Prayers for EVH....Eddie Van Halen getting visits from ex-wife Valerie Bertineli

Who gives a flying fuck?!? All he was was a musician, not some kind of God! And an overrated musician at that!

Aww come on, Eddie Van Halen was hardly overrated.
NOBODY re-invented the electric guitar like that, and all 80’s rock guitar
showed his influence.

Prayers out for Eddie...

You're a dick!

He is an excellent axeman and riff guy, not that overrated. Lots imitated him, but few had his fury, precision, and killer tone at his prime. What he lacks in versatility, he made up for in fury an pyrotechnics. Very influential, every poser in the 80's ripped him off. Rumblings are perhaps his cancer returning, though we hope not and wish him the best.

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Let's see a video of you writing and performing something better than this you ignorant fool

Van Halen - Diver Down - Big Bad Bill

Eddie's dad on clarinet.


Dave: "I think it's a great song. And there's been this thread winding its way through all of Van Halen's music and all of our albums since beginning with 'Ice Cream Man.' I played acoustic guitar and songs like this for quite a while before I ever joined Van Halen. It's music. Why do I have to bang my head to every single song on every single album? I don't think the audience has that much lack of creativity or imagination."

Eddie: "It was Dave's idea to do 'Big Bad Bill'. He bought himself one of those Sanyo Walkman-type things with the FM-AM radio, and you can record off the radio if you like something you hear. He was up in his bedroom at his father's house and he found that if he stood in a certain spot and pointed his antenna a certain way, he picked up this weird radio station in Louisville, Kentucky. He recorded 'Big Bad Bill' and played it to us, and we started laughing ourselves silly and going, 'That is bad! Let's do it!' Dave suggested, 'Hey, we can get your old man to play the clarinet.' We said, 'sure.'

"It's so funny, because I couldn't play the song for you right now. I had to read because there were so many chords, I just couldn't remember it. So here's my father to the left of me, sitting on a chair with a music stand in front of him, and I'm sitting next to him with sheet music in a stand. Mike was there, too, playing like an acoustic guitar bass – the kind they have in Mexican restaurants where they come up, play in front of your face, and aggravate you. We had a great time. It looked like an old '30s or '40s session. I used some thick Gibson hollowbody with f-holes. My father hadn't played in a long time because he had lost his left-hand middle finger about 10 years ago. He was nervous, and we told him, 'Jan, just have a good time. We make mistakes! That's what makes it real.' I love what he did, but he was thinking back 10 years ago when he was smokin', playing jazz and stuff. He played exactly what we wanted."

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Thanks Eddie..


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Eddie,

Mr. Edward Van Halen.

Jesus Christ.

Now.

He might have been good on the guitar, but he was a total cunt bandmate and dick towards Valerie during their marriage.

Genius but weird and hate how he dissed his other original guitarists by rubbing his son playing their songs on all his rereleases.

Wow! You actually came on GLP and said Eddie was overrated.
You need to do a little research before you write next time.
Eddie was and is one of the most talented musicians of all time, he was so much more than a guitar man.
You get the idiot of the night award

Edward VanHalen is one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

will always remember bleasting the intro to Ain't Talking Bout Love, their first song I ever heard. And yeah, it was "different" and super cool!

One of my faves!

was wondering who the next 70s/80s rock person was gonna die, usually happens in 3s.

eddie money
rick ocasek
eddie van halen?

When is Tesla's birthday?

Fuck EVH

stupid alcoholics

G.D.


booze is just a fk up

When they announced that Elvis Presley had died, I was 9 years old.

My little brother started crying and I said, "Well, look at the bright side, now we don't have to watch anymore of those crappy movies".

Yean, no one gets out alive.

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EVH can play CIRCLES around the current crop of guitarists
in top 100 pop/punk/indie/post whatever bands.

They PALE in comparison in terms of musical talent and guitar artistry - just a fact

He revolutionized rock guitar. Practically every guitarist into '90s and beyond listed EVH as a major influence. Remarkably creative and inventive sounds.

I hope the three were:

Tom Petty
Eddie Money
Rick Ocasek

This is from the band's first trip...er, tour.
Support for Black Sabbath Never Say Die Tour 1978.