yeah i agree it was a natural progression you could see ed was moving towards the way of 5150 when listening to 1984 .
i think the fact that the original
van halen broke up right at the top of their success will always make it more "classic" than the other versions . you know what
def leppard says it's better to burn out than fade away
but that's a bit off topic there !
i still love ed's guitar work on the sammy albums .. 5150 is a classic song ... another solo from the sammy era that is classic is pleasure dome i really dug that song [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img]