one of the great moments in motion picture history...
16th August 2007 10:59 AM
Joey
quote:Martha wrote:
Thank you Gimme Shelter!
No Denver show? WTF?!
I sure as hell ain't drivin' to KC again.
Joooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyy!!!!!
I feel ya my Stonesian Queen .
The Qwest Center lost Elton John to K.C.'s new arena and now we have lost Van Halen .
Then again , on SECOND thought ...................
www.QWESTCENTER.com
Snazzy Cakes !
16th August 2007 11:02 AM
Joey
quote:mojoman wrote:
wonder if dave will be driving the ice cream truck by then
mojo .......................
Speaking of ice cream ........ I just spent the last two hours ' straining stool ' .
Word .
JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJACKY !
16th August 2007 05:05 PM
Some Guy
The person I get info from works for them. He hasnt been wrong in anything he's told me so far. He didnt say it was impossible , just that it isnt set in stone. Theres a lot of factors involved here that people dont know.
They dont get along as much as they portray,there are money needs that are inspiring this tour,and Val is VERY leery about her son doing this.One slip up and he's pulled. Once they get their finances in order will they continue to be able to justify standing each other?
Those are things that are a REAL question right now, and this 25 is a test to see if these obstacles can be overcome. If not these might be the only dates all of us will get to have a chance at.
Upon hearing this, compared to what they acted like on stage, Id rather know than not that I better get my ass somewhere to see them since they havent said a date close to me.
Optimistic? Id love for them to continue forever, tour cd ,new vidoes a live dvd with old concert footage,etc,etc
Reality? There are REAL concerns and this is a trial.
So advice from an inside guy should be heeded.
-Roth Army
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b127/swapmeetlouie/1151486524_b51a5dd088.jpg
[Edited by Some Guy]
16th August 2007 05:08 PM
Saint Sway
do we really need insider info to tell us that this thing could implode at any second??
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16th August 2007 05:12 PM
Joey
" ..do we really need insider info to tell us that this thing could implode at any second?? "
16th August 2007 06:49 PM
charlotte
Joey, you are a legendary poster...mt Rushmore
you will have a statue just outside the CornHusker locker room and when the Big Red comes out they will all salute you
16th August 2007 07:02 PM
Joey
quote:charlotte wrote:
Joey, you are a legendary poster...mt Rushmore
you will have a statue just outside the CornHusker locker room and when the Big Red comes out they will all salute you
Bless You my Stonesian Queen ........
You are much loved by Joey
Joeykins !
16th August 2007 08:42 PM
guitarman53
I Wouldn't trust Eddie Van Halen as far as I could throw him, David Lee Roth be aware! the guy is so full of Ego, he even named his son after Mozart, who was a real musical genius, this guy hasn't worked any of the 12 steps of a program ( which is to get rid of your Ego) instead he's a phoney in the 1st degree, just look at his past actions, I admire him as a great guitarist, but he's sick!! he could never pretend to be a Mozart, instead he's a first class asshole!
16th August 2007 08:48 PM
Left Shoe Shuffle
quote:guitarman53 wrote:
I Wouldn't trust Eddie Van Halen as far as I could throw him, David Lee Roth be aware! the guy is so full of Ego, he even named his son after Mozart, who was a real musical genius, this guy hasn't worked any of the 12 steps of a program ( which is to get rid of your Ego) instead he's a phoney in the 1st degree, just look at his past actions, I admire him as a great guitarist, but he's sick!! he could never pretend to be a Mozart, instead he's a first class asshole!
Really?
I though he named him after that restaurateur.
Damn.
16th August 2007 09:39 PM
sirmoonie
quote:guitarman53 wrote:
I Wouldn't trust Eddie Van Halen as far as I could throw him, David Lee Roth be aware! the guy is so full of Ego, he even named his son after Mozart, who was a real musical genius, this guy hasn't worked any of the 12 steps of a program ( which is to get rid of your Ego) instead he's a phoney in the 1st degree, just look at his past actions, I admire him as a great guitarist, but he's sick!! he could never pretend to be a Mozart, instead he's a first class asshole!
You been drinking?
16th August 2007 09:59 PM
guitarman53
quote:sirmoonie wrote:
You been drinking?
How did you know??
17th August 2007 10:39 AM
Martha
Eddie is an angry, egomanic with an inferiority complex (alcoholic), but I don't give a damn. He can play that guitar like the madman he is and that's what I've gone to see. I'd see it one more time.
17th August 2007 11:59 AM
Joey
quote:sirmoonie wrote:
You been drinking?
17th August 2007 12:14 PM
Poison Dart
I think it's cool that Van Halen has Andy Milonakis on bass this time around.
A Considerable TownPrint E-mail A Diamond Is Forever
By RANDALL ROBERTS
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 6:00 pm
The booze is flowing early on this Monday morning at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. Just because Eddie’s stopped drinking doesn’t mean we have to abstain too. This is a Van Halen press conference, after all — rock & roll. By 10:45 a.m., half the crowd is sipping bloody marys and mimosas — bottles of Jack would have been more appropriate — and nibbling on swank little morsels. Instead of bowls of M&M’s (minus the brown ones), there are yogurt parfaits with berries and homemade granola; spinach, mushroom and cheese frittatas; dinky doughnuts with homemade preserves. As Moby’s “Run On” bumps out of the PA (wait a minute — Moby at a Van Halen media event? WTF?), the whole thing starts to seem more like the launch of a new clothing line instead of one of the most anticipated rock moments of the year.
“I wonder whether those four heads can fit on the same stage,” a craggy old metalhead says.
But then the glorious keyboard riff from “Jump” interrupts the speculation, and David Lee Roth and three Van Halens (Alex, Eddie and bass player/Eddie-offspring Wolfgang) weave through the scrum of reporters to announce their long-overdue reunion tour. (They’ll play Staples Center on November 20.)
A generation of Trans Ammers have been waiting for this moment since the day after Roth left Van Halen in the spring of 1985. Since then, it’s been a fucking nightmare. First there was the whole Van Hagar debacle (made even more difficult by the group’s poke-my-eardrums-out success), then the tease of ’96, when Roth briefly rejoined the band but was booted by the brothers before stepping foot onstage. Gary Cherone? That never happened.
And this year has been hell. In February, Eddie Van Halen confirmed that the band’s true front man was returning for a reunion tour — only to renege a few months later and check himself into rehab after photos surfaced of him looking like the Wicked Witch of the West.
But here they are, Dave and Eddie, hugging onstage as a nation of stoners rejoice. Eddie even pecks Dave on the cheek.
“This is the press conference you never thought you’d see happen, especially while we were young, skinny and good-looking,” says an effervescent Roth, wearing a black blazer with golden rococo curlicues that recall the glowing locks he used to rock.
The plan, according to Dave: “Twenty-five of your greatest hits — all the favorites that you’ve been hearing tearing out of the back of a pickup truck at the Burger King drive-thru for how many summertimes?” That would be at least 30, Dave, maybe more for the old-schoolers who remember the band’s days rocking the Continental Club in Hollywood.
And even if Dave’s hot for teacher all these years later — she’s got to be nearing retirement by now — he’s still got it made. He’s Diamond Dave, the king of the rock & roll anthem, a man who keeps time by counting summers. He radiates joy, has no internal editor and shits platinum quotes. In 15 short minutes, he manages to diss U2 and their hair (“You don’t want to see the same old band, the U2 guys with the mullets. You want something that delights, that entertains and astonishes”), the Police for their lack of commitment (“a band like this . . . could get away with a lot if you do one tour. That’s not our ambition. This is not like the Police”), and Elvis Costello’s Imposters and Michael Jackson in the same breath: “If there was a God, Elvis would be alive and the Imposters would be dead, and if Elvis was alive, so would Michael Jackson be dead.” The latter comment elicits an audible rumble, but Dave won’t have any of it. “What, are you booing me for a Michael Jackson joke? This is a Van Halen audience.”
Indeed it is, and the three Van Halens proper onstage look fantastic. Alex looks like a jet-setting financier; young Wolfgang is quiet and a little nervous, but his sunglasses hide most of it. And Eddie looks not only rehabbed but reconstructed: square jawbone, sparkling smile (new teeth?), twinkle in those eyes — quite literally, a new man.
“It’s all very well intact,” confirms Dave, “the same shitty attitude but with a whole new look.” And what of original bassist Michael Anthony, he who swung from ropes while swigging bottles of Jack and keeping a steady tugboat bass? Not invited on this journey. But Roth is the perfect diplomat: “This is the band’s history. There’s a lot of great alumni who have been through this band. I’m shocked that any of us are still vertical after 30 years . . . Usually when a band comes back like us, it’s rockers with walkers, and this is everything but. Meet us in the future, not the pasture.”
It’s been a long time coming, that’s for damn sure. But Van Halen taught us about patience a long time ago. Remember? “You’ve got to roll with the punches to get to what’s real.”
17th August 2007 02:10 PM
Saint Sway
I like this:
"He radiates joy, has no internal editor and shits platinum quotes."
the same can be said for Ian Billen, no?
17th August 2007 05:02 PM
Joey
" the same can be said for Ian Billen, no? "
17th August 2007 06:57 PM
Some Guy
all tickets are gone- complete sell out across the board.
17th August 2007 07:31 PM
MrPleasant
I'm drunk
17th August 2007 07:45 PM
mojoman
quote:MrPleasant wrote:
I'm drunk
Ooh! And I'm alone, I'm on the highway
Wanted, dead or alive
Dead or alive
17th August 2007 10:24 PM
Some Guy
I don't feel tardy.
17th August 2007 10:58 PM
mojoman
Im hot for teacher
18th August 2007 04:29 PM
Joey
quote:Some Guy wrote:
I don't feel tardy.
Funny Tater
18th August 2007 09:43 PM
sirmoonie
She was seaside sittin', just a smokin' and a drinkin' on ringside......
18th August 2007 09:49 PM
sirmoonie
Awesome press conference, if these guys are as confident as they say, this tour is going to rock.
18th August 2007 09:49 PM
robpop
quote:sirmoonie wrote:
She was seaside sittin', just a smokin' and a drinkin' on ringside......
Just got in turned the game on. Steelers are down. I don't care much about this preason bull. Just wanna see some of the new guys play. My ass is draggin'. Building a new retaining wall in the back part of the yard. Fuck that shit. One more day. Got a few cold irons in the fridge, time to slug a few and watch the Steelers.
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18th August 2007 10:12 PM
robpop
Preason football is like methadone to an addict. It gives you a little fix, but it just ain't the same. Three more weeks and its straight up, hardcore back and gold tar herion straight into the veins.
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18th August 2007 10:26 PM
sirmoonie
quote:robpop wrote:
Just got in turned the game on. Steelers are down. I don't care much about this preason bull. Just wanna see some of the new guys play. My ass is draggin'. Building a new retaining wall in the back part of the yard. Fuck that shit. One more day. Got a few cold irons in the fridge, time to slug a few and watch the Steelers.
[Edited by robpop]
I can't remember the Steelers ever winning a preseason game until a couple of weeks ago. Tomlin did say that Ben was going to play the first half - we'll see how things shake out.
Anyway, another Super Bowl ring is almost guaranteed.
18th August 2007 10:43 PM
robpop
quote:sirmoonie wrote:
I can't remember the Steelers ever winning a preseason game until a couple of weeks ago. Tomlin did say that Ben was going to play the first half - we'll see how things shake out.
Anyway, another Super Bowl ring is almost guaranteed.
Chuck Noll is having serious health problems. The Nation wishes him all the best. The man made Pittsburgh a football town, and changed the NFL forever. He was the master of the draft. I cannot think of any other coach in any sport who had a better eye for talent.
He let his players have the limelight. He very rarely spoke, but when he did he made a lot of sense.
"A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning. "
"Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it. "
"It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team."
"The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead."
"The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing. "
"Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.”
"Good things happen to those who hustle."
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