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Mattias Kling on Eddie Van Halen, the innovator who revolutionized the world of hard rock
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Eddie Van Halen turned 65.
There are those who play the guitar. And those who is your instrument.
Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen belongs to the latter category.
Now he has fallen asleep, at 65.
In a rock world full of innovators and virtuosos it rises Eddie van halen address the majority. What he did de facto with a guitar is impossible for a normal person with ten fingers and an intact row of teeth, what he could not is non-existent and irrelevant. It is not an opinion but pure facts, stipulated and legislated by the Supreme Court of hard rock.
Just listen to “Eruption”, taken from Van Halen’s 1978 debut album. It’s a one minute and forty two second long pitch pitch in which the then poised 23 year old is thrown without a safety net over his neck.
He played until he sprayed shades of walls and ceilings.
As much as Jimi Hendrix He’d done ten years before, Van Halen took all the music theory he’d never learned, crumpled it into a little ball, set it on fire, and played it until it splashed notes off walls and ceilings. A veritable revolution for hard rock that even then, during punk’s most rebellious glory days, was deemed old-fashioned and overdone. And an opening shot for a new kind of guitar hero who played faster than Lucky Luke drew his revolver.
Born on January 26, 1955 in Amsterdam directly into a musical family (dad Jan played the saxophone, as well as the clarinet and the piano) young Edward played with the melodies of Bach and Mozart and, although he never learned to read notes, he learned to improvise the classical pieces by ear on the piano, so well that in The mid-1960s they won the annual piano competition at Long Beach City College in California for several years in a row. And so that challenge was mastered, completed and overcome.
One of the most classic sister bands in hard rock.
Instead, he began playing drums with his two-year-old brother. Alex on the guitar, before they got to change instruments and the foundations of one of the most classic sister bands of hard rock, German Scorpions and Australian AC / DC are a couple more, they settled in Pasadena, a couple of miles from the Center of Los Angeles.
Influenced by Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelins Jimmy Page Young Eddie began to develop his own style and approach to playing guitar, and when the brothers joined forces with bassist Michael Anthony and the flamboyant singer David lee roth To form the group bearing their surnames, a new star shot up into the rocky sky.
Ten million copies sold of the aforementioned debut album (US only) speak their language plain. A total worldwide career sale of a staggering 80 million puts extra words on the bag. That he with “Jump” is behind a keyboard riff as iconic as Joey tempests and “The final countdown”? Go ahead, here is a complete dictionary.
Eddie Van Halen didn’t play guitar. He was a guitar.
But, as so often: what goes up sooner or later falls.
Twenty years ago, Eddie Van Halen was diagnosed with cancer of the tongue, a terribly devouring passenger who he has struggled with ever since.
Now he has lost the battle, according to information after the disease spread, among other things, to the brain. At just 65, she died Tuesday at St John’s Hospital in Santa Monica with her son Alex. Wolfgang and his wife Janie next to him.
And as I write this, my social media is awash with praise from colleagues, fans, and followers. “Oh no! I am speechless.” (Paul stanley, Kiss), “What an incredible loss.” (David Coverdale, Whitesnake), “The greatest of all time has left the building.” (Scott Ian, Anthrax) – medan Judas Priests Richie faulkner happy to post a photo of his iconic red and white striped instrument.
Because Eddie Van Halen didn’t play guitar. He where guitar.
Drilla i frid, teacher.
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