Eddie Van Halen

Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (January 26, 1955 - October 6, 2020) was a virtuoso guitarist and a founding member of the hard rock band Van Halen.

Quotes

 * Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7pm to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3am, I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years — I still do that.
 * Eddie Van Halen in April 1996, in an interview with Guitar World, when asked about how he went from playing his first open A chord to playing "Eruption" []


 * I don't like doing interviews, I don't like doing what I'm doing right now. I'd rather be at home playing my guitar.
 * Talking with Kurt Loder on MTV's Famous Last Words show circa 1991.

About Eddie Van Halen

 * I hate to talk smack about anyone in the band or whatever, but, y'know, Eddie, you know, he's still doing a bit of drinking and everything. There were nights where it was kind of like a rollercoaster, up or down, and myself, I would have liked to have seen him totally clean up if we were gonna take this further.
 * Michael Anthony, a band member of Van Halen [mID=36475]