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Loved Invasion, and most people might hate me for this but i also loved dancing undercover.
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Siggy, I thought it was an awesome album too, it's really my second favorite. I think that track for track it was better than Invasion in that it was a more consistent and solid album all the way through.
Fastway rocks [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]
I've got the Trick or Treat soundtrack on CD lying around here somewhere...I'll have to knock the dust off of that one!
When I said 'self titled', I meant the EP. Wasn't that self titled?
I never really listened to the album called RATT if there's a full album named that.
Let me clarify - the EP is really cool.
When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off. - Ace Frehley
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man. i can't listen to invasion anymore. it's unlistenable to me. yeah. you're in love and lay it down are good songs, but the rest of it, to my ears now, is awful.
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Loved Invasion, but it does borderline on being a tad overly polished in the production. Still ranks in the top 3 though.
The EP artwork is cool (black female stocking legs with white mice crawling up) [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] Production is crude and raw, but some of the songs would sound better released on a later LP, "Tell The World" stands out in my memory.
sounded like VH..but who didn't back then.. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
"Bill, Smoke a Bowl and Crank Van Halen I, Life is better when I do that"
Donnie Swanstrom 01/25/06..miss ya!
"Well, your friend would have Bell's Palsy, which is a facial paralysis, not "Balls Pelsy" like we're joking about here." Toejam's attempt at sensitivity.
And Van Halen wouldn't have existed without Eric Clapton who wouldn't have existed without Robert Johnson and blah blah blah. Dig something for what it is and not where it came from (which isn't to say don't go back to the roots of what you like. This is typically a cool thing and a good learning experience, but not necessary to enjoy what came from it).
I personally think that Clapton influnce here is a total BS.
There isn't even a little bit of Clapton in Eddie's playing, ZERO. There is Holdsworth, Frank Marino, Uli Jon Roth but no Clapton at all. Why Eddie doesn't mention his real influences is another subject.
"There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost" - Gustave Flaubert
Influence doesn't mean you need to hear it...inspiration may be a better word to describe it. If Clapton is who gave Eddie the desire to play as he has said, how do you call that influence BS? Just because you don't hear it doesn't mean it isn't there in some way. I think it's a stretch to say you can hear anyone else in Eddie's playing.
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