No Roth no VH. He got Ed out of playing boring Clapton covers and looking at his hands. He taught Mike the drunk bass solo. All the stagecraft and showmanship was 100% Dave
@@SonnyGTA David Lee Roth sang great live. First time I saw him was in 1978 on their first headlining tour. Roth sounded like the record. Eddie Trunk never saw the real thing and he has a thing for Sammy. Van Halen would have never become the biggest rock band of the era without DLR. Not a chance in the world. Many of the great Van Halen songs we know, and love would never have existed without DLR. Even if Templeman had dumped DLR before the first record for Sammy the first record would have been a blimp on the radar and long forgotten by now.
I don't have anything bad to say about DLR singing capability. He has great tone, can sing high notes, and do harmonies - Dance the Night Away - there you go. He was fun to watch and added to the show. His voice was perfect for VH.
Roth sang like the record up until ‘81. There’s footage of them touring on VH II, and he’s singing beautifully. So it’s deliberate and not ability (at least then). Don’t know why he decided he couldn’t sing and do his schmaltz simulataneously, but the vocals became something of an after thought for him.
David Lee Roth was the best front man of all time & his voice was outstanding. His voice is obviously not in the same league as Robert Plant & Freddie Mercury but his voice is terrific & very underrated. If somebody asked me if I could go back in time and see just one concert I'd want to see Van Halen with David Lee Roth because he was the best show on earth. I had no use for Van Halen after he left. David Lee Roth's solo stuff was pretty damn good.
There are simply different styles of frontman showmanship. Some excel at those different types of styles. Roth was terrific as the fun, party rock band front man of a fun party rock band. Bruce Dickinson is terrific as the thinking man's front man of a thinking man's heavy rock band. Both frontmen and their bands are phenomenal.
Roth was a great singer in his day. It’s all about projecting the attitude of the song, that’s the purpose of singing, not hitting high notes and all that nonsense. Same thing with guitar playing, fast guitar playing doesn’t mean good guitar playing, unless it has something to do with what the song’s about.
The whole “Roth isn’t a good singer” thing is overplayed. He sounds how the lead singer of Van Halen should sound, to paraphrase Chuck Klosterman. Sammy may be a “better” singer, but the band was Disney once he entered. Night and day
DLR was what practically EVERY singer/ frontman after him wanted to be! Indeed, def Trunk’s OPINION! You can believe one thing-everyone that witnessed VH in the Dave era didn’t come just to see Eddie. DLR brang the PARTY to town! They were the biggest party band ever back then, cmon! No sellout ballads, just great hard rock with a great IDGAF attitude! The Mighty DLR VH!
Eddie Trunk talking about "ego chest thumping" seems pot calling the kettle. DLR was and always will be the most dynamic and charismatic front man of all time. Pearcy is nothing compared to DLR in any fashion. Pearcy always sucked live - singing and persona.
Live, I never cared for Roth's voice. In the studio, AMAZING. The perfect voice for Van Halen on the records. I never cared for his voice live. He would only sing every other word and just kinda killed the experience for me when it comes to the lyrics. Still the best front man in his prime.
OMG,When DLR jumped off the drum riser was something No One has ever duplicated!! Come on this is a Rock Show not Opera supposed to be fun+exciting!! Besides the crowd was singing along w/the band so his vocals could hardly be heard..that was in Dallas Shows!!
You put on bootlegs from 1978 and 1979, and he is great. The UK tour when the band opened for Black Sabbath, for example the Ipswitch show Roth is incredible. You can find good shows and bad shows from him from that point forward. I have a bootleg of him from 1988 and he is great, but I also have one from 2002 and he is pretty bad. The night I saw them on the 2007/08 show, he was stellar, him and Al carried the show. 2012 and 2015 he was ok the nights I saw VH. He wasn't good, but he wasn't so bad it detracted from the show. And as always, he puts on a helluva show no matter what shape his voice is in.
Dave was hands down the best party front man. Singing on th tracks was great for the music. Live can be performance musically or theatrically. He chose the latter and I'm good with it because he totally nailed it. I really can't stand too many bands, especially from the 80's, I can listen to live. It was a part of the band culture. Either you were too fucked up to sound worth a shit or you were focused on the stage performance.
Right. But he was part of the original Van Halen. It's not the band without him. But he did think he was all that. Reminded me of the old country song. Hard to be humble when you think you're perfect in every way. ...He clung to the name van Halen after he was kicked out, but I think he was the reason they split up also
Opinions on Roth being your favourite and there's no other are fine! I think VH made it with Roth and Hagar. Every band has a peak where they're at their best, and 5150 is VH at their finest! Guitars, riffs, synthesisers and more depth in their songs! The Beatles had the same four guys, but if you like their early to mid-sixties catalogue. Fine. But I'm more into the White Album and Abbey Road!. VH. They needed a singer with more range to expand their sound. But to rubbish Hagar for having an extraordinary voice with such range because you're bitter for him replacing Roth? Why can't some people listen to the early albums and let things be as they are? And let the chips fall where they fall.
Roth's stage craft was based on youth and vaudeville. Sam is more musical. On the greatest hits those two bonus songs were Sammy songs redone for Roth. At this point in time Roth does not have it anymore. Sam can still hit notes.
Bruh....he was front man spawned an entire decade of lycra, long hair , such a sex appeal .... restlessness... You get it.....what you like ... Zamfer...😂😂
You have to realize in the studio, Roth was not singing the songs beginning to end, one take. No, no, no. He would sing MANY takes of the same song and then Donn Landee would comp the best parts together. Roth was absolutely a showman, and he was great at that...until he got too full of himself. The midgets and drag queens, pretending to forget lyrics, the flips, and everything else became more like a circus to me. It was just too much, and apparently, the rest of Van Halen agreed
Dandy didn’t do even HALF of what DLR did! All that dude did was prance back n forth across the stage. No kicks, flips, def no splits-especially from a drum riser, no comedy, etc etc etc
