Sammy Hagar... overlooked as a great singer?

335clone said:
Make all the disparaging comments that come to mind, you are still wrong about their impact at the time. Besides setting the course for hard rock over the next decade, they were undeniably the premier party band. Ever.

I will not make the comparison between them as far as being equally as important in the long run, because they are not. I rarely put VH on any more, but VH1 and VH2 were solid hard rock albums.
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Impact at the time is totally irrelevant. Like I said, Avatar was the biggest thing ever 7 years ago, and now nobody gives a shit and it will eventually be a footnote in a film textbook.

Also, VH's significance never really crossed the Atlantic.
 
Flamencology said:
Impact at the time is totally irrelevant. Like I said, Avatar was the biggest thing ever 7 years ago, and now nobody gives a shit and it will eventually be a footnote in a film textbook.

Also, VH's significance never really crossed the Atlantic.
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Sorry, but that is ridiculous, even from you.

music and movies are completely different. I may watch a movie I particularly like more than once, but I will listen to albums hundreds of times.
 
As a musician, I also find EVH's playing and legacy to be intimidating. Seldom does this insecurity drive me to listen to Opera...and that's good.
 
335clone said:
Make all the disparaging comments that come to mind, you are still wrong about their impact at the time. Besides setting the course for hard rock over the next decade, they were undeniably the premier party band. Ever.

I will not make the comparison between them as far as being equally as important in the long run, because they are not. I rarely put VH on any more, but VH1 and VH2 were solid hard rock albums.
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Slightly off topic, but I wonder how much $ were spent chasing that brown sound. I know people chase the Hendrix thing, but I bet alot more chased the EVH sound.
 
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surfsteve said:
Slightly off topic, but I wonder how much $ were spent chasing that brown sound. I know people chase the Hendrix thing, but I bet alot more chased the EVH sound.
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i wonder how many variacs were sold and how many amps toasted. lots of people thought that EVH turn UP the voltage to get the brown sound. when he actually turned DOWN the voltage and then maxed the controls.:grin:
 
that guy can still hit some high ass notes pretty easily. Try and sing some of his solo stuff in Standard Tuning and its TOUGH to hit those notes song after song. I have always felt he was over looked and under rated
 
Flamencology said:
Popularity isn't an indication of greatness, it's an indication of marketability to Asian audiences.
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Just the first thing I thought of, not a comment about Sammy.
 
I like the Hagar era VH myself, and Dreams is one of my favorite songs, plus the video for that song is kickass. That being said the albums put out during the first DLR era are superior to the Hagar albums IMO.

As far as Hagar's solo stuff, the only thing that comes to mind for me is "I can't drive 55" which is a song that I totally relate to.
 
TomcatMF said:
I like the Hagar era VH myself, and Dreams is one of my favorite songs, plus the video for that song is kickass. That being said the albums put out during the first DLR era are superior to the Hagar albums IMO.
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Can't argue with any of this. "Dreams" may be my fave VH song, a lot of it is due to Hagar's strong vocal performance.
 
I still spin this once in a while and enjoy it..

EVH played bass........

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I Never Said Goodbye is a Sammy Hagar solo album, his only solo album released while he was a member of Van Halen. It is his ninth solo studio album. The album was recorded in ten days as a contractual obligation to Geffen Records as a condition of his leaving the label to join Van Halen and their record label, Warner Bros. Records.
 
TomcatMF said:
I like the Hagar era VH myself, and Dreams is one of my favorite songs, plus the video for that song is kickass. That being said the albums put out during the first DLR era are superior to the Hagar albums IMO.

As far as Hagar's solo stuff, the only thing that comes to mind for me is "I can't drive 55" which is a song that I totally relate to.
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This sums it really well, IMO. The VanHagar stuff isn't bad, in fact, some of it is incredibly good.

I just liked the band more during the first DLR stint. The first side of VH1 is just a masterpiece - the band sounds like they're coming unglued and going to jump out of the speakers. It's barely constrained rock n' roll mayhem and it feels alive. Of course it came out when I was 13, so it made a big impression on me - one that I remember to this day. I just feel like they were a better band with DLR.

I feel the same way about AC/DC's highway to hell (even though it wasn't their first album).
 
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