Who REALLY wrote the vocal melodies - Dave or Ed?

[DLR Bridge]

Devil, I like the way you think. Perhaps, it's gonna be hot where I'm going when I shuffle off this mortal coil.

[ThatArtGuy]

I'd rather they look to the future and record new stuff, instead of rehashing the old stuff. Look to the future, not the pasture.

[sadaist]

I'd rather they look to the future and record new stuff, instead of rehashing the old stuff. Look to the future, not the pasture.

But the rehashing was fresh & new & sexy & kick ass. So I don't care how they do it, as long as they do it.

[Northern Girl]

But the rehashing was sexy

I fucked them all!

[DLR Bridge]

I fucked them all!

Ok, you're gonna have to bust out the old AV if you're gonna get all dirty like. Them's ain't cross eyed baby woids!

[dave_is_vh]

What it comes down to is what others in the thread have already said: one need do little more than think of the stuff the band did when Roth was in it vs. what the band did once Roth left.

Sorry but I don't listen to stuff without Dave in it

[ELVIS]

Still don't know what he was thinking there.

He thought his high yelp voice sounded good...

He still does...

[tbone888]

Its obvious to any true VH fan that its Dave's melodies and lyrics. Just like any true ACDC fan knows its Bon's lyrics and melodies all over Back in Black and the title track from For Those About to Rock.

[VHscraps]

Maybe Dave & Ted Templeman should get the VDIII master tapes, wipe Cherone's vocals, Dave can write new lyrics & vocals and arrange them however he wants.... and before you know it, there's a new Van Halen album! Hell, if he sneaks Mike Sobolewski in the studio to do the harmonies, all the better.

Why not? It's pretty much how Mick Jagger made "Tattoo You" and the more recent "bonus discs" for the remasters of "Exile on Main Street" and "Some Girls".

And if it's a hit, he could do the same with the Van Hagar catalog. Dave should be able to get at least one album's worth of usable material out of their 4 records.

I was just listening to 'Plundered My Soul' last night and thinking it was the best thing the Stones had done in decades by a fucking mile ... because it was recorded in 72! and, yeah, revived / finished off etc by Jagger - and some fabulous Mick Taylor guitar work.

VH did something similar on some of the ADKOT tunes, as we know - if they have more unfinished tunes lying around, then I would be pefectly happy for them to make use of 'em in this way.

[FORD]

I was just listening to 'Plundered My Soul' last night and thinking it was the best thing the Stones had done in decades by a fucking mile ... because it was recorded in 72! and, yeah, revived / finished off etc by Jagger - and some fabulous Mick Taylor guitar work.

VH did something similar on some of the ADKOT tunes, as we know - if they have more unfinished tunes lying around, then I would be pefectly happy for them to make use of 'em in this way.

Actually, I think Mick cheated a little bit on that one. I've heard just about every bootleg from the Exile sessions and can't think of any song from that era that remotely comes close to "Plundered My Soul". Some of those bonus songs went back a little further of course. Good Time Women may have turned into "Tumblin Dice" but the original was more of a Sticky Fingers demo, and "All Down the Line" was first attempted in the Let It Bleed sessions.

My suspicion is when you strip Jagger's vocals. Mick Taylor's new guitar track, and some drum overdubs from Charlie out of that track, you would find this buried underneath.... and it goes way back to 1968.

[VHscraps]

Actually, I think Mick cheated a little bit on that one. I've heard just about every bootleg from the Exile sessions and can't think of any song from that era that remotely comes close to "Plundered My Soul". Some of those bonus songs went back a little further of course. Good Time Women may have turned into "Tumblin Dice" but the original was more of a Sticky Fingers demo, and "All Down the Line" was first attempted in the Let It Bleed sessions.

My suspicion is when you strip Jagger's vocals. Mick Taylor's new guitar track, and some drum overdubs from Charlie out of that track, you would find this buried underneath.... and it goes way back to 1968.

First time hearing that - I can hear echoes here and there. The lick at the start and the opening chords reminded me of 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'.

I was reading something where Don Was said he was give hundreds of hours of stuff fom Exile sessions - I also read something with Mck Taylor saying he hadn't heard the track for 'Plundered' before Mick brought him in.