The hot sauce, mustard, and the BBQ sauce. The BBQ is one of the best BBQ sauces out there IMO.
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Anyone meet Michael Anthony in real life??
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He and Sammy should get an award for suffering the VH Brothers for as long as they did.
You know people have alcohol issues when you'd rather join Sammy Hagar as the "sober" one lol.
I was crew on a show for Hagar, around 2015-ish. Anthony had heard from some of the other crew that I was a gigging bassist - he searched me out in the video shack, introduced himself, and gave me several packs of his signature bass strings. He really was cool, and he really put on a very good show.
That's amazing man, thnx for sharing! (along with many others too)
So 2015, was that Chickenfoot?
songwriter21
I have an obsession for wood. The musical kind.
Fame was there, but fortune was signed away from him before the 1984 tour happened. Crazy, insane stuff...read it in "Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen".How on earth did a guy like him survive in the egomaniac atmosphere that was the rest of VH?
Did fame and fortune make it more tolerable?
It was a Hagar solo tour, “the red rocker” tour or something like that.
I love EVH, but genius often, if not always, comes at a cost. Eddie became very dismissive of Mike's contributions fairly early on. Most of what he said and did in this regard strikes me as fueled by the paranoia that comes from doing way too much coke. Eddie famously wanted to replace him with Billy Sheehan early on, which from what I read back then was met with "No effin' way!" from Alex. I've seen some claims that Eddie claimed to have taught MA how to play the bass, I don't remember seeing that written in anything credible and it would obviously be BS since Mike was gigging in bands long before he was in VH. I do remember Ed's saying that he taught him some parts, which would be understandable. Maybe it was different in the very beginning, but pretty clear that Eddie rather quickly came to thinking of MA as nothing more than a sideman, even dismissing his vocal contributions, which in my opinion are second only to Eddie's playing in defining the VH sound. Mike, on the other hand, has consistently taken the high road. Everything I've read (been on a VH reading binge since "Brothers" came out) indicates that Michael Anthony took the high road at every turn.
And he’s got the best tag line in the food industry.
“make sweatin’ it out on the can the next morning part of your every day ritual!”
I have a good friend that likes hot sauces and by happenstance shares the name with the famous, underrated bassist discussed in this very thread.
The sauces are killer. One of the few (comparatively speaking) hot sauces that uses a pimento pepper base, and absolutely one of my faves. And @el murdoque , I collect hot sauces like I collect preamps, except I don't have to sell one bottle when I buy another ;-)
A few other things that I remembered about the interview:
1) He was not shy about how he felt about the way he had been treated and portrayed by the VH brothers. This was about two years after the interview EVH gave in which he described MA as basically a musical moron who can barely play his instrument, and for whom he (EVH) had to videotape himself playing the bass parts so MA could study them and play them properly.
2) He said that Eddie would show him the tricky little rhythmic parts that are so key to VH by standing right in front of him and tapping MA's foot with his own foot.
3) He used a pick on "Beautiful Girls."
4) He owns a few hundred basses.
5) When he is in the studio at his house jamming on the bass for fun, he will sometimes put on VH albums and play along with them!
1) He was not shy about how he felt about the way he had been treated and portrayed by the VH brothers. This was about two years after the interview EVH gave in which he described MA as basically a musical moron who can barely play his instrument, and for whom he (EVH) had to videotape himself playing the bass parts so MA could study them and play them properly.
2) He said that Eddie would show him the tricky little rhythmic parts that are so key to VH by standing right in front of him and tapping MA's foot with his own foot.
3) He used a pick on "Beautiful Girls."
4) He owns a few hundred basses.
5) When he is in the studio at his house jamming on the bass for fun, he will sometimes put on VH albums and play along with them!
I have to finish the photoshop (the ex was in the middle) but me and the man in Cabo, 2007(?)
That's awesome, and a little sad. He couldn't get those guys to play with him, so he's play it by himself.
I saw an interview a long time ago where EVH claimed that he did all the bass parts after 5150, or something like that. Imagine being one of the most highly regarded guitarists in history, but that's not good enough for your ego... you have to take the credit for the bass, too. ***...?
I didn't take it as sad, but I can see how one could see it that way.
Eddie said all kinds of degrading and untrue things about MA over the decades. In Noel Monk's book about being their manager, he tells many stories about the treatment MA received from the VH brothers and (most egregiously) DLR, who would humiliate MA in front of the road crew. I think MA loved the music, knew he was part of something remarkable and significant, and was willing to tolerate everything to be able to play bass in that band.
Eddie played bass on every record. MA told me about some of the songs that EVH played on, only one of which was a hit and not a song most VH fans would cite as a favorite. Sammy has said Eddie played bass on 2-3 songs on every VH album. However, Eddie played almost all the bass on Van Halen 3 in '98. I know MA played on Without You and maybe two other songs.
