Singer No4

**subway** · 01.20.03, 08:14 AM

After Eddie's comments at NAMM, the cat's out of the bag, and it looks like singer no.4 IS the reality.

Let's put our collective heads together to figure out who may work with Van Halen 4...

Just some ideas..

1. Paul Stanley
2. Scott Weiland
3. Sebastion Bach
4. Steven Pearcy
5. Joe Elliot
6. Steve Perry
7. Peter Frampton
8. Pat Benatar
9. Dave Grohl
10. Joe Walsh
11. Robin Zander
12. Alice Cooper
13. Lee Aaron
14. Chris Cornell
15. Billy Idol
16. Vince Neil
17. Roger Daltry
18. Michelle Branch
19. Jamiroquai
20. Rod Stewart

**hammered65** · 01.20.03, 08:30 AM

I heard it was Avril, but that may just be a rumour.

**VanHalen2079** · 01.20.03, 10:09 AM

Singer No. 4 may not be a reality. Ed just reiterated what he's been saying since Sammy left, and that is "He'd never do a reunion tour without a new album" plain and simple. Of course no .4 would seem to be the way to go.

**Loop Dee Loop** · 01.20.03, 12:19 PM

I put my money on Ralph Senaz. The guy is extremely talented but who knows? Eddie will probably get tired of whoever No4 too after a few albums

**Red-Diamond** · 01.20.03, 12:38 PM

Maybe Billy Idol would be really cool. I'd like that.
P.S. Huey Lewis rocks [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

**MOJODOJO** · 01.20.03, 12:40 PM

Yes, yes Sam seems to have a level head

Isn't it Sam who claims he was visited by Aliens in a very recent Guitar Magazine article!

If you haven't read this, it's a must. Sam claims not only was he visited numerous times but they down loaded his brain!

I think all of them are quite off center!

**Executionor** · 01.20.03, 12:42 PM

Ok to play your game cause I hate topics that go awry, I will pick a few possibilities that I know about and am familiar with:
Sebastion Bach, Steve Perry, Billy Idol,
and Roger Daltry would be my frontrunners for auditions and lessee, Rod Stewart could sing all the love songs...Hey how about Rob Halford? He would make a great front man AND if is killer range Ed is looking for, he has it!

Maybe it is hope, maybe it is truly belief, but I do not think it is a reality that number 4 is going to be the way to go.

I honestly believe (or want to) that there is some good left in Dave, but he is so damn good at sticking his foot all the way up to his ass into his mouth. That is part of what I love about Dave, but being part of a band, you have to consider band family and they come first and you circle the wagons and shoot outward, not inward.

Yes, yes Sam seems to have a level head, but he is an opportunist as well and just like the "inevitable reunion" comment, that is just something he is repeating BECAUSE Dave said it. I find it difficult to write this because I want Dave in first and last and foremost, but Sam would be ok back in VH IF and only IF he would lay off the "Love" lyrics.
They don't have to "Live out the songs that they write" (Registered trademark of Bocephus).

Singer number 4 will flop just like with Gary. (Gary got a bad rap for such a great guy). It is either Dave or Dave or Dave or Sam or Dave and Sam with the almighty VH or nuttin
))))for me((((

Dang, I must have the day off or something to write a long post like this....

**VH2001** · 01.20.03, 12:49 PM

You forgot about David Hasselhoff!!

**Executionor** · 01.20.03, 12:50 PM

MOJODOJO, are you serious or is this a joke?!?! Do you have a link? What I would like to see if this is true that he thinks this is how many instant alien believers we have. Kinda like how many instant "Linkiln Park sucks anyways" comments... [img]graemlins/wtf.gif[/img]

Please provide a link...

**The Van Baron** · 01.20.03, 12:54 PM

honest oppinion :

HUEY LEWIS..& HE CAN BRING THAT HORN PLAYER TOO ! [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

**hellohawk** · 01.20.03, 01:00 PM

Originally posted by Loop Dee Loop:
I put my money on Ralph Senaz. The guy is extremely talented but who knows? Eddie will probably get tired of whoever No4 too after a few albums

Puh-lease. The last thing Ed wants is a DLR imitator. He could have the real thing and he doesn't want that. He's been there and done that. He's made it very clear he's not looking to re-tread the past. Ralph and Dave are about reliving the past, that's not Ed's bag.

**GMAN5150** · 01.20.03, 01:03 PM

Originally posted by the van baron:
honest oppinion :

HUEY LEWIS..& HE CAN BRING THAT HORN PLAYER TOO ! [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

[img]graemlins/wtf.gif[/img] Your joking right?? Huey Lewis sucks !!!

**Bammo** · 01.20.03, 01:08 PM

i honestly don't think a 4th singer would fail just because they aren't dave/sammy. if vh were to bring in an established singer of a younger generation (eg dave grohl like subway suggested) then that person would probably bring more NEW fans to vh than would be lost from established fans. of course the music would have to be good and produced properly! [img]graemlins/sssh.gif[/img] but it could open up vh to the dreaded mtv audience that buy most of the records nowadays.

i don't want to see them turn into what aerosmith have become but at the same time i don't want future releases to only satisfy a small section of diehard fans.

just a thought.....if the incidents surrounding pete townshend mean the end of the who, that'll leave roger daltry without a band

**GMAN5150** · 01.20.03, 01:09 PM

JMO...But if there is a singer #4 it will be someone that isn't a Rock-n-Roll Retread...It will be someone like Mitch Malloy...Jeff Scott-Soto...someone like that.

**heatmiser** · 01.20.03, 02:33 PM

This whole VH saga is turning or going to turn into the movie Rockstar for crying out loud!! Bring in the next singer and out goes the other one thru the revolving door. Sure bring in someone young and make the rest of the guys look like geriatrics for god's sake. I just say, if it isn't Roth or Hagar then just move on to something else. Ed just needs to get over the whole nostaglia trip problem he has and just swallow his pride and get going.