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The Cover-version debacle started a while after the 2000 Tabula Rasa fiasco, when an unsubstantiated (and soon discredited) story about Coverdale rehearsing with Eddie Van Halen appeared at the MTV site in the news section. (Now see if you can discern an overall pattern here.) Soon after, a poster joined the Links, stating that he had proof that this did indeed take place, contrary to denials from Coverdale's camp. This soon was described as actual low quality tapes, recorded during the brief session.
After making some noise about this so-called "proof", he was called on it by the site's membership. The poster (and I'll be damned if I can recall the twit's user name
) next asked to be put in touch with the site's owner, in order to establish his bona fides. This went on and on for a good deal of time, with the guy obviously enjoying the attention he was getting not only from the site's membership, but from the mods and ownership as well. Finally the fellow agreed to send the site's owner a copy of this evidence. And then...nothing.
As you might imagine, this did not sit well with site membership, as they began to get a bit restless. More excuses were made, but the delays continued. Strangely, the poster's attitude and behavior changed as this went on, going from confident arrogance to a whiny, put-upon and oddly wounded stance questioning why anyone would doubt him in the first place. (These statements were accompanied by the words "You'll see, you'll see", which in no doubt should sound familiar to more than a few people here.
)
This dragged on until enough was enough. The site's moderators looked into the fellow's location, which was not where he'd said it was. The site's owner called in some resources to actually pin down a few more things, and it was discovered the guy was actually posting from a campus library not even within driving distance of the organization he'd claimed to be working for. The whole house of cards came tumbling down soon after, as the incident was proven to be an elaborate (but poorly thought out) hoax.
Even more regrettably, this strange interlude became a call to action to a twisted handful of people that thought David Coverdale really should be in Van Halen, leading to the subject being brought up haphazardly at all of the VH related sites for a good part of the decade.
After making some noise about this so-called "proof", he was called on it by the site's membership. The poster (and I'll be damned if I can recall the twit's user name
) next asked to be put in touch with the site's owner, in order to establish his bona fides. This went on and on for a good deal of time, with the guy obviously enjoying the attention he was getting not only from the site's membership, but from the mods and ownership as well. Finally the fellow agreed to send the site's owner a copy of this evidence. And then...nothing.As you might imagine, this did not sit well with site membership, as they began to get a bit restless. More excuses were made, but the delays continued. Strangely, the poster's attitude and behavior changed as this went on, going from confident arrogance to a whiny, put-upon and oddly wounded stance questioning why anyone would doubt him in the first place. (These statements were accompanied by the words "You'll see, you'll see", which in no doubt should sound familiar to more than a few people here.
)This dragged on until enough was enough. The site's moderators looked into the fellow's location, which was not where he'd said it was. The site's owner called in some resources to actually pin down a few more things, and it was discovered the guy was actually posting from a campus library not even within driving distance of the organization he'd claimed to be working for. The whole house of cards came tumbling down soon after, as the incident was proven to be an elaborate (but poorly thought out) hoax.
Even more regrettably, this strange interlude became a call to action to a twisted handful of people that thought David Coverdale really should be in Van Halen, leading to the subject being brought up haphazardly at all of the VH related sites for a good part of the decade.
Nah...
Can't be.
Cheers! :bottle:
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