Intro Post review
Rock has become a highly bastardised genre. Combined with all kinds of music like Grunge, Industrial, Metal, and Punk, it has mutated into something new and different. Further, the social trends that forged Rock have also changed leading to the new genres listed above. Rock was about over-indulgence: sex, money, and violence. The violence part currently seems to be dominating in today's angst-ridden groups, but not with Van Halen.
In a show that epitomised what a Rock concert should be, Van Halen blew "the top off" at the Rochester War Memorial in NY. While one should be fair to bassist Michael Anthony, drummer Alex Van Halen, and vocalist Sammy Hagar, and say that they did a good job, it was Eddie Van Halen's amazing guitar work that was responsible for the crowd of approximately ten thousand sounding like twenty.
