Will Van Halen Be Suing Trump Next?

[The Duke]

So does Sammy and Michael Anthony and the Will Ferrel drum dude these days, oh yeah!
Oh! And Joe Satriani is their guitar player. How the fuck did I miss that?
Sammy's old and still rocks like a motherfucker. Much respect!
The drummer's name is Chad.


Michael Anthony in this.
This is some high-level musicing here.

 

[The Duke]

They toured with Eddie's son not long ago.

What does he do? What do they play?
Do they do this?

^That's peak Van Halen.

 

[evenflow1969]

And then there was Sammy.
You know, back in the day, I was like "Fuck The Red Rocker."
But then we got older and I realized he's alright.
I know he dgaf but yeah. I had unnatural Red Rocker hate for no reason.
Them boys put on a show, I tell ya wut.

Lol, my first cruising motorcycle has a cassette deck in it with decent speakers. At the time I didn't own many cassette tapes. All I had was Sammy Hagar Three lock box and Boston Boston Album. Only worked part time at a grocery store, most that money went towards beer. Lol, people would hear one of those two tapes and know it was me coming. I always liked the Red Rocker. I was present at the grand opening of Cabo Wabo Cantina. Saw him live in a bar setting. Lol what a weekend.

 

[The Duke]

Lol, my first cruising motorcycle has a cassette deck in it with decent speakers. At the time I didn't own many cassette tapes. All I had was Sammy Hagar Three lock box and Boston Boston Album. Only worked part time at a grocery store, most that money went towards beer. Lol, people would hear one of those two tapes and know it was me coming. I always liked the Red Rocker. I was present at the grand opening of Cabo Wabo Cantina. Saw him live in a bar setting. Lol what a weekend.

What kinda GoldWing was it?
Oh, and that's all cool, btw.
I had a lot of bikes, from 15 to whenever the beater gray Cavalier type 10 pulled out right in front of me.
Yeah, if I had hit the brakes I would have gone through her back glass, eh, probably stopped in the cab and then she'd wreck. Nope. I jerked it around her (I was going the speed limit or thereabouts, too.)
slid past her while on the back brake in the grass, yes, and then there's this power pole with a guy
wire coming up to get my right leg, but I've already passed the puller-outer on the rear brake in the grass,
so I jerk it back in front of the car that almost killed me.
Stopped at the corner and threw my hands up and they were oblivious.
You are not seen on 2-wheeled things. Assume that.
I parked that bike about a week after and let it go.
Pretty sure I even bored and balanced the engine in it. That and hearing it run was way more fun than almost dying because of someone else.
It was a 3-man ordeal on the engine build anyways, just for fun.
An old man helped me do it God bless him. And my friend down the street. We pretty much did it at his house.
Well, we used to do B3000s for truck races there, too. Chevy 250 straight sixes are a lot different than 4v/cyl OH cam motorcycles. Idk how, but the old man knew about all of it. Shims under the lifter cups and all that. I can hear any motorcycle that needs that adjusted.
That old man was special. His dog mighta been mean, he got to like me, but that man was special.
I mean extra special.

 

[evenflow1969]

What does he do?

Lead guitar. Really, really good. Eddie use to spend some time in Toledo Oh. He had a friend that runs those water jet packs on the Maume River. Lol, that guy ran those trips for seven years before the coast guard pulled him over and asked to see his captains license. He didn't realize he needed one. Lol. He has the pictures to prove old Eddie was on his boat. I met the guy that runs those trips at sea school.

 

[evenflow1969]

What kinda GoldWing was it?
Oh, and that's all cool, btw.

84 Aspencade.

 

[Crepitus]

They are not the same. A V and an H is not the same as a T and a V. Similar, but not the same.

Oh come on. They'd lose that case so fast it would leave skid marks on the way outta court.

 

[CrazyTrader55]

Well, I have no doubt that they would win in court and could order Tatum to "cease and desist" use of the logo if they really wanted to. And if not VH, then sued by the graphics designer who actually created it. But I suspect you may be right that in their 70s, they might not care but Eddie has a son in his 30s that has ties to the band that might be very possessive of his father's intellectual property.

If it's not trademarked, they have no case.

 

[toobfreak]

Yes, it does look like a ripoff but not a direct copy.

Well, of course it is not a /direct/ copy--- it has to say VT instead of VH, but it is a million to one shot it was just an accident and then that they even named it Trump The Rocker.

But obviously so close that they could be threatened with piracy.

My point being that if I had done the thing, I would have called someone from Van Halen up first and at least gotten their blessing. I would have said how much I loved the design and how perfect it was for Trump/Vance's campaign and whether they would mind our use of it! Maybe paid to get a release from them or better still, I would have offered them a small percentage of the proceeds for their good will. But that is just how I am. That would have been the right thing to do, not hope they never discovered the rip off or were just unwilling or too far away or wouldn't have the time to threaten me with a lawsuit.

 

[toobfreak]

Van Halen ain't that unAmerican brah.

Aren't the Van Halens from Denmark or the Netherlands?

 

[toobfreak]

Dude, in the case of music stars and sports stars and movie stars and all that.
IMO, they should not make that obscenely much more than everybody else.

99.99% of them don't. Very few musicians become superstar entertainers.

 

[toobfreak]

I wanna turn this into a VH tribute thread.

I was immediately a big VH fan when they came out and still have initial releases of their first four albums in mint condition.
They were a quintessential power rock band right up there with Led Zeppelin.

 

[toobfreak]

And then there was Sammy.
You know, back in the day, I was like "Fuck The Red Rocker."
But then we got older and I realized he's alright.

Sammy was OK. I liked him in Montrose, but VH was never quite the same energy with DLR gone.
But Alex sure had some buff drum sets!
Wonder what made David leave?

 

[toobfreak]

Sammy's old and still rocks like a motherfucker. Much respect!

He may be old but he is still doing way better than Bill Clinton!

 

[The Duke]

 

[d0gbreath]

Just another cheap shot, from the King of cheap shots.

 

[toobfreak]

Where is Van Halen today?

*Eddie Van Halen born in the Netherlands died four years ago age 65 in Santa Monica.
*Alex Van Halen born in Amsterdam is 71, deaf, and an ordained minister.
*Michael Anthony born in Chicago is 70, loves cars and motoctcles and generally lays low.
*David Lee Roth born in Indiana is now 70, lives in NYC, LA and Japan, spent 300 hours in Japan getting tattooed, invested $7 million in a tattoo business, still practices martial arts and actually works now as a licensed EMT in New York saving lives.
*Sammy Haggar born in California is actually the oldest at 77, still performs, does television, bought a mountain bike store, owns a restaurant in Mexico, a bar and grill in St. Louis, a beach bar in Atlantic City, created his own brand of tequila, distills rum in Hawaii, a steakhouse in California, does a music radio show, does a R&R TV show, and has written an autobiography and a cookbook.