with it. I'm just intelligent enough to know that they'd easily hurt my feelings and not give a shit. So I choose to stay away. Which I'm sure they'd appreciate.

[ELVIS]

It would have been more appropriate inn 2004 with the first paragraph describing Sammy asking Edward on the last night of the tour...

"Where we playing tomorrow night, Ed" ??

[Matt White]

DAVE doesn't suffer fools lightly............

[binnie]

Originally posted by crsantin
It's about moments of truth in the otherwise fantasy world or rock n roll-the brief moment of clarity when you get to see things how they really are. He mentioned the very uncomfortable Elvis moment, those few seconds when you could see the end of Elvis. When he mentions the incident with Dave, he's talking about the real anger that Dave might be feeling at having to pretend to be having a good time up there with the Van Halen brothers, pretending like everything is wonderful and we're all brothers, when in fact the real truth might be those few seconds where Dave turns on the roadie, gives him a venomous look and a few choice words-that might be the REAL reality of the current Van Halen situation. It's just a suggestion he's making, and an interesting one at that...maybe things aren't as wonderful as they appear to be and the truth reveals itself in those quick little moments. Eddie's had a bunch of them with his guitar tech as well.

Re-reading the article, I think that you're right - this is exactly what they guy's trying to get at.

Cheers.

[Polk High]

So I have to know did anyone slip?

[DavidLeeNatra]

lol...dave yelled in full anger at the sound tech on the rehearsal "don't make me ask again"...then turns to ed, smiles and gives him a "high five"...so what...that journalist knows shit about shit...