ffoner(1089) | voodoo: They’re either going to release more of the old demos redone or remastered, or they’re just suddenly worried about old matierial being out there illegally. I tend to lean toward rereleasing the old matierial in some form or another.
I agree. This isn’t coming out of nowhere. EVH has known for years (I say this because he mentioned it in a GW interview) that the demos, etc., have been on YT. Why worry about this now?
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ron(11779) | ffoner: I agree. This isn’t coming out of nowhere. EVH has known for years (I say this because he mentioned it in a GW interview) that the demos, etc., have been on YT. Why worry about this now?
Because someone is bored. As someone that’s been targeted by ELVH Inc. it seems that when the band isn’t doing much of anything, they are scouring eBay and YouTube and banning shit. When the band is on tour, all is good.
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VOODOO(2375) |   Those bastards!!
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ffoner(1089) | ron: Because someone is bored.As someone that’s been targeted by ELVH Inc. it seems that when the band isn’t doing much of anything, they are scouring eBay and YouTube and banning shit.When the band is on tour, all is good.
That may be true, but that doesn’t mean that this wave of bannings isn’t connected to the secret “Van Halen project.”
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thismusicsux(581) | ffoner: That may be true, but that doesn’t mean that this wave of bannings isn’t connected to the secret “Van Halen project.”
wow even random live stuff from different years. Somebody at Azoff Mgmt is bored… but agree this must be for a reason … hmm
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mrmojohalen(6467) | The demos will be officially released on the upcoming box set. Could happen …
When you turn on your stereo, does it return the favor?
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guitard(7354) | Gilligan: If VH can put out stuff that they were working on when they were in their heyday, that’s going to appeal more to their fan base and give people the originally awesome VH sound. Newly written music just isn’t as good after a while for almost every band. You can’t bottle the magic or whatever the saying is…
I’m sorry to say … but I have to disagree. Even if it’s stuff they wrote back in the their 20s, they ain’t in their 20s anymore. The vibe … energy … spirit … and youthful excitement from the 1970s … it just isn’t there anymore. They grew up and became old. I think the expession is to capture lightning in a bottle. You can’t recapture it.
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Gilligan(1518) | guitard: I’m sorry to say … but I have to disagree.Even if it’s stuff they wrote back in the their 20s, they ain’t in their 20s anymore.The vibe … energy … spirit … and youthful excitement from the 1970s … it just isn’t there anymore.They grew up and became old.I think the expession is to capture lightning in a bottle.You can’t recapture it.
Well, you’re sort of making the same argument that I am. They are older now and realistically nothing is gonna be the way it used to be. However, if they at least pull from songs that were originally written during their “prime”, those songs have a better chance of rocking their fans than stuff they come up with now in their older, less energetic, less youthful stage. Based on their successful history, one could argue that songs from that era have a better chance of “connecting” with their fans than something new that comes from their current state. I think you do agree with me, you just don’t realize it!
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VOODOO(2375) | I have said this a hundred times, but I think the fallout from “III” really struck a nerve with Eddie and that pretty much ended his desire to release new music. He was thrashed in the media and by the public in general because it didn’t “sound like Van Halen”. I always maintained that “III” should have been released as an “Eddie Van Halen solo album”. The songs didn’t fit what people were accustomed to being “Van Halen” and Ed was just going out on a limb with his ideas and wanting to do things differently, his way. I seem to recall comments from Dave that he couldn’t get a handle on the music Ed was writing back in the late 90s and early ’00s and that he didn’t care for “Me Wise Magic” and “Can’t Get This Stuff No More”, saying that the songs were “meandering”. Ed probably figured the quickest path to putting out new music would be to recycle the old demos that Dave was already familiar with and the diehard fans would already be familiar with. Dave commented that he would like to write new music with Eddie and that they didn’t record anything that wasn’t at least 20 years old on this last album, so it seems either Dave doesn’t like what Ed’s writing or Ed doesn’t want to write with Dave. There were a few critics who made an issue out of them using the old material on the last album as well, but they didn’t trouble themselves with pulling videos off YouTube. It does seem that they are planning to do something with these songs, since they’re already in all of our libraries. Seems pointless to pull them now after all these years unless they’re planning to release them officially.
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