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Roth was even worse than Robert Plant, when performing live.
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Quoted from SDTMinSTL:Agreed. I actually enjoyed Sammy somewhat. I know I am in the minority though.
Although the Sammy albums were totally gay, you do have to accept that they were the pinnacle of Corporate Rock.
ALL FOUR Sammy VH albums hit #1 on Billboard ----- -- obviously none of the DLR VH albums ever hit #1
Quoted from jimjim66:Plant was king, but when I saw him in his later years, I was disappointed. He didn't have the range, so it seemed like a bad imitation of himself.
I never saw a good LZ show.
The Song Remains The Same movie with all the studio re-recorded overdubs, and 3 nights of performances to pick the best from, is still pretty weak
Quoted from pinzrfun:You do realize there wouldn't have BEEN a "Sammy" VH without Roth to help propel them there in the first place....they were one of the biggest bands in the world when Sammy joined...
All that matters is that Sammy gave VH:
FOUR #1 ALBUMS IN A ROW
VH had no #1 albums before Sammy, and no #1 albums after.
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Sammy knows how to do Pepsi sellin' arena rock with the same formula that sold millions of Montrose and Red Rocker discs.
hagarRoth (resized).jpgQuoted from LargemouthAss:I have seen Ozzy on multiple occasions and while he sounds terrible compared to his peak
That's because Ozzy always has another guy singing for him from the sidestage.
So you have to decide, would it be better to pay to see Ozzy lip-sync to his own voice pre-recorded, or to see Ozzy lip-sync to another singer's voice, but live ?
Quoted from Methos:No offense but you sound like a Recording Industry Executive.
Everybody loves the bare-assed antics of DLR, but we got to give Hammy Hagar his due.
It's almost impossible for any hard-rock band to get a #1 album
It's insane to think that SH gave VH four #1 albums in a row !
40e8fb4c64edc4386c260b1e44798839 (resized).jpgQuoted from Rdoyle1978:Ok, Robert Mason didn't do the last Sabbath tour, he's only been hired to do Ozzy solo stuff; mostly when Ozzy was having all his issues from being over-medicated (i.e. the late 90s and early 00s). During the "The End" tour, Robert Mason was in LA doing the most recent Warrant record
It's not like Mason is the only singer ever hired to sing as Ozzy.
Mike Binson (bison, benson?) did Ozzy for what, 5 years?
When his album "Under Cover" came out, all the morning DJs were laughing that it's possible that none of the tracks actually have Ozzy singing on them
Ozzy - Good Times
Just like if you guys ever paid money to see "The Zombies" live, the touring band had NO actual band members at all.
But the band did have Dusty Hill and Frank Beard of ZZ Top
So although you got royally scammed, you can say you saw ZZ Top, and they totally sucked.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:Jesus vid.
This was true for like 1 year in 1970.
It’s a great story but “the zombies” have been touring for a few decades with at least 2 original members including the singer and Argent of “hold your head up” fame.
See also “no original members steppenwolf” circa 1980.
How about when you hear on the radio in the monster truck pull voice "The triumphant return of Foghat !!!"?
Return from where, beyond the grave?
Once in a while the original drummer joins a tour, but otherwise the key members are dead.
Quoted from Methos:The "band" you are referencing took place in 1969. So that means that if we "got royally scammed", we would have to be 65 plus years old as that was 50 years ago.
Exactly.
That's when they were at their peak, 1969.
It would not be much of a scam if you saw them 50 years after they had their last hit, and the members had been replaced.
Quoted from pinzrfun:By 86 when Sammy joined, it was a polar opposite - disco was dead, and the new wave of British heavy metal (Priest, Maiden, Scorpions, Def Leppard etc) was joined by their U.S. brethren
I dunno,
Priest is from 1969 and everyone's favorite stadium song, Tyrant is from 1974
I would not group Priest or Maiden in with all those supergay 80s bands like Def Leppard, Metallica & Quite Riot......Easily the worst time in music history.
Quoted from pinzrfun:disco had taken the country by storm. Hell, even KISS tried to get aboard the train.
Paul's favorite song is still I was Made For Lovin You
Quoted from pinzrfun:And you have to admit, Sammy wrote more pop/radio friendly songs. I mean, can you even picture Dave singing "Love Comes Walking In"?
One of the worst songs ever recorded, I'd say it's probably worse than We Built This City On Rock N Roll
I once sprained my finger trying to change the station before I heard a millisecond of that yollowing
Quoted from Rdoyle1978:HUH? Everyone’s favorite Priest song is not “Tyrant”. Was this a joke? My money’s on “Living After Midnight” or a little ditty called “Breaking the Law”, both from 1980.
LAM and BTL are good encore songs, even the non-fans can sing along to their simple structure.
The Ripper and Tyrant are true fan favs, their complex changeups have been satisfying fans for over 40 years....and of course, the most fun is when Rob sings Tyrant's "Mourn for our souls, oppressed with fear" and the audience sings along "O' Suzanna, don't you cry for me...."
Live, a few months ago in TX:
1975 w/lyrics:
Quoted from facelift:You are forgetting that 1984's album had bigger hits than any of their previous albums and the band was really breaking out. The singles from that album were on the radio constantly and it's obvious that VH's next album would have been huge with DLR.
Hard rock bands almost NEVER had a #1 album (Not Led Zep, not The Who, not KISS....)
For a hard rock band to get FOUR #1 ALBUMS IN A ROW is the shitz
(and since the last time a guitar based band even charted at all in the Top 40 was 2009, it's safe to say that VH record will stand for all time).
Quoted from CrazyLevi:Sabbath had a #1 album 5 years ago. Boom.
Priest had a top 10 album this year. Stop making up nonsense about 2009.
The big chart is the Billboard Top 200.
There are now a bunch of niche markets charts.
So having a #1 album in the Rock, Latin, R&B, Blues, Country, Dance, Alternative chart, is nowhere near having a real #1 in the Top 200
Many bands get a #1 in the rock chart with less than 15,000 units sold that week, so that's a super lame chart.
But even on the lame charts, how many bands can get FOUR #1 IN A ROW ???
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Much more interesting is I saw that the Queen movie put the Queen Soundtrack on the real Billboard 200 a few weeks ago - their highest charting album in 40 years!!!!
Quoted from Travish:Eh, I don't do toppers but for $8000 I would put a 11x17 picture. I could save $7999.50.
The funny part is, it that a real Frankenstrat could be built, out of real vintage parts, for about $1200
Get an old worn out Strat from the 70s, a Gibson PAF pickup, a couple of large Screw-Eyes for strap pins, and a Gibson logo for the headstock, and some rattlecan spray paint.
This would be a perfect reproduction.
Quoted from TheLaw:He's not forgetting, he just gets a narrow view of what he wants to talk aboot; right now it's #1 records for some reason.
Four #1 albums in row was unthinkable for a hard rock band.
Totally amazing; but still, it's not even close to Drake, who is right now at EIGHT #1 albums in a row.
And because he is at his creative peak, he surly has a few more to add to that record.
drake-rihanna-work-video (resized).pngQuoted from TheLaw:Umm, OK. I don't even know what it means, nor do I really care.
Why are you posting then?
Why would we care, that you don't care, about something you don't understand?
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For those who do care, and know what's up, here is VH final show @ Hollywood Bowl 2015:
Quoted from TheLaw:We were talking aboot DLR & Sammy and you changed the conversation to #1 albums
It's part of that exact conversation.
Intelligent people like to have a meter to compare something that might be thought of as subjective.
If we wanted to compare "who is the better singer, Adel or Rhianna" we might use Octave Range as our meter.
If we wanted to compare "who is the more successful singer, Adel or Rhianna" we might use Album Sales as our meter.
Quoted from TheLaw:Actually what you've done is cherry picked 1 set of criteria you'd like to look at and based your argument around that.
Yawn.
I only like to talk about things that I'm interested in.
If I was interested in vocal range, number of twitter followers, or who can kick the highest, I would have posted that instead.
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