{"id":1261,"date":"2015-12-11T22:57:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T02:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2015-12-11T22:57:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T02:57:05","slug":"mitch-malloy-could-have-been-vhs-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Malloy Could Have Been VH&#8217;s Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that Ray Danniels, along with Eddie&#8217;s alcoholism is what ruined Van Halen in the post Sammy era. Eddie and Sammy fighting over the management of the band was one of the biggest issues that caused Sammy to leave. Danniels had\u00a0\u00a0recently become the manager\u00a0during that time. While searching for new singers, VH auditioned Mitch Malloy who was eventually turned down for the gig in favor of Gary Cherone, whom\u00a0Danniels\u00a0also managed. The video below is a previously unreleased demo track with Mitch on vocals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1190\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9pfFErkwbFA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that Ray Danniels, along with Eddie&#8217;s alcoholism is what ruined Van Halen in the post Sammy era. Eddie and Sammy fighting over the management of the band was one of the biggest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32FB4-kl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75,"url":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=75","url_meta":{"origin":1261,"position":0},"title":"Van Halen &#8211; RaRHoF, and Eddie","author":"Matt","date":"March 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, Van Halen has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Eddie Van Halen has checked himself into rehab. 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