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UNEQUAL: Guitar hero Eddie Van Halen died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. Musicians describe him as a musical genius. Photo: JOHN MUNSON / NJ Advance Media
Norwegian musicians agree with the descriptions of guitarist and rock star Eddie Van Halen. – He was a virtuoso.
On Tuesday, Eddie Van Halen, 65, passed away after a long battle with cancer. This was confirmed by son and band member Wolfgang Van Halen on Twitter.
The Dutch-American guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Van Halen has been a musical influence since the band broke through with their debut album “Van Halen” in 1978.
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They quickly became the leading party band in California and secured their position with the album “1984”, where several of the band’s most famous songs can be found.
Norwegian musicians say that Van Halen played an important role in their lives and careers.
STAR COLLABORATION: Guitarist Frode Alnæs remembers Van Halen’s touch particularly well on Michael Jackson’s “Beat it.” Here during a concert in Texas in 1984. Photo: Carlos Osorio / AP
Guitarist and leader of the band Dance With a Stranger, Frode Alnæs, is a longtime fan of Eddie Van Halen.
– It was sad to hear that one of the greatest in his field has passed away. He was truly a virtuoso on his guitars, but one who created tasteful music with his eminent guitar playing. He played very fast, but with good taste, Alnæs tells VG.
Remember especially the Van Halen touch on the Michael Jackson classic “Beat it”, which is characterized by an innovative way of playing the guitar.
– I was in full control even with both hands on the fretboard. He was an incredibly skilled guitarist, but he was also characterized by great musicality. One of the most important, concludes Alnæs.
AN INSPIRATION: Wig Wams Åge Sten Nilsen says the industry has lost one of its principals now that Eddie Van Halen is dead. Photo: Nicolai Prebensen
– In a league of their own
– He played with many strings, you could say. Not only was he a musical genius, he was also a performer with incredible energy on stage, says Åge Sten Nilsen of Wig Wam.
The rock vocalist adds that the news did not come unexpectedly, considering that Eddie Van Halen has been ill for several years.
However, he notes that the rock industry has lost one of its principals.
– Van Halen was among the best at the time I discovered rock n ‘roll, and you especially realized that the guitarist was in his own league. They have probably inspired generations of young rockers, says Nilsen.
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Well-known Norwegian guitarist Mads Eriksen describes Eddie Van Halen as his greatest source of inspiration.
– He has been a great role model for me and the guitarist with whom I have had a solid relationship, says Eriksen to VG.
– He was completely unique and came up with a new style that we hadn’t heard or seen before. Their sound was so good, I would say majestic, but at the same time warm, Eriksen describes.
– Van Halen was without a doubt the best guitarist of his genre. Something completely new occurred to him. He was for the ’70s what Jimi Hendrix was for the’ 60s. He’s the most influential guitarist since Hendrix, he says.
– Did you hear him live yourself?
– No, I never really understood that, but I sat down and my jaw dropped when I got their first album. In 1979, I attended a professional meeting in the United States, where I saw Van Halen. But I got the impression that he was not quite in shape, to put it that way, says Eriksen.
A LOSS: Thomas Felberg says he had a deep relationship with Eddie Van Halen. Photo: Frode Hansen
– Changed the world of guitar.
Thomas Felberg, known as the leader of the WE gang and host of “Star Wars,” says he is sitting with a funeral beer and trying to digest the news that Eddie Van Halen is dead.
– I had a long, deep and heartfelt relationship with Van Halen. In 1982, I bought my first Van Halen cassette at a flea market and became a huge fan after that, he says.
Felberg also draws parallels to Jimi Hendrix in his description of the late guitarist, saying that Van Halen was both a songwriter and a riff-maker of the range.
– His group started out as a backyard band that played in rich people’s backyards, and then built from there. His early records set the party standard for a decade, says the vocalist.
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Svein Dag Hauge, a longtime Lava guitarist and contributor to several Norwegian record productions, also praises Eddie Van Halen.
– He was a man who changed the world of the guitar. For us guitarists, he was the hardest heavy rock guitarist in the world. No one had ever seen a two-handed technique like the one Van Halen mastered. He came up with a whole new way of playing guitar, Hauge tells VG.
Hauge played in his day with the late guitarist Marius Müller on Lava and on various record productions.
– Marius adopted some of the techniques that Van Halen used. It sounded so harsh, it had dazzling technique, but at the same time it had such strong musicality, Hauge describes.
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Norwegian rapper Jørgen Nordeng, known as Joddski, also expresses his grief over the guitarist’s death on Facebook.
– Eddie was the toughest guitarist in the world, and Dave made all the other hard rock leaders look like trash. Van Halen’s albums have stuck, unlike other things we liked back then, and it’s a JOY to hear the “Women and Children First” album to this day.
Music journalist Asbjørn Slettemark also illuminates the guitarist’s memory on Facebook.
– Eddie van Halen. Guitarist in perhaps the coolest band of all time. So fat that they became the solution to everything in South Park. Rest in peace.
