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Van Halen used to make an album in days. Now it takes them decades to make an album. Ed building that studio truly was a curse. As soon as 5150 came on line the band was fucked.
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I thought the same thing. Pretty sure Wolf said as much, too. I'm almost certain that the previous bass player had something come up and had to bail on the tour and Wolf learned the set-list in like a day. But it seems like he is IN the band. Who knows - maybe Tremonti will turn out to be a convenient excuse to get MA back in the band.My karma just ran over your dogma.Comment
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Tremonti is not a full-time gig either though. Just a sideline. Creed is said to be planning more albums/tours.Same ole song and dance...Comment
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Matt, your post #3 plus #18 equal the right attitude.Comment
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Why? Anyone seeking another creed recordComment
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I never sought any Creed record...Comment
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"If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”Comment
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Yeah. Van Halen, for me, are still in the category of "I'll believe it when it actually happens" for both hypothetical future album releases AND announced tour dates...like, even when the 2012 tour dates were announced and I bought my ticket for Tampa, I still gave my chances of the band actually making it to Tampa and playing at 50/50. Not because I knew when I bought the ticket in February that the tour was gonna eventually be cancelled, but because that's just the way it is with this band now. Like, at the 2008 Tampa show Ed was barely in a condition to play well, and not too long after Tampa THAT tour went on hiatus...then not too long after the 2012 Tampa show the remainder of THAT tour was cancelled.
The other shame of it was that for both tours I ended up watching rehearsal footage on youtube as much for determining if Ed was still able to play as it was to simply enjoy seeing the band, so as to avoid buying a ticket if the group (mainly Ed) weren't up to snuff...
Isn't that an odd turn of events, having to perform due diligence as a Van Halen fan as a means of avoiding a misuse of money re: buying tickets to a potentially bad show? What was long ago once a no-brainer (i.e. Van Halen would provide a kick-ass show) has now become a crap-shoot.Scramby eggs and bacon.Comment
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Ed's been saying he's got "three (or more) album's worth of material" ready to go (and by that I assume in demo form ready to be recorded) for a decade, yet when a new album finally WAS released about half of it was reworked demo tunes from the 1970s. Not that this was a bad thing in terms of the end results, but I suspect that a lot of what Ed has might not be suitable for Van Halenization in terms of Roth singing over it (as opposed to Hagar, who would gladly 'jive' over any old shit Eddie gave him), and the bits that might be usable could potentially be buried within hundreds of hours of 'noodling'...it'd require someone (assumedly Dave, because he's the one who would be singing to it) sitting through hundreds of hours of that stuff to find the diamonds within the dogshit.Scramby eggs and bacon.Comment
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Newsflash...
EVH is known to be full of shit...Comment
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There could 8 hours of How Many Say I's in that stock pile. And an hour or so of leftover porno music with sustainer abuse.Comment
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