Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

Tag: eddie van halen

Seems So Familiar

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Like I said: there’s not a lot of Dead/Van Halen connections, but Travis Bean should have sued the Kramer folks over stealing his headstock.

Every time I start writing about a band other than the Dead, I’m first struck by the dearth of information on, say, what gauge strings the bass player used in such-and-such year; then I realize that, no, it’s just that Deadheads are insanely obsessive nerds. (And God bless ’em for it: you know how many good–or even acceptable–live recordings of VH there are? Like, seven. And three of them are from the same tour.)

David Lee Roth Has Something To Say

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Hey, Eddie. Whatcha doing?

“I’m not part of your bullshit. Don’t talk to me.”

But I’m a fan.

“Who isn’t? Fuck off.”

Your outfit is a little matchy-matchy.

“Fuck off!”

Well, who can I talk to?

“DAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE!”

Shit.

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Hey, Dave.

“I’ll talk to you!”

You’ll talk to anyone.

“Let’s do cocaine kaRATE!”

That’s not a thing.

“You got a girlfriend?”

No.

“Get one, so I can fuck her!”

I can see why they keep firing you.

“Hello, Whatever City I’m In!”

You’re backstage, Dave.

“WOO!”

C’mon, Dave. Gimme a break.

Frankenwolf

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“You’re kidding, man.”

All in good fun, Garcia.

“Nothing fun about this.”

You didn’t like Van Halen?

“Eh. Heard the first few records. The hit single with the synthesizers that was on the radio. I think they hired Bobby’s shaggy friend to sing, right?

That’s pretty much the timeline, yeah.

“Eh.”

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Thanks to Spencer for the ‘shop. Spencer has something deeply, deeply wrong with him; luckily for us, he does not keep this wrongness to himself.)