VH: Didn't know about this ...

[nofi]

there are some important details missing in this story. one moment he is the best thing since sliced bread to evh and the next he is home in nashville like all this never happened. why oh why.

[gweimer]

there are some important details missing in this story. one moment he is the best thing since sliced bread to evh and the next he is home in nashville like all this never happened. why oh why.

I think it was David Crosby who once responded to a question about why CS&N were getting back together, something to the effect of a camel wandering the desert, dying of thirst, and remembering where the watering hole was so long ago.

In a dysfunctional band - we would probably all agree that they are the norm, and we've all been in at least one - decisions aren't always made rationally.  I would even say that some musicians are like heroin to each other.  You know it's dangerous, you know what will happen, and yet you go there anyway under the guise that this is genius.  A good friend of mine dealt with a singer like that - a really well-known singer in Chicago that was a habitual alcoholic, and never dependable, rational or easy to deal with.  My friend kept saying "when he opens his mouth and sings, though...".  He did that for over a decade, again and again.  I finally told him that the singer was his downfall and his heroin.

[uwe]

IMHO, VH should have taken Skid Row's Sebastian Bach. They would have then had it all: Good looks, outrageous personality and a man who can effortlessly belt it out in a high register over those riffs. Kind of DLR and Hagar rolled into one a decade or so younger.

[drbassman]

Hey, those Nelson guys weren't bad at all.  Even with all of the hair!  I somehow missed them.  I think I was busy working and raising kids when they were trying to make it.

[uwe]

They knew a tune or two. And even now, with hair cropped short(er), they still do.




Their last album is relatively recent (of course on the Italian Frontiers label where they all are), the bass is still commendably high up in the mix and the melodies still infest your ear.




Just because I poke fun at AOR bands, doesn't mean I don't appreciate them. It's a very American art and I mean that most respectfully, there is a little Beach Boys in all of you.   Hey, if you can't be moved by Journey's opening chords on Don't Stop Believin' you should really see a cardiologist: You might not have a heart.

My latest CD purchase was these guys here, that makes me squarely and fairly an AOR/pomp rock nerd:

[gearHed289]

My friend kept saying "when he opens his mouth and sings, though...".

That's so funny. I always describe my experience with a certain singer that both Baz and I played with in the past exactly the same way. A year and a half was all I could take.

I remember having long, pretty hair...

[gweimer]

That's so funny. I always describe my experience with a certain singer that both Baz and I played with in the past exactly the same way. A year and a half was all I could take.

I remember having long, pretty hair...

It wouldn't surprise me if it was the same guy.  His name was Terry.

[OldManC]

Then again: Straight (and real) hair didn't help the Nelson Brothers too much either

At least one of them got a transplant somewhere along the way. Not sure about the other one (being twins and all you'd think if one started losing his hair the other did too) but I saw photos of the one when my old guitar player went in to see about getting them.

[4stringer77]

I prefer the senior Nelson's music and coiffure.
Hey, there's Joe Osborn!

[uwe]

That's so funny. I always describe my experience with a certain singer that both Baz and I played with in the past exactly the same way. A year and a half was all I could take.

I remember having long, pretty hair...

I never look artsy like that when I play bass, sigh!

[gweimer]

I never look artsy like that when I play bass, sigh!

I never quite got the hang of it, either.

[Dave W]

I prefer the senior Nelson's music and coiffure.
Hey, there's Joe Osborn!

I saw all those shows the first time around!

Sad to think that David and Ricky are gone now but James Burton is still going strong and AFAIK Joe Osborn still plays occasionally.

[gearHed289]

Nothing says artsy like a vest with no shirt and a pair of striped pirate pants. 

[Pilgrim]

Nothing says artsy like a vest with no shirt and a pair of striped pirate pants. 

Topped with El Mullet Magnifico!   

[uwe]

Nothing says artsy like a vest with no shirt and a pair of striped pirate pants. 

Tsk, tsk, tsk, now don't be shy about it, it's that musicianly look on your face. Only people that get photographed in BP and have expensive endorsements look that way!