Van Halen or Van Hagar

I've got Diver Down on the platter right now! Probably my favorite VH album.

I'm in the DLR camp, but did think 5150 was a great album (albeit with awful engineering and production). If it was well produced, I could forgive the front-man swap out (on that release only). It was all downhill from there.

Oh...a friend of mine writes for EW, and says 5150 is loaded with amazing material that will never see the light of day. Pity.

Roth please....i remember (vaguely) seeing VH open for Black Sabbath in '78 @ Baltimore Civic Center. Roth in those yellow/black striped tights doing his acrobatics & Eddie ripping it wide open....great debut. for Hagar's best imo checkout Montrose, self-titled album, one of my old favs.

Yea, Nrenter, EVH said (guitar player mag) he has 20 albums of new material that may never been put out...what a same.

I like them both but VH w DLR was a force. There are not many bands that you can distinctly recall when you first heard them but I vividly remember hearing the debut LP and thinking that it was amazing and running out the next day and getting it. I saw them live around 1980 and it was a fantastic rock and roll show and DLR was a great entertainer as well as singer.