New interview, some of my favorite lines from the Spamminator:
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Hagar: Oh, I'm okay with those guys doing whatever they want to do. What I've heard so far, I wasn't impressed with at all, personally. I think in CHICKENFOOT, we've raised the bar a little bit on what a four-piece rock band can do, and I think they chose to take the easy route and take some of their old stuff and and re-record it instead of writing new songs.
LMFAO. Videos with a guy in a chicken suit is raising the bar?? Get real.
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And I don't know what they're thinking, to be honest with you. Because if they were thinking at all, they would certainly have Mikey in there playing bass. "
Ummm... coming from a huge Mike fan....Wolfgang sounds better on this album than Mike ever did...so I don't understand what Spam is getting at.
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I think there's zero inspiration and zero creativity. If there was any, they would write new songs. What does the band do? When CHICKENFOOT got together for our first album, we were four new guys and we got together and wrote ten, twelve songs and made an album. When we decided to do our second album, we didn't go back and take the two songs that were left over from the first album, we wrote all brand new songs. Because we're new people, we're inspired. Here's what we have to say, here's what we want to play now, here's who we've become since then. And you present yourself to the fans as who you are and what you've become. And if you don't have any idea of who you are or what you are and what you've become [laughs], then I guess you have to go back and show them what you used to be. I don't know. Does that make sense?"
No Sam, it doesn't make sense. This sounds like petty jealousy for me.
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If you take Joe versus Eddie, you take Dave versus me, Wolfie versus Mikey, Chad or Kenny versus Al… I mean, come on! You know what I mean? Man for man, who can sing the best? Dave or I, today? Who can play the best? Joe or Eddie, today? Who could play or sing the best? Wolfie or Mikey? I think it's a joke."
Umm...Ed can play better than Joe and Wolf plays better than Mike. So once again, you make yourself look like a jealous crybaby.
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Sure, I love the comparison as long as it's fair. Not because you're a big Eddie Van Halen fan, you think that he's God, therefore you think that he's better than Joe; you have to be bipartisan and just listen and watch both of them play. Listen, I played with them both, I can tell you right now: there is no comparison today. Never mind the innovator that Eddie was. I'm talking about what they can play today."
Yawn.
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Radio Metal: So in other words, CHICKENFOOT is way better than VAN HALEN?
Hagar: As individuals, absolutely! I've been in both bands, I can tell you right now. Take the new albums and compare them track by track and then tell me."
What is this, Kindergarten? "I'm better than he is!" "No, I"M the best!"
Seriously, go dig a hole in the sands of Cabo beach and climb down there, and just stay there forever. This is pathetic, childish behavior on Sam's part. Dave and Ed obviously grew up and are now reflecting on their past in a joyous way.
Sam is jealous Van Halen is relevant and he is not. "Only time will tell if we stand the test of time." Yeah, how'd that one work out for ya?
Link to the article:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bla...sitemID=168965