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He needs to play every instrument, in case he just gets pissed off at everyone and starts a one-man band.
I believe that Ed laid down the bass for the shitty tracks that were tacked on to BOBW....leaving Sauce completely out of the mix until the trainwreck tour that followed.
But one thing is for certain...he will never be able to sing lead. A fact proven 100% accurate in 4 little words...
"How Many Say I?"
Originally posted by perilouspete fryingdutchman you pretty much own everyone.....sick comebacks, well put. top class wit.
'Tis odd Ed would go to Grainger for some drum gear...but then, when he was a lad, he invented some pretty cool shit out of nothing. It would be cool to see that innovator return.
Unfortunately, "Ed the innovator" is long gone...and has been for years. Any innovations you see from him moving forward will be in the field of marketing.
He's been replaced by "Ed the happy just to be alive" and will do the minimum he needs to do to keep cranking in the $$$$
He's trademarking and marketing everything that's not nailed down, no doubt with the help of his new bride. To me, rollin' that way says "I'm in the twilight of my life/career, and I'm gonna earn my money the easy way."
Car auctions, replica guitars, amps, sneakers, some personal appearances here and there....those are Eddie's money machine these days.
To a degree, he's earned the right to lay back and rake it in at this stage of the game. But by the same token it's always disappointing to see an innovator just roll over and shut down.
Nothing would please me more than to be wrong, and to see VH come blasting back out of the box this year and bottle that lightning one more time.
But the odds are against it. Roth still has the fire and desire....but unfortunately I think he's the only one.
Originally posted by perilouspete fryingdutchman you pretty much own everyone.....sick comebacks, well put. top class wit.
Whoa...hey now! Watch how you refer to my favorite film genre!!!
The only "crummy" porn is softcore porn!
yeah, not all porn is crummy. and not all retail lowlife hardware store clerks work at grainger, either.:tongue0011:
Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!
Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!
Al also stated in an interview around the OU812 period that a track from that album features a drum intro that was one of Ed's beats. The thing is, the beat is merely a segment of a riff from near the end of Sabbath's "War Pigs", played on the kick drum.
Great.... now they'll start a bunch of dumb rumors about Van Hagar being "Satanic". Just what I needed.......
Eternally Under the Authority of Satan
Originally posted by Sockfucker
I've been in several mental institutions but not in Bakersfield.
Hahahah, that's a joke me and some friends around the high school have... We'll walk around and when we see eachother we shout "HAIL SATAN" and people just look at us funny...
Another thing we do is give a Hitler Salute briefly and then run that hand back and make it look like we're combing our hair...
We're a bunch of rat bastards...
Reading Crazy From the Heat in four hours flat, in a cramped RV, on the return trip of a 3,000+ mile family outing to New Jersey is an enlightening experience you'll never forget.
Wait until the new wife ices over....he'll crawl back in the bottle.
Then again, Ed's more than just a husband...he's also a PR client, so she may keep putting out to keep business up.
Notice how the EVH brand expanded since Ed got involved with this woman he married. He is an asset to her but to be honest, she managed to clean him up, he looks happy, and we got a tour with Dave. The woman probably married a chain smoker with half a tongue and rotten teeth for money. Fucking Ed is probably like making love to a soggy Marlboro that got retrieved from a public urnal, so she is deffinatly earning her share of what she is getting.
Unfortunately, "Ed the innovator" is long gone...and has been for years. Any innovations you see from him moving forward will be in the field of marketing.
He's been replaced by "Ed the happy just to be alive" and will do the minimum he needs to do to keep cranking in the $$$$
He's trademarking and marketing everything that's not nailed down, no doubt with the help of his new bride. To me, rollin' that way says "I'm in the twilight of my life/career, and I'm gonna earn my money the easy way."
Car auctions, replica guitars, amps, sneakers, some personal appearances here and there....those are Eddie's money machine these days.
To a degree, he's earned the right to lay back and rake it in at this stage of the game. But by the same token it's always disappointing to see an innovator just roll over and shut down.
Nothing would please me more than to be wrong, and to see VH come blasting back out of the box this year and bottle that lightning one more time.
But the odds are against it. Roth still has the fire and desire....but unfortunately I think he's the only one.
I wonder if he really likes touring? When you spend your life at home, can sleep in, roll up to 5150 and play around on your schedual, being on tour with it's rigorous routine probably gets old quick. Ed hates doing interviews and he seems to like to live in and environment he controls. Being on tour with a tour manager running you around probably makes it a job and it was fun when he was young and hungry but not so much now. He was more into promoting his amps and guitars than tearing it up night after night.
Alex Lifeson of Rush once said he enjoys performing but hates touring. He said all the traveling, sitting around, being away from friends and family gets old quick. He said the process of getting to the gig is the part of touring he hates. The actual gig is fun but the rest of it sucks. Gene Simmons said you can have the nicest tour bus on the planet and after several months of living out of the thing, you will hate it. It gets old. I think a lot of these guys hate living out of a suitcase, doing interviews, sitting around, and being on a rigorous itinerary. It might have been fun in the old days when they were hungry, grabbing ass in every town, being drunk and stoned all the time. When they get older the drugs and boozing have taken their toll, family seems to be more important, the groupies are now 40 somethings that don't compare to the trophy wife they have back home.
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