If David Lee Roth were in Van Halen, this song wouldn't have existed or it wouldn't have been so magnificently awesome as it is with Sammy! 💝

If DLR were still in the band this would have been an instrumental backing Dave's live sword twirling.

Yeah, the Dave who, that night, takes sword twirling really seriously because he met some sword twirler backstage and he’s trying to impress her because this one is different…then forgets about her before he’s done twirling her sword

DLR was too much into redoing old Motown hits and conflicting with EVH on creative writing!

This is pure pop-rock perfection. I don’t love the production on OU812, but man they had some bangers on that album.

The YT video of “Black and Blue” live from Tokyo was perfect example of how tight and perfect they were as a band back then. Those songs “Cabo wabo” “finish what ya started” “mine all mine” were hurt a little by how bad the production on the album was. They sound way better live.

Both Sammy and David had their own unique style and I just so happen to like both..this song is without a doubt in my top 3 Van Halen songs

I agree. It’s much better (in my opinion) to be a VH fan of both versions. So much great music to enjoy.

Yep 👍 when it comes to music I try not to be too picky and miss out on something.but when I find something I like oh boy it’s like Christmas 🤩

I remember when the first cut of Sammy singing for Van Halen played over the air wave while I washing dishes in an Italian restaurant.

Hell yeah! I don’t remember the exact time but I know I was very happy 😊

This has one of the best bridges ever. The angelic background vocals of Mike and Ed, and then Sammy’s voice soars with “you can feel!”

Absolute perfection.

Ou812 is so good, this is the 'boring' song. It's amazing, but the rest of the album kills.

God I LOVE this song

You can see how much the hand seem happy. A certain maturity? 5150 is awesome. I'm a fan of both era's. DLR was my first concert on the skyscraper tour so def not hating. Can't we all just get along?

I hated this song at first. I think it's because I was surprised to hear the album start with two keyboard songs in a row. I had every reason to like it, I've always loved I'll Wait and Love Walks In which were both somewhat similar. Now I'm good with it. It's beautiful.

Growing up I didn’t even realize this was Can Halen, I just realized it & I wonder if that’s because of everything about it being in total contrast to when Diamond Dave manned that horse?

Yeah there are a couple of ballads that I faintly remembered being soft rock staples back in the day, but didn't realize they were Van Halen.

I didn’t mean to write “can Halen,” I respect Sammy a lot more than that would suggest…I really like right, now!

This song rips

I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since he passed.

This isn't exactly the original version, but close enough. When they put out the Van Halen video hits DVD, they cut a lot of the bartender scenes that included smoking. 

My favorite Van Halen song ever. 👍

Man that chord progression after the intro is stellar.

After all of these years, the question still remains… What’s the click?

I think it’s simply hitting drumsticks together with reverb.

Ugh I don’t understand how people can like both awesome Van Halen and this adult contemporary dreck

Is that Journey?

What’s this doing on this sub. This is fake Van Halen. Get out of here with this doohickey nonsense

Great song! Sammy lifted them to a different and better sound. IMHO.

Hot garbage.

I'm glad they changed the title of this from the original When it's Gay

They can gay me up all day long….

Haha good answer😃