Van Halen eye-candy for your tormented soul...
Happy Birthday to a man who needs no introduction... Alex... Van... Halen!!
Alex Van Halen, you are a legend in my book. Looking forward to reading yours in the fall! Thank you for Hot For Teacher, Light Up The Sky, Everybody Wants Some!! and so many other classic VH tunes featuring your signature drum playing and sound.
PS: Please go easy on my boy, Dave, in your book... 😅
A re-run. The 1984 Michael Anthony bass solo. This was one of the funnest reels to make... I had 90 secs to make an entertaining reel, so unfortunately it didn't leave a lot of room for any actual playing (maybe I didn't word that right 😆). I always go for what makes an interesting reel. If you click on the reel, you can go back to the original comments where people roasted Mike.
Thank you, Michael Anthony, for your years of service in Van Halen and entertaining us all for all these years! MWM salutes you for your amazing backup vocals and your irreplaceable role on the first 6 albums!
What do you think Dave is talking about here? 🤔
Mirror, mirror on the wall... who owns the biggest award of them all?
RIP Edward Van Halen. Sorry you had to put up with this and still do...
I did what I did with Van Halen in good faith and I left on good faith and I asked for no quarter. I asked for no settlement, nothing. And I guess that’s precisely what I got. I should have led with my fist instead of my heart, but that would have put me right down in the bottom of the barrel with the kind of thinking that I’m railing against now.
I’m very proud of what was that band and what was that show and what it did mean to people. It disgusts me that it has turned into the complete opposite. That it now represents everything that I spoke against, that we supposedly represented the converse of. I don’t want to have to remember that the team turned into that. Makes me question what the team was while I was a member.
Was it all bu****it? If nothing else, it confirms in my mind that from my standpoint—yours truly, David Lee—not a fraction. If nothing else, this kind of morbid, wounded animal anger aimed my way has caused me to look deep into that bathroom mirror and come back to you with "my s**t was legit." It was for real. And perhaps the test is time. Because here I am, a decade and a half later, haven’t changed much. I look a little different, but not much. My sense of humor is about the same.
When I left Van Halen, it was not something that I was delighted to do. I was not celebrating. I was not relieved. It was one of the scariest moments in my life. I perceived that Van Halen was heading towards catastrophe. So do you ride that plane all the way into the sand? I said no, we’d already been through a year’s worth of the Hatfields and the McCoys with the bottle of moonshine in between—and I’m not a prince. I am not Mr. Not Guilty at all, but the chemistry between us was becoming morbid, it was becoming threatening and nonproductive. You can hear it in the music, it started turning melancholy right after I left. That’s great, there’s plenty of room for melancholy music, but it’s not my personal constitution.
Ed and I hugged each other and cried at my father’s house. I said, "Ed, your brother is up to two six-packs a day. Maybe if we get ourselves square, down the line we can reconvene, and I would love nothing more than that." I don’t think he understood. We went our own ways.
Some six months later, perhaps less, somebody deposited a stack of magazines as long as your forearm on my desk, full of all the new Van Halen interviews. It had been easier for them to put a new album together because I had worked with Edward on half of that album already. Brought in a new singer, went right to all those old tapes and started with that as their go point, so it was much easier for them to reconstruct. It was going to take me a considerable while longer. So that first stack of magazines landed in front of me, and it was a Van Halen hatred campaign that was peddled belligerently and strongly as it is to this day. This had been a spectacular group, spectacular writing unit and a sensational show, and if you got anywheres near any element of it, it changed your life.
And here we currently reside thirteen years later, same mudslinging, same kind of thinking from their camp. So I guess the most critical decision I have to make is, do I really describe some of their carryings on, on the road’? Or do I continue to be the quiet guy? Do I continue to be the nice guy? Ninety-nine percent of all the hijinks and carrying on was my contribution, but everybody had a proclivity. Everybody had a little side-bar to their story.
It’s unfortunate that this feuding has to continue all the way up until the present, because what Van Halen meant to a lot of people and myself in particular, was very positive. What it meant in the early days—read:
The time period that I was involved in the band—is hanging in there like an Indian summer. It’s still all over the radio, still in the magazines, people still ask questions about the breakup.
I guess the best I can say is: Don’t believe every syllable of everything that you read by everybody who wrote it. Go out and buy those records and see if you can hear the truth in the music. That’s my recommendation. Some of those records you may have to buy twice—just in case you want your best pal to listen in too so you can discuss it some more. Dolemite, mo********er!
Copyright ©1997 David Lee Roth, Crazy From The Heat.
Condensed from the book.
Van Halen, 1981. If you know, you know...
It is 2007. You are about to embark on a record-breaking concert tour. You are about to prove all the naysayers wrong. You have a cigar in your mouth. You are signing your epic album, Fair Warning. You are David Lee Roth.
"Dave was extremely well-read and smart, and that showed up in his whole approach to fronting Van Halen. I decided against calling Sammy. If I’d tried to put him in Van Halen in 1977, I’d have made the biggest mistake in rock history, because Van Halen never would have made it without Dave fronting the band.” - Van Halen record producer, Ted Templeman
After failed tours with Gary Cherone and Sammy Hagar that lost promoters money, 2007 would mark the triumphant return of Van Halen's lead singer, David Lee Roth. He would lead the band on it's record-breaking 2007-2008 reunion and final two tours, grossing $175 million in the process.
Sammy Hagar claims he was equal to Van Halen when he became their lead singer. The sad reality is, he wasn't even half as successful as David Lee Roth.
At the very height of his career in 1987, Hagar's solo album, featuring EVH, could barely muster enough sales for a gold record.
He then went on to lie about that as well...
This reel explains why Hagar's career is a just a myth perpetrated by Hagar, the media and his gullible fans that knowingly repeat his lies... and why he is disliked by so many in the Van Halen community.
David Lee Roth has won the Van Halen Super Bowl.
Dave wins with 53 million records sold to 24.5 million for Sammy Hagar.
Diamond Dave, who was also named the game's MVP, was asked what he is going to do next.
"I'm going to DispensaryLand," was the reply.
Full game stats and highlights are in the reel.
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File under $cammy Hagar's Best Of All Worlds EVH Tribute Tour
Sammy Hagar found out some shocking news on the newest episode of PBS' Finding Your Roots. His DNA does not match with anyone named Hagar!
Van Halen / Backstage Party Promo, US Festival 1983
Backstage Van Halen 2007-08 Reunion Tour.
From being the Ice Cream Man to being an EMT, DLR can do it all!
NEW YORK (AP) -- Instead of screaming ``Jump,'' David Lee Roth will be yelling ``clear!'' The former Van Halen frontman is taking up a new trade - paramedic.
Roth, 50, has been riding for several weeks with a New York ambulance crew in training to become a paramedic, The New York Post reported Tuesday.
``I have been on over 200 individual rides now,'' said Roth. ``Not once has anyone recognized me, which is perfect for me.''
The singer, who spent a decade with Van Halen before embarking on a solo career, except a collaboration with the band for two new songs on a greatest hits album, has been riding along with crews in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn several nights a week.
His training seems to be going well.
Several weeks ago, Roth saved the life of a heart attack victim in the Bronx by using a defibrillator on her.
He takes his work so seriously that he did not want publicity so that it would not ``diminish what I am trying to do here.'' He has said that he did not want the neighborhoods he was working in named so that he would not draw attention to himself or co-workers.
``You would never know you were dealing with a rock-'n'-roll guy,'' said Linda Reissman, Roth's EMS consultant and tutor. ``His commitment really is touching. He wants to help people.''
2004
Sammy Hagar... the man, the myth, the legend!
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Poor Sammy Hagar, he found out the RIAA are not the only ones who keep tabs... 🤣
Exactly 37 years ago today... I still have my two tickets for both nights to see Diamond David Lee Roth at the Fabulous Forum. It would be the last two amazing shows of 1986 for the EEAS Band. For me, Dave is and always will be the biggest part of Van Halen. Dave or the grave... the 5150 tour and all subsequent Dave-less 'Van Halen' shows would be a hard pass for me.
David Lee Roth Gregg Bissonette Billy Sheehan Steve Vai
Van Halen / Jamie's Cryin' / Live 1984 Video / Soundboard Audio / Concert Tour
Van Halen / Light Up The Sky / Live 1984 Video Full Version
It's the anniversary of this famous meme. You have to admit, Hagar does look younger here...
A new weight chart for Van Halen vs Van Hagar album sales...
The sad and tragic relationship of Sammy Hagar and Van Halen...
"Mammals and oxpeckers may not be a perfect example of mutualism, as the birds can harm their hosts. They will also dig into wounds. While the mammals appear relatively tolerant of this behavior, it's not beneficial to them." 👈
Van Halen / Hot For Teacher
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