My 11 year old too young?

[Seshmeister]

Well I hope you had your man scold him and then got straight back on the stagecoach.

[mohican]

My step-dad told me Monsters of Rock at Candlestick Park in '88 was the craziest concert. Everyone in the audience was snorting coke. It was unreal. He was coked up too. I asked him how was vh. He said he wasn't impressed and they weren't memorable. Yeh, it was hagar he saw.

[FORD]

Monsters of Rock was a decent show. Except for the Van Hagar part.

Wasn't on coke though... just very baked.

[TJMKID]

My son has turned in to a CVH fan. I was 14when i first saw =VH= in 82'. he wants to go see them next year when they come around. I am gonna take him but just curious on what you all think on this matter.

Just imagine when you were 11 and your Dad asked if you wanted to go see a little ole band named Led Zeppelin --- would you have gone ??

I think you know the answer ---- take the kid to see the Mighty VH and you'll share the memories for a lifetime.

[Nitro Express]

Just imagine when you were 11 and your Dad asked if you wanted to go see a little ole band named Led Zeppelin --- would you have gone ??

I think you know the answer ---- take the kid to see the Mighty VH and you'll share the memories for a lifetime.

My dad hated rock and roll. Of course he was a busy person gone all the time. So I used his nice stereo system to crank out my rock and roll albums. My dad did take me to concerts. They were at symphony hall with a conductor leading the orchestra.

[Nitro Express]

Well I hope you had your man scold him and then got straight back on the stagecoach.

Oh I can get on a real nice stagecoach. I know the family that owns this very coach. I can drive a team too.

[TJMKID]

My dad did take me to concerts. They were at symphony hall with a conductor leading the orchestra.

That's considered statutory child abuse in many states.

Then again, there was a guy named Jan Van Halen who forced his sons to learn classical piano and we know how that turned out.

[Seshmeister]

They turned into bitter alcoholics.

[Nitro Express]

That's considered statutory child abuse in many states.

Then again, there was a guy named Jan Van Halen who forced his sons to learn classical piano and we know how that turned out.

I was forced to take piano for two years with a mandatory practice session for an hour a day. All us kids had to do it. Then the recitals. It really sucked.

I tell you what. I have a friend who is a professional sound engineer. He graduated from college in music so he writes songs. He wants to record some of his songs and he's pulling his hair out trying to find a drummer that can play in time. He said none of these mother fuckers even know what a metronome is. As soon as the drummers go to shit because they had no formal music training the rest of the band is fucked.

Real musicians pretty much starve. Entertainers make the money. I don't care how good you are if you can't sprinkle some glitter on it and sell it, nobody is going to notice other than the other musicians. The public is too dumb to care. The Van Halens would have gone nowhere without Roth. They maybe would have ended up in someone else' band but I doubt the two drunks had enough fire to get themselves noticed. They did need a Jew to sell the operation. Damn up straight.

[DONNIEP]

Take your son - he'll have a blast! Matter of fact, check out the look on the kid's face at 5:29 and that's all you need to see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGOr3JjBub8

Damn youtube - won't let me embed the video.

[TJMKID]

Real musicians pretty much starve. Entertainers make the money. I don't care how good you are if you can't sprinkle some glitter on it and sell it, nobody is going to notice other than the other musicians. The public is too dumb to care. The Van Halens would have gone nowhere without Roth. They maybe would have ended up in someone else' band but I doubt the two drunks had enough fire to get themselves noticed. They did need a Jew to sell the operation. Damn up straight.

Don't tell the Hagar sheep that. Their whole world revolves around Sammy's pipes. They're convinced that if Clay Aiken joined Van Halen in 1975, they would've sold 200 million albums by now.

Plus, we still have two Dutch retards who think they only hired Roth because he had his own sound equipment.

[Hardrock69]

Take your son. I surely wish my Dad would have been so cool as to take me to a rock concert. But I was already 18 and in the Army when I (and everyone else) first saw CVH.

Dave is not nearly as crude now as he was back in the day. Your son has probably heard way worse from his friends, or on TV, lol.

He will thank you for the rest of his life.

Will it be his very first concert? What a first concert to see!

[sonrisa salvaje]

Take him for sure. My first show was around that age and it was Waylon Jennings in the capitol of Bama. Waylon was drunk out of his mind and so was the crowd. I didn't know what the hell my folks had gotten me in to. Based on the 07 tour and crowd, the show will rock and the crowd will pretty tame as opposed to 1980.
I'll add that if this were 1986 i would not recommend taking an 11 year old to see the Eatem and Smile show. Based on my experience and what memory i have left of it, those were some WILD ones.

[Nitro Express]

The most filthy show I ever saw was Prince in the 1999 days. Tender young eyes shouldn't have been at that one but man what a show!

[jhale667]

I still give my mom shit to this day about not letting me go see VH as a kid, first because "you're not going to any concert by a band named Black Sabbath" and then AGAIN on the WACF and FW tours because by that time someone had told her that rock bands were about "partying and drugs" (and what?)...my 'nads had dropped by '84 and I said "EVH is why I started playing guitar, I paid for the ticket - I'm GOING whether you like it or not". So glad I did or I NEVER would have seen CVH...



...My point being - DON'T BE THAT PARENT - take your kid to the gig, so what if he sees a boob, or gets his first contact high? He'll have memories that will last him a lifetime...my mother actually says (based on my now 30-year devotion to EVH and DLR) she SHOULD have let me go in hindsight.

(Still baffled about the FW show, because that was AFTER she'd let me go to see Ozzy with Randy...like VH was more "damaging" than OZZY in those days???)