Billy Sheehan Interview: Talks DLR

[sonrisa salvaje]

I think Extreme are the exception here. Yeah, they had a big hit with a ballad, but wasn't a power-ballad; and lyrically they were very different from the sex/drugs/rock'n'roll of most the hair metal stuff.

By the time of 'Three Sides To Every Story', they weren't particualry commercial at all.

As a side note, I think Nuno is one of the truly great rock guitar players. His riffs are just ridiculous........

Yeah, i see your point. Extreme just never appealed to me whether it was Kid Ego, Get the Funk Out or Whole in My Heart. I do think Nuno is a talented player. Maybe we should take Extreme out and throw in Danger Danger or Tora Tora or shitty shitty...etc.

[DLR Bridge]

I've sung praise for Nuno here before, so I won't get off on that tangent again, but that guy's best work is outside of Extreme.

[DLR Bridge]

Uuugh. My band opened for those jugheads sometime in the late 1990s, and you'll never meet a group of more drugged out, overly ego-ed twits in the music business.

Hmmm. Must have been the post Jason Beiler incarnation, which had no right trying to exist. My band opened up for them in '95 and they were pretty tight. I liked the two SK CDs with Jason doing lead vocals. Their out on the road with the original singer again. I'm not wasting any dough on that though.

[jhale667]

Remember, through some sordid and very evil media brainwashing, a handful of people once took Vanilla Ice seriously, too.

That's one thing I learned doing music marketing... there is a segment of the population that will buy exactly what (and whatever) they're TOLD to... which explains Justin Bieber currently...

[ThrillsNSpills]

I've sung praise for Nuno here before, so I won't get off on that tangent again, but that guy's best work is outside of Extreme.

Schizophonic's a great solo album!

[TwoFoolsAMinute]

I always thought the reason for ALAE's lackluster sales, and Dave's fall in general was that he had a phenomenal band in VH, then he was gone from VH and had another phenomenal band. There was a lot of finger pointing between Roth and VH and in short order Dave lost another phenomenal band. I think the casual fans out there just threw up their hands and said, this guy is a joke and he looked like an asshole. That combined with all these other factors that have been mentioned...well it just didn't go. Then the tour was replacements, the hairline was going, the squeal was gone. It was a perfect storm. But I really think it was how DLR looked after losing Vai and Sheehan. My two cents.

[78/84 guy]

I think that had a lot too do with it. But by 91 80's rock wasn't getting the airplay it had, or video's played anymore. Some of they early mid 80's hits were, but Grunge hit so fast after Nirvana it just steamrolled everyone for the most part. Gun's was still in demand. & Metallica (even though they were never a hair band ). I think the only way Van Halen survived sometimes was the Right Now video took off and got so big. And Eddie. I don't think Balance sold that well. It didn't have the big hit on it really. Sure they still were playing way bigger place's than Dave, but I really think it was the band name & Eddie drawing people more than the songs on the last few albums with Hag.

[Baby's On Fire]

I always thought the reason for ALAE's lackluster sales, and Dave's fall in general was that he had a phenomenal band in VH, then he was gone from VH and had another phenomenal band. There was a lot of finger pointing between Roth and VH and in short order Dave lost another phenomenal band. I think the casual fans out there just threw up their hands and said, this guy is a joke and he looked like an asshole. That combined with all these other factors that have been mentioned...well it just didn't go. Then the tour was replacements, the hairline was going, the squeal was gone. It was a perfect storm. But I really think it was how DLR looked after losing Vai and Sheehan. My two cents.

Dave's voice is perfect on ALAE. Perfect raspiness and booming sound.

Far and away his best album. I can't understand how anyone thinks it's a weak album.

[ELVIS]

Because it sounds like Dave trying to do mainstream corporate rock garbage penned by a comittee...

[ELVIS]

That's not to say I don't like most of it...

[FORD]

Because it sounds like Dave trying to do mainstream corporate rock garbage penned by a comittee...

Actually, that's how I described SkyCrapper (for the most part)