VH: Didn't know about this ...

uwe · December 04, 2013, 05:36:46 AM

Maybe our resident VH buff Rob did, but this was new to me:

He sure would have added teenage girls to their fan base! But his voice - tuneful and with a high register as it is - sounds more REO Speedwagon than VH to me.

Basvarken · December 04, 2013, 05:42:08 AM

I only saw this a few weeks ago.

He looks like a Barbie doll.

amptech · December 04, 2013, 06:35:09 AM

He could easily sing for Vixen

Blackbird · December 04, 2013, 06:48:00 AM

Steel Panther.....

Dave W · December 04, 2013, 08:24:39 AM

Quote from: Blackbird on December 04, 2013, 06:48:00 AM
Steel Panther.....

No, this guy takes himself seriously.

ack1961 · December 04, 2013, 08:25:41 AM

He seems like a real nice and well-grounded guy.
I had never heard of him before this video...

gweimer · December 04, 2013, 08:34:52 AM

Sounds like he has his head on straight. He wouldn't have lasted in VH.

gearHed289 · December 04, 2013, 09:26:36 AM

Quote from: gweimer on December 04, 2013, 08:34:52 AM
Sounds like he has his head on straight. He wouldn't have lasted in VH.

Ha! Nice. I saw this a while ago. Was news to me. I think VH require a very identifiable front man, and this guy ain't it.

uwe · December 04, 2013, 09:55:19 AM

Quote from: amptech on December 04, 2013, 06:35:09 AM
He could easily sing for Vixen

That is mean!!! But succinct.

OldManC · December 04, 2013, 12:54:02 PM

The digs focusing on his looks seem funny here. I'm not chastising anyone, it just seems weird. Is it really a drawback (or his "fault") that he looks that way? John Sykes and Adrian Vandenberg come to mind... Should they have been taken less seriously as musicians specifically because they had long blonde hair too?

I was always a bigger Van Halen fan than Van Hagar fan, but judging from that last snippet of music, he would have fit perfectly as the singer for the band Van Halen was in the mid 90's. Certainly better than Gary Cherone (not that that turned out well)!

Basvarken · December 04, 2013, 01:30:15 PM

Quote from: OldManC on December 04, 2013, 12:54:02 PM
John Sykes and Adrian Vandenberg come to mind...

They looked like Barbies too.

drbassman · December 04, 2013, 01:33:20 PM

Wow, a normal guy sounding in the R&R biz. I'm amazed. I don't see him not being the "right" guy for VH since I didn't actually see him performing their material. I guess he'd fit better if he were drugged out and drooling all over himself and saying "ya know" and "f-ing awesome" constantly?

drbassman · December 04, 2013, 01:39:09 PM

Good voice and I like the song. Hey, a chick on bass!!!!!

amptech · December 04, 2013, 02:22:07 PM

Quote from: OldManC on December 04, 2013, 12:54:02 PM
The digs focusing on his looks seem funny here.

Don´t get me wrong; I like Vixen (and their original singer was great) and looking like a barbie doll is positive in some genres.
I grew up on hair metal as well as hard rock, and looking back (at least from the mid 80´s and onward) some corners of the rock industry
was at least 50% looks. I don´t personally think looks matters, but the guy in question most certainly does!

uwe · December 04, 2013, 05:05:52 PM

Quote from: Basvarken on December 04, 2013, 01:30:15 PM
They looked like Barbies too.

Even David Coverdale jokes today that in their glam days it became increasingly difficult to tell the band and their girlfriends apart. But I'm not saying Mitch Malloy can't sing because he subscribed to stereotype in his look. He comes across as a credible guy in that vid and not petty at all. VH being the dysfunctional bunch they are, he made the right choice in the long run. Personally, I think that blond and those curls were a bit much. In that live vid they look like extensions btw and you know how I allow hair replacement ony with the one who may not be mentioned here!

Then again: Straight (and real) hair didn't help the Nelson Brothers too much either, nicely prominent bass sound though.