Comments on: Gibson Interview: Sammy Hagar Talks Chickenfoot, Guitars, And Songwriting

By: ZRS 5150

ZRS 5150 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:20:40 +0000

I loved VH with Dave, loved VAGAR with Sammy and tried to like VIII (four great songs). I am finding my way through Chickenfoot and find my liking of it similar to VIII (a few good songs). And that is the point…….I never “met” a VH song with Dave I didn’t like. So what’s the point of my post? VH with Dave yields the best of everyone’s talents. Just an opinion.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:19:00 +0000

Jor-L5150… I can answer that question for you. The answer is that he could have just as easily stated good things about both of them and bowed out gracefully. Joe S is not his wife. Gary was asked about comparing Ed to Nuno. His reply was classy. It’s just a bad idea to throw dirt around at this point. If he wants Chickenfoot to be all that it can be, he needs to remember that you NEVER get points from diehard Van Hagar fans for discrediting in anyway when Van Hagar was. Big mistake

By: Jor-L5150

Jor-L5150 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:59:51 +0000

IMO:

VH3- gary had NO chance. after the huge success of vanhagar, and being teased w/ a roth reunion…. fugedaboutit.

bad management. rushed album.

SHOULD have been an EP with: ” without you”/”fire in the hole”/”once”/”dirty water dog”. the rest is crap.
just EP a TOUR baby TOUR~
then maybe…

BOBW- ed was a MESS. the whole thing was rushed. tour was iffy, carried by hagar and mike. new songs were phoned in.
al wanted sam to stay.
ed was disintegrating. ended up doing porn. go ahead and blame sam for that (rolleyes)

chickenfoot-
sam has always touted his peers. whats he supposed to say ? “joe’s ok but ed was better ” ? c’mon. do you tell your wife your ex-girlfriend was hotter?

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:56:36 +0000

Rich.. Yes, it would have been nice if they released an instrumental CD. But it is their career and their preference. ED KEPT HIS PROMISE TO US ALL. HE PROMISED THAT IF THINGS DIDN’T WORK OUT WITH GARY THEY WERE DONE. HE WERE FOREWARNED. HIS EXACT WORDS WERE “I WILL BE PLAYING THE TUBA OR SOMETHING ELSE. We are lucky that he broke his promise twice already to tour with previous singers.

Perhaps they don’t want to do anything unless it’s within a band-type setting. I can’t fault them for that. The HUGE double standard here is that Sammy could switch guitar platers every year and no one would care or even critize him. Ed could switch lead singers every year and he would be an even bigger joke for doing that. I think that this type of seven circle of hell with revolving lead singers

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:52:31 +0000

Soldano SLO-100 – hey man, I agree with you! It’s tough to be honest enough to say “my teen-years hero disappoints me now that I’m an adult”, but there’s a certain honesty in calling a spade a spade.

Just to reconfirm, yes – Ed DOES have tapes and tapes of “licks and sounds”, but he does NOT have completed tunes just laying around waiting for Dave to sing over them. If that were the case Ed would have released more than 3 songs over the past 11 years.

SHAWN – good to hear from you. I agree with you man.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:33:55 +0000

They could at least release an instrumental EP or something – every VH album has an instrumental on it of some kind.

5150 has “The Inside” which is kind of weird but guitar orientated.

OU812 has “Source of Infection”, which is basically Edward soloing over Sammy for 3 minutes.

Don’t forget stuff like Pleasure Dome…

Eddie has been all about the guitar. He has so many riffs (apparently) and so why do we not see or hear them? Its my firm belief that he should release some solo stuff. Every time he says in an interview “every Van Halen record is a solo record because I write all the music” – fair enough, but Ed’s no lyricist. Although I’ve always wondered how Mikey approached the bass lines…