But after the release of their sixth album, 1984, Roth quit/was fired, and the band replaced him with former Montrose singer and mid-tier solo act Sammy Hagar. Ballot Or The Bullet . There’s not a single memorable one on the album, and even his solos are a bunch of twiddly nonsense half the time. Lyrics. He’s not entirely to blame, of course. Go on and say yes, and really mean no Well, Van Halen III, which turns 20 this Saturday, is 65 motherfucking minutes long. Eddie Van Halen's lead vocal on "How Many Say I" was one of the more polarizing moments of Van Halen III. How many, how many, say I From Afar. Now, wait a minute, you may be saying. How many, how many, say I, How many say I, how many say I How many, how many, say I Or couldn't keep quiet, when she needed a hug How many, how many, say I Go directly to shout page. Or changed the channel when you saw a hungry child? Do you know any background info about this track? Roth sings on seven of Van Halen’s 12 studio albums: 1978’s Van Halen, 1979’s Van Halen II, 1980’s Women and Children First, 1981’s Fair Warning, 1982’s Diver Down, 1984’s 1984 and 2012’s A Different Kind of Truth.Roth’s tenure with Van Halen spanned from 1974-1985, a brief reunion in 1996 and then from 2007 to the present day. They achieved greater commercial success with Hagar than they had with Roth — every Hagar-era album hit #1 on the Billboard charts and went platinum or multi-platinum — but the music changed, at first in subtle ways and then a lot. Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. Josephina. Classic Rock Magazine I sound like a cross between Tom Waits and Roger Waters. How many say I, how many say I, ALEX VAN HALEN, EDWARD VAN HALEN, GARY CHERONE, MICHAEL ANTHONY, Warner Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group. The next day, he told me he was in bed with Valerie [Bertinelli] and he had to ask permission to go downstairs to the piano. How many, how many, say I He’s not awful; he sounds kinda like Roger Waters on one of the depressing songs from Pink Floyd’s The Wall. "Maybe to a fault, there was a freedom that we had on Van Halen III that was maybe too eclectic for the Van Halen fans," Cherone added. How many, how many, say I How many say I, how many say I Don't be shocked when you hear the vocal. And then say I love you, but aren't willing to show That’s as long as the two best Roth-era albums after the debut, Fair Warning and 1984, put together. Recently Added. Not Van Halen's best, and probably their worst, but still underrated. The drums are too loud, and while AVH doesn’t succumb to the late ’90s trend for ringing snares, keeping to his usual muffled boom, when compared with the relative airiness heard on, say, “Beautiful Girls” or even “Unchained,” he sounds like he’s whacking the wall with a broom handle. The former Van Halen frontman talks about what might be the most polarizing song in the band’s history. That’s the kind of statement that most normal people respond to with some variation on “How the fuck … ?” The short answer: Extreme and Van Halen had the same manager, Ray Danniels.