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

[FishOutaWater]

Oke, then maybe you should listen to it (Death Magnetic). Not that it is my favorite (as I can appreaciate Load, Re-Load and even Metallica doing covers on Garage Inc. as well), but old school fans all say the 2008 record is their best since And Justice For All. The 2008 lead single (The Day that Never comes) isn't totally representive for the album though, but not bad either.

However, there was indeed a kind of 'sell out phase yeah'. I say I Mission Impossble II *cough* .

I will definitely get it as soon as possible. Thank you for the tip. I had sort of given up on them. I was a fan since Kill Em All. When they were playing small bars in LA. I go way back with Metallica. When I was young, my cousin from California used to visit me on the East coast with bootleg audio cassettes of this great metal band that nobody heard of called Metallica. We would listen to it and be blown away. I'm glad to hear that the latest album was good. I will definitely get it.

[Hoodstock]

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/

Can we start a new Who Cares forum?

What will split first - the band or Roth's pants?

This post has been edited by Hoodstock: Aug 10 2010, 9:58 pm

[+Ed+]

Glad you liked it. I thought it was horrible. I promptly returned it for my money back and then bought Metallica's Re-Load

Aahahaha!

And then I hope you promptly asked for your money back for that piece of junk too. I didn't like Load and Re-Load. IN my opinion, Metallica lost it after the black album.

MUAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAA

[SecretInsomnia]

I will definitely get it as soon as possible. Thank you for the tip. I had sort of given up on them. I was a fan since Kill Em All. When they were playing small bars in LA. I go way back with Metallica. When I was young, my cousin from California used to visit me on the East coast with bootleg audio cassettes of this great metal band that nobody heard of called Metallica. We would listen to it and be blown away. I'm glad to hear that the latest album was good. I will definitely get it.

It must be cool to know a band for so long, from the beginning, while they're now one of the most famous acts in the music industry!
Cherish those memmories you mentioned!!

This post has been edited by SecretInsomnia: Aug 11 2010, 5:13 am

[OutToDry]

Too much for your ears Hoodie?

[Hoodstock]

Too much for your ears Hoodie?

What - I can't hear you through all that 80's bad hair!

[OutToDry]

Blow Up Your Video!!!

By the way, VH is not a hair band.

[thefunkyredcaboose]

Blow Up Your Video!!!

By the way, VH is not a hair band.

Uh... what? I love VH but uh... yes, yes they are.

[OutToDry]

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

[Wambangalang]

fish def check out death magnetic. Ive rambled on about it here a couple of times but wasnt feelin the tallica vibe from anyone. My favourite album of 08 and a return to a true sound for them. thrash metal at its best! stand out tracks: The Judas Kiss, Cyanide, All Nightmare Long

[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]

fish def check out death magnetic. Ive rambled on about it here a couple of times but wasnt feelin the tallica vibe from anyone. My favourite album of 08 and a return to a true sound for them. thrash metal at its best! stand out tracks: The Judas Kiss, Cyanide, All Nightmare Long

I will check it out thoroughly and then we will get into a discussion of it. Thank you for the tip.

[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

[OutToDry]

Thanks for clarifying for Hoodie Fish. He's a bit off here.

[FishOutaWater]

I bought Death Magnetic today and listened to the first couple of songs in my car. Wow! Excellent! This proves that a band can take a look at their sound at the beginning of their career and the decline in their music and turn things around and get back to the high quality sound of their early days.

I also bought the new Godsmack today. I would like to thank TGF for helping me locate my balls again.

A strange thing happened though. I pulled the EK - Alive cd out of the car's cd player and put Metallica - Death Magnetic in, and the car alarm went off. Apparently my car thought that some manly guy with good musical taste had stolen my car from the middle-aged soccer-mom who used to drive it and decided to set off its alarm!