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Summer nightz

calstars, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link

^ eddie sitting on the mids doesn’t suit him

calstars, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link

Can't help think that Croz is a bit of a dick.

Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link

never mind that DLR's version of "let's party" is pretty quantum…

This made me lol hard. :) Right on.

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link

I was an editor on a reality show some years back where Sammy Hagar guested and I can say, based on the couple of hours of rushes I had to watch to get his guest appearance into shape, he’s a genuinely nice bro.

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link

Cros is a lot of a dick

i swear his niceness is just a myth propelled solely by his santa-beard these days

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link

also dude is a fuckin contrarian through and through. $100 he is only saying “meh” because he knows literally everyone was talking about EVH and didnt feel like kissing ~the dead guy’s~ ass

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link

And I feel her....from acroxxxs the room!

calstars, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link

I just listened to Dreams for the first time in forever and whoever said it sounded like an Air Force commercial is otmfm.

Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link

crosby is a dick but people are really overreacting to that tweet

mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link

OTM

I guess I'd be lonesome (Sund4r), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link

Croz basically apologized too

yes you Van Halen fans I did just toss off an answer that was not cool ...the even more embarrassing truth is ..I didn't even remember he had just died or I would have kept my mouth shut....I do make mistakes ...no offense intended

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) October 13, 2020

J. Sam, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link

rmde

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:48 (three years ago) link

I just listened to Dreams for the first time in forever and whoever said it sounded like an Air Force commercial is otmfm.

I do love this song, actually. It's more like decent Journey.

I guess I'd be lonesome (Sund4r), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link

The Onion used the band as fodder for some seriously good yuks...

http://www.theonion.com/jamie-crying-1819564111
http://entertainment.theonion.com/cia-admits-role-in-1985-coup-to-oust-david-lee-roth-1819577255
http://politics.theonion.com/clinton-hagar-meet-to-discuss-federal-speed-limit-issu-1819564715

But my favorite was when they just had a headline without a story:
"Sammy Hagar Discovers Second Way to Rock"

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 15 October 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link

like decent Journey

i know you didn't mean it as a slam but this is ice fucking cold

also, lol

mookieproof, Thursday, 15 October 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link

i mean wait til dee snyder hears about *this*

mookieproof, Thursday, 15 October 2020 00:30 (three years ago) link

i for one am outraged

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 01:10 (three years ago) link

LMAO Croz didn't remember he just died so full of shit

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 October 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link

He may be drug free now but his brain's been high since 1975

LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 October 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link

worst backpedal ever #choad

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 03:17 (three years ago) link

“i didnt say meh. i said yeh! i was misquoted”

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link

I'm no fan of Crosby, but everyone on twitter knows that if you ask his opinion on just about any musician that he doesn't personally know, you're gonna get some shit talking. It's the only reason anyone asks him these questions. He, as expected, took the bait. I think it's stupid to get mad at how his game works, even if I vehemently disagree with his dumb ass 99% of the time.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 15 October 2020 03:20 (three years ago) link

hey look i just enjoy openly hating him, it’s my right as an American

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 03:24 (three years ago) link

lol fair

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 15 October 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link

absolutely need to hear VG's american accent now

mookieproof, Thursday, 15 October 2020 03:39 (three years ago) link

YALL CAYNT HANDLE IT

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link

Crosby still more likable than Stills or Nash.

error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 15 October 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link

Anyway guy’s answering like a hundred Twitter questions a day, who cares

error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 15 October 2020 04:17 (three years ago) link

teach the Tweeters well

LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 October 2020 04:45 (three years ago) link

I love their music to this day but to a man all 3 are all monstrous assholes in their own magical ways.

but i digress

tell me more about how van hagar sounds like “decent” journey

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link

Just that song, maybe one or two others. Most of it sounds like crap Journey imo.

I guess I'd be lonesome (Sund4r), Thursday, 15 October 2020 05:26 (three years ago) link

is Nash bad? never heard much about him

he didn't come off bad in Shakey which is where I learned the most about CSN

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 October 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link

I think I mainly don't like him for talking shit abt Crazy Horse, but also always sleeping w/ people's wives

error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 15 October 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link

He was a steadfast friend for many years to Crosby when nobody else could handle the guy anymore, so I retract. I just think his music is boring.

error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 15 October 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link

The only thing I know about Nash is the Innocent Eyes video starring John Ritter, which is a stone classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KwQORT1T6k

peace, man, Thursday, 15 October 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link

That might be the most '80s song/video combo ever. It could literally be by anyone/everyone.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 October 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link

I think I mainly don't like him for talking shit abt Crazy Horse, but also always sleeping w/ people's wives

― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, October 15, 2020 8:12 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

crosby's so fucking foul this is like eagle scout material in comparison

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 October 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link

Good piece in the LA Times about the early Pasadena days

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-10-15/eddie-van-halen-david-lee-roth-pasadena-high-school

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link

I live close to that liquor store at Allen and Villa, and walked over last weekend. About a dozen people there, and someone left a Fender Squire (the type that sold for < $100 at Guitar Center) on the sidewalk where Eddie's "Van Halen" was written. Then I walked to the house and there were people there too.

nickn, Thursday, 15 October 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link

Great piece. RIP Eddie.

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 15 October 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link

Finally saw Van Halen at Staples Center in 2007 and it...wasn't amazing, thinking back. Still happy to have seen them in some capacity.

Fast forward to 2017, Metallica at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. They did a brief, "impromptu" cover of Running With The Devil which I found endearing.

DT, Friday, 16 October 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link

my wife and I were visiting LA for a week in spring 15. Driving around listening to shitty LA rock radio, I kept hearing references to Van Halen playing the Sunset Strip… so we figured out that they were to play outside on the strip for the Fallon show the night before we were to go back to NYC. I had never seen any version of the band, so I really felt that we had to see this…my wife does not in fact like VH; she would have been psyched were it GnR or Poison or the Crue…but she was game. A fancy showrunner buddy we were visiting the night before called his pal at the Fallon show to get us some, ahem, elite access, which amounted to showing up to a tent a few blacks away three hours before VH was to hit; we were eventually herded with about 50 not important enough people some 200 yards from the stage, behind hundreds of people who had been waiting in line all day. Frankie Banali was waiting among us, so was Scott Ian, but he was spirited away, maybe to where someone like Dave Grohl would be, on a roof in an expensive chair getting a foot massage.

No beer, no refreshment, no nothing to take the edge off. VH didn't start playing when they were sposed to, so we had to be "entertained" by this bald warm-up guy who shouted like Kinison… it was very trying. 1 and half hour late, they hit the stage. And so this was the infamous incident in which DLR did a sword dance while the band was gearing up "panama," hit himself on the nose. started bleeding and abandoned ship during the solo, leaving the band to pedal around the "runnin' a little hot tonight" breakdown, Eddie skreeing and skrawing, for 10 minutes…

Then Roth returns and they start the song over…this destroyed any momentum for me, and they played like the state fair Roth era set. With "Ain't Talkin" launching, I said "fuck this," my wife said "and how," and we went to Chateau Marmont to meet up with Fact checkin' Cuz.

veronica moser, Friday, 16 October 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib3nuHsiG_Y

veronica moser, Friday, 16 October 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link

A+ anecdote

logout option: disabled (Matt #2), Friday, 16 October 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link

And that's why you don't play with swords.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 October 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link

Man, I always forget that DLR is practically covered with tattoos.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 October 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link

the kimmel show, goddamnmit…

veronica moser, Friday, 16 October 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link

DLR looks like a younger Stephen Miller.

Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Friday, 16 October 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link


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