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Originally posted by Terry
More apropos would be to ask what has Ed lost since '96.
Dave bailed in 1985. Wasn't happy with the group. If Ed was a primary reason for Dave bailing, whatever. Considering the direction the music was taking in 1984, can't say I blame Dave for splitting. Ed got somebody else to sing (should have changed the name of the band, but that's another issue), and got on with his life.
1996 and all the years since have been wasted time. Ed's pissed away a lot of goodwill with his comments in the press and whittled his fan base away by putting out material that is just substandard rock music period, never mind how it compares to classic Van Halen. Van Halen 3 and the three new tracks are just weak by any standards. Never mind the financial opportunities blown.
Might have been one thing if the Van Halen's took a different tack in how they dealt with Roth in the press and treated their own classic legacy in general. Recording two tracks with Roth in 1996, then slamming the guy and saying he's all washed up, THEN releasing those tracks with a "washed up" guy singing them on a greatest hits album just smacks of utter, hypocritical bullshit.
Failing to put out some kind of a release that focuses on the classic era (we've had the displeasure of LIVE WITHOUT A NET [now out on DVD for fuck's sake], RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW on record and video......the Van Hagar era has been MORE than represented live, how 'bout giving us classic fans our fucking due!?) is just another slap in the face. And to say like Alex that there's nothing in the vaults worth putting out is yet ANOTHER example of bullshit.
Too many lies, too much booze, too many bad decisions all fused with a piss-poor attitude. Ed and Al have run this band into the ground. Hagar stinks, but Van Halen stunk just as bad when Cherone was on board. The Van Halen's have designated themselves to what they never wanted to be, a band cashing in on their past.
And you know what? They brought it all on themselves, so when I hear about Van Hagar 2004 playing to half-empty houses (even though they have a guaranteed rate) I gotta smile, because they're getting what they deserve.
Fuck 'em.
More apropos would be to ask what has Ed lost since '96.
Dave bailed in 1985. Wasn't happy with the group. If Ed was a primary reason for Dave bailing, whatever. Considering the direction the music was taking in 1984, can't say I blame Dave for splitting. Ed got somebody else to sing (should have changed the name of the band, but that's another issue), and got on with his life.
1996 and all the years since have been wasted time. Ed's pissed away a lot of goodwill with his comments in the press and whittled his fan base away by putting out material that is just substandard rock music period, never mind how it compares to classic Van Halen. Van Halen 3 and the three new tracks are just weak by any standards. Never mind the financial opportunities blown.
Might have been one thing if the Van Halen's took a different tack in how they dealt with Roth in the press and treated their own classic legacy in general. Recording two tracks with Roth in 1996, then slamming the guy and saying he's all washed up, THEN releasing those tracks with a "washed up" guy singing them on a greatest hits album just smacks of utter, hypocritical bullshit.
Failing to put out some kind of a release that focuses on the classic era (we've had the displeasure of LIVE WITHOUT A NET [now out on DVD for fuck's sake], RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW on record and video......the Van Hagar era has been MORE than represented live, how 'bout giving us classic fans our fucking due!?) is just another slap in the face. And to say like Alex that there's nothing in the vaults worth putting out is yet ANOTHER example of bullshit.
Too many lies, too much booze, too many bad decisions all fused with a piss-poor attitude. Ed and Al have run this band into the ground. Hagar stinks, but Van Halen stunk just as bad when Cherone was on board. The Van Halen's have designated themselves to what they never wanted to be, a band cashing in on their past.
And you know what? They brought it all on themselves, so when I hear about Van Hagar 2004 playing to half-empty houses (even though they have a guaranteed rate) I gotta smile, because they're getting what they deserve.
Fuck 'em.
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