posted February 23, 2003 11:11 PM                    

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Originally posted by APsRule:
Hey there Luvtohumpralph! ...I absolutely adore Ralph too. And, yes, he could just lay down his hatred for Sammy for a spell and rip off some great tunes from back in the day when Sammy was with VH. I know for a fact he could do them well. C'mon, Ralph, can you hear us???? Pretty please?????

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In no way have I ever heard of Ralph having "hatred" for Sammy at all. Ralph has spoken about seeing VH with Sammy a few times, and is complimentary of Sammy's history with the band (Sam just took VH down a different musical avenue, that is all)

In fact, Ralph and the Atomic Punks have performed, several times, a Van Hagar song ("Why can't this be love?") but in the style of David Lee Roth

Ralph did it in Dave's style, because after all, they are a "tribute to early Van Halen", which he calls the best version of Van Halen there ever was, and many would agree

Also, his audience are people who love early Van Halen, so when he addresses fans of the other versions of Van Halen (Sammy and Gary) of course he has to say "if you came here expecting to hear Van Hagar, or Gary Cherone... F.U." because that is not what the Atomic Punks are about.

Actully it is some really hardcore fans, like me, who you could say have some kind of "hatred" for Sammy (for constantly putting down Dave since day 1 when he joined VH, even when they had never met), and Gary (for putting out a Van Halen album that left a very bad taste with the few remaining Van Halen fans)

If Ralph's band started doing all Hagar and Cherone cover songs, even with Ralph's charasma and talent, sadly I'd have to find another tribute band to enjoy

[ February 23, 2003, 11:16 PM: Message edited by: AlbertR ]

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posted February 24, 2003 05:08 PM                    

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Originally posted by APsRule:
P.S. What do you mean by, "the funny thing is that he is a guy"? Are you a guy, is that why it's funny? Please elaborate.

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Be cause one day he said that he would f%@# the shit out of him...!!!!!LOL!!!! Not to many guys would say that they would do that when they are straight!!! LOL!!!
As for the name "luvtohumpralph" I wanted "wantssomeralph"...but chose the other instead..
Also, no I'm not a guy,.,.,..

posted February 25, 2003 01:03 PM                

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Also, his audience are people who love early Van Halen, so when he addresses fans of the other versions of Van Halen (Sammy and Gary) of course he has to say "if you came here expecting to hear Van Hagar, or Gary Cherone... F.U." because that is not what the Atomic Punks are about.

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Actually, not his ENTIRE audience loves strictly early Van Halen, some of us (like myself) love ALL Van Halen and were just putting in a request for some Sammy. Not trying to convert the entire band's format to Sammy's version of Van Halen.

And, as far as stating that Ralph has some hatred towards Sammy, well, is it any wonder one would get that impression when he states, "if you came here expecting to hear Van Hagar, or Gary Cherone... F.U.". LOL! Okay? What are we supposed to assume? That he adores Sammy??

All I was saying was that Ralph is extremely talented and could pull off Sammy's VH easily, if he wanted, and he may even broaden his fan base by doing so. That's it, I didn't want to start a war with the die hard early VH fans. I love all VH and so to each his own. We can agree to disagree, can't we?

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posted February 26, 2003 12:08 AM                    

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And, as far as stating that Ralph has some hatred towards Sammy, well, is it any wonder one would get that impression when he states, "if you came here expecting to hear Van Hagar, or Gary Cherone... F.U.". LOL! Okay? What are we supposed to assume? That he adores Sammy??

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Just firing the fans up for the show, that's all. He knows a lot of people at the show aren't there to hear "Love Walks In."

You're not alone BTW, I have no problem with Sam in VH, as long as Eddie is standing next to him. It's always been about the "King of 10 Fingers and 6 Strings" for me.

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posted February 26, 2003 08:03 AM                

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You're not alone BTW, I have no problem with Sam in VH, as long as Eddie is standing next to him. It's always been about the "King of 10 Fingers and 6 Strings" for me. [/QB]

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Yeah, Brett, it's always been Eddie and his unbelievable talent for me as well, good point. That has got to be why I've enjoyed all the versions of Van Halen throughout the years. Thanks for pointing that out. It it weren't for Eddie and his amazing fingers I know I would have ended my love affair with VH long ago....

posted February 26, 2003 10:42 AM                    

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Indeed my friend, luv, agreed!!!! They are coming to my town in March as well! Can't wait! I, too, am in dire need of a fix!!

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Paladino's here i come!!!!!!
I really need to check out the Vipor Room on Monday nights....

posted February 26, 2003 03:49 PM                

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Originally posted by luvtohumpralph:
Hell yea !!!! Well have a couple for ya!!!!
We are you from if you don't mind me asking?? How often do you get to see The Atomic Punks? I only get to see them once a month if I'm lucky.,.,.

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Thanks, Sweetie!

I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I only see the Punks once a month as well. It totally blows but I'm very lucky, I could live on the East Coast and never see them. The Punks come here often enough, as long as they don't change their schedule and quit coming here. That's my biggest fear! They totally ROCK!!

posted March 05, 2003 10:30 PM                    

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...And, as far as stating that Ralph has some hatred towards Sammy, well, is it any wonder one would get that impression when he states, "if you came here expecting to hear Van Hagar, or Gary Cherone... F.U.". LOL! Okay? What are we supposed to assume? That he adores Sammy??
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Well, maybe I am focusing a lot on the word "expecting."

I have seen my fair share of Atomic Punks shows and because the more recent versions of VH were with Sammy and Gary, there might be audience members, especially the younger ones, who might show up to the Atomic Punks and they expect to hear the most "recent" VH songs that is played on "oldies" stations that play music from the late 80's and the 90's

Well, the Atomic Punks are a tribute to early Van Halen, so if you went to their show expecting to hear songs by Sammy or Gary... well, in the words of Judas Priest, "you've got another thing coming"

or... in other words.... F. U.

Hey, if you go to tribute to Missing Persons, you don't expect them to bust out songs by Duran Duran, even though the bands shared the same guitarist, right?

Each VH era was quite different, and to each their own

If there was a VH tribute called "Why can't this be good" you would expect them to only play Hagar VH songs, right? And if I showed up one night to this band expecting to hear Dave VH songs, well then the Sammy style singer might have to explain "we don't think we're Van Hagar, we just play tribute to the sappiest version of Van Halen there ever was... and if you came here expecting to hear anything that would rock your nuts off, well... F. U. "

Eddie is legendary guitar talent, no doubt about it, but the stuff he did with Sammy or Gary didn't move me... or make me want to get those recordings. Partly because of the singer's personalities, but mostly because of the music in its entirety (a guitarist doesn't make a band great all by himself, IMHO).

I really don't think Ralph or the band hate Sammy (or Gary), and Ralph has even said to me "come on Albert, you don't really think Sammy was that bad, was he?"... and you can probably guess my answer

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