EDDIE VAN PALIN
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 4:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
You’d almost expect Eddie Van Halen to be a staunch Republican. Look at the facts: he lives in California, is rich, is a dick, and he and his woman both do work in the magical world of porn, which means giving a big thumbs up to the McCain/Palin ticket would be just hypocritical enough to “make sense” the way Ted Nugent being a conservative or Chris Robinson marrying a conservative’s daughter “makes sense.”
Apparently though, this isn’t the case: John McCain has been using the ‘91 VH “classic” (a.k.a. my least favorite Van Halen song that wasn’t originally sung by Gary Cherone) “Right Now” as part of his campaign – and Eddie objects enough to actually call former co-worker/current nemesis Sammy Hagar, reports Rolling Stone.
Hagar, you see, loves the fact that McCain is using the song, telling RS “I was honored that a potential president of the United States used those words in a positive sense, like, ‘We gotta act now!’ ” before admitting he’d be just as happy for Obama to use the song.
Eddie and Alex Van Halen aren’t nearly so thrilled to see McCain using the song, and publicly denounced its inclusion in the Republican campaign. Hagar responded thusly:
“Why didn’t [Van Halen] say no when Pepsi Cola gave us a million dollars to use the song in a Pepsi Light commercial? That’s when you say no. That isn’t the message of this song… [But when a presidential candidates uses it] I’m going, ‘Hell, yes!’”
I agree with Hagar that using the song in a Pepsi commercial was a bad idea – especially since it was Crystal Clear Pepsi, a product almost as awful as the song in question (you can watch the commercial above).
But the difference is that Crystal Clear Pepsi didn’t want to overturn Roe V. Wade, didn’t accept an endorsement from the worst president in American history, and was generally not capable of causing any actual problems for anyone who didn’t go out of their way to purchase it. Hagar’s attitude that anyone can use the song so long as they’re running for office demonstrates the same kind of vacuity that led to the formation of Chickenfuck.
For the first time in years, then, the Van Halen brothers actually come out of this situation looking like the good guys. Now if they’d just let Michael Anthony back into the band…
-AR
also, from people.com
“{Sarah Palin} is a rock fan. She named her son Trig Paxton Van Palin because it sounds like the band Van Halen. Says friend Judy Patrick, a former city council member who has known Palin for 12 years, “How cool was that to have a kid named Van Palin?”
This woman is such a loser on so many levels.
I don’t see how the Halen brothers come out looking good. I’m not saying that they come out looking bad, just don’t see any real sides. It’s just nonsense drama/publicity so people who don’t play guitar hero still remember them.
And BTW I actually like Crystal Pepsi.
Rohit – Nothing tastes better than a Crystal Pepsi with an Arch Deluxe! newt
Wait, Van Halen did porn? WTF?
he and his woman both do work in the magical world of porn
Wait…what?
@hibernum, Paul D:
Girlfriend was a publicist:
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_tours/van_halen_new_publicist_summer_tour_plans.html
Eddie “scored” (heh heh, he said ’scored’) a “movie”:
http://www.spin.com/articles/eddie-van-halen-scores-porn
Eddie Van Halen Scores Porn
The Van Halen guitarist has partnered with an adult film director to write and perform two songs for one of his upcoming, um, films.
By Spin Staff 07.27.06 3:00 AM
Eddie Van Halen has teamed up with adult video director Michael Ninn to write and perform two songs for his upcoming Ninn Worx production, Sacred Sin. The rocker makes no excuses for his decision to work in the adult industry. “I’m working with a friend — very simple,” Van Halen told adult site AVN.com. “I like his work. Michael Ninn is like a Spielberg to me: the imagery, the way he makes things look, just…sensual.” To Ninn’s “sensual” cinematography, Van Halen will add two tracks tracks, “Rise” and “Catherine,” the latter of which is a remix of the theme to a Ninn film of the same name and has “a ‘Kashmir’-Led Zeppelin kind of feel to it now,” Ninn told AVN.
The best Van Palin parody is right here (David Lee McCain and Sarah Van Palin):
I’m Pullin’ For Palin – The Unofficial Tribute To Our Future VPILF
http://www.pullinforpalin.com/
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