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Originally posted by badhorsie
Why would you say "Slim" casual fans? You dont believe any new fans would be attracted to the greatest hits album after hearing number of the Roth tunes on the radio and the mystique of the classic era?? (since thats all the radio ever plays from VH)
As I said in a different post. This album will be an investment for the next few years.(for VH/DLR/HAGAR) Its not meant to sell 2 million right away. Its going to gradually sell more and more copies as some new kids read up about VH in guitar magazines and hear the Roth tunes on the radio and of course some of the old timers who havent updated their cd collections in a long time.
The new songs are only there to attract the diehards who already own all the albums.
Why would you say "Slim" casual fans? You dont believe any new fans would be attracted to the greatest hits album after hearing number of the Roth tunes on the radio and the mystique of the classic era?? (since thats all the radio ever plays from VH)
As I said in a different post. This album will be an investment for the next few years.(for VH/DLR/HAGAR) Its not meant to sell 2 million right away. Its going to gradually sell more and more copies as some new kids read up about VH in guitar magazines and hear the Roth tunes on the radio and of course some of the old timers who havent updated their cd collections in a long time.
The new songs are only there to attract the diehards who already own all the albums.
I called and spoke with one of my friends about it out west here (he's a DJ) and he told me that, at this point, the major radio markets are getting sick and tired of all things Van Halen, period...he said most people were anticipating a DLR reunion after all this time and some kickass new material, and what we've got with Hagar is a real let down to all of them...essentially, the Roth era stuff is safe to play, but not even too much of that (what he knows and how he knows it is his business, I just take what he tells me at face value and consider him to be accurate - he hasn't let me down before on his knowledge of the industry).
Moreover, he said I could just consider it a matter of being that Van Halen is essentially a washed-up band and the general radio population is more interested in Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and all that other bullshit, they're not interested in Sammy Hagar's Van Halen...so if I thought that Van Halen was being virtually ignored in the radio markets so far (new rock channels, not classic rock), I "haven't seen nothing yet"...I don't know, his words, not mine.
Anyway, we discussed Roth and he said that, if Van Halen had done what had been anticipated and brought back Roth will egos checked at the door and a good album worth of marketable material, none of this would be happening right now, usual stuff that we all know anyway.
Knowing all this, straight from one of the soldiers on the frontline, I can't really estimate that BOBW is going to pick up new fans, sad to say...that is, of course, if it's the same all over the U.S. as far as radio is concerned, and while he didn't say that exactly, he didn't say anything to lead me to believe that that was not the case, so...make your own judgement call...time will tell, I guess.
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