Van Halen: 'Sobriety makes it tougher to master the guitar'

Guitar player Eddie Van Halen, August 2007 Eddie Van Halen has confessed he has to work hard to maintain his guitar-great reputation - because sobriety has robbed him of his skills.

[Phinneous Whiskerbiscuit]

Drink up my brother and let the fingers fly!

[Doooshbag writer]

He said it takes him longer to WARM UP, the dumb writer and poster of this thread is why journalism is in the pits, he still has has SKILLs.

[The REAL Deal]

No, he HAD skills.

[The people have spoken]

The REAL Deal wrote:

No, he HAD skills.

He still does, people like you are such idiots.

[The REAL Deal]

The people have spoken wrote:

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He still does, people like you are such idiots.

Saw him with his son....HAD skills.

[The Real True Real Deal]

The REAL Deal wrote:

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Saw him with his son....HAD skills.

Seen him since 1980, still has skills, its tards like you who think they know something about guitar.

[The REAL Deal]

The Real True Real Deal wrote:

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Seen him since 1980, still has skills, its tards like you who think they know something about guitar.

Yes.Difference is,the retards think that Eddie is still 23 and doen't have arthritis. Is he still good?yes.Is he as great as he was?No. He HAD (Past tense) mad skills. Not anymore.I was never as sad as when I saw him in Chicago.Total waste of money. David Lee Roth sucked,too.
Sorry, your crush on Eddie is wasted.

[The REAL REAL Deal]

The REAL Deal wrote:

<quoted text>Yes.Difference is,the retards think that Eddie is still 23 and doen't have arthritis. Is he still good?yes.Is he as great as he was?No. He HAD (Past tense) mad skills. Not anymore.I was never as sad as when I saw him in Chicago.Total waste of money. David Lee Roth sucked,too.
Sorry, your crush on Eddie is wasted.

Just retards like yourself that have never even seen Van Halen play, your man crush on Spammy hagar is disturbing, EVH still has skills, you are idiot plain and simple.
Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch...

[The REAL REAL Deal]

Here is a clip of Chicago from a cell phone, its a Great Clip EVH plays great on it, EVH the Real Deal

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

[The REAL Deal]

The REAL REAL Deal wrote:

Here is a clip of Chicago from a cell phone, its a Great Clip EVH plays great on it, EVH the Real Deal
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

you must be stupid,deaf or twelve. Eddie in Chicago sucked.Even in your phone clip. I know,I was there.

[The REAL DEAL REALLY]

The REAL Deal wrote:

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you must be stupid,deaf or twelve. Eddie in Chicago sucked.Even in your phone clip. I know,I was there.

BS, the proof is in that clip, so you must suck off Spammy Fagar. Plus you are deaf and not at the show.

[The Real Deal Really]

Doosh noozle, that clip sounds great, you must be a re-tard, EVH is awesome

[The REAL Deal]

Yeah, that's why they are sooooo popular.
Steve Morse, Steve Via are still better. and you are an ignorant little boy.

[The Real REAL Deal]

The REAL Deal wrote:

Yeah, that's why they are sooooo popular.
Steve Morse, Steve Via are still better. and you are an ignorant little boy.

Steve Morse is awesome, Vai will tell you EVH is a true guitar god, he and EVH are friends and Vai even use to get tips from him, the little troll boy here is you, too bad you don't play a guitar then you could quit talking out your arse, EVH is a great player who changed rock guitar.

[The REAL Deal]

Look, spaz fanboy, you know this how? "Guitar reader" magazine? Circus? You know the guys? You're 12, go steal your mommy's playboys and listen to the Bee-gee's, they were popular in '76 too.
what a putz.

[The Real REAL Deal]

The REAL Deal wrote:

Look, spaz fanboy, you know this how? "Guitar reader" magazine? Circus? You know the guys? You're 12, go steal your mommy's playboys and listen to the Bee-gee's, they were popular in '76 too.
what a putz.

You are a fukking idiot, I have seen Van Halen since 1980 dooshnoozle, EVH is a great guitarist, he is one of best ever, he did change rock guitar forever, I also play guitar, I'm a huge Steve Morse, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Vai fan maybe you should try playing a guitar and try some Holdsworth, I also know for a fact that Vai is a huge EVH fan they are friends from Vai's Zappa daze, EVH use to go over to Zappas and Jam Dweezil is also a huge Fan of EVH as was Frank, Frank Zappa was also awesome, he was around in 1976 and was cool as hell, too bad you are such a dipchit about music, you are clueless.

[The Real REAL Deal]

Here dooshnoozle deal
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Dweezil in his own words talking about Van Halen

[The Real REAL Deal]

The REAL Deal wrote:

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WAS a great guitarist, like it WAS a great band . Ghost of it's glory. Like Poison or Whitesnake or even Great White. Done.Over. Like your brain.
Take your tiny dick and go home, yer momma's calling.

I already proved you wrong, yet you keep yapping like a little girl, EVH was and is a great guitar player, BTW the last tour sold out every show all 74 of them ! made over 100 million. I also proved Zappa and Van Halen were friends along with Vai, its funny that such a loser as yourself cannot grasp that, learn to play the guitar.

[The REAL Deal]

The Real REAL Deal wrote:

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I already proved you wrong, yet you keep yapping like a little girl, EVH was and is a great guitar player, BTW the last tour sold out every show all 74 of them ! made over 100 million. I also proved Zappa and Van Halen were friends along with Vai, its funny that such a loser as yourself cannot grasp that, learn to play the guitar.

Youproved nothing. You are nothing.Oh,wait...you are something...you're wrong.

[The Real REAL Deal]

The REAL Deal wrote:

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Youproved.

Here you go, I understand that you are here just to argue, http://www.youtube.com/watch ...
Dweezil Zappa in his own words talking about Eddie Van Halen.
Now that clip shows Dweezil talking about the first time he met EVH with his Father at their house.
Many guitar builder suppliers and aftermarket parts suppliers owe their existence to Eddie showing us we could tear apart our guitars and build them better than what we could buy. I have torn apart quite a few guitars and swapped parts and painted and changed them due to Eddie's influence. A $70 Ibanez single humbucker guitar I found in a pawn shop years ago ended up with a Frankenstrat paint job. Though it will always be argued who is the best guitarist I don't know of any other that convinced us to take our guitars apart and rebuild and repaint them to become our own.

As many records, cassettes and CD's were sold by Warner Brothers on Van Halen recordings I think it is fair to say much more has been spent trying to sound like Eddie Van Halen. Though I have bought some Van Halen recordings several times as the media changed or I have lost or broken one I have spent much more trying to get the brown sound. I have gone through different guitar amp combinations over the years but have found that sound to be the tone that sounds right as many have over the years.

Eddie sounded good 30 years ago with a relatively simple setup played very well. We will all keep chasing that tone through Plexis, 5150s, Kramers, Ernie Ball, Peavey, Charvel and the current ultimate EVH gear. We all know it's all in Ed's hands; but when we get that moment that we hit that tone that hits his sound we decide whatever we paid to get there was worth it.