[wardaddy]

my children love LZ...some things are timeless

my younger brother took us to see Van Halen last Friday

I admit VH came out at end of my college days and hence was not a formative years band for me

It was for him. Wifey was a punk rock cool chick and eschewed big rock

but we all loved it...watching Eddie Van Halen was incredible...great choppy licks and note bending

Roth still sounds the same ...what pipes...very hammy...Catskillian

[Salamander]

I may be a purist jerk but the Van Hagar phase went unnoticed by me.

It’s Diamond Dave or nothing.
They were becoming hot air play right around the time I was graduating.

Zep is simply ~iconic~.

Back in HS, I’d had Dobes for a long time already and my BGF eventually got one too and at 6am, she’d call the house and and whisper sinisterly into my still half-asleep ear “I’ve got a black dog, too” and then BLAST the song into the phone.

Good thing I loved her dearly.

[and I understood her new found breed-joy as well]

I still wonder though if that didn’t contribute to my hearing problems later in life...LOL

Your “Hey, hey momma” brought back many fond memories of her and those golden years.

Thanks

:)