Sammy & Joe take part in all-star jam
Last Night: Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, Sammy Hagar, Boots Riley, Corey Taylor, Joe Satriani, and Damian Kulash
By Jennifer Maerz in Last Night
Thursday, Mar. 26 2009 @ 11:57PM
It was midway through the Tom Morello hootenanny when Rage’s shredding machine grinned at the crowd and said, “Let me remind you, you all paid $15 to get in tonight. That’s like a buck a superstar.”
Actually, if you were gonna do the math, by the end of the night, we’d been entertained by Morello and his Freedom Fighter Orchestra, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer of the MC5, Sammy Freakin’ Hagar, Boots Riley of The Coup, Corey Taylor of Slipknot (sans mask of course), Joe Satriani, and Damian Kulash of OK Go, so technically it came out to something like $1.87 a superstar. But really, everyone at Slim’s was too busy pounding fists with fierce excitement to remember exactly how much they’d spent to get in. No matter the cost, they were getting their pennies’ worth–both in the energy the audience fed to the stage to the goodwill the headliners shot back at their fans. There was a lot of love in the room, man (and a lot of men in the room). Not to mention a lot of dollar bills that went to a righteous cause, thanks to the activist concept behind Morello’s Justice Tour, a singular concert that has you leaving feeling real good.
The political thrust behind these tours is, as Morello explained, to “bail out people, not banks.” An alternate version of this mantra, which he also espoused during the three-hour long show: “Feed the poor, fight the war, rock the fuck out.”
The Rage/Audioslave/Nightwatchman succeeded on pulling off all fronts last night. He gathered together a gaggle of rock gods during the day to personally wrap and hand out burritos with Project Open Hand, a San Francisco organization that feeds the needy, and one that received 100 percent of the ticket sales for last night’s show (plus all the $1, $5, and $10 bills people stuffed in its coffers by the end of the night at Morello’s repeated suggestions). But equally importantly, he also gathered those same ax slingers to get rowdy from the stage at night.
Personally, I wasn’t sure what to expect from the evening–I imagined an “unplugged” event full of acoustic protest songs. But while there was a little bit of the low-key (Slipknot’s Taylor came out with an acoustic guitar and warned, “I’m not going to rock the fuck out of you, I’m going to soothe the fuck out of you” before heading into emo territory with one of his own songs and covering both Tom Petty and Ray LaMontagne) nearly everything played was a 20 an energy scale of 1 to 10.
But you know things are going to get insane when the evening starts out with Wayne Kramer playing a sarcastic little ditty about the size of his amp. From there, Morello hyped the crowd by playing his “Arm the Homeless” electric guitar for a couple Nightwatchman songs, including the funk punk protest anthem “Whatever It Takes.” And then came more big guns.
“This is a great thing in our own hometown–Joe and I had to come down. We didn’t even rehearse, but that’s ok.” So said Sammy Hagar, downing a Corona and speaking of his neighbor Joe Satriani, who had just performed a couple songs of guitar mastery/wankery depening on your level of fandom (personally I find his music incredibly cheeseball, despite the obvious technical skills). Sammy was also a cheeseball of course–in a dopey, kinda awesome way. His big golden curls bounced atop his round face as the dude did leaps around the stage and did a cover of the bluesy oldie “I’m Going Down.”
Even better was the band’s version of the awesome butt rock oldie “Rock Candy,” which Hagar wrote back in the ’70s with Montrose (he kicked off the song by announcing, “In 1973, a little band came out of California called Montrose.”) Hagar sometimes sounded like a stubbed cat on the high screams, but overall? “Rock Candy” came off supremely rockin.
All that was only halfway through the night too. Highlights from the second half included a long set from Steve Earl, who played with nearly all the guests over the course of the night (including Spider Stacy of the Pogues) and covered everyone from Townes Van Zant (who he recently recorded a tribute album to) and Bruce Springsteen (”The Ghost of Tom Joad”) to playing a rousing rendition of his own “Copperhead Road.”
Other great moments: Local firebrand Boots Riley took a turn on the mic, teasing the crowd with the excellence of the upcoming Riley/Morello project Street Sweeper by playing two tracks off their upcoming album (my gut? That project’s gonna be huge if it incites half the riot it received last night) and then really knocking it out of the park with a cover of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” that got the whole crowd singing along.
By this point, Morello had played the guitar slide style, one handed, with his teeth, and in so many other incarnations there was nothing else to do, really, but get everyone (except Satriani and Hagar, who’d disappeared) up on stage…along with OK Go frontman Damian Kulash and sing “This Land is Your Land.” And that’s exactly what Morello did, prefacing the song with a reminder that “Real change doesn’t come from the oval office; It comes from people like you,” and the threat that the greedy Wall St. bastards should be prosecuted–”If not by the courts then by you!” (Big cheers to that one. Look out AEG execs).
If getting everyone to donate to the homeless, sing along to old Woody Guthrie tunes, and jump high into the air was all it took to change a country, Tom Morello would be the most benevolent, most rock ‘n’ roll dictator alive. But as it stood last night, the dude still rules. He proved he can still provoke people’s minds as he puctures their eardrums, creating a truly one of a kind show that won’t soon be forgotten.
By the way: The show left me thinking, randomly, about Noise Pop. Morello’s show was just the kind of unique star personality collision/collaboration that our local music festival should be fostering. As I wrote in a recent column, San Francisco’s biggest pop festival should be using its connections to create more “only in SF” experiences that you can’t get elsewhere. We should leave a Noise Pop event at least once feeling like we saw something we couldn’t see anywhere else. Morello’s Justice tour did just that, pulling from the country, punk, metal, hip-hop, and pop worlds to create a temporary place where everyone–from the disparate artists to the disparate music the performers selected–all got along. I can’t say I’m a fan of everyone who got on the stage at Slim’s, but all thrown together I had a blast at that show. I really hope at some point Noise Pop can create a similar evening built on wild collaborations and the element of surprise.
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March 27th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
That was bad ass guys! Thanks for the clip, thanks for the article!
March 27th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
AGAIN: THIS IS NOT A VAN HALEN NEWS…
March 27th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
again, there are no van halen news…
March 27th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
again this is…. shyuuudaap
March 27th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
again this is…
March 27th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
dont blame chickenfoot for vhnd putting this stuff on,blame van halen for not giving them anything.
March 27th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
There is no Van Halen news unless you count Eddie selling a new over-priced piece of gear.
Be happy for any news about people who used to be in Van Halen making MUSIC.
March 27th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I’m not sure Corey Taylor is worth a dollar, but I digress.
That’s classic. Blame VH for this being posted on a VH site? Uh…you go girl!
March 27th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
All you guys who say sammy is a no-body: I dont think “No-bodys” jam with Tom Morello, Steve Earle to name just two. People do not realize how respected Sammy is among muscicians from all walks. BTW: I know its difficult for you DLRs to figure out, but you see Sammy was in VH wheather you realize/admit it or not and therefore when He does somehting of interest it will be posted on the VHND. See how that works? VH does nothing except sell stuff with their name on it and it gets posted on VHND. Sammy and mike decide to actually make music and it gets posted on VHND. Hang in there guys somedayVH will put new music out and you huys will have your day to “shine”. In all seriousness I hope they do put out new music for you guys, I think eleven years ( and counting) is a bit much to have to wait
March 27th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Way to go C’mon Now! the knuckleheads don’t seem to get this. when asked who should’ve replaced DLR nobody seems to be able to give an answer.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
A question for those that think “Sammy News” isn’t “VH News”:
Is Eddie selling a new humbucker “VH News”?
Wrong.
It’s VH Advertising.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
That was sick, Sammy!!! Keep Rockin’ Rock Candy!!!
March 27th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I like EVH advertising
March 27th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
If the Phrase “Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar!” applies more fitting to anyone it’s to “commie” Morello. When is he moving to China?
March 27th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Right on NATE! Commies are all about helping out others, right? I mean after all, isn’t believing in and pursuing equality as well ashuman rights what all those commies are about? God forbid if a musician decides to believe in a cause and pursue other interests outside of music. What do you do for a living nate? do you believe in or fight for anything outside of you “job”? Do you voulunteer?, help people?, orbelieve that everyone deserves equality? Or do you just go to you job day in and day out, come home, drink some cold ones, watch nascar and slap the “ol-lady around? Yeah, Morello is a commie- you fucking tool! I think you trailer needs a vaccumming
March 27th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
i think others want to be here ( other bands ) its a hot spot thats good for advertising other bands…….VH news desk on the cusp of whats happening….Ironically it’s nothing to do with the Band Van Halen’s current status….
March 27th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
well said nate, the great irony here , you would NEVER find tom morello moving to a communist country, he choses america over all other countries he could reside in, and why? because america is the birthplace of rock, and are the leaders of the free world because of CAPITALISM and the american dream. which is what everyone in the audience has to thank for allowing them the freedom to attend a rock concert in public and in safety, and even lil tommy wouldnt be there and be able to have free speech if it werent for life liberty and the american way, and all of the soldiers that have fought in wars to defend it.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
look if van halen did half as much as sammy has i’d be happy. i look forward to new music with ed and dave.
the fact is the guy has said this so many times before
the fact remains sammy delivers and is one of the post popular guys in hard rock among his peers.
like it or not.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
i live in china and its not communist
its capitalist!
do your research and stop watching fox!
March 27th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
i understand that VanHalen doesnt have alot of news out there, but i think its a bit wrong to have all this Sammy coverage yet there is no Gary Cherone coverage at all!
while not as popular as VanHagar, VanCherone is still very much a part of VH history and was a part of the band just as Sammy or Dave, or Mike etc. why not cover his stories?
if the “well Sammy is out there making music!” applies here, why do they post a story about every single move the guy makes. i go to this site and i see articles right at the top “SAMMY GOES TO WENDYS AND ORDERS A 99CENT DOUBLE STACK!” with a quote “Yeah im just out here eatin a burger man! i couldnt do that in VanHalen, so now im just havin a good time and eatin a burger!”
by that logic, we should get an article for everytime Wolfgang puts a song on his ipod. not only would it be more intresting, but atleast Wolfgang is in VH!
March 27th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
if this was a purely van halen news site it would have shut down a long time ago.
sam was the second lead singer of van halen just as long as dave as just as successful and was inducted in the rock hall
sure we can keep reading for news articles from 1981 but at least sammy does something for his fans. oh and rage is the shite.
rage and living colour are too of the most underrated bands of all time minus montrose and van hagar.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
joe satch has nothing to do with van halen and sammy is out… take this news somewhere else.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
morello is a COMMUNIST .
—after he made millions of $$$$ in free market capitolist america. THEN he touts his marxism. goes to cuba and waves a cuban flag to impress castro.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
you haters need to make your OWN website where you ONLY cover van halen ( official-current lineup ONLY ) news. you want a ” official and only curent lineup van halen site ” –? MAKE ONE. all 11 of you can post there.
i will pay for the cobwebs as you post updates every 7-15 years.
March 28th, 2009 at 1:22 am
the only thing ed has done for the last decade is rip sam and mike, try to hawk his products, and brag about how much music he has written and lastly to promote his son.
sam, mike, and even dave know how to treat their fans.
ed has no clue and alex does what ed does.
i sure hope for new music but i am very excited about the new chickenfoot project
because somebody actually did something besides TALK.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:45 am
Let’s just wait and see if Ed’s right.
He said he’s gonna get married this summer, his son will graduate etc. and then, according to Ed, we can finally expect some new music to come.
If there won’t be any (hope jr’s grades are OK ;-)), we definitely know he’s full of it…but I hope he’s not.
Frank, NL
March 28th, 2009 at 7:07 am
Yeah, CFND
March 28th, 2009 at 9:20 am
What’s wrong with NASCAR? Self Hating little biatch. Communist leaders always live it up and preach a bunch a BS to everybody else. Equality, keep your equality away from my little paycheck pal.
March 28th, 2009 at 9:41 am
the vhnd does a terrific job,it’s not their fault that eddie and alex are the laziest guys in rock.
March 28th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Let me say I think Morello is a great musician and awesome guitarist (reminds me of EVH in some respects) and is a genuinely a good person. I don’t agree with all his means but I think his end is he really does care about people. This is America so I should let him say whatever he wants although, I don’t agree with a lot of it
March 28th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Nate- “Whats wrong with Nascar”. Nothing Nate, thanks for the visual. “Self hating little biatch”. So if someone does not subscribe to you “views” they are self-hating?, is that correct? Nate, I am far from self hating.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I’m glad I got some VH jamming, because you people are depressing. Lights, Camera Action……………
March 28th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
This is not VH news!!! Its great that Sammy and Mike are puttin some music out there, but lets keep it to Van Halen! Thats what this website says…Van Halen News Desk! Not the I use to be in Van Halen News Desk! Morello is a Commie…Plain and simple!!! He is free to spew his Anti-American drool though! Lets GO VH, lets start hearing the New stuff!!!
March 28th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
morello also supports a certain cop killer from philadelphia and i cant just look past that.
March 28th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
“This is not Van Halen new…….blah,blah,blah….”
It’s like you guys are stuck in a time warp and it’s 1984.
The truth is you guys are jealous and afraid of any success Sammy, Mikey, and Chickenfoot may have. You’re scared that this collaboration just might work.
You sit on your little VH pedestals and look down on anybody who just appreciates good music just because you’re not getting the music you want.
It’s really sad and pathetic.
March 28th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
This is very much Van Halen news. Sammy was a huge part of Van Halen and their history. Didn’t see anybody bitch about Dave being on here when he wasn’t in Van Halen. I love Dave just as much as anyone on here but you Dave buttboys are unfreakin believable. Get over it all ready.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Ace, of course the CF collaboration worked, they recorded a CD. Problem is, half of the people who visit here aren’t interested. Once again, we are not jealous of Sammy, we just think his music sucks. Don’t read your notions into our statements. I get plenty of the music I want because there are other bands besides VH and CF. So, YOU go girl! Stop being so boring.
By the way, this is not Van Halen news…..blah blah blah
March 28th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Yeah, those who support communism do have a lot of self hatred unless they are advocating it for everybody other than themselves as many do. Um you want to stereotype me? Well listen here wasnt EVH at the Fresh Fit 500 when he first started making appearances again. I am sure Mike Anthony is a huge nascar fan and that the majority of American Van Hagar/Van Halen fanbase are most likely nascar fans as well. David lee Roth compared the last two VH tours to nascar competitions. What visual? I got an on-ramp comin’ through my bedroom and I got a refugee girl from a communist countries that thinks you suck.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
ace5150: im not hoping for Chickenfoot to crash and burn, i wish any band all the best, but im just kind of sick of hearing about it! everything is just Chickenfoot beat over my head over and over. how much news could there be on them? …okay, they all got together and made a band, making an album due out in june, heres a track listing. all these rapid updates could be handled in ONE freaking update!
like i said, its true, there is NO VanHalen news at the moment so im not pissed about no news, im pissed because this has become the Chickenfoot News Desk. how about some updates on Gary once in a while? hes been out there making music and such.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Good Suggestions aarxn. Hell, why not Gary? He is definately part of VH History. Didn’t he get back w/Extreme. I’d love to see a Rage against the “machine” tour rider. They couldn’t keep a reunion together long enough because although they spread lots of propoganda they couldn’t sustain it and have it “green” enough.Their solar powered tour bus broke down or something. Well I digress.
March 28th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Funny thing is that group would only jam to van hagar songs anyways.
March 28th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
I think I just remembered that I don’t care about chicken foot.
March 28th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
nate: yeah Gary is back with Extreme i think, he had another band called Tribe of Judah that was pretty awesome!
back when VH was inducted to the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, i emailed Gary on his myspace page asking if he was upset that he wasnt a part of the induction and he actually wrote back!
say what you want, but Gary is a classy guy and has never bad mouthed ANY one in the VH soap, and always has nice things to say about them.
and to be honest, VanHalen 3 was loads better than most of the VanHagar albums (like OU812 and Balance) so i think people need to respect the guy.
March 28th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
I agree 100% Aarxn. NO VH news is better than CF news.
March 28th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Can the VHND just queue up all the comments and save everyone the time of having to say the same thing over and over again?
This isn’t VH news.
Sammy sucks, why do we have to see this?
All we hear from VH is advertising for Ed’s new guitar.
It’s been eleven years since a new album.
Ed doesn’t care about the fans.
VH has no respect for the fans.
DLR is a has-been.
etc.
If you just queue up the comments to autopost over a day or two, we’ll get the same experience with a whole lot less wear and tear on our keyboards.
March 28th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I think we’re ready for another Van Halen tour !!!
March 29th, 2009 at 12:19 am
hey -”C’Mon Now!”-: wow, typical response of an extremist radical, you dont have a leg of reason to stand on so you resort to stooping so low as making up hypotheical situations such as someone beating their wife, about the others in the discussion, and then pull a high and mighty by trying to makes claims of superiority through deeds. i mean come on(no pun intended) u are trying to equate communism to volunteer & charity work? lol EVERYONE can volunteer and do charity work regardless of race, creed, or ideology, what you have with morello is someone crossing the line of brainwashing by hiding behind things like activism to bait and switch political ideology, you can do that if you want, it IS a free country, but guess what it? is a free country BECAUSE OF CAPITALISM(once again the great irony), and just to educate a bit , communism is NOT founded in charity and volunteer work as you are implying(or have been fooled by morello’s propaganda into interrelating), it is a branch of socialism, which both seek to strip wealth and power from people to give to people who don’t have it, the “commoners”. in a society such as america where there are(for the majority) honest people who have EARNED and WORKED HARD for there wealth and position, and everyone is free to work hard and become something, there is NO justicfication WHATSOEVER for trying to punish them for that or strip them of it, or take anything from them to spread it around to others, and furthermoe government handouts simply do not work it only squeezes and punishes the people who worked hard to earn things, and gives it to the people who haven’t learned the value of that and it is squandered, like the saying “you can give a man a fish and feed him for a day, or teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime.” these “commoners” shouldn’t be given fish, they are in a free country and they should pick themselves up and educate themselves in how to fish if that is what they want.
March 29th, 2009 at 1:59 am
This news is not even remotely related to anything Van Halen! Gary Cherone was once a part of VH, but we never see anything about the reformed Extreme, the same should go for Sammy Hagar…if fans want news on sammy they should either get it from his own website or chickenfoots. Sammy is not a part of Van Halen!!!!!!!!!
March 29th, 2009 at 2:11 am
ace5150 - it has nothing to do with VH fans being jealous. Just for arguements sake, if Sammy became the new lead singer for Metallica, does that mean the VHND would have a news category dedicated to Metallica? Im just saying the news being posted on this site, largely has nothing to do with Van Halen, and really should consider changing the websites name….
March 29th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Yawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 29th, 2009 at 7:22 am
“… the news being posted on this site, largely has nothing to do with Van Halen, and really should consider changing the websites name….”
If this site were to rely solely on VH news there’s be nothing on here except Eddie trying to sell his soul and it’d have to change its name to The Edward Van Halen Home Shopping Channel.
Ain’t nothing happening with VH. Get used to it guys, you’re in for a long wait.
March 29th, 2009 at 7:49 am
unchainedonfire&outtaluv
“but guess what it? is a free country BECAUSE OF CAPITALISM”
Just to educate a bit (as you put it), freedom is not the result of capitalism. You might often find the two in the same place, but one is not the result of the other.
March 29th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Maybe if there was some van halen news we would not be getting chickenfoot!
now whose fault is that…?
as for morello being left wing so f@#ing what - he rocks and is anti-establishment which is fine with me.
get over it. sammy is or has been very right wing. he just doesnt sing about it. grow up people.
March 29th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
unchainedoutaloveonfireblahblahblah… So profound! Everyone can do charity work. your right and I’ll bet someone like Nate doeas a whole lot of charity work and I’m sure you do as well. As far as made up hypotheticals. I did nolt have to stretch to far. I dont recall syaing communism is founded on charity, in fact regardless if you Morello is a commiunist that of course is you choice, I am simply referring to his acts of generosity,they are many. Finally it is not capitalism that creates a free country, the fact that we are free, has given us the ability to become a capitalistic country. I see whay you stuck up for nate: the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree!
March 29th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
So when Sammy was in VH during 2004, should there have been DLR related news? Remenber when the “mighty Dave” became a paramedic- we heard about it on the VHND, or remember when “Mighty Roth” went on to do Vegas (LOL) we also had to read about it on the VHND, or how about when Davey got busted buying $10 worth of weed in Central Park, we had to read about that as well on the VHND. So if Sammy has decided to actually put out albums, and jam with friends then you better believe that we are going to hear about it on the VHND. The fact is; dave was in VH, sammy was in VH and even Gary was in VH ( even though his tenure was short lived). If one of these guys something it will be reported by the folks at VHND. For those of you who only want to hear DLR related info, take it up with the VHND. At least those of us who appreciate Sammy are getting new music, and it really doesn’t matter if you DLR flakes like it or not, we are still going to hear about it on the VHND!
March 30th, 2009 at 4:12 am
The older version is better… You can hear Mike’s bass much better.. In the newer one, you can’t hear Wolfgang.. Prolly cus he still on his Mommy’s tit… When VH was younger, there was more passion and fire. But hey, soon you can get VH guitar hero…
March 30th, 2009 at 6:03 am
Musicians jamming with other people for a good cause…cool jams…right f*&%in on.
Thank god Sammy is actually doing something to keep our interest these days. I absolutely love it. Here’s to the joy of music.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
C’MON NOW!
Diamond Dave does plenty of charity work sans the political BS agenda. Not to mention, he’s got more charisma in one pant leg of spandex than Morello shall ever have! But its all good. It was for a good cause and that’s cool with me. I still don’t know what your problem is with NASCAR? Hell even a Sammy Concert especially when Mike Anthony shows up it’s like a nascar event plenty of people partying to the high octane performance! Van Halen and Van Hagar are two different things. Where are we if a new album ever drops? Van Wolfie? I am sure we can all enjoy bitching about it.
March 31st, 2009 at 11:42 am
I’ll give you that, Dave has Charisma, He is a master at “left-field” metaphores, and analogies. But in the end its about performance. No matter what one does for a living, if you cant perform eventually people aren’t impressed. You’ll always have the original fans- the diehards who grew up on the stuff, and thtas fine. Sorry though, Van Halen is Van Halen with dave or with Sammy. Its called VH because of the brothers nott because of Dave or Sammy. You guys who only like Roth cant stand VH being called VH with Sammy- well it was VH, just a different version. I get that you guys don’t dig Sammy, thats fine. I guess I feel lucky in a way then because I can listen to and appreciate Dave, Sammy, and even a couple of Gary tunes. Oh well, thank God we can all take the time here and there to Yap about crap like this that in the long run really has no affect on any of us. Wheather we like one version or the other none of those guys ever had a problem taking our hard-earned to see them.
March 31st, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Hey with Dave back in VH I am more inclined to give Sammy a chance. I am always going to be Dave or the Grave. Hopefully the chickenfoot will produce some classics. But,if not they all have one hell of a combined musical backlog to produce an insanely cool setlist!!Maybe I can stand Sam singing chili peppers songs lol maybe I just could:>)It’s all good now that I got Dave back. So I can look back and enjoy and criticize it all, now with less bias and just enjoy good music for good music’s sake. Maybe classic Van Halen is gone for good. But new music is being made and hopefully it can be as epic as Van Halen has been in all it’s incarnations.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Joe Satriani, who had just performed a couple songs of guitar mastery/wankery depening on your level of fandom (personally I find his music incredibly cheeseball, despite the obvious technical skills). By Jennifer Maerz
It’s too bad Britney Spears & The Pussycat Dolls weren’t there for ya to review Jenn! Sorry honey but this is real music, played by real musicians without the cheesball lip syncing! Quite a concept eh?