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Sammy has a great voice and still sounds pretty great at 72 years old, but his lyrics are rather generic and he's average as a frontman.

DLR wrote extremely clever lyrics on those early VH albums, and his voice, while an acquired taste even back in the day, gave the band a unique quality rather than just being another Robert Plant clone, as was popular for hard rock bands in the late '70s.

Trashing this abysmal performance doesn't mean he wasn't great back in the day...it's just sad to see now. As far as not caring or not taking it seriously, that seems to be the case, which is odd, because in interviews, he takes a lot of pride in his career.

Sammy's voice is still pretty good. I actually like him more as a solo guy as opposed to being in VH. My main beef with him during his VH years was his refusal to want to sing any of the classic VH tunes apart from the usual handful of Panama, Jump and You Really Got Me. I saw Van Hagar 3 times, 86, 91 and 95. The last 2 shows he apologized to the fans for his voice, said he was partying too hard the night before. When he formed Chickenfoot, he said they would be as big as Zeppelin! WTF?
As far as his lyrics go, Only time will tell if we stand the test of time? For a guy that used the word "love" a lot in his lyrics, this is one case where he should have used it. Makes a lot more sense to sing only love will tell if we stand the test of time!
I don't know why Dave doesn't use auto tune. Not sure how it works but I've read that a lot of young female singers use it in concert.

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The singing is bad, but it's the stage presence that is so awful -- he looks completely unprepared. The Spinal Tap backing band doesn't help.
He still has a weird kind of charm, though. If he got a buttoned up band and practiced he could do a Tom Jones kind of show.

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The singing is bad, but it's the stage presence that is so awful -- he looks completely unprepared. The Spinal Tap backing band doesn't help.
He still has a weird kind of charm, though. If he got a buttoned up band and practiced he could do a Tom Jones kind of show.

Reminds me of when I saw Lou Gramm formerly of Foreigner at a festival in Vegas. While Robert Plant aged well, Gramm was now a short pudgy dude. His guitarist and bass player were horrible. They had the moves of rock stars prancing around on stage but couldn't play for shit. They needed to go back to playing Guitar Hero. When the set ended the consensus around me were awful.

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The singing is bad, but it's the stage presence that is so awful -- he looks completely unprepared. The Spinal Tap backing band doesn't help.
He still has a weird kind of charm, though. If he got a buttoned up band and practiced he could do a Tom Jones kind of show.

Reminds me of when I saw Lou Gramm formerly of Foreigner at a festival in Vegas. While Robert Plant aged well, Gramm was now a short pudgy dude. His guitarist and bass player were horrible. They had the moves of rock stars prancing around on stage but couldn't play for shit. They needed to go back to playing Guitar Hero. When the set ended the consensus around me were awful.

lou also battled brain cancer and plant did not

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The singing is bad, but it's the stage presence that is so awful -- he looks completely unprepared. The Spinal Tap backing band doesn't help.
He still has a weird kind of charm, though. If he got a buttoned up band and practiced he could do a Tom Jones kind of show.

Actually I thought the band was smokin' hot. The lead guitar sounds just like the records to my ears. Superb. Dave just needs to get his voice right.

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The singing is bad, but it's the stage presence that is so awful -- he looks completely unprepared. The Spinal Tap backing band doesn't help.
He still has a weird kind of charm, though. If he got a buttoned up band and practiced he could do a Tom Jones kind of show.

Reminds me of when I saw Lou Gramm formerly of Foreigner at a festival in Vegas. While Robert Plant aged well, Gramm was now a short pudgy dude. His guitarist and bass player were horrible. They had the moves of rock stars prancing around on stage but couldn't play for shit. They needed to go back to playing Guitar Hero. When the set ended the consensus around me were awful.

lou also battled brain cancer and plant did not

Neither did DLR. He was not the worst part of the set. It was his band.

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The singing is bad, but it's the stage presence that is so awful -- he looks completely unprepared. The Spinal Tap backing band doesn't help.
He still has a weird kind of charm, though. If he got a buttoned up band and practiced he could do a Tom Jones kind of show.

Reminds me of when I saw Lou Gramm formerly of Foreigner at a festival in Vegas. While Robert Plant aged well, Gramm was now a short pudgy dude. His guitarist and bass player were horrible. They had the moves of rock stars prancing around on stage but couldn't play for shit. They needed to go back to playing Guitar Hero. When the set ended the consensus around me were awful.

lou also battled brain cancer and plant did not

Neither did DLR. He was not the worst part of the set. It was his band.

I was talking about lou gramm gaining weight. he was a pretty slim guy until the late 90's/early 00's after he had the brain cancer

Pathetic

A guy posted last nights full show on Youtube. This was more like a regular concert, no long speeches between songs. I didn't watch the full 90 minutes, skimmed through. Seems like he's singing in a lower key now, still not great but better than the first night.

Robert Plant is smart and doesn't even try to hit those high notes anymore. It seems Dave can't stop himself from trying to sing exactly as he did when he was in his twenties. I agree that Dave could sound a lot better with a vocal coach, singing in a lower register, and not trying to hit those high yelps anymore. It sounds bad And like he's hurting his voice at the same time.

And thank heaven Mick uses teleprompters! Dave forgot the lyrics to "California Girls" and it was painfully embarrassing.

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Robert Plant is smart and doesn't even try to hit those high notes anymore. It seems Dave can't stop himself from trying to sing exactly as he did when he was in his twenties. I agree that Dave could sound a lot better with a vocal coach, singing in a lower register, and not trying to hit those high yelps anymore. It sounds bad And like he's hurting his voice at the same time.

And thank heaven Mick uses teleprompters! Dave forgot the lyrics to "California Girls" and it was painfully embarrassing.

Dave forgetting the words has been part of his schtick pretty much VH's whole career. He'll say that at pretty much every concert.

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Sammy has a great voice and still sounds pretty great at 72 years old, but his lyrics are rather generic and he's average as a frontman.

DLR wrote extremely clever lyrics on those early VH albums, and his voice, while an acquired taste even back in the day, gave the band a unique quality rather than just being another Robert Plant clone, as was popular for hard rock bands in the late '70s.

Trashing this abysmal performance doesn't mean he wasn't great back in the day...it's just sad to see now. As far as not caring or not taking it seriously, that seems to be the case, which is odd, because in interviews, he takes a lot of pride in his career.

exactly...he had great Frontman attitude and stage-presence.

...and besides...what else can he do to make money?

the guy's gotta eat too.

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Robert Plant is smart and doesn't even try to hit those high notes anymore. It seems Dave can't stop himself from trying to sing exactly as he did when he was in his twenties. I agree that Dave could sound a lot better with a vocal coach, singing in a lower register, and not trying to hit those high yelps anymore. It sounds bad And like he's hurting his voice at the same time.

And thank heaven Mick uses teleprompters! Dave forgot the lyrics to "California Girls" and it was painfully embarrassing.

DLR & Paul Stanley should get along famously on the KISS tour as Paul can't sing anymore either. Maybe David should use a tape like Paul does haha.

I don't think the DLR live tracks are bad at all. It sounds very much like someone's monitor/earbud mix. His LV obviously have no f/x on them at all. Everyone's vocals sound like crap in that way. If you listen - he is not off pitch. On"unchained" he gets some flair going, even at that dry level.
It is the band that IMO is absolutely awful.

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Sammy has a great voice and still sounds pretty great at 72 years old, but his lyrics are rather generic and he's average as a frontman.

DLR wrote extremely clever lyrics on those early VH albums, and his voice, while an acquired taste even back in the day, gave the band a unique quality rather than just being another Robert Plant clone, as was popular for hard rock bands in the late '70s.

Trashing this abysmal performance doesn't mean he wasn't great back in the day...it's just sad to see now. As far as not caring or not taking it seriously, that seems to be the case, which is odd, because in interviews, he takes a lot of pride in his career.

Sammy's voice is still pretty good. I actually like him more as a solo guy as opposed to being in VH. My main beef with him during his VH years was his refusal to want to sing any of the classic VH tunes apart from the usual handful of Panama, Jump and You Really Got Me. I saw Van Hagar 3 times, 86, 91 and 95. The last 2 shows he apologized to the fans for his voice, said he was partying too hard the night before. When he formed Chickenfoot, he said they would be as big as Zeppelin! WTF?
As far as his lyrics go, Only time will tell if we stand the test of time? For a guy that used the word "love" a lot in his lyrics, this is one case where he should have used it. Makes a lot more sense to sing only love will tell if we stand the test of time!
I don't know why Dave doesn't use auto tune. Not sure how it works but I've read that a lot of young female singers use it in concert.

You don't think Sammy was having some fun with Chickenfoot by saying they'd be as big as Zep?

Chickenfoot was actually pretty damn good...the members were all just too busy with their other projects to devote the necessary time to it.

The last bit of You Really Got Me Now is HILARIOUS!

It is beyond AWFUL! WOW!

That is fantastic!

From the You Really Got Me comments:

Jeff McNeal:

Yikes. When he sings "I don't know what I'm doin' now", I actually believe him.



Sean Flaherty:

i didn't even pay for this show and i want my money back

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From the You Really Got Me comments:

Jeff McNeal:

Yikes. When he sings "I don't know what I'm doin' now", I actually believe him.



Sean Flaherty:

i didn't even pay for this show and i want my money back

The comments were brutal and hilarious.

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Sammy has a great voice and still sounds pretty great at 72 years old, but his lyrics are rather generic and he's average as a frontman.

DLR wrote extremely clever lyrics on those early VH albums, and his voice, while an acquired taste even back in the day, gave the band a unique quality rather than just being another Robert Plant clone, as was popular for hard rock bands in the late '70s.

Trashing this abysmal performance doesn't mean he wasn't great back in the day...it's just sad to see now. As far as not caring or not taking it seriously, that seems to be the case, which is odd, because in interviews, he takes a lot of pride in his career.

Sammy's voice is still pretty good. I actually like him more as a solo guy as opposed to being in VH. My main beef with him during his VH years was his refusal to want to sing any of the classic VH tunes apart from the usual handful of Panama, Jump and You Really Got Me. I saw Van Hagar 3 times, 86, 91 and 95. The last 2 shows he apologized to the fans for his voice, said he was partying too hard the night before. When he formed Chickenfoot, he said they would be as big as Zeppelin! WTF?
As far as his lyrics go, Only time will tell if we stand the test of time? For a guy that used the word "love" a lot in his lyrics, this is one case where he should have used it. Makes a lot more sense to sing only love will tell if we stand the test of time!
I don't know why Dave doesn't use auto tune. Not sure how it works but I've read that a lot of young female singers use it in concert.

You don't think Sammy was having some fun with Chickenfoot by saying they'd be as big as Zep?

Hard to tell with Sammy. He also said he was as big as Van Halen when he joined the band! Chickenfoot was a great band, saw them on their second show ever in Vancouver. Seen Satriani a few times prior and Chad Smith was awesome on drums.

Sammy has some life. He made a fortune selling his Cabo Wabo tequila brand. He tours just for fun, drinks tequila with his bandmates and the crowd, and pretty much hangs out on the beach otherwise.

Despite my mixed feelings on his music, the guy has it made.

>Sammy has some life...

>Despite my mixed feelings on his music, the guy has it made.

Couldn't have put it better. Thanks.

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>Sammy has some life...

>Despite my mixed feelings on his music, the guy has it made.

Couldn't have put it better. Thanks.

jb

Sammy made a lot on the tequila, but really, all of them are multi millionaires.

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Sammy has a great voice and still sounds pretty great at 72 years old, but his lyrics are rather generic and he's average as a frontman.

DLR wrote extremely clever lyrics on those early VH albums, and his voice, while an acquired taste even back in the day, gave the band a unique quality rather than just being another Robert Plant clone, as was popular for hard rock bands in the late '70s.

Trashing this abysmal performance doesn't mean he wasn't great back in the day...it's just sad to see now. As far as not caring or not taking it seriously, that seems to be the case, which is odd, because in interviews, he takes a lot of pride in his career.

Sammy's voice is still pretty good. I actually like him more as a solo guy as opposed to being in VH. My main beef with him during his VH years was his refusal to want to sing any of the classic VH tunes apart from the usual handful of Panama, Jump and You Really Got Me. I saw Van Hagar 3 times, 86, 91 and 95. The last 2 shows he apologized to the fans for his voice, said he was partying too hard the night before. When he formed Chickenfoot, he said they would be as big as Zeppelin! WTF?
As far as his lyrics go, Only time will tell if we stand the test of time? For a guy that used the word "love" a lot in his lyrics, this is one case where he should have used it. Makes a lot more sense to sing only love will tell if we stand the test of time!
I don't know why Dave doesn't use auto tune. Not sure how it works but I've read that a lot of young female singers use it in concert.

You don't think Sammy was having some fun with Chickenfoot by saying they'd be as big as Zep?

Hard to tell with Sammy. He also said he was as big as Van Halen when he joined the band! Chickenfoot was a great band, saw them on their second show ever in Vancouver. Seen Satriani a few times prior and Chad Smith was awesome on drums.

Sammy also said that he joined VH because at the time "the missus was making more money" than him so it was time to put that straight again.

You all are cruel, LOL

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You all are cruel, LOL

Nuh uhhhh! When someone has a Yes Man not telling them they stink... it's not like DLR has done anything in I have no idea how long, 30 years? Excluding the last VH album, of course.

I did like his Sky Scraper album with Steve Via.

He has just burnt his mind. I think way too many drugs for old Diamond Dave.

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I did like his Sky Scraper album with Steve Via.

He has just burnt his mind. I think way too many drugs for old Diamond Dave.

you didn't like eat 'em and smile?

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A guy posted last nights full show on Youtube. This was more like a regular concert, no long speeches between songs. I didn't watch the full 90 minutes, skimmed through. Seems like he's singing in a lower key now, still not great but better than the first night.

All the tunes are in their original key