RIP Eddie Van Halen
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Eddie didn't take a writing credit for Beat It, I assumed he only added the solo. According to Rolling Stone, Eddie also added the arching guitar riff that drives the song. Mingia he passed up some big royalty cheques!
Kerry King followed his example. He didn't take a songwriting credit for The Beastie Boys, Party - even though, like Eddie, his guitar work drives the song.
Kerry King followed his example. He didn't take a songwriting credit for The Beastie Boys, Party - even though, like Eddie, his guitar work drives the song.
I always thought it was funny that they looked like each other, same face and 80's hair style
From the best of my knowledge, here's what happened. EVH probably got into the Chrystal Meth when the Gary Cherone experiment failed miserably. By the turn of the Century he and Valerie were already estranged. She held off on divorce until he got himself free of meth and dental surgery. Smoking and meth are very different poisons, unlike cigarette smoke the rot from decaying enamel is constant. It's loaded with bacteria, he could have died from any number of digestive cancers, maybe even the lid between his esophagus and windpipe stopped working. Had she not stayed with him, Eddie would have probably died at 52.
He and Diamond Dave were polar opposites. When something went wrong Eddie took it personal.
He and Diamond Dave were polar opposites. When something went wrong Eddie took it personal.
Men who are smokers who say that they got throat cancer from sucking pussy are in denial. While not impossible, I think it FAR MORE LIKELY that Eddie's and Michael Douglas's throat cancer came from plain old smoking. Eddie used to claim that holding a metal guitar pick in his mouth was what gave him throat cancer. (Uh huh.)
Same with Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull, he has it as well and is blaming the smoke machines that that Tull used on stage.
All of them knew better than to start smoking. It's not like they were born in 1930 when people didn't connect the dots between smoking and lung / throat cancer.
The only thing that belong in your lungs (And everything in between) is air. It's really that simple.
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Such a loss but he left us with some amazing music. When you bring up the name of a great guitarist/musician, there's always people who will say something like, he's good, but so-and-so is better. Not with Eddie, undeniably one of the greatest of all time. Hard rock shredder but was able to play so melodically at the same time.
I could go on and on about what made him so great, but all you have to do is listen to his music to know. Love Love Love... RIP
I could go on and on about what made him so great, but all you have to do is listen to his music to know. Love Love Love... RIP
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Adolph Hitler was a bad artist, had a Mommy complex and was a raging narcissist.
Trump doesn't drink (at all) or smoke at all, (repetitive). He's just fat, a racist hypocrite, paints his face tic-tac orange and most likely smells like Formaldehyde.
If Hitler drew well, he still couldn't hit a high note on a Fender Stratocaster.
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