that intro makes me think of Bow Wow Wow
― Josefa, Saturday, 7 November 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
Good thread on Simmons :http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/albums-where-drummers-use-simmons-drums-electronic-drums.478617/
― calstars, Saturday, 7 November 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
it can't be his hands at the start on the pads, b/c there's also a tom pattern he does about :12 seconds in, and he obviously does that w/hands
interesting follow up to that comment tho
Ted Templeman said in his autobiography that the first few seconds are actually a recording of the exhaust from Eddie's Laborghini. Donn Landee (the engineer) played with it until it blended with the start of Alex's drums.
― a (waterface), Monday, 9 November 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
exhaust from Eddie's Laborghini.
No way this is accurate. This sounds like the conflation/confusion of several stories, but closest to the revving in "Panama."
Also:
It's overdubbed, that much everyone agrees on.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 November 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
Like, the bulk of the song is fast/exhausting enough, but it's telling that afaict he never did the full intro live. There are, of course, all sorts of mutant drummers now that have figured out ways to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GXshVjEVU8
And there's a similar callback here (which is insane, but Meshuggah, you know)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u-eGzlc
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 November 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
ah my bad i thought you were stating there were no overdubs
― a (waterface), Monday, 9 November 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
Reminds me of Copeland’s stories, another multi-tracker that people have figured how to replicate
― calstars, Monday, 9 November 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
Yeah, he supposedly got a hoot out of watching people play, say, "Message in a Bottle," which takes a few extra arms/overdubs.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 November 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
Wolfgang Van Halen has released a solo track in tribute to his father. The song is barely there, but the video is worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI3aPJkZmNU
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 16 November 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
Emotional! Thanks
― calstars, Monday, 16 November 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
Hot shoe, boinin’ down the avenue
― calstars, Sunday, 6 December 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
he went for John Fogerty on that one for some reason
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 December 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
Huh. Apparently Eddie and Alex recorded demos of "Christine Sixteen" and "Got Love For Sale" with Simmons. Had no idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWPOJWevONI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yccJRMHRNDk
― Darin, Friday, 29 January 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link
It's Two for Tuesday on the local classic rock station. They played Hot for Teacher, so I was pumped, but they followed it with a really shitty Sammy Hagar solo track. That's cheating!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
a real #2 all right
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
You should be able to conduct a citizen's arrest in this situations
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:51 (three years ago) link
They should have played "Just Like Paradise" instead of "Hot for Teacher", as a democratic gesture.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
that is a goddamn outrage imo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
they should be forced by a court to play "beautiful girls" at least once per day for the next month
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
I believe that is an FCC violation, iirc, per the Two-Fer Tuesday/Mandatory Metallica/Get the Led Out reauthorization act of 1996.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
Yeah, no amount of Breakfast with the Beatles can redeem a DJ essentially cock-blocking a rock block, let alone with the Red Rider.
The shitty song in question was something called "Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy." The classic rock station should have known better, or at least if you are going to play a solo song by human dud Sammy Hagar in tandem with a Van Halen song, pick a "classic" Hagar song and not some blatant stinker. As Genius notes in response to the line "hot, sweet cherries on the vine," "This leads one to believe that Mr. Hagar is not much of a horticulturalist. Cherries grow on trees. It’s a tough spot. 'Grapes' would be an unstressed syllable short, and 'melons' would bear unintended meanings." He's got a point, in that Hagar is such a shitty lyricist that what little meaning his songs have are always totally, thoroughly intentional. When Hagar is singing about aliens, he is not using metaphors.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
Sammy loves his fruit, though, as one listen to "Up for Breakfast" on the 2004 Van Halen compilation will indicate.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
Hmm having just peruse the lyrics for "Up for Breakfast" I'd wager a single US dollar this song is about sexual intercourse
She put the cream in my coffee (first thing in the morning)Put that butter on my biscuit (honey to my melons)Woo, cherries on bananas (you gonna need a second helping)You know I'm up for breakfast so early in the morning
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link
Is cherries on bananas a sex thing? I've been out of the game too long
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
it means there's acne on his dick, Woo
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
nah, just in the vocal
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
Only time will tell if cherries wilt on vines... yeah!
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 12:32 (three years ago) link
"The shitty song in question was something called "Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy"
you strike me, JiC, as a guy what had listened to or at least was present for the AOR era, distinct from classic rock. and the above indicates that you had not heard the above song prior to the other day? That's odd to me… I'm fond of it, in that I often am fond of songs which owe their existence to John David Kalodner not hearing a single among the songs recorded for an early 80s AOR-oriented record and insisting that the artist write some sell out shit…
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, April 13, 2021 3:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i don't think there's any reason to read anything dirty into this...sammy's just a foodie, for ex "poundcake"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/TxLCnR2iwGBHejVGMGbKCK-q09QD-4s1nTGrucEWIiTx5AofIrYdQHn2nIMNvRVOLRxC2IJO7ZlulqOXdS6jeaXbhmuTovXkENX5bWzcbPCTLx5fwlRwiYLW1w
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link
thought that was Bob Plant on the right
― calstars, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 14:17 (three years ago) link
L-R: Sam Hagar, Bob Plant
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link
Is cherries on bananas a sex thing? I've been out of the game too long― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, April 13, 2021 3:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinki don't think there's any reason to read anything dirty into this...sammy's just a foodie, for ex "poundcake"― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 13:44 (one hour ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 13:44 (one hour ago) link
You are probably right, I doubt Sammy is that crude, it isn't like he would name an album FUCK or anyt-...wait
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link
the "Bob Plant emissions" jokes bookending every trip to the loo must be insufferable.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
I need one of those dumb shirts that says:Sam andDave andBob andGuy
― calstars, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
"She put the cream in my coffee (first thing in the morning)Put that butter on my biscuit (honey to my melons)Woo, cherries on bananas (you gonna need a second helping)You know I'm up for breakfast so early in the morning"
Also "up": my breakfast
Perhaps there is a cosmic balance between the volume of breakfast consumed by Sammy and the volume of breakfast lost by others as a result
― Harthill Services (Neil Willett), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ6bli9Xir4
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 00:43 (two years ago) link
Alex killing it
― calstars, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 01:10 (two years ago) link
It's one thing to alter the pitch and tempo of two songs, isolate certain tracks, and mash those together. Bill is far and away the best in the business when it comes to that.But THIS particular mashup... if you're a die hard Van Halen fan, you hear it right away... that's NOT how DLR sang the song! Bill altered the tempo, cadence and inflection of INDIVIDUAL WORDS from the original vocal track, and did it so skillfully that it comes out sounding completely natural and unedited. It's the audio equivalent of a Deep Fake... he turned DLR into a country singer. This is Next Level stuff, even for McClintock.BRAVO, sir.P.S. am I crazy, or did I hear like 5 notes from the bridge of And The Cradle Will Rock thrown in there? Genius.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
tremendous work
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 11:10 (two years ago) link
David did a country album, Strummin' With the Devilhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olk8rZmlhY4
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
Thoughts on Mammoth WVH? Considering he plays all the instruments, has a tight group sound. He has a good voice, too, reminds me vaguely of Nicky Wire. Surprised at the quality of this, and wonder if EVH hadn't passed, if these songs would have fueled a new VH album.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 12 August 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMDoj8VVzh8
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 12 August 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link
Quality butt rock.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 August 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
1993 called
― calstars, Thursday, 12 August 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
haha yes. extremely Soundgarden. but i like Soundgarden!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
One of the new songs (with Hagar) on Best of Both Worlds, the 2004 Van Halen compilation, sounded like Soundgarden too; it's permanently grunge time at the Van Halen's.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 13 August 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
Not a bad thing
― calstars, Friday, 13 August 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
In 2015, a writer found an email address that supposedly belonged to Eddie Van Halen. He fired off a note on a lark — and kicked off a five-year friendship that lasted until Eddie’s death.https://t.co/Uar74VTSpo— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) July 3, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 July 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link