Stone in love

😂

That was funnier than hell ha ha !

Jesus, Dude. Thank you!! I needed a laugh. One thumb's up is not enough.

You serious Clark?

Any time I read an article with Ed, I read it with his voice and mannerisms in my head. I can do that with any article I read, really. But Ed had that voice where you can’t help but hear it that way

At 19:44 it's not evh anymore

absolutely,,best guitar god ever,,best band ever

Edward died because of the lockdown. He was not allowed to travel to Germany for his treatment. Get on a plane to save his life.

Then Peavey! And then on! The cancer thing? It's so evil! Takes away good and bad people. Some people think he was an asshole? there are two sides to each story! Spending his money to try to help other people, Besides himself with cancer! Judge for yourselves what kind of human being, What he was in real life! I never met him. You get glimpses here and there from media. My vote he was genuine! had his drug and alcohol issues. but deep down, A really nice guy with no ego!

Nicest guy in rock n roll? Ed was an asshole. You hear it in this very video lol. Talking shit about Anthony and Hagar.

​@@DVincentW 🙄 Shut. Up. He drank for 53 years and smoked for the same amount. He quit going to Europe for treatments because the cancer was too advanced.

There is no best. Shut up

@@dezertfox3130 why the hostility?

Best d bag.

Indeeeed!

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2006

Ed was a genius

Yes he was it was so cool how great a father Eddie was! Valerie and Eddie really brought up their son very well obviously we have no clue what they did but obviously it was a pretty normal upbringing but Eddie was closer to his son then most fathers get he brought him everywhere, he had his so join his band. I remember some comedian was talking about how Eddie came bowling one night and the one guy the comedian was with said do u care if Eddie brings his son? And he said dude it’s bowling of of course he can bring his son but what I’m getting at is when a bunch of 40 something year old guys go out together they always want to be alone just the guys but Eddie brought his son with him because he absolutely loved his son so much they were best friends. I know it might not sound like a big deal Eddie bringing his son bowling with Eddie’s friends but that little stuff is what makes kids have a much better childhood all the little things like that not just leaving the kids home. I got a ton of friends that will go out so much you will forget they even have kids, guys that have no money they spend what little money they have going to the bar then when u go to their houses their kids have no toys and the ones they have are junk, their kids ask for a go cart or something like that and they don’t have the money to buy a go cart but they have the money to buy parts for their race cars or whatever hobbies they have. My daughter was born 3 years ago, I’ve wanted to buy a project car to build because I now have a shop at my house with a lift and everything I need to build a project car but If I bought a project car I would be dumping a ton of money into the car and I would feel guilty if my daughter wanted or needed something and couldn’t do it for her because I spent my money on a car. I remember I was at a friend of mines house working on his project car and his son asked to join little league and he told his son he couldn’t afford it so maybe next year. It was only 300 bucks and in just the past month he spent a few grand on that car I felt so bad for that kid if I were him I would have sold or returned the stuff I just bought for the car so he could go to little league screw the car u can always buy a car you can’t go back in time and let ur kid go to little league. When I was a kid I didn’t ask for much I really didn’t and I didn’t have much all I wanted was a dirt bike and I never got one and to this day I think back about how I never got one and all the fun I missed out on. I didn’t want anything to do with sports, toys, video games none of that all I wanted was a dirt bike I would have spent all my time doing that. My daughter is 3 and when we go shopping she picks stuff up and puts it back down she doesn’t try to make me buy everything but every couple weeks she will pick something out that she really REALLY wants and i will get it for her because I want to make her happy and I tell her if ur a good girl I don’t have a problem buying it, you can’t let ur kids think they can get whatever they want they need to know they are getting something because they have been a good girl/boy. I just wanted to say a few things about kids and hopefully some people will read this and treat their kids better and not be selfish and realize the day their kids were born was the day life is not about u anymore it’s about ur kids!

@@peanutbutterisfu Agreed, if people put more time and effort into their kids lives, the world would be a less F'ed up place for sure.

@Bpjames - Agreed. It’s cool to watch this years later and see that Eddie wasn’t exaggerating. Wolfie is the real deal.

Well said. Dark years indeed. He was like a different person during this period.

The world is a better place because of him .. That said it all

I agree -the 97-07 era he changed so much. Going from that healthy, happy, short-haired 90s guy in bright colored t-shirts & ripped jeans to skinny, shirtless, disheveled, strung-out. I wondered what caused one to start heavy drugs so late in life & their career but you answered that question. ☹️

This wasn’t his only interview with Howard. He was in studio and on video acting like a nitwit for the release of VH III album along with singer #3, Alex and the former bass player too. Great guitarist, not necessarily the best human, but who is/was? May he Rest In Peace!

Diem Golightly it’s doubtful Eddie would agree, in fact he said something to the effect; “I’m just a regular person,” during the Stern interview. You can deify him all you’d like, but just so you know, the real and only God is jealous and vengeful of idol worship, even if you’re just pretending to be joking. Be well!

@@nobodyspecial9035 "Not necessarily the best human"...Take one look at Wolfgang's new song/video, & that's all you need to see about what kind of a human Ed Van Halen really was. Every IV I've read/listened to with those who knew him best, & esp from "every day people" who knew him & interacted w/ him regularly...they ALL say, Ed was a down to earth, super kind & generous person. He's made mistakes in his life, absolutely, as we ALL have. But to reference him as "not the best human"...is WAY out of line.

@@coldwinter5710 That’s like asking Don jr. what his daddy was like after inheriting a fortune. Give it a rest. “Great guitarist, not necessarily the best human, but who is/was?” I stand by my whole comment that you chose to modify and get angry about. I’m sorry to see you enjoy kicking rocks.

@@nobodyspecial9035 WOW...So then, based on your most recent comments...You won't mind if "I stand by MY comments" & say, I think you're a short sighted ass! And PLEASE, for the love of God, leave Trump & Co out of a discussion about anyone elses character! People, who actually knew Ed personally, & are now positively reflecting on the man they knew, loved & respected...has nothing to do with your ill Don Jr. comparison...which is completely idiodic.

Ya okay whatever.... he was an asshole.

he ain't his daddy though.

Life makes you who you are. Different Animals

@@RamonesFan201 And he never will be. He's unfortunately on the same road Lisa Marie Presley ended up on. Always hidden in the shadow of the hugely successful father.

Overrated

Truth teller

Wait what trio instrumental record ?

Eddie's playing on that album was SICK. I'm glad he left on a high note.

I thought Dave was great on that album and he put a ton of work into the lyrics on it. Yeah his voice was definitely aged a lot but he, along with Wolf were the main reasons that record even exists. Al and Ed just filled in the gaps on that one.

His mother is Javanese , Indonesian and both brothers show as much Indonesian as they do Dutch perhaps even more of the former ..

Everyones genes are different. People can live a clean lifestyle and still get cancer.

smoking gave him cancer

Did they put it in their mouth all the time?

The problem is people thinking that you can learn what is the result of pure talent. There are plenty of videos analyzing Eddie's style that you can watch but they'll never make you an innovator like he was.

@@junodonatus4906 100% man! People like to think they need to become a super technical player that can play anything, they waste years and years to become an amazing player, they learn how to play every every Van Halen, megadeth, Metallica, pantera solo but they can’t write any good music to save their lives and the stuff they write sounds like their favorite guitarist. Then they talk about how all these bands suck because the music is so easy to play because they still don’t understand the most important thing is writing good music no matter how simple or complex a song is.

Wolfgang said his Dad was a terrible guitar teacher. He showed him some “simple stuff” and he then proceeded to turn into EVH and Wolf said f you I can’t do that.

Yeah pretty obvious he was either free basing or smoking meth starting around 98 ish up until 2006 or so considering how he deteriorated. He looks like Lou Reed in the 97 interviews, scary skinny during the Cherone period, and then teeth start falling out early 2000s..and he's a goblin by 2006. If he wasn't Eddie Van Halen he'd have died in the street 15 years earlier.

@@TheDmonet "and he's a goblin by 2006" LOL

YES

Like Ed said way back in 2006 'FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT' .......ED knew.....He was way ahead on that. He knew.

He used them in the studio until he got cancer.

Absolutely correct!

Just search him in 1998 during the III tour. That's when he was using the metal pick.

Eddie was in denial. It was the smoking. The pick could have accelerated things but it was that damn nicotine.

That's what maker him unique & fuckin hilarious. DUH 🙄. It's not like he's trying to keep it a secret that he's on purpose being two faced. Dummy

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNh6ftyJm62qdXk.html He is asked about it by Eddie

celebs would eagerly come onto Howard's show because they'd get million of listeners for whatever they were promoting.

​@@erichaynes7502guys bought and sold

There is a clinic in Black Forrest Germany that is known around the world for doing miraculous things. I suffer from a horrific condition and know of other people with my condition who went there and within months were back to full health. Insurance companies and the American healthcare system in general prevent innovation and we are the ones who pay the price

@@user-wv5gv3dw5u that's where Eddie was traveling to for about 3 years, to Germany, for his cancer treatments.....

@@kaleendavis8427 I believe so

@@user-wv5gv3dw5u yea, it's true. I was just stating a fact on an Interview with his son Wolfgang , who said that Eddie was travelling back & forth from America to Germany to get treatments, but eventually it just got so bad...... Wolfgang said if it wasn't for the medical help Eddie received in Germany, he would have lost his dad 3 years earlier . Eddie mentioned in interviews this same subject too.

That’s all Edwards buisness

Yea , you're correct. We have some very stupid people on the planet who don't understand this. Automatically, people equate smoking to cancer & that's that. People are so limited in their thinking......

Metal wires in bras causing cancer, but wearing metal earrings/ jewelry, piercings, etc ... don't? Seems as though your theory has a few holes in it.

Totally, but unfortunately he continued to smoke which made him more prone to cancer close to the area affected the first time. He’s right about cancer it’s a cockroach that hides and grows stronger. RIP Eddie. 🖤

Cigarettes are the hardest to quit especially when you start so young

He was probably in denial about it all. You rarely saw Ed without a cigarette in his hand, mouth, or guitar. Those things have caused a lot of misery. There should be a special place in hell for all the tobacco industry stiffs who lied about their health effects. 😒

I like your comments here, but in all fairness even Britney Spears sings better than Vince Neil these days.

How is Sobelewski the backbone of VH? Ed wrote most of the basslines and all of the music. By the end of his tenure in Van Halen, Mike was just a hired hand to play live. He was never an integral part of the writing process. And he was looked after good and proper in the early days getting his 25% cut. You can say all you want about Sammy singing 100x better than anybody, but he can't write for shit! He's always been a lyrical hack! That's why the Hagar-lovers always focus on the voice and never the lyrics.

Eddie and Alex saw the band as a family business and he resented Mike for being friends with Sammy and playing with him. There was no need as Mikey never to this day has bad mouted anyone. But Eddie basically wanted it to be a family business which when Wolf was old enough he could do so Mikey was sacrificed. Then they got Roth back who probably needed the money more than Sammy with his successful tequila business and the rest is history

If Wolfe can keep his mouth shut

Even in the early days, Ed used the MXR phase 90 and MXR flanger, along with the Echoplex, a harmonizer (which is more a tool than an effect). He was pretty effects heavy in the early days. In fact, not much more than he was in modern days. It’s just that mixing, mastering, and the house main board have since went digital, thus, making everything and everyone else sound digital… which I then can be mistaken with being effects heavy

Never understood why he went shirtless on stage. He did not have a great body.

@@judithryle2113 typical comment from a girl.

I would've thought he'd quit smoking cigarettes.

@@fastpony8127 why should he?smoking is fun. Why don't you stop being stupid?

Sam was and is a great guy who happens to be a great musician. Eddie and Alex are more the frustrated artistic genius types and eventually there was a clash

its not true at all. the doctor simply mentioned the concept of stem cell research. Eddie was always full of shit and wasnt smart enough to think people would see that he's a compulsive fibber when he was drunk.

@@geet77777 you're right I've seen an interview where Eddie gets caught in lies and then he tried to backpedal off of them..a really, really bad look he was compulsive liar.

Sammy's bought eddie isnt

​@@erichaynes7502bs troll

I agree

You ever listen to Little Guitars, Cathedral/Secrets or Hear about it later?

eddies toenail could play better than hendrix

@@daryllmroberts7958 i trust your the kind that knows about other people's toenails...anyway Eddie Van Halen could have never created little wing or the iconic Machine gun.... ITS AS ICONIC AS ERUPTION DUDE...AND EDDIE COULD HAVE NEVER DONE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT WOODSTOCK..THAT WASNT EDDIE... AND JIMI WASNT ERUPTION. TWO DIFFERENT ANIMALS.. BUT ..ANYONE WITH A BRAIN THAT ISNT UP HIS ASS GIVES HENDRIX RESPECT... ILL TAKE IT THAT YOU WERE JOKING

@@phucknuts Your opinion is wrong.

@@daryllmroberts7958 I bought my first album in 1969. At 11 years old it was band of gypsies. I picked the newspaper up off the front porch at 12 years old with the headline Hendrix is dead. I have the 45 of Purple Haze and Foxy Lady he blew my mind forever with his version of machine gun in the Star-Spangled Banner. But he would have s*** in his pants Seven Ways to Sunday if he seen Eddie Van Halen in his prime and again Eddie Van Halen never stole one lick off Jimi Hendrix he was his own genius

Eddie might have been more technical on the guitar playing than Hendrix but they both had their own styles and they were both G'd D'm good at making an electric guitar sing. Like Clapton, SRV and all the rest- you can't compare one to the other. It's all an art. One's man's treasure is another man's garbage.

He called Mike and Sammy fat and called DLR fake. What interview are you listening to?

Chemo only claims to increase your life expectancy by 1, 2, 5 , 10, 15 years depending on the type and stage of the cancer , and comes with the risk of not surviving the treatment itself. He did pretty well to survive 15 years after this interview.

@@mancuniancandidatem - Absolutely.

No cure for cancer it only goes into remission unfortunately

@@mancuniancandidatem not to mention 99/2000 ish he was at deaths door with chemo. And the word on the message boards were that he didn’t have much time. I think he cut the chemo and looked at other treatments. He made it 20 years or so which is amazing, and didn’t have to be sick on Chemo. Great job Ed! RIP

His 2nd wife wasn't good for him in this area as far as what he's involved in outside of music....Janie was a publicist for a porn thing for awhile before they married