OMG-- Mike's mullet

**hain23x** · 12.13.06, 07:40 PM

**hain23x** · 12.13.06, 07:42 PM

...and let me also add that this version of "Panama" has about 1/4 the energy as it did on the actual album

**Rokgtar** · 12.13.06, 08:22 PM

My favorite part is all of that great screaming that Sammy does...

**Blount5150** · 12.13.06, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by hain23x

...and let me also add that this version of "Panama" has about 1/4 the energy as it did on the actual album

I have to disagree with you on that one...I've always thought the band was having fun on this one. Sam doesn't have Dave's charisma with it though...

And the mullet is god-awful

**Top Timmy** · 12.13.06, 08:55 PM

Amazing how much better sober Eddie sounds to regular Eddie.

**godisEd** · 12.13.06, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by Rokgtar

My favorite part is all of that great screaming that Sammy does...

Mine too!

AT · 12.13.06, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by Top Timmy

Amazing how much better sober Eddie sounds to regular Eddie.

Yeah, the band really sounded excellent on the Balance tour.

And Mike's mullet is definitely car-on-blocks-in-the-lawn white trash.

And they did have good energy.

And of course Sammy will never sound great singing DLR tunes. Imagine DLR singing Sammy-era stuff; they're very different singers.

**TonyButrico** · 12.13.06, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by Top Timmy

Amazing how much better sober Eddie sounds to regular Eddie.

You aint kidding! its the real Ed we all grew to love..
04 was a drunkin mess!

**TonyButrico** · 12.13.06, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by hain23x

I never before seen the simiese twins at the end come to life,way cool jr!!

**Blount5150** · 12.13.06, 09:49 PM

I think the title to the CD was correct, "Balance". Ed seemed balanced. Van Halen wasn't a circus then. Everyone accepted them as a little older and realized that the party band mentality was best left in the 80's. Just when we thought this band was going to mature respectably...

**Ryder5150** · 12.13.06, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by Top Timmy

Amazing how much better sober Eddie sounds to regular Eddie.

Eddie was tight during the 95 tour, never missed a note.

**Ryder5150** · 12.13.06, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by hain23x

That sure is a brutal mullet however I think Mike's mullet was even worse during the OU812 tour. What do you think?

**DoHalen5150** · 12.13.06, 10:11 PM

I wish that the balance tour were the last memories I had of the hagar era of van halen. Before all the drama and shit. 2004 was great, becuase at least they were together and touring, but lets face it, the band looked and sounded like crap most of the time.

ah well

**lil'devil** · 12.14.06, 01:46 AM

wow. what a mess.

i take it this is the encore and they are dead tired?

AT · 12.14.06, 04:29 AM

Originally Posted by DoHalen5150

I wish that the balance tour were the last memories I had of the hagar era of van halen. Before all the drama and shit. 2004 was great, becuase at least they were together and touring, but lets face it, the band looked and sounded like crap most of the time.

ah well

Ah... I don't know... Eddie was definitely Smoking Loon loosey-goosey for the better part of the tour, but the rest of the band sounded good. Every previous Van Hagar show in the Twin Cities saw Sammy as pretty tired; I thought he sounded better on the two '04 shows I saw than I'd ever recalled from the years before. Alex was also just solid and really held it together.

I just wish it hadn't ended the way it did... again.