Sam Just Won't Stop

[ZahZoo]

Don't care for Sam nor his historical recycling of past band business... I figure he wants to talk to Stern to either promote some new product in his liquor business and/or drum up some hype for the Collection II release. The man knows how to sell and keep his revenue streams flowing... even if it's all snake-oil...

[Nitro Express]

Sam basically is a salesman. I get tired of him popping up everywhere selling an escape to lame aging fat people.

[Nitro Express]

Look at Sam’s audience sometime. You don’t want to be part of that group of losers. Anyone who looks to Sam for a cheap thrill is a real lame ass.

Sam is successful because the nation has gone to shit and is full of losers. Thank God they will die sooner due to consuming everything Sam sells. There’s nothing healthy about Sam. He’s the real virus and tool of the devil.

[Nitro Express]

Howard is freindly with Spam and would never - but he needs to make a Sam-Puppet along the lines of the Alex Jones puppet; just repeating the same old lies and shitting out of the mouth over and over...

I guess Sam has a new beer, it's called Analcumstain Lite! No actually it's "Red Lager" or something and is akin to a shitty Mexican lager like Cornhole-ah...

Well if InfoWars male enhancement really worked I might be interested. Funny. Alex sells health products and looks as unhealthy as you can get. His hypertension has to be higher than Mount Everest.

[Silexxx]

So it's Chickenfoot 2.0 as "Eddie Tribute" The Best of All World's. Funny how this garden gnome says "we even played fucking Jump!" Like yeah, it just wasn't the biggest single Van Halen ever did!

And Alex still isn't talking to him even though Spammy keeps spamming him every month. Gee I wonder why.

[Nitro Express]

I saw this coming. Dave and Alex are like fuck you! How lame can you get Sam?

[Nitro Express]

The I Was Once In Van Halen Tour. Joe Satriani is about as exciting as watching turds float. It’s a tribute to Ed where none of Ed’s immediate family will return calls and refuse to participate. Some tribute.

[Nitro Express]

The only person free of Sam is Eddie. He had to be cremated and dumped into the Pacific Ocean but it made it impossible for Sam to get anything he could pimp. If Ed was embalmed and put in a box in the ground, Sam would steal the body and charge people to see it.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Lamest tour ever. Another way for Bette to cash in on VH.

Fuck you Sam.

[Terry]

The I Was Once In Van Halen Tour. Joe Satriani is about as exciting as watching turds float. It’s a tribute to Ed where none of Ed’s immediate family will return calls and refuse to participate. Some tribute.

Jason Bonham...he's always been a bit overrated as a drummer to my ears. I've always enjoyed what John Bonham did. Great right foot, great sense of dynamics/pacing/rhythm blah blah blah the usual plaudits that have been said about him a million times over. I suppose it should also be said that John Bonham was also unique in that he did what he wanted and was a true original in that sense. I've never heard much of anything in Jason Bonham's playing that smacked me as being particularly original. Clearly heavily influenced by his father, which wasn't a surprise. Spent his time in the 1980's far as drumming goes very much trying to be, well, exactly what he was, which was the son of John Bonham. Beyond his lineage, I never thought in drumming terms that, for example, when the remnants of Zeppelin played the 02 gig in 2007 it HAD to be Jason Bonham strictly on a technical level as the only drummer who could replicate John Bonham's parts. I remember seeing a local Zep tribute band in the late 80's called Physical Graffiti playing at small club and their drummer (whose name I'll be fucked if I can remember now) did just as impressive a job at playing John Bonham's parts as Jason has ever done. I've heard stuff he has done with other bands in non-Zeppelin related projects (including The Circle) and outside of his Zep tribute activities Jason Bonham is little more than a competent rock drummer to me.

Joe Satriani. Enjoyed Surfing With The Alien well enough back in the day. For those who are into that G3 type guitar technician type of thing, doubtless Satriani is a virtuoso to them. When it was announced that Satriani had been tapped to be Chickenfoot's guitar player ten-odd years ago, I knew right then that the songs wouldn't end up being memorable. Simply put, Satriani is unable to come up with original riffs/tunes in a traditional rock band combo context that stack up alongside your Smoke On The Waters because Satriani for all his technical prowess doesn't have the ability to do so. Satriani just doesn't have what Eddie Van Halen did in those terms. If this has to do with Satriani having a perpetual compulsion to continually demonstrate how clever he is (and if this ties into his decades of promoting himself as a 'guitar hero'), I can't say. Within his realm of solo instrumental albums that largely concentrate on his ability on the instrument is where Satriani excels. Writing a great rock tune that will resonate with audiences outside of the G3 niche? Not a chance.

Michael Anthony, for all he brought to Van Halen, didn't bring any tunes to the party. Not then, nor in the years since he left the band. It'd be fair to say with him in any given band situation he wouldn't be the one to look toward far as the songwriting goes re: the genesis of a good idea.

Sammy Hagar is, well, he is who he is. The few decent ideas he had...literally three decades behind him, minimum, and that's being kind and taking into account his time in Van Halen for anybody who values what he brought to that band. I'll say that I did think what he did on the first Montrose album was decent. THAT was nearly 50 years ago. Since then, overall average to perhaps slightly above average at times. Commercially successful? Yep. Wouldn't argue that point on a factual basis. Have never really been one myself to ever take sales figures by themselves as an indication that because of them I therefore SHOULD like something or not. If something is a commercial success doubtless that will by default bring it to my attention more readily than something that wasn't in terms of giving it a listen. I've always been able to make my own conclusions after the listen, though.

This latest Circle tour swung through here a few weeks ago and played at a new venue which opened this year called The Sound. It's an outdoor amphitheater with about 4k capacity in seating and the ability to seat an additional 5k on the lawn. I had seen Kenny Loggins and Pablo Cruise there in September. While there, I saw the ads for the upcoming acts and saw The Circle was going to perform there, among such other future concerts by the likes of Styx, the Steve Miller Band, Willie Nelson & Family and Air Supply w/ the Little River Band. I recall thinking I'd be quite interested in seeing creaky old dope smoking Willie Nelson, and while there may yet be chance of that, I'd have more interest - honestly - in seeing Air Supply than The Circle. I have no idea how many ended up going to see The Circle at The Sound (with Loggins, while the seating was full the lawn was empty), but I recall from the advertising that the tickets were in the $30 - $150 range, lowest to highest.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Fuck Sammy Hagar.

Chump would've been resorted to playing truck stop bars had Dave and Eddie got their shit together in the summer of '85.

Unfortunately that didn't happen.

[Nickdfresh]

The only person free of Sam is Eddie. He had to be cremated and dumped into the Pacific Ocean but it made it impossible for Sam to get anything he could pimp. If Ed was embalmed and put in a box in the ground, Sam would steal the body and charge people to see it.

The ocean would reject (Sam's) his ashes!

[Nickdfresh]

He'd end up floating in the garbage patch where he belongs...

[twonabomber]

Looking at the presale, tickets are showing $49 to $309+. VIP packages $418. Mr. "I Don't Need The Money!" strikes again!

The Rock Hall usually has a member presale for inductee shows. I haven't seen an email yet. Maybe they don't want any part of this either.

I would love to see Wolfgang shit on this.

[twonabomber]

This just came up on the UCR article on FB: "If you're gonna go deep into the Van Halen catalog, you need Joe Satriani," Hagar told Howard Stern.

So Sammy finally admits his "brother," Vic Johnson, isn't up to the task. He jettisons David Lauser, then gets rid of Mona for Michael Anthony, and dumps Vic a second time for Satch.