Re: Time for my yearly AVH post.....

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:31:58 -0500, Tom Betka wrote
(in article <2r36e2hn6394s49ds13s1pg8e9q0djajl2@xxxxxxx>):

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:25:37 -0500, Pat McDonald
<patdrums@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Seems like about once a year I give a stretch of my listening time to my
old
Van Halen CDs and I've said it before and will say it again......


Alex Van Halen is just a bad muthafucka.


Just listening to the Hagar era CD "Balance".......



What a TREMENDOUS sounding record. Just frigging HUGE production.
Alex is just flat out killin it. One of my favorite VH CD's. Say what
you want, but he is one of the most underrated drummers ever. He has a
TOTALLY indentifiable sound and feel and plays some of the most MUSICAL
stuff
for a rock guy. And has just right amount of "slop" in all of it to make
it
sound REAL and ORGANIC. Nothing he does is anywhere NEAR that whole
"make
it sound like a drum machine"/perfect time/sterile thing so prevalent back
in
those days. God I miss the days when bands had a SOUND and just fucking
ROCKED because that's what they loved.....VH was one of the best at it and
Alex drove them HARD. What a fucking monster drummer that guy is.......


Pat

What are some of the songs on that CD? I don't recognize the CD by
name...not a big VH guy though. But I agree AVH is an incredible
drummer.

But have you ever seen his drumsticks? Man--they are over 17-1/2"
long! I have a pair--holy cane poles batman! Tie a string on one end
and let's go fishin'!

TB


"Don't Tell Me What Love Can Do" was probably the only radio hit off it. It
was the last Hagar-era album they did. Pretty much the end of it for them
up to this point. The first tune "Seventh Seal" and the tune "Feelin' "
to me are worth the whole thing. Eddie just played some fucking
ASTOUNDINGLY nice guitar stuff and the whole record is just gigantic in
sound. I set my iPod to shuffle and get the volume set perfectly and if
anything on that album plays I immediately have to turn it down. It was
mastered so hot that it just jumps out of the speakers. But it still sounds
clean and sparkling.

Fucking great record.


Pat

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