Goddammit!

**Loons The Great** · 09-10-2005, 06:32 PM

I say God damn...God damn that bible pushin' man...

**TheManWithNoName** · 09-10-2005, 06:35 PM

And it's at these moments when you want to turn to a Hagar-YentlHalen fan and smack them directly upside the head and say,

"You see, this is the difference between the greatest rock and roll band probably ever, and a bunch of boys playing music like Girls."

It is extremely frustrating because for many of us, Van Halen was just reacing their fucking prime when they split--and their prime was HUGE.

Most people don't remember just how big they were from 80-85, and the scary and most frustrating thing is that they would have been a shitload bigger.

**Loons The Great** · 09-10-2005, 06:37 PM

Good post, Clint! It makes me sick when clowns start rappin' about how Sammy made the band better, etc. etc. Those folks needs to SHUT THEIR BIG YAPPER!

**DlocRoth** · 09-10-2005, 06:38 PM

So true....

Just think of all the hair bands that would have never got off the ground because the VH vaccuum would have sucked em in.....

**Loons The Great** · 09-10-2005, 06:40 PM

WELLA WELLA WELLA

Originally posted by DlocRoth
So true....

Just think of all the hair bands that would have never got off the ground from because the VH vaccuum would have sucked em in.....

Instead of touring with Extreme and Cinderella, Van Rothin' would have DESTROYED THEM. YEZ YEZ.

**TheManWithNoName** · 09-10-2005, 06:43 PM

Do you guys remember walking into the record store in 1984? You remember walking in, and looking around, and the only thing you saw was that smoking baby. Up on the walls, on pins, on the people working in the store, lifesize cutouts, hanging from strings on the ceiling--

So THAT was Magic.

It's impossible to explain to people how big they were, and how they have never come close to it since. The only band since that I can think of that was THAT big was perhaps Guns N' Roses, which was the Rock band that swallowed that vacuum you talked about Mr. Roc.

Van Halen was without a doubt the biggest band in the world when the parted ways, and it had nothing to do with being #1, and everything to do with what Roth did best--

Create the Buzz.

**DlocRoth** · 09-10-2005, 06:48 PM

They made the music, the Jew sold it.

Shit, I was 9 when '84 came out, and hell yes I remember walking into the record store and seeing nothing but VH...and rightly so.

Not only was it the best music out there, Dave fucking knew it, and handed you a fucking copy anyway...

It wasnt.."Have you heard the new Van Halen?

It was..."Here, listen to this, motherfucker!"

**Loons The Great** · 09-10-2005, 06:51 PM

When I was a youngin' an' any party you went to in the neighborhood...always kicked of with a lil' 1984 an' a bunch of loons and goons launching themselves off of furniture, etc. Ahhhh, the good ol' days nah...

**DlocRoth** · 09-10-2005, 06:53 PM

LOL

Yeah, there were far too many little boys doing split kicks off the drum riser, er...I mean the back of the couch.....

**TheManWithNoName** · 09-10-2005, 06:55 PM

It wasn't even "Here, listen to it Motherfucker!"

You'd walk in the store, and get bitchslapped right upside your head with it, and ask for more.

**DlocRoth** · 09-10-2005, 06:59 PM

Originally posted by TheManWithNoName
It wasn't even "Here, listen to it Motherfucker!"

You'd walk in the store, and get bitchslapped right upside your head with it, and ask for more.

HA!

So the 1984 intro is just the ringing in my ears.....makes sense to me.

**Loons The Great** · 09-10-2005, 07:01 PM

Originally posted by DlocRoth
LOL

Yeah, there were far too many little boys doing split kicks off the drum riser, er...I mean the back of the couch.....

Now fast forward about twenty years an' I got hammered at a watering hole on Jack shots and Guiness an' sang karate-okie to,"Jump." Started feelin' all young, impulsive and badass and tried to launch off of the drum riser, er some table...suit pants split, snaked the crowd, won the 100$ contest, threw up in some bushes outside my crib and passed out. That's what happens when you jus' say,"What the hell would Roth do??"

**DlocRoth** · 09-10-2005, 07:03 PM

Loons, old boy.....

That is the best thing I've heard all day, bar none.

"New Year's Eve? Try a typical Tuesday..."

**TheManWithNoName** · 09-10-2005, 07:06 PM

And as your laying in the bushes in your own throw-up--$100 gone from buying a round for the bar, and a $20 to the waitress to see her tits--passed out, dreaming of that day when you were 10, jumping off the couch--

Goddammit!

Goddammit!

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