A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Kelly Sedinger

Van Halen or Van Hagar?

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5 Responses to A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

  1. Thee Earl of Obvious says:
    June 10, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    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.

  2. Roger Owen Green says:
    June 10, 2009 at 8:52 pm

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

  3. SK Waller says:
    June 10, 2009 at 9:56 pm

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

  4. Call me Paul says:
    June 11, 2009 at 9:13 pm

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

  5. Red says:
    June 12, 2009 at 12:34 am

    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.

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