Wednesday, June 10, 2009

A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

Van Halen or Van Hagar?

5 comments:

Thee Earl of Obvious said...

David Lee all the way. Sammy Hagar never had Roth's range. "the cradle will rock"; "everybody wants some" and "running with the devil" are songs Van Hagar never came close to duplicating. I think Eddie is not Eddie without David and vice versa. When they split though it seemed like two people getting a divorce ugly and over.

That being said, Eddie did have a nice collaboration with Brian May from Queen (obviously the Greatest guitar player in rock and roll) doing a blues guitar album.

Roger Owen Green said...

Never paid much attention to Van Halen. The one albbum I have is with David.

Kaye Waller said...

Van Halen, please, with a pinch of David Lee Roth.

Call me Paul said...

And what, exactly, do you have against Gary Cherone?

Red said...

I think Van Halen's original six albums were most consistently strong, though the first (5150) and last (Balance) Hagar albums are probably my facorites.

Van Halen III - with Gary Cherone - was actually a pretty damned good album, but it wasn't even close to what fans of either Roth or Hagar were used to and therefore was doomed to shitty sales.