fett on 13/3/2007 at 23:58
Why the FUCK are you retards talking about singers in reference to Van Halen? It doesn't matter if Barny the fucking dinosaur sings for them. Have you heard this man Eddie play the guitar? Have you absorbed the totality of his genius? Can you begin to comprehend the magnitude of his mullet? Do you know how hot is ex-wife was/is?
Thou shalt respect the Van Halen.
Tocky on 14/3/2007 at 00:43
But can he do Recuerdos De La Alhombra? Huh? Huh?
How do you do that without having a separate brain for your thumb anyway?
fett on 14/3/2007 at 00:59
Agreed, but Eddie learnt him everything he knows. :grr:
Aerothorn on 14/3/2007 at 01:00
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
REM should be in the Hall of Vague Nostalgia, along with a whole lot of other inductees in the Hall of Fame.
I like the first six albums just fine, but then things start to get shitty. Couple of singles here and there, but they dropped off the radar 15 years ago.
I have to vehemently disagree. While I like their first 6 albums just fine, I just don't find them as re-listenable as their later stuff. I've said it before, music is entirely subjective, despite what some music critics would like you to believe - there's just no rhyme or reason to people's tastes. I LOVE Monster and Up, for instance, but so many people - including R.E.M. fans - hate them. I personally can't fathom why, other than the fact that they're both very different from what the band has done in the past, and people are uncomfortable with change. They're emotionally charged, lyrically intelligent, and musically diverse. Sometimes it seems like I'm the only one who loves Tongue to death:*(
As for dropping off the radar, I think you're even more out of the music scene than I am. For reasons that confound me, their recent "best of" burned up the charts. And while they aren't that big in the USA, they're still huge in Britain. Check out the USA v. British sales chart on Wikipedia - putting in sales differences vs. population size differences, I realize that they are approximately 20 times more popular in Britain than they are here (or at the very least, 20 times as big a chunk of the population is buying their CDs there).
Anyway, I don't get the rock and roll hall of fame. Since when is hip-hop the same as rock and roll? And isn't Patti Smith punk/spoken word? Say what you like about R.E.M., but at least they're unarguably rock (some of their stuff, anyway).
Parker'sSire on 14/3/2007 at 01:27
Agreed.
Van Halen admits that he's pretty limited in what he can do in the greater guitarist-type scheme of things. I guess in a "shootout" with Albert Lee and Steve Morse, he once sat down when he ran out of stuff to play and good-humoredly listened to the other two continue.
I always thought that Nuno was more well rounded. Put an acoustic guitar in his hands and it sounds lovely. I think he'd be confortable playing most styles in almost any type of situation.
I always liked Van Halen, but, like U2, they are what they are, and only that.
You don't have to be an extremely versatile, well rounded musician to be a rock star.
But there are rock stars who are extremely versatile, well rounded musicians.
Quote Posted by fett
Agreed, but Eddie learnt him everything he knows.
No.
But Eddie
did learnt him the "eddie" type stuff that he knows.
Dia on 14/3/2007 at 02:16
The 'eddie type stuff' is just fine, imo.
David Lee Roth is a pox, btw.
I said it and I'm not sorry.
Parker'sSire on 14/3/2007 at 02:45
Quote Posted by Dia
The 'eddie type stuff' is just fine, imo.
David Lee Roth
is a pox, btw.
I said it and I'm not sorry.
I agree with you about Eddie. I wasn't knocking the "eddie stuff", I was just commenting on GBM's opinion on Nuno vs Eddie.
I don't know what the hell David Lee Roth is.
Never liked the way he squeaked.
There, I said it and
I'm not sorry either.
fett on 14/3/2007 at 03:12
It seems we have several Extreme fans here, so I'll also come out of the closet. I don't think they had any huge impact, but in taken in context, both 'Pornograffiti' and 'III Side to Every Story' are very intelligent concept albums, and you can take or leave Cherone, but the other three guys can play their asses off.
Parker'sSire on 14/3/2007 at 04:57
Quote Posted by fett
It seems we have several Extreme fans here, so I'll also come out of the closet. I don't think they had any huge impact, but in taken in context, both 'Pornograffiti' and 'III Side to Every Story' are very intelligent concept albums, and you can take or leave Cherone, but the other three guys can play their asses off.
Yeah.
I knew Cherone's band "The Dream", before they had to change the name to "Extreme", and BN (Before Nuno), and wasn't really too jazzed. Just a taste thing, I guess.
I always felt that "Nuno" is what got that band signed.
Note: I never actually mentioned being an Extreme fan per se. ex:"More Than Words" sounds great, but has to have some of the most incoherent (
http://www.romantic-lyrics.com/lm6.shtml) lyrics I've ever heard.
