Mitch Malloy

Very cool! Nice to hear the complete story from the source. I like his version of TWILY, too.

Very cool video. That one would be good for a compilation dvd. TWILY song isn’t one of my favorite songs from the Cherone era and Malloy’s version doesn’t do anything for me either. As a matter of fact, I agree with Mitch that it wouldn’t have worked after the Dave appearance on MTV. He doesn’t sound bad, but it sounds really close to what they got out of Gary. And that obviously didn’t work. What a story he gets to tell though. I’d give a nut to be able to just hang with those guys in the studio. He got invited to join the band. Awesome! Thanks for posting the link, much appreciated.

PT5150: Mitch’s voice is too high for me in that song.. His version of Panama is good.

I agree, I like him on Panama as well. He would have done a good job on the catalog songs, mixing the two previous eras like Gary did.

Intresting point here from links….
Mitch Malloy tells here that he was the singer of VH during the MTV VMA’s in 1996.

Gary Cherone tells the same thing: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne…halen-20120210
“Wait . . . they ask you to join the band, and they go do the VMAs with David Lee Roth? Did you worry that you were already out and Dave was back?
Gary
No. Maybe Dave thought that, but . . . and maybe he didn’t. I don’t know. Me and Eddie were writing at the time. I remember him calling me that night saying that he got into a fight with the press or something. He was very protective. I didn’t feel threatened. But the three years I was in the band, every day I woke up not knowing what the day was going to bring. Sometimes it was great, other times it was a little dysfunctional – especially at the end. But as far as how those guys treated me, they treated me like brothers.”

I just thought, if Mitch’s story is true, then Dave was right back in ’96 when said, “Then, a series of events last week led me to discover at about the same time the press did, that the band, along with their manager, had already hired another lead singer, possibly as long as three months ago. I wonder how he felt the night of the MTV Awards. It certainly explains why on that night Edward looked as uncomfortable as a man who just signed a deal with the Devil. I can’t think of a reason Edward would lie to me about being considered for the lead singer when he had already hired someone, and then let me appear on MTV under the impression that there was great likelihood that Van Halen and I were reuniting. As I said, I told him in no uncertain terms that I didn’t want to do the MTV gig as a band unless we were, in fact, a band.”

I do believe MTV most likely told Van Halen, “If you don’t appear with Dave, you’ll get no push from MTV on the new project.” but that doesn’t mean they told Dave this, which I feel, if they had told Dave, he wouldn’t have appeared. Interesting.

Cool thanks for the info.

I didn’t care for that at all. That was Van Halen neutered.