Edward Van Halen Has Passed Away

[ScottyBHarris]

I was there for this, Eddies birthday!

I was at this show too! Great show for sure! I sat right in front of Vinnie Paul and Rita Haney, they kept getting up and going back stage during the show.

[VanRoth07]

I was at this show too! Great show for sure! I sat right in front of Vinnie Paul and Rita Haney, they kept getting up and going back stage during the show.

Cool, I think I remember seeing Valerie

[VanRoth07]

Well, here it's 1/11/2021 and this still sucks out loud.

Tell me about it, it’s not getting easier, thankfully we have the music

[JMJ]

Ya I just saw that photo that someone posted- might have been Yankee

It’s Dave and Ed from 2015 w the caption of Dave telling Ed how the best times of his life were spent on stage w him

Stirred me up and about brought the tears again


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[japeape]

I think this '79 poster looks so cool!
Might have to buy it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Van-Halen-J...53.m1438.l2649

[track 5]

I think this '79 poster looks so cool!
Might have to buy it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Van-Halen-J...53.m1438.l2649

I've never that poster before. Is that real? Out.

[japeape]

I've never that poster before. Is that real? Out.

I haven't either, but i think it is!

It lists an opening band i've never heard of, so it could be.

I just love the sort of neon styled graphic, with the plane.
It's like a bar styled theme, in a way.

[LAD-1972]

Unless someone was using photoshop back in ‘79, I don’t think it’s authentic. The sun flare, VH text overlay and shading on the plane are obvious PS effects—not to mention the neon glow.

[MF5150]

I think this '79 poster looks so cool!
Might have to buy it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Van-Halen-J...53.m1438.l2649

If you buy that, you deserve the ridicule that will follow.

That's embarrassingly fake, man.

[japeape]

I guess i won't buy it then.

I just liked the look/design of it, even if it's a modern day creation.
But 30.00 (with shipping) seems a bit much.

[PrideofPasadena]

Definitely, not real but if you like it Jape....why not. I've got a few fan creations, myself. Good art is good art.

[DiveBomb]

At times I used to (still do) imagine 12 or 13-year-old Ed just learning to play the guitar. Concentrating on getting the right fingers on the right strings, playing around with palm muting for the first time like all guitar players do at the beginning.... it's oddly comforting knowing that such a genius was once a beginner like me too. Not knowing at the time the level of talent and fame he would later achieve.

I'm lying awake now thinking about the other bookend to his guitar story - the last time his hands ever brought music out of a guitar. I wonder what were the circumstances...and if he knew then it would be the last time.

Still sucks.

[JMJ]

At times I used to (still do) imagine 12 or 13-year-old Ed just learning to play the guitar. Concentrating on getting the right fingers on the right strings, playing around with palm muting for the first time like all guitar players do at the beginning.... it's oddly comforting knowing that such a genius was once a beginner like me too. Not knowing at the time the level of talent and fame he would later achieve.

I'm lying awake now thinking about the other bookend to his guitar story - the last time his hands ever brought music out of a guitar. I wonder what were the circumstances...and if he knew then it would be the last time.

Still sucks.

Man

You just moved me


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[japeape]

At times I used to (still do) imagine 12 or 13-year-old Ed just learning to play the guitar. Concentrating on getting the right fingers on the right strings, playing around with palm muting for the first time like all guitar players do at the beginning.... it's oddly comforting knowing that such a genius was once a beginner like me too. Not knowing at the time the level of talent and fame he would later achieve.

I'm lying awake now thinking about the other bookend to his guitar story - the last time his hands ever brought music out of a guitar. I wonder what were the circumstances...and if he knew then it would be the last time.

Still sucks.

What's amazing to me is how naturally it must have all come to him.

I don't picture him struggling early on, but i do picture him playing constantly.
But he had a gift, where some people just have incredible artistic ability that
seems to flow.

Even the little things like pick slides and palm muting.

He took those things and refined them in such a way, where it just sounded
so modern.

Listen to those early hard rock pick slides, like Angus Young.
They were straight up noise.

Ed had a technique where he made his pick slide sound completely controlled
and powerful.

He knew where to mute, where to slide the fingers, where to deaden the strings.

Ace Frehley did some tapping on ALIVE II, and it sounded like a shrill noise effect.

Eddie does it, one year later, and it sounds like a keyboard playing a classical piece.

The guy was just beyond & fully formed.

[CaboChris]

The Eddie Van Halen in the Jump video is cemented forever for me. That's my Eddie.

That's the one that mesmerized me as a kid.