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As I stated when I rejoined this fine Roth Army, I have not followed Van Halen much since the early 90's; having followed VH since '77 when I saw them live. I followed Diamond obviously, and somethings would read articles on Eddie in the 90's, but that was it. I never read or heard anything from the Van Cherone years.
Several members here, posted that Cherone sang better than Hagar, and not even Cherone butchered Van Roth classic songs like Hagar is currently. Accordingly, over the weekend I listened to some audios and briefly watch some videos of the Van Cherone era concerts. I must disagree with some of the RA members quasi-positive comments on Cherone. Based on my review, that had to be some of the worst fronting and singing I have ever seen or heard.
God, Cherone was just horrible, and him trying to mimic Roth's vocal moves on the classic's was well......I've heard cats f--k that sounded better. Even Hagar is not that stupid to try and mimick Roth's vocals moves! Geeeeeee
I posted this on another thread a while back, but I will post it again here. I have never heard ANYONE that can sing Roth's VH - I songs. This isn't a BS pro-Roth statement. I'm just stating that only Roth's voice works with most classic VH - I songs.
Dave just has one of those very unique voices and gifts, like Steven Tyler, or Freddie Mercury (RIP). I've never heard anyone do justice on Tyler's-Arrowsmith's or Mercury-Queen's classic songs either. Simple reason - It's impossible to replicate these three legends. That's why they have that unique status in rock history among all serious pros!
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Another thing on listening/watching the Van Cherone 98 Tour this weekend:
I am totally shocked how much Eddie's ability has deteriorated, since the 1998 Van Cherone Tour. The guy was still damn good in 98, and had most of his early years ability and sound. Currently, EVH has easily lost 65-75% of his guitar playing ability, based on watching various portions of the 5 videos I have of the current Van ReHash Tour.
Oh yeah, if you're Eddie Van Halen you can lose a lot of ability and still be damn good. And, yes in these Van ReHash Tour videos, EVH has several moments on-stage that he is pure classic Eddie. But, the rest of the time he is a boozing/druggin hack up there.
And you know, I get sick of hearing, "well you know EVH had cancer" and that is the reason for his loss of ability and current appearance. That is such total uneducated bull shit! EVH's cancer was like he had a snotty nose compared to the cancer I went through, and many other 100,000's of people endure annually in the U.S.
EVH had a localized non-metastized form cancer. Thousands of people, everyday, have this form of cancer with no effect on their overall lives and productive capacity. For Eddie, it's a reason to drug, smoke, booze himself to death, and shit on everyone around him!
Maybe the pussy will get full-blown systemic metastized cancer when he gets it again, and he WILL get cancer again. Then I might cut the worthless loser a little bit of slack!
Several members here, posted that Cherone sang better than Hagar, and not even Cherone butchered Van Roth classic songs like Hagar is currently. Accordingly, over the weekend I listened to some audios and briefly watch some videos of the Van Cherone era concerts. I must disagree with some of the RA members quasi-positive comments on Cherone. Based on my review, that had to be some of the worst fronting and singing I have ever seen or heard.
God, Cherone was just horrible, and him trying to mimic Roth's vocal moves on the classic's was well......I've heard cats f--k that sounded better. Even Hagar is not that stupid to try and mimick Roth's vocals moves! Geeeeeee
I posted this on another thread a while back, but I will post it again here. I have never heard ANYONE that can sing Roth's VH - I songs. This isn't a BS pro-Roth statement. I'm just stating that only Roth's voice works with most classic VH - I songs.
Dave just has one of those very unique voices and gifts, like Steven Tyler, or Freddie Mercury (RIP). I've never heard anyone do justice on Tyler's-Arrowsmith's or Mercury-Queen's classic songs either. Simple reason - It's impossible to replicate these three legends. That's why they have that unique status in rock history among all serious pros!
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Another thing on listening/watching the Van Cherone 98 Tour this weekend:
I am totally shocked how much Eddie's ability has deteriorated, since the 1998 Van Cherone Tour. The guy was still damn good in 98, and had most of his early years ability and sound. Currently, EVH has easily lost 65-75% of his guitar playing ability, based on watching various portions of the 5 videos I have of the current Van ReHash Tour.
Oh yeah, if you're Eddie Van Halen you can lose a lot of ability and still be damn good. And, yes in these Van ReHash Tour videos, EVH has several moments on-stage that he is pure classic Eddie. But, the rest of the time he is a boozing/druggin hack up there.
And you know, I get sick of hearing, "well you know EVH had cancer" and that is the reason for his loss of ability and current appearance. That is such total uneducated bull shit! EVH's cancer was like he had a snotty nose compared to the cancer I went through, and many other 100,000's of people endure annually in the U.S.
EVH had a localized non-metastized form cancer. Thousands of people, everyday, have this form of cancer with no effect on their overall lives and productive capacity. For Eddie, it's a reason to drug, smoke, booze himself to death, and shit on everyone around him!
Maybe the pussy will get full-blown systemic metastized cancer when he gets it again, and he WILL get cancer again. Then I might cut the worthless loser a little bit of slack!
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