http://www.sarget.com/boa-lr-9-cr-jim.jpg
http://drivinrain.net/images/Gp_jim.jpg (Jim Dandy on the left)
David Lee Roth today:
LOL
Jim Dandy is cool, though, unlike Hagar.
He said he got high with Bill Clinton before and that Clinton inhaled.
----
"Absolutely," he said. "It made me feel good. ... When I replaced Dave, I
knew how bad it was for him. I didn't take any pride in squishing his career
and having Van Halen go on to be better. After I left, I thought, 'What if
they do to me what they did to Dave?' I was nervous." - Sammy Hagar, playing
at a local movie theatre near you
Roth before his plastic surgery and new toupee:
http://www.mb-imaging.net/dlr/pages/dlr35.htm
Here are a couple of pictures of a younger Jim Dandy.
The Jim Dandy that Roth stole his whole look and stage persona from:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Stage/8543/jimdandy2.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Stage/8543/dandy-circus.jpg
=====
Black Oak Arkansas: "The best live act of the early '70s. David
Lee Roth stole Jim Dandy's act lock, stock and barrel.
- Houston Press (Jun 23, 2005)
> Here are a couple of pictures of a younger Jim Dandy.
> The Jim Dandy that Roth stole his whole look and stage persona from:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Stage/8543/jimdandy2.jpg
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Stage/8543/dandy-circus.jpg
Nope. Aside from the blonde hair, doesn't remind me of Roth. With
the animal skin vest and the white spandex, however, he reminds me of
someone else:
http://www.nolifetilmetal.com/images/tednugent_80tourbk.jpg
Come to think of it, Jim Dandy today looks more like Hagar.
Same concert:
http://www.mb-imaging.net/dlr/images/dlr19.jpg
Rusty is like a little girl from the Britney group that doesn't know about
angles or lighting.
"Yuk yuk, they're believing my facelift and toupee shtick. All I need to do
now is go on as Hadley to back it up and they'll REALLY believe me!" -
Rushgedlife
Looks like Chastity Bono.
Take his name off the first pic and he looks like a dead ringer for a
young Roth.
No shame in admitting Roth took a major part of his early look from
Mangrum. Denying it just makes you look foolish.
Looks like Rushiepoo made yet another identity. LOL
> Black Oak Arkansas: "The best live act of the early '70s. David
> Lee Roth stole Jim Dandy's act lock, stock and barrel.
Dave borrowed heavily from Jim Dandy, that is true. However, Jim Dandy
himself borrowed heavily from Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad. Farner
pranced around bare-chested, wore tight Spandex pants, and had long blonde
locks long before either Roth or Mangrum came along.
> Take his name off the first pic and he looks like a dead ringer for a
> young Roth.
>
> No shame in admitting Roth took a major part of his early look from
> Mangrum. Â Denying it just makes you look foolish.
The one who really started the "bare-chested singer" look:
http://www13.plala.or.jp/hosonag/markfarnermessenger1.jpg
Mark Farner of Grand Funk, circa 1972.
I said a year ago that they both have similar looks.
I also challenged Rusty to name what parts of Jim Dandy's act did Roth
ripoff.
As usual, Rusty has remained silent to this day and hasn't come up with
anything (remember, he is a bot and can only deliver "quotes" from
newspapers to form his opinion).
Nothing wrong "looking like" someone, but to say you ripped them off and
that's why you became famous is something entirely different.
It's like those people that discount Eddie and say he ripped off his tapping
from so-and-so; but who made it famous?
I've also said Hagar looks like Ronald McDonald, but never accused Sammy of
ripping him off, even though there aren't too many people in rock with a
poodle on their head that dress in red and yellow like a clown.
OTOH, I can find lots of rockers with long blonde hair, tight pants, hairy
chest etc. ala Nugent, Roth, Dandy, Plant etc.
Looks like you're avoiding the issue.
I'd bet Robert Plant did it before Farner. Can't think of anyone who
had that look prior to Plant.
Interestingly Van Halen virtually stole the bass and drum intro of GFR's
"Foot Stompin' Music" for "So This Is Love."
T.B.
>> Looks like Rushiepoo made yet another identity. LOL- Hide quoted
>> text -
>
> Looks like you're avoiding the issue.
Why do you need another screen name?
T.B.
>Dave borrowed heavily from Jim Dandy, that is true.
It was comical to hear Roth deny it on his radio show last year.
He claims Jim Dandy had absolutely *no* influence on him. He even
calls him a bum.
Chicken Lee Roth won't even mention his name.
Talk about denial.
=====
David Lee Roth Radio Show (Feb 2006)
Caller: I have a quick question for you. I have nothing
but the utmost respect for you and I love your radio
show, but we talk about influences and man the other
day I was watching VH1 Classic and I only have three
words for you: Black Oak Arkansas.
Roth: Black Oak Arkansas? Why, because he had long
blonde hair and a loud voice? [Dave laughs nervously]
Caller: No, what was funny about it was that he was
wearing the white spandex, and the fringe boots, and
no shirt and like the long blonde hair and he had that
[caller makes a growling noise] kind of talk. And I was
like "Dave!".
Roth: So you think I was imitating the guy in Black Oak
Arkansas? [Dave asks incredulously]
Caller: I'm not saying that you were imitating him, I think
you took, definitely some influence from him.
Roth: No, I took absolutely no influence from that individual.
[Dave says defiantly]
Caller: Really
Roth: ...If you think I stole anything from the bum in Black
Oak Arkansas, as I'm not a physician, but whatever's wrong
with you, I'm sure it's very hard to pronounce. We're going to
try and pronounce it better after this [Dave cues the outro
music by cutting off the caller and saying "Hit it out"].
Roth doesn't bring the subject up again after the break.
>Take his name off the first pic and he looks like a
>dead ringer for a young Roth.
>
>No shame in admitting Roth took a major part of
>his early look from Mangrum. Denying it just
>makes you look foolish.
Yep.
Dead ringer.
=====
Q: Whom do you regard as some of the best front
people in rock?
VN: For me, it was David Lee Roth. He was unbelievable
as a front man. He still is. It's just too bad him and Van
Halen couldn't work it out. He idolized Jim Dandy.
- Vince Neil
=====
"In the Starwood days, Roth's stage presence wasn't yet
as cool as it would later become. He wasn't confident with
his stage raps and told corny old jokes, borrowing heavily
from singer Jim Dandy Mangrum of Southern rock band
Black Oak Arkansas. 'At the time, Black Oak Arkansas
was dead, gone, over with, and not too recently in the
grave,' continues Kelly. "And all of a sudden, this band
comes out with a singer who looked, sang, talked, and
acted just like Jim Dandy. It was very out of place.'
'He aped a lot of Jim Dandy's moves,' adds Brian O'Brien."
- Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal
=====
The Tightest Pants in Dixie
Raunch rock found a southern home in Black Oak Arkansas
by Jay Sosnicki
In 2003, it's hard to believe that Black Oak Arkansas was
once one of the most popular bands of the early '70s. Led
by the spandex-clad, sandpaper-voiced Jim "Dandy"
Mangrum, BOA was the original party band, combining
boogie-driven paeans to the pleasures of the flesh with a
cockeyed spirituality that belied their redneck roots.
...1970, the group had found a home on Atlantic, and an
ally in Ahmet Ertegun, who saw potential in Jim Dandy's
increasingly ribald stage persona. As Mangrum said in a
1997 interview, "Ahmet told us he liked the sexy songs,
and we liked doing 'em, so we started going more that
way."
By 1972, the word on the street was that Black Oak
Arkansas was a party, and the group quickly became a
hot ticket on the concert circuit, based on their freaky,
high-energy stage performances, and Mangrum's overt
sexuality and charisma.
The years of hard touring paid off with 1973's seminal
Raunch & Roll Live. Combining concert staples like "Hot
& Nasty" and "Mutants of The Monster" with new
classics like "Hot Rod," "Gigolo" and "Getting Kinda
Cocky" (all bracketed by Jim Dandy's bawdy
between-song monologues)
By 1980, BOA was dead in the water, with upstarts like
Van Halen (and their Jim Dandy-influenced frontman,
David Lee Roth) redefining "party rock" for a new
generation.
=====
CRR: David Lee Roth has said a lot about being influenced
by your stage presence
Jim Dandy: David is fine. When he was with Van Halen they
at least had a sense of humor. I like him. I think he is the
Shecky Green of rock n roll. Hell, if he had had a wife of his
own then he would have made as much fun of her as he did
of Eddie's. (laughter). Eddie took his self too seriously. A lot
of bands do that 'I'm worth a lot of money now so you can't
talk about that shit anymore.' I thought that they were a
great performer. It was enjoyable to me to see what worked
for me work for other people. He (David Lee) was with the
same public relations company that Black Oak had been
with.
- Jim Dandy interview with Classic Rock Revisted
=====
"The jukebox had two songs on it; one which I don't recollect
and the other I'll never forget: It was "Jim Dandy to the
Rescue" by Black Oak Arkansas."
- David Lee Roth (on the early VH days playing in bars)
Source: Crazy From The Heat
>Why do you need another screen name?
Sorry, not me.
Don't believe Keith & Chuckie's paranoid accusations so easily.
I thought you were smarter than that?
I only post under one name.
Often imitated, never duplicated.
=====
From: "TB"
Newsgroups: alt.music.van-halen
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004
Roth isn't as "original" as you might think.
Check out Jim Dandy, singer for Black Oak
Arkansas for a first clue.
LMFAO
Right on cue, the brain dead moron parades his quotes because the Hagar bot
has no fucking mind of his own.
Too funny!
So... again, one year later - WHAT DID HE BORROW?
HELLO DUMBFUCK? HAGAR BOT? ANYONE IN THERE?
Anyone knows how this Rushy-bot thingie works?
LOL
> blonde hair and a loud voice? [Dave laughs nervously]
>
> Arkansas? [Dave asks incredulously]
>
> [Dave says defiantly]
>
Check out Rusty's interpretations of Roth's laugh and actions.
Somebody is trying a little TOO HARD!
LOL
No mind or thoughts of his own.
FOOL PANIC MODE (Tour selling out, must make diversion quick)
Shitty time to be Hagar fan.
Mick Jagger?? Sure, no blond hair, but tight pants, bare chest...
LOL at the paranoid idiot who accused me of being Chuck G. and his forger
for two years.
Who knows if you're Fuddykaiser, but you've been proven to be "Hadley" long
ago.
That's exactly why you jumped on this opportunity to "lump" them together
and deny them both.
How dumb do you think the average person is here? As dumb as you? Not
quite....
> I thought you were smarter than that?
> I only post under one name.
> Often imitated, never duplicated.
Often flamed and made an ass of is more like it.
(repost letter to Hadley aka Rushgedlife with "facelift" quotes added today)
Tell us why -
...your first post here was in defense of Rush the middle of a flame war
between Rush and Rich?
...you have never sad anything remotely bad (who here hasn't besides you)
about Rushie and you're an "old skooler who grew up with Roth"?
...you and Rushie are the only two to use TB quotes to advance your agendas
that Roth is broke?
...your sole existence here is to defend Rushgedlife?
...Rushie has never even mentioned or communicated with you?
...you and Rush were the only people to accuse others of being "Penis Puffer
Chuck G"?
...you and Rushie have the same approach to me, TB and TW?
...evey time the heat is on Rusty you suddenly appear in his defense?
...you spoofed "TJM", one of the people Rusty hated the most?
...you're running scared and obsessed with letting people know that you're
not Rushgedlife several times a day, even though it means nothing to you?
...you and Rushgedlife are now the only ones to go around saying Roth had a
facelift?
And most importantly:
These two posts are 7 months apart and supposedly from two different people.
How could two 'different' people think so closely and have the same
'fictional' life experiences:
July,05 -
"Roth made his money 20-25 years ago. Before BIG money was being made in the
industry. Back then, a VH concert ticket could be had for $8. He spent $1M
of his own money (flushed down the toilet) on the "No Holds BBQ" video in a
desperate attempt to land a reality show. Last year it was reported that he
was living in a modest apartment in NYC." - Rushgedlife
Jan, 06 -
"Musicians are making much more money now than they were 20-30 years ago. My
point was 70's and 80's money is nothing like today's money. I paid $7-10
per ticket to see VH back then. He blew $1M on his weird BBQ video a few
years ago. He inherited the Pasadena home from his father and managed to
capture a burglar there a few years back, but he stated that he "lives" in
NY now." - Hadley
BUSTED!
"TW" <slap_gu...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1188337663.6...@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com...
"Rushgedlife" <rushg...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1188340107....@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
LOOK Rusty -
Eddie before plastic surgery -
http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Third_Party_Photo/2006/03/06/1141647940_6178.jpg
Eddie after plastic surgery -
http://blogging.la/archives/images/2006/03/2006_02_08_eddie_van_halen.jpg
Isn't that vierd!
> Looks like you're avoiding the issue.
I'm not avoiding the issue. I've already stated the facts of the
matter. The look and persona that you speak of were also had by Ted
Nugent, Robert Plant, and various other frontmen.
So have you abandoned your "Hadley" identity for this one?
> So... again, one year later - WHAT DID HE BORROW?
>
> HELLO DUMBFUCK? HAGAR BOT? ANYONE IN THERE?
You should realize by now how Rushius works:
(1) Write one or two sentences and paste a bunch of out-of-context
quotes.
(2) If someone proves you wrong or asks a question which would prove
you wrong, do not reply. Just wait a few months and make the same
points again (practically word for word) like the reply never
happened.
>Oh, My, God! What the hell is wrong with Dave's
>jaw..? I thought Eddie was the one with throat
>cancer...
No worries.
Dr. Mandelbaum tightened up his sagging jowls real good.
Dave's face is now pulled tighter than a snare drum.
Only drawback, the freakish perma-grin.
Dave's new toupee hasn't been battle-tested yet.
It's been staying on during rehearsals, press conferences, photo
shots, etc.
How will it stand up under the hot stage lights?
http://blackoakarkansas.us/photos/albums/concerts1/abn.jpg
David Lee Roth with furry boots:
http://jyte.com/static/1/550/00013550/claim-r17142.png
Did Dave buy them at a Dandy yard sale?
Unlike Keith, Rushie and yourself, I don't change the subject at every
opportunity. This is the only screen name I need.
TB = Totally Bitchslapped
The pictures speak a thousand words.
Although to be fair, seeing Hagar and Buffett's shtick side by side,
there's a lot of similarities there too.
It's not like any of these guys were 100% original in the first
place. How many bands ripped off VH? Remember Autograph, who toured
with VH in 1984? Tell me that isn't a blatant VH ripoff. How many
other guitarists ripped off Eddie? How many other frontmen ripped off
Roth?
It's one thing to do it, another to deny it.
Note the spelling of the e-mail address
(Rushged *ilfe* at yahoo.com).
ilfe instead of life
The desperate Rothians continue to spiral in Full Panic Mode.
I own them.
Daltrey in 1969
>
No one believes you. Guess you better start dealing with it, pal.
T.B.
> TB wrote:
>
>>Why do you need another screen name?
>
> Sorry, not me.
> Don't believe Keith & Chuckie's paranoid accusations so easily.
> I thought you were smarter than that?
> I only post under one name.
> Often imitated, never duplicated.
Uh huh.
T.B.
Poor Fuddy, gets charged with sockism in a second newsgroup.
Art, say hello to Lifswine for me. Tell him to get help. And stop
listening to that Hagar mix CD.
My new Hagar-only Van Halen mix cd is the shiznit!
Track Listing:
1 Humans Being
2 Right Now
3 5150
4 Top of the World
5 Can't Stop Loving You
6 Dreams
7 Amsterdam
8 When It's Love
9 Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)
10 Love Walks In
11 Cabo Wabo
12 Poundcake
13 Summer Nights
14 Black And Blue
15 Feelin'
>My new Hagar-only Van Halen mix cd is
>the shiznit!
>
>Track Listing:
>
>1 Humans Being
>2 Right Now
>3 5150
>4 Top of the World
>5 Can't Stop Loving You
>6 Dreams
>7 Amsterdam
>8 When It's Love
>9 Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)
>10 Love Walks In
>11 Cabo Wabo
>12 Poundcake
>13 Summer Nights
>14 Black And Blue
>15 Feelin'
Not bad, I'd go with (no particular order):
1) Summer Nights
2) Best Of Both Worlds
3) 5150
4) Mine All Mine
5) Finish What Ya Started
6) Poundcake
7) Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)
8) Feelin'
9) Crossing Over
10) Humans Being
11) Runaround
12) Black And Blue
13) Cabo Wabo
14) Judgement Day
15) Top Of The World
I'm trying to track down a copy of the CSLY single so I can finally hear
Crossing Over.
>I'm trying to track down a copy of the CSLY single
>so I can finally hear Crossing Over.
It's also on the Japanese import of Balance.
Yeah but that would likely be more expensive and harder to find.
> Not bad, I'd go with (no particular order):
>
> 1) Summer Nights
> 2) Best Of Both Worlds
> 3) 5150
> 4) Mine All Mine
> 5) Finish What Ya Started
> 6) Poundcake
> 7) Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)
> 8) Feelin'
> 9) Crossing Over
> 10) Humans Being
> 11) Runaround
> 12) Black And Blue
> 13) Cabo Wabo
> 14) Judgement Day
> 15) Top Of The World
Huh. I'd go with:
1) Summer Nights
2) Best Of Both Worlds
3) Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)
4) Crossing Over
5) Humans Being
It's be great because I could fit it on one of those quarter sized mini
cd-rs.
T.B.
...but somehwhat like Hagar, heh.
Bingo!
And when you do get an answer, it's from his imposter.
His imposter is actually better.
Maybe we should start talking to the imposter and ignore Rusty.
"Never duplicated" my ass....
I just downloaded it for free. Great song (one of the better ones of
Balance), but don't bother getting Japanese imports.
McQ
> Daltrey in 1969
Damn, you're right.
Torrent site? Got link?
>> It was comical to hear Roth deny it on his radio
>> show last year.
>> He claims Jim Dandy had absolutely *no* influence
>> on him. He even calls him a bum.
>> Chicken Lee Roth won't even mention his name.
>> Talk about denial.
>
>The pictures speak a thousand words.
>
>Although to be fair, seeing Hagar and Buffett's shtick
>side by side, there's a lot of similarities there too.
Yeah, but it's really a red herring.
The Rothians bring up Jimmy Buffet as a diversion (whenever the
embarrassing Jim Dandy issue comes up).
It really is apples and oranges.
Hagar has become the hard-rock version of Jimmy Buffet.
Nobody denies it.
It's like saying that water is wet.
Hagar respects Buffet, calls him a mentor and a genius.
After his platinum success with Montrose. After his platinum success
as a solo artist. After his platinum success with Van Halen. In his
late 40's (early 50's), Hagar formed the Wabo's and kind of morphed
into a beach bum, hard-rock version of Buffet. It happened late in
Hagar's career, after incredible success.
Roth stole Jim Dandy's look and stage persona right from the start of
VH (and clung to it like a barnacle). Never able to reinvent himself.
It's well documented and the visual evidence is irrefutable. Roth has
used the Dandy look and stage persona as the basis of his entire
career.
The spandex, the assless chaps, the boots, the bare chest, the mane of
long blonde hair, the ribald stage persona, bawdy between-song
monologues, etc.
Roth denies it and his fans deny it as well (this thread is a good
example).
Roth calls Jim Dandy a "bum".
Here's the video clip from VH1 Classic that the radio show caller was
referring to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGAPhLK8qdk
=====
"I think Jimmy is a genius because he found this shit before anybody
else did...I have an alliance with the guy and I talk to him like a
mentor. I will ask him how he got involved with this, that or the
other. He gives me some advice from time to time and I think Jimmy is
The Man. He is the Godfather and I am like his step-son or something.
It is all fine and he gets nothing but respect from me."
- Sammy Hagar ('05)
Hagar looks like Daltrey in this clip (maybe even David Coverdale):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxENpwrNdls
I still think it's the best song Hagar did.
> Tattoo Vampire wrote:
>> Tom Mason wrote:
>>
>>> Daltrey in 1969
>>
>> Damn, you're right.
>
> Hagar looks like Daltrey in this clip (maybe even David Coverdale):
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxENpwrNdls
Ronnie's tone has absolutely no balls in that clip.
T.B.
> Here's the video clip from VH1 Classic that the radio show caller was
> referring to:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGAPhLK8qdk
>
Listening to that (I haven't heard BOA in over 30 years) there's a
similarity in vocal style, too.
Masta, please. I'd play Coldplay's "Panic" if I'd own their CD.
I play the song of the same name by the Smiths.
> Torrent site? Got link?
I just used Kazaa, actually.
McQ
Sorry
McQ
McQ
> Check your email.
>
> McQ
My email is a joke email. I have downloaded limewire and have found it.
Still plan to try and get the single too.
Thanks.
McQ
Rushgedlife, don't you also post as JourneySchonLife or is that another
imposter? The below was copied and pasted from the "Van Halen cannot put
Diamond Dave at #1 thread started on 8/25/07:
"JourneySchonLife" <rushg...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1188091242.1...@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> Once again, the post was made by
> my imposter/stalker.
>
> Note the spelling of the e-mail address
> (Rushged *ilfe* at yahoo.com).
>
> ilfe instead of life
>
> The desperate Rothians continue to spiral in Full Panic Mode.
>
> I own them.
>
I must admit, it's starting to seem like there are just a handfull of people
here with many different screen names.
Sasquatch
>> Sorry, not me.
>> Don't believe Keith & Chuckie's paranoid accusations
>> so easily.
>> I thought you were smarter than that?
>> I only post under one name.
>> Often imitated, never duplicated.
>
>Rushgedlife, don't you also post as JourneySchonLife or
>is that another imposter?
That was someone's clumsy attempt at mocking my screen name (ala
U2BonoLife).
Keith has admitted to being U2BonoLife, as well as Rodney, Van Gaylen,
Joe Duvola, Italian Greaseball (and dozens of it's variations, IGB,
IGB VH, Italian Stallion, Italian Roth Lord, etc.), etc. There have
been many others.
Last week he was bragging about how he used multiple ISP's to create
sockpuppets.
Then there's Chuck G. He threatened to return here under a new
identity after he said I "humiliated him to the fullest extent". He's
been true to his word, he's come back under *many* different screen
names (settling into "TW"). He called me a "horrible human being",
told me I should be "lynched" and threatened I would "get what is
coming to you".
This place means that much to them. They've sworn revenge on me. They
have to create "friends" and new identities.
They admit to doing it.
Last week I was accused of being FuddyKaiser and **bigstick**.
TB has since explained that **bigstick** is someone else entirely (he
even posted his name and location).
You better be careful, if you say anything anti-Roth, pro-Hagar, or
use any of the information in my posts at a later date, you too will
be accused of being me :)
LOL, Check out the Hagar pussy caught red handed posting as Hadley!
... but unlike everyone else, Rusty takes the Internet "serious" and will
never admit it though, because in his world all people hail the
"Rushgedlife" as some sort of god to amvh, when in reality he is the
newsgroup idiot and punching bag and the butt of everyone's jokes.
The guy who claims he has never posted to Usenet under any other name and
has only posted soley to amvh and it's a "sin against God" if you do.
Tissue, "Hadley" er, "Ted" er, "Mick99" er, "TJM's imposter" etc.
LMFAO
I estimate Rushgedlife is posting as 4-6 different people right now.
As Rushgedlife, Hadley, the Rushgedlife impersonator, and the
JourneySchonLife you busted him as.
These are only the ones we *know*. There are probably a few others.
You see, Rusty won't admit to socks, even when he's been busted. He thinks
his life will crumble and takes this dead serious.
In 2004 I was posting the bad Van Hagar reviews with the worst part used as
the headline. I also used quotes by band members.
A few weeks afterward, out of nowhere, came this Rushgedlife character, with
10-20 posts exactly like mine, only pro-Van Hagar.
He basically ripped off my shtick lock, stock and barrel. I look at him as
my student (ala Darth Rusty) who went to the other side.
He wants us to believe he never posted as anyone else before and has never
posted as anyone else since, anywhere on the internet.
He is extremely private and speaks through news clippings. He posts through
AOLs secret servers, has never talked about where he lives, his hobbies or
ever attending a Van Halen or Hagar concert.
He knows any slip could lead him being identified to other people who have
posted here before.
To me, this is a video game and not taken seriously.
To Rusty, this is a 'mission'. He's been posting the same BS (even in the
days when it was totally dead and 3 people posted here) day in and day out
for the last 4 years.
I'm sure DLR would rather have people believe he's totally original,
but every musician is influenced by someone, especially early on.
Much like EVH took The Kink's "You Really Got Me" to a whole new
level, DLR did the same with JD's act as far as the look and some of
his mannerisms. JD's voice sucks though. It's no wonder BOA never
became more successful.
Never knew about "So This Is Love" using the same drum beat from GFR's
"Foot Stompin' Music". But that's not the first time VH 'borrowed'
someone else's music (Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way" -> VH "Dance
The Night Away" anyone?)
Regardless of if he borrowed his schtick... there's no way he could
parlay it into a whole career... He trumped JD 1000 times over....and
MUCH better.
It's like when people say that Axl Rose stole his moves from Richard
Black (Shark Island). How many people besides Axl (and me :) actually saw
Black perform?
Roth IS a great frontman/ringmaster.... He stole a little something from
everybody. Rock is built on that model :)
> It's like when people say that Axl Rose stole his moves from Richard
> Black (Shark Island). How many people besides Axl (and me :) actually saw
> Black perform?
I thought Axl stole his dancing from that guy in The Monkees???
McQ