Completely Conspicuous 316: Fire in the Hole

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we dissect the disaster that was Van Halen III. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Check out Brian's comics podcast The Hour Cosmic - Jumping into an 8-minute epic snoozer - Rumors that the VH brothers had jammed with Ozzy around this time - Nuno Bettencourt has been touring with Rihanna - Jay happens to have issue of Guitar World from '98 nearby - The joys of the Columbia House Record Club - Michael Anthony's MIA for most of the album - Eddie compared his singing voice to Roger Waters meets Tom Waits - DLR says they're working on new VH album for mid-2015 - Brian: VH III was bad in a different way than expected - Jay: Almost an Adult Contemporary sound - Jay: Also haven't heard anything from VH's Balance, the last Hagar album - Record sales from the '90s were ridiculous; nearly everything sold well - Bizarre cover of Balance was actually PhotoShopped pic of Wolfgang VH - Putting shitty albums in your iTunes - The latest VH album was what Aerosmith should do: make a '70s-sounding record - The comics industry now is where music industry was before Napster - WWE is getting creative about its content - Netflix and others are changing the way we consume media - iPods are being phased out   Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor by Text-Enhance" href="http://compcon.libsyn.com/">Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.