Van Halen!

like decent Journey

i know you didn't mean it as a slam but this is ice fucking cold

also, lol

i mean wait til dee snyder hears about *this*

i for one am outraged

LMAO Croz didn't remember he just died so full of shit

He may be drug free now but his brain's been high since 1975

worst backpedal ever #choad

“i didnt say meh. i said yeh! i was misquoted”

I'm no fan of Crosby, but everyone on twitter knows that if you ask his opinion on just about any musician that he doesn't personally know, you're gonna get some shit talking. It's the only reason anyone asks him these questions. He, as expected, took the bait. I think it's stupid to get mad at how his game works, even if I vehemently disagree with his dumb ass 99% of the time.

hey look i just enjoy openly hating him, it’s my right as an American

lol fair

absolutely need to hear VG's american accent now

YALL CAYNT HANDLE IT

Crosby still more likable than Stills or Nash.

Anyway guy’s answering like a hundred Twitter questions a day, who cares

teach the Tweeters well

I love their music to this day but to a man all 3 are all monstrous assholes in their own magical ways.

but i digress

tell me more about how van hagar sounds like “decent” journey

Just that song, maybe one or two others. Most of it sounds like crap Journey imo.

is Nash bad? never heard much about him

he didn't come off bad in Shakey which is where I learned the most about CSN

I think I mainly don't like him for talking shit abt Crazy Horse, but also always sleeping w/ people's wives

He was a steadfast friend for many years to Crosby when nobody else could handle the guy anymore, so I retract. I just think his music is boring.

The only thing I know about Nash is the Innocent Eyes video starring John Ritter, which is a stone classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KwQORT1T6k

That might be the most '80s song/video combo ever. It could literally be by anyone/everyone.

I think I mainly don't like him for talking shit abt Crazy Horse, but also always sleeping w/ people's wives

― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, October 15, 2020 8:12 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

crosby's so fucking foul this is like eagle scout material in comparison

Good piece in the LA Times about the early Pasadena days

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-10-15/eddie-van-halen-david-lee-roth-pasadena-high-school

I live close to that liquor store at Allen and Villa, and walked over last weekend. About a dozen people there, and someone left a Fender Squire (the type that sold for < $100 at Guitar Center) on the sidewalk where Eddie's "Van Halen" was written. Then I walked to the house and there were people there too.

Great piece. RIP Eddie.

Finally saw Van Halen at Staples Center in 2007 and it...wasn't amazing, thinking back. Still happy to have seen them in some capacity.

Fast forward to 2017, Metallica at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. They did a brief, "impromptu" cover of Running With The Devil which I found endearing.

my wife and I were visiting LA for a week in spring 15. Driving around listening to shitty LA rock radio, I kept hearing references to Van Halen playing the Sunset Strip… so we figured out that they were to play outside on the strip for the Fallon show the night before we were to go back to NYC. I had never seen any version of the band, so I really felt that we had to see this…my wife does not in fact like VH; she would have been psyched were it GnR or Poison or the Crue…but she was game. A fancy showrunner buddy we were visiting the night before called his pal at the Fallon show to get us some, ahem, elite access, which amounted to showing up to a tent a few blacks away three hours before VH was to hit; we were eventually herded with about 50 not important enough people some 200 yards from the stage, behind hundreds of people who had been waiting in line all day. Frankie Banali was waiting among us, so was Scott Ian, but he was spirited away, maybe to where someone like Dave Grohl would be, on a roof in an expensive chair getting a foot massage.

No beer, no refreshment, no nothing to take the edge off. VH didn't start playing when they were sposed to, so we had to be "entertained" by this bald warm-up guy who shouted like Kinison… it was very trying. 1 and half hour late, they hit the stage. And so this was the infamous incident in which DLR did a sword dance while the band was gearing up "panama," hit himself on the nose. started bleeding and abandoned ship during the solo, leaving the band to pedal around the "runnin' a little hot tonight" breakdown, Eddie skreeing and skrawing, for 10 minutes…

Then Roth returns and they start the song over…this destroyed any momentum for me, and they played like the state fair Roth era set. With "Ain't Talkin" launching, I said "fuck this," my wife said "and how," and we went to Chateau Marmont to meet up with Fact checkin' Cuz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib3nuHsiG_Y

A+ anecdote

And that's why you don't play with swords.

Man, I always forget that DLR is practically covered with tattoos.

the kimmel show, goddamnmit…

DLR looks like a younger Stephen Miller.

With the help of George Lopez, Sammy and Eddie were able to reconcile:

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/george-lopez-sammy-hagar-eddie-van-halen/

I don't think this gets said enough, but Eddie is a trip on headphones.

Also: The secret genius of "I'll Wait" is that it's VH doing their take on "The Model".

I'll Wait is so good. They had the sense to leave a lot of space, that eerie synth sound and the big booming drums, way different that how most big rock acts tried to embrace new wave

I'll Wait is so good. They had the sense to leave a lot of space, that eerie synth sound and the big booming drums, way different that how most big rock acts tried to embrace new wave

really excited about this. I do a music podcast and Greg Renoff (Van Halen Rising author) gave us 2 hours of his time. so many cool tidbits on the band and its history, great guy

Did you know: Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption, the searing solo heard ‘round the world, almost didn’t make the album. @gregrenoff joins @matthelgeson and @nintendufus for a new Van Halen episode of CrossFade!https://t.co/RrDA2l5naw pic.twitter.com/WNxb7AbmIM

— MinnMax (@MinnMaxShow) October 23, 2020

i only saw Eddie Van Halen once, at Neil Young’s Bridge Benefit show in like 92 or 93? It was the end of the night and Simon & Garfunkel were doing “sound of silence”... Eddie stumbles out from backstage and (drunkenly?) attempts to accompany them on guitar. it was ridiculous and I was just happy he was there.

anybody else at that show?

did he add a tapping solo over it?

Lol at the image of EVH interjecting a full Eruption style solo, divebombs and all, into the middle of SOS

Wow. It's almost a shreds video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0y3o3zXFBA

haha half of that solo isn't even in key

Ha, that's an infamous mess.

shades of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkV5XqEd2Do

“Special plans!”

Stephen Thomas Erlewine's reflections on EVH and the band through all its incarnations may be the best yet I've read:

https://sterlewine.substack.com/p/eddie-van-halen-happy-trails