Stone Temple Velvet Revolver And Roses: A lousy VH cover band

Apparently DLR is still a douche ...

Excerpt from CNN.com:

David Lee Roth: MIA
Only Van Halen's second lead singer, Sammy Hagar, and ex-bass player Michael Anthony turned up for their induction. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen has just gone into rehab and original lead singer David Lee Roth stayed away in a tiff over what he would perform.

Hagar said he wished his bandmates could be there, but "it's out of our control."

"It's hard for Mike and I to be up here to do this, but you couldn't have kept me away from this with a shotgun," Hagar said.

It took less to keep Roth away. He stood up the hall, reportedly because he couldn't agree on what to sing with the band Velvet Revolver, which offered a tribute. Joel Peresman, president and CEO of the Hall of Fame, said Roth was offered a chance to sing a song of his choice with the house band. "The decision not to come was solely his, not ours."

Hagar and Anthony joined Velvet Revolver to sing "Why Can't This Be Love."

 

CNN.com said Hagar and Anthony joined Velvet Revolver to perform? It was the David Letterman band that was backing those two.

Velvet Revolver was terrible as a Van Halen cover band. Slash seemed like he couldn't play as fast as Eddie and it showed. And Weiland was even worse.

The whole thing was a big disappointment for a Van Halen fan that's looked forward to their induction for a long time. Here's hoping Eddie gets out of rehab and is a better person and recognizes that getting all five of them together -- Dave, Sammy, Ed, Alex and Michael -- would be huge. And Gary Cherone could open with his own band, if he has one.

 

It sounds to me like Roth is such a self-absorbed fuckstick a reunion will never happen.

 

Still probably my fave REM song.