DLR is a nutcase and thats part of his appeal, the guy has ADD! he has the perfect career for someone with that.... VH was all about rock, chicks & partying and DLR was the clown of the circus...straight up rip your head off rock....one of the best rock bands to ever roam the planet, you had ed the madman on guitar and DLR being the eccentric frontman it was awesome....van hagar just went in the opposite direction so sam takes a lot of flack for it and it may not be totally justified thats why i bash ed just as much as sam cause the truth be told he was probably the driving force behind journey-lite. and thats the last thing im saying about van hagar & their lameness

and this ....isnt? did you see the photo of the guys at van-halen.com ? the new one....don't they just look like the happiest group of guys? brought together by a common love for music, not financial woes ? yeah....those guys are all about the music man, gotta love em... how fun would it be to go to a concert where the band was only there to make some money, not there because they love to get out and play? sammy and mike might like to gig but the brothers? if anyone thinks "VH" is on tour cause they WANT to has their head in the clouds... i've always pushed for artists to do what THEY want to do, not what people want to hear....what joe does.... is this what the brothers want to do? or have to do? i view van hagar as aerosmith ala just push play... DLR is a freak, he forgets the words....i view him as a comedian not really a singer.....i'd much rather watch some weirdo with spray on yellow hair & a psycho wardrobe do flying scissor kicks than hear some fat hairy guy sing to me about what love can do, when its love, love walks in, how he can't stop lovin' me, or why this can't be love... i will say the only good hagar era tune was without a doubt "Baluchitherium" that tune is one of eds best.

Austin - have fun man, and dont get anyone pregnant.

MIKEY VAI- hard to say, eric is a very underrated and awesome guitarist, i dont think we hear what is is capable of, he is a bit reserved in his playing....the guy is like a quiet monster, he directs his abilities into making what he plays sound extremely good... the first guitarist i ever REALLY got into was eric johnson.... it was about late 95' or real early 96' i was still listening to rap, my stepdad had 'ah via musicom' on cd and listened to it on headphones and played along (we lived in hotels at the time) i took a listen and was hooked when i heard cliffs of dover....that was it, next came steve then joe, sold all my rap cd's... i admire joe's work the most but they are all equally talented...

if anyone wants to take a look at a very good top 100 greatest rock guitar albums click away whoever it is put steve vai in the top 10, quickly followd by jeff beck & joe.... lots of joe on there....

Mr. Nick- if you compare hendrix's abilities on the guitar with those of todays axe masters like joe, steve, john petrucci, yngwie etc he seems very average in his playing but if you look in terms of the sounds he got, the fire in his playing & the passion in which he played its very hard for him to be surpassed... ive seen footage of him playing live where his control over feedback was just mind boggling... i'm not talking steve vai - for the love of god - G3 dvd - 9000 effects and a rack feedback im talking him, guitar, amp feedback....jeff beck does this as well to some degree. Jimi and other guitar players like Randy Rhodes have had their share of "hero worship" where the player is suddenly 20 times what they were when they were alive, that happens with any great guitarist who dies...or even shitty if you look at cobain, but if you listen to his playing and watch him play you know why he is so influential, why his playing and songwriting just grabs people and pulls them in.... he's one of the very best, on a very very short list of musical visionaries who's gift has and will inspire generations of people to come. without jimi there would be no joe... joe would be a working class bum, occasionally thinking back about his football days and "what if i went pro" and that would be a travesty.

also this year guitar world had some interesting results as well worst bands are Limp Bizkit, Creed, the strokes, and good charlotte...very weird considering all those guys have been on the cover of the mag & the mag caters to those people's fans nowadays. a bit like biting the hand that feeds you. also Metallica's poor-selling new album, "St. Anger," was named biggest disappointment, but it also came in at No. 2 as the best metal album translation - if it sucks and sounds like shit we'll say so but we will also support it cause we like sucky music. and - Metallica's Kirk Hammett was named best metal guitarist, a possible consolation prize for having all his solos cut from "St. Anger," interesting....no guitar but still the best guitarist....why cant i win?

Edited Tue Apr 6 '04 7:44 pm

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Global music sales fell 7.6 percent in 2003 to $32 billion, the steepest decline since the advent of the compact disc, the trade body representing the world's largest music companies said on Wednesday. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) blamed the slump in retail music sales -- now in its fourth consecutive year -- on rampant piracy, poor economic conditions and competition from video games and DVDs........ yeah must be those pirates, couldn't be that everyone sounds the same & like eachother.... naaa...couldn't be that SOME people are tired of the same old same old. you know what, i blame pirates too....those bastards, they download a new CD, then they dont like the music and they dont go out and buy it.... those thieves! they should go buy it first then if they dont like it not be able to return it cause its been opened, yeah thats what we should do. god forbid anyone should be able to listen to a lump of shit before buying it, there might not be an industry then.

JAZZY BOY- i thought that since marty was with steve's label that there would be a chance of him joining G3, i loved him in megadeth... but i read an interview with him where he basically said hendrix sucked and people only thought he was so great cause they were trippin on acid...what a dick, as far as G3 he can suck a dick.

Edited Sat Apr 10 '04 5:27 pm

Greyfox yes...yes it does.

JOEMAN- but two note power chords are cool man! easy to change from chord to chord, without having to do weird finger contortions just to go from A to D or something...even though joe says they are for monkeys lol

not to say i dont like u LOL

Edited Wed Apr 14 '04 5:24 pm

AUSTIN- true, i think it was great that he was that up close with the fans... but i just felt this feeling of embarrasment, like "joe's been reduced to playing in record shops" kinda feeling u know... of course he hasnt but still...plus that guy browsing for a good sci-fi book while joe was jamming away killed me...

TRUTINA- id take flying, surfing, always,rubina,raspberry jam,time,mindstorm.

Edited Thu Apr 15 '04 9:46 pm