Van Halen brotherly love

*waits for obligatory, “This ain’t da Audi News Desk” comments and ensuing flame wars to erupt*

I just bought a pack of smokes! And my bro bought a bag of chips!

Who cares !!!!!!!! There are more important things to worry about in the world rather than if Eddie & Alex bought the same kinda car… Maybe they needed a break from the studio that they aren’t jamming in!!!!!!!!!!! CF rocks !!!!

Ah Yes!!!!!!!!!!! Our hard earned money from the last tour at work!!!!!!!! I wonder how much they’ll make off of the classics 2010 tour that they will surely have????? It will be interesting to see if they top the $93 million, especially if they basically do the same tour just playing a few classics that omitted from the last time.

marksachs-

you stole my thunder,as i posted at Vhlinks:

WE payed for those cars! LOL!

and the lights at 5150 stay off.

WERE IS DAVE??????????

VH2008, It´s not that I am suffering from walet envy, it´s just that Van Halen happens to be one of those bands who have disregarded and short changed their fans in recent years. Even for rock stars!

Case in point I bought one of the I Love All Access packages during the 2004 tour. The package included sound check. Everybody in the band signed autographs during sound check, except one member. Guess who that was? If you guessed Eddie, you win the prize!

I am not a roadie or someone connected to the music business so I figured that this would probably be my only shot in my Life time of getting my hero´s autograph. I looked at Ed and said “Come on Ed“ He looked back at me and said “No man, because if I sign for you then I have to sign for everybody else!“ I didn´t say anything back, but I remember thinking what´s wrong with you signing for me and everybody else? After all, Sammy, Mikey, and your brother signed for me and everybody else.

It kills me when some misguided VH fan(s) writes things like “They don´t owe us anything!“ I beg to differ! They owe us everything, because if it wouldn´t be for their fans buying all these tour tickets, tee shirts, shoes, guitars, albums etc… then they wouldn´t be able to buy their matching $120,000 Audis!

Unfortunately, Van Halen seems to have lost sight of all of that or worse, just doesn´t give a @#%$ about the fans that have stuck with them for over 30 years!

Well, I am finished rambling, crying, bitching or whatever else you want to call it. Now let the disagreeing and hating begin! Lol

In more interesting news…I did a write in vote for Eddie Van Halen to be our next Sheriff. Our area held a special election for Sheriff and I voted for Eddie. I don’t like to throw away a vote but neither guy that was up for it I liked. So, it’s my right to vote or not vote so I voted Eddie.

Another slow news day.

Mark,

If your backstage experience was supposed to include getting an autograph from Eddie, THEN you would have something to be upset about. But there were no autographs promised, were there?

Sure, it would be great if Ed signed that item for you, but why judge him without being in his shoes? I wonder if you were famous for 30 years and were always asked for autographs…would you always stop everything to sign autographs, or would you sometimes politely decline?

VH doesn’t owe anyone anything. They can release anything they want, and anyone can buy it if they want to. It’s that simple.

Mark Sachs …right on brother.

To VH2008 ur a clown.

I too had Premium seats for three shows on the 2004. After sound check(s) all members Al, Mike and Sam signed shit for people while Eddie slipped away. Hell Sammy and Mike weren’t even in the band and they signed autographs and chatted with all the fans. KNowing we plunked down $400 a seat to see a band with his namesake, it’s his damn duty. Nothing is more of a slap in the face then dissing folks who paid Top, TOP dollar for this experience….that’s pure bullshit. On the flip side, I hung out with Ed back stage in 86′ and he couldn’t have been more fun. Slamming Heinkens and talking music…oh those were the days.

BTD, Thanks! I am glad that 86 was such a great experience for you and I am sure that you will never forget that! Rock On Man, Rock On!!!!!

VH2008,

Even though we don´t totally agree on everything, one thing that we both can agree on is that We Are Van Halen fans! I also agree with you that I want a new album, dvd, tour etc…

However, I recognize that there is a possibility that none of that will happen.

I was at the AC/DC show in Greensboro, North Carolina last month. While I was talking with this guy next to me he said “You know, it´s kind of sad with some of these older bands who still tour, because you never know when the time you see them may be the last!“ I said “Yea man, that´s true! Plus, that means we as fans are getting older too!“ lol

I am not angry that Ed didn´t sign the cd. Disappointed? Yes, Angry, No. Heck, I went to see them on the 07/08 tour with DLR and will see them in 2010 if that really happens. Especially, if they tour with new material. However, I think I´ll pass on the 2010 back stage experience! Lol

Take care of yourself!

At least this is Van Halen News…………… Eddie and Alex VAN HALEN

Jim, wrong. They do owe us something. In return for our loyal patronage which most of us still offer despite our patience being stretched to breaking point they owe us honesty. If you’re retired that’s perfectly fine, you’ve given us plenty to be getting on with. But if you are retired, just say so! The longer this goes on the more it looks like all the talk about a zillions songs waiting in the can is just to keep us on the hook so that we’ll think “any day now, any day now” and keep buying the sneakers while we wait. And that’s called ‘taking the piss’. How much of a market do you think there would have been for the Frankenstart replica if Eddie had officially hung up his spurs after VHIII? How many people would have been in line to drop $25,000 on a Frankenstrat from a guy who retired twelve years ago? It’s all starting to smell a little bit cynical.

And as for Ed not signing a CD. Sure, it might not have been promised in the small print, but…

A while back I bought my girlfriend a birthday present of a week’s cooking course at the cooking school of one of the U.K’s top celebrity chefs, Rick Stein. Despite the course costing £1,600 (about $2,600) it clearly stated in the details that Rick Stein will not be at the school or giving cooking lessons. You just get taught at his school and that’s the deal. However, on the last day of the course Rick turned up unannounced and spent 4 hours cooking, chatting, drinking, having pics taken and signing. And not only that, he was only in the U.K. for that day having returned from New Zealand the day before and flying out to New York the following day and he also had to get his annual medical check up on that day and apologised that he couldn’t spend longer with us. And, even though I wasn’t on the course, they fed and watered me for the whole week free of charge. Now that’s the way to treat the people who bought you your luxury lifestyle.

Sure, Edward is a genius and he deserves all that he’s got. But he seems to have forgotten who put the coins in the jukebox…

There we go again the naysayers at their very best, moaning and bitching everything Van Halen does? What next? You gonna blame Eddie for world poverty?!! WTF!! Do you listen to yourselves? Don’t think to out aloud, trust me keep to yourself and crawl back under that rock you all came from.

I agree with Jim and others here. Van Halen owe us nothing, they have given their all for us. You see Van Halen don’t release music just for the sake of releasing!! Have you noticed that in every Van Halen album, every song is GOLD!! (Except for the Hagar love ones!) They don’t put throw away songs!! I’ve been listening to Girl Gone Bad, Sinners Swing, Outta Love and other classic jems. Those songs were not hits, but they are GOLD!!!!

Van Halen made one bad mistake and that was the VH III/Cherone rushed album, they learnt their lesson on that one. I know this entire BS is everything to do with Chickenfoot and those ex-members. Music is not sports, it’s not a competition, in a nutshell ‘WHAT’S THE RUSH?’ Who’s to say Van Halen have to match what Chickenfoot, Sammy or anybody else for that matter? Maybe in Sammy’s ego corrupt ways. He’s just itching for Van Halen to fail so he can reap the benefits, you know the publicity so he can sell his booze and Cabo!!

I mean have all you naysayers forgotten? Van Halen goes by their own rules!!!

Question? Which band/artist doesn’t show up to their Rock N Roll Hall of Fame inductee night, (career suicide for most!) yet still be loved and complete their biggest and successful tour to date?

Answer? VAN HALEN!!!

The amount of heavy hits and blows this band has taken since its inception is remarkable, but Van Halen are still alive, they are true rockers and they are survivors.

Right on Jim! I wish I could take it easier now! VH doesn’t owe us anything. They’ve already given us so much…

You have to be extremely talented and also extremely lucky to make it in the music business. There are so many great musicians out there that never received their lucky break. Eddie Van Halen did and he owes that 100% to his fans. 99% of people do not get to make a living doing something they love to do and because his fans are willing to pay a significant amount of their hard earned money on Van Halen Tours and Merchandise, Eddie has been able to do this. By this website alone he should realize that Van Halen plays an important part in the fans lives. Van Halen music is the soundtrack to their lives. Eddie owes the fans everything, and for the last 11 years he has shorted them time and time again.

right on jc!ed is the source of all the frustration.

Mark Sachs: You’re the man and absolutely right. Without us, he’d be nothing. Whether you like him or hate him, Gene Simmons once said the fans are what made him. “If you treat one bad, that one turns into one million.” He said that in 2001. You can say what you want about him, but it’s impressive that he’s still got that attitude 30+ years after making it big.

Finally… someone who gets it! Thank you Russ! Imagine the pressure he deals with, aside from what the “FANS” continue to whine about in their diotribes here. Just wait patiently, like the rest of the TRUE fans, and I GUARRANTEE you won’t be disappointed… I have come to the belief that the fans today are spoiled with INSTANT GRATIFICATION & have become a victim of their own attitudes! Saying Eddie, Alex, Dave & Wolf OWE us is childish, like a kid who wants Christmas every day – you want what you want, when you want it!!!
To all of you people out there I just have 2 things to say, then I will end my own diotribe….

1)You should all be ashamed of yourselves!!!
2) GROW UP & BE PATIENT!!!

If you guys are talking about that shell of a man with rotted teeth, long stringy hair and camoflauge pants who was so f’d up he couldn’t remember how to play his own songs, I’d say no big loss on not getting his autograph back in 2004. That wasn’t Eddie. I’m sure whoever that was was under orders from the band to limit time spent with fans because he was such an embarrassment.

Here is the story. Ed and Al are getting ready to record with Wolfie and Dave and tour in a few months. Ed is now clean and sober, newly married and Wolfie is in love with Liv, a fact confirmed by Valerie who loves Liv’s family. She is from the midwest, very near KC according to Val via the Johnny Dare show KQRC mornings.

Ed and Al are worth milliions so a 120k car is nothing but a tax right off. Ed celebrates being clean and sober and might have given his car to Wolfie for graduation.

Finally, the real detail-someone got a MOTHER of a commission check and blew it in Las Vegas over the weekend. Now you know.

Some true- Ed celebrating several things, and he LOVES fast cars. Why not, would we if we had multi mill to spend…. YES

The TruthHurts, Thanks for the shout out man! Hey, I was just speaking my mind and calling it as I saw fit! I knew that I was going to get some hate on here with what I posted, but I didn’t care! The negative comments that I have received mean absolutely nothing to me!

Ed’s a big boy! Therefore, he ought to be able to take some criticism! After all, it not like he reads any of our posts anyway. People can call me whatever they want to, at least I still care about the band. I am a fan, just a frustrated one, like some of the rest of you all.

The TruthHurts, I loved your post about Gene Simmons! Gene obviously still gets it. I just wish that Van Halen would! Rock on Brother and the truth does indeed hurt!