damn, sad. An incredibly gifted and innovative guitarist, passed away at 65 after fighting cancer.
Well, hell.
"Amazing what a minute can do."
Not my favorite song by any means, but if you focus on the guitar riff it's hard to argue that he isn't one of the greatest guitarists of our generation.
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Rich
"Failure is Not a Destination"
Coach K on the Dan Patrick Show, December 22, 2016
He was an amazing guitarist, and not to take anything away from his guitar work on that song, but if you listen just to the drums it's a phenomenal riff. Can't imagine how hard it was to keep that up through the entire song.
Eddie will be missed, for sure. Now he and Randy Rhodes can jam together and compare riffs.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
A part of my childhood died along with Eddie when I heard the news.
Beyond sad. I know what I will be listening to tonight.
Rest in peace, Eddie Van Halen.
You were a musical genius whose influence on music lives on.
My favorite guitarist. I played countless hours of “Guitar Hero: Van Halen” when it came out.
I saw VH in concert in Greensboro in 2012. With DLR. they absolutely delivered and I’ll forever appreciate being able to experience that.
Well, it was the title of their 1991 Album and tour. It was all over posters, T-shirts, stickers, etc. So, if anything, they embraced it. I actually had the Tour T-shirt for a few years. I think I remember trading it for a tie-dye Grateful Dead tour shirt. Ah, youth...
"That young man has an extra step on his ladder the rest of us just don't have."