Guest Shot: Johnny Lyon
August, 1986
Charles M. YoungGot to admit that I was prepared to hate Van Halen's 5150 (Warner) on the grounds that Sammy Hagar, David Lee Roth's replacement on vocals, is an unmitigated asshole. Then I listened to it-always a mistake for a heavy intellectual critic such as myself-and now I have to revise my assessment to mitigated asshole. The guy's a witless boor, definitely, and so shameless that he publishes his lyrics (most of the words are his, I'm told) on the sleeve for the first time in Van Halen hi...
