Official "A Different Kind of Truth" Album Review Thread

[DiverDowninKy]

holy shit! I just gotta say. this album is un-f*ckin-real! 28 years I've waited for this and I'm blown away by it.

[ThatArtGuy]

No !@#$ing words.

[ELVIS]

Y'know I always wondered if some of Ed's problems on the 2007-8 tour had to do with the songs being tuned down for Dave's voice. Anybody else have thoughts on that?

No, not at all...

Ed was fresh out of rehab following a multi-year drug and alcohol binge (been there done that).

Now that Ed has been clean and sober he's ON FIRE !!!!!!!

[ashstralia]

dunno whorehey, could be 'more like dat!'

[Seshmeister]

Yeah man!

I'm struggling through the process at the moment, with us throwing out 5 for every one we keep which is how it should be.

It's always struck me how ridiculous it is that most hard rock band people spend hundreds of hours on the 10 seconds of the guitar solo and 5 minutes on the vocal melody which is pretty much is all that matters.

Chickenshit for example.

[Sensible Shoes]

No !@#$ing words.

OH PLEASE stop with the anti cursing lettering! Say FUCKING and say it proud. We're the Roth Army after all!

[Sensible Shoes]

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a multi-year drug and alcohol binge (been there done that).

Really sorry to hear that - glad you got through it OK!

[gbranton]

OH PLEASE stop with the anti cursing lettering! Say FUCKING and say it proud. We're the Roth Army after all!

One of the resons I like it here.

[Seshmeister]

Y'know I always wondered if some of Ed's problems on the 2007-8 tour had to do with the songs being tuned down for Dave's voice. Anybody else have thoughts on that?

No that is a complete myth going back to 5150.

When Roth left one of the stupid quotes that came out, from Alex and Eddie was that tuning down a step for Roth caused Ed a problem because it made the strings slack.

I've posted before about this. There are a few reasons it annoyed me.

1) It treated the Van Halen fan base as morons. A third of any Van Halen crowd played guitar and knew that was a nonsense.
2) Many many bands tune down not for vocal reasons which it doesn't make much difference to but to sound heavier.
3) EEAS wasn't tuned down.
4) 5150 was.

Ludicrous.

[ELVIS]

Really sorry to hear that - glad you got through it OK!

I'm good baby!!!

New wife, new Van Halen !!!

Life IS GOOD!!!

[ELVIS]

I'm struggling through the process at the moment, with us throwing out 5 for every one we keep which is how it should be.

It's always struck me how ridiculous it is that most hard rock band people spend hundreds of hours on the 10 seconds of the guitar solo and 5 minutes on the vocal melody which is pretty much is all that matters.

Chickenshit for example.

Being decent guitar players we know that good guitar players are a dime a dozen...

It's the song and who sings it in the end...

[ThatArtGuy]

OH PLEASE stop with the anti cursing lettering! Say FUCKING and say it proud. We're the Roth Army after all!

I couldn't decide which one to use, so I used all of them at once.

[Seshmeister]

If in doubt best to go for cunting.

It's the only one that still works really anyway.

[Seshmeister]

Oh fuck here come the new acronyms, gimme a minute to get up to speed...

Honeybabysweetiedoll!

[ashstralia]

4 letters is just easier seshy me matey!!