EVH Quits Latest Tour Plans

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I read on his website that he's checked himself into a rehab facility and has pulled out of the planned 2007 tour.

Personally, I'm a big fan of his music but his antics have always turned me off. Hopefully a new bout with sobriety will turn out a fresh sharp sound. No more blurry porn background tracks.

Good luck Ed.
 
punkin said:
I read on his website that he's checked himself into a rehab facility and has pulled out of the planned 2007 tour.

Personally, I'm a big fan of his music but his antics have always turned me off. Hopefully a new bout with sobriety will turn out a fresh sharp sound. No more blurry porn background tracks.

Good luck Ed.

I wonder if Alex found a better 15 year old Bass Player and Eddie got pissed?
 
I grew up loving Van Halen - one of the first albums I remember buying was 1984. Yet, after I started playing guitar and bringing home guitar mags, I started to pick up the fact that Eddie was totally full of himself. Years of interviews full of his egotistical statements, claiming that everyone was copying his style. I always got annoyed by that, especially after reading him say that he didn't listen much to other players. I can't stand musicians that are always trying to act like they are God's gift to our ears - Little Richard is another good example...It's really too bad to see such an incredible talent whose personality and lifestyle keep him from being able to perform and make great music like he once did - I gave up on Van Halen long ago in the days with Sammy, just after ou812 came out - they started to sound less like great hard rock and more like corny beer commercials, and those lame ass keyboards were just the whizz washing down the shit...

I saw a recent video of Eddie playing thru a half stack in front of a small crowd, and he was mumbling and nervously kept returning to the amp to tweak it, and he came across as a demented amateur. His playing was pretty sketchy, too - he was doing all his old tricks, sloppily, and kept stopping and starting each little thing he played.

I think Eddie could have been a beloved guitar hero, and instead, his fame and talent went to his head and he became an addicted recluse whos ego and control issues made him noone wants to be around. It's just sad.
 
gibson59neck said:
I grew up loving Van Halen - one of the first albums I remember buying was 1984. Yet, after I started playing guitar and bringing home guitar mags, I started to pick up the fact that Eddie was totally full of himself. Years of interviews full of his egotistical statements, claiming that everyone was copying his style. I always got annoyed by that, especially after reading him say that he didn't listen much to other players. I can't stand musicians that are always trying to act like they are God's gift to our ears - Little Richard is another good example...It's really too bad to see such an incredible talent whose personality and lifestyle keep him from being able to perform and make great music like he once did - I gave up on Van Halen long ago in the days with Sammy, just after ou812 came out - they started to sound less like great hard rock and more like corny beer commercials, and those lame ass keyboards were just the whizz washing down the shit...

I saw a recent video of Eddie playing thru a half stack in front of a small crowd, and he was mumbling and nervously kept returning to the amp to tweak it, and he came across as a demented amateur. His playing was pretty sketchy, too - he was doing all his old tricks, sloppily, and kept stopping and starting each little thing he played.

I think Eddie could have been a beloved guitar hero, and instead, his fame and talent went to his head and he became an addicted recluse whos ego and control issues made him noone wants to be around. It's just sad.



It's too bad you gave up on Eddie, he's still a hero, despite all those demons, to me. We all get to old to rock, and as for being copied, who hasn't worn spandex and the occasional headband.
 
mikemorgan said:
It's too bad you gave up on Eddie, he's still a hero, despite all those demons, to me. We all get to old to rock, and as for being copied, who hasn't worn spandex and the occasional headband.

i haven't.
 
mikemorgan said:
It's too bad you gave up on Eddie, he's still a hero, despite all those demons, to me. We all get to old to rock, and as for being copied, who hasn't worn spandex and the occasional headband.

He did basically invent the hair metal guitar that was so abused throughout the 80s.

I agree, though. His ego has probably stopped him from creating even more great music. David Lee Roth's ego probably doesn't help things!
 
punkin said:
I read on his website that he's checked himself into a rehab facility and has pulled out of the planned 2007 tour.
What - did he call someone a faggot? :confused: :D
 
punkin said:
...Hopefully a new bout with sobriety will turn out a fresh sharp sound...

Yeah! I mean, it worked great for James Hetfield!... err...
 
ez_willis said:
Who's Eddie Van Halen?

Best guitar player who ever lived.

I can't play any of his stuff, but I have to give him credit. He plays alot of crazy disjoint shit in his solos, but they are always clean and, I think, well constructed. If you want to put steve vai or someone like that up against him, they may edge him out technically, but marty mcfly puts an EVH cassette in the walkman when he wants to blow out georges ears. He is an icon of rock guitar to the public and not just musicians.

He can be as big a prick as he wants. His talent more than makes up for it.

I hope he gets things under control, but I don't hope he quits drinking, etc. Every rocker who goes through rehab and quits starts sucking. Look at clapner. He wasn't that great before, but after rehab, he started making records with phil collins. Yech!
 
I find it surprising that anyone - in particular someone 40 years old would believe that it is acceptable to be a prick simply because of talent - talent does not justify being less than a decent human being.

It seems sad that someone would hope Eddie don't quit drinking because artists who enter rehab start sucking.

I've always felt Eddie deserves a place among the guitar greats - but I would prefer to see him as a healthly, happy human being than a sick and dying artist.
 
You probably suck.

Those of us who can throw down the jams get to tromp on your feelings.

Sorry you don't understand, but keep practicing! :D
 
Cephus,

I actually got a chuckle from your reply - it was clever. ;)

Certainly it is not my desire to debate EVH, Clapton, the right of people to be pricks or the value of rehab.

It's just that the whole drug addict/alcoholic musican thing bothers me and hits close to home. I am a very good musician, respected by my peers (for years I was a 1st call sub - until I recently decided to cut back on gigs). I've got somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 gigs under my belt and over the years get more offers to gig than I can even accept.

While I have no doubt many of the gigs were because I have chops - I believe more than half my gigs came because I'm professional, dependable, easy to work with and in general acted as a decent human being.

However, there was a time, many, many years ago when I thought my skills were larger than the venues I worked and the people I worked with. This made me discontented and drugs and booze made it all seem more acceptable. My playing suffered, my health suffered and my reputation as a musician (and person) suffered. I got well and salvaged my reputation as a musician before all was lost (although some bridges were burned too badly to ever repair).

We've lost many great musicians to drugs and alcohol - Eddie being one of them. I am troubled when I see musicians suggest that drugs/alcohol are in part what make a given player "great" - or that excessive behavior is acceptable as long as a player has chops.
 
I think if any of you actually saw EVH live you would change your mind about how good he is as a guitar hero, god whatever. I have seen him twice (for free thank god) and both times it was a disappointment. Sloppy, Sloppy, Sloppy. Some of EVH recording are worth listing to but listening to him live with no second takes he is not very inspiring, kind of sad really. I think if he wasn't so loaded every time I saw him it might have a better show.
 
mikeh said:
I've always felt Eddie deserves a place among the guitar greats - but I would prefer to see him as a healthly, happy human being than a sick and dying artist.

Plenty of the greatest artist throughout history have had horrific personal/health/drug problems at the height of their creative output. I think mankind as a whole will be more enlightened and better off if EvH actually gets worse! :D

That was in such poor taste, but so impossible to resist saying!
 
Feh. Can't we all just be cute? I hate it when people get all heavy talking about life and shit.

I really think the problem is these greats are living too long. They should all die before thirty and leave us only the fondest memories.

I mean, I see a pic of me when I was thirty and then look at myself 10 years older. Yech. And I ain't getting any prettier.

I don't have meth mouth like EVH, but I'm no Taylor Hicks.









See, now that was funny.

I saw EVH live like 20 years ago. It was a great concert, but that may have been the acid talking.

Even recently, in the Fender.com EVH unveiling stuff, I thought he played great. I don't expect him to play a recital. He just threw down the licks, right? It was beautiful. And he was super nice, I thought. Humble. polite.

That said, there was a youtube of him playing with GE smith on SNL and it was awful. He totally sucked at playing straight blues.
 
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