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Old 07-17-2017, 04:05 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Old 07-17-2017, 04:09 PM   #32 (permalink)
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I guess I'd go with original Van Halen since it has all the cool instrumental parts that make up the extent of my enjoyment of the group: the drum intro to Hot for Teacher, Spanish Fly, Cathedral, and to a lesser extent Eruption.
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Old 09-27-2017, 05:51 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Yeah, I got to say Hagar. He's the better singer and the better frontman. The stuff from the Hagar era was just better all around. With Roth they sounded more like a bunch of college guys playing at a kegger, with Hagar they sounded like a real band that had grown up and improved.
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Roth =VH= had the better songs.
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Old 09-27-2017, 09:27 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Yeah, I got to say Hagar. He's the better singer and the better frontman. The stuff from the Hagar era was just better all around. With Roth they sounded more like a bunch of college guys playing at a kegger, with Hagar they sounded like a real band that had grown up and improved.
With Roth they sounded like a fun rock band. With Hagar they sounded like bog standard cheesy 80s dad rock.
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Old 09-28-2017, 04:24 PM   #37 (permalink)
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With Roth they sounded like a fun rock band. With Hagar they sounded like bog standard cheesy 80s dad rock.
With Roth they sounded like a bunch of little kids, with Hagar they had grown up musically, and sounded much better. It was an actual growth, Roth's return sounds more like a devolution. Everything seemed to improve, the vocals actually rocked, instead of Roth's cheezy bragging, and Eddie's guitar actually sounded more complex and rythmic.
Hagar is a rock singer, while I must agree with Eddie when he basically called Roth a dance singer.
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Compromise: They were exciting albeit annoying kids with Roth who turned into boring old farts with Hagar in the name of forced maturity.
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Old 10-07-2017, 09:33 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Van Halen, Runnin' with the Devil is one of the greatest songs ever. I hated Sammy.
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It really is a bad ass thrilling song. I love it from the first note.
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