Van Halen Army Offers To Finish Tour...

[evil_lil]

Cover bands are one thing. I think playing dress up takes it to an entirely different level.

[gbranton]

Sure, but ticketholders would have to be refunded something like 175% of the face value in order to make this worth it.

Fixed!.......and not be more than one block away from my house.

[Terry]

My best friend's roommate's brother's ex-girlfriend knows a guy who is friends with the clerk at the store where Edward Van Halen had his wine purchased in 2003. He knows a guy who is in a band with a guy who was a roadie on the most recent REO Speedwagon tour, so he's in the business. According to him EVH killed David Lee Roth and replaced him with the Canadian David Lee Roth. A tabloid has threatened to go public with this information, so Van Halen has agreed to not only cancel the rest of the tour but to bury the stage and lighting rigs in the Yucca Mountain facility and Photoshop Jackie Gleason into all the Van Halen album covers. Plus all copies of ADKOT are to be recalled, pulled from the shelf, and they are to pretend it never happened. This is reportedly because David Lee Roth has offended so many by so drastically changing his performance to one where he forgets lines, addresses the audience, and does not sing in a way that is indistinguishable from the studio recordings. Why all of a sudden after nearly forty years of performing he would spontaneously decide not to be 28 years old and change from a Pavarotti to a rock star is beyond anyone's grasp. Enough is enough and all fans of this band must be punished. Reportedly, congress has drawn up a bill banning the existence for Van Halen with David Lee Roth and that the United States be renamed Sambo Wabo. This is all I know.

Sounds reasonable.

[ZahZoo]

I don't know these cover bands do it. Meaning, I don't know how they can continue to play someone else's music and get any kind of satisfaction out of it. If I were in a band I'd want to be doing my own original material.

Couple of factors... most folks start in a copy band and never progress.

Primarily though I believe it's more of an indication of how the human brain works. We're much better suited to learning things through mimicry and repetition. Being most of the human world is left brain dominate that makes sense. Right brain functions enable creativity and frankly majority of people never learn how to tap it.

Classically trained musicians are the worst... that read music and even calibrate their time within a microsecond of metronome beat as indicted on the page. Invite them to just jam and they are lost... no left brain input to feed off of. Boils down to 80% of population is great at copying or emulating something... the other 20% can create on their own.

[damngoodtimes]

Sure, but ticketholders would have to be refunded something like 75% of the face value in order to make this worth it.

Try 95%. If I dropped 200 bucks on VH tix, I'm sure as shit not paying 50 for some cover band

[loucap81]

I wouldn't pay anything to see a cover band. Even the ones that have garnered critical acclaim, even for bands that can't reunite like The Beatles. I know some years ago people used to rave about the Atomic Punks. Of course that was when most of us thought VH would never get back together so we were scraping and clawing for anything to give us a VH fix. But cover bands don't interest me at all.

[Hardrock69]

Anybody bother to contact TMZ and tell those fucking losers to get their facts straight? Cancelled my ass. Stupid bastards.

[Dave's Bitch]

Joe also says, "We could easily do it -- our singer sounds exactly like David Lee Roth!"

Fist off no,he does not.He sounds kind of like Dave.I would not shell out however much the VH tickets are to hear someone who sounds kind of like anyone.And second,this fucker has no stage presence at all.Watching the video I could not help but think "look at that clown".These ass holes need to know a pair of loud pants,bleached hair and the occasional twirl around the stage does not make you like David Lee Roth.Nobody is like David Lee Roth,many have tried and all have failed.You can't copy Dave because you are not him.This guy is not even fit to hold Dave's assless chaps

Ugh

[Jérôme Frenchise]

"burnt out" These guys look it! And they suck too. So FUCK YOU JOE!!

It's hard work to try and impersonate a band... but what's the fucking use, really?

Lookalikes are bearable for 5 minutes, not more.

[VH Drummer]

Cover bands are one thing. I think playing dress up takes it to an entirely different level.

I could never sink that low. Hell, I hate playing covers anyway, unless they're really obscure songs or non-singles.

[SNIPER]

I could never sink that low. Hell, I hate playing covers anyway, unless they're really obscure songs or non-singles.

At the same time I wouldn't mind being in a garage band on the side to just get together and play all VH songs (no shows) for ourselves and drink beer. That would be fun. I hope to find those dudes someday. But yeah, other then that I won't play any covers.

[VH Drummer]

At the same time I wouldn't mind being in a garage band on the side to just get together and play all VH songs (no shows) for ourselves and drink beer. That would be fun. I hope to find those dudes someday. But yeah, other then that I won't play any covers.

That I could do. Those are damn good songs to keep your chops up; it's how I learned to play drums.

[Light Em' Up!]

At the same time I wouldn't mind being in a garage band on the side to just get together and play all VH songs (no shows) for ourselves and drink beer. That would be fun. I hope to find those dudes someday. But yeah, other then that I won't play any covers.

I would totally LOVE it if you did this love!

[SNIPER]

That I could do. Those are damn good songs to keep your chops up; it's how I learned to play drums.

It's how I learned everything about playing music. Timing, Groove, feel, dynamics, It's all there.