re: Eddie Van Halen Dead At 65

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It was hard watching that video with him sucking on a tobacco death stick.

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Life must be difficult for you being this fragile.

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Life must be difficult for you being this fragile.

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Dude died of throat cancer and smoked a lot. I guess big tobacco will not see the correlation either.

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However it was Hagar that introduced discipline

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Because Sammy was/is a seasoned, professional musician.

DLR was a clown who had the great fortune of fronting a band with EVH as a teenager. Period. That would have worked out for literally anyone with a passable singing voice.

Diamond Dave was a great entertainer, as you suggest, but we were laughing at him, not with him.

Joe Diffie and Harold Reid of the Statler brothers.

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I’ll never understand why people cant just admit both eras of Van Halen were great.

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I don’t really care for the second era but it doesn’t have anything to do with Sammy Hagar. The songs in the first era were pretty epic in my opinion.

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It’s amazing for all the time he was chugging vodka and snorting cocaine that he was even get himself together enough for the studio work and let alone get on stage for two hours and play the way he did without missing a chord.....

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During the Hagger era he missed a lot of chords, according to Hagger many times he and Mike Anthony would have to lay back to figure out what song he was trying to play as it sounded nothing like what was next on the set list. Plenty of concert video on YouTube where Eddie is lost in space.

Please go read Ted Templeman's book. Talked about how he found Van Halen and how it went down... not at all like you would expect considered what they became. There is a part in their about Warner Bros. wanting to call Sammy to replace DLR when they were in the studio for VH1.

Of course Sammy was more seasoned than Dave, but he was more seasoned than all of them.

Dave might be a goofball, but he's no dummy. The infamous "brown M&Ms" story was actually a crafty heads-up idea by Dave, where he could immediately see if the venue was doing a half-assed job at reading the rider, which was important because the huge staging VH was taking on the road wasn't without risk.

Anyway, when I saw VH in 2015, Eddie might not have been jumping off the cabinets like he did decades earlier (although he occasionally did a few mini jumps, lol), but his fingers hadn't slowed down a bit. One of the things I remembered most was during his solo...at one point, he was making some noises with his guitar, and for a brief moment, he made this bizarre sound where he immediately made this "whoa, did I just do that?" look on his face, LOL...if you blinked you missed it, but it was nice to see a legend surprising even himself so late in the game.