And the Wheel Chair Will Rock?

So the wait is over for the first taste of new Van Halen. It's the first music David Lee Roth has released with Eddy and Alex since those two tracks (Me Wise Magic, Can't Get This Stuff No More) on a greatest hits compilation some fifteen years ago.
Now after a very successful and kick ass show a couple years back they did a whole album together. The first single, Tattoo is weak and a I really hope isn't the best they could come up with. It's as though David Lee Roth forgot who he was, in a lazy way. If Diamond Dave belted out more of the song instead of his talk/croon it would be far more enjoyable. Let's face it when Dave's excited we're excited. When he wails, "Sexy dragon magic!"  it's awesome but then he loses it. Meanwhile musically instead reaching back to 1984 or before they only reached back to 1986 and pulled out a some 5150 scraps but I'm not sure this has even got what it takes. The solo isn't quite distinguishable as an Eddy solo but seeing as he's been copied for the past thirty-five years it's forgivable.
I understand they're musicians and they don't want to rehash the things they did before and I respect that but since Duran Duran put out their 2010 release, All You Need Is Now there's no excuse why a band of such age can't recapture what made them great and build on that sound to deliver an enjoyable album.



I'm not saying that this song is horrible or it won't grow on me but it is clear the boys are getting old. I hope the rest of A Different Kind of Truth is better than this.