Originally Posted by SilentKnight

I only saw Van Halen once in '84 (with Roth)...and he sounded surprisingly good that night in Toronto. I've seen many, many other concert footage where he just sounds plain awful (especially these days). But as you say - they've lost the trademark VH harmonies without Mike.

I waited 30 years with hopes Dave would someday regroup with them - only to be disappointed when he finally did. The ADKOT album sounded good, IMO...but Roth's vocals in concert were extremely bad. I found myself thinking Sammy would've been the better of the two - but I doubt that'll ever happen.