The Low Down on Brad Starks...

**TheMightyCopenHalenII** · 06.27.02, 01:57 PM

I've relayed this story to a few past Domer/Linkers.....The Great Tim Pabs(Where are ya BUD!!!) and Doc. Love...

I would hope that most of the guitarist/fans in the guitar room and VH fans in general would have no reason to believe that I would make up some petty shit like this...

I was stationed at TRAVIS AFB, Ca..My Buddy Abe, was friends with Brad Starks, who I did not know at the time...

Abe brought a promo Cd to work, before the single came out, and when I heard Without You I thought "Hey, we're gonna hit it big time here." We all know how that went...

Well Brad was throwin some kind of party over there right? 85% of the music played there was rap/dance, and I asked Starks if he dug Van Halen and he said "He's not that big of a fan, and it's mostly business." The guitar he had in his garage was really such a piece of shit kramer with like two or three switches and pickups...and not even functioning...

Well one of his fuckin fat buddies, I mean FAT, who was actually a roadie for VH during the three tour, threw me in the pool cause he thought it was funny. Well I spent the better part of an hour spitting skoal straight on that fat fuck's back...

All in all, what I'm trying to realy to ya'll, even thought you'll probably say "duh" is that Starks is pretty much no Van Halen fan at all...

I saw that dude at the VH III Tour in Paso Robles, Ca...and said "hey Brad man, can you get me back there man?(I had a stage crew pass from a buddy that did a catering dig for Halen)"

He said "sorry man, should've caught me earlier." So I said fuck it..

After the show was over, I went around the rodeo grounds, and ran into a combo locked gate, showed the dude my pass and he said "I didn't see ya" and he let me in...

Before that, I was yellin in the back stretch of the rodeo grounds yellin to mike anthony yellin "HEY MIKE" he said "YEA" I said "Brad there, nah...hold on"

Any way, I got back there, and the VH Brothers were like the President, and I got to bullshit with Mike Anthony for a bit, and then Gary...just thought I'd share that with ya'll...

**Fabulous Shadow aka VHL** · 06.27.02, 02:09 PM

Thanks for the story, but I think we have known that Brad is not a big VH fan for sometime now...

**badkaraoke** · 06.27.02, 02:21 PM

Brad is more of a Brad fan than a Van Halen fan. He should start a band called the Bradtones or something...

bk

**twonabomber** · 06.27.02, 02:23 PM

is part of the job description to be a fan? if he's doing a bad job as webmaster, it's because of a different reason than not being a fan...

**Fabulous Shadow aka VHL** · 06.27.02, 02:30 PM

Originally posted by Chelle:
Oh yeah, for sure. Somebody that's not a fan is DEFINITELY gonna sit down and compile an encyclopedia full of information on the band on their own time, just for the hell of it. Uh huh.....sure.

LOL

Is someone who writes a regular Encyclopedia a fan of everything they write about? Couldn't be about a paycheck now could it?

**badkaraoke** · 06.27.02, 02:31 PM

Originally posted by Chelle:
Oh yeah, for sure. Somebody that's not a fan is DEFINITELY gonna sit down and compile an encyclopedia full of information on the band on their own time, just for the hell of it. Uh huh.....sure.

LOL

And then sell it.

[ June 27, 2002, 02:31 PM: Message edited by: badkaraoke ]

**Eddymon** · 06.27.02, 04:43 PM

Brad Starks & the Mushrooms

First album titled "DIRT:

with the hit single "Hey, I'm a Fun-guy"

Look for the next album tentatively titled: "it sure is dark, when your heads up your own ass"

Brad Starks = [img]graemlins/drunk.gif[/img]

**Brett** · 06.27.02, 04:48 PM

I think if you are running an official band web site, it might make sense to be a fan. I don't know, maybe it's me. And yeah Brad did put together that VH Encyclopedia site way back, so who knows.

**Redhalen** · 06.27.02, 08:03 PM

Is there any band in the history of rock that has as much ancillary bullshit as VH!!!!

**EatenNSmiling** · 06.27.02, 08:48 PM

Originally posted by Fabulous Shadow aka VHL:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Chelle:
Oh yeah, for sure. Somebody that's not a fan is DEFINITELY gonna sit down and compile an encyclopedia full of information on the band on their own time, just for the hell of it. Uh huh.....sure.

LOL

Is someone who writes a regular Encyclopedia a fan of everything they write about? Couldn't be about a paycheck now could it?</font>[/QUOTE]Could it possibly be about both?

**Vince G.** · 06.27.02, 10:08 PM

Originally posted by TheMightyCopenHalenII:
I've relayed this story to a few past Domer/Linkers.....The Great Tim Pabs(Where are ya BUD!!!) and Doc. Love...

I would hope that most of the guitarist/fans in the guitar room and VH fans in general would have no reason to believe that I would make up some petty shit like this...

I was stationed at TRAVIS AFB, Ca..My Buddy Abe, was friends with Brad Starks, who I did not know at the time...

Abe brought a promo Cd to work, before the single came out, and when I heard Without You I thought "Hey, we're gonna hit it big time here." We all know how that went...

Well Brad was throwin some kind of party over there right? 85% of the music played there was rap/dance, and I asked Starks if he dug Van Halen and he said "He's not that big of a fan, and it's mostly business." The guitar he had in his garage was really such a piece of shit kramer with like two or three switches and pickups...and not even functioning...

Well one of his fuckin fat buddies, I mean FAT, who was actually a roadie for VH during the three tour, threw me in the pool cause he thought it was funny. Well I spent the better part of an hour spitting skoal straight on that fat fuck's back...

All in all, what I'm trying to realy to ya'll, even thought you'll probably say "duh" is that Starks is pretty much no Van Halen fan at all...

I saw that dude at the VH III Tour in Paso Robles, Ca...and said "hey Brad man, can you get me back there man?(I had a stage crew pass from a buddy that did a catering dig for Halen)"

He said "sorry man, should've caught me earlier." So I said fuck it..

After the show was over, I went around the rodeo grounds, and ran into a combo locked gate, showed the dude my pass and he said "I didn't see ya" and he let me in...

Before that, I was yellin in the back stretch of the rodeo grounds yellin to mike anthony yellin "HEY MIKE" he said "YEA" I said "Brad there, nah...hold on"

Any way, I got back there, and the VH Brothers were like the President, and I got to bullshit with Mike Anthony for a bit, and then Gary...just thought I'd share that with ya'll...

Do you just NOT have anything better to do? I mean, what exactly did you accomplish by posting something like this?

Prior to becoming VH's webmaster, and internet spokesman, he *did* create and run a very informative website called "The Van Halen Encyclopedia". He was also an early staff member of "The Inside". I don't think if he wasn't a fan he wouldn't have devoted as much time as he did to those projects.

**badkaraoke** · 06.28.02, 04:42 AM

Fuck, look at all the goddamn arsekissing that goes on in this thread. It's easy to tell who the fans are and who will sell the fans out, that's all I am gonna say.

bk

**nobycane** · 06.28.02, 06:21 AM

Brad Starks????????????

Oooohhhhhhhh he is that pud-boy who never said anything and never updated that so-called Pleasure Dome on that bands site.........(thinking).......yea Van Halen is it?
[img]graemlins/drunk.gif[/img]