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  • Gary Cherone was actually better then Hagar! But Roth is the only one that should sing for that band period!

  • Gary Cherone could have been a good replacement, but the song writing on the VH3 album was just god awful, and he was the fall guy for it.

  • The embarrassment begins around 1:40. What is that idiot doing? Rolling down the stairs. Falling all over, people trying to help him. LAYS DOWN when he gets back onstage (cool!). Then begins goose-stepping while doing a Nazi salute. WTF????

  • dlroth understood the song- this guy might as well be the sound check guy. and he is a bit too young for the gig.

    michael anthony is a better bassist than that chubby dago posing as evh 's son.

  • This is sad...VH 2011 and 2012 is sad too...

  • Van Halen sucks live without Michael Anthony.

  • What happend to Alex's neck?

  • I actually like him singing this!!

  • Vaya pintas de gay que tiene el cantante!

  • Everyday he's shuffling.

  • Diamond Dave still sings it better

  • Diamond Roth ---- he made Sammy & Ted Danson look like faggy creeps

  • I love how people are bashing Cherone for looking gay, but DLR could walk around in ass-less chaps and that was fine. lol

  • @MrMatthewLeo ...Ain't that THE truth? :D

  • This version of Van Halen was better than the Van Hagar version...best version is still the original line up....

  • people are too hard on Gary ... he's good

  • Cherone's just havin' fun..At least the band was GREAT when I saw them on that tour.. I keep seeing footage from other tours in which the timing and vocals are dreadful. I think folks are WAY too hard on Gary Cherone.. Just my 2¢

  • LMFAO 3:09

  • I can't believe they seriously picked Cherone. What a moron. And wtf is 3:09...

  • Yes that was awesome made me wish I was playing backup guitar just to be there ,,,,, RJS

  • Van Halen = definitely was NEVER about singers wearing leisure suits

  • at 3:09 what the hell !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    is he

  • @1322dan

    LOL! Portraying "rotten to the core".

  • at 3:09 what the hell !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • AS HE CLIMBS OUT INTO THE EMPTY STADIUM

  • I thought Gary Cherone could sing the hell out of both Sammy and Dave music. Great voice! Gary does look a little awkward as the frontman...just doesn't have that it factor and his antics seem to be forced. Plus I didn't like Van Halen 3, but that is as much Eddies fault for writing bad songs. Gary is definitely living the dream here and loving it!

  • this is prety awefull

  • Eddie's Peavey Wolfgang in this concert looks awesome. If only Peavey would have made all the Wolfgang's look this good......

  • Never understood why this version of the band got so much grief.. I though it worked, especially here!

  • Cherone's not a bad guy and he's a good singer....but he never was the right guy for Van Halen. He looks out of place with the band.

  • @StratGT yer he looks too young for em

  • gary has a good voice but he is just so uncool (especially at 2:41) he's trying way too hard here

  • @naguiat1 yeh, that other guy is soooo dorky!

  • WTF, why did he hire that guy to replace dave or sammy?

  • @vladimir88x7

    1.Sammy Hagar SUCKS!

    2.DLR and Eddie were not getting along

    3.so they hired this guy

    

  • @zZzMotherShipzZz

    I would add one:

    1. Sammy Hagar Sucks

    2. DLR and Eddie were not getting along.

    3. and DLR sucks

    4. So they hired this guy.

  • VH 3!!!

  • Did anyone notice how when Cherone jumps into the seats, he lands crotch-first on the wall? Ouch. He clearly misjudged the jump, but he must have had a ton of adrenaline coursing through his veins at that point, because he keeps going and does a pretty good job of hiding the fact that he's just hurt himself badly. He sings well through it all -- the man is clearly a professional ... however it was a pretty foolish move, one I doubt you'd ever see Roth or Hagar make.

  • Wow. Just TERRIBLE! What were they thinking letting him front Van Halen?

  • It's just NOT Van Halen without David Lee Roth - his voice is much better than Sammy and Gary Cherone. David has some incredible stage antics too!

  • mans these screms are too much! f**king amazing, you can see where dimebag got his squeals from

  • Wow..this is GAY....I'm sorry...you can't sing this song with short hair!!..this is liking watching American Idol ...'cept for the excellent guitar work

  • talent

  • there are times when he looks a bit ghey but cherone is a showman and sometimes people mistake that for being homo

  • i LOVE Van Halen, but the reason i hated all albums after I and II because of David's voice, it's annoying. Gary is honesty my favorite out of the three vocalists...

  • @thegreat96lz Child P-lease

  • 1) Hagar 2) Cherone 3) Lee Roth, but that's like comparing gods together.

  • This is not a knock on Cherone but this really does sound like American Idol.

  • how often does alex break his neck? he was the same on the balance tour

  • GA"r"Y Cherone.....

  • Cherone sounds great, but he just doesn't have that "attitude" or certain personality that it takes to front a band like Van Halen. Ain't many who could pull it off, but Roth and Hagar, even though very different made it work. This guy just doesn't have that party vibe goin' and seems like he's doing a lot of forced posturing and poses. But, he has a great voice.

  • Gary Cherone..... not so much!

  • Ted Danson, Lead Vocals.

  • @20carrocks THE GUY FROM CHEERS ???

  • Gary Cherone rocked! I liked him and remember he quit, Eddie didn't fire him. Who knows what the next record would have sounded like?

  • This tour kicked ass!!!

  • @blasty5150

    LOL

  • Cherone was great with Extreme

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  • Gary is a great singer and perfomer, the VH brothers are a little crazy.

  • he plays with an intrument CABLE???

  • @donnjuansohn he had a lot of issues in the late 80s with the pretty primitive wireless gear cutting out , and hasnt gone back.

  • @donnjuansohn eddie is all about tone! using a wireless receiver loses sound and tone but when you use top cables, it keeps it full output and improves tone.

  • Wow...Dave Cherone. Tool.

    He didnt exactly get mobbed when he walked through the crowd. I get as much reaction walking into Wal-Mart.

  • @azrock4ever aussies only mob cricketers and league players

  • VH 3 was a great tour, saw em front row in front of Eddie, one of the best VH shows Ive ever seen out of about 20.....

  • Imo

    Dave > Cherone > Hagar

  • I always thought this guy was a good frontman for VH?...You gotta respect the fact that both Dave and Sammy split on their own terms; and in my book-thats a way of saying if someone says youve got a tail, then fuck off-but if someone else says youve got a tail-you'd better take a look at your own ass?...Did Cherone "fit" with VH? Not sure "image" wise?-probably not//in fact ahead of its time almost? Did he fit in vocally to front the band? HELL YES! He was great in my opinion.

  • gary cherone is great in extreme!

  • Cherone looks like Ted Danson on crack!!

  • @rds13601 LOL. Holy shit, you're right.

  • Gary Cherone iz hot

  • Ben Affleck on the vocals???

  • NOT GOOD HE WAS THE WORST SINGER OF THE THREE.. HE CAN SING FOR SURE BUT NOT VAN HALEN SONGS!! CLIMBING IN THE AUDIENCE IS STUPID AND HE AINT SINGING THE SONG HE MORE CONCERNED WITH ACTING LIKE A MONKEY

  • @43corona what do ya want, someone to just stand there and do nothing? Ass.

  • @RNRDOLL cmon he looks like a fool, he did not fit in with van halen at all . it looked ridiculous that he was climbing all over the seats like a moron.. and if you notice nobody really cared! if that was dave ,eddie, michael or alex doing that it would be a mob scene.. Gary should have stayed on stage and thats it .. he sucks as a van halen front man.. stay in extreme where he belongs!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @43corona

    No. He's fine. When I heard about how Gary Cherone was such a terrible frontman for Van Halen I went to see it for myself as fast as possible. Guess what? I find him great. And this is coming from someone who loves the Diamond Dave era more than anything. And while Dave is my favourite vocalist I find it funny that everyone blames the downfall of Van Halen on the vocalists and not on the fact that Eddie became more of a drinker than a musician

  • @43corona I think he did that to pump up the crowd/be it good or bad it was something he had to do to establish himself as a continuing performer in a solidyfied yet tarnished band? People can say bad things about him and thats only an opinion-but I think he did quite well with what he was givin-that is fronting VH-one of the biggest humble turned asshole band "rockstars" of our times? Going into the crowd is right of passage-and lets face it?. He faced the stairs like Chevy Chase in 70s SNL!!!

  • @43corona Your post was right on target.

  • Gary is a good singer. The problem is that sometimes things go wrong. I think that the same is happening with Hagar and Satch's band. You can take good musicians and put them to play together,but it can be the case that something goes wrong and it does not work out the way everyone wanted it to be.

  • EGADS.......SINGER IS A TOTAL QUEER.......is this really Van Halen? I remember they used to be a really cool band with David Lee Roth out front.......

  • Everyone says this guy is a great singer? Damn all I hear is is yelling not singing. His voice is very course, raw, rough sounding. He is not that good period! All this praise is overrated!

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  • his singing "is rotten to the core" all right.....

  • Eddie's drunk! :50 kind of not plays in the right key. I love VH but this clip is an absolute fucking disaster.

  • cherone is a great singer and he got the heart for but he is not a van halen singer , but he is good.

  • I`ve been listening to 3 Sides To Every Story. He`s got a much better voice than Van Halen requires. Anybody else notice the whiplash brace on Alexs neck?

  • cherone does alright with some song but some of sammy's material show has been removed from the set like right now and dreams because gary isn't capable of singing them

    It show how bad he was when he walked right into the crowd and no one touched him

  • .... sorry, but this guy really sucks...

  • srry i dont really know VH But whats wrong with the drummer?? His neck broken lolz???? Sorry for nooby questions :D

  • Gary is a great singer, but he had much better projects than Van Halen.

  • I like Van Halen Three I think its a great cd my favorite trac is 6 Once that song is amazing

  • god i swear Gary Cherone and Sammy Hagar have an almost identical voice in a way, like on fire in the hole

  • god i swear Gary Cherone and Sammy Hagar have an almost identical voice in a way

  • this is an insult to david lee roth

  • it's to bad ed went so weird with vh3 and everyone took it out on gary, he is such a good front man and singer he rocked in concert.

  • wtf happened to Alex?

  • Eddie's tone is fucking insanely perfect in this era!!!! The God of Guitar!!! EVH is God!

  • it was a down time for the band, as you can see when he jumps into the audience and many of them are disguised as empty seats.

  • I saw VH many times in all 3 variations (only once with Cherone) and the best was with Roth. Cherone was amazing with Extreme but didn't really fit VH.. Van Hagar was good live too.

  • cherone's a good singer, but he has weird moves...like, he's a little too flexible or something

  • bushmaster or whatever, what are you talking about? hair? seriously?? did you see diamond daves hairdo in this last tour? moron. any of the 80's band that have made a comeback at any point have had short hair on a tour.

  • DLR is by far best frontman for VH...that being said, i love cherone and think he is a better singer/frontman than hagar or roth...it was cool seeing gary with VH, but he is magic with nuno...and VH is magic with roth, just natural and it works

  • I like cherone better then hagar

  • What is that you have in your guitar?

  • Gary sounded great with VH. The problem he had was he tried to be Roth but Roth was a black belt and his gay moves were missed. He was a bad hire but great singer. Albums are solid!

  • im a huge van halen fan..but this is pathetic..van halen was nothing when they were like this..there golden years were with dave and sammy not this fag singer

  • true dat

  • I don't get why everyone is bashing poor gary, sure he doesn't look like the rest of the band or anything, but I think his singing is actually really good.

  • oh jesus...they're just making a living here...

  • oh wow that shows it all: a singer from VH ie Sammy or Dave would get torn apart by the crowd if they walked out into them

    this lame ass walks out and alot of people dont even stand up, WOW

  • GOD this guy is such a goddam fag

    first thing, HE HAS SHORT HAIR!!!! this band has long hair until the recent tours (balding probably lawl) and cherone has short hair, whadda fag

    second: this douchebag always wears a slim fit black outfit whereas everyone else wore what looked like "what ever the fuck was mildly clean at the time" (except for dave)

  • @vikingbush I respect your opinion, but having long hair or short hair really has nothing to do with anything.

  • yeah it does.... or did. name me one hugely popular rock/metal band whose main guitarist or singer had short hair for most of their band career. there are none. they are all seen as having long hair. having long hair was "in" back then, it was cool, at least for huge rock musicians like VH.

  • @vikingbush So your pretty much saying the only reason you don't like Gary Cherone is because he wasn't "cool enough" or "in" enough to play in Van Halen. Weak man, totally weak. This was also in 1998 NOT 1988 ... having gigantic 80's metal hair wasn't exactly "in" at the time either. If you don't want to like Gary Cherone, that's fine... however the length of his hair has NOTHING to do with his ability to be a lead vocalist. He wasn't right for VH for plenty of reasons, hair is not one of them.

  • goddam dude. this band is FROM the 80's and big hair WAS "in". why do you think there IS a thing called "big 80's hair?" and im not saying that cheerleader- er i mean cherone has no ability to be vocalist. im just saying that his hair doesnt meet the Van Halen (and every other classic rock band) hair requirements (:D). hes just a fag, and his lame hair adds to it

  • eddies hair was short in 94... does that make him a shitty guitarist now?

  • @vikingbush

    uhh freddie mecury?

  • gary cherone should be shot! he ruined a great van halen classic the tosser.

    i admired david lee roth on the first album but when it came to the 1984 he was so full of himself.

    sammy hagar is defntley the best frontman of van halen, proper vocals (strong, dynamic), but in some ways he cant do songs like panama and jump which are van halen classics.

  • That was badass!!! VH 3 tour was sick!!! Front row in front of Eddie!!!

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  • When it comes to singers, what are they when they are just all alone? I think David Lee Roth answered that with his solo projects.

    Hagar? Just never liked his stuff solo or otherwise.

    Cherone? Best voice and more talent than the other two. Period. I certainly don't blame him for taking the opportunity to join Van Halen. Who wouldn't jump at the chance? But I think Van Halen stopped Gary from doing what he does best. He was trapped in some pre-preconceived box. Not good for real talent.

  • what? Sammy was highly successful in his solo carrer, DLR isn't a good live singer, he can't sing Sammy's songs cos he doesn't have the range, VH3 was crap tbh, where was the energy, the speed? and tbh no-one cared about G.Cherone, Sammy owned hands down LWAN proved that.And DLR's an arse, it was his fault he left VH, Sammy was just on the end of EVH while he was on drugs.Chickenfoot are ok though....lol

  • okay man, if you really thing the cheerleader was better than Dave or Sammy then you have absolutely no knowledge of music what so ever.

  • Yeah, have you heard Cherone with Extreme?

    Amazing underrated 80s band.

  • I was watching this and thinking about the endless arguments are about Van Halen vs Van Haggar, blah, blah, blah. It's all so old.

    I loved the original Van Halen, not because it was David Lee Roth, but because whatever it was at that point in time, it worked and it was great. They should have left it alone and not tried to bring it back. That never works. Take a lesson from Seinfeld and quit while the quitting is good.

  • Yep for those that say the guitar is out of tune are not used to tuning a half step down to make it easier on the night after night vocals. For this song, I only like DLR, but Cherone is a good singer, as is Hagar. I grew up to David as the singer, so it will always not sound the same when it isn't him.

  • when he goes out in the audience and acts all psycho is frigging great! that was awesome!

  • Great Gary...

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  • nothing wrong with Cherone , nothing wrong with Hagar , nothing wrong with Lee Roth

  • @kiwizeppelin nothing wrong with Mike

  • @kiwizeppelin, that is true! All three fellows made good front men.

  • Great singer, great band, poor pairing of talent. Saw this tour @ MSG. Disappointed. Preferred Sammy.

  • im a big fan of extreme, and gary is a damn good singer but hes just not that good with van halen, sammy was the best.

  • Ed's guitar isn't that much out of tune, you can't hear Mike's bass so that makes the guitar sound thin. Diehard VH fans will hate this(I am one) but, I thought the BAND sounded their best on this tour! I guess they were all sober! HA! VH RULES!!!!!!!!!

  • gary sounded better then sammy. thats for sure

  • Eddie's guitar is out of tune the whole song :(

  • This song is played in Half step down!!

  • gary is an exceptional singer

    but the only real Van Halen are the ones with David Lee Roth

    gary is great with Nuno Bettencourt as david is great with eddie ...

  • Am I the only one who likes Gary Cherone?

    I mean, sure, he's NOT for VH.

    But he's great singer, when he's not with VH.

  • @Rattlehead930 I think Gary Cherone is an amazing singer. Hell, I think the Van Halen gig could've worked out if they actually gave him more time and some better material to work with. It's kinda like when Sammy came into the band, no one liked him in VH either, but they gave him a while and they assimilated to one another

  • @Rattlehead930 yeah , he´s awesome, in Extreme .. but in VH no it all .. David Lee Roth :headbang:

  • @Rattlehead930 I dig Cherone also. In or out of Van Halen he's got a style that high energy and a vocal range that is damn good. I met him in 1990 or so,when Extreme toured Fresno,Ca. Cool cat,down to earth,was excited meet Nuno but I was impressed with Cherone and his cool friendly attitude.

    In some was I wish he were still in Van Halen,but then I'm like that with Sammy also. I like all 3 singers,great music in each era.

  • @Rattlehead930 Your it man....just you. Gay.

  • @charliefreak21 Well, I like his singing too, so I think there are more gays then. ;););)

  • @Rattlehead930 He was accually good with VH also, but when you hear him sing you will always compare to Sammy and Dave. So he was doomed from the start. If Gary was the original singer nobody would say bad things about him. Its to bad he got put in that place to follow up those two.

  • @Rattlehead930 no your not the only 1 who likes him, I think he rocks, I prefer Hagar but think he did a good job all the same

  • @Rattlehead930

    Gary is a great singer, I agree. He was awesome in Extreme.

  • @Rattlehead930 agreed. DLR was always the best vocalist for VH in my opinion. sure, with Hagar they sold more albums...but they also appealed to a more "pop" audience then too. something about the DLR-era Van Halen just seems more..."right" to me.

  • Ed was shit hot this album and tour

  • oh FFS give Gary a break! he done his best considering he had the antics of Roth AND Hagar to live up to!

  • DAVID LEE ROTH!!!!!!!!!!!

  • looks like hes on some kind of drug just trppin all over the palce

  • I imagine the guys on stage thinking " what the hell are you doing you idiot ?? get your ass back here and stop embarassing yourself"

  • no don't think they think at all.

  • can some tell me who this singer is?

  • Gary Cherone. A laughable replacement to Sammy Hagar who was also a laughable replacement to the real singer for Van Halen.

  • lol

  • I agree 100%

  • Most people do.

  • gary is better in extreme

  • i dont like gary cherone that much but he is alot better then scott from velvot revolver singing this song

    long live van halen!!!!!!!!

  • That was awesome. Not as good as Roth, but still good.

  • Lee roth with VH,

    Gary works well with nuno,

    sammy get a life.

  • 3:37 is Alex wearing a neck brace?

  • great vocals

  • There's a lot of Cherone marks posting here, so go ahead and negative my comment if you must, but Cherone was a laughable choice. Roth and Hagar never had to TRY to be cool, like Gary is. Difficult to do when you're dessed like he's starring on Will & Grace. His tumble down the stairs looks spastic and phony, pretty funny though. Their original tunes with him sounded uninspired, and while Ed was still playing wonderfully, The riffs were devoid of hooks. I suppose it was worth trying.

  • with a name like gary, you just can't be a fuckin rocker.

  • Gary Moore?

  • I think Gary was the right fit, not much of a Hagar Fan.

  • aint nothing wrong with gary cherone!

  • I like this guy, all 3 are badass!! VH RULES!!

  • I think Gary f**king rocks.  Too bad it didn't work.

  • yea Gary is shit..in Van Halen. But hes great for his original band, Extreme

  • Ur shit any way I look at you...

  • you honestly think Gary is better than Hagar?

    look at live w/o a net

    and BALANCE!!!