Someone leaked this thought you guys might wanna hear it. It's live and rough and I sound like I'm under water cause of too much harmonizer which was not my doing but aside from that it rocks.
Van Halen with Mitch Malloy Panama
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Hey MItch! Thanks for sharing, but I´m on Diamond Dave, cause he got that special thing, ya know what I´m meaning. If I got my mp3 running while working and it comes to Sammy, I have to quit fast, as this hairspray rocka is´nt my kind of beer.
Also seems you been a bit nervous in studio, cause in other videos I seen from ya your voice been way better!
Still thanks, rock on mate!
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Man, this really rocks!
Thank you for sharing this hidden pearl, showing us how VH could have been
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Haha, that was cool! I'm getting ready to move so I'm cleaning out a lot of stuff and came across an old cd I had. It's Mitch's first CD which I picked up in the 90's when I was at Berklee.
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Sounds Great Mitch ....Well Done !
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Dave is Dave, Er, I mean "was" Dave, Sammy is Sammy and I am me. And I was nervous of course but so was Ed as he told me so. Who wouldn't be? But I couldn't have sung any better on this and I'm proud to have been asked to be in the band. And I never used hair spray didn't have to. :>) There are more songs floating around I wonder if they will see the light of day.
Mitch,
Everything about your story (except the rejection) is awesome. I'm sure it was an emotional roller-coaster of epic proportions. I'm also sure that you have grown as an artist and as a person as a result.
The commentary below the video allowed me some vicarious fun. Keep at it. Success has been defined as getting up just one more time than you've been knocked down.
If I run into to you at NAMM, I'd love to buy you a beer.
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Thanks for sharing Mitch!
Also, thanks for your shared profiles...the Dr Z is one of my favorites. Looking forward to more if/when you post them.
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Sounds great Mitch!!!!! What an amazing experience for you........and what an honor!
The "you sounded nervous" comment is just sheer idiocy (and perhaps throw in a dash of jealousy for good measure) IMHO.
100% of the people on this board DREAM of getting the opportunity your had with VH and to "sound nervous".
...and yes, your profiles also rock.
PS. I play with Greg Berger every now and again.....he mentions you from time to time.
JEL
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I appreciate very much Mitchs talents as a great musician, but I write what I think. I like his vocals and guitar playing in many other clips I´ve seen from him. If someone postes a clip or video to share, I´m sure he also wants to get honest opinions (or may be I´m wrong, , and that´s what I´ve done and will do.
If my comment is idiocy for you, I´can´t change that. Excusing that with IMHO shortcut does not make it less abusive.
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Well at the risk of saying too much I will just ad this. I don't sound nervous. :>) I sound like I'm ready to be the singer in Van Halen. I'm singing into a 57 with WAY too much harmonizer on it and not nearly loud enough and I'm singing a song that DLR wrote and he's about as far away from the singer I am as you could possibly get. And by that I just mean we are WAAAAY different singers. The stuff he did on those first records was AMAZING and I am a huge fan of that. But aside from that I don't hear anything bad about this. To me it sounds like I grabbed the song and bit it's f'in head off. :>) I do appreciate the fact that I may sound better to some singing MY music. That makes sense as I wrote it. But to say I sound in any way bad singing with Van Halen I would say I don't agree with that. But that's just my opinion. And honest opinions? Well at this stage in my life or career I honestly think if someone has something bad to say they shouldn't necessarily take the time to write it and keep it to themselves or maybe say it to a friend if they need to just say it for some reason. Seems rude to me to write it. And I wouldn't do it to someone. About anything.. Unless I thought it was going to help them in some way and in this case that's not the case I don't think. Try to imagine if you will DLR singing my song Anything at all.
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Just rock on!!
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If someone postes a clip or video to share, I´m sure he also wants to get honest opinions (or may be I´m wrong, , and that´s what I´ve done and will do.
Please don't take this the wrong way but I believe that you will be wrong in almost 100% of the cases. If someone wants their work to be criticized/analyzed they will usually ask explicitly for your opinion or criticism as a way to know where to improve. A guy that simply shares a clip or a video is usually not looking for that. I think Mitch was simply sharing a bit of his life (not to be judged about it).
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Mitch, I think you sound great here. Not sure how someone can tell you sound "nervous" anyway. Sounds like a kick ass rocking performance to me. Hopefully Ed hung on to your number. Maybe when the VH boys have their next falling out with DLR they will give you a call.
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I'm proud of it. It got posted and I want people to hear it. Because again I'm proud of it and it actually happened. It was a part of my life I never talked about till many years later and almost no one that I know of ever heard it. So now that it's out there I figure anyone who cares at all about hearing it should hear it. It doesn't surprise me that people say "hey Mitch your not Dave". LOL Duh... That's cause I'm Mitch. :>)
And you should be proud of it. Just to have been considered as a candidate to sing for Van Halen is huge. I don't think many people can say that.
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What a great story. I can only imagine the adrenaline rush
