^Chacron^: lol, you've miss read my post. I said they had Cheesy snyths (synthesisers) on alot of songs which would be great musically were it not for the cheese...
I honestly dont get the whole roads/ Van halen thing, I'll admit now that I'm pretty ignorant about Roahds, but Van Halen? The king of cheese? (spandex)? That guy? I'm sad to say it, but there was no thought, no art, no concept, nothing. Also the kings of illitrature. van halen refured to make a stand on ANYTHING, what a waste of fame.
I mean poeple like him scare me musically, cos they approach music like some one with Asperger's syndrome, they'll obsesively count, go faster, and fasterm and count, and faster, and will obsess over the routines... but when you break it down, it's nothing in the end... Just maybe 20 seconds worth of riffs out of 6 ro 7 minutes. Yngwie Malmsteem's stuff is the best example of this.
There and still are CREATIVE and conceptual guitarists, for all genres.
for those who say they dont like rap:
Mainstream rap is unfourtunatly made of a bunch of sell outs, conceptually, musically, and to some extent even the whole idoelogy... Now, Listen to : blackalicious, Outkast, Oneday for all New stuff, and listen to the old school guys like Grand master Flash and the furious five, SugerHill gang, Public enemy (my favs), NWA... there's alot to be learned... Thier different and certainly more intresting sense of rythem, the lyrics have depth (which is more than i can say for alot of 80's cheesers).
I really wish poeple wouldn't say things like X and Y (who are fast guitarist, which is good enough to fool all simple minded poeple into thinking they're something special musically, when they just fast period) rock, and 1 and 2 (who aren't fast) suck.