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Post by kds on Sept 7, 2019 21:02:46 GMT
His previous Christmas album is pretty decent. Yeah, in reading the article, I was surprised that he already had a prior Christmas album. That one really went under the radar with me. I can't believe it's 10 years old. I remember it was released in the Christmas season between Priest's British Steel Tour and "Farewell" Tour.
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Post by kds on Sept 9, 2019 12:38:23 GMT
I don't know why, but it's always funny to me that so many metal bands and artists do Christmas albums. I don't know why--metalheads celebrate Christmas too!--I guess it's just stereotyping. I think Savatage opened the door for metal Christmas music in the mid 1990s.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 9, 2019 12:48:50 GMT
In the same era there was a series of a few mostly rock and metal oriented instrumental guitar Christmas albums, Merry Axe-mas (I believe was the name).
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Post by kds on Sept 9, 2019 12:53:29 GMT
In the same era there was a series of a few mostly rock and metal oriented instrumental guitar Christmas albums, Merry Axe-mas (I believe was the name). Yeah, I have both Merry Axe-mas albums. But, even though there are a lot of big time hard rock and metal names, the albums are surprisingly mellow.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 9, 2019 12:57:52 GMT
That’s true. They were great for me at the time, though: I could add something to the family Christmas rotation to get my mom’s cheesy stuff off and yet not shatter anyone’s ear drums.
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Post by kds on Sept 9, 2019 13:15:17 GMT
I still revisit those albums every now and again in December. And Gary Hoey released about four albums worth of Christmas instrumentals, which are quite good.
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Post by kds on Oct 1, 2019 15:01:47 GMT
David Lee Roth has said in a recent interview that Van Halen is pretty much over. ultimateclassicrock.com/david-lee-roth-van-halen-finished/If this holds true, talk about a great band going out with a wimper. Over the last two decades, we've seen a brief tour with Hagar in 2004. Then, the reunion with Roth in 2007-2008, and the Different Kind of Truth album in 2012 (which was made up of mostly recycled ideas). Eddie Van Halen just doesn't seem to want to do anything anymore.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 1, 2019 21:58:20 GMT
Sad. But frankly it felt like ever since they let Hagar go, they never knew what they were doing. Since the mid-to-late 90s, they have acted every bit as strange as our dear BBs, seeming to bungle every decision possible.
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Post by kds on Oct 2, 2019 12:20:57 GMT
Sad. But frankly it felt like ever since they let Hagar go, they never knew what they were doing. Since the mid-to-late 90s, they have acted every bit as strange as our dear BBs, seeming to bungle every decision possible. I recently read a book about Van Halen, and the author, and several people close to the band who were interviewed, pretty much said that soon after Hagar and the band parted ways the first time, Eddie just seemed to lose any motivation to do anything new. On a certain level, I respect that. Better than playing the nostalgia circuit every summer, going through the motions, and playing the same setlists of material from 1978-84 each night.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 2, 2019 12:48:31 GMT
I absolutely can respect that state of mind. It’s a shame, however, in that every so often after that he went along with assorted projects. That I cannot respect.
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Post by kds on Oct 2, 2019 12:56:01 GMT
I absolutely can respect that state of mind. It’s a shame, however, in that every so often after that he went along with assorted projects. That I cannot respect. What projects has he done outside of the random VH reformations? I know he played guitar on a Roger Waters song called Lost Boys Calling for a movie soundtrack in the late 1990s.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 2, 2019 13:38:30 GMT
I meant projects under the VH brand: tours, a couple albums, etc. if he’s not into it, I wish he’d just retired rather than half assing it, stopping and starting assorted alleged reunions, etc.
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Post by kds on Oct 2, 2019 14:31:55 GMT
I meant projects under the VH brand: tours, a couple albums, etc. if he’s not into it, I wish he’d just retired rather than half assing it, stopping and starting assorted alleged reunions, etc. Ah, gotcha. He seemed to be into the 2004 Sammy reunion, but he was also pretty messed up at the time. And I think he liked relaunching the band with his son on bass. So, I don't think Eddie went into any of those tours half assed, and probably not the 2012 album despite the lack of newly written material for it. The one thing that I think was either half assed, or possibly rushed, was the idea to do three new songs with Sammy for the 2cd Best of Both Worlds collection in 2004.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 2, 2019 14:46:46 GMT
Am I misunderstanding or are you having it both ways? On one hand you note he wasn’t interested anymore after the first Sammy breakup, but on the other you say he was into most of those later efforts.
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Post by kds on Oct 2, 2019 14:58:07 GMT
Am I misunderstanding or are you having it both ways? On one hand you note he wasn’t interested anymore after the first Sammy breakup, but on the other you say he was into most of those later efforts. I think you're misunderstanding me. He was uninterested in doing anything new since Sammy's breakup. And I'm actually incorrect there, as Eddie was actually pretty excited about the new direction the band was going in on VHIII. I doubt Eddie would've done the tour with Sammy and the handful of tours with Dave had he not be interested. I honestly don't believe Eddie does anything he truly doesn't want to do.
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