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Eddie Van Halen Has Died
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Shodan09
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I've not heard this in so long. VH3 is always the ugly stepchild but this is a very powerful song. Good solo too.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
A legend is gone. Rest well.
Barnabot
Member
I hope Michael Anthony and DLR (and you too, Sammy) get over their rough past and remember Eddie when they were still buddies. I know it was a dick move to kick Michaeal Anthony out of the band and put Eddie's kid in it instead (hence the first album not even having his shots anymore a couple of years ago). But the Van Halen band was altogether a magical thing no matter who was in charge of the vocals.
Hideous Snake
Gold Member
Grew up on Van Halen. RIP Eddie
VeganElduderino
Member
RIP Eddie , you are my my Favorite musician ever! i saw Van Halen twice in concert with once Gary and once with Sam , i'm fuckin sad...
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Shodan09
Unconfirmed Member
Listening to his music is not making the feeling go away 
Tell_men
Member
Listening to his music is not making the feeling go away
Right now people are grieving for Eddie.
VeganElduderino
Member
My favorite song of all times
Lionel Richie
Member
Shit part is you can't put some Van Halen to mourn. Van Halen wasn't mourning music, it was bombastic badass music that you can't help but smile to. RIP Eddie you absolute legend.
lock2k
Banned
I agree but if I hear Not Enough I will probably cry a lot today. VH and Pink Floyd were my mom's favorite bands and a lot of VH tunes remind me of her.
Hardensoul
Member
Growing up in the 80s and Hot for Teacher came out. Age is getting to me, don't quite remember my history teachers name but I do remember how she looked and her British accent.
Lionel Richie
Member
My mom's a lost cause on music, but I did manage to make my dad like Van Halen more than he used to. Dad's a huge Zeppelin fan and he didn't think much of 80's hard rock. Hard not to be a fan when you put on some Fair Warning or 1984.
Duellist
Member
Rumor has it he walked into the studio plugged in his guitar took one listen and cut that solo in one or two takes! Got tier
RIP EVH
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MaestroMike
Gold Member
RIP.
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Shodan09
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Shodan09
Unconfirmed Member
Let's not forget his 'cameo' in The Curse of Monkey Island...
Slings and Arrows
Banned
That fella wants a lift but not from a car or truck.
VH
VH
Old Retro
Member
Sad that a piece of my childhood is gone, an embodyment of the 80s. 
One of the greatest talents in their genre that ever lived. Rock radio stations should play a Van Halen song every hour for the next week.
He was given piano lessons as a child before the family moved to America when he was seven years old, settling in Pasadena California.
'We showed up here with the equivalent of $50 and a piano,' Eddie Van Halen told The Associated Press in 2015. 'We came halfway around the world without money, without a set job, no place to live and couldn't even speak the language.'
He said his earliest memories of music were banging pots and pans together, marching to John Philip Sousa marches. At one point, Eddie got a drum set, which his older brother coveted.
'I never wanted to play guitar,' he confessed at a talk at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in 2015. But his brother was good at the drums, so Eddie gave into his brother's wishes: 'I said, 'Go ahead, take my drums. I'll play your damn guitar.'
After his band were signed to Warner Bros Records producer Ted Templeman said: 'There were like 11 people in the audience, and they were playing like they were at the Forum.'
After recording the band's debut album aged 22 Van Halen are said to have trashed their hotel room in Scotland when they heard it had gone gold in the US.
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One of the greatest talents in their genre that ever lived. Rock radio stations should play a Van Halen song every hour for the next week.He was given piano lessons as a child before the family moved to America when he was seven years old, settling in Pasadena California.
'We showed up here with the equivalent of $50 and a piano,' Eddie Van Halen told The Associated Press in 2015. 'We came halfway around the world without money, without a set job, no place to live and couldn't even speak the language.'
He said his earliest memories of music were banging pots and pans together, marching to John Philip Sousa marches. At one point, Eddie got a drum set, which his older brother coveted.
'I never wanted to play guitar,' he confessed at a talk at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in 2015. But his brother was good at the drums, so Eddie gave into his brother's wishes: 'I said, 'Go ahead, take my drums. I'll play your damn guitar.'
After his band were signed to Warner Bros Records producer Ted Templeman said: 'There were like 11 people in the audience, and they were playing like they were at the Forum.'
After recording the band's debut album aged 22 Van Halen are said to have trashed their hotel room in Scotland when they heard it had gone gold in the US.
Rock star Eddie Van Halen dies at age 65
The father to Wolfgang Van Halen passed away at at St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California with his wife Janie next to him.
poodaddy
Gold Member
I swear Eddie had 4 extra invisible hands. The man's a legend, and the world is lesser without him. Goddammit.
VeganElduderino
Member
so awsome
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
I dunno, David and Eddie got it together enough around 2012 to give us "A Different Kind of Truth". It was magic to see Eddie and his son ripping together with Roth sharing the spotlight. Two tracks worth giving a go are -
And if these songs don't get you pumped and ready to go then we can't be friends and party together.
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slugbahr
Unconfirmed Member
Fuuuuuckkkk
Nooooooooo
RIP
Nooooooooo
RIP
Bullet Club
Banned
RIP Eddie Van Halen
He made some great music.
He made some great music.
Hulk_Smash
Banned
He was 65 and battling cancer. Cancer doesn't give a shit how old you are, but he wasn't exactly young.
Mistershine.
Banned
I was watching GT racing at the weekend and one of the drivers had his car wrapped to look like frankenstrat, it made me have a quick listen. I'd forgotten how much I liked You really got me.
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Shodan09
Unconfirmed Member
Hoya Destroyer
Member
I only know three Van Halen songs, but the guitar work is great on all of them - especially Panama.
RIP Eddie.
RIP Eddie.
Stiflers Mom
Banned
R.I.P. Eddie.
Don't know much about his music, but I always loved this one..
Don't know much about his music, but I always loved this one..
Hulk_Smash
Banned
Spaceman292
Banned
That's terrible. Even recently he's looked so young and vital. He could still play just as well as he did thirty years ago.