.:OT:. Just got a bunch of EVH :)

[SickBoy]

I hear you, 006!
I too wish I'm the age of my brother, who's been born in 1963. Just in time to check all the 80s goodies out, but he never was into metal...
What an ungrateful prick, he really didn't know how to really appreciate that decade!

When I see talks of the grandpas over there on UM Old School board, I'm green with envy, like "hey, here's a photo of me right before I do a stage dive at 1986 Agent Steel concert"

 

[Glenn Fricker]

Not to rub it in, but the first big concert I ever saw was Dio on the Sacred Heart tour.... when Vivian Campbell was still with him. I was 15, and yeah, it was a great time.

 

[Radd]

Mine was Yngwie opening up for Triumph. Remember them?
Back in '85 I think. That was my first Yngwie experience ever.
Seems to me at the time I did'nt even think much of him other then he's a good guitarist. I was only realy interested in Triumph!
This was right before I graduated from rock to metal.
Now I still don't think much of Yngwie other than he's an amazing guitarist.

 

[SickBoy]

Funny enough, I see him primarily as an ace songwriter, I don't think that much about him as a guitarist...

 

[Glenn Fricker]

Mine was Yngwie opening up for Triumph. Remember them?

Thanks to Canadian broadcast policy (very similar to Cuba's) going thru an entire day without hearing Triumph on the radio is not only impossible, it's illegal.

 

[Suicide_As_Alibi]

Haha, followed by Bryan Adams and Alanis Morisette no doubt?

Steve

 

[JBroll]

I know lots of people hate Van Hagar, if not all Van Halen, but EVH is fucking god as far as I'm concerned and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge is one of the coolest album titles in the history of words.

Jeff

 

[Matt Crooks]

My first concert was Van Halen on the 1984 tour... I did see that Triumph/Yngwie show too!

 

[Torsis]

Based solely on the cover, I picked up VH1 when it was released in 1978 ...way back in the vinyl days

Far from gay.
Mind blowing, actually.

 

[iekobrid]

Talk about gay... Yesterday I realized that 2006 is the 20th anniversary of not just 'Master of Puppets' but '5150' as well. I then told my friends that I hope Dream Theater does the album straight through for one of their live CDs.


And I wasn't joking.

 

[everybody's x]

personally I think the production on the first van halen album is brilliant, panning and all. it is totally free of any trends that would have dated it. It still sounds kick ass today.

they get slagged for the cock rock thing but Eddie inspired a generation of guitarists, and was inadvertantly responsible for the over-the-top ridiculousness that shred guitar turned into. Can't really blame him for doing his own thing and suddenly a million other guys wanted to emulate him. myself included


dudes got tasty chops regardless of the side-effects it caused

 

[Gnash]

Man, you shouldn't get to even pick up a guitar, if you don't respect Eddie! Anyone who rips on him, should have their fret hand fingers cut off one by one and shoved up their ass! All while listening to "Eruption" repeatedly! On a lighter note, my fist show was Van Halen, Scorpions, Dokken, Kingdom Come, and a Master of Puppets era, Metallica. Summer Jam 1988. Man It was so cool to see Metallica before everyone in the world knew 'em! Front Row, baby!:Smokin:

 

[everybody's x]

arrowhead! I was there

the 25,000 naked girls were cool too

 

[JBroll]

Talk about gay... Yesterday I realized that 2006 is the 20th anniversary of not just 'Master of Puppets' but '5150' as well. I then told my friends that I hope Dream Theater does the album straight through for one of their live CDs.


And I wasn't joking.

Which one? MOP (they already did that, it just sounded like fucking shit because it was a poorly done AUD) or 5150 (I don't know if JP can play that loose and I know MP won't do fucking electronic drums)?

Jeff

 

[Kazrog]

There's nothing "gay" about VH. Throw on the Fair Warning album, that stuff is so badass it's ridiculous!

 

[Muttley]

All my mates kept slagin' them off saying that they were cock rock, etc.

I think that was down to jealousy because they weren't getting any.

I love loads of those old bands. Dokken, Ratt, White Lion, Saigon Kick, Extreme, Skid Row, etc. and find it amusing how people like to pidgeon-hole their own musical tastes.

Fucksake, I even like some Neil Diamond.

Muttley

 

[Gnash]

arrowhead! I was there

the 25,000 naked girls were cool too

YOUZA! yeah Dave, I was in the very front of the stage, when VH came out, I nearly was squished to death! Talk about tits! There was even a chick on the front row, squirting milk out of her tit, and hitting Eddie with it. Funniest shit I ever saw in my entire goddamn life!!!!! Eddie just slayed me at 10 years old, just starting out on guitar. I remember hearing the intro to "Pretty Woman" on the radio when I was a kid. Scared the shit out of me! I got a guitar the next day! I thank Eddie every day for my floyd, bridge humbucker in my RG, AND my amp! He is the innovator!

 

[JBroll]

There was even a chick on the front row, squirting milk out of her tit, and hitting Eddie with it.

This is probably the biggest WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?? I've seen on this thread yet.

I'm going to be eating lunch or driving to school or sitting in class and just randomly think about this, having no choice but to scream WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?? as soon as the full impact hits me again. Fucking great. If I ever end up at a concert where someone is squirting milk at ANYTHING...

Things like this aren't easy when you're the last guy on the planet who doesn't give a shit about tits.

Jeff

 

[Gnash]

Yeah, I remember roadies combing the crowd for chicks to take backstage. And with her public display of affection, she had her tit in the door. She did it a bunch too! Squirting like 20 feet, or some shit! Like a fucking half gallon, all over Eddies baggy outfit! I bet the band has a great fucking story about her!

 

[Radd]

This thread is resurrected?

So 006, now that you've been listening to VH, do you still think they are kinda gay?
I'm talking old VH, not Van Hagar.

Just curious.