Old Guy Drama - VH Style

Van Halen has been all over the news lately. I'm actually surprised on how behind I was on all if it.

Let's start from where it started:

Sammy Hagar told Edde Trunk (on the Trunk Report) a few weeks ago that the VH camp blocked him from playing any Sammy era songs on a recent episode of Live at Darryl's House.

As a Sammy era VH fan, this makes me scratch my big head (takes a while) and ask "Why?" My era of VH should be heard. I would love to see Darryl Hall bust out a drill and shred the intro to Poundcake.

It dosent stop there. Eddie told Rolling Stone Magazine last month that he and David Lee Roth aren't friends and don't communicate outside business. He also said that Dave is picking set lists, essentially insinuating that DRL is pulling the strings these days.

Huh? Really? Seriously?

To know that Rolling Stone still exists is shocking enough, but EVH saying all of that is mind numbing.

For Eddie to give up the reigns to anyone is just plain weird. His legendary ego has lead him to soaring heights and gutteral lows, but he was always convinced he was right, therefor keeping his dignity somewhat intact (save the jesters hat during the VH3 era).

The logic dosent make sense to me. If he is doing what he thinks "the Fans" want, which is really only half of the fans respectively, why not bring back Michael Anthony? Both camps of Fans can agree on that.

Speaking of Michael, Eddie dissed his musicianship in the same interview, saying he taught him everything he knows.

Last but not least: Billy Sheenan stated (again, on a recent episode of Trunk Report) that he was being heavily considered to replace Michael in VH back in 1980. He made it sound as though he actually jammed with Eddie, Alex and Dave behind Michael's back. My favorite part of that interview was the "but Michael is great" bullshit backpedal. 

Headlines aplenty. Does anyone besides me and 45 other nerdy people really give a rats ass? Probably not. 

I want to write a message to all of them as a fan even though it will never be read:

Eddie: go on a G3 tour or something. Be humble in a good way.

David: retire and open a DoJo. Call it the Face Plant.

Alex: quit VH, join The Circle.

Sammy: keep on keeping on.

Michael: same as above.

Wolfie: start a Death Core band.

And Billy: let sleeping dogs lie. 

Nago.