I like it.....kept trying to imagine what it would sound like with Michael Anthony.

I've listened to it several times today..I love it.

That was godawful. It was so cheesy you could melt it and pour it on your nachos.

Bring back the original Roth!

Hard to stomach Link although this song rocked when I was 15 Link (new window)

23FPB23: Two things:

A) VH is required, apparently, to have a tubby bass player.

B) DLR still can't lip-synch for shiat.

That's Alex VH's son on bass, btw.

d-fens99: Like it or not, Sammy Hagar was Van Halen. Without him, VH would still be known as a group who's last big hit was available on an eight track.

1/10

Can't say Sammy was VH when they were a multiple platinum selling act before him. I would have gone with "Like it or not, Sammy Hagar was an upgrade from David Lee Roth. This new song proves it."

It's still bullshiat, but it's more believable bullshiat.

skinink: Any song on Diver Down was better than that piece of crap I just listened to.
/Fires up "Happy Trails"

Women and Children First > Diver Down

d-fens99: Like it or not, Sammy Hagar was Van Halen

That's pretty funny.

That woulda been a hit......in 1991.

Oh well.

Omis: Still better than Nickelback.

So's fingernails on a chalkboard, a dental drill, worn brakes, etc.

El Freak: That was godawful. It was so cheesy you could melt it and pour it on your nachos.

mouser_inc: meh...

delathi: That.. umm.. kinda sucked.

Point

Omis: Oh man was that ever bad. Still better than Nickelback.

Counterpoint

/it sucked

Representative of the unwashed masses:

/Overall I liked Van Hagar more than Van Roth.

You are so wrong.

Unchained (new window)

Steve Buscemi: "If you're really a record producer, whose side did you take in the David Lee Roth/Van Halen split?"

Record producer: "Van Halen!"

Hostage: "He's a cop."

Van Halen was lucky they got as big as they did considering they had a one dimensional singer paired with a one dimensional guitarist.

The luck is that each of the guys' one dimensions were very bright and colorful, especially for the time. No one had really played guitar like Edward before, at least not on such an international stage. Dave was the perfect front man for that style of music, even if he did steal his entire act from Jim Dandy of Black Oak Arkansas.

But Edward could never master any other style of playing than his own. He can't play blues, or pop, or folk, or alternative because no matter what he does, he always sounds like Edward Van Halen playing Edward Van Halen licks in Edward Van Halen style. But his limited genre-hopping abilities still far outweigh Roth's talent, which is firmly rooted in one particular style of music (he was fooling no one with his bluegrass Van Halen music.)

The time for this style of music is over, and has been for 25 years. Van Hagar was a further bastardization of that style, morphing it into pop-radio friendly Whitesnake-style ballad crap. It was as if when Roth left, he took Edward's balls with him. Van Halen, as limited as it was, was at least exciting. Van Hagar was like putting a half-sucked on lifesaver mint in your mouth. Weak, and somewhat nauseating.

This new stuff might be fun, and it certainly can't be any worse than Van Hagar, but it isn't Van Halen, as that magic can never be recreated, even if Michael Anthony were back in the band. Time has exposed the limitations of the band members, and it's just not as good anymore.

Meh, Angel is unimpressed..

/I'm a fan
//I want them to be awesome again

23FPB23: Yeah...Wolfie enjoys a good meal, like his momma used to!

Yeah, whatever. Meanwhile, at no point in Valerie's varying BMI over the past 30 years, would I have EVER turned down the opportunity to hit that. Yea "meteor-planet-fist.gif" verily.

Eddie's musical progressions are always up for fair debate... but screwing it up with that lovely bit of hottness--especially after she gave him chance after chance after chance to get his life together-- wow, Eddie you failed Big Time and I award you ZERO points, LATER doode.

/"hot babe-some guy sick of her shiat" LALALALALA I'M NOT LISTENING

AdolfOliverPanties: He can't play blues, or pop, or folk, or alternative

What does that even mean? Rock is blues. I think his keyboard work covers pop, why the fark would he want to play folk and WTF is "alternative"?

DeathRaySanta: ddie's musical progressions are always up for fair debate... but screwing it up with that lovely bit of hottness--especially after she gave him chance after chance after chance to get his life together-- wow, Eddie you failed Big Time and I award you ZERO points, LATER doode.

Meh. He's doing all right.



/Ed's new wife
//Val was at the ceremony
//Wolfie was best man
////Alex performed the ceremony (is an ordained minister)
//themoreyouknow.gif

Mugato: AdolfOliverPanties: He can't play blues, or pop, or folk, or alternative

What does that even mean? Rock is blues. I think his keyboard work covers pop, why the fark would he want to play folk and WTF is "alternative"?

Rock can be blues, but blues is not always rock. There is an EP, the Brian May Starfleet Project, where EVH plays. They do a blues song called "Let Me Out," and Edward is terrible as a blues guitarist. All he could play were EVH licks over a true blues song and it was not a good mix. Part of playing the blues is knowing what not to play. For the record, Brian May isn't all that great at blues either, but at least he can play in more than one style.

My point was that Edward plays Edward licks no matter what song he is playing on. What is alternative? I guess that was a bit of a poser thing for me to add. Unnecessary. I just meant different than standard AOR friendly pop rock, which is what VH turned into. They were pop-metal at first and then went full on fruitcake-ballad pop with the keyboards and Sammy.

Folk may have been the wrong word. I am referring to acoustic style stuff like Zeppelin, The Who, The Beatles, even Queen would do at times. These bands could mix in some other instruments, some other arrangement styles, some other genres of music and make their own distinctive mark on it. Van Halen could not.

Edward's style really only fits pop-metal or pop-metal ballads. That was really my point. At the time VH broke, no one else sounded like them. It was new and exciting.

That style has been out there for 30+ years now. And the limitations of their style of music is telling.