Ibanezguitar : i've been into AC/DC from High Voltage until For Those About To Rock. With them, it's all about blue riff & energy, but with an heavy crunchy tone. I was a huge fan of Bon Scott (voice, lyrics, attitude). & the Angus feeling is simply insane.

Yes.. well.. it's an other thing. That's what we have called Rock Symphonic.

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I'm probably the least impartial to give a review, but I am really enjoying the album, and that's all that matters to me, the music!

I do have some moments on the album that I think are just "ok", but the coolest 2 things are actually:

1) I get to sing along with Joe

And

2) I love singing in Sammy's style! I think if I was ever a singer I'd have probably adopted a similar style, it's just so fun!

Anyway, back 2 work on my second iPhone app, it's pretty much full time outside of my fulltime job.

Roo

I discovered Sammy Hagar with the 5150 song. During these times, ed was still an awesome song composer.

& then, i've to say that i've been unable to follow the commercial hard fm way that has taken the band, even if Sammy has allowed to the VH boat to go on, that's a point.

But,

I don't want to polemic. Don't want to offend the Van Hagar fans.. but it's obvious, the greatest creative years of Van Halen band were between 1978 & 1984. That's simply obvious if we consider the musical point.

& to say all, i prefer the old Sammy Hagar, This one, than the VH one.

Finally all that current VH thing is very sad & disappointing.

I'm especially happy for Michaël Anthony, the historic VH bass player, that he can play with a guitar genius like Joe. I don't know why & how he has left vh boat, & i don't want to know. Respect to you, Michaël

Zenfish- I agree with you on AC/DC. I really miss Bon Scott and the energy and inspiration he gave to their music. I prefer Bon over Brian although I think Brian did a good job taking over in his place. In my opinion "Back in Black" was the best production an any Ac/Dc album, thus producer "Mutt" Lange. (genius) He did a masterful thing with Brian Johnson's voice. I think that if Lange had produced the following albums they would have been better.

Check out the version of Sammy;s "Heavy Metal" from the "Standing Hampton" album. (much different from the version from the soundtrack) This is usually the one you would hear on the radio.

I would also have to agree that the earl years of VH were the most creative musically. I will always remember listening to the early material as a teen. I was disappointed when VH departed with Roth but I was so much into Sammy and his vocal style that I was thrilled to learn that he was joining VH. To me there could have been no other choice. VH considered a lot of different vocalists to relace Roth. We almost had this cutie fronting VH instead of Sammy. She has a great voice but I'm glad they chose Sammy.

Roo- If you can hang with Sammy on those powerful high notes, U da Man. I would love to be able to sing like Sammy. Mike has a high range as well.

More of what could have been with Van Halen I could see where she is more pleasant to look at than Sammy. (No offense Sam)

YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!

I got The Foot STOMPIN DOWN and BLARIN, and it's not even 7 am yet, LOL!!!!

Good thing my brother is gone and all the windows and doors are closed :)

Croooooossing the border line.....iiiiiinnnnto the fiyah...........

Every day I wake up with a different song from the album playing in my head, I hear it even when it's not actually playing.

Burly : i never really entered into Brian's voice. Back in Black is very well produced, i agree. For Those About to Rock too..

But my fav albums are with no discussion Let There Be Rock, & Highway To Hell, & of course the live If you want Blood you've got it. With Bon Scott, AC/DC has been the "bluesest" hardrock band of story of Hard. That's what i loved. Brian has brought a new dimension to the band, heaviest, but has never gotten the deep blue feel, with no separation between life & music, that Bon got.. & that his tragic end has confirmed.

... and the pages keep on flying by....

Cheese - that little baby talking at 100 miles an hour was funny! You're right about the heat sensitive triangle - what does yours say (see below post to Mr Lewis)?

michelle - that's a little worrying (Al). Surprised Cube hasn't jumped all over it.... um, I think that sounds wrong....

Scubadaz - lol! Friday nights were good from the sound of that!

Cube - from everything you've aired so far, I can't imagine it'll take you long to be play a jazz classic, time being the main issue I guess? Keep us posted

Do the Stu - Cheese is right, it's the triangle on the inside cover photo of the band. Mine says "not now". I just assumed it was a code to get at something or another. Sounds like not, shame

Roo - is the iphone app in Java or other?

Skippy - now THAT's a band, especially with the armpit tuba or whatever you want to call it. Shoulda recorded it and posted it to Youtoob!

Pip...my secret triangle sez "Think Again" =|

Those meet and greet photos are hilarious....if you look at them from the beginning show to the ending, Seattle on to Philly, you can see that the guys get looser and looser in them as the tour moves on, and goofier, LOL!! In one of them, Joe even ends up taller than CHAD!! Looks like he's laughing hard in it too, lol!!

I didn't realize there would be any meet and greets, the ticket packages didn't and STILL don't specifically mention meet and greets, just a "back stage experience".....makes ya think yer just gonna tour the stage set-up...but coolies that u actually get to meet the band after all!!

yes , it was surprising..only insiders....i had to deal with some snobby ones on the VIP line that night...thanks to the venue keeping it straight on who got in first..lol...Oh and some help from MariMariSRV..she set em straight too..lol..but i guess they had the last laugh?

I think T2jers should get that opportunity this time around! But a few said it was only 30 seconds..no autos , no pics.

Yeah, my son and I did the platinum pass thing in 2004 also with all the stage stuff....that was when Joe had pneumonia in San Fran :( but he STILL came out and did the meet and greets...I was sooo worried about him, he dint look good at ALL...but was gracious as always. Only difference was, when we mentioned it to him at another time, he said that whole night was just a blur for him, didn't remember much of it.

I wonder how an insider gets to be...an insider? But if it's just 30 seconds long, no chat-time or anything, dang!! That's a hefty price to pay fer less than a minute! But the pics are hilarious!!

The webmaster did say they'd still be doing the aftershow give-aways to at least meet with Joe for all the US/Canada shows, wooooohoooo!

good morning all,

Anybody watching the Phillies??

Got a tweet from Weiner -

daveweiner~ Anyone watching the Phillies game, I'm sitting right at first base, right behind the dugout, wearing a got riffs shirt.

al, I heard a bit of a B. Spears song on the way to work this morning. Before I knew who it was I thought her voice sucked. Christina always had her beat vocally. She got some mad pipes!

burly - Billboard results run a few days late...I think they're usually announced on Wednesdays, covering the previous week. So we have a few days to wait for exact numbers for week two.

The new Dredg album that I keep talking about here is mastered very nicely...I love it.