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van halen from the US Fest = BEST STAGE BANTER EVER!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Explain.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

extra loaded dlr talking shit about the clash. he's so coked/liquored up that he stops singing in the middle of "ain't talkin' 'bout love" to sling shit at them.

that was the festival where they wouldn't play unless they got $1,000,001 as david bowie was getting an even million. everyone else got peanuts.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Wasn't it supposed to be a benefit concert?

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

That is rad.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

FYI: I am looking at boots again and I said to my coworker "I think I'll just get a pair of those furry Ugg boots" and she said, "If you ever wore those, I'd kick you."

Just so you all know that I'm not alone in my irrational Ugg hate. Which also reminds me to say to Laurel: Crocs? Does NY let you wear Crocs?

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, but the old joke was "why is it called the US Fest?" "'cause all the money goes to us!".

but yeah, benefit or no they weren't playing unless they got more than anyone on the bill. they said they were fine with taking a dollar more than the scale everyone else was on but when bowie got added at the 11th hour for a mil they said they needed a million one.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck Van Halen

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Just so you all know that I'm not alone in my irrational Ugg hate

I don't know anyone that likes them, frankly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost Um... because they're more of a draw than Bowie? Is that even true?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

And yet I see them on ex-sorority girls around the office (uggs, not Van Halen. Van Halen rulz.)

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone messed around with the beta of Windows Vista yet? I'm downloading beta 2 now. Everything I've read says that it's not majorly buggy, and pretty safe to upgrade to.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

dan martin you must be feverish.

in may of 83 van halen was the biggest draw in the western world i'd imagine.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I guess I should have said "fuck overblown rockstar egos". There are some decent VH tunez. I'd be very surprised if any of you are Hagar sympathizers, though.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus I just really like the Clash a lot more.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny, NYC totally doesn't love Crocs but I have fucked-up sore feet so I went for them, ostensibly as winter house shoes that I could run to the deli in. Of course, yesterday I walked around much more than I planned to, and my feet are now triangulated with blisters and won't fit into anything but these rubber clogs.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

dan, i just typed a long, detailed response but it read like a hysterical ilm post. so obviously that got shit canned. but for their genre they were at least as good as the clash.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, that's cool, we don't need any hysterical ILM shit here I don't think. I feel your (and Jordan's) love for VH, although if it's the Sammy years (or whoever the clown that came after him was) then I don't know how I feel about that.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

no, when dlr left the spirit left.

whatever spirit that was.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Van Halen with DLR was the best rock band on the planet.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I *heart* Van Halen up through 1984, which I'm about half and half on. My aunt used to have a giant DLR poster in her room that depicted him shirtless and either tied to or just spread-armed up against a chain-link fence.

xpost - oh, Kenan, you're just looking for a fight with a statement like that.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Do they have any songs I would know besides "Jump"?

The Clash is one of the most overrated bands ever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The guitarist in the 0ptimistic is a HUGE Van Halen fan. At the end of tunes he always wants me to do this Alex Van Halen fill, the one that sounds like a motorcycle engine revving down.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost They really were, though. That first VH record is one of my all-time favorite records.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Do they have any songs I would know besides "Jump"?

Probably not.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

[edit] Singles
Year Title US Hot 100 US Mainstream Rock UK singles Album
1978 You Really Got Me 36 - - Van Halen
1978 Runnin' With The Devil 84 - - Van Halen
1978 Jamie's Cryin' - - - Van Halen
1978 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - - - Van Halen
1979 Dance the Night Away 15 - - Van Halen II
1979 Beautiful Girls 84 - - Van Halen II
1980 And The Cradle Will Rock... 55 - - Women and Children First
1981 So This Is Love? - 15 - Fair Warning
1982 (Oh) Pretty Woman 12 1 - Diver Down
1982 Dancing In The Street 38 3 - Diver Down
1982 Secrets - 22 - Diver Down
1984 Jump 1 - 7 1984
1984 I'll Wait 13 - - 1984
1984 Panama 13 - - 1984
1984 Hot For Teacher 56 34 1984
1986 Why Can't This Be Love 3 1 8 5150
1986 Dreams 22 6 32 5150
1986 Love Walks In 22 4 - 5150
1988 When It's Love 5 1 - OU812
1988 Black And Blue 34 1 - OU812
1988 Finish What Ya Started 13 2 28 OU812
1988 Cabo Wabo - 31 - OU812
1989 Feels So Good 35 6 63 OU812
1991 Top of The World 27 1 63 For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1991 Runaround - 1 - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1991 Poundcake - 1 - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1992 The Dream Is Over - 7 - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1992 Right Now 55 2 - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

xpost, lol

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Almost all of the Haggar stuff can eat me. But I do like "Why Can't This Be Love."

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Fun things: legitimately googling "Varicocele" at work and having your boss walk into your work space only to find pictures of giant penises on your computer screen.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

1978 You Really Got Me 36 - - Van Halen
1978 Runnin' With The Devil 84 - - Van Halen
1978 Jamie's Cryin' - - - Van Halen
1978 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - - - Van Halen
1979 Dance the Night Away 15 - - Van Halen II
1979 Beautiful Girls 84 - - Van Halen II
1980 And The Cradle Will Rock... 55 - - Women and Children First
1981 So This Is Love? - 15 - Fair Warning
1982 (Oh) Pretty Woman 12 1 - Diver Down
1982 Dancing In The Street 38 3 - Diver Down
1982 Secrets - 22 - Diver Down

those first four albums are all killer. i'm with jenny on 1984 but still, cheese and all, the first four records are boss.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to jenny, at least they were only pictures.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I had 1984 in my car right now (no pun intended).

I came in early today, and now I'm leaving to find out if Madison has real gelato or not.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

It doesn't feel like Women and Children only had one single.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

The Clash is one of the most overrated bands ever.

I can't tell if you're making this statement to just make waves or because you actually believe it. Either way, it's retarded.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

There are songs I'm surprised weren't singles, like Drop Dead Legs.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

then there's a song like "house of pain" which was probably of their best straight ahead rock songs. it was on their gene simmons produced demo, played live for 10 years then finally came out on 1984 when the band could no longer agree on the quality of the newer songs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

all this VH talk is making me want to burn a j in the back of camaro then go get a mullett.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I know! I miss my cousin Darrel. He was a goofball hick piece of trash, who made my early music listening experiences so damn rockin'.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to jenny, at least they were only pictures.

As opposed to actual penises?

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

exactly. i'm guessing if you were sitting around a some dudes from the office or perhaps just visitors or whatever where at your desk with their business draped over your monitor like some bad fringed vest it would be worse than pictures.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm listening to side 2 of 1984 now. The rest of the art room can just fucking deal.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

around a should be around with.

or whatever where shoud be or whatever were.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

later chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - Worse for all of us.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I also know "Right Now."

I can't tell if you're making this statement to just make waves or because you actually believe it. Either way, it's retarded.

Little of both, my friend.

Granted, I've only heard London Calling, but I really only like a few of those songs, like the title track, "Spanish Bombs," "Train in Vain," and "Lost in the Supermarket." And "Rock the Casbah" is obv. great. But there's also plenty of Clash songs that just sound like uninteresting bar-rock to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

If you don't like "Rudy Can't Fail" then you don't have a pulse.

I wholeheartedly believe later Clash records are mostly for shit (Cut the Crap, for example) but playing the "overrated" card based on a single album is kind of feeble, no? Not that I think you'd like their first record more (it does having some "uninteresting bar-rock" tunes) but it's also got a few that are true gems.

Rock music John doesn't like = uninteresting bar rock? It's a trend I've noticed.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sorry, I just brought the ILM. This is why I don't post there. I actually really hate arguing about music.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Yer right about me not liking "uninteresting bar-rock." Unless that's a term I just use for any music that I don't like. But generally meat-and-potatoes three-chord boozy rabble-rousing ain't my thing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Also a trend = my favorite Clash songs ("Supermarket," "Casbah") are the disco ones.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

How do you feel about the reggae ones?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Like which? I'm not a huge reggae fan, to be honest.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

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