Where's the press?

[bueno bob]

Well, here's my take on it...

I remember Hagar saying something to the effect of "We decided to just say nothing big about it, because less is more" or something to that tune. That, in and of itself, makes no sense to me...it seems most likely to me that they're trying to avoid the really difficult questions (i.e.
1 - "Where's Roth?"
2 - "Where have you been the last decade?"
3 - "What happened with the Gary Cherone mess?"
4 - "Why Hagar?"
5 - "Weren't you going to hang it up if Cherone didn't work out?"
6 - "Since you made the fans wait a near decade for anything out of you, why not spend an extra few months in the studio and do a full length LP since you have 8,923,789 albums worth of material ready to go?"
7 - "Isn't this 'taking a step back and not moving forward', like you said you weren't going to do back around 1996?"
8 - "Sammy, why are you touring a greatest hits album? Wasn't that supposed to be the 'biggest waste of time in the world'?"

etc, etc....

Interviewers are undoubtedly going to push those questions on them, and rightfully so. I firmly believe that THAT is the reason there's been no great interviews or no great publicity push on the tour - they have no great answers to these good and honest questions short of admitting that Van Halen has become a retro band and taking Hagar back and touring on the strength of a greatest hits album with less than stellar new tracks is basically a cop-out for some quick cash.

The sad news is, skipping class when the test comes due doesn't get you to pass. Trust me, I know.

[Terry]

And the few interviews they've done read like Al and Sam are basically giving statements to be written down, with no give and take or back and forth with the interviewer.

They all know the Roth question isn't going away.

Plus, as far as Van Hagar go, what do they even need to talk about? They're touring off a grestest hits album. Doesn't require a lot of exposition on their part.

But even outside of any interviews, press for this 2004 deal has been virtually nil. In 1996, there were stories up the ying-yang, and Roth didn't even comment on any of it publicly outside of his open letter until 1997.

But what is there really to write about with Van Halen this year? Besides perfunctionary concert reviews in local papers on the tour stops, that is.

[Terry]

Originally posted by bueno bob
Well, here's my take on it...

I remember Hagar saying something to the effect of "We decided to just say nothing big about it, because less is more" or something to that tune. That, in and of itself, makes no sense to me...it seems most likely to me that they're trying to avoid the really difficult questions (i.e.
1 - "Where's Roth?"
2 - "Where have you been the last decade?"
3 - "What happened with the Gary Cherone mess?"
4 - "Why Hagar?"
5 - "Weren't you going to hang it up if Cherone didn't work out?"
6 - "Since you made the fans wait a near decade for anything out of you, why not spend an extra few months in the studio and do a full length LP since you have 8,923,789 albums worth of material ready to go?"
7 - "Isn't this 'taking a step back and not moving forward', like you said you weren't going to do back around 1996?"
8 - "Sammy, why are you touring a greatest hits album? Wasn't that supposed to be the 'biggest waste of time in the world'?"

etc, etc....

Interviewers are undoubtedly going to push those questions on them, and rightfully so. I firmly believe that THAT is the reason there's been no great interviews or no great publicity push on the tour - they have no great answers to these good and honest questions short of admitting that Van Halen has become a retro band and taking Hagar back and touring on the strength of a greatest hits album with less than stellar new tracks is basically a cop-out for some quick cash.

The sad news is, skipping class when the test comes due doesn't get you to pass. Trust me, I know.

The brothers and Sam won't subject themselves to any interview that's gonna ask them any tough questions, or point out the contradictions in what they were saying in the mid-1990s vs. Right Now (hee hee).

But a lot has changed since then. Almost can't blame EVH, AVH and Hagar for hooking up again.

Van Halen 3 tanked, and that was the least of Ed's problems in the last 7 years.

Hagar, outside of the 2002 tour with Roth, hasn't been setting any records with ticket sales, or putting out any albums that even went gold. Exactly why he called AVH. This Van Hagar tour is the last shot at semi-relevance he has left. His whole career is summed up by playing second fiddle to DLR.

Stick a fork in 'em, cuz de be all dun!

[DLR_EngineRoom]

Originally posted by Roth-of-Halen
Press???
Shhhhhhh......they might bring up the subject of David Lee Roth.

Originally posted by freak
Man. Air Supply might have bored the ever-living fuck out of us back in the day but they don't deserve to be dissed like *that*.

LMFAO at the above 2 posts!!!