Fair Warning

Fair Warning Episode 16: Several Kinds Of Truth

Mike is out.  Wolf is in. There's a "superfan" behind the board.  Old songs and fresh blood.  Just goes to show, you don't know what you've got until it's gone.  How did the final Van Halen album come to be?  Well, it almost didn't.

Fair Warning Episode 15: Fan, meet sh!t.

All the chickens come home to roost in these dark times.  Even a "Greatest Hits" record and a reunion with Sammy can't slow the freight train.  Of the rare highlights, most of them were musical.  We're going to listen to those too.  It was either Jesus , or Gandalf that once said, "It's always darkest before the dawn."VH forever.

Fair Warning Episode 14: VHIII. Get it?

This brings us no pleasure.

Fair Warning Episode 13: C'mon Dave. Gimme a break.

For the first time in perhaps ever, The Mighty Van Halen are forced to take an "L". When Dave can't seem to keep "monkey hour" in check on live TV, all future plans with him are put on ice. However, we did get a couple new tracks out of the deal.  That was cool.This episode is all about the proverbial "he said, she said bullshit".

Fair Warning Episode 12: 1995 Balance, Cruel Irony.

They did it!  Van Halen held their own against the grunge tide.  While many of their contemporaries fell under the wheel of the new "corporate rock" paradigm shift, Eddie and Co. managed to keep their trajectory.  For a while.  All that goes up, must come down.  I think that's in the Bible somewhere.  Cracks are starting to form in the once impenetrable unit.  Eddie and Alex are battling the bottle with mixed results.  Sammy is expanding his family.  Mikey?  Right now, Mike really might be envisioning that solo album.  All that said, "Balance" is a fine album with even better B-sides as it turns out.  "Grow it long.  Shave it off.  Life is hard.  Never soft." -Samuel Roy Hagar