See, this is what I mean.
In all fairness, some of the tripe from
Diver Down is probably worse.
Also, I listened to some of the Cherone album in my car earlier today when driving to a bunch of places, and listening to "Ballot or the Bullet," I was reminded of why I loved that song when it first came out: his slide guitar work is killer, on the electric and especially on the acoustic at the end of each chorus. That is very different for VH, but pretty bad ass, nonetheless. Unfortunately, the meat of the song is bogged down by some clunky vocal melodies (and that is a song where Cherone tries too hard to sound like Hagar, instead of singing like himself), but the music in that song is terrific. Hell, that main riff alone is
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