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I like to watch Eddie Van Halen back in the glory days. He seemed so happy doing what he was doing. To wit, playing lead guitar in a big time rock and roll band. He was obviously having a lot of fun and that is a very good thing.

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".