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TheGreekI think in 1996 after they told Sammy Van Haggar to take a hike they brought in Gary Cherone from Extreme - wow talk about out of place like a duck out of water -i mean it was really bad and all we wanted was to hear Eddie tear it up which he most certainly did . Fast forward to 2004 and they reunited with Sammy and i seen them in a arena and they kicked major butt and it was very very good .Then a short 3 years later they bring back David Lee out of moth balls and storage and we just ate it up , then seven years later with David Lee again and that was the last time for me seeing them . There was a You Tube clip that i should have posted that had all of Eddie's times on David Letterman sitting in with Paul Shaffer and the Worlds Most Dangerous Band . Eddie was so good and tearing it up on his Kramer Hockey stick headstock Strat style guitar playing thru a old Marshall head ( probably a Plexi ) with the logo blacked out with the infamous tape , i did not know what the cab was or what speakers were in it , but he was playing fire scorching leads .Quote
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Mathijs
I saw Van Halen in my old hometown Arnhem in the Netherlands, at The Luxor, in the mid 1990's. It was some kind of radio show, with not more than 400 people or so. I really didn't like any of it, the singer was terrible...If I remember well it was Eddie's birthday that day.
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[www.setlist.fm]
Looks like it was this show.
This is also the first I'm hearing about Van Halen opening for Bon Jovi. Never knew that. God damn, they certainly fell for awhile there. And that was even before they REALLY fell like 3 years later!
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KevinM
I knew Eddie & Alex's dad was a multi-instrumentalist, but wow!
Mr. Van Halen (Sr.) shredding
no wonder Eddie became so good, got it from his old man.
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KevinM
I knew Eddie & Alex's dad was a multi-instrumentalist, but wow!
Mr. Van Halen (Sr.) shredding
no wonder Eddie became so good, got it from his old man.
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KevinM
I knew Eddie & Alex's dad was a multi-instrumentalist, but wow!
Mr. Van Halen (Sr.) shredding
no wonder Eddie became so good, got it from his old man.
You know this is Roy Smeck, right?
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KevinM
I knew Eddie & Alex's dad was a multi-instrumentalist, but wow!
Mr. Van Halen (Sr.) shredding
no wonder Eddie became so good, got it from his old man.
You know this is Roy Smeck, right?
Mathijs
No I didn't know that, or even who Roy Smeck is/was. The YT video is titled "Eddie Van Halen's Dad", so I took it literally, never having seen either Sr. or Roy.
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TKinOH
Thanks for this link!!
Fantastic insights here, just a great teaser of what could come...
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spikenyc
Heartbreaking. Wolfie is a good son.
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Ricky
I hope it wasn't posted before...
Eddie Van Halen with Sheryl Crow - Bitch
[www.youtube.com]
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DGA35
When you watch the Youtube vid, someone else posted a number of songs from the VH1 show from 1996. On Bitch, Max Weinberg on drums, Paul Shaffer, Richie Sambora and Bryan Adams, in his greasy hair grunge phase which I always hated!