VAN HALEN's LOST ALBUM Following Van Halen III

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• RN

  @rnrtruestories · 2 years ago · pinned

  Did you guys like Van Halen III?

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• OP

  @OpenRoader · 2 years ago

  I totally respect what Wolfgang is doing, but I wish he would let someone handle the glut of tapes in the 5150 archives so that some of this stuff can see the light of day before the original fans of =vh= are gone. RIP Eddie, I miss you ever day

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• WE

  @weeklyfascination · 2 years ago

  I saw Van Halen on the Van Halen III tour in Yokohama. Great show!

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• TH

  @theeducatedfool · 2 years ago

  Gary Cherone deserved so much better, his best with Extreme is like if you combined Roth’s charisma and Hagar’s range.

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• DE

  @DesertScorpionKSA · 2 years ago

  Eddie never learned how to properly assert himself. At the end, he became passive aggressive and alienated everyone but his brother, Alex.

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• DE

  @deejay7060 · 2 years ago

  The Cherone era of VH was dead on arrival. There was no way that VH was going to tease a possible reunion with Roth, only to pull the plug and continue on with Gary.

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• VA

  @vampirascoffin870 · 2 years ago

  lets not forget around 1996 Van Halen  also had a lost singer.......Mitch Malloy crazy time!!! All Hail Van Halen🤙🏼💯🎸 (R.I.P) Eddie

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• WI

  @wicky383 · 2 years ago

  Check out Extreme at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.  Gary's performance is amazing!!

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• 0U

  @0U812FU · 2 years ago

  I've never seen a band with so much talent... So much Fame... Could do anything they want... But could not keep it together and truthfully wasted a lot of years of what could have been great music and some great tours....

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• MI

  @michaelmarotta2226 · 2 years ago

  I loved VH3 when it came out and still do to this day. I remember following the VH website almost every day back in ‘99 watching for progress on the second album. Then they just gave up. I was devastated at the time and I still wish I could hear those demo songs or whatever they recorded. (Wolfie, please release those songs) Anyone that saw the VH3 tour knows the band was on fire. Cherone was amazing since he could sing all 3 eras of the band and the energy he had on stage matched DLR when he was younger. I still remember that concert, it was so loud, I couldn’t hear for days afterwards.<br><br>People say the album was a failure, etc, but what is never mentioned is that when Hagar was fired, he took a lot of fans with him. Then throw in the supposed Roth reunion deal and that isolated a lot of the DLR VH fans as well. So at the time VH was really an entirely new band looking to re-create another fan base with a third singer. However, the music scenehad changed by 1998. Old rock bands were considered dinosaurs at the time. They were competing with Marilyn Mason and rap metal bands like Limp Bizkit not to mention the pop side of the business; Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. Plus, people also forget that Hagar released Marching to Mars and Roth released a greatest hits album and a book and made a solo comeback with the DLR band album, so fans had choices and limited money. Do I buy Hagar’s album, Roth’s album/book or this VH album with some new singer? And ultimately I think fans sided with Hagar and Roth since they looked like the victims at the time. EVH looked like a bully for “firing” singers and saying Roth better be wearing a cup if he spoke to him like that again.<br><br>Also, most people dismiss the serious health decline of EVH at this time. He would end up with mouth cancer shortly after Cherone “left” the band. I honestly believe all this contributed to the decline of VH with Cherone. Cherone even said he remained friends and lived in EVHs guest house after he left VH. So that tells you it wasn’t hatred or anger towards each other, rather I think they just ran out of energy to build a band from the ground up for a third time. That coupled with poor choices surrounding the project. One example would be the VH3 album cover. I read that AVH chose the album cover, that alone turned off people from buying the album. Another example would be the producer, Mike Post, bad choice to produce a VH album. What happened to the brown sound EVH guitar on the album or the vocal harmonies that VH was known for? It’s all clean sound guitar and missing vocal harmonies. &nbsp;Again, more extremely poor decisions. To me, EVH wanted to have fun and do an album without a lead singer or some record company executives telling him what to do or what they want to hear. So what we as VH fans ended up with is a pure from-the-soul EVH solo album with some virtually unknown singer. I embraced it, others didn’t, but I still say that Without You, Once, Fire In the Hole and From Afar are some of the best VH songs around.

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• MA

  @MarcNowacki · 1 year ago

  Cherone sounded awesome live with VH. He definitely was a victim of circumstance. Had there been no issues he probably would’ve been there longer with more albums.

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• ZA

  @zacharycunningham1789 · 2 years ago

  Though VHIII didn’t do it for me, it did make me appreciate Cherone as a vocalist. Dude has pipes for days!

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