RIP EVH

I think you're missing out. To me, the Hagar and Cherone records had the best of what Eddie's playing was to become. The instrumentals "Balutchetherium" from Balance, "Respect the Wind" from the Twister soundtrack, and "Catherine" from that porn flick was all of his soul and fire dumped into his fingers. I still love those tracks. I love all of Ed's instrumentals, primarily because they were unfettered by having to serve the lyric - intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, solo, chorus x 2, outro. He was able to just unleash whatever was on his mind.

Dave held him back and getting back together was for you older-timey fans, the first-gen who's world was shaken to its very core by "Eruption", or so it would seem by what everyone else who was around at that time has always said. I really think Eddie was out of fight by about 2010 and just wanted to seal in the legacy before time ran out, which is why Dave was back in the band and ADKOT was made, along with recording at least one album with Wolf, which always to me appeared to be a primary underlying motivation.

5150 came out when I was in 6th grade and it roped me in, so I've been a Hagar-era kid. The earlier stuff from the first Dave years that I liked were the least popular, non-single VH songs, i.e. the one not traditionally in heavy rotation on classic rock radio stations, like "And the Cradle Will Rock..."and "Hot for Teacher". Gimme "Secrets", "Drop Dead Legs", and "Little Guitars". 1984 was 3rd/4th grade for me and I knew about VH from MTV and the "Jump" and "Panama" videos but the rest of the stuff wasn't really in the water yet, so to speak. What hit my ear holes was highly dependent on what mom wanted to listen to when she was keeping house, so it was a lot (and I mean a lot) of Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac.

A Different Kind of Truth was, to me, a regression. It was also, in my opinion, boring to listen to. It came out eight years ago and I listened to it maybe twice in total. From a guitar standpoint the riffs were just kinda there, the solos were pedestrian and basically it was just a platform for Dave's endless bullshit. There, I said it. Instead of pushing forward, the whole album was a treadmill of throwaway stuff.

I'm just throwing thoughts over the fence, too. I don't live or die by them. I'm just writing for the sake of writing.

I've been listening to whatever VH comes on when I ask Siri to 'play Van Halen'. I stopped buying VH after OU812. I kinda just lost interest. But I'm getting a bunch of stuff that I haven't heard and he's just awesome. I bought A Different Kind of Truth the day it came out. I loved it at the time and wore it out for a few months. But now when some of the songs are mixed in the playlist, I forward past them. I do dig the tone on that album. I got to see them live with Dave the last two times they came through. If you tune out Dave or just take him with a grain of salt, Eddie's playing live is impeccable. Just a genius.

There will always be a debate about who the greatest rock guitarist is. The guy changed the technique, the amplification, the guitar (Superstrat) and created a genre of copycats that unless you're a guitar nut gets lost in the discussions. All of these boutique amp makers are chasing Ed's plexus. To me, he is the greatest rock guitarist of all time. Different strokes for different folks.
 
Live now. You may still be on time if you want to raise some question

David Friedman is sharing few interesting insights

 
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This thread is about EVH. and my earlier post was too. Yours has nothing to do with EVH.
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Apparently they did repair there friendship earlier this year, https://ultimateclassicrock.com/sammy-hagar-eddie-van-halen-made-peace/

For good reason there was nothing said, Eddie must have been in really bad shape these past few months.

Im hoping that him and Mikey were able to reconcile as well
This was revealed on Howard Stern’s Tribute to the legend. He read a note from Sammy to howard on air. Sammy wasn’t up to commenting oin person, still grieving. The note basically said they have been “ lovefest Texting” . They didn’t tell anyone in concern of rumors spreading of a reunion. Recently, when Sammy stopped hearing from Eddie , he knew it wasn’t good.
 
Just thinking about one of my favorite quotes from EVH: "Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!”
 
Just thinking about one of my favorite quotes from EVH: "Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!”
I also Like the quote he said years ago. " If you go by the book you have to stay by the book"
 
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