RIP Eddie Van Halen

Although, (being from the UK) Eddie wasnt well known here, i wanted to pass on my condolences. RIP Eddie

Although, (being from the UK) Eddie wasnt well known here, i wanted to pass on my condolences. RIP Eddie

Van Halen did not play the United Kingdom much during their career. Their last schedule show in the UK was in 1998 and it got cancelled. They played the United Kingdom last in 1995 opening for Bon Jovi on Bon Jovi's Stadium tour there. I actually don't think they ever played a single show in Ireland over their nearly 50 year career.

I am paying tribute to EVH by listening to his first album (Van Halen). I never really heard anything of them before, apart from JUMP....but this album is worth a listen. Was listening to Jamie's Cryin and thought, hello, im sure this is the song that Tone Loc must have borrowed the riff for Wild Thing from. Did a wee bit of research, and sure enough, i was right

Quote from: Smee on October 07, 2020, 10:35:06 AM

Although, (being from the UK) Eddie wasnt well known here, i wanted to pass on my condolences. RIP Eddie

Van Halen did not play the United Kingdom much during their career. Their last schedule show in the UK was in 1998 and it got cancelled. They played the United Kingdom last in 1995 opening for Bon Jovi on Bon Jovi's Stadium tour there. I actually don't think they ever played a single show in Ireland over their nearly 50 year career.

Their first world tour in 1978 included Belgium, Netherlands, France, England, Germany and Scotland.  They played Monsters of Rock in Europe in 1984, a bunch of dates across Europe in 1995 a few in 1998 but nothing since then I can find, and correct, nothing in Ireland ever.

I am paying tribute to EVH by listening to his first album (Van Halen). I never really heard anything of them before, apart from JUMP....but this album is worth a listen. Was listening to Jamie's Cryin and thought, hello, im sure this is the song that Tone Loc must have borrowed the riff for Wild Thing from. Did a wee bit of research, and sure enough, i was right

In North America that album was huge, and regarded as one of rock’s greatest debut albums. It’s gone on to achieve Diamond status (over 10 million sold). 2 of my favourite VH songs are on it, Ain’t Talking About Love and Runnin’ With The Devil.

Van Halen has played a total of 1,812 known concerts since 1974. 1,526 in the United States, and 286 outside the United States. So about 84% of their shows in the United States with 16% outside the United States.

Biggest selling American bands in the United States based on sales of original studio albums only, no compilations.


01. Metallica - 52 million - 10 albums
02. Van Halen - 51 million - 12 albums
03. Eagles - 45.5 million - 7 albums
04. Aerosmith - 43 million - 14 albums
05. Guns N Roses - 38 million - 5 albums

An even more significant statistic than the above.

VAN HALEN is the only artist in music history to have TEN MULTI-PLATINUM studio albums of new original material, in the United States Of America.

A caveat to this is that Madonna would equal that record if you consider the Soundtrack albums to "I'm Breathless" and "Evita" to be Madonna studio albums.

Also, the Beatles could be considered to have had 14 studio albums go multi-platinum in the United States depending how you DEFINE "studio album". The problem is that several of these albums are just collections of songs from releases in the United Kingdom or singles released on their own without an album, which makes them seem like compilations as a opposed to a group of songs the band recorded together for the purposes of putting on one album.

Current iTunes Top 10 in the US

1. Van Halen - Jump
2. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
3. Van Halen - Panama
4. Van Halen - You Really Got Me
5. Van Halen - Eruption
6. Van Halen - Runnin' with the Devil
7. AC/DC - Shot in the Dark
8. Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
10. Van Halen - Jamie's Cryin'

RIP Eddie. Ive been obsessed with the first few albums since 99 when i was a sr. in HS. the Roth reunion album A Different Kind of Truth was sorely underrated.

also, i dont buy that he reached out to Michael Anthony for one final tour, earlier this year. Nor do i buy that Hagar and he made peace earlier this year. Hagar would have been self promoting the fuck out of that when it happened.

RIP Eddie. Ive been obsessed with the first few albums since 99 when i was a sr. in HS. the Roth reunion album A Different Kind of Truth was sorely underrated.

also, i dont buy that he reached out to Michael Anthony for one final tour, earlier this year. Nor do i buy that Hagar and he made peace earlier this year. Hagar would have been self promoting the fuck out of that when it happened.

Hagar didn’t promote the fuck out of it because he knew Eddie was sick and they agreed to keep it in house.

In terms of the Michael Anthony reunion, the Van Halen manager confirmed it was supposed to be a 2019 reunion stadium tour but they didn’t proceed because of Eddie’s health.

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/van-halens-manager-confirms-band-came-close-to-reuniting-with-michael-anthony-for-summer-2019-stadium-tour/

we've all known about his cancer diagnosis since 2015 when the final tour ended. that never stopped Hagar from talkin up "new tour!" before.

i've heard the stadium rumors too. i know wolfgang kind of has his own thing going on but i can't see dad telling his only son to sit this tour out.

we've all known about his cancer diagnosis since 2015 when the final tour ended. that never stopped Hagar from talkin up "new tour!" before.

i've heard the stadium rumors too, the alternating sets featuring dave and sammy etc. i know wolfgang kind of has his own thing going on but i can't see dad telling his only son to sit this tour out.

About a year and half or so ago there were rumours Eddie was very sick. The VH camp and those that knew him kept how sick he really was from the public. If Eddie asked Hagar not to speak publicly about his condition or about them communicating again then that’s something I think Hagar would respect. There’s no reason to think he’s lying and if he is Alex or Wolfgang could call him out on it.

The manager confirmed the stadium shows planned for 2019 were original band reunion shows. Michael Anthony said he received a call from VH’s manager to see if he was interest and he said he was. He then got a subsequent call from David Lee Roth’s manager about the reunion tour. Unfortunately when Eddie’s health took a turn for the worse these plans never happened. In terms of his son, VH had become a bit stagnant and there’s no way they would have been able to play stadiums without playing the reunion card. His son was doing a solo album at the time also. So this reunion was confirmed by both the VH manager and by Michael Anthony himself.

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN
A National Conversation Hosted By The Smithsonian and Zocalo Public Square
Featuring Eddie Van Halen

Great interview with Eddie Van Halen telling essentially is life story of coming to America, becoming a musician, and forming Van Halen.

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

This took place(February 2015) just after Eddie Van Halen's 60th birthday and before Van Halen went on tour to promote the release of their new live album from Tokyo Japan.

Nuno Bettencourt, the guitarist for Extreme was friends with Eddie, and posted on Facebook the last time he saw him Eddie was super excited that they were getting the original band back together, “that they were gonna go out the way they came in..guns blazing.”

https://www.vhnd.com/2020/10/09/nuno-bettencourt-eddie-van-halen-was-super-excited-to-finally-put-the-original-van-halen-lineup-back-together/

Really sucks he didn’t have more time. An original lineup VH tour would have been awesome.

Pasadena, California,  where Eddie grew up.