RIP Eddie Van Halen
 

Saw him several times, one of the best!
Eruption!!!

Oh no...did his past catch up to him? One of the best is right!

Dave
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Throat cancer

Eddie
 

Ugh, this one hurts. May he rest in peace. An extraordinary talent.

That sucks. I knew he wasn't doing great but I didn't know how bad things were. A Master of his craft... RIP

RIP Eddie, the original Van Halen was my favorite band in the prime of my life, Many good memories in my life because of the great Music that came from this Guitarist and his band members, I thank him for it!!

My Memorabilia on the band when I went to the concert, April 1984 with Original Ticket/Program/Michael Anthony Guitar Pick and later in 2007 when they reunited with David again.

RIP. Wow. I’m sad.


1984 Tour, 11 rows back. Awesome show.

Saw him in 79 at Cobo Hall in Detroit. I couldn’t wait for each album after that even the Van Hagar days. Tons of air guitar playing over the years and bantering with friends on who is the best of all time..... Eddie is definitely in the Top and I have enjoyed getting my now adult kids to enjoy his playing. Saw the tour with him and Wolfie.
Eddie will live on through his music

1980/81.
He was THE best,R.I.P. my friend.

Another example of why 2020 sucks!
RIP Eddie. One the greats.

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Sad news and another great one gone but still lives on through his music.
Saw them a few times also loved the VanHagar stuff too but man, that first album was unbelievable when it hit back in '78.
RIP

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Was privileged to hang out with Eddie and Valerie at a John Waite/Patty Smyth/Scandal concert in Ca in November 7th, 1984



Won tickets on KMET (The mighty MET) and took my future wife Lynn as well.

The concert was at the Hollywood Palladium. At first I didn't even know who he was...as he was wearing a Manny, Moe and Jack Pep Boys T-shirt. Also, his hair was really short-it was a buzz cut!


I recognized Valerie right away-as she was on One Day at at Time.


John Waite called Eddie up on stage to jam with him...it was cool!



EDIT: here's some info : http://www.vhtrading.com/topic/scand...ddie-van-halen


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These are great pics, where did you get them?

You guys have great memories and pictures. Cool.

Oh damn! That sucks.
I'm gonna have to dig out my Plexi now.

Some old early Van Halen pics


First from Derek S.






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Second one from the Van Halen archives...kinda cool






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By the way, I asked Eddie why his hair was so short (after he got done up on stage and before he left with Valerie) he said it was easier to walk around LA-without being noticed immediately. Worked on me!!



Finally, he seemed really shy to me-which is the opposite of what his onstage persona was...?


Eddie-Thanks for all of the great music! :beers:

I think the 1984 was at Cobo.
My first display house I worked at, I found red and white plexi in the rack, I learned how to weld it that day, I made diver down Lic plates for all my buddy’s, lol.
When I did the LA auto show, one year a Bud took me to Whiskey Go Go, there’s a plaque in the lobby area for Van Halen, they were like the house band and was discovered there I believe by Gene Simmons.

Bruce, those must have been some epic times! I've been a fan of Patti Smyth for as long as long as I've been a fan of VH and I'd love to have been at that concert.

I did see VH in 1982 with Diamond Dave at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. Free tickets through a buddy's dad where we got to sit in the Super Box, and that concert was almost life changing. I was just a stupid kid into old regular pop music that was on the popular radio channels, with only some rock interest, but after that, I expanded my tastes into some of the harder rock and VH has always remained one of my favorites by far. I hate to say it, but DLR really kind of stole the show (he'd probably be proud to hear that, lol) and I wasn't mature enough to understand the legend who played before me. I do now, and his loss hurts.

I know that EVH was remarried, but Valerie Bertinelli's Instagram said that she and their son Wolfgang were holding him when he passed away. I guess their love was always there in spite of their breakup. May he Rest in Peace.

Mark, living in SoCal back then was awesome!


There were (now famous) bands all over-playing every night of the week. The girl who lived across the street from me in Anaheim dated (and married) one of the members of Social Distortion. Lots of the band members were always hanging out there.


A guy I worked with younger sister dated Don Dokken for a while. The clubs on the Sunset Strip like Gazzarri's, Whisky a go-go, the Troubadour always had great bands. There was also Madame Wongs, Club Lingerie, the Palomino, the Starwood...and on and on.


Check out a piece of mail sent to the LA Times from Gazzari's on the Sunset strip after the Times snubbed them on an article about local bands...look who Mr. Gazzarri was talking about! (From the Van Halen archives)



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Check out some of the bands on this add from the Starwood in the 80's. The Go Go's, Wall of Voodoo and Berlin... :)




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And from this ad for Madam Wong's-the band playing on March 1st called "Picture This" . One of the members worked with my oldest brother at Nuclear Pharmacy in Orange County-so we went to watch them play at Madame Wongs. These guys were financed by Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac-so I was able to meet Lindsey very briefly that night.


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^ cool history there!

Anthony-that was sooo long ago! The internet is pretty cool (Thanks Al Gore).



A week ago-I was telling a friend of mine that we saw INXS right after Shabooh Shoobah was released at Magic Mountain in Valencia, Ca.


They had Friday nights where you paid admission to the park-rode the rides and then after dark, they had up and coming bands play there. We saw quite a few well known bands play there as well



So, I checked out YouTube and... :)

KROQ Friday night concerts at Magic Mtn. We would take off around noon time and drive there from Vegas. Sleep the night in the car.

Man would I love to get copies of those do I print poster size for my man cave! Very cool!

It's always hard to lose people you have admired for so long. Fortunately his music and legacy will live on forever. Sympathy and best regards for the Van Halen family.

Fantastic memories to draw on Bruce! RIP EVH.

Yep, "K-ROCK"


Here's a partial list of some of those concerts. The ones that are bolded we attended:


-Animotion

-Dokken

-Felony

-Jellyfish

-Lords of the New Church

-Menudo

-Missing Persons

-Motley Crue

-Nina Hagen

-Sparks

-Suburban Lawns

-The Aquabats

-The Tubes

-The Untouchables

-The Vapors

-Weird Al (No-but did see him at Knotts Berry Farm-along with Ricky Nelson!)

-Night Ranger -this was awesome.

Thanks Youtube-Again! The two songs with Eddie :)
Now you can enjoy them as well!!!

Bruce, sounds like it was an incredible time in CAL, wow.

Thank you for sharing.

Who went to Cal Jam? Drove all the way from Vegas in the back of a pick up truck with 3 other buddies. We passed on Cal Jam 2. :headbang: