Diamond Dave is Van Ailin'

[Pomai]

Latest news (http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060415/LIFESTYLE01/604150347/1031) has it that David Lee Roth's new radio gig (http://www.cbsradio.com/freefm/pers_david_lee_roth.php) is gagging.

This past January Roth - former frontman of Van Halen - took to the airwaves with CBS radio in a hyped-out media blitz as replacement to shock jock Howard Stern.

Us Hawaii folks don't receive broadcasts of Dave's show, so I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who has actually listened to one? Is he really that bad of a jock as the critics claim? Or are these just naysayers trying to pull him down?

D.L.R. certainly has personality. No denying that. I'm a total fan of the "Roth Era" of Van Halen. Never cared much for the "Sammy Era", except for a few songs. I also dig Dave's first solo album with Steve Vai.

[zztype]

Agreed. Van Halen wasn't Van Halen any more after Diamond Dave left. Sammy was a crude imitation of Dave, but he couldn't keep up.

Sammy was great as Sammy, and he should have stayed there.

Gary Cherone was great at the front of Extreme, and he should have stayed there with Nuno Bettencourt, as well.

I own all of the Dave-era VH albums, plus a couple of Dave solos.

I have several Sammy-era VH albums. I saw the Sammy show at the Blaisdell. I enjoyed it, but really wished it were Dave.

Hey, this site hs clips of Roth Radio shows and lists a bunch of radio stations where you can hear the Dave Show, probably a bunch of them stream the signal over the Internet:

http://www.david.freefm.com/

Blaine

[Pomai]

Ahh. Looks like CBS Radio's website has live web streaming (http://www.radiomat.com) of their stations, including "FREE FM", which Dave is on. I'll check it out during the next work week when he's on the air.

[Pua'i Mana'o]

um, excuse me.

Yes, we suffered as a society when Van Halen turned Van Hagar. Howevah, they still managed to rock. Van Halen didn't commit any crimes against humanity until Hagar left and Gary Cherone was hired to front the band (for one career-killin' album). Utter, vile blasphemy.

[tvguy]

Van Halen didn't commit any crimes against humanity until Hagar left and Gary Cherone was hired to front the band (for one career-killin' album). Utter, vile blasphemy.

But probabaly the last time we'll ever see any kind of incarnation of the band ever again. I never got a chance to see them when they came with Sam and the 98 show was the closest I ever got. And at least they played a chunk of Dave-era tunes.

http://starbulletin.com/98/10/17/news/story5.html

From what I'e heard the last few years, even with the '04 reunion tour, things are still a big mess with the band. Ed had hip surgery, got divorced, feuded with Hagar on the tour that was really one big money grab, and smashed his guitars onstage during the last show of the tour as his contract with Peavey ran out. Oh, but you can now buy a brand-new striped guitar like his for $2500...... :(

And unfortunately, Dave's schtick was cool when I was 13......the adult in me sees him more as a circus/vaudeville act now. At least we still got the music.

[Pomai]

TV Guy, thanks for that link! I DID NOT KNOW Van Halen did a concert here in Honolulu with Gary Cherone (http://starbulletin.com/98/10/17/news/story5.html). What rock was I under?

This is true though... Van Halen's era with Cherone was like a 3rd marriage gone bad. But Gary's work with Extreme was excellent.. especially their debut title album and follow-up album Pornograffitti.

There was a rumor once that Van Halen was going to hire David Coverdale of Whitesnake, which in my opinion would have been - vocally - the best choice. Another rumor circulated that VH were going to be the next band on the show Rock Star (INXS) to search for a lead vocalist.

I've always hoped Eddie would release a guitar instrumental solo album. At this stage in life, he seems to work better alone anyway.

[Pedro]

TV Guy, thanks for that link! I DID NOT KNOW Van Halen did a concert here in Honolulu with Gary Cherone (http://starbulletin.com/98/10/17/news/story5.html). What rock was I under?

This is true though... Van Halen's era with Cherone was like a 3rd marriage gone bad. But Gary's work with Extreme was excellent.. especially their debut title album and follow-up album Pornograffitti.

There was a rumor once that Van Halen was going to hire David Coverdale of Whitesnake, which in my opinion would have been - vocally - the best choice. Another rumor circulated that VH were going to be the next band on the show Rock Star (INXS) to search for a lead vocalist.

I've always hoped Eddie would release a guitar instrumental solo album. At this stage in life, he seems to work better alone anyway.

I was just a little chump when they came here. Man why did I have to be so YOUNG? I blame my dad, and my mom mostly me...

[na alii]

TV Guy, thanks for that link! I DID NOT KNOW Van Halen did a concert here in Honolulu with Gary Cherone (http://starbulletin.com/98/10/17/news/story5.html). What rock was I under?

This is true though... Van Halen's era with Cherone was like a 3rd marriage gone bad. But Gary's work with Extreme was excellent.. especially their debut title album and follow-up album Pornograffitti.

There was a rumor once that Van Halen was going to hire David Coverdale of Whitesnake, which in my opinion would have been - vocally - the best choice. Another rumor circulated that VH were going to be the next band on the show Rock Star (INXS) to search for a lead vocalist.

I've always hoped Eddie would release a guitar instrumental solo album. At this stage in life, he seems to work better alone anyway.
I actually seen VH w/ Gary Cherone twice in a two week period. Two weeks prior to the Honolulu I seen VH in Las Vegas at The Joint. It was spur of the moment thing as I had no idea VH was playing in Vegas the time I was visiting. We took a chance going down and found somebody selling tickets for face value because a couple in their party couldn't make it.

[tvguy]

I was just a little chump when they came here. Man why did I have to be so YOUNG? I blame my dad, and my mom mostly me...

Funny irony....I didn't know they were even coming at the time until MY MOM told me after seeing the ad in the paper.....otherwise I probably would have not even heard. My friends went mainly to see Eddie anyway. :)

Highlight of the show for us was the dude two rows in front who FELL ASLEEP during the show. Actually was a pretty good concert as the band was wrapping up the tour in Japan following Hawaii after being on the road the whole year and the show as very solid by then.

[LikaNui]

I was just a little chump when they came here. Man why did I have to be so YOUNG? I'm getting one helluva chuckle reading all these posts. Pedro, you may be young, but I'm just old enough to remember seeing Van Halen a bunch of times when they were a mere garage band in Pasadena, then at various parties around town, then playing the occasional nightclub (even though at the time they were too young to drink in the clubs they were playing). Good fun watching 'em grow.
(Side note: Kenny Loggins was also a Pasadena boy, but I don't recall him hanging out with the Van Halen camp.)

[tvguy]

I'm just old enough to remember seeing Van Halen a bunch of times when they were a mere garage band in Pasadena, then at various parties around town, then playing the occasional nightclub (even though at the time they were too young to drink in the clubs they were playing). Good fun watching 'em grow.


Lucky you! I have a few bootlegs of the band in the years preceeding their record contract and they were a terrific cover band. I always wondered what it would be like to walk into a bar and hear a player like Eddie.