hagar on van halen

[Bert Notorius]

Van Halen's Ill-Fated 2004 Reunion Tour With Sammy Hagar


"Michael Anthony was on board, but Sammy Hagar was shocked when he saw Eddie in the flesh for the first time in a decade. "He looked like he hadn't bathed in a week," he wrote in his 2011 memoir Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock. "He was missing a number of teeth and the ones he had left were black. His boots were so worn out he had gaffer's tape wrapped around them, and his big toe stuck out. He walked up to me, hunched over like a little old man, a cigarette in his mouth. He had a third of his tongue removed because of cancer and he spoke with a slight lisp."

they're like a bunch of old ladies bitching.

 

[renard_ruse]

Van Halen was better with Hagar than with Roth. That's not saying much though.

Eddie was a great guitar player but I never really cared for most of Van Halen's songs. Too jazzy or uptempo or something, I'm not really sure, but it was never what I considered heavy metal.

 

[Bert Notorius]

roth was by far more entertaining.

 

[Ajax_Prime]

Van Halen was better with Hagar than with Roth. That's not saying much though.

Eddie was a great guitar player but I never really cared for most of Van Halen's songs. Too jazzy or uptempo or something, I'm not really sure, but it was never what I considered heavy metal.

You're the only person I have ever heard say that they WERE classified as a heavy metal band.

 

[renard_ruse]

You're the only person I have ever heard say that they WERE classified as a heavy metal band.

"...Metal’s roots may have come from the late ’60s and ’70s, but it can be argued that the genre’s real coming out party happened May 29, 1983 at the US Festival in San Bernardino, Calif. The music weekend offered a wide array of musical options, with each day catered to a specific sound, but it was the Heavy Metal Day on May 29, 1983, that showed just how popular that metal had become.

The lineup featured home state rockers and rising stars Van Halen headlining the day, with Scorpions, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Triumph, Motley Crue and Quiet Riot filling out the bill. The bands represented on Heavy Metal Day were promoting such classic albums as ‘Diver Down,’ ‘Blackout,’ ‘Screaming for Vengeance,’ ‘Bark at the Moon’ and ‘Metal Health’ at the time of the event. The US Festival set a single-day concert attendance record with an estimated 375,000 people packing into the Glen Helen Regional Park near Devore, Calif. to see the show..."

http://loudwire.com/30-years-ago-metal-coming-out-party-california-us-festival/

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

t4s!!

 

[Ajax_Prime]

"...Metal’s roots may have come from the late ’60s and ’70s, but it can be argued that the genre’s real coming out party happened May 29, 1983 at the US Festival in San Bernardino, Calif. The music weekend offered a wide array of musical options, with each day catered to a specific sound, but it was the Heavy Metal Day on May 29, 1983, that showed just how popular that metal had become.

The lineup featured home state rockers and rising stars Van Halen headlining the day, with Scorpions, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Triumph, Motley Crue and Quiet Riot filling out the bill. The bands represented on Heavy Metal Day were promoting such classic albums as ‘Diver Down,’ ‘Blackout,’ ‘Screaming for Vengeance,’ ‘Bark at the Moon’ and ‘Metal Health’ at the time of the event. The US Festival set a single-day concert attendance record with an estimated 375,000 people packing into the Glen Helen Regional Park near Devore, Calif. to see the show..."

http://loudwire.com/30-years-ago-metal-coming-out-party-california-us-festival/

BFD. VH played the US Festival with a bunch of legitimately heavy metal bands.

Call up Eddie Trunk, or ask anyone who followed ANY of those bands and ask them if VH is, or was ever, a 'metal' band.

There is a significant and distinct difference between hard rock and heavy metal. Might as well say that Styx was a heavy metal band.