And what a girl she was. But I think they are divorced now. Too bad.
Posted on 10/24/2019 10:55:03 AM PDT by TomServo
Eddie Van Halen was at Tool's show in LA this week when he was approached by a fan who had no idea he was speaking with a guitar great...
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You should’ve kept scrolling down. Wolfgang’s twitter shows Eddie taking the other fan’s photo with the stage behind him.
I love it all. Anything that makes someone happy listening to it, is “good music” in my book. Anything people will pay me several Franklins to play is “Great music”.
Once grunge and other stuff that didn’t prioritize musicianship got popular, a lot of the fun of discovering new rock went away for me, not all of it, but a lot.
I’d be in the same boat... I loved Van Halen in the 80’s, but drugs and rock n roll have not been kind to Eddie...
Similar (sort of) thing happened to my son a few weeks ago. His band had been traveling with and opening for another band from overseas for the last couple of years. This most recent (fall) tour the other band changed their opener. Anyway, my son and his band went to see them play when they were nearby, and to catch up with them after the show. While they were in the crowd getting ready for the show to start, some fan standing right next to my son wondered aloud who the openers were, and googled it. My son’s band showed up first on the search. As the fan pulled up a photo, the front man for my son’s band reached out to the guy’s phone, and said, “Yeah, that’s me!” The kid was confused for a few seconds, and wondered why they weren’t onstage. He figured it out eventually, but it was a weird kind of funny thing to happen.
Add me to the list of the confused.
Too funny. When the topic was “Tool Show”, I assumed they were talking about some kind of trade show.
Was Eddie endorsing some brand of hammers and screwdrivers?
EVH not only a great guitarist “technically” but he was very innovative. I have watched several of his interviews on youtube. He said had to create the infamous guitar because he could not find anything that he liked. Also talked about a lot of the techniques he created were due to the fact they could not afford fancy pedals and stuff in their early days.
Looks like he has cleaned up his life and has a great relationship with his son. Good story all around.
Yup. I met Mick Fleetwood and JohnMc Vie in the men’s room of a club in Miami doing a line of coke in the 80’s. They invited me to come to their table and meet the “girls” (Christine McVie and Stevie Nix). I went and had a beer with them and then returned to my friends who were freaking out that I knew Fleetwood Mac! I had no clue who they were. Just thought they were some friendly guys I met in the men’s room. It can happen.
Fun fact...
EVH took guitar lesson(s) from a guitarist & member of the super studio group known as The Wrecking Crew.
The studio guitarist? Glen Campbell.
And what a girl she was. But I think they are divorced now. Too bad.
Who is Eddie Van Halen and why is this news?
Supposedly she left him because he wouldn’t quit smoking, which he did to a ridiculous degree.
Pretty sad to give up one of the cutest females who ever lived for nicotine.
Ask the fan...
So anyway, back in 1983, this band Van Halen was playing at the US Festival over in Devore, California. Out near San Benardino someplace. I was in the Marine Corps back then stationed out on Camp Pendleton, which was somewhat in between San Diego and San Clemente - the home of Richard Nixon.
It was a great time to be alive. We got a "96" from base (a four day pass) and went to the concerts which dragged out over a few days over Memorial Day Weekend. In addition to Van Halen were bands like The Scorpions, U2, Missing Persons, Quarterflash, David Bowie and that woman who used to (and probably still does) play in that Fleetwood Mac band - Stevie Nicks. And others. Many others.
Apple was putting on the big show. Yes, the same Apple that today makes all those iPhones and makes us subscribe in order to listen to our music that is stored somewhere up in the cloud.
But I digress. Back in the day, Apple was mostly known for just their Apple II computers. They hadn't even come out with the MacIntosh yet, though that was right around the corner at the time. I actually saw Steve Wozniak but at the time, he wasn't nearly as famous as he is now. Also, he was alive back then too. Seemed like a nice enough fellow. Had his beard and a big smile on his face.
So that's kind of my story on Eddie Van Halen. Also, I mentioned earlier how he saved his virginity for that Valerie girl, who was quite a fine looking girl, I might add. She was in some sort of sitcom at the time she met Eddie. Billy Joel could have written a song about those two along the lines of "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" only he could have titled it "Scenes from the stage of a Van Halen concert".
Well...you’re gonna have to cite that one...
I always knew that sooner or later Van Halen would go the way of Van Heflin ...
You are really living up to your namesake...I bet you know who Lawrence Welk is...
Requesting “some tips” isnt the same as getting them..he never took a lesson in his life..
Good grief.....
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