[billorites]

Great story.

[bigdaddy45]

Girls were still mostly cheerful and cute and sexy; they weren’t the lost, hard, paranoid, alternately self-loathing/self-worshipping communist nihilists they are now.

Most accurate sentence I have read in a long time

[NFHale]

“...you know, when the world was still fun. ..”

It was indeed.

And for me, growing up learning from Clapton, Page, Blackmore, and being a 17 year old kid when Eddie erupted onto the stage, it was ANOTHER style to learn and master, the “Shred” as we called it.

You were a good one, Eddie. We’ll not forget you, and the music you made to make us all smile.

Rest in Peace, brother.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping to a good story.

[Larry Lucido]

Canadian rockers, eh?

[ronniesgal]

good read!! Thanks

[Inyo-Mono]

In 1978 my wife, who worked at a newspaper, got free tickets to a concert in Los Angeles so we drove to go see it. It was more of a festival, several bands were appearing on stage that day. I was a teenager in the '60s during The Beatles, Rolling Stones era and I felt a little out of place as though I was intruding on a younger generations event. I was 28 and most of concert goers were 9 to 10 years younger than me.

The highlight of the day was Van Halen who had just released their first album, I thought they were quite good, they really brought the house down. We left after Van Halen's appearance and I read in the newspaper later that another new artist took the stage that day after we left, a guy named Prince. The article said he was booed off the stage.

[bwest]

I enjoyed this article. Nice to see that Tal is one of the good guys.
On a related note, I just learned that Eric Carmen is, too.

[llevrok]

What a nice eulogy!

17 and on the road with a rock band? (oh to have been a fly on the wall...) His story reminds me a bit of the movie “Almost Famous”.