I hated what they did to Michael, thought it was really shitty. Watch any group interview, everyone speaks except him. That's messed up. Played great rock bass, Great hi harmony singer, great audience connection and energy
I wish Mike HAD engaged in composing and writing though.... he was likely too nice a guy to get his hands dirty in the song creation business with egos like Roth and Van Halen but he WAS an educated musician and his jazz orientation would have helped in the post Fair Warning environment.
it was telling what Hagar said about the situation. Sammy said the 3 band members screwed Michael over, and that he'd never done anything to demean the band. Too bad, it is what it is
What Captain Candyass says is HIS opinion . A member of Blue Oyster Cult defended Ed about royalties . He told a story about writing a song for BOC and asking other members if everyone in the band would share in the royalties. One member said no and screwed himself out of royalties because the song became a hit . In defense of Edward , Mike never wrote any song . Ed composed all the songs . He played all the instruments on the 1984 demo tape .
@@philrobertson5459I read recently that Sammy & a former Mgr were busted doing very sneaky things behind the scenes regarding their contracts/royalties. If true, it plays very poorly for Sammy. Yet another example of him talking out of both ends, so to speak. I don't trust what he says. In many ways, he's no different than Dave. Always talking & trying to make himself look better. Aside from this, Mike did not contribute to any music/song writing. He should have never been paid the same as individuals who are responsible for the music. That's not treating someone poorly, that's called giving the artists responsible for the music their proper due. Mike never complained because he had to have known how good he had it, for as long as he did (when he was paid differently). No one ever brings up this reality & always paints Ed in a bad light, when things should have been different from the start. Ed was a very shy, introverted person. It took him a while to find his voice, on the business side of things. I think a lot of enlightenment will take place when Alex's book drops this fall. Pretty sure no one expected him to write a book.
I love that album!! It's for sure there most raw album! I used to play that tape so much when I was a kid it started having blank spots in the audio output! Lol
What the hell are you talking about??? Yeah, the group is gone but so what as among it's fans VH is still as popular as ever. Fans still fans. VH STILL LOVED & BEING PLAYED!
Just read Alex's book. Alex is such a dick. There is absolute minimal mention of MA in there let alone. "Led Zeppelin" is mentioned many more times than Mike. I am hug LZ fan but disappointment in AVH continue antics and last chance to sort to make amends.
Yea, they guy who tried to kill his wife, bit the head of a dove off in a meeting. What it's saying is completely nothing. Roth was right about Ozzy. He was a "product". Every album does sound the same lol
@@justinkassinger8238 Fuckinn sounds good too lol ua-cam.com/video/ngBQwEtePMY/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/Eq4x9Ek66es/v-deo.html I try to make peace and preferred Van Halen as a kid with any of them over Ozzy. Front men have egos that make them front men. I have to admit I think whoever wrote Van Halen's songs has many many more songs I truly enjoy.
Pure unintentional entertainment. the drama, money, egos, resentment, fame, drugs... Van Halen became this myth which teaches us what to do and what not to do with their own failures... I love all of this
@@davemiles3387Drugs were certainly a factor, but what really ripped them apart was egos. One of the most egotistical bands in the history of rock and roll. Michael seems to be the only one who gets a pass there, but then again I don’t know the guy personally so who really knows.
If they called Tyler & Perry the Toxic Twins for their drug use, then Eddie, Alex & Dave would have to be the Toxic Trio for their personalities. How poor Mikey managed to spend all those years in the middle of that shit fight without losing his mind is really worth thinking about.
I met David Lee Roth in an airport in the early eighties when I was 15 years old. I told him I was a big fan and I asked him for an autograph. I was with my little sister at the time and he told me to "Beat it kid!". What a prick! I met Mike Anthony later that year at Lake Havasu. He spent 5 or 10 minutes talking with my little sister and I and gave us both autographs. Mike was very cool and very nice to us
My research on the VH brothers is" They unceremoniously dumped Dave, Sammy and screwed their amazing Bass player Michael as they kicked him to the curb. VH was and remains the common denominator of this decades old pattern.
@@TedDiabetes The problem is that it is also documented that the VH brothers kicked Roth out. It does not matter, but likely he made things intolerable: taking an entire year off while Dave makes an ego trip movie, treating everyone else like his assistants, general prickery, etc., so they moved on and you could interpret it either way.
Roth was alwasy jealous of Randy. Randy's close friend Lori Hollen told an account that when Randy was still in QR around 78', Roth and Ed pull up in a mercedes behind the Starwood when Randy was packing up. Roth started to yell at Randy and taunt him saying you wish you could get one of these cars. You never will. Lori went over to the car and slapped Roth in the face. Well Roth ate his words we all know when Randy became one of the greatest guitarists ever and made millions right before he sadly passed. He was the guy that challenged Ed back then even though they are different type guitarists actually and styles. Luckily I got to see both of them back in the day. I personally like Randy better for myself but I love Ed also for what he done.
Diamond Dave notoriously got a lot of things wrong when he ran his yap. I loved him as a frontman and a howler in those first six years of VH, and he was somewhat entertaining as a solo act, at least at first… but wisdom has never been his strong suit. He’s been ass-backwards wrong about a great many things over the years. I couldn’t agree more about Randy Rhoads. Those two albums he played on with Ozzy speak for themselves. They’re really the only Ozzy solo albums I can even listen to, and that’s almost completely because of Randy.
@@jimbo0411Jesus, how could anybody taunt and deliberately insult a guy like Randy Rhoads? By all accounts he was like, *THEE* nicest guy who ever lived, not to even mention his incredible talent. I’ve talked to several people who personally knew Randy, and they have all said the same things… which is basically that Randy was one of those rare, true “salt of the earth” individuals. Always humble and honest. His heart was as huge as his musical depth. The fact that Roth was that jealous is pretty pathetic.
IMHO, this happens in a lot of bands: Eddie was a musician, Dave was a showman. they both needed each other to get to the top. once they made it, it was like Eddie resented needing a showman and Dave resented the focus being on the musician. for Eddie it was the music, for Dave the show. and once they weren't struggling to make it any more, they started struggling with each other.
There is no doubt that both singers turned out some good songs so there is equal grounds on that. However Roth as always been an egomaniac with a big mouth.
@@danb6838Uh , the best selling albums were with Dave . Sam helped turn the band into Journey 2.0 . Just two Dave era Van Halen albums outsold ALL the Van Hagar era albums COMBINED .
How much bs has Sam spewed at Dave, Ed and Alex for the last 20yrs. 100x as much as the other 3 that didnt even want to bring up his name . Dave hasnt said basically anything until now about Sam or Wolfe. Finally, he speaks up and punches both of them hard in the fkn face. Good for Dave👍
A friend of mine and his wife bumped into Sammy Hagar and his wife in New York City, they have been shopping and carrying bags with my friends wife ask them for an autograph. She said, both of them couldn’t have been more accommodating and sweet, and talk to them for 15 minutes. I think Hagar is probably a pretty good guy.
@spork297 giving a thumbs up to your own comment doesn't make it any more stupid lol. Wolfie's last name is literally VANHALEN!!! 😅 you literally just said he's carrying the torch for his father which literally means A TRUE MEMBER! Your ignorance is astounding and hilarious. Go ahead and close the door to your crack house get back on your couch and put your phone down and stay ignorant.
I know... paychecks? Would that b a hassle have to cash it,..l'd think direct deposit or debit card....and cash bonuses? No bodyguard for her, why she didn't say who she was?
I'm glad I got to see the 2002 tour. Despite all the drama, both put on a great show, and Dave still sounded great. It will be a cold day in hell before that ever happens again.
Agreed. Ridiculous!. Wasn't even born when DLR left the band at the band's height of fame. He joined in early 2000's. Made no significant contribution other than replacing an original member. It was probably Eddie's dream to play with his son.
I can only speak for my daughter when she was two her biggest Idol was David Lee Roth I even took her to David Lee Roth concert oh goodness she absolutely loves him. As far as music bands come and go they split they get back together again they grow they do their own thing it is what it is
@@jeff82z28😂😂😂 The one who would be”Uncomfortably close to young Will Robinson”, meanwhile the robot is flapping his slinky arms saying in a monotone voice,”Danger ,Danger”. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dave made a flippant comment to Axl that he would never say now (although the Travis Scott show was never stopped when audience members were crushed and trampled so it still happens) but Dave also talked about playing club shows where there were bikers and someone was killed during their show. The ironic part is that a few years later, 2 riots happened at GNR concerts that people were injured at, and Axl encouraged the audience to beat up people in the audience that were annoying him. Of course that wouldn’t happen now either, especially after a mic toss in the audience led to him being sued. Back then if someone got hurt at a show, they’d get stitched up and brag about where they got it to their friends .
Nobody can deny Eddie was a great guitar player, maybe 1 of the best ever. But Divid Lee Roth put Van Halen on the map, his outstanding vocals and flamboyant personality got them noticed. Eddie was great but without Roth pulling attention to the band he may have never gotten noticed
Wolfgang is an asshole.. He wasn't even there when Roth was with Van Halen in the begining. If it wasn't for ROTH -- VAN HALEN would have never existed! ROTH WAS VAN HALEN!
Umm … ok lets get the ball back in the middle of the playing field with a little reality check. If eddie van halen had never met any of the other band members, would he be famous solely on his guitar-playing ability ? Absolutely 100% yes And DLR? Who he also have become famous, irrespective of his bandmates, irrespective of the prevailing music trends of the time etc? Many peoplr would say no. Still dave was a great front man for live shows. Shame that he really does not sing well, particuarly melody where he cant just scream. His voice is weak. Compare it with sammy hagar who can song like a m*therf*cker. No comparison
As a teenager in 1978 of course I was a huge Van Halen and Diamond Dave fan. But now as an adult I don't know how Eddie made it that many years with him. His Mental Health is an obvious issue.
I’m amazed Roth is still around. I’ve personally seen him so high he looked like he was going to OD right in front of me. As well as seeing him stumbling around the forum by himself wasted.
I’ll never forget my one and only run in with DLR, some time in the spring of ‘89 at the Rainbow bar & grill, very late at night. He was in the very back of the bar. Couldn’t miss him. Making a complete spectacle of himself, wasted out of his mind on god knows what, yelling incoherently and repeatedly falling down off his barstool. He had an entourage with him but they were all kind of ignoring him at that point. Probably embarrassed to even be associated with him. I mean it was actually pretty sad. He was still somewhat successful at the time with his solo career, but you could just tell he had peaked already, and at that point had begun his downward trajectory to shitsville. I didn’t go anywhere near him that night. I was literally afraid of getting puked on.
@@Peasant_in_a_treeYes, he was mainly a major coke head, and *LOTS* of alcohol. Pills too. I’m sure at some point he must have at least tried heroin, but as far as I know that was never really his thing.
I saw them on the 2002 tour. Watched David Lee Roth open the show and then left before Sammy Hagar came on. A lot of people left. I was never a huge fan but David Lee Roth was the reason I went to see them and he is iconic and that’s when all of their memorable songs were recorded. I liked Sammy Hagar before he joined Van Halen but just didn’t really see him or their music as very interesting.
Van Halen was like a great car. Edward was the engine, Mike and Al the fuel and spark plug. But Dave was the driver. Hard to keep it on track but always finishing first.
@@TheRealCaptainFreedom Some Girls was the last great Stones album, and that was after something like a 6 year period where they were making some pretty mediocre albums. Even with 70’s Stones, I tend to have to cherry-pick songs from everything they put out from Goats Head Soup on up to Some Girls.
Great video. Two things; the first VH album is their biggest selling LP to date. In large part their fan base did reject the 1984 album but they gained a whole new fan base.
"Jump" was a mid-finger to their fan base ... much like rock ballads and crap like Janie's Got a Gun did to Aerosmith's fanbase who were into their earlier ROCKS type material, Queen was another example and dozens of other bands.
I loved the Fair Warning album and I guess one of the early albums naturally has to be the "worst selling." I wore out a bunch of 8-track and cassette tapes of the first album too and I was listening to Van Halen during my first bust by the cops in 1982 on the FIRST NIGHT I`d ever took a toke! And I was already in a band for months even before drinking for the first time. Whiskey quickly put me in a hospital with a bleeding stomach and a doctor "unofficially" recommended herb to help me heal...which I was PROMPTLY busted for and several more times in latter years. And my reputation was destroyed.
@@baneverything5580 Only if you let it. Many of us have risen to overcome our 'reputation'. I took LSD, told a whole bunch of people that I was God and climbed on top of a police car and told the officer that he was a figment of my imagination. Still get jobs, gigs playing bass and have friends. Made it to age sixty somehow and doing better than ever.
My friend grew up in Pasadena, Ca where they were from and he would go to house parties and Van Halen would be playing at some of them and he said he was in a bedroom smoking weed (very illegal back then) with some people and Roth came in and said "whose got some good smoke for Old Dave"!? Then they hit the big time
I saw Van Halen open for Black Sabath in 1978 and they blew BS away. WHen BS came out on stage apeople were still chanting VAN HALEN!!!!!! In 78 they were incredible.
Great singer! As a person not a person I would bother with Look at Hagar he can still sing at his age & everyone respects him. The kid is a prodigy nuff Said
Hagar can still sing at his age and Dave can't. Too bad Dave wrote all the great material. He was bad ass in his day. He really owes no one an explanation. Co-writing six classic albums say more than Dave ever can.
It was cheaper to let him in the band then to keep renting his PA system. Whatever it was, 74-84 was a hell of a run, even though they didn't become huge until 1978-79.
The differences in vision and personality conflict between DLR & Eddie has given the world the gift of some of the most uplifting rock music. Their music was the soundtrack to many young people's lives it brought joy and celebration... it continues to do so. Sometimes the tumult is the gift.
I bought those Montrose albums. I don't hate the early Hagar stuff. Like everybody my age, I bought the first 6 VH albums. Those are ALL killer NO filler. I bought them on cassette . I bought them on CD. I bought Dave's ... Gigolo single and the Eat 'em & Smile album. Those Van Hagar albums aren't so so bad, but honestly I only care for 3-4 songs across ALL of them. Someone gave me ...Carnal Knowledge. I don't know where it is. The original VH was MAGIC live too..Great GREAT show. Top 3-4 for me & I've seen LOTS of shows.
Sometimes egos on either side are too big to stay together. DLR and VH did great work together in their heyday, but it was inevitable they would want to express themselves away from each other.
Has always been a narcissistic hole. The only reason VH hired him was his LA surgeon daddy bought a PA system. Thank you for Sammy Hagar. A total class act. The best music ever from VH.
Take it or leave it. I wouldn't want the watered down version of roth, then he might not be as entertaining. I think the saying "don't meet you heroes" is true. I'll watch, but don't want to meet. It is what is, They got along long enough to make some great records, appreciate that.
Great vid, but I disagree with one comment the narrator made: He said Eddie wanted to do dark heavier songs , where as Roth was more interested in showy stuff. If you look at what happened to VH after Roth left, they did NOT become "Heavier"---Quite the opposite, they got more commercial and more pop oriented. I think Roth wanted a more blues /hard rock approach, and Eddy wanted to have more keyboards and go that route, which is one of the reasons that VH with Roth didn't last. Eddie had been trying to bring keys into VH for years(Cradle will rock, One Foot out the door, Dancin in the Streets), but Roth had always vetoed it, saying "Youre a guitar hero, no one wants to hear you play keyboards. On 1984, Eddie did 2 very mainstream songs with keys(Jump and I'll Wait) and both were huge hits. On 5150, they did 3 keyboard songs: "Why cant this be love?", "Love walked in" & "Dreams"---So VH wasnt going dark, he was going light. LOL
Unless you were there back in a day at the whiskey, when they first premiere themselves actually was out in The Valley at a birthday party and I remember David Lee Roth singing, and it's just for that time being time period I was young and sometimes in my life, now that I'm 57 years old, I can say I took the lesser road in life and show the high road and that lisser road took me to places where I got to see and hear things. And this is one thing you all need to know David Lee Roth. Is Van Halen none of you know what really is went on all the stuff that was said, I was there, I remember when Valerie dumped Eddie for a Kung Fu fighter, a karate fighter. Whatever his name was and that little son of Eddie's seriously, you live enough, your daddy's f****** s***, man we all know this and the other thing too, Michael, he got the worst job of them. All he got dreamed so hard that they stuck it to him hard the base player, they didn't allow him any rewards off any of the songs you guys, so you want to think Eddie's all that and Alex, they're both a******* Have a nice day. Yeah, Ozzy, same thing. He's just over and over same s***If you grew up listening to the same s*** from Black Sabbath. He hasn't changed the same stuffjust different guitar players. When you see a lot of things and go a lot of concerts when you're young and you see how they act and interact, you know who's at fault. It's really 2 guys who had great. Skills of doing making music and creating it when you have that you're gonna have conflict, you're going to have problems we all know this if you ever been in a band which I have been back in a day, and I was a front man front man has to put everything out there. Why the rest of the band behind him has to create the music yet. Guess what that front man's got to make everybody love the band remember that he's the one that's speaking, everybody deeply Ross rocked everybody his voice alone rock, everybody Sammy Hagar, only put out 2 f****** albums and they're oh. Can't drive 55 Woo. Yeah, okay. There is why Eddie went through to him. It's because he looked like david lee ross in the almost had😅😮
Eddie didn't "tire of singing lead", Alex had to force him to stop. Ed thought he was a better singer than he was. This is the source of Ed's horrible treatment of Mike Anthony. Ed was jealous that Mike got all the credit for backing vocals. Sad. Long live the Mighty.
BULLSHIT! Go watch the 1986 "Live Without a Net" concert DVD. You'll see them at peak performance and popularity! ALL of them HAPPY and HIGH ENERGY running around the stage jumping up and down! Hagar took them to the mega-platinum stratosphere! Completely DIFFERENT band YES, but there's no denying Hagar's technical prowess, superior vocals (even if the high range isn't my taste) and song writing skills!
Pledging allegiance to Roth Valerie Bertinelli hated Roth, and I can only imagine how much of that she downloaded into her kid… as women are often given to do Because of Roth, there was a Van Hagar… and sure, Hagar had a fairly good career before VH, but how many more _I Can't Drive 55s_ do you think her was gonna write
Kicked out of the Band Complains Sings a Beach Boys song Becomes a has-been Gets back with the band Eddie dies Dave Complaining again Did I leave anything out !
In fact, Eddie van Halen liked Diver Down! In a Guitar Player interview from 1982 Eddie stated: "We spent 12 days making the album... it was a lot of fun!"
I dunno if he was telling the truth about that, but what I do know is that it was a half-assed thing the label forced them into doing while they were all burnt out. I bet he'd have hated coming up with new material under the gun even more.
"Dave made an ass of himself, but he wasnt attacking anyone. They not only 'fired' him, Eddie and Alex gave interviews trashing him.. again. He was over-excited. He never trashed Sammy and Eddie until they trashed him back in the 80's. He never said anything about Wolf until Wolf started blaming him and calling him out. Right now, Wolf is creating the drama and Dave finally responded."
My sister worked with him at WBCN Boston when he had a morning show. Not good stories. He's apparently an awful heartless human being. Only other lead singer I know who is as abysmal as this guy is Gene Simmons.
Everyone has been very cautious when it comes to David Lee. The term Egg Shells is a nice way saying Roth is still a Primadonna. & His Life Style 🌈Conflicts with the other Members of the Band.
@@davemiles3387The vocals were definitely a part of it for me. The most obvious part is the guitar. That goes without saying, but for me VH’s initial impression was a package deal. It was a whole new sound at the time in ‘78. A new kind of hard rock that would forever change the landscape in the years to come… and that couldn’t be credited to just one band member. It was definitely a sum of its parts.
Yeah what the last guy said. I know that for me personally, there have been several key gigs/bands that were such a pivotal, earth-shaking experience for me that I can honestly say that they were life-changing. I’m not necessarily referring specifically to VH (though they came damn close the first time I saw them), but the first time I saw Black Flag in December ‘80 it set me on a completely different trajectory than what I had previously been on. It was a total reset for the direction in life that I was heading in. There were a few other gigs at various points in my life that had a similar effect on me. That’s how powerful a force music can be. I’ve heard plenty of other people say they’ve had the same experience. It happens.
DLR was the ultimate frontman thru the fisrt 6 albums, but was ahorrible joke after he came back. He was great to see on tour for 2 hrs but I can't imagine having to tolerate that kind of hyperactive narcissism on the daily, much less to be trapped in a tour bus with.
I remember I saw him live 0:11 with VH. It was so entertaining to watch him sing the lyrics when he felt like it. He did a lot of improvisation and weird stuff.
La vida no es facil para el hombre entrado en años , pero es menos dificil si se retira honorablemente y feliz de sus logros . La era del rock al igual que toda era historica cumple un periodo, forzar al cuerpo anciano a desempeñar un papel de joven es como un adulto que use pañal y tome biberon . La experiencia de un veterano es respetable y enfocada en compartir conocimiento con los que vienen surgiendo es una mejor forma de dejar un legado .
5:23 Roth would destroy Sammy in a fight. I only saw Roth once in public. He was at the Karate Internationals in Long Beach, CA, around 1985, talking with some of the top black belts before their matches like they were friends. He loved martial arts. Check out his kicks in the video "Jump" again.
I Can Say Ive Met Wolf when He Opened For Guns In Detroit, He Is Kind ,Talented and Ive Met Dave Years Ago,Wolf Is By No Means A Bratty Kid,Hes a Grown Man and Is Respectful, Dave Was An Idiot,Enough Said🎸Hagar Rocks🤘
I pledge allegiance to David Lee Roth and the Van Halen flag...and to the absolute blow out f'ing rock 'n roll party music for which it stands...one band, with Diamond Dave as front man...
Handed to him WTF bro do you know how many instruments Wolf plays at a high level, nobody hands you that , you get that from practicing your fucking ass off for years
8:30 I don’t know who the hell Ozzie thinks he is, criticizing other people for their behavior. Especially after everything we know about him and the way the Osborne’s treated Jake E Lee among other bandmates. Those people are total scumbags. Dave was right. By Sharon‘s own design, her husband is product.
DLR said he didn't like Ozzy's music though. He threw the first stone. Ozzy has a far more successful career in heavy metal and is more talented vocally than DLR. His work with guitarists Tony Iommy, Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee and Zakk Wylde are monuments in metal, DLR's early work with Eddie are classic hard rock and for that he's a classic. But there's no way he can throw shade on Ozzy, Nobody can shade Ozzy for his music, just the drug and booze binges he was famous for and how Jake E. Lee and some of the other players in that band were kind of ripped off, but I don't know I see they all have writing credits on the albums.
@@metalmike570 You are exactly right. Dave is nothing compared to Ozzy. He has no right to judge what is and what is not heavy metal compared to the popcorn song and dance bullshit he does. He's like the Michigan J Frog in the Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Too be honest with you Rock Stars and Wrestlers are pure entertainers , and Axle sounds like a Billy goat singing . Everything in entertainment, Sports athletes, Actors, Musicians, and even Politicians, all have a issue it’s Called give me some attention, But that’s okay because there trying to make you happy with their talent.
I got to see Van Halen and David Lee Roth was literally the best Frontman I've ever seen in my life. He may have been a giant Douchebag off stage, bur onstage he used to be the best.
without Eddie Dave is just a flamboyant jerk amounting to nothing.... and that what VH 1 needed to balance it right...tipped Eddie in balance.. dont ask how that works but it does..
The albums with Dave, and the ones with Sammy were both great! I liked both! Dave’s efforts were more of corny cover songs, and some of the Sammy songs sounded almost to commercial near the end! Both had faults, but also great strengths! In the end, it was the Van Halen brothers who controlled everything! I really never forgave them after pushing Michael Anthony out of the band! Just as well, I guess, since they never did anything good after that!
The album 1984 prolly did dump a lot of their heavy metal fan base indeed as myself with crap like Jump ... Instead the void of metal fans filled with puppy fluff-pop poople.
They ain't victims but what happened to many bands back in the day. Happened to Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath you name it.. all bands partied did drugs lacked sleep and got into trouble amongst themselves.. Roth is entertaining and always shall be. Rock on Dave 🤘💜
I, myself, preferred Van Hagar. Roth always seemed like quite the oddball and a bit of a loose cannon. And by a bit, I mean extremely so. 😄 And just vocally I think Hagar is much better.
Nothing against Sammy but Van Halen with David Lee Roth was a completely different band a much better harder rocking band. With Sammy on board The music was different I'm not saying it was bad but it wasn't the same Van Halen
I hated what they did to Michael, thought it was really shitty. Watch any group interview, everyone speaks except him. That's messed up. Played great rock bass, Great hi harmony singer, great audience connection and energy
I wish Mike HAD engaged in composing and writing though.... he was likely too nice a guy to get his hands dirty in the song creation business with egos like Roth and Van Halen but he WAS an educated musician and his jazz orientation would have helped in the post Fair Warning environment.
it was telling what Hagar said about the situation. Sammy said the 3 band members screwed Michael over, and that he'd never done anything to demean the band. Too bad, it is what it is
What Captain Candyass says is HIS opinion . A member of Blue Oyster Cult defended Ed about royalties . He told a story about writing a song for BOC and asking other members if everyone in the band would share in the royalties. One member said no and screwed himself out of royalties because the song became a hit . In defense of Edward , Mike never wrote any song . Ed composed all the songs . He played all the instruments on the 1984 demo tape .
@@philrobertson5459I read recently that Sammy & a former Mgr were busted doing very sneaky things behind the scenes regarding their contracts/royalties. If true, it plays very poorly for Sammy. Yet another example of him talking out of both ends, so to speak. I don't trust what he says. In many ways, he's no different than Dave. Always talking & trying to make himself look better. Aside from this, Mike did not contribute to any music/song writing. He should have never been paid the same as individuals who are responsible for the music. That's not treating someone poorly, that's called giving the artists responsible for the music their proper due. Mike never complained because he had to have known how good he had it, for as long as he did (when he was paid differently). No one ever brings up this reality & always paints Ed in a bad light, when things should have been different from the start. Ed was a very shy, introverted person. It took him a while to find his voice, on the business side of things. I think a lot of enlightenment will take place when Alex's book drops this fall. Pretty sure no one expected him to write a book.
NO MICHAEL ANTHONY NO VAN HALEN
Fair Warning may not have sold as much back in the day, but it's still some of Eddie's best guitar work. I ❤that album.
the best hands down
It's a great album
@@EddieLongIsland Exactly. "Van Halen II" was a distant second.
I agree.
I love that album!! It's for sure there most raw album! I used to play that tape so much when I was a kid it started having blank spots in the audio output! Lol
Van Halen is no more. Let’s finally admit and accept it.
What the hell are you talking about??? Yeah, the group is gone but so what as among it's fans VH is still as popular as ever. Fans still fans. VH STILL LOVED & BEING PLAYED!
There no new stuff to take it's place!
it died with Sammy Hagar...
They could get David, Alex, Michael, and someone like Billy Corgan on guitar. They'd rawk.
They done guys let it go. Shit died with Sammi. This is coming from a fan of their music
Went to high school with Michael Anthony ,nicest guy you could ever meet, great player ,great guy
fuck thats so amazing man!! I'm jealous!
Just read Alex's book. Alex is such a dick. There is absolute minimal mention of MA in there let alone. "Led Zeppelin" is mentioned many more times than Mike. I am hug LZ fan but disappointment in AVH continue antics and last chance to sort to make amends.
Ozborne criticizing Roth about his metal state is next level.
BARK AT THE MOON 🌙
I know.. Thats the pot calling the kettle black! 🙄
Metal state or mental state?
seems like Michael Anthony is the only non toxic Van Halen member
and he left with sammy...says alot...
Eddie was hardly innocent when it came to crapping on people. He really did Michael dirty.
I guess there's always a Ringo in every rock band that keeps personalities in balance.
And ultra talented in his own right, along with being a super good guy. It's a shame he was done so dirty by the Van Halen brothers. 😔
Absolutely
When Ozzy says you've lost some nuts and bolts, that's saying something 😅
Yea, they guy who tried to kill his wife, bit the head of a dove off in a meeting. What it's saying is completely nothing. Roth was right about Ozzy. He was a "product". Every album does sound the same lol
@@justinkassinger8238 Fuckinn sounds good too lol
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I try to make peace and preferred Van Halen as a kid with any of them over Ozzy. Front men have egos that make them front men. I have to admit I think whoever wrote Van Halen's songs has many many more songs I truly enjoy.
@@justinkassinger8238 it was a Bat
me thoughts the same. Oh... but wasn't early Sabbath the cat's meow! Untouchable.
Who would consider anything Ozzy has to say, seriously?
Pure unintentional entertainment. the drama, money, egos, resentment, fame, drugs... Van Halen became this myth which teaches us what to do and what not to do with their own failures... I love all of this
Almost as dysfunctional as Kiss!
Way too many drugs, Dave & Eddie.
Well put.
@@davemiles3387Drugs were certainly a factor, but what really ripped them apart was egos. One of the most egotistical bands in the history of rock and roll. Michael seems to be the only one who gets a pass there, but then again I don’t know the guy personally so who really knows.
@@Shikta-poobah67Michael had the beautiful looking nice wife every other guy wants
If they called Tyler & Perry the Toxic Twins for their drug use, then Eddie, Alex & Dave would have to be the Toxic Trio for their personalities. How poor Mikey managed to spend all those years in the middle of that shit fight without losing his mind is really worth thinking about.
He speaks to his ability to tune it all out probably. Lol.
I think maybe they became instant dicks after meeting Gene Simmons! Simmons gave them the dickhead virus!🤣
I met David Lee Roth in an airport in the early eighties when I was 15 years old. I told him I was a big fan and I asked him for an autograph. I was with my little sister at the time and he told me to "Beat it kid!". What a prick! I met Mike Anthony later that year at Lake Havasu. He spent 5 or 10 minutes talking with my little sister and I and gave us both autographs. Mike was very cool and very nice to us
My research on the VH brothers is" They unceremoniously dumped Dave, Sammy and screwed their amazing Bass player Michael as they kicked him to the curb.
VH was and remains the common denominator of this decades old pattern.
The original 6 VH albums are amazing. Van Hagar had some great moments, but yes, you are right
Dave left on his own accord. That's a documented fact.
@@TedDiabetes The problem is that it is also documented that the VH brothers kicked Roth out. It does not matter, but likely he made things intolerable: taking an entire year off while Dave makes an ego trip movie, treating everyone else like his assistants, general prickery, etc., so they moved on and you could interpret it either way.
I heard Eddie Van Halen fired himself three dozen times!
100% agreed.
He’s blowing bridges with heavy explosives. Too bad this band continues to be completely dysfunctional even after Eddie’s death.
He had enough of everyone piling on him. I don't blame him. Van Halen owes 1/2 their success to DLR.
Why live in the past? Van Halen is over without Eddie.
There is no van halen without Eddie Van Halen
When Eddie died, the band died. It’s over.
@@fwfrazorx I agree with you but apparently, it isn't for Dave lol. He's letting it all out.
DLR is totally wrong about Ozzy's solo Career. Randy Rhoads was literally one of the greatest Metal/Prog/Classical guitarist to ever do it.
Dlr is a jealous person...daves solo career is absolutely nothing campared to ozzys...
Roth was alwasy jealous of Randy. Randy's close friend Lori Hollen told an account that when Randy was still in QR around 78', Roth and Ed pull up in a mercedes behind the Starwood when Randy was packing up. Roth started to yell at Randy and taunt him saying you wish you could get one of these cars. You never will. Lori went over to the car and slapped Roth in the face. Well Roth ate his words we all know when Randy became one of the greatest guitarists ever and made millions right before he sadly passed. He was the guy that challenged Ed back then even though they are different type guitarists actually and styles. Luckily I got to see both of them back in the day. I personally like Randy better for myself but I love Ed also for what he done.
Diamond Dave notoriously got a lot of things wrong when he ran his yap. I loved him as a frontman and a howler in those first six years of VH, and he was somewhat entertaining as a solo act, at least at first… but wisdom has never been his strong suit. He’s been ass-backwards wrong about a great many things over the years.
I couldn’t agree more about Randy Rhoads. Those two albums he played on with Ozzy speak for themselves. They’re really the only Ozzy solo albums I can even listen to, and that’s almost completely because of Randy.
@@jimbo0411Jesus, how could anybody taunt and deliberately insult a guy like Randy Rhoads? By all accounts he was like, *THEE* nicest guy who ever lived, not to even mention his incredible talent. I’ve talked to several people who personally knew Randy, and they have all said the same things… which is basically that Randy was one of those rare, true “salt of the earth” individuals. Always humble and honest. His heart was as huge as his musical depth. The fact that Roth was that jealous is pretty pathetic.
Randy Rhoads Rocked👍
I seen David Lee Roth 28 years ago in concert...
Excellent show he put on...one of the best concerts I've ever seen...
IMHO, this happens in a lot of bands:
Eddie was a musician, Dave was a showman. they both needed each other to get to the top. once they made it, it was like Eddie resented needing a showman and Dave resented the focus being on the musician.
for Eddie it was the music, for Dave the show.
and once they weren't struggling to make it any more, they started struggling with each other.
I saw Van Halen in concert in 1984. Incredible concert. Ahh the 1980s...
I was there as well. My one and only VH concert.
I saw VH once in 1979 at the L.A. Coliseum and the US Festival 1983.
I saw VH in 1978. I think it was Black Sabbath and Van Halen? I can't remember because I was there. We were always on acid.
My first VH show was 3/19/84 in Rosemont, IL.
It was incredible.
There is no doubt that both singers turned out some good songs so there is equal grounds on that. However Roth as always been an egomaniac with a big mouth.
Which is exactly what you want for one the the best rock frontmen ever
Van Hagar rules.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 except he's just an ok singer with ok songs. He should sing in his key, not screach
@MISSTERYDIVA Dave now sounds like a wounded animal singing. Sammy like him or not still has a great voice.
equal grounds? You can name the great hagar-VH songs on one hand. The great VH songs with Dave you need at least 4 hands.
Van Halens first album was amazing. Would have never been the same without Dave. But he needs to let it go.
Estoy de acuerdo , justo de esta manera lo expliqué en mi comentario. La edad importa y aceptar la realidad más aún .
Yeah.....one album. That really does sum up Dave's contribution to VH....then he went into self-destruction mode!
@@danb6838Uh , the best selling albums were with Dave . Sam helped turn the band into Journey 2.0 . Just two Dave era Van Halen albums outsold ALL the Van Hagar era albums COMBINED .
@@danb6838 Everything thru 1984 was a major contribution. Van Halen owed 1/2 their success to David Lee Roth.
How much bs has Sam spewed at Dave, Ed and Alex for the last 20yrs. 100x as much as the other 3 that didnt even want to bring up his name . Dave hasnt said basically anything until now about Sam or Wolfe. Finally, he speaks up and punches both of them hard in the fkn face. Good for Dave👍
A friend of mine and his wife bumped into Sammy Hagar and his wife in New York City, they have been shopping and carrying bags with my friends wife ask them for an autograph. She said, both of them couldn’t have been more accommodating and sweet, and talk to them for 15 minutes. I think Hagar is probably a pretty good guy.
He is and very happy!
I don't consider Wolfgang a true member of van Halen.
@spork297 giving a thumbs up to your own comment doesn't make it any more stupid lol. Wolfie's last name is literally VANHALEN!!! 😅 you literally just said he's carrying the torch for his father which literally means A TRUE MEMBER! Your ignorance is astounding and hilarious. Go ahead and close the door to your crack house get back on your couch and put your phone down and stay ignorant.
I guess you just aren't very observant.
Wolfie "was" a Bonafide, paid, member of van Halen. Fact.
I observed Wolfgang needs to lose weight 😆
@@user-ec6xd2ig4c he's the result of Valerie and Mikey having a fling.
I’d like to hear more about that accounting lady and the the paychecks and bonuses 😊
LOL
And why she was backstage
I know... paychecks? Would that b a hassle have to cash it,..l'd think direct deposit or debit card....and cash bonuses? No bodyguard for her, why she didn't say who she was?
I'm glad I got to see the 2002 tour. Despite all the drama, both put on a great show, and Dave still sounded great. It will be a cold day in hell before that ever happens again.
Imagine coming into a massive band like VH because your dad is the guitar player, kicking out a 33 years member and having an opinion about VH.
exactly. He's done nothing. VH is no more.
I don't think I would have done it, it would have been awkward and uncomfortable to me. I woulda said thanks but no thanks, dad.
Agreed. Ridiculous!. Wasn't even born when DLR left the band at the band's height of fame. He joined in early 2000's. Made no significant contribution other than replacing an original member. It was probably Eddie's dream to play with his son.
Diamond Dave has *always* been off the rails -- and I love him for it. Dave took chances that *skyrocketed* Van Halen into the stratosphere.
it was eddie guitar that skyrocketed them, not them fluffy first singer.
@@skriptico It was both.
100%. Dave is the legend here. Along with Eddie. Wolfgang hasn't done a thing, but apparently eat a lot (sns).
With what, bottle rockets? 😂
If it weren't for Hagar, Van halen would be a forgotten has-been relegated to the dust bin of pop music history.
Amen people don’t get him
We know Van Halen ended when Dave left . It was never Van Halen again.
I can only speak for my daughter when she was two her biggest Idol was David Lee Roth I even took her to David Lee Roth concert oh goodness she absolutely loves him. As far as music bands come and go they split they get back together again they grow they do their own thing it is what it is
People don’t get and can’t handle how smart he is
Dave has aged into Don Rickles.
That's definitely a compliment 👍
All those old jews look alike
I think he looks like Dr Smith from lost in space now lol.
Robin Williams as well?
@@jeff82z28😂😂😂
The one who would be”Uncomfortably close to young Will Robinson”, meanwhile the robot is flapping his slinky arms saying in a monotone voice,”Danger ,Danger”. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dave made a flippant comment to Axl that he would never say now (although the Travis Scott show was never stopped when audience members were crushed and trampled so it still happens) but Dave also talked about playing club shows where there were bikers and someone was killed during their show. The ironic part is that a few years later, 2 riots happened at GNR concerts that people were injured at, and Axl encouraged the audience to beat up people in the audience that were annoying him. Of course that wouldn’t happen now either, especially after a mic toss in the audience led to him being sued. Back then if someone got hurt at a show, they’d get stitched up and brag about where they got it to their friends .
Nobody can deny Eddie was a great guitar player, maybe 1 of the best ever. But Divid Lee Roth put Van Halen on the map, his outstanding vocals and flamboyant personality got them noticed. Eddie was great but without Roth pulling attention to the band he may have never gotten noticed
Wolfgang is an asshole.. He wasn't even there when Roth was with Van Halen in the begining. If it wasn't for ROTH -- VAN HALEN would have never existed! ROTH WAS VAN HALEN!
Absolute nonsense
@@diyautoschool he wasn’t there in the beginning….BECAUSE HE WASNT BORN. But do you know who was there? His dad. Roth is a joke. Carnie at best.
I totally agree! DLR was VH! 😉
@@sandycis2 Van Halen was Van Halen. Dlr was a rich kid that had equipment they needed and got lucky to run into the best rock guitarist in history.
Umm … ok lets get the ball back in the middle of the playing field with a little reality check.
If eddie van halen had never met any of the other band members, would he be famous solely on his guitar-playing ability ? Absolutely 100% yes
And DLR? Who he also have become famous, irrespective of his bandmates, irrespective of the prevailing music trends of the time etc? Many peoplr would say no.
Still dave was a great front man for live shows. Shame that he really does not sing well, particuarly melody where he cant just scream. His voice is weak. Compare it with sammy hagar who can song like a m*therf*cker. No comparison
Read Neil Monk's book about Van Halen. Michael Anthony was the only normal guy in the band. All the rest had pickled brains and unstable egos.
It's Noel Monk, not "Neil." And Noel Monk was a garbage human being.
As a teenager in 1978 of course I was a huge Van Halen and Diamond Dave fan.
But now as an adult I don't know how Eddie made it that many years with him.
His Mental Health is an obvious issue.
Substance abuse keeps you extremely immature and delusional. David Lee Roth is acting like a Teenager at the height of Stardom.
I wonder what his diagnosis is. Something terribly wrong there for sure.
@@ricky-w9t probably just high
I’m amazed Roth is still around. I’ve personally seen him so high he looked like he was going to OD right in front of me. As well as seeing him stumbling around the forum by himself wasted.
High on what, coke? He didn't do H right?
He always stayed in a healthy weight range. He was very athletic. That, combined with a high tolerance for partying, meant he could survive.
I’ll never forget my one and only run in with DLR, some time in the spring of ‘89 at the Rainbow bar & grill, very late at night. He was in the very back of the bar. Couldn’t miss him. Making a complete spectacle of himself, wasted out of his mind on god knows what, yelling incoherently and repeatedly falling down off his barstool. He had an entourage with him but they were all kind of ignoring him at that point. Probably embarrassed to even be associated with him. I mean it was actually pretty sad. He was still somewhat successful at the time with his solo career, but you could just tell he had peaked already, and at that point had begun his downward trajectory to shitsville. I didn’t go anywhere near him that night. I was literally afraid of getting puked on.
@@Peasant_in_a_treeYes, he was mainly a major coke head, and *LOTS* of alcohol. Pills too. I’m sure at some point he must have at least tried heroin, but as far as I know that was never really his thing.
@@CooManTunesYeah he’s always stayed lean and fit. And is a natural athlete. Some people are just blessed like that.
Ozzy osbourne saying that dave Lee roth is nuts. Soooooo hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂
I saw them on the 2002 tour. Watched David Lee Roth open the show and then left before Sammy Hagar came on. A lot of people left.
I was never a huge fan but David Lee Roth was the reason I went to see them and he is iconic and that’s when all of their memorable songs were recorded.
I liked Sammy Hagar before he joined Van Halen but just didn’t really see him or their music as very interesting.
Van Halen was like a great car. Edward was the engine, Mike and Al the fuel and spark plug. But Dave was the driver. Hard to keep it on track but always finishing first.
@@dwaynejessome1728I was thinking the chassy but your analogy works
Van Halen was great, but I don’t see why they need to still exist as a band.
@@TheRealCaptainFreedomI felt that way about as long ago as the mid 80’s.
@@Shikta-poobah67 I love the Rolling Stones, but let’s be honest they haven’t been good since the 1970s.
@@TheRealCaptainFreedom Some Girls was the last great Stones album, and that was after something like a 6 year period where they were making some pretty mediocre albums. Even with 70’s Stones, I tend to have to cherry-pick songs from everything they put out from Goats Head Soup on up to Some Girls.
Great video. Two things; the first VH album is their biggest selling LP to date. In large part their fan base did reject the 1984 album but they gained a whole new fan base.
"Jump" was a mid-finger to their fan base ... much like rock ballads and crap like Janie's Got a Gun did to Aerosmith's fanbase who were into their earlier ROCKS type material, Queen was another example and dozens of other bands.
@@atlasgunther8947 Yes, I remember when Def Leppard used to kick ass. Then they turned into Journey.
@@MotoXplorALLL of them sold out ... put their fans under the bus for fame and fortune ... tho a tiny few didn't in Britain
I loved the Fair Warning album and I guess one of the early albums naturally has to be the "worst selling." I wore out a bunch of 8-track and cassette tapes of the first album too and I was listening to Van Halen during my first bust by the cops in 1982 on the FIRST NIGHT I`d ever took a toke! And I was already in a band for months even before drinking for the first time. Whiskey quickly put me in a hospital with a bleeding stomach and a doctor "unofficially" recommended herb to help me heal...which I was PROMPTLY busted for and several more times in latter years. And my reputation was destroyed.
@@baneverything5580 Only if you let it. Many of us have risen to overcome our 'reputation'. I took LSD, told a whole bunch of people that I was God and climbed on top of a police car and told the officer that he was a figment of my imagination. Still get jobs, gigs playing bass and have friends. Made it to age sixty somehow and doing better than ever.
Big Van Roth fan but I do have to admit that 5150 is one hell of an album.
OU812 too. But even so they don't beat any older VH album, only on par with one or two from the original line up.
It's the best VH album.
It was all we had back at that time, so had to make do with it. After that album, it was no Van Halen anymore for me.
If you like the sound of digi drums, bad guitar tone and love songs, then yea it was great.
Roth is a showman Sammy is a musician Michael is amazing musician, singer and person.
My friend grew up in Pasadena, Ca where they were from and he would go to house parties and Van Halen would be playing at some of them and he said he was in a bedroom smoking weed (very illegal back then) with some people and Roth came in and said "whose got some good smoke for Old Dave"!?
Then they hit the big time
I saw Van Halen open for Black Sabath in 1978 and they blew BS away. WHen BS came out on stage apeople were still chanting VAN HALEN!!!!!! In 78 they were incredible.
I saw that tour in Dallas and you are exactly right! VH made Sabbath look like tired old men.
@@robertspence831 I was at that show too. Sabbath put on a great show. Iommi was on fire that night. JMHO.
Great singer! As a person not a person I would bother with Look at Hagar he can still sing at his age & everyone respects him. The kid is a prodigy nuff Said
Hagar can still sing at his age and Dave can't. Too bad Dave wrote all the great material. He was bad ass in his day. He really owes no one an explanation. Co-writing six classic albums say more than Dave ever can.
SAMMY IS AN ICON AND INCREDIBLE PHILANTHROPIST SO GROUNDED IN REALITY. I HOPE HE STAYS AWAY FROM ALL THIS HOO HAA.
Sammy is good at singing bubble gum rock love songs. Dave makes great rock songs and sung them great.
It was cheaper to let him in the band then to keep renting his PA system. Whatever it was, 74-84 was a hell of a run, even though they didn't become huge until 1978-79.
Fair Warning may have been the worst selling VH album on the 80s, but it was one of their best musically, artistically.
The differences in vision and personality conflict between DLR & Eddie has given the world the gift of some of the most uplifting rock music. Their music was the soundtrack to many young people's lives it brought joy and celebration... it continues to do so. Sometimes the tumult is the gift.
I bought those Montrose albums. I don't hate the early Hagar stuff. Like everybody my age, I bought the first 6 VH albums. Those are ALL killer NO filler. I bought them on cassette . I bought them on CD. I bought Dave's ... Gigolo single and the Eat 'em & Smile album. Those Van Hagar albums aren't so so bad, but honestly I only care for 3-4 songs across ALL of them. Someone gave me ...Carnal Knowledge. I don't know where it is. The original VH was MAGIC live too..Great GREAT show. Top 3-4 for me & I've seen LOTS of shows.
Sometimes egos on either side are too big to stay together.
DLR and VH did great work together in their heyday, but it
was inevitable they would want to express themselves
away from each other.
Nothing sadder than old rockers. Rock n Roll was about vibrancy, youth and rebellion. They all act like a bunch of yenta's now.
It’s so much better when they age gracefully.
The question is when do they become old? 40, 45, 50, 60?
@@BadHorsie1 when they can no longer deliver. Like bon Jovi.
@@ronzombie6541 I agree, Jon bon lost it in the early 2000s but it's quite subjective
Has always been a narcissistic hole. The only reason VH hired him was his LA surgeon daddy bought a PA system. Thank you for Sammy Hagar. A total class act. The best music ever from VH.
Take it or leave it. I wouldn't want the watered down version of roth, then he might not be as entertaining. I think the saying "don't meet you heroes" is true. I'll watch, but don't want to meet. It is what is, They got along long enough to make some great records, appreciate that.
Unless you want to run with the devil on the mean streets, don't jump on the ice cream man. Otherwise, you'll wind up crying...just ask Jamie.
I always thought David was an arrogant ass .
You are right
Thanks for your input
Nobody assed u
They're all arrogant assholes.
@@shanemartin8904 Since you asked... I always thought Roth was the worst part of the band.
@@rrmackay I DIDNT ASSK
Great vid, but I disagree with one comment the narrator made: He said Eddie wanted to do dark heavier songs , where as Roth was more interested in showy stuff. If you look at what happened to VH after Roth left, they did NOT become "Heavier"---Quite the opposite, they got more commercial and more pop oriented. I think Roth wanted a more blues /hard rock approach, and Eddy wanted to have more keyboards and go that route, which is one of the reasons that VH with Roth didn't last. Eddie had been trying to bring keys into VH for years(Cradle will rock, One Foot out the door, Dancin in the Streets), but Roth had always vetoed it, saying "Youre a guitar hero, no one wants to hear you play keyboards. On 1984, Eddie did 2 very mainstream songs with keys(Jump and I'll Wait) and both were huge hits. On 5150, they did 3 keyboard songs: "Why cant this be love?", "Love walked in" & "Dreams"---So VH wasnt going dark, he was going light. LOL
I wish that Dave would just sit tight and keep his mouth shut except to sing. He is tarnishing a fantastic legacy.
Problem is he can no longer sing. Damn shame
Unless you were there back in a day at the whiskey, when they first premiere themselves actually was out in The Valley at a birthday party and I remember David Lee Roth singing, and it's just for that time being time period I was young and sometimes in my life, now that I'm 57 years old, I can say I took the lesser road in life and show the high road and that lisser road took me to places where I got to see and hear things. And this is one thing you all need to know David Lee Roth. Is Van Halen none of you know what really is went on all the stuff that was said, I was there, I remember when Valerie dumped Eddie for a Kung Fu fighter, a karate fighter. Whatever his name was and that little son of Eddie's seriously, you live enough, your daddy's f****** s***, man we all know this and the other thing too, Michael, he got the worst job of them. All he got dreamed so hard that they stuck it to him hard the base player, they didn't allow him any rewards off any of the songs you guys, so you want to think Eddie's all that and Alex, they're both a******* Have a nice day. Yeah, Ozzy, same thing. He's just over and over same s***If you grew up listening to the same s*** from Black Sabbath. He hasn't changed the same stuffjust different guitar players.
When you see a lot of things and go a lot of concerts when you're young and you see how they act and interact, you know who's at fault. It's really 2 guys who had great. Skills of doing making music and creating it when you have that you're gonna have conflict, you're going to have problems we all know this if you ever been in a band which I have been back in a day, and I was a front man front man has to put everything out there. Why the rest of the band behind him has to create the music yet. Guess what that front man's got to make everybody love the band remember that he's the one that's speaking, everybody deeply Ross rocked everybody his voice alone rock, everybody Sammy Hagar, only put out 2 f****** albums and they're oh. Can't drive 55 Woo. Yeah, okay. There is why Eddie went through to him. It's because he looked like david lee ross in the almost had😅😮
Eddie didn't "tire of singing lead", Alex had to force him to stop. Ed thought he was a better singer than he was. This is the source of Ed's horrible treatment of Mike Anthony. Ed was jealous that Mike got all the credit for backing vocals. Sad. Long live the Mighty.
More 🐂💩
Diamond Dave has always been something else. Sammy really can't compare.
BULLSHIT! Go watch the 1986 "Live Without a Net" concert DVD. You'll see them at peak performance and popularity! ALL of them HAPPY and HIGH ENERGY running around the stage jumping up and down! Hagar took them to the mega-platinum stratosphere! Completely DIFFERENT band YES, but there's no denying Hagar's technical prowess, superior vocals (even if the high range isn't my taste) and song writing skills!
@@QVAlfista I don't have to watch anything. I much prefer David Lee Roth over Sammy Hagar anyday.
Pledging allegiance to Roth
Valerie Bertinelli hated Roth, and I can only imagine how much of that she downloaded into her kid… as women are often given to do
Because of Roth, there was a Van Hagar… and sure, Hagar had a fairly good career before VH, but how many more _I Can't Drive 55s_ do you think her was gonna write
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Kicked out of the Band
Complains
Sings a Beach Boys song
Becomes a has-been
Gets back with the band
Eddie dies
Dave Complaining again
Did I leave anything out !
In fact, Eddie van Halen liked Diver Down! In a Guitar Player interview from 1982 Eddie stated: "We spent 12 days making the album... it was a lot of fun!"
I dunno if he was telling the truth about that, but what I do know is that it was a half-assed thing the label forced them into doing while they were all burnt out. I bet he'd have hated coming up with new material under the gun even more.
"Dave made an ass of himself, but he wasnt attacking anyone.
They not only 'fired' him, Eddie and Alex gave interviews trashing him.. again.
He was over-excited.
He never trashed Sammy and Eddie until they trashed him back in the 80's. He never said anything about Wolf until Wolf started blaming him and calling him out.
Right now, Wolf is creating the drama and Dave finally responded."
Without DLR, Van Halen would have been just another LA band. Listen to the classic work. DLR is a huge part of it.
New found obsession with synthesizers. Lol EVH was a trained pianist.
My sister worked with him at WBCN Boston when he had a morning show. Not good stories. He's apparently an awful heartless human being. Only other lead singer I know who is as abysmal as this guy is Gene Simmons.
Everyone has been very cautious when it comes to David Lee. The term Egg Shells is a nice way saying Roth is still a Primadonna. & His Life Style 🌈Conflicts with the other Members of the Band.
Dave was a EMT in New York city, he helped save 100's
of victim's live's.
They saw him, thought they were in Hell, got up and ran.
Probably most were on drugs
Hard to believe
I imagine him more as Tom Sizemore's character in Bringing Out the Dead
😂😂😂
DLR “ This hamburger don’t need no helper”. Hahaha
Vanity leads to INSANITY 😢. Enough said
Indeed ! Pray 🙏 for DLR “Just” a Look at Him and You Can SEE He’s Sick 🤢😧😢‼️
@@allanramusiewicz996You Wouldn't Make a Patch on His(Roth's) Ass....
@@allanramusiewicz996right on!❤
@allanramusiewicz996 You can pray for him if you want, but by the time your God comes out of retirement DLR will be Runnin With the Devil.
@@blondequijote 🥱
I don’t remember anything of any substance being said about Roth being a decent person. Constantly hear the opposite, from all sides.
Lots of famous singers and guitarists fight--Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, or Steven Tyler and Joe Perry.
Funny I really liked fair warning, completely disliked diver down, my least liked VH album
they changed my life , 1rst album was unreal
Wasn’t the vocals that did that.
Career guitar player here disagreeing.
@@davemiles3387
@@davemiles3387The vocals were definitely a part of it for me. The most obvious part is the guitar. That goes without saying, but for me VH’s initial impression was a package deal. It was a whole new sound at the time in ‘78. A new kind of hard rock that would forever change the landscape in the years to come… and that couldn’t be credited to just one band member. It was definitely a sum of its parts.
Ummm...
Ya, VH changed many lives. Clearly inspired countless to-be musicians. @@R-Christensen
Yeah what the last guy said. I know that for me personally, there have been several key gigs/bands that were such a pivotal, earth-shaking experience for me that I can honestly say that they were life-changing. I’m not necessarily referring specifically to VH (though they came damn close the first time I saw them), but the first time I saw Black Flag in December ‘80 it set me on a completely different trajectory than what I had previously been on. It was a total reset for the direction in life that I was heading in. There were a few other gigs at various points in my life that had a similar effect on me. That’s how powerful a force music can be.
I’ve heard plenty of other people say they’ve had the same experience. It happens.
DLR was the ultimate frontman thru the fisrt 6 albums, but was ahorrible joke after he came back. He was great to see on tour for 2 hrs but I can't imagine having to tolerate that kind of hyperactive narcissism on the daily, much less to be trapped in a tour bus with.
I agree, and couldn't tolerate him for 5 minutes.
His Yankee rose album did pretty good and then he crashed
David's a boy, he never grew up. Maturity includes self awareness and humility, somethings David has either never known or has rejected.
Damn! Dave looks like Dr. Smith from the original Lost in Space.
Definitely! 😂
I remember I saw him live 0:11 with VH. It was so entertaining to watch him sing the lyrics when he felt like it. He did a lot of improvisation and weird stuff.
No Van Halen without Michael Anthony vocals!
Yet the band did great with Wolfie replacing him . Yawn
Nonsense.
La vida no es facil para el hombre entrado en años , pero es menos dificil si se retira honorablemente y feliz de sus logros . La era del rock al igual que toda era historica cumple un periodo, forzar al cuerpo anciano a desempeñar un papel de joven es como un adulto que use pañal y tome biberon . La experiencia de un veterano es respetable y enfocada en compartir conocimiento con los que vienen surgiendo es una mejor forma de dejar un legado .
I 100% agree that DLR is an obnoxious narc but I'm pretty sure AVH didn't want to do the tribute either. That ship has sailed now anyways.
5:23 Roth would destroy Sammy in a fight.
I only saw Roth once in public. He was at the Karate Internationals in Long Beach, CA, around 1985, talking with some of the top black belts before their matches like they were friends. He loved martial arts. Check out his kicks in the video "Jump" again.
1985 was a long time ago
not to me, born in 1961. @@tracejohnson5519
I Can Say Ive Met Wolf when He Opened For Guns In Detroit, He Is Kind ,Talented and Ive Met Dave Years Ago,Wolf Is By No Means A Bratty Kid,Hes a Grown Man and Is Respectful, Dave Was An Idiot,Enough Said🎸Hagar Rocks🤘
Agreed
I pledge allegiance to David Lee Roth and the Van Halen flag...and to the absolute blow out f'ing rock 'n roll party music for which it stands...one band, with Diamond Dave as front man...
I hope Dave reads this. 👏👏👏👏👏
So Wolfgang had everything handed to him on a silver platter and he’s just having fun.
He wasn’t handed all that talent! That’s funny!
Handed to him WTF bro do you know how many instruments Wolf plays at a high level, nobody hands you that , you get that from practicing your fucking ass off for years
He’s fat
@@davemiles3387If you believe in genes and natural talent... He absolutely was. A generational musician and an acclaimed actor for parents...
Ironic coming from Roth. He only got into VH because he had a PA system that his dad could afford. The dude came from wealth and got to play rockstar.
I have always loved the Album names EVH chose
So catchy and original
I met DLR several years ago and he was really really nice and turned me on with some great weed.
8:30 I don’t know who the hell Ozzie thinks he is, criticizing other people for their behavior. Especially after everything we know about him and the way the Osborne’s treated Jake E Lee among other bandmates. Those people are total scumbags. Dave was right. By Sharon‘s own design, her husband is product.
DLR said he didn't like Ozzy's music though. He threw the first stone. Ozzy has a far more successful career in heavy metal and is more talented vocally than DLR. His work with guitarists Tony Iommy, Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee and Zakk Wylde are monuments in metal, DLR's early work with Eddie are classic hard rock and for that he's a classic. But there's no way he can throw shade on Ozzy, Nobody can shade Ozzy for his music, just the drug and booze binges he was famous for and how Jake E. Lee and some of the other players in that band were kind of ripped off, but I don't know I see they all have writing credits on the albums.
Tony *Iommi
@@metalmike570 You are exactly right. Dave is nothing compared to Ozzy. He has no right to judge what is and what is not heavy metal compared to the popcorn song and dance bullshit he does. He's like the Michigan J Frog in the Bugs Bunny cartoons.
@@NotMorganFreeman. 😆
@@NotMorganFreeman. 💯
Hey, if even OZZY thinks the man has a screw loose, I would treat that as credible. Love me some OZ!
Dave's closing question: "Where is Jump being played, right now"??
Most likely answer: ... An elevator....
On classic radio at times and a couple of other VH songs in my country(New Zealand).
So in other words, everywhere
@@GoodAfterNoonOne of Scammy's parrots repeating Scammy's 🐂💩 .
Too be honest with you Rock Stars and Wrestlers are pure entertainers , and Axle sounds like a Billy goat singing . Everything in entertainment, Sports athletes, Actors, Musicians, and even Politicians, all have a issue it’s Called give me some attention, But that’s okay because there trying to make you happy with their talent.
I got to see Van Halen and David Lee Roth was literally the best Frontman I've ever seen in my life. He may have been a giant Douchebag off stage, bur onstage he used to be the best.
I didn't know that Chumlee joined the Band! Huh!
OMG... That is too funny!!!!!!!!
It's Chumwolf Vanharrison, named after that famous deaf pawnshop owner. The one that painted that thing, on the ceiling of olive garden.
"This hamburger don't need no helpin' " 💀
In Roth's 2020 Las Vegas shows, Roth's voice sounded like hamburger.
@billbrasky7540 In Roth's 2020 Las Vegas shows, Roth's voice sounded like hamburger. It needed helpin'.
But the groupies were still there. Tuna helper.
without Eddie Dave is just a flamboyant jerk amounting to nothing.... and that what VH 1 needed to balance it right...tipped Eddie in balance.. dont ask how that works but it does..
Hamburger Helper. Lol
The albums with Dave, and the ones with Sammy were both great! I liked both! Dave’s efforts were more of corny cover songs, and some of the Sammy songs sounded almost to commercial near the end! Both had faults, but also great strengths! In the end, it was the Van Halen brothers who controlled everything! I really never forgave them after pushing Michael Anthony out of the band! Just as well, I guess, since they never did anything good after that!
I saw Van Halen in concert from 1978 every year until Roth left the band .
The album 1984 prolly did dump a lot of their heavy metal fan base indeed as myself with crap like Jump ... Instead the void of metal fans filled with puppy fluff-pop poople.
They ain't victims but what happened to many bands back in the day. Happened to Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath you name it.. all bands partied did drugs lacked sleep and got into trouble amongst themselves.. Roth is entertaining and always shall be. Rock on Dave 🤘💜
I didn’t know Fair Warning sold poorly at the time. It’s a great album. I agree with Eddie. Diver Down is their worst album.
Half of Diver Down is covers I think, but Pretty Woman is a better cover than Roy's version.
Sometimes it's still played on the radio.
I, myself, preferred Van Hagar. Roth always seemed like quite the oddball and a bit of a loose cannon. And by a bit, I mean extremely so. 😄 And just vocally I think Hagar is much better.
Nothing against Sammy but Van Halen with David Lee Roth was a completely different band a much better harder rocking band. With Sammy on board The music was different I'm not saying it was bad but it wasn't the same Van Halen
I never bought a Van Halen album until Hagar came along. could not stand Roth. Hagar is 10 times the performer.