Favorite Van Halen singer

[Lorraine]

I just watched some videos of them from 2015 in concert.

 

Not sure what age DLR says he is these days (I say this because we used to be the same age once upon a time, but he keeps getting younger than me), but he still has a lot of energy on stage. You'd never know he's over sixty.

[Super25Smasher]

I just watched some videos of them from 2015 in concert.

 

Not sure what age DLR says he is these days (I say this because we used to be the same age once upon a time, but he keeps getting younger than me), but he still has a lot of energy on stage. You'd never know he's over sixty.

David Lee Roth is 61.

[Presto-digitation]

37-13 Roth to Hagar. That's about right.

[Lorraine]

Oh Lord, this is bad. I think they ought to hang it up. Diamond Dave sounds like hell, and it sounds like Eddie messed up the whole intro to Little Guitars.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qTvcDeqgtI&feature=player_detailpage

[Lorraine]

To be fair, here's a performance of Little Guitars from 1982 and it's just as stinky. At least to me it is. Glad I never went to see them in concert. I would have been very disappointed.

 

As great as they might be (or once were), Rush they are not.

 

[Lorraine]

Gotta hand it to Alex. If I had been in a band for thirty plus years and was dropped, and the way I found out was the same way everyone else did, I think I would find it hard to be gracious about it.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GUzPt2h70&feature=player_detailpage

[goose]

I voted for Cherone. Because nobody will.

He is good enough to earn a vote. Glad it is was yours and not mine.

 

I probably enjoy the DLR era songs more but the volume of good songs from Van Hagar dwarfs earlier VH. Plus Sammy can actually sing live and brings more to the band as a musician.

Studio, Dave > Sammy

 

Live, Sammy > Dave

 

 

[custom55]

Listened to Diver Down today. Fan-tas-tic !!!

[Xanadoood]

To be fair, here's a performance of Little Guitars from 1982 and it's just as stinky. At least to me it is. Glad I never went to see them in concert. I would have been very disappointed.

 

As great as they might be (or once were), Rush they are not.

 

 

I disagree completely. A lot of Rush fans are so used to perfect renditions of the songs that they forget Rock n Roll isn't supposed to be perfect. I love the energy in this clip..Rush are like robots on stage most of the time.. Rock n roll has room for sloppiness .. Just pull up some Zeppelin .. They were notoriously hit or miss live

[Your_Lion]

DLR is perfect for Van Halen, and while I prefer Sammy as a singer, if I want to listen to Sammy, I'll stick on some early Montrose.

[The K Man]

And no TrueRushFan™ should be voting for Sammy. :tsk: Remember the stuff he wrote about what Ray allegedly told him about Rush?

 

;) :)

 

Why should we care about all of that nonsense? Even if Hagar was totally full of shit, that doesn't make his work with VH less great. Any TRUE RUSH FAN should know that the music is what ultimately matters most, not some silly high school drama.

[Rod in Toronto]

The band was A LOT tighter after Sammy joined.

[Lorraine]

And no TrueRushFan™ should be voting for Sammy. :tsk: Remember the stuff he wrote about what Ray allegedly told him about Rush?

 

;) :)

 

Why should we care about all of that nonsense? Even if Hagar was totally full of shit, that doesn't make his work with VH less great. Any TRUE RUSH FAN should know that the music is what ultimately matters most, not some silly high school drama.

 

Can't you decipher emoticons?

[Lorraine]

To be fair, here's a performance of Little Guitars from 1982 and it's just as stinky. At least to me it is. Glad I never went to see them in concert. I would have been very disappointed.

 

As great as they might be (or once were), Rush they are not.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHHAyOoySDk&feature=player_detailpage

 

I disagree completely. A lot of Rush fans are so used to perfect renditions of the songs that they forget Rock n Roll isn't supposed to be perfect. I love the energy in this clip..Rush are like robots on stage most of the time.. Rock n roll has room for sloppiness .. Just pull up some Zeppelin .. They were notoriously hit or miss live

 

i don't forget it at all. Many a concert I went to and walked out of very disappointed because of how their songs were performed.

 

Zeppelin was quite good in concert from the videos I've seen.

[goose]

DLR is perfect for Van Halen, and while I prefer Sammy as a singer, if I want to listen to Sammy, I'll stick on some early Montrose.

:haz:

[goose]

And no TrueRushFan™ should be voting for Sammy. :tsk: Remember the stuff he wrote about what Ray allegedly told him about Rush?

 

;) :)

 

Why should we care about all of that nonsense? Even if Hagar was totally full of shit, that doesn't make his work with VH less great. Any TRUE RUSH FAN should know that the music is what ultimately matters most, not some silly high school drama.

 

Can't you decipher emoticons?

:laughing guy:

 

 

 

[Lorraine]

And no TrueRushFan™ should be voting for Sammy. :tsk: Remember the stuff he wrote about what Ray allegedly told him about Rush?

 

;) :)

 

Why should we care about all of that nonsense? Even if Hagar was totally full of shit, that doesn't make his work with VH less great. Any TRUE RUSH FAN should know that the music is what ultimately matters most, not some silly high school drama.

 

Can't you decipher emoticons?

:laughing guy:

 

 

Really, I thought emoticons helped convey the fact that you weren't to be taken seriously.

[goose]

And no TrueRushFan™ should be voting for Sammy. :tsk: Remember the stuff he wrote about what Ray allegedly told him about Rush?

 

;) :)

 

Why should we care about all of that nonsense? Even if Hagar was totally full of shit, that doesn't make his work with VH less great. Any TRUE RUSH FAN should know that the music is what ultimately matters most, not some silly high school drama.

 

Can't you decipher emoticons?

:laughing guy:

 

 

Really, I thought emoticons helped convey the fact that you weren't to be taken seriously.

[Lorraine]

We need an official Van Halen thread.

 

Maybe most of you know this, but it's news to me:

 

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/michael-mcdonald-van-halen-ill-wait/

 

Between his string of hits with the Doobie Brothers and his solo career, five-time Grammy winner Michael McDonald seemed to be everywhere in the early-’80s, but the songs that featured his distinctive voice only told part of the story — he was also a busy songwriter whose list of credits included a surprising collaboration with Van Halen.

 

 

McDonald found himself called into service during the sessions for Van Halen’s ‘1984‘ album, when the group got stuck on the track that ended up serving as the record’s second single, ‘I’ll Wait.’ Producer Ted Templeman worked extensively with McDonald during his tenure with the Doobie Brothers, and the duo continued their working relationship after the band splintered, with Templeman producing McDonald’s 1982 solo debut ‘If That’s What It Takes’ and serving as a co-producer on the follow-up, 1985’s ‘No Lookin’ Back.’ When he heard Van Halen needed help finishing ‘I’ll Wait,’ he knew who to call.

 

“Ted Templeman called me up and said, ‘Hey, these guys have a track and they need some lyrics, so I mentioned you could do it and they said fine, so why don’t you come down?'” recalled McDonald during a recent conversation with Ultimate Classic Rock. “He sent me the track, and I got some ideas going so I’d have something when I got to the studio.”

 

Although he swears the experience “wasn’t exciting,” it’s still fun to imagine McDonald meeting up with David Lee Roth for the writing session that ultimately got ‘I’ll Wait’ into shape. “I met David Lee Roth at Ted’s office. That was, uh, an interesting experience,” chuckled McDonald. “He kinda liked what I had going, so we sat there in the office with the demo playing on a cassette recorder, singing lines and melodies.”

 

As Van Halen fans know, the songwriting credits for the ‘1984’ album were in a state of flux for years, with McDonald’s name appearing on some versions of the album while remaining absent from others. When the album was remastered years later, McDonald was again listed as a co-writer for ‘I’ll Wait,’ and the disappearing act didn’t escape his attention. “I guess they thought I was Santa Claus, because I had to go chasing them a little bit on that one,” he laughed. “It’s probably one of the most-played things I’ve ever written, just because it’s Van Halen. That album sold three or four million copies right away, which was a really big deal at the time.”

 

Although McDonald collaborated with some of of the era’s biggest artists, writing and singing with Kenny Loggins, Carly Simon, Christopher Cross, and Toto — among many others — he’s so self-effacing that when talking about his role in these recordings, he can come across as an ordinary guy who became a successful songwriter by virtue of circumstance. “I think that’s true, unfortunately for me,” he nods. “I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly. I love to write songs, but they don’t come easy to me — I spend a lot of time writing really dumb stuff that I have to look at the next day and think, ‘God, what was I thinking?’ That’s my process, is just to go through a lot of dumb stuff and hope that after a lot of hard work, I’ll find a good idea.”

 

Reminded that every writer is familiar with the pain of that process, McDonald laughs, “Everybody goes through that to a certain extent, but it never came easy to me. It’s a process I used to romanticize, but ultimately, I always felt kind of like Walter Mitty if he woke up actually climbing Mount Everest. When it came to the next album, it was always, ‘Oh my God, what am I gonna do?'”

 

 

Read More: Michael McDonald on Writing 'I'll Wait' With David Lee Roth: 'An Interesting Experience' | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/michael-mcdonald-van-halen-ill-wait/?trackback=tsmclip

[MULTIPLIED REACTION]

DLR

[goose]

We need an official Van Halen thread.

 

Maybe most of you know this, but it's news to me:

 

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/michael-mcdonald-van-halen-ill-wait/

 

Between his string of hits with the Doobie Brothers and his solo career, five-time Grammy winner Michael McDonald seemed to be everywhere in the early-’80s, but the songs that featured his distinctive voice only told part of the story — he was also a busy songwriter whose list of credits included a surprising collaboration with Van Halen.

 

 

McDonald found himself called into service during the sessions for Van Halen’s ‘1984‘ album, when the group got stuck on the track that ended up serving as the record’s second single, ‘I’ll Wait.’ Producer Ted Templeman worked extensively with McDonald during his tenure with the Doobie Brothers, and the duo continued their working relationship after the band splintered, with Templeman producing McDonald’s 1982 solo debut ‘If That’s What It Takes’ and serving as a co-producer on the follow-up, 1985’s ‘No Lookin’ Back.’ When he heard Van Halen needed help finishing ‘I’ll Wait,’ he knew who to call.

 

“Ted Templeman called me up and said, ‘Hey, these guys have a track and they need some lyrics, so I mentioned you could do it and they said fine, so why don’t you come down?'” recalled McDonald during a recent conversation with Ultimate Classic Rock. “He sent me the track, and I got some ideas going so I’d have something when I got to the studio.”

 

Although he swears the experience “wasn’t exciting,” it’s still fun to imagine McDonald meeting up with David Lee Roth for the writing session that ultimately got ‘I’ll Wait’ into shape. “I met David Lee Roth at Ted’s office. That was, uh, an interesting experience,” chuckled McDonald. “He kinda liked what I had going, so we sat there in the office with the demo playing on a cassette recorder, singing lines and melodies.”

 

As Van Halen fans know, the songwriting credits for the ‘1984’ album were in a state of flux for years, with McDonald’s name appearing on some versions of the album while remaining absent from others. When the album was remastered years later, McDonald was again listed as a co-writer for ‘I’ll Wait,’ and the disappearing act didn’t escape his attention. “I guess they thought I was Santa Claus, because I had to go chasing them a little bit on that one,” he laughed. “It’s probably one of the most-played things I’ve ever written, just because it’s Van Halen. That album sold three or four million copies right away, which was a really big deal at the time.”

 

Although McDonald collaborated with some of of the era’s biggest artists, writing and singing with Kenny Loggins, Carly Simon, Christopher Cross, and Toto — among many others — he’s so self-effacing that when talking about his role in these recordings, he can come across as an ordinary guy who became a successful songwriter by virtue of circumstance. “I think that’s true, unfortunately for me,” he nods. “I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly. I love to write songs, but they don’t come easy to me — I spend a lot of time writing really dumb stuff that I have to look at the next day and think, ‘God, what was I thinking?’ That’s my process, is just to go through a lot of dumb stuff and hope that after a lot of hard work, I’ll find a good idea.”

 

Reminded that every writer is familiar with the pain of that process, McDonald laughs, “Everybody goes through that to a certain extent, but it never came easy to me. It’s a process I used to romanticize, but ultimately, I always felt kind of like Walter Mitty if he woke up actually climbing Mount Everest. When it came to the next album, it was always, ‘Oh my God, what am I gonna do?'”

 

 

Read More: Michael McDonald on Writing 'I'll Wait' With David Lee Roth: 'An Interesting Experience' | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/michael-mcdonald-van-halen-ill-wait/?trackback=tsmclip

I hate that f***ing song.

 

 

f***ing hate it.

 

 

 

Hate it. f**k.

[Digital Dad]

Why? Its a cool f***ing song. Its about a chick. Its a classic DLR era Halen jam.

 

What is wrong with you?

[goose]

Why? Its a cool f***ing song. Its about a chick. Its a classic DLR era Halen jam.

 

What is wrong with you?

i have ears.

[Digital Dad]

Yeah those same ears think that Ghost makes good music.

[goose]

Yeah those same ears think that Ghost makes good music.

:haz:

 

 

I'll wait...till Digital Dad comes round...!