andymacandy wrote:pig bodine wrote:Jon K wrote:when Sammy Hagar came in to join the band I was quite happy about it
So was I at first. I thought the first Montrose album was the template for Van Halen and liked some of Hagar's solo material from the late 70's. I thought it would be a good match. How wrong I was--way too many ballads, and the rockers sounded generic and light.
A good match, but not Van Halen.
I really quite like 5150.It might even be better than 1984, and even though Hagar is a showman, (and he must have a sense of humour) he wasn't Dave.
A huge part of the magic of VH was Roth complementing Eddies virtuosity.
I know what you mean and to be fair after the first two albums with Sammy it was a pretty severe downhill slide. 5150 and OU812 were fine but F.U.C.K and Balance were not great albums although in comparison to the Van Halen III album with Gary Cherone they were masterpieces. I think they only had their first number one album with Sammy though. Strange as that may sound they never managed it with DLR in the band