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Title: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: Blueboy_Benny on October 07, 2020, 07:20:34 am
Very sad news - gone at 65, due to throat cancer.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/rocker-eddie-van-halen-dies-son-says-on-twitter-20201007-p562nr.html
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: PaulP on October 07, 2020, 08:28:40 am
One of my favourite guitarists. Vale and RIP.
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: Professer E on October 07, 2020, 09:05:45 am
Gutted, my hero as a kid.   Gonna go plug my 67 LP  into the tweed,  put new batteries in the Phase 90 and crank it to 12.  I can't play his stuff but the attitude is ......rock.!
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: Wet Willie on October 07, 2020, 09:27:45 am
Very few musicians actually change rock music forever - Eddie did... The sounds and guitar tones he created, rebooted rock music from Van Halen's first single "You Really Got Me" - has there ever been a better cover version of a song?  Kiss' Gene Simmons discovered Van Halen and produced their demo to score their first record contract.  Eddie went on to play the solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat It" (in two takes) and was uncredited on Nicolette Larsen's debut album (much to David Lee Roth's annoyance).  Eddie had been suffering from throat cancer for ten years.
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: Professer E on October 07, 2020, 09:33:40 am
I think he did all the thriller album while VH was in hiatus between Panama and 5150?
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: Wet Willie on October 07, 2020, 09:35:38 am
No, he just did the solo in Beat it and was unpaid for it.  The rest of Thriller was basically Toto on backing tracks.  It's all in my books www.fortherecordbook.com.au
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: ElwoodBlues1 on October 07, 2020, 09:51:27 am

Im a big Gary Moore fan and considered him the best guitarist I have seen but EddieV was
probably the most influential with his different inventive techniques.
RIP..
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: capcom on October 07, 2020, 10:16:28 am
Quote from: Wet Willie on
No, he just did the solo in Beat it and was unpaid for it.  The rest of Thriller was basically Toto on backing tracks.  It's all in my books www.fortherecordbook.com.au

Now Toto WAS a helluva band.
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: Wet Willie on October 07, 2020, 12:09:03 pm
Toto was used on so many top level recordings.  It's the biggest kept secret of the music industry...!!
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: capcom on October 07, 2020, 12:45:53 pm
Quote from: Wet Willie on
Toto was used on so many top level recordings.  It's the biggest kept secret of the music industry...!!

Certainly is.  A catalogue that'd murder many others
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: Mantis on October 07, 2020, 01:13:39 pm
Sad news. RIP.
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: spf on October 07, 2020, 02:20:35 pm
Oh damn! Just gone way to soon.
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: cookie2 on October 07, 2020, 03:37:45 pm
Sad news indeed,  RIP.

Also just heard that Johnny Nash also has died, aged 80. Was one of my old favorites.
Title: Re: Vale Eddie Van Halen
Post by: Milhanna13 on October 07, 2020, 03:42:43 pm
Liked this quote -  "He's known as a virtuoso, but guitar virtuosos rarely make records that are so much damn fun. The first six Van Halen LPs are about as joyous as hard rock gets."
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