The Confessor wrote:If Sammy and Eddie couldn't get along (on the last tour)...how in the hell are Eddie and Dave going to manage? Eddie has despised Dave for a long, long time. I don't see him keeping a lid on that for any length of time.
"Despised Dave for a long, long time."
And you seem to be right. But all of us obviously being outsiders (hell, who isn't anyone w/out the last name Van Halen an outsider to the bros?), we can only make judgements on what we see, observe and what the Van Nepotisms say.
That said, they both went off that Dave had the audacity to act like it was a reuninion in '96 for the Best Of Vol I on stage for MTV. They were disgusted that he claimed "this is the first time we've been onstage together as a band in 12 years" or something to that effect.
Well what the hell was David Lee Roth SUPPOSED to think?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Hagar quits/is pink-slipped. The Van Paranoias ask him to come in and be the lead singer again on new songs that will go into worldwide release. A tour behind it is seemingly in the offing. The world is taking it for what it looked like, a Van Halen reuinion with Dave. they agree to appear as a band on MTV together and present.
But DLR is supposed to read their (whacky) minds and assume he's no more than an outsider, a temp, a hired gun and not think he's in the band?
So it was OK for everybody in the world and media to say dave was back, especially based on all the actions of the band leading up to MTV. A very sound, logical conclusion.
But Dave, he says it's good to be onstage together as a band and the VanSchitzoids go fucking nuclear about it?
To me it just seems like 2 assholes who strung a guy along and set him up to look very bad.
It's a separated wife and husband, who the wife out of the blue invites the estranged husband back into her bed and life. She moves him back into the house, and at Christmas dinner after the husband raises a toast saying how nice it is to be back together the wife throws him out in front of everyone screaming "WHO TOLD YOU WE WERE BACK TOGETHER>?!?!?!? YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE FOR DOING THAT!!!!!!!!!"