Horrible news. Gone too soon.
**** 2020
**** no!
I opened this thinking Vedder or Reader.
Shit shit shit.
Great guitarist with a sound that defined American rock at the time but did nothing for me.
Tongue cancer followed by throat cancer, bizarrely he blamed the tongue cancer on metal guitar picks rather than being a chain smoker.
Crap, another reason that 2020 sucks, RIP
What a bloody shame, tragic loss!
that's a real shame.
R.I.P Eddie.. Thanks for some great music..
Bugger 😥😥
Rock In Piece Eddie.
Well, bollocks.
25 years since I saw him play at Sheffield.
Sad loss.
Never liked rock (love synth) but that guitar solo (assuming its EVH) made air guitarists of all of us.
just literally found out that he passed away
rip eddie 😢
Damn.
Eddie was one of the few guitarists who really did change the face of rock music and his playing seemed so effortless.
Sad news.
I know it's massively unfashionable now, and it was fairly unfashionable then, but rock music was a big part of my teens in the 80s and I listened to a lot of Van Halen and the like with my mates (including one of this thread's earlier contributors, cos I've known him since I was 13...).
I'll be having a nostalgia-wave-powered 80's rock listening day today I think, starting with a lot of Van Halen. RIP Eddie.
echoing the above, all of it
On a slightly brighter note, new AC/DC tune out today
The guy was a genius to took rock guitar in a new direction. Copied by many, matched by very few.
RIP Eddie, you were the soundtrack to a chunk of my formative years.
Hes gone and JUMPed off.
The original stunt guitarist, with DLR at the front Van Halen for a while were top of the pile.
RIP
😢RIP
1984 will be getting a spin on the turntable tonight. ☹️
My mum went ape-shit when she saw that album cover!
Disappointed that he never got to tour with Wyld Stallyns.
RIP Eddie. 2020 seems to be building quite the astral rock band! 🙁
Good piece in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/07/eddie-van-halen-was-the-heir-to-hendrix-electric-guitar
There are few guitarist I like a little better but Eddie was for me the greatest guitarist of all time.
Not for the flash but for the songs and groove.
A true musical genius, song writer and showman
Just been playing a lot of stuff to get through deadline day and realised exactly what I what I was ripping off during the weekend with chords up the neck but open strings ringing out.
Humans Being and Respect The Wind from the Twister soundtrack.
Damn I loved the guy's playing.
Him, Satch and Vai did it all for me.