https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/06/eddie-van-halen-dead-dies-cancer-65/ This really sucks, the best rock guitarist ever. Cancer.
....may you rest in peace Eddie Van Halen....one of the best guitarists out there. I grew up listening to you and David Lee Roth! You were an awesome party band, and I saw you and the band live in LA 1990!
The FIRST! Rock concert I ever attended was April 3rd 1979 at the University of Puget Sound Field House and it was Van Halen. God! that brings out some good memories, a Buddy of mine had a 1967 Notchback Barracuda, Dark Blue with Baby Moon Wheels and he had just installed a Pioneer Supertuner Cassette Stereo, picked me up and told me he had something he wanted to me to hear, pulled out the Van Halen Tape ( Hadn't heard of them ) and the first song to play was ERUPTION. Holy! FRACK I had never heard anything like that Guitar Rip, Eddie was a True Guitar God. Turn the Volume on FULL! Blast and enjoy I'm old now, but I do my BEST! Air Guitar to this song
I've played the guitar for over 50 years. What I can't stand are arguments about who is the best. I think discussing great guitarists, their strengths, their stylistic differences, etc., is fine. But 'best' ? It's rather subjective, it depends on what you consider 'best' is, what, the number of notes one can squeeze in a bar? Van Halen could really get into some smokin' riffs, dive bombing the neck and being a real rock showman, he's got that down. As for great rock guitarists, what I look for is a really distinct expressive and interesting style, like Jeff Beck, Joe Walsh, Mark Knopfler, etc. If you are going to cram 32 notes within four beats, well, that's neat, but it's not what I enjoy listening to.
The story on that solo was that it was Van Halen's warm up riffs. the producer heard it, and suggested he should record it. The rest is history.
Eddie had his distinct sound. But I was saw SRV break a string in a blues solo and no pause. Impressive. Hendrix was an innovator. I can't choose who was best.
Sure, accept for Holdsworth. He was the best. I really enjoy Eddies playing, he did some really creative stuff.
He died from licking too many women's p(*)(*)(*)ies. He caught an STD called papillomavirus, which frequently causes cancer, in this case throat cancer, which finally killed him. During the height of the band, there were literally crowds of women throwing themselves at the band members.
Is that why so many fundamentalist Christian parents are against their children being vaccinated against it? The apparent idea being that it is better that their children die from cancer than ever eat ***** or what?
I think those parents are more against there being a reason for their children to be vaccinated against it. These vaccines are not for everyone. Especially the Gardasil vaccine for papillomavirus carries some big risks to children. People like you seem to imagine things like Human papillomavirus "just happen" and are common. Well, for someone with a lifestyle like Van Hallen in a heavy metal band with hoards of groupies, that is true.
Another one? Look, why are you guys so against all aspects of modernity? Yes, vaccines have risks but the risks of being UNVACCINATED are much much greater, like freaking cancer at 65 in this case. I mean, going by your logic we'd still have smallpox epidemics but at least no one would ever have their arm really hurt for a day or two.
If you want to sleep around with 10 different women, yes. Because a lot of times your "modernity" ends up causing more problems than it actually solves. Social "freedom" here, but then it causes a big problem, and we have to do something else to deal with that new problem, typically taking away some other freedoms, or a need for vaccines that in rare cases can have seriously horrific effects. But maybe people like you can't see it.
