RIP Eddie Van Halen

[909]

Eddie Van Halen Dead at 65 from Cancer

Eddie Van Halen has died at age 65.

www.tmz.com

Dude wtf.

 

[AA484]

WTF

 

[BUTT]

I was just thinking this morning about his cancer and how he was gonna die soon. I sure hope he was already dead by then and that I didn’t kill him with my thoughts.

I saw VH in 2015 and while Dave’s voice was pretty rough Eddie was still on top of his game. RIP GOAT

 

[Brocklock]

Jesus christ can this year end already.

Eddie sounded pretty great on some tracks of the latest Van Halen album I listened to. He still had it. RIP to maybe the best guitar player ever.

 

[HSJ]

This sucks. RIP to a legend.

Gonna blast 1984 while at the gym tonight.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK 2020

 

[strummer]

Wow this is absolutely devastating.

I can remember my cousin watching Van Halen on MTV when I was super young. I was like 5 or 6. She had to explain to me who they were. Liked them ever since.

Gutted

 

[HarleyQuinn]

This news blows

 

[OldSchoolWrestling]

I remember my best friend made me watch when MTV premiered Jump. The next morning we went to the music store and priced guitars. I've been to a lot of concerts but regretted never having seen them. RIP

 

[Fall of Epic]

2020 can go straight to hell. One of my favorite musicians ever. RIP to a true music genius.

 

[Super Leather]

FUCK CANCER. I've said for years that Van Halen is what a band fronted by Ric Flair would sound like. RIP.

I was a 19-year-old homeless kid when I sat down and listened to Van Halen II for the first time; they're still one of my favorite feel-fucking-awesome rock 'n' roll bands a lifetime later. Fuck, I can think of specific moments in my life where they were the soundtrack - from banging strippers to simply walking down the street with my Walkman on and feeling great about everything for no particular reason. All of my Van Halen is on cassette, appropriately enough.

Rock on, Eddie. We'll miss you.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Seeing Eddie Van Halen shred “Eruption” at the Bangor Waterfront during the middle of a torrential downpour 4 or 5 years ago is an indelible memory.

You may have left this mortal coil but Rock Gods live forever. RIP EVH.

 

[Youth N Asia]

I have mixed feelings on Eddie. Obviously he was great at what he did. And I loved me some Van Halen back in the day. But he and his brother fucked Michael Anthony pretty damn hard.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

New Book Says Eddie Van Halen Once Put a Gun to Fred Durst’s Head

Video director Andrew Bennett said Eddie Van Halen put a gun to Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst's head.

ultimateclassicrock.com

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1313863253634830338

 

[Fall of Epic]

Top class from Sammy.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

An unlikely Pasadena love story: The high-school bromance of Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth

Eddie Van Halen, son of blue-collar immigrants, went to Pasadena High. David Lee Roth, his dad a doctor, attended Muir. Their meeting remade rock.

www.latimes.com

Great article on EVH's early days and the racism & poverty his family faced growing up in Pasadena. Somehow, I didn't know Eddie & Alex were half Indonesian until Eddie's death.