Sorry too because I don't see why this matters. I don't buy into people's personal lives. I don't make my listening decisions based on what they do outside of the thing I was looking for musically. I don't invest myself in a musician's drug or alcohol problems or their divorces or if they're just a baseline arrogant asshole or not. I don't care about their politics either (Sting, Bono, I'm looking at you) or religious preferences. I don't take my cues about how to live my life from them.
I find Eddie's guitar playing fascinating and otherworldly and that's it, always have, always will and that's as far as it goes.
And as for having Wolfie replace Michael Anthony....to me no one replaces Michael Anthony, but you only live once and if you have an opportunity to bring your kid into the family business and he has the talent to be a productive part of the brand you have to do it. To me that speaks more about family values than ego and shit.
Have you heard him play lately? Many, many YouTubes out there that show how badly his proficiency has faltered due to some of his life choices in the last few years.
Have you heard him play lately? Many, many YouTubes out there that show how badly his proficiency has faltered due to some of his life choices in the last few years.
I remember reading a "Best Guitarist" list in Rolling Stone some time ago and EVH didn't even make the top 10. When the editors were asked why, they said something like "Have you ever met him???"
IIRC Allan Holdsworth was using a Strat with a pair of humbuckers when he joined Soft Machine in 1975. Hell I still have a 72' Telecaster Custom that I loaded with a pair of humbuckers back when I bought it new. Modding Fender guitars goes way back before VH.I met a guitarist, chris....wish I could remember his last name in London in '71 who hacked a strat to put a humbucker in the bridge.
Vince Neil had Steve Stevens with him to open fir VH at Jones Beach in '93 I think it was. He broke out the fingerstyle and i was like what just happened?.
Have you heard him play lately? Many, many YouTubes out there that show how badly his proficiency has faltered due to some of his life choices in the last few years.