Eddie Van Halen Scores Porn

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[Yossarian]

Eddie Van Halen Scores Porn

July 27, 2006

The Van Halen guitarist has partnered with an adult film director to write and perform two songs for one of his upcoming, um, films.

Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen has teamed up with adult video director Michael Ninn to write and perform two songs for his upcoming Ninn Worx production, Sacred Sin. The rocker makes no excuses for his decision to work in the adult industry. "I'm working with a friend -- very simple," Van Halen told adult site AVN.com. "I like his work. Michael Ninn is like a Spielberg to me: the imagery, the way he makes things look, just...sensual." To Ninn's "sensual" cinematography, Van Halen will add two tracks tracks, "Rise" and "Catherine," the latter of which is a remix of the theme to a Ninn film of the same name and has "a 'Kashmir'-Led Zeppelin kind of feel to it now," Ninn told AVN.

Sacred Sin, which Ninn said is aimed at the "couples market," will be available on Sept. 13 and will feature music videos for both Van Halen songs. But Van Halen fans who prefer their sex tapes soft-core needn't worry: Ninn is also cutting a non-explicit version of the movie which will be called Rise. No release date has been set.

[Harrius Magnus]

It doesn't surprise me at all. Watching the decline of Western Civ. continues even through my little window. I postulate the continued merger of mainstream entertainment and base pornography: We've already seen entertainment "borrow" themes within porn - voyeurism, amateurs, disparate pairings (racial, ethnic) - all of these have prime time alphabet network shows w/ one of these themes. Also witness television predicated on violence and a celebration of countermanding moral values a la Jerry Springer. Porn and "guilty-pleasure" televison/film are more similar than different, and both lead to the same mindset, one that is not God-fearing.

[Tall_Texan]

It was getting hard to tell the difference between porn, Hollywood and music anyway...

[Mac1]

I'll be honest here: the best stuff was the 1984 Jump - at least for me. Bought the "Balance" album; oh dear...

[Yossarian]

Van Halen Ping.

[HairOfTheDog]

Watching the decline of Western Civ. continues even through my little window.

Bummer of an outlook dude.

Out my window is a beautiful day in the best country on Earth. :~)

[ecurbh]

Watching the decline of Western Civ. continues even through my little window.

We're all DOOMED!

[Welsh Rabbit]

Sacred Sin, which Ninn said is aimed at the "couples market,"

If by couple he means some dude and his hand...

[Wormwood]

I like the "couples market" term - that's a new one!

Not for me and Missus Wormwood, it isn't.

We'll probably end up checking it out.

[Slings and Arrows]

Break out the wah-wah pedal!

[Lady Jag]

Holy cow! He looks like crap!

[Lady Jag]

How's his music these days?

[Slings and Arrows]

I really couldn't say. I just hope it sounds better than he looks.

[Lady Jag]

I liked his music decades ago and haven't heard him for at least 10 years.

[Cvengr]

51 going on 68. Who says all men age well? Bu tthen again 'accidental' crystal meth, cocaine and alcohol don't really promote an elixir for Ponce deLeon's fountain of youth.

[sully777]

I suppose Green Day's Basket Case is order for the thread.

[sully777]

JMO, best stuff was the debut album and Women and Children First

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Man oh man, how far Eddie's fallen. For those of us in our late 30s or so, Eddie Van Halen was a rock god of the highest order

Mid-40's you mean. (Geez... I always thought my little brother was swiping my VH records when I wasn't around: now I got proof! I'm telling Mom!)

So now Eddie is doing porn. Great. Can't wait for his re-make of "Hot for Teacher." Not!

I saw a recent video of Diamond David Lee Roth live. There is nothing so sad: an antient rock-and-roller who has lived his life too hard for too long. Pudgy, with long blond (receding?) hair -- couldn't tell if it was really all his or fake. And in spandex with a gut. (Spandex is a right not a privilege! Mick Jagger pay attention!)

That's not even anything *like* growing old gracefully -- or even disgracefully. That's just plain-and-simple passing by the use-by date: long ago. Just like that lump of dried-out, rock-hard mouldy cheese in the back of the fridge that for some reason nobody has gotten around to throwing it away.

Scary. Just bloody scary.

Crikey.

[Mac1]

LOL!

[stands2reason]

What is that pic from?

[Mac1]

"Pudgy, with long blond(receding?) hair"

Plenty of early 20-somethings like that around now; besides diminishing hair is hereditary.