Dave and John 5 recording

[PETE'S BROTHER]

thanks, tod.

[closetrockstar]

I highly doubt it.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

I highly doubt it.

that you're a closet rockstar?

[tod]

Welp, the answer is Nope

John5 is working with Zombie and has his own new solo release coming out along with a couple side gigs but nothing with Dave at present. Mind you, the mention of Dave brings forth great accolades and praises as one of the best front men in rock. He mentioned that all his studio gigs on DLR Band were FOR Dave and what Dave how Dave why Dave wanted the music and band persona to come out so its DLR Band and not Lowery & Dave Band at all. Far as I can tell, there's no animosity there at all..specially considering he was pulled back in for ThugPop. (I'd always assumed there was a burned bridge after Manson scooped him up but that's not how those two operate because the skill respect is extremely high.)

Dave is brilliant and still has a few more tricks in the bag so I wouldn't be surprised if VH comes out with some crazy album which gets serious airplay...but I suspect there are many cooks in the kitchen behind the scenes. Dave and Ed might not have any input for all we know.

[closetrockstar]

Dave is waiting for his next big pay day and it's not with John 5. 2010 tour probabale, new record, possible. The brothers must have put some gag order on Dave as well.

Money talks boys.

[closetrockstar]

And...that your Pete's brother.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

And...that your Pete's brother.

if pete ain't my brother, i want all the money back he's taken over the years. please tell the band we miss them.

[closetrockstar]

We'll do. :tongue0011:

[Venom Thrust]

From blogsnroses.com

Could John 5 Be Recording an Album with Diamond Dave?
I am all about rumors and hearsay especially when it involves David Lee Roth. So could John 5 (Rob Zombie, Marylin Manson) be recording an album with the legendary David Lee Roth?

This started from a press release from John 5's people about his new album The Art of Malice:

The Art Of Malice" further showcases John 5 to be one of the most technically advanced guitarists in the business today. Fans of driving rhythms and ear-catching, over the top, guitar work will keep this in their CD player for months on end. This album has everything that the fans come to expect — chicken pickin', shred,metal and Spanish guitar. The song titles vary as vignettes into John 5's life, such as the title "J.W." which are John 5's initials (John William Lowery) and what his father had called him growing up. "Ya Dig" comes from working with the master or frontmen David Lee Roth and also features Billy Sheehan on bass. "That is Dave's saying and it fits the music," says John 5.

A loyal reader has done some sleuthing and received this message from a John 5's publicist.

"J5's albums are always instrumental - No Dave ~ As far as the album for Dave, that is a Dave question for his press whenever he decides to announce it - J5 is a hired gun for that and is not for him to announce as it can spoil whatever Dave's peeps have planned."
It sounds like there is at least one song from a David Lee Roth/John 5 collaboration. Could there be more? Maybe a new Dave solo record? I am erect with anticipation.

Blogsnroses.com

[bueno bob]

I'm more inclined to believe at this point that Dave probably IS, in fact, working on solo material.

I think it should be quite obvious at this point that Van Halen has split up again.

[Terry]

Dunno about anyone else, but for me the current entity known as 'Van Halen' splitting up won't be much of a loss.

They've been together 4 years now, with little other than a greatest hits tour to show for it.

It's not 1985 anymore: the feeling that it would be such a shame if Roth departed just isn't there for me this time around, because the band (as such) apparently have nothing left to offer muscially outside of retreads.

Roth and the Van Halens got back together and played some of the 6-Pack stuff live once more for old time's sake. Nice that it happened, but the 'wow' factor of that is only gonna work once.

About the only thing that Roth can "jeopardize" by pissing Eddie Van Halen off is another fat payday for another reunion tour.

[Bill Lumbergh]

At least we got the tour....not EXACTLY the closure I was looking for, but fuck closure, I want new material. If that means Dave has to do it himself, so be it.

[Terry]

The 2007-2008 tour, to me, was just the long-delayed result of what SHOULD have happened in 1996. The eventual result, because it sadly took too long to arrive, was bittersweet because the band floundered and pissed away any chances at a creative future that COULD have been pursued in 1996, 1997, 1998...they waited TOO fucking long to the point where age has taken its inevitable toll, particularly (but not exclusively) on Eddie.

With all of their years of childish diddling, the reality may well be that what we saw in 2007-2008 was the closest Van Halen could get to ending their career on a semi-high note (to have seen it end with that abortion of a tour in 2004 would have been a sad state of affairs, although more than part of me felt the Van Halens clearly deserved the have the band grind to a whimpering halt at that point).

I still have a hard time reconciling what the band meant to me 25+ years ago with the attitudes of Alex and Eddie Van Halen today. It makes me wonder if those guys were always the pair of assholes they appear to be these days...kind of like the old saying about not wanting to meet your heroes in real life, because they are bound to let you down.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

fuck that, i still wanna meet dave.

[Douglas T.]

fuck that, i still wanna meet dave.

Let me know how that works out for ya! Not all it's cracked up to be if ya ask me!