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Dave was fucking Al's wife from what I heard, not Val. It's as simple as Ed getting the respect of 15 year old girl's that made him start to write shitty music even though he didn't know it at the time 5150 came out. He got a number 1 album from one song. Why Can't This Be Love. That album was full of great guitar parts if you ask me. But that one hit made him think this is the new way too go !! Hagar said in an interview he wished Ed would play more guitar at that point also, but hey those hits were making them all very rich. He wasn't going to tell Ed to fuck off like Dave did. He hit paydirt. I also think Ed was sick of the guitar hero thing at this point. Weren't they going to ask some chick too repace Roth ?? He might have dropped the guitar altogether if that would have happened !! It's funny because I thought Dave's stuff was going to be more mainstream than what Ed and Sam were doing. Ed was into Cream and early Scorpions (LISTEN TO CATCH A TRAIN on Virgin Killers. Uli was a huge influence on Ed's playing) and Tommy Bolin. Dave wasn't a big metal fan at all really. The stuff Dave did later in his career is what I thought he would be doing right away. Maybe Vai said fuck that !! In the end it was the money from the whimpy hit's that killed Ed for years. I think it's that simple.
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