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Ladies and gentlemen!!!!.. ALEX VAN HALENNNNNNNNNN!!!!

Incredible interview

Dude I am so sorry for your loss RIP your Brother! 🙏

Yes sir VH4EVER

Lost my bro 1 month ago we had live bands in his house all the time ROCK ON

Sorry to hear you lost your brother too.

Wasn’t it great to hear Alex talk about his DAD ? ….Clearly his Father Jan could use his instrument to set people’s emotions free and let their hair down and forget their worries and troubles. And just imagine how good and important that would have been in WW2 when you remember what people were going through. I think the reason that ALEX became more extrovert than ED was because Alex spent more time with their Father in professional situations and Jan taught Alex to let it all out whereas Edward was more quiet and introverted creatively expressing his emotions through his instrument on his own….It sounds like Alex got his ‘wildness’ about life and his crazy humour from his DAD😊.

Yes these interviews are gold . I always wanted to know about them growing up

Alex was ASTUTE wasn’t he ? …And he saw through Roth’s pretentiousness and hypocrisies didn’t he ? I was falling off my chair with laughter when he was doing the ‘slow South American’ talk in ENGLISH to show us what DLR sounded like to South American audiences….lol ….Roth was later cruel to Edward trying to even call him ‘culturally illiterate’ but Alex would have showed this arrogant superiority posture by Roth as the utter hypocritical fake that it was…Ed was a sensitive creative artist being bullied and restricted by a fame chaser with a ‘superiority complex’ and I would have trusted a down to Earth soul like ED more than a calculator like Roth…Nobody can deny that DLR was one of the best frontmen Rock ever had who worked hard to help VH succeed…But for DLR to call Ed ‘culturally illiterate’ is to assume Roth was culturally ‘literate’ when he wasn’t ….With his lines like - ‘don’t stick your tongue out at me unless you’re gonna use it’ and ‘honey ,you’re so sweet I bet you sh*t sugar’ Roth would have been as welcome among the culturally literate as a TURD in a SWIMMING POOL 🙄🙄😳

Alex is greatest older brother. I’ve listened to every Eddie interview. Alex always let Eddie do 99percent of the talking. Just backed him up. But he is extremely astute listened and watch things going on . He was very fair. Knowing people have quirks but that s the cost of greatness let them slide

@@godbyone In many ways Alex was the 'unsung hero' in VH because he could not only be the intelligent voice of sanity in the camp but he always looked out for his younger brother in ways that the money makers & fame chasers didn't. Their ultimate motive was MONEY but with ALEX his motive was LOVE & concern for the well being of Edward.

@@godbyone Alex's memoir coming out this year in October is going to be the BEST biography on Edward ever written or ever will be written because none of the others could ever have been as close to Edward & for as long. If I was an interviewer I know what I would have loved to have asked Alex (with me being a lifelong guitar player myself). I would love to ask him - 'Alex, did your brother ever talk to you about what made him decide to break the rules & conventions dictating how the guitar was played ? ...Was it a reaction against the rigid rule methods forced on him earlier when he was made to practice piano ? ....Was there a private moment where he said to you - 'Bruv, I HATED all the dogmatic rules those ramrod backed piano teachers tried to impose on us..... & we weren't even self motivated to play piano....If I pick up my OWN instrument (guitar) & I just LOVE to play it, love to work out all those Clapton solos from Pops 16rpm turntable then I NEVER want to do it by the absolutist RULES the way they tried to force it on us with Piano........Im going to play the instrument I LOVE my OWN way. Not theirs'.....On how Ed became this fantastic rule breaking innovator I believe ALEX is the THE GUY WHO WOULD HAVE THE ANSWERS. In one interview I remember Alex saying - 'Ed has this UNIQUE approach to the instrument' ....And when I heard that I remember thinking 'ALEX knows......He KNOWS' ....Alex was the SAME in a way....In this Jas Obrecht taped interview Ed was describing how Alex BUILT his OWN DRUMKITS in the way Ed would assemble his own guitars.

@@godbyone You know something else I wish I could ask Alex (& maybe he goes into this stuff in his upcoming book) ...Edward LOVED to try new things on the guitar & make it do things other players weren't . Ed was capable of taking that creative INITIATIVE ...& this wasn't by purchasing 'technology' but by breaking the rules dictating how the instrument was played. The one thing that he strived for in himself as a player was ORIGINALITY. And he also respected it in OTHER players. Those others who would make him say - 'God, how did this player do that' ?? .....The one player who really impressed Edward was ALLAN HOLDSWORTH.....& he even tried to help him in his career. Allan originally wanted an instrument he could blow into (like a saxophone) but got 'stuck' with the guitar (a plucking & tapping instrument) but Allan took the electric guitar and he found ways to make it SOUND LIKE an instrument you blow on like a sax....By making the attack of his pick invisible, arpeggiating notes with individual fingers (not pull offs to the side) and avoiding blues string bending because blowing instruments didn't do that..... Now I know Alex wasn't into all that progressive rock stuff like Ed was but what I would have loved to ask Alex was this - Was there a moment in the family where Edward said to his Father Jas - 'DAD , LISTEN TO THIS GUITARIST ALLAN HOLDSWORTH. HE HAS FOUND A WAY TO MAKE MY INSTRUMENT (guitar) SOUND LIKE YOUR INSTRUMENT ! (saxophone) ...I wonder what as a JAZZ Saxophonist JAS thought about ALLAN HOLDSWORTH ? That would have been fascinating.

Yes. It's crazy

Yes, he’s kind of…the opposite of Dave. Almost kind of square and “unhip”. A mature man already.

Both guys came to the US when they were little boys. English their second language.

Interesting, he spoke very highly of him. Yes

I don't hear it at all but him and Ed sound a lot alike

Alex possibly mixed up Diver Down as being the 4th album when it was the 5th but he's entitled to do that because he PLAYED on ALL the albums....lol....The Broomstick trick was from the Sammy Hagar book I think ? ......Sammy shouldn't have written that chapter titled- 'Crazy Ed' ..That was a big horrible mistake....I think Sammy actually DOES regret writing that chapter now. He has said as much in recent interviews.... It caused a lot of damage between him & Alex........Actually I remember Alex talking about doing crazier things than the broomstick in interviews in the 1980s....But I better not repeat them....lol 🤭🤫🤫🤫🥴

I was shocked that Alex got the album order wrong and that Steve didn’t catch that mistake.

Orlando Dave. The critics will talk about how Fkd up VH was. And we will talk about how Fkd up the crowd was

Then he shot a moon

Yes and no. Yes better sound but this is only time I’ve ever heard Alex talk to freely. If in studio. And other guys were in background even other side Alex might not have talks so much

@@godbyone Was there an airport near the place where Steven was interviewing Alex ? ......Was it at the Coldwater Canyon house in LA ,,,,On the hills ? ....There might have been a lot of air traffic coming in & out.....No wonder Alex was using metaphors of The CONCORD .

Alex loved the Mick Jagger and Bowie version of Dancing In The Streets!! What???? It sucked. Van Halen did a great version. They Vanhalenized it and made it a cooler song. Alex was a little confused.

Ya, I was thinking the same thing…he jumped over Fair Warning and went into Diver Down.

'Verbose Cosmopolitan Smartarse does not equal 'intelligence' . + I'd trust Alex more.

'Verbose Cosmopolitan Smart arse' doesn't equal 'intelligence.' ....People I've spoken to in email like Nuclear Physicist Jochen Heisenberg & Oxford Philosopher Keith Ward , THATS intelligence.

You can definitely tell these interviews are just after the breakup, since he never calls Dave by his first name and you can hear the bitterness. Truth is the crowds went nuts when Dave spoke in their language in South America. I would say most of the fans respected the effort.

Alex’ s send up was really FUNNY though…lol

But I guess we should give Dave points for trying though 😊

@@kevinwilkins3248 well, yes , there was bitterness in 1985 but hopefully today on the phone in 2024 they would both be ‘laughing like pirates’ on the phone about all this.