Post by Hey Man on Sept 16, 2015 10:23:21 GMT -5
2004 Reunion Tour
"It was awful. There was more than one show where Ed would totally forget the intro to the song and Al would start throwing sticks at the back of his head really hard going "Hey, that's not 'Runaround'!" I tried to quit 40 dates in, but Irving had us for 80 dates so I was fucked."
VH Reunion with Mikey
"He doesn't wanna be tortured again! I don't see him going back to play with those brothers ever."
Current VH
"I've checked them out on YouTube and it makes me sad. Sad because on the reunion tour me, Mike and Al were giving it all we had. Ed is playing the best he has in years and even Wolf sounds great. I wish this kind of commitment would've been put into the arenas we played last time because it may have never ended a second time."
Roth
"I'm glad they're happy, but man those vocals suck! If I would've sung anything even half as bad as what Diamond is doing right now I'd
have been kicked out of the fucking band! They're up there rocking and you got some guy up there doing Vaudeville. It's just a bad look, man. He's awful, man."
Sam/Dave Tour '02
"The agreement was we'd do a song together during each other's set. Then the tour started and all of a sudden Diamond wouldn't do it. In Detroit, Kid Rock was backstage and I was telling him this crazy shit and he says 'Hold on, I got this'. Few minutes later Kid pulls me into a dressing room. It's just Me, Diamond and Kid. I told Diamond I'd play guitar and sing background on 'You Really Got Me' and The Wabos had worked out an arrangement of 'Finish What Ya Started' where Diamond would sing the line 'So if you wanna see other guys...'. Kid and I thought we had it all worked out. I knocked on Dave's dressing room door right there at Pine Knob and he wouldn't do it. Next night in Chicago or Peoria, I knocked again and said 'Hey man I've got some tequila, let's jam!' No answer. The next day he'd hired 5 former football players to guard him at all times and we had to work it out where if I was playing he couldn't be in the building, and vice versa because we had these buses parked backstage just for this purpose. It was crazy and unnecessary. Worst of all, he was up there wearing this vinyl outfit and wig with a Van Halen tribute band behind him complete with the guitarist doing 'Cathedral' and 'Eruption', you know all that type of shit. He was literally pretending he was back in Van Halen in front of those huge crowds we drew that summer. It was supposed to end at Madison Square Garden and the last show was at some fair upstate. It was sad. I can't stand that guy and I don't know how the brothers put up with him, especially in his current way."
5150/Balance Tours
"The difference was night and day, man. I was married...hell, we all were. But we were being bad boys and we each had our own little areas underneath the stage. There were a lot of times I'd get a blowjob from sometimes 2 girls taking turns while downing a bottle of water during Al's solo and again during Eddie's. By the last tour [Balance], it was decided we get really, really serious. I remember one night some chick flashed her tits at us and I said something like "Hey, nice tits!". The next day Al and Ray [Danniels] would chew my ass out for it. The fun was gone in '94, man. When we were making 'Balance' and planning the tour I'll never forget the call from the manager saying 'Eddie wants his band back.' Which I thought was hysterical since Roth had been running things during his time and me and Ed Lefler ran it after that. If that manager hadn't stepped in, we'd still be together in some way and we'd still be huge."
Shep Gordon managing VH in '95
"I've known Shep for years. He's a true self-made renaissance man. When Ed Lefler died we started looking for a new manager and I immediately wanted Shep Gordon. Alex had this brilliant question - 'So what is it you do exactly?' Now, Shep's an avid pot smoker and in that tone of his says 'If one of you guys gets caught with drugs and an underrage girl in your room in Europe, I'm the fixer.' Me and Mikey laughed our asses off but the brothers ended the meeting right there and we wound up with Al's brother in law who broke the band up and talked them into getting Cherone, but not before bamboozling Diamond first. The brothers I knew would've never done that to those guys but the poison was already there. And what do they have to show for it? They haven't released an album of original songs since Cherone in '99."
"It was awful. There was more than one show where Ed would totally forget the intro to the song and Al would start throwing sticks at the back of his head really hard going "Hey, that's not 'Runaround'!" I tried to quit 40 dates in, but Irving had us for 80 dates so I was fucked."
VH Reunion with Mikey
"He doesn't wanna be tortured again! I don't see him going back to play with those brothers ever."
Current VH
"I've checked them out on YouTube and it makes me sad. Sad because on the reunion tour me, Mike and Al were giving it all we had. Ed is playing the best he has in years and even Wolf sounds great. I wish this kind of commitment would've been put into the arenas we played last time because it may have never ended a second time."
Roth
"I'm glad they're happy, but man those vocals suck! If I would've sung anything even half as bad as what Diamond is doing right now I'd
have been kicked out of the fucking band! They're up there rocking and you got some guy up there doing Vaudeville. It's just a bad look, man. He's awful, man."
Sam/Dave Tour '02
"The agreement was we'd do a song together during each other's set. Then the tour started and all of a sudden Diamond wouldn't do it. In Detroit, Kid Rock was backstage and I was telling him this crazy shit and he says 'Hold on, I got this'. Few minutes later Kid pulls me into a dressing room. It's just Me, Diamond and Kid. I told Diamond I'd play guitar and sing background on 'You Really Got Me' and The Wabos had worked out an arrangement of 'Finish What Ya Started' where Diamond would sing the line 'So if you wanna see other guys...'. Kid and I thought we had it all worked out. I knocked on Dave's dressing room door right there at Pine Knob and he wouldn't do it. Next night in Chicago or Peoria, I knocked again and said 'Hey man I've got some tequila, let's jam!' No answer. The next day he'd hired 5 former football players to guard him at all times and we had to work it out where if I was playing he couldn't be in the building, and vice versa because we had these buses parked backstage just for this purpose. It was crazy and unnecessary. Worst of all, he was up there wearing this vinyl outfit and wig with a Van Halen tribute band behind him complete with the guitarist doing 'Cathedral' and 'Eruption', you know all that type of shit. He was literally pretending he was back in Van Halen in front of those huge crowds we drew that summer. It was supposed to end at Madison Square Garden and the last show was at some fair upstate. It was sad. I can't stand that guy and I don't know how the brothers put up with him, especially in his current way."
5150/Balance Tours
"The difference was night and day, man. I was married...hell, we all were. But we were being bad boys and we each had our own little areas underneath the stage. There were a lot of times I'd get a blowjob from sometimes 2 girls taking turns while downing a bottle of water during Al's solo and again during Eddie's. By the last tour [Balance], it was decided we get really, really serious. I remember one night some chick flashed her tits at us and I said something like "Hey, nice tits!". The next day Al and Ray [Danniels] would chew my ass out for it. The fun was gone in '94, man. When we were making 'Balance' and planning the tour I'll never forget the call from the manager saying 'Eddie wants his band back.' Which I thought was hysterical since Roth had been running things during his time and me and Ed Lefler ran it after that. If that manager hadn't stepped in, we'd still be together in some way and we'd still be huge."
Shep Gordon managing VH in '95
"I've known Shep for years. He's a true self-made renaissance man. When Ed Lefler died we started looking for a new manager and I immediately wanted Shep Gordon. Alex had this brilliant question - 'So what is it you do exactly?' Now, Shep's an avid pot smoker and in that tone of his says 'If one of you guys gets caught with drugs and an underrage girl in your room in Europe, I'm the fixer.' Me and Mikey laughed our asses off but the brothers ended the meeting right there and we wound up with Al's brother in law who broke the band up and talked them into getting Cherone, but not before bamboozling Diamond first. The brothers I knew would've never done that to those guys but the poison was already there. And what do they have to show for it? They haven't released an album of original songs since Cherone in '99."