Re: (TV) ceci n'est pas un sammy hagar.

[Russ <russvr@gmail.com>]

I reread your message and maybe it was for me to read more clearly what you
were expressing. First and foremost, I think we agree that Richard Lloyd and
Smmy Hagar, are, certainly apples and oranges - Lloyd is in a league all his
own. The Hagar analogy was just what popped into my head at that moment and
nothing more. I do admire Van Halen (the guitarist) ,but I do not make a
practice of listening to their music. Unfortunately, where I live, most of
the rock stations on the radio love to play Butt-Rock and so I do get to
hear more than my share of Van Halen. I'm sure that if Television were to
continue on, and replaced Lloyd, I'm sure the replacement would be someone
worthy of Lloyd. I don't want to speculate who that might be right now. As
for MySpace - sure, it's where the unwashed masses hang out - I think it
would be a good opportunity for Richard to get more publicity and a good way
to get close to the fans, if he so chooses. As for hero worship, well, I
think we are all hero worshipers to some extent. It's easy for us to forget
that these guys have to wipe their own butts just like the rest of us (sorry
if that's overly crude - just trying to real here) - I'm on a butt roll ;-)
!  Anyway I didn't mean to come across as an arrogant snot, I try to keep
that aspect of my personality under lock and key.
-Russ


On 5/4/07, edi, forever & anon, redux & thanx [for what i do not know]. <
the_postmodern_closet@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>     or une myspace, either, for that matter--
>
>     --as a person who largely, as per here, goes by the anonymous
> moniker of lurkerette, before i return to my den of greyed out existence
> i find myself oddly, yet compellingly, called upon upon to yell the only
> too obvious from what may be the nadir of the pinnacle pointing the top
> of the mountain today called NeedsComment.
>
>     richard lloyd is no sammy hagar.
>
>     the name richard lloyd does not belong in the same sentence w/ the
> name sammy hagar.
>
>     it would be difficult to conceive of anyone the others could hire
> who would give the same /je ne sais quoi/ to television as did the shot
> in the arm by one mr. hagar to van halen. this, of course, is all for
> the better.
>
>     i suppose i am a bit punchy just before six this morning. after
> having been put in the position once again of having to write my
> broker's secretary, a person certainly  unfamiliar w/ television, tom
> verlaine, richard lloyd, sammy hagar or even, how can it be?, david lee
> roth &., quite possibly, van halen. & it may be a smidgen of delayed
> reaction to my living situation, one which entails hearing about the
> daily lives of at least one if not several members of the newly
> semi-reunited van halen nearly every day [true], & this from the most
> mundane perspective [housekeepers, cars, parties, rehab, etc & ect]. i
> cannot say i prefer hearing about this to hearing about running into
> gene simmons at rite-aid-- then again, these are the slings & arrows of
> living ones life attached to a musician in los angeles. better, think i,
> than being attached to my broker-- if, of course, w/ not as much
> consistent cash. but i digress.
>
>     it may be that lately i have heard too much of the demi-traitorous
> sammy hagar. still, the idea of a sammy-like replacement in television
> is not only even more inappropriate than it was in van halen, whether or
> not they made oodles more cash on sammy than david-- how could such a
> thing even be effected? who would be SO bad yet SO bizarrely appealing,
> w/ an appeal only appreciable to someone who knows nothing--? who that
> listens to television knows nothing? this is not fathomable.
>
>     falling asleep i think it was just the juxtaposition that got me. as
> someone somewhere must say, we are all either old or dead but i have
> seen sammy hagar & i have seen richard lloyd &, unlike apparently sammy
> hagar, he isnt handelling timeshares to the starstruck masses, just a
> few dozen miles away from wabo cabo, give or take, oh, i dont know,
> whatever it is that appeals to sammy hagar to take or give. /to
> handel/-- yiddish. look it up. works not particularly well for me, looks
> like it works pretty well for sammy.
>
>     a propos of very little i am also reminded that we who made up the
> very last people who made up what it means to be cool [disaffected,
> alien & alienated, apart & this on purpose, dark & gloriously so,
> outside & moving further away, elite, elitist, elusive] --we who were &
> remain not as others-- why should we have any truck whatsoever w/
> myspace? ninety million people canNOT be cool. it is antithetical. when
> i think that we are either old or dead i can remember that, either way,
> at least most of us are not on myspace. always i feel an affinity;
> specifically in the way of his having no control over this, sometimes i
> also feel sorry for peter laughner.
>
>     or darby crash, for that matter, who gets it once again in june.
> perhaps pat would be the only possible fourth tv guitarist? but when i
> think of sammy hagar, i feel instead forced to think of the van halen of
> not the mid-late 70s gazarris but the mid-late 70s whisky a gogo. this
> would be the weasels, & i dare anyone else here to remember "beat her w/
> a rake." pat would, i would, i would bet w/ certainly so would any & all
> of van halen. richard lloyd would not but, seeing as he has taken some
> sort of-- something, he can laugh along in silence w/ the rest of us,
> one of which has now re-hung the "gone lurking" sign, beyond that-- who
> knows where we be. the riddle, more bu w/ a bit of ju than su, i
> believe, hath already been told & solved in its telling. au revoir.
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