That's exactly what I was feeling too Thinny.

As far as my "sloppy drummer" comment. I never rated Al highly. I never liked his sound, and never cared much for his playing. Being a drummer I do tend to hyper-focus a bit on that instrument.There are great technical drummers, great feel drummers. IMO he is/was neither. His fills sound sloppy to me, his timing all over the place. A good drummer purposefully, depending on the track, plays a bit behind the beat, a bit ahead, or flat on. He so often fluctuated within songs, throughout their catalog, and that always bothered me. I still love that band, all eras (admittedly preferring the Hagar years). And I'm just an amateur lifelong drummer giving my opinion. But I could list hundreds of drummers who I would rate well ahead of AVH.

And now that he's ignoring an important part of his bands legacy, on top of how he has treated Mike, I can rate him similarly as a person. Shame.