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This is the podcast that comes after the podcast.
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Jake Brennan (2:50)
The afterparty. Welcome to the Disgraceland bonus episode. A little thing we like to call the afterparty. This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get you from one full episode of Disgraceland to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt on this bonus episode, we are talking about Van Halen Part two. We are previewing our coming part two episode on Prince. We're talking Rat Fink Blues in the Hollywoodland minute and we get into your voicemails, text DMs, emails, and as always, a whole lot of Rosie. All right, discos, let's get into it. All right, so back on March 26, 2024, we released our first episode on Van Halen. Eddie had been dead for a while at that point. He passed back in October 2020. There is, of course, no continuation of Van Halen. There were rumors that somehow the band was going to continue with Eddie's son Wolfgang, and Dave was going to be back in the frontman slot, or that Sammy was coming back, or that Nuno Betancourt from Extreme was stepping in to replace Eddie and that that meant that Gary was going to join. I don't, I don't know. Here's what I do know. There's no replacing Eddie Van Halen. There was no one like him before we took the stage. And there will never be another like him now that he's gone. So we released our two part episode on Van Halen this week, on Tuesday. But this past weekend, something remarkable happened. Eddie Van Halen's former foil and bandmate and sometime enemy, David Lee Roth took the stage. Not with Van Halen and not to perform hits from his solo career, but with an entirely different group of musicians to perform a set of only Van Halen songs, Bangers. And in typical David Lee Roth fashion, it rocked. Surprisingly, I guess. I mean, I said it's typical, but I shouldn't have said that because there's been some really uneven David Lee Roth stuff over the past few years. Now, the band that he was fronting, it of course, didn't have the Van Halen magic, but the songs that were performed in the Cradle Will Rock, Jamie's Crying, Running with the Devil, Atomic Punk, Drop Dead Legs, Ain't Talking About Love, Hot For Teacher, and Of course, Jump. They were so great. I mean, I watched a bunch of this. It was awesome. Okay? These songs are incredible songs. They can survive without the magic, I think, is what I'm saying. The magic is, of course, gone. With no Eddie, with no Van Halen. And it's been gone since the mid-80s. Those Van Halen reunions were abominations. And yet again, this was not Van Halen, but it was a group of more than competent musicians giving David Lee Roth just enough of what he needed to go out there and entertain the hell out of a pavilion full of people in Maryland or Delaware or wherever the hell they were. And after seeing Dave do this on these videos over the Internet all weekend, I gotta admit, I kind of wished that I was one of those people in the crowd. Unlike the Van Halen reunion shows that I've seen in these videos, David Lee Roth looks stoked. He looks happy to be there. He doesn't look like he's putting it on. He doesn't look like he's faking it, you know, and of course, he's super old. It doesn't matter. His natural and abundant charisma. It's contagious. And yeah, it's super schlocky and probably has more to do with Las Vegas than it does with Van Halen, but that doesn't mean it isn't entertaining. And, oh, by the way, David Lee Roth always seemed like a dude who was going to end up in Las Vegas anyway. He always had that old school Rat Pack entertainer vibe. It was. It was hard to see underneath all that hair and it, you know, got obscured, I guess, by the pecs and the splits. But David Lee Roth can put on a classic show, and that was fully on display the other night. And I hope that he keeps on doing it. You know, I'm using this opportunity this week because of our van Halen Part 2 episode to just say that I hope that this continues. And I have no illusions that it's going to be Van Halen or it's going to be as good as Van Halen or it's going to be as magical as Van Halen. It's not going to be any of those things, but that doesn't mean it can't be fucking cool. That doesn't mean it can't be fun. And I honestly hope that I'm more interested in this happening. David Lee Roth playing Van Halen songs without Van Halen than I am with David Lee Roth reuniting with Alex Van Halen and Michael Anthony and. And Without Eddie. Because of course, if you'll excuse me, that would be a disgrace. It just would not be cool. No matter who they get to replace again, you can't replace Eddie Van Halen, okay? Just Dave, go out there, be your authentic schlocky self. Entertain the hell out of us with those incredible songs. Make us all feel like we're in an 80s teen movie, ripping the strip in a convertible, got a heater in the ashtray, a road soda between our legs, a babe riding shotgun or something like that. You know, I can get with that. You know, I was going to talk about Sammy Hagar in this episode because that's what our full episode deals with this week. It deals with the Sammy era, I guess you could call it more than it does the Dave era. And I was going to talk about my newfound appreciation for Sammy Hagar, my late onset Sammy Hagar appreciation. Speaking of old dudes, I saw Sammy Hagar on a video this morning with Alice Cooper, ripping it up over the weekend and it did not suck. It's hysterical. And in some weird way, Sammy Hagar has got me interested in Jimmy Buffett. I know, I know. Hold your fire. I think I'm going to do a Jimmy Buffett episode at some point. But anyhow, I got distracted by this David Lee Roth news. Okay. In this two part episode on Van Halen Part two, I should say it's been well received so far. I got a lot of great comments on the Spotify app, got a lot of great DMs emails. Thank you guys who have checked it out. For those of you who have not already, go ahead. It's there for you. It's waiting for you. And our rewind episode that's coming up right after this, we have our episode on another legend, a hip hop legend, Slick Rick. What's Rick doing these days? I don't know. Maybe we can, maybe we can get Rick to head out to Vegas with David Lee Roth, put together a little, a little legend show for us. I'd go see a show with Slick Rick and David Lee Roth. All right, next week, next week. What do we got next week? Next week we have another two parter, another two part episode or a part two episode coming that is new. It's the follow up to our part one episode on Prince. All right, There was way too much Prince to cover in one episode. So we get the whole story for you here coming next week and when you're listening to Prince. Okay, I think last time we talked about Prince, we got into this conversation about who the greatest dumb fucking question, but it's a good one. Just greatest musician of all time. I think that's what we were talking about. Or greatest pop star of all time or musician, technically gifted pop star. So I forget how we qualified it. Prince obviously came up. Stevie. Stevie Wonder came up. We've talked about before, you know, speaking of Van Halen, we've talked about, you know, is Prince one of the greatest guitar players of all time? We're going to get into that later here, that greatest guitar player conversation. We'll get into that later in the episode with your DMs and your texts and your voicemails. But this time, for this Part 2 Prince episode, when you're listening to it, I want you guys to be thinking about which artists best nailed their moment. Okay? Was it Prince with Sign of the Times? All right, you know what I'm talking about here. Was it Stevie Wonder with Living for the City? Marvin Gaye with what's Going On? Public Enemy with Bring the Noise or Fight the Power? Hell, everything Public Enemy did. How about Nirvana? I mean, Nirvana, Kurt Cobain nailed the time. I'd throw the strokes into this conversation. So many artists hold a mirror up to the era that they're creating in. And I want to know from you guys who did it best. Give me a call at 617-906-6638. Which artist best represented their times? Send me a text. Send me a Voice, 617-906-6638. You may hear your answer on next week's afterparty. All right, I'm going to take a quick break. I'll be hanging on the telephone with you guys. Your voicemails. 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