The Mighty Van Halen, New Record & World Tour!! Options

[OutToDry]

Van Halen coming back with new record and world tour...yeah yeah yeah don't get me started on that hypothetical here.



Van Halen Recording First Album Since Clinton Administration



http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepr...administration/

[OutToDry]

No they are not classified as hair band genre, they came in 1977. Long before the 83 hair band scene

[Hoodstock]

No they are not classified as hair band genre, they came in 1977. Long before the 83 hair band scene

Sorry bro - you are in denial. They are a hair band!

[FishOutaWater]

Sorry bro - you are in denial. They are a hair band!

Speaking as a proud member of the hair band era (I have photos of me with a mullet to prove it) I can definitively say that Van Halen was NOT a part of the hair band genre. Perhaps DLR's solo projects after he left VH were. But VH was not. They didn't have the sound or the attitude for a hair band. Yes, by the time the Jump video came out, DLR, with his long hair and spandex came dangerously close to the border of hair bandville. But the sound and style could not compare to hair band. Here are a few of my favorite hair bands that I listened to excessively in the 80's: Britney Fox, Cinderella, White Lion, Slaughter, Autograph, Trixter, Winger, Skid Row, Poison, Ratt, Motley Crew, Bon Jovi, Quiet Riot. I am proud to say that I saw many of them in concert.

My highlights?

Seeing Motley Crew Girls, Girls, Girls tour in the first couple of rows. They had some sights and sounds in that stage show! And Tommy Lee had his drum kit set up in this crazy shiny steel cage that elevated high above the stage and started spinning around and upside down like a carnival ride while he pounded out his solo. It was nuts!

Seeing Cinderella (my favorite hair band).

I know I said Van Halen was not a hair band but I have to include this... Seeing Van Hagar in 1986 on the 5150 tour and having Eddie Van Halen sit down right in front of me on the edge of the stage at my front row seat, take his cigerette out of his mouth and perch it in the strings at the top of his red and white striped Franken guitar and pump out half his concert guitar solo right before my eyes.

My buddy and I made it into Bon Jovi's music video for Dead or Alive in the concert footage part for about a second. We were very cool in our high school after that.

This post has been edited by FishOutaWater: Aug 12 2010, 1:26 pm