Van Halen came along when I was in 5th or 6th grade and it was when I started listening to new music that was outside of the mainstream, To me those first 4 album were the real Van Halen. 1984 was an epic success and to be fair a great album from beginning to end but that was really the last true Van Halen record. The stuff with Sammy is good but to me, not Van Halen. They should have changed their name.
Interesting but impossible to think of.
I think you got the gist of it... you know what Van Halen sounds like and you know what Solo Sammy sounded like during the same time.... kinda mesh those two together.... Yeah that's one of those comments that goes in the "r/Showerthoughts" subreddit.
I agree that Sammy was a true rock star while Dave ended up being a novelty act afterward if not a joke. He came out strong out of the gate though with his EP, the cover of California Girls and Just a Gigolo. His first two solo albums were strong too, his hits Yankee Rose and Going Crazy from the first one then his album Skyscraper and some good song. Meanwhile it took me a while to get used to Van Hagar, when I first hear 5150 my heart sunk. It just wasn't Van Halen anymore to me. Those first four albums were just so good, so raw and no one else sounded like them. I don't begrudge them for wanting to go mainstream and cash in but the selfish side of me wished they'd kept that alternative sound. Same with metallica, when the black album came out I was pretty much through with them, the on ly other album of theirs that I bought after that was the Garage days album.
That's how it was for me, it was more like Sammy Hagar with Van Halen as his backing band. They adopted his sound instead of Sammy adopting theirs. To be honest I never bought a Sammy Hagar record in my life though I like some of his older songs.
Couldn’t say it any better. We’ll put.
) o can finally listen to Sammy fronted stuff and enjoy/appreciate it.
Yes, Bad Motor Scooter and a few other oldies are definitely part of Hard Rock history, Rick Springfield had a hit with one of Sammy's older songs, I've Done Everything For You but he's always been to me anyway one of those guys that has a few good songs but no album that I can sit and listen to from beginning to end.Couldn’t say it any better. We’ll put.
Garage band VH was the unicorn (and best) When I was younger (just like them) I was virulently anti-Van Hagar. I took a girl to a 5150 concert to get laid. I knew even then that if chicks were into it, it had gone soft and mainstream as hell.
Thea days, as I’ve aged like fine wine (
The thing Sammy doesn’t get enough credit for, imo, is Montrose. They did American metal 10+ years before anyone else knew what it would sound like. So while I’m not a huge fan of the Red Rocker, I damn sure respect him.
My mom also liked Mac Davis, Glenn Campbell, Anne Murray... Luckily we always had radios playing almost everywhere in the house, bathroom, garage, I had one in my room plus a pretty dent record player that my dad bought from a yard sale. I pretty much started hearing music from the cradle onward. The first songs I remember listening to as a kid were songs like Everything is Beautiful by Ray Stevens, Tie a Yellow Ribbon by Dawn, Knocking on Heaven's Door... Music has helped me to remember my life chronologically by what was playing on the radio at the time. I fight it astounding how so many people can't remember dates let alone years. I was talking to an older woman at work, she was talking about Jimmy Carter and couldn't even remember which decade he was president.
