I admire Eddie Van
I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together. Eric Clapton
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I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together. Eric Clapton
Sometimes I’ll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music… I like a lot of different things. Eric Carr
You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family. Eddie Van Halen
It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: ‘When are you going to do a solo record?’ Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to ‘Baluchitherium,’ meaning it would be Van Halen music – which I write anyway – but without singing. Eddie Van Halen
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C’mon – Van Halen doing ‘Dancing in the Streets’? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else’s music. Eddie Van Halen
On ‘Van Halen,’ I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I’d say that at the time of ‘Fair Warning,’ I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people’s minds I’m just a gunslinger. Eddie Van Halen
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll. Eddie Van Halen
The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone. Eddie Van Halen
I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he’s his own guy. He talks through his … Read more
The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates. Fran Kranz