Theme Song For The Sheep Pen

[Rikk]

Originally posted by Panamark
I read Animal Farm many moons ago. Fascinating book.

I agree with ZZ's comment about these guys having similar
lyrical writing quality as Dave. Many of Dave's lyrics created
imagery and were very poetic. Spammy's lyrics remind me
of a small child trying to write a basic poem with very limited time..

Um, what rhymes with cat ?? bat ?? fat ??
what rhymes with time, um errr "TIME !!!!

with little or no thought into what these simple
rhyming lyrics mean.

Apart from vacuum cleaners, blackholes
and industrial pumping systems, is there anything
out there that sucks more than Spammy ???

Not much on Earth sucks more than Sammy Hagar, my friend. It's like he took a brief vacation from sucking when he went in and recorded the MONTROSE album, but basically he is an awful, awful performer, lyricist and singer.

Dave is a kind of ragtime poet. He's a genius. I really think so. And a misunderstood one at that.

[pete]

Re: Theme Song For The Sheep Pen

Originally posted by ZahZoo
Last night was going through my CD collection and had listen to Pink Floyd's record Animals... I believe I've found the perfect theme song for the Sheep Pen...

We report... You decide?

Sheep

One of my favorite songs!!!!

[Panamark]

Originally posted by Rikk


Dave is a kind of ragtime poet. He's a genius. I really think so. And a misunderstood one at that.

Its such a shame when you realize that, that part of Van Halen is lost
on the Hagar fans. To me it was one of *THE* magic components.

Everybit as special as the melodies and showmanship..

All created by Dave..

But I have learned from the sheep across the years. I really believe
Hagar fans are those who cant listen to music and visualize any
form of real song meaning, whilst the music is playing.

(Too much too compute !)

They feel "safe" within the realms of simplistic, meaningless lyrics.

Then there are those of us who aspire to creativity and expression
within all levels of the music. We are the ones who *get* DLR.
Ed's early guitar wizardry mixed with Dave's melodies and lyrical
imagery, made Van Halen. The fact that Dave was a master showman,
was just the icing on the cake.....

Tradegy, when you look at what its become. Such a shame, such a waste.

[ELVIS]

I agree...

Even the two songs with Dave in'96 had that lyrical magic...

[Panamark]

Totally agree ELVIS !!

It was the first time, in a long time, that Van Halen had some
meaning and imagery back in their songs !!

Proof positive of what should have been.

[SweetSecrets]

Music is poetry. If one cannot write without music, one cannot write WITH music.

Too much of gorgeous melody has been tainted with the filth of un- felt words.

Lyrical words alone, should be able to flow in songs of silence. The addition of music is another element in which to blanket an already prominent form of human experssion: an ALREADY authentic language and human represention of meaning and creativity.

Those who hear a song, and write words across its luminous body to simply make the song "singable," need to learn to swim beneath the surface of human existence. They need to be brought back to some moment in childhood in which tears had meaning beyond just moisture meant to fall from eyes. There is a source in which such human vulnerabilities are driven out from within.

Sammy is one of those who, in sense, does not really *HEAR* or *FEEL*.

[lms2]

wow, let me go read that again... awesome.

Songs are words and music making love. Is this what you are saying?

Each indivual component must be able to stand alone, but when introduced should meet in the tenderest of moments, joined in an embrace of passion and pleasure that brings out the best of both and creates a moment unequal in intensity. An encounter wherein the tiniest touch sparks flames of mamoth propotion culminating in an earth shattering, mind blowing moment of sheer ectasy. An instant so fleeting, yet so powerfully all encompassing...that each individual component wonders how it survived without the other, and knows that forevermore, life will not be complete without the other.

I think you are right.

And if it is only for one song.... you're doing it wrong. Baby, we are talking the whole album, on repeat. (inside joke)

[SweetSecrets]

Originally posted by lms2
wow, let me go read that again... awesome.

Songs are words and music making love. Is this what you are saying?

Precisely so!