Can i Have a review of Skyscraper?

[JacktheRipper]

i think this will some it up
eat em and smile was a Dave cd with steve vai playing guitar
shyscraper was a steve vai cd with dave singing

[wombattt]

Originally posted by JacktheRipper
i think this will some it up
eat em and smile was a Dave cd with steve vai playing guitar
shyscraper was a steve vai cd with dave singing

I disagree. Steve Vai left this DLR because of the direction of this album.

BTW Knucklebones, Damn Good & Hina are killer.

[Loons The Great]

Damn good times...

[DavidLeeNatra]

yeah...this album is out of rotation most of the time in my cd player...

[thome]

YFLM is Daves Most Dave CD my preff for first place in the -Dave
does his own thing-.

EEAS is on top of this in second place with some overlaps in finess.

they are from two totally different times,the influence of the passage of time and place is evident in all things including Daves
Music if you want twenty versions of Jump call Spam or any # of
80 hair bands.....

Skyscraper is a very close third place with some very strong overlaps of greatness that put all music in the rock journal to shame.

These three CD are the Bomb anyone that sais diff is a Dik.


















Hah!!!!!!!!!!---------------I RULE U.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[audiospectrum]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
Much of the rest of your post is valid but that sentence is complete fucking unadulterated shit.

Skyscraper is far too complex to be described as commercialism like 5150.

Even Just like Paradise is just a step too far for the 30 year old housewife in Tuna Fish Wyoming to get never mind the rest of the album. It's stupid to confuse the (over)use of keyboards with an attempt to join the genre of Journey/Loverboy/Insert name of US City.

Are you seriously saying Stand Up is in the same mould as Dreams or Damn Good is an attempt to sell singles to the same people that bought Love Walks In?

Toilet talk - how dare you.

It's weakness in many ways was it's lack of commercialism and how in places it went up it's own ass. At a different time in music history it would have been put down as an interesting experimental album but with hard rock coming to an end and grunge on the horizon it just died.

On EEAS Roth and Vai tried to create the ultimate Van Halen album.

On Skyscraper they tried to create the ultimate rock album drawing on all of their combined influences which ended up being too disparate and just a little too much.

On the whole I really like it with a couple of exceptions but the public at large was never going to. They needed a producer to tell them that.

Cheers!

Shesh I agree with most of everything you've said. This album really is a cut above the rest of the tripe at the time - as always Dave sails through the music world in a yaught. I think to the uninformed and maybe the uninspired "stand Up" just doesn't sit right, but those 'simple' lyrics as people like to say are far more complex than they appear. You have to take the song in the context of the album, and this is a great album. Buy it, and one for your friend so you can shoot opinions off each other. Dolemite motherfucker!

[113]

Dave had changed a lot, he became fat, bloated, wrinkled and his hair fell out at he front! I think nthis was caused by Dave`s rumoured smack addiction!

[binnie]

It's the album that has aged the worst. It sounds so............odd

Some great tunes on there though.

[Diamondjimi]

Dave had changed a lot, he became fat, bloated, wrinkled and his hair fell out at he front! I think nthis was caused by Dave`s rumoured smack addiction!

Fuck off Kuntie

[katie]

Dave had it in his head that he was going to produce it - Wrong

Vai thought he was co producing - Wrong

The whole record is a battle of production ideas that just dissappear up it's own arse, with Vai playing a load of widdly widdly shit whenever he gets the chance.

Plus the mix is terrible

A few years earlier Dave had a pop at Ed for keyboards........

[hideyoursheep]

Show us your tits.

[hideyoursheep]

All 6 of 'em.

[chefcraig]

It's the album that has aged the worst. It sounds so............odd

Some great tunes on there though.

A couple of years ago, FORD mentioned to me that some alternate mixes of this album exist that are far less processed, with Sheehan's bass turned up in the mix in all of it's ratty detail. I'd love to hear those mixes.

Skyscraper is still my favorite Roth solo album, and I believe it actually holds up better than the garage rock on EEAS. Admittedly, it isn't for everyone's taste, as the sound of Vai and Dave butting heads makes for an at times confusing outcome (the Plant/Zeppelin-like experiments on the title track are a bit over the top), yet I feel the musical highlights outweigh the negative aspects.

[Diamondjimi]

Show us your tits.

All 6 of 'em.

BWAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAA ....CLASSIC!

[katie]

It's the album that has aged the worst. It sounds so............odd

Some great tunes on there though.

It has aged badly and I can't think of one song that really kicks ass on it.

Shame cos two years before Dave set the bar really high with EEAS.