"R&B" wrote: Seems like Hagar's addition to Van Halen came at about the same time "heavy metal" was becoming a huge phenomenon. To me, it just sounded like bands were trying to get louder and louder, raunchier and raunchier. It became very much like audio wallpaper to me. You couldn't really differentiate one band from another, it was all very copycat-ish. That's why