The intro to "(Oh!) Pretty Woman" is called "Intruder," and yeah; why the fuck isn't that its own song? Pretty much all of 'Diver Down' is a failure, from *another* fucking Kinks cover, to great-riff-spoiled-by-terrible-lyrics "Little Guitars"....oh, and let's see...

"Eruption" is still great as a document of a guitarist at his most unfuckwithable. It still sounds good today. Yes, it is masturbatory: that's kind of the point.

We'd all like to brush off the Van Hagar years. Hagar's fucking atrocious, and I'm pretty sure Michael Anthony being dumped from the band later on was due entirely to his still being loyal to an idiot like Sammy.

Almost all of the songs are ruined by Dave's lyrics. Even very good ones like "Unchained." My favorite moments are the very weird ones, like "Tora! Tora!/Loss of Control" and "Outta Love Again." But almost all of their stuff suffers whenever that idiot opens his mouth.

But I still gotta give it to Dave for being the only Dave out there. There wasn't one, so he had to invent one. I'm glad all the rest of them that followed were nowhere near as successful at it. He entertains me. And he sucks.

Most consideration I've given this subject in years. Thank you.

Oh, and here...
http://www.oldschoolhouserock.com/coolalbu…

Pretty sure we went off the gold standard, too!