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Title: RIP Eddie Van Halen
Post by: hankster on October 06, 2020, 12:56:33 PM

EVH has just passed away from cancer. He has a special place in the pantheon.
https://exclaim.ca/amparticle/eddie_van_halen_dies_at_65 (https://exclaim.ca/amparticle/eddie_van_halen_dies_at_65)

Title: Re: RIP Eddie Van Halen
Post by: edwardofhuncote on October 06, 2020, 01:02:43 PM

Oh, no.  :-[  What a loss. I hadn't even heard he was ill.

Title: Re: RIP Eddie Van Halen
Post by: David Houck on October 06, 2020, 01:19:39 PM

Just saw the headline on my phone.

Title: Re: RIP Eddie Van Halen
Post by: FC Bass on October 06, 2020, 02:16:35 PM

:-(

Title: Re: RIP Eddie Van Halen
Post by: pauldo on October 06, 2020, 04:27:39 PM

WMSE played some killer deep tracks in honor of Eddie.

Icon.

Title: Re: RIP Eddie Van Halen
Post by: paulman on October 06, 2020, 05:34:03 PM

Quite unexpected.  He was a definite influence on me picking up guitar. 

Thanks for posting, this is a crappy year.

Title: Re: RIP Eddie Van Halen
Post by: bigredbass on October 07, 2020, 07:48:22 AM

A singular talent, one of those guys you KNOW who it is in 3 seconds of anything he ever played.  I shall always remember that unlike so many who look so pained while in the depths of doing their thing, he'd just smile like crazy from all those musical endorphins flooding his brain like a fire hose:  That's how he could play like that.

I believe I've posted this before, but today would be a good day to revisit it.  It's from a series of interviews at The Smithsonian Museum with immigrants who found success after coming to America.  It's great as it's not the 'rock press' and none of the usual 'Sammy said this' or 'Dave said that' BS, and quite revealing, and in a way the story of a lot of immigrants.

I was working retail music stores when he hit, and it was mass hysteria among guitar players the way Beatlemania hit teenage girls !

Title: Re: RIP Eddie Van Halen
Post by: gearhed289 on October 07, 2020, 07:56:50 AM

I generally don't like the term, but he truly was a game changer. I'll never forget the first time I heard their debut in 1978 when I was 14. "Eruption" rocked the world! RIP Edward.

Title: Re: RIP Eddie Van Halen
Post by: StefanieJones on October 07, 2020, 05:50:22 PM

I was totally shocked when i heard this sad news.