Michael Anthony audio interview with Adam Carolla

[ELVIS]

True enough...

[Halen High]

Some Mike quotes from Burrn Magazine in 2006 where he talked about working with Dave:

"We tried to make this thing work with Roth three times and each time it was even worse than the time before. We tried to do a new album with him and his ego just wouldn't let it happen and the third time that we tried to do it with him was more like, let's see if we can just play some dates and just get along with him and he still for some reason couldn't humble himself enough to just being one of the guys again here."

"We were going to do videos for the songs [on the Best Of Volume 1] and everything but Roth was really trying to take control and we finally just said, let's not even do the videos for these songs because he's going to kill the whole thing and so it fell apart.
But yeah, before that tour yeah, we tried to make it work. We went into the studio and it was kind of funny because we first got together in the studio and we were all in the one room together and we did Hot For Teacher, Mean Street and a few other songs and it's the weirdest thing because once we started playing it was like, son of a bitch, there it is, that's the magic! It was like a big déjà vu because it was the original band playing again and it sounded pretty fuckin' good too!

"But then of course the longer we spent in the studio, you know we had two or three different producers in there trying to work with us and Dave would just come in with tapes of the Chemical Brothers, all different kinds of weird stuff and say hey, let's do a song like this and Ed was having a hard time dealing with him, a real hard time dealing with him and Al was saying, well, let's do a couple of things that Roth likes to do and then let's just do our thing. I don't know if we had a complete album's worth of stuff but we were pretty damn close and unfortunately, there you go with Dave again and we just couldn't finish it and all those old reasons why he left the band in the first place they started surfacing you know. He went right back to his old ways."

Mike seemed to concede that the original band was THE SHIT...but he just can't get along with Dave.

[DavidLeeNatra]

No doubt Dave can play... although he's pretty much a one trick pony as long it's a guitar tuned to an open E with a little bit of flat pickin and old school blues finger picking. That seems to be his guitar zone...

and it's still more entertaining than anything TAFKAB could come up with...

a bit bitter, Mikey, aren't we?

[ZahZoo]

and it's still more entertaining than anything TAFKAB could come up with...

a bit bitter, Mikey, aren't we?

WTF is a TAFKAB?

[DavidLeeNatra]

WTF is a TAFKAB?

"the asshole formerly known as bassplayer"

[Vinnie Velvet]

Dave is more of a musician than Mike could ever be.

So maybe bassplayer should shut the fuck up. God, he's like a younger Sambo now. Fuckin' cunt.

Dave and Eddie created the SONGS on the CVH albums. Dave was great at melodies, song arrangements and so on (as someone already pointed out Dave actually did study musical theory at Pasadena College) and not just writing lyrics.

When did Mike ever write a song?? Never.

He can't.

[diamondsgirl]

Dave is more of a musician than Mike could ever be.

So maybe bassplayer should shut the fuck up. God, he's like a younger Sambo now. Fuckin' cunt.

Dave and Eddie created the SONGS on the CVH albums. Dave was great at melodies, song arrangements and so on (as someone already pointed out Dave actually did study musical theory at Pasadena College) and not just writing lyrics.

When did Mike ever write a song?? Never.

He can't.

I don't even think "Mikey" is capable of original thought. He just repeats what others say and does what he is told to do.

[Sensible Shoes]

When did Mike ever write a song?? Never.

He can't.

When did Spammy ever write a song?

When he was hungry.

[darkknight]

Mike was never a co-founder of VH. He was the last one to join. VH were already on their way when he showed up. Another thing people forget is if it weren't for Dave, they wouldn't have done anything. Everyone that knew them before Dave came along said they were doing progressive musician type music. The kind that a bunch of 16-24 year old boys watch you play with their arms folded saying to themselves "I can do that". Dave brought the entertainment AND the music. He recognized what Eddie could do but knew he couldn't go the way of Allan Holdsworth and achieve anything. Mike is just bitter since he's relegated to playing with Bette. I would be too.