RIP Eddie Van Halen

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  • SmallestOceans
    SmallestOceans Posts: 13,542
    “We Love You Eddie”
    https://youtu.be/hZtQR24ouV8

    Some things just happen inexplicably at the craziest times. Looking forward to Sammy’s Birthday Bash stream on the 17th. I’m sure the spirit of EVH will be present as they play these songs with heavy hearts.
    Worcester1 13, Worcester2 13, Hartford 13, San Diego 13, Los Angeles1 13, Los Angeles2 13
    Trieste 14, Vienna 14, Gdynia 14, Leeds 14, Milton Keynes 14, Denver 14
    Central Park 15
    Fort Lauderdale 16, Miami 16, Tampa 16, Jacksonville 16, Greenville 16, Hampton 16, Columbia 16, Lexington 16, Philly1 16, Philly2 16, NYC1 16, NYC2 16, Quebec City 16, Ottawa 16, Toronto1 16, Toronto2 16, Fenway1 16, Fenway2 16, Wrigley1 16, Wrigley2 16


  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    The nice thing is that Hagar and Eddie made up this year and had been chatting.  
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,599
    cp3iverson said:
    The nice thing is that Hagar and Eddie made up this year and had been chatting.  
    really? i didn't know that. 

    on the morbid side, i guess that means no more VH tour "which vocalist" speculation. 
    By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.




  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,894
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    cp3iverson said:
    The nice thing is that Hagar and Eddie made up this year and had been chatting.  
    really? i didn't know that. 

    on the morbid side, i guess that means no more VH tour "which vocalist" speculation. 
    My son asked me "what happens to the band?"
    Told him "there is no more Van Halen"
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    edited October 2020
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    cp3iverson said:
    The nice thing is that Hagar and Eddie made up this year and had been chatting.  
    really? i didn't know that. 

    on the morbid side, i guess that means no more VH tour "which vocalist" speculation. 
    Sammy sent a note to Howard stern talking about how they had been texting all year and had kept it private.  He said that when he stopped getting responses this past month but he knew that something bad was going on
    Post edited by cp3iverson on
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,294
    We shared the same birthday (Jan. 26th)
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,537
    This is my favorite EVH story from the past few months.

    Atomic Punk is still my favorite song he ever wrote.

    https://instagram.com/p/B37tJsyFW-D/embed/

    wolfvanhalenVerified

    A guy asked my dad if he could take a picture of him with the stage behind him, having no idea who he just asked, and that was my favorite moment from the #Tool show last night.
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,995
    Collection of his appearances on Letterman sitting in with the band. Great channel for Letterman fans by the way. Whoever runs the channel must've recorded every single episode in the 80's. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vHL4gyYjnY
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2, 2025: Pittsburgh 1

    Pearl Jam bootlegs:
    http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrFxKY6aFrQ
  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    Great Interview

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb26D8bBZB8

  • SmallestOceans
    SmallestOceans Posts: 13,542
    This was classic... two burritos and a root beer float lol
    https://youtu.be/e1fYpkbq8jM
    Worcester1 13, Worcester2 13, Hartford 13, San Diego 13, Los Angeles1 13, Los Angeles2 13
    Trieste 14, Vienna 14, Gdynia 14, Leeds 14, Milton Keynes 14, Denver 14
    Central Park 15
    Fort Lauderdale 16, Miami 16, Tampa 16, Jacksonville 16, Greenville 16, Hampton 16, Columbia 16, Lexington 16, Philly1 16, Philly2 16, NYC1 16, NYC2 16, Quebec City 16, Ottawa 16, Toronto1 16, Toronto2 16, Fenway1 16, Fenway2 16, Wrigley1 16, Wrigley2 16


  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,705
    https://apple.news/AhAPfyftlRWOjREBv4ZLSYQ
    Just reading this I felt a connection! Me being an immigrant too damn...
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,894
    We'll see what fruit this bears:
    https://www.vhnd.com/2020/10/09/wolfgang-and-alex-van-halen-to-search-5150-vaults-for-possible-future-releases/

    I remember Gary Cherone saying once Eddie had massive quantities of recorded stuff at 5150. No idea what state it is in, but hopefully Wolf and Alex can find some nuggets to release.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,894
    edited October 2020
    And sounds like cancer robbed us a final tour with the entire original lineup:

    https://www.facebook.com/nunorocks/photos/a.453187797984/10159566417432985/?type=3

    As a kid who’s life was forever altered when the needle dropped on the fade in of Running With The Devil.
    I dreamed that one day I could earn my own stripes.
    But those stripes are only and forever Edward’s.
    Today, 40 years later, I can only mourn those Stripes.

    Once upon a time in Hollywood, recently, while recording the latest Extreme album in my home studio I got a call to come down to the front of my house, that someone is asking for me.

    I was like, damn that’s annoying as I was in the zone cutting a guitar solo to a new song called RISE.
    I dropped my guitar and headed down.

    I walk out and... I was being summoned by the one and only... Edward.

    As usual I got a warm hug and kiss from Eddie.
    Even as a God, he always made you feel important.

    He was in great spirits.
    A proud dad, bragging about how Wolfie’s new solo album is gonna blow minds, etc...

    What’s cool though, was the last thing Eddie talked about.

    He said he was super excited about reaching out to Michael Anthony to finally put the original VH lineup back together. Saying that he wanted to do one final tour and have Van Halen go out the way they came in . Together... Guns Blazing!

    Finally as Eddie said his goodbye, he asked about the new Extreme album that we were recording up in the house.
    As we hugged, he says: “I’ll be back to listen to it when you’re done, and with a sinister raspy laugh , adds “it better be good “.

    Finished it. Then. PANDEMIC.

    Man, I was like a kid, counting the Covid Days down to when I could blare the new Extreme album in the studio, sitting side by side with My Hero, the GOAT, selfishly wanting to play him all the new guitar work that shamelessly, but with pride has his DNA all over my playing.

    I guess that moment wasn’t meant to be...

    It’s incredible how as a young player, your guitar chord, is the umbilical chord that initmately connects you to someone you may never meet, moreso than even someone in your own family.

    At the drop of a needle or the touch of a space bar. They are there for you 24/7.

    As Eddie was... and forever will be.
    Thank you for shaping who I am today.

    Love you, Edward.

    You are the ONE.
    Post edited by Poncier on
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,537
    Poncier said:
    And sounds like cancer robbed us a final tour with the entire original lineup:

    https://www.facebook.com/nunorocks/photos/a.453187797984/10159566417432985/?type=3

    As a kid who’s life was forever altered when the needle dropped on the fade in of Running With The Devil.
    I dreamed that one day I could earn my own stripes.
    But those stripes are only and forever Edward’s.
    Today, 40 years later, I can only mourn those Stripes.

    Once upon a time in Hollywood, recently, while recording the latest Extreme album in my home studio I got a call to come down to the front of my house, that someone is asking for me.

    I was like, damn that’s annoying as I was in the zone cutting a guitar solo to a new song called RISE.
    I dropped my guitar and headed down.

    I walk out and... I was being summoned by the one and only... Edward.

    As usual I got a warm hug and kiss from Eddie.
    Even as a God, he always made you feel important.

    He was in great spirits.
    A proud dad, bragging about how Wolfie’s new solo album is gonna blow minds, etc...

    What’s cool though, was the last thing Eddie talked about.

    He said he was super excited about reaching out to Michael Anthony to finally put the original VH lineup back together. Saying that he wanted to do one final tour and have Van Halen go out the way they came in . Together... Guns Blazing!

    Finally as Eddie said his goodbye, he asked about the new Extreme album that we were recording up in the house.
    As we hugged, he says: “I’ll be back to listen to it when you’re done, and with a sinister raspy laugh , adds “it better be good “.

    Finished it. Then. PANDEMIC.

    Man, I was like a kid, counting the Covid Days down to when I could blare the new Extreme album in the studio, sitting side by side with My Hero, the GOAT, selfishly wanting to play him all the new guitar work that shamelessly, but with pride has his DNA all over my playing.

    I guess that moment wasn’t meant to be...

    It’s incredible how as a young player, your guitar chord, is the umbilical chord that initmately connects you to someone you may never meet, moreso than even someone in your own family.

    At the drop of a needle or the touch of a space bar. They are there for you 24/7.

    As Eddie was... and forever will be.
    Thank you for shaping who I am today.

    Love you, Edward.

    You are the ONE.
    Nuno Bettoncourt was always a beast on guitar even if you didn't like the band.

    Great stories everyone, keep posting them!
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,294
    MedozK said:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrFxKY6aFrQ

    :lol:
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,599
    i wonder if michael anthony would have gone back after the way he was treated, though. and what conditions there would have been. but either way, too bad. 
    By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.




  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,794
    tempo_n_groove said:
    This is my favorite EVH story from the past few months.

    Atomic Punk is still my favorite song he ever wrote.

    https://instagram.com/p/B37tJsyFW-D/embed/

    wolfvanhalen

    Verified
    A guy asked my dad if he could take a picture of him with the stage behind him, having no idea who he just asked, and that was my favorite moment from the #Tool show last night.
    Love that too. Funny stuff. 
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,894

    This was our first venture out for outdoor pandemic dining in June on our anniversary and first day with new face masks I bought.

    This weekend we rock Portland
  • SmallestOceans
    SmallestOceans Posts: 13,542
    Poncier said:
    We'll see what fruit this bears:
    https://www.vhnd.com/2020/10/09/wolfgang-and-alex-van-halen-to-search-5150-vaults-for-possible-future-releases/

    I remember Gary Cherone saying once Eddie had massive quantities of recorded stuff at 5150. No idea what state it is in, but hopefully Wolf and Alex can find some nuggets to release.

    I read somewhere that on most of the tours he wouldn’t party with the band after shows. Instead he would drink vodka, snort cocaine, play guitar for hours in his hotel room alone, tape it, riffs would come out of it, and that was basically his songwriting process. If that’s the case then there must be thousands of hours of Eddie on tape just noodling around until the tape develops into something recognizable.

     I for one would be interested in listening to him jam for 10-20-30 minutes whatever until he stumbles into a riff like Unchained or Panama. Just the energy in that room alone. He’s gone on record saying he doesn’t recall coming up with those sort of riffs. Hopefully some of that kind of stuff gets released in the future.

    Worcester1 13, Worcester2 13, Hartford 13, San Diego 13, Los Angeles1 13, Los Angeles2 13
    Trieste 14, Vienna 14, Gdynia 14, Leeds 14, Milton Keynes 14, Denver 14
    Central Park 15
    Fort Lauderdale 16, Miami 16, Tampa 16, Jacksonville 16, Greenville 16, Hampton 16, Columbia 16, Lexington 16, Philly1 16, Philly2 16, NYC1 16, NYC2 16, Quebec City 16, Ottawa 16, Toronto1 16, Toronto2 16, Fenway1 16, Fenway2 16, Wrigley1 16, Wrigley2 16


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