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VELVET REVOLVER To Perform ROTH And HAGAR Tunes At ROCK HALL
- Mar. 9, 2007
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Launch Radio Networks reports: VELVET REVOLVER has lined up two songs to perform for VAN HALEN at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Monday (March 12). The band will honor both David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar by playing a song from their respective eras — for Roth, VELVET REVOLVER will play 1978's "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love", and for Hagar they'll play "Runaround" from 1991.
In addition to the performance at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, VELVET REVOLVER frontman Scott Weiland and lead guitarist Slash will induct VAN HALEN into the Rock Hall.
Hagar and original VAN HALEN bassist Michael Anthony will be at the ceremony, but it's unknown whether they will join VELVET REVOLVER on stage for the songs.
Roth says he backed out of the event after he was told he couldn't perform with VELVET REVOLVER. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen announced yesterday (Thursday, March 8) that he's going into rehab, and drummer Alex Van Halen will stay close to home to offer his brother whatever help he can.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which will also feature R.E.M., PATTI SMITH, THE RONETTES, and GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE, will air live on VH1 Classic beginning at 8:30 p.m. ET on Monday.
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COMMENT | FIRST?
posted by :
3/9/2007 1:57:45 PM
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Jack Strong's Sack says this is going to suck.
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COMMENT | yippie
posted by : Steve Guttenberg
3/9/2007 2:05:35 PM
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now we can hear good tunes butcherd.
sorry....slash is a great player, but I don't think his band can pull VH songs off that well
and who cares about this anyways........EDDIE won't be there and the reunion is OFF.
LAME
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COMMENT |
posted by : Sgt.D
3/9/2007 2:11:12 PM
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fucking stupid!
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COMMENT | Shitland
posted by : MoltenLavaStudios
3/9/2007 2:11:23 PM
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...will ruin those songs.
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COMMENT | Yup this could be terrible
posted by :
3/9/2007 2:12:14 PM
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Slash, is a good player but he does have shit on eddie, plus they have completely different styles. And what dya mean no cherone material!
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COMMENT | Trainwreck waiting to happen
posted by : P.Trick
3/9/2007 2:17:50 PM
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Besides, couldn't they pick better songs to do or are these all that Slush... er, um... Slash can play?
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COMMENT | Well....
posted by : KISSOFF 2004
3/9/2007 2:23:52 PM
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...if you're gonna play one song from each era...those two are certainly better than the arguably more obvious "Jump" and "Why Can't This Be Love?"
Still...it's silly VH members past and present aren't playing instead.
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COMMENT | According to http://www.1039theeagle.com/rocknews.shtml
posted by : Expanded Consciousness
3/9/2007 2:32:25 PM
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"For his part, Roth had every intention of being at the Waldorf to celebrate, and he also wanted to perform. He asked to sing "Jump" with Velvet Revolver, who are scheduled to do two songs in tribute to Van Halen, but he was told the band didn't think they could learn the song and do it justice in time for the ceremony. Then Roth offered to do any other song from his era with Van Halen, at which point he was told that he would not be allowed to perform. So he's decided to skip the event altogether."
What BS
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COMMENT | What's kind of funny is....
posted by :
3/9/2007 2:32:51 PM
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...the two members who aren't in VH anymore are the only ones attending.
I feel for Dave. He's so right when he says those are his 3 minutes & 22 seconds.
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COMMENT | This is a joke!
posted by : Blackthorned
3/9/2007 2:38:00 PM
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Are they saying Weiland and Slash have more right to celebrate Van Halen's career than Diamond Dave? It's an outrage and an insult! I demand action!
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COMMENT | Velvet better wax eloquently about VH!
posted by : Expanded Consciousness
3/9/2007 2:40:43 PM
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DLR is absolutely right to not attend!
Been thinking about this. To not let Dave perform at his own induction is a joke. To expect him to sit there and watch Velvet do his songs when this is his night is ridiculous.
Some idiot in a suit thinks it will get more ratings to have Velvet perform. Corporate greed. Extremely anti-Rock N Roll.
Dave and Mike, and then Sammy and Mike should be performing w/ whomever in the background.
Velvet should pull out of the show in protest!
Eddie Veder (who is anti-corporate greed in music and is inducting REM) and Michael Stripe better say something in protest!
If they don't I will lose all respect for them.
When GNR is inducted, if Axl doesn't want to show up I'd want the boys w/ any other singer to get up at THEIR OWN INDUCTION and perform THEIR OWN SONGS, THEIR OWN ARTISTIC CREATIONS.
I wouldn't want Jet invited to do a GNR melody while Slash watched from his chair like a good little boy, a good little sheep, a good little rock star. Itching to get up and play. What BS!
Good for you Diamond Dave for boycotting in protest! My top hat off to you, son!
Eddie, good luck in rehab.
But notice how he is always preventing things from happening and then getting pity.
See a pattern here?
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COMMENT | BOYCOTT!
posted by :
3/9/2007 2:50:12 PM
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this is a sham!!
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COMMENT | Hey Oscars
posted by : Expanded Consciousness
3/9/2007 2:50:41 PM
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Why don't you give Jack Nicholson an Oscar and then not let him go up and accept it. Send DiCaprio up there instead.
To induct someone to your Hall Of Fame is to invite them to accept the award and to perform. Period. The two should never be severed. And why? For rating's sake?
Diamond Dave was a huge star in 1984. Him up there doing "Panama" with whomever in the background would bring us back to that time. Having a cover band do it does not celebrate the music that is being honored.
Dave's voice was on those first 6 albums and is unique as a fingerprint.
The surviving artists should perform their own songs - whether certain members are dead, in rehab, or at home hiding and throwing temper tantrums.
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COMMENT | Excellent commentary from http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php
posted by : Expanded Consciousness
3/9/2007 2:52:47 PM
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DLR Not In The Building
Roth not allowed to perform at gala honoring the band
This business went in the crapper when the executives started believing they were bigger than the acts, that the audience was interested in THEM, not the performers.
And why be interested in the acts, they were just tools of the machine. Picked on their looks, singing the songs of hacks, the music lost its soul, its religion, its sense of theatre, its VAUDEVILLE HISTORY!
Van Halen was no James Cameron production, no slick artifice, it was just four guys from Pasadena working their way up from beer parties to the TOP, testing limits, getting better every step of the way.
We all agree Eddie Van Halen is a genius, but without David Lee Roth Van Halen never would have broken through. Sammy may have a better voice, I love "Best Of Both Worlds", but without DLR there IS NO Van Halen, no notice. A band without a frontman is…the NICE?
You need a singer, someone who can enrapture the audience, someone who can make the audience pay attention. That person in Van Halen’s case was David Lee Roth. Better David Lee Roth with ANYBODY behind him than ANYBODY in Velvet Revolver or Audioslave (is there a difference, aren’t both made up of has-beens who can’t work on their own?)
Stunningly, David Lee Roth can still work on his own. Granted, to an ever-dwindling audience. But people still want to be touched. Want to remember when they were in high school, and DIDN’T GIVE A FUCK! Van Halen was music for people enmeshed in the system who wanted a WAY OUT! That’s what music used to provide. Back when it was a culture of notes, not pricks with $5,000 suits and multiple assistants.
This is the last nail in the coffin for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This is the final joke. When you don’t even let the INDUCTEES perform.
Why not? Because it’s on TELEVISION? Doesn’t that prove the point? That when you start worrying about the audience rather than the music you’ve lost the thread?
Back when Van Halen reigned, the ultimate goal was to get backstage. To hang with the band, whether male or female. It not only made your night, but maybe your life. To get that close. To the talented who played by their own rules.
That’s what the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony was. A private party. That the public LONGED to attend. Back when there was no question the inductees were legends.
An edited show for VH1 was bad enough. A live broadcast? Why? Is this any different from the Paris Hilton sex tape? A staged event, distributed for publicity?
The R&RHOF needs cash. It needs to perpetuate itself. When it’s the MUSIC that’s important, that will outlive this lame organization run by men and women who never had the adoration of tens of thousands of fans, who never held them in the palm of their hands, who never knew the POWER of being a star.
You can be rich, but that doesn’t make you a star.
And the biggest star amongst this year’s inductees has now been refused the right to perform at his own party. Isn’t that like not allowing the President to attend his own inauguration?
Let every table at the Waldorf-Astoria be adorned with a bowl of brown M&M’s. And when it comes time for Van Halen to be inducted, let everybody THROW THEM AT THE DAIS!
That’s the rock and roll spirit. Throwing out decorum, knowing that a big star plays by his OWN RULES!
If only the pricks who made this decision had one iota of David Lee Roth’s star power. If only they realized they’re what’s killing not only the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the record business too.
If Michael Stipe had any balls he’d refuse to attend unless DLR could come and perform too. What, Paul Shaffer gets to play all these years but David Lee Roth CAN’T?
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COMMENT |
posted by : Larry V. Eloquence
3/9/2007 2:55:41 PM
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Dammit what happened to top stories? That was the best part of the whole damn site! I can't believe that Bori caved! All hope is lost! ALL HOPE IS LOOOOOOOOSSSTT!!!!!
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COMMENT | Fight The Powers!
posted by : KingWhiskey
3/9/2007 2:58:32 PM
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!!!!!!!
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COMMENT | Who cares?
posted by :
3/9/2007 2:58:38 PM
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Who cares about VH anymore? They're done... Their legacy is a joke. Their time has passed.
SlAyEr rulez - "On and on South of Heaven!"
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COMMENT | I think
posted by : Expanded Consciousness
3/9/2007 3:02:07 PM
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Korn should perform for Slayer if Slayer is inducted, because Korn would get better TV ratings.
Being sardonic here.
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COMMENT | Who would be a good choice?
posted by : Expanded Consciousness
3/9/2007 3:11:00 PM
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No one while living members are willing to play.
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COMMENT | It's about the unique music
posted by : Expanded Consciousness
3/9/2007 3:17:32 PM
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I'd rather have the Van Halen studio cuts playing under a video montage of the bands career than watch a cover band perform their songs.
This is just for ratings sake.
Because VR has a record coming out.
This is promotion to sell records. $$$ for the music biz.
Too bad the VH Greatest Hits DLR-era isn't coming out this week.
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COMMENT | OH GOD-DAMN F*KK YEAH ...VELVET REGODVER
posted by : T-Boner.com
3/9/2007 3:19:05 PM
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MUTHER F8KK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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COMMENT | While they are at it...
posted by : Expanded Consciousness
3/9/2007 3:26:03 PM
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They should get Brittney Spears out of rehab to perform Patti Smith songs at the HOF.
Think of the ratings boys! The ratings!
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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COMMENT | Boycot!!!!
posted by : Expanded Consciousness
3/9/2007 3:33:18 PM
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Don't watch the HOF on VH1!
Or at least say No, you didn't watch it, if Neilson Ratings calls your home.
Watch it here.
http://spinner.aol.com/rockhall/2007-induction-ceremony
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COMMENT |
posted by : ed
3/9/2007 3:36:39 PM
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Actually, back in 2002 Slash was the guitarist for Michael Jackson during his live performance of Beat It, but I don't remember how well he performed Eddie's guitar solo from the song.
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COMMENT |
posted by : booch
3/9/2007 3:38:55 PM
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Runaround . . . not exactly a VH Classic
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COMMENT | Oh boy...
posted by :
3/9/2007 3:49:42 PM
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Velvet Revolver gets to prove how much they suck and totally worthless they are by butchering both eras of Van Halen. (I keep telling myself Gary Cherone never happened.)
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COMMENT | Why God?
posted by : Expanded Consciousness
3/9/2007 3:58:19 PM
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Why did we lose Van Halen in 1985 and all we get is other people singing Van Halen - Hagar, Cherone, Weiland. It's endless torture!
What have Classic Van Halen fans done to incur your wrath?
Too much sex, alcohol, and rock n' roll in the 70s and 80s?
Were we not weak and meek enough for you?
Runnin' With The Devil, indeed!
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COMMENT | Well...
posted by : Expanded Consciousness
3/9/2007 4:08:59 PM
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At least I have my ever increasing Classic Van Halen Bootleg collection. 1975-1984.
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COMMENT | VH
posted by : lemmyin
3/9/2007 4:14:09 PM
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DLR was the man, but he aint got it AT ALL anymore. he is a joke and the reality is sammy is a bad ass player and singer. there is no alternative except no performance at all. be happy for what you still have.
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COMMENT | VR ROCK!
posted by : North Nova
3/9/2007 4:15:25 PM
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Slash is the man!
I hope Sammy Sings!
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COMMENT | Sammy
posted by : Expanded Consciousness
3/9/2007 4:16:06 PM
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and bad-ass are not related to each other.
I'd rather see DLR at 80 doing Ice Cream Man on acoustic than Sammy, Cherone, or Weiland doing VH.
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COMMENT |
posted by :
3/9/2007 4:18:59 PM
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I'm sure that by now, the RnRHOF regrets picking VH in the first place after all of the ridiculous drama and nonsense this has caused. These guys can't even pull it together for one lousy day.
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COMMENT | Thanks bori
posted by : canucksfan
3/9/2007 4:51:20 PM
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for bringing back the news scroller.
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COMMENT |
posted by :
3/9/2007 5:40:06 PM
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as much as it sucks that no one from vh is going to perform, what can you expect... there's a show to put together, plans to make and obviously, the vh bros. couldn't or wouldn't commit... what are they supposed to do when the "stars" of the show say they won't be there? plan something else... i don't really know what else they could do given the timeframes and all the logistics involved...
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COMMENT | L A M E
posted by : Grapenutz
3/9/2007 5:47:17 PM
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Fuck this hall of fame shit.
If I were president, I would blacklist all those bands that had anything do do with this sham.
L A M E.
PS. Ditto on the news scroller.
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COMMENT | Come on Fans Give Me a Break !
posted by : vanhagar
3/9/2007 6:15:34 PM
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You DLR lovers have to stop being so pathetic over DLR and Eddie getting back together it hasn't happened and it won't happen.
Even the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame doesn't want DLR around, he's like the herpes, he won't go away and there's no cure to get rid of him.
They'll get inducted and that will be it for Van Halen.
They'll go down the same path as other bands that are done.
Only sell BMG greatest hits CD's at Walmart.
Eddie had the world by the balls in 1996 with Balance at the top of the charts and most of the songs being played on the radio or in heavey rotation on MTV had another sound track in a movie Twister and videos on the way into the Twister theme at Universal.
He gave it all up for the bottle and it will never be the same again.
Oh yeah wether you like it or not on this post, Velvet Revoler and the other fans all over the USA and the World love Van Halen
and love DLR and Sammy Hagar equally.
Unfortunately DLR proved why he isn't and hasn't been part of Van Halen for the past 23 years.
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COMMENT |
posted by :
3/9/2007 6:56:17 PM
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Oh
My
God.
Make it stop.
Runaround? LMAO!!! What a pussy ass song and indicative of Van Hagar!
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COMMENT | If you get inducted...
posted by :
3/9/2007 7:10:25 PM
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you should HAVE to play with your surviving members. It shouldn't even be an option not to.
LAME, LAME, LAME!
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COMMENT |
posted by :
3/9/2007 8:08:34 PM
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I hope the people in attendance chant Roth, Roth, Roth. And nobody cares about the Van Hagar era. The early Van Halen cd's influenced thousands of bands, those are the cd's that got them inducted. No band (at least I hope) was influenced by the god awful Hagar era cd's) The Hagar era of Van Halen was awful, but surely they could find a song better than runaround.. I will not be tuning into this at all. I hope Eddie gets healthy, they bring back Michael Anthony and do a full on reunion tour next year. That would be awesome.
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COMMENT |
posted by : stwla888
3/9/2007 8:11:24 PM
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This will be the worst rock ceremony ever. Then again we don't know if Kiss will perform with Ace and Peter. And Rush will probably not play with John Rutsey.
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COMMENT | well...
posted by :
3/9/2007 9:43:17 PM
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"
Actually, back in 2002 Slash was the guitarist for Michael Jackson during his live performance of Beat It, but I don't remember how well he performed Eddie's guitar solo from the song."
well, here ya go. he butchered it. played the solo in the wrong key....
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tEGU-yaUO3w
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COMMENT |
posted by : RiotAct666
3/9/2007 10:28:00 PM
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I will check it out.
Also Thank you Bori for bringing the old format back \m/
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COMMENT | WTF
posted by : HOOSIER GUNZ
3/10/2007 12:27:10 AM
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This is bullshit
I can't believe these fucking MILLIONAIRES
can't pull it together and jam out for one or
two songs.
I don't get it. I really don't get.
I hope this is just the rumor mill gone schizoid
(wishful thinking i know)
Everyone ever involved with VH should show up
to jam even if it just was with the house band. even Cherone
It's cool that slash is going to be there to support
the tribute/induction with weiland but I swear I can remember
slash saying something along the lines of "...i keep my right
hand off the fret board...it's not my style..." referring to EVH
I really cant believe these fucking millionaires. JUST GET OUT THERE AND ROCK - its not that difficult...you dip shits.
And this RRHOF - who the hell is organizing this fiasco? VH1
laugh.
ok im done
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COMMENT |
posted by : Malio
3/10/2007 12:42:54 AM
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Too bad all these millionaires with fragile egos can't suck it up and do something nice for the fans. Thanks to Sammy and Mike, we'll get at least a little VH representation there.
Runaround is a fine song. It was from their cd that won a GRAMMY. Dumbasses. And Eddie wrote all the music, don't be pissed off at Sammy if Eddie started writing less heavy music as he got older.
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COMMENT |
posted by :
3/10/2007 2:36:22 AM
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Oh well GNR oh wait I mean VR will do a good job.
Sucks to see them not perform but did anyone actually think it would happen?
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COMMENT | You know what Alan the panther....
posted by : grlpwr
3/10/2007 4:01:04 AM
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......
You are one fffnn bully and I am sick of your mean posts, get a life, whether people like DLR or Sammy Hagar, or dislike either they should get to do it with out being herassed by you.
I am going to report you to Blabbermouth.net for being abusive,
and guess what I;m a chick and they will listen to me.
Say good by to these posts.
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COMMENT | Yeah.
posted by : vanhagar
3/10/2007 4:03:16 AM
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You go GIRL POWER !!!!!!!
I'll write in too!
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COMMENT | I missed what Alan the panther said,
posted by :
3/10/2007 11:17:15 AM
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By the time I got to this thread, his post(s) was/were gone.
I guess people really enjoy censoring other people! That's very unamerican. People should be allowed to voice their opinion no matter how derogatory or popular. I got an even better soultion for people who are so easily hurt on these boards by people you'll never meet. Try ignoring the person. It works and you'll be supporting free speach. You can't argue with someone who doesn't participate in an argument. You're never going to meet anyone on this board unless you seek them out.
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COMMENT | Let Dave and Sammy perform
posted by :
3/10/2007 11:31:54 AM
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I think they should let Dave and Sammy perform with their own bands. The other half has Sammy and Michael. Wouldn't it be great if Dave could get Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan and Gregg Bissonette back to perform on this night?
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COMMENT | FUCK. THIS.
posted by : saikiin
3/10/2007 11:58:52 AM
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so very very pissed about this whole thing. my words to the van halens: guys, dig deep, and remember that feeling you got playing those backyard parties. we true fans can make it real again. get your bullshit together, fucktards.
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