Current state of Van Halen revealed!

[fryingdutchman]

OK...so the title and description were hyped up bullshit.

Ed is currently working on.......(drum roll please!)

FIXING A DRUM KIT!!!!!

Ed apparently stopped in to a Grainger store in Burbank to pick up a clamp for a drum kit! Here's a picture of him with some lowlife retail hardware store manager!



So there you have it!!!

If anybody gives a rats ass about this, you can find it at the VH News Desk.

Now we can finally close all of the "What's Van Halen's Next Move?" threads (and all similar threads)

We can all breathe a collective sigh of relief, now that we know the state of things!

[Panamark]

How do you know he's a lowlife ?
Might be a grate bloke ?

Thanks for the updated pic, Ed looks well..
He looks better than I feel, and I havent thought
that for 15 years..... lol....

[if6was9]

Seems like Eddie has taken up drums again!

[VanHalenFan5150]

Arguably the funniest thing I can ever imagine myself seeing is Eddie Van Halen playing the drum track for Hot For Teacher and Al playing Eruption...

[sadaist]

Eddie looks great. And he is buying something for the drums at his home studio while they are recording some new music? Please? Thank you.

[tojoro]

So someone is a lowlife because they work in retail? How many poor fucks lost their 'real' jobs and had to take a lower paying job to support themselves or their families?
I work in a warehouse, so what does that make me?
Van Halen has always struck me as a people's band, the kind of music that gets the working class through their day.
This is a free country, and folks like myself have served so folks like yourself can voice their opinions freely, but that was fucked up knocking somebody just because they are in a lower tax bracket.

[fryingdutchman]

To all taking offense at the "lowlife" comment....get the sand out of your vaginas and get a sense of humor.

Like it or not, the retail service industry is chock full of 'em, and while the guy pictured above may NOT be one, I was painting with a broad brush.

I'm sure the Grainger guy pictured above is a wonderful, kind human being dedicated to customer service.

But if his face ever shows up on America's Most Wanted (or whatever similar type show you Aussies have, Markie) all of you over-sensitive bastards owe me an apology.

Un-fucking-believable. A post about Eddie's whereabouts and goings on (the first CREDIBLE piece of information on the forums lately by the way), and people pick apart a meaningless offhand comment about a retail sales clerk in Burbank that nobody knows.

All I can say is "wow"...

[Mr Walker]

Here's a picture of him with some lowlife retail hardware store manager!

May or may not be true, but this line made me laugh so hard I almost farted.

[fryingdutchman]

So someone is a lowlife because they work in retail? How many poor fucks lost their 'real' jobs and had to take a lower paying job to support themselves or their families?
I work in a warehouse, so what does that make me?
Van Halen has always struck me as a people's band, the kind of music that gets the working class through their day.
This is a free country, and folks like myself have served so folks like yourself can voice their opinions freely, but that was fucked up knocking somebody just because they are in a lower tax bracket.

Try to stay on topic, asshat.

Hey Panamark...take the word "lowlife" out of my original post so ol' tojoro here can pontificate about the actual topic at hand with his glorious 29th post...

We're waiting to see what insight you would have offered had you not felt compelled to come to the defense of the retail service industry.

Please, continue....

[tojoro]

Yep, there's also plenty of lowlifes in the upper echelons of industry as well.
Sorry, man...I don't mean to come off as a dickhole...just seemed like a cheap shot at folks who actually work for a living.
I take back the 'fuck you' smiley:0

[tojoro]

Wow...now I do feel like an asshat for being the bigger man and apologizing...
What does my post count have to do with anything? Just because you're over 2,000 posts makes you an overlord of some sort? Nice attitude...seems like you're the one with the sand in your vagina, pal.
Not for nothing...you're really scraping when you have to find some random pic of Ed shopping at Grainger.
Sorry to have gone off topic on your enlightening post, but what was there really to be on topic about?

[fryingdutchman]

Wow...now I do feel like an asshat for being the bigger man and apologizing...
What does my post count have to do with anything? Just because you're over 2,000 posts makes you an overlord of some sort? Nice attitude...seems like you're the one with the sand in your vagina, pal.
Not for nothing...you're really scraping when you have to find some random pic of Ed shopping at Grainger.
Sorry to have gone off topic on your enlightening post, but what was there really to be on topic about?

Apology accepted!

You are really much too sensitive, friend. There's a thread on here somewhere about Valerie Bertinelli's new sitcom with Betty White...your sensibilities may be better suited for that topic.

As for the pic being "random", I wouldn't say that something found on the Van Halen News Desk (Van Halen News Desk) is exactly "random."

Many of the threads that show up here originate from there.

What was there to be "on topic" about you ask? Perhaps you don't have enough time in here to notice, but the place is overrun with random speculation threads about the future of Van Halen, and what everyone thinks is going on. What's Ed doing? What's Dave doing? Is Mikey back in? Who's the next member of Van Halen to market a condiment? What's your "best guess"? etc... ad FUCKING infinitum...

None of it has any basis in any kind of fact. I was simply providing actual, real information about the latest goings on in the world of Eddie. That was the topic....albeit somewhat tongue in cheek.

But you're obviously not very keen on subtlety or sarcasm.

[fryingdutchman]

May or may not be true, but this line made me laugh so hard I almost farted.

Thank you for "getting it", Mr Walker.

[Anonymous]

Wow...now I do feel like an asshat for being the bigger man and apologizing...
What does my post count have to do with anything? Just because you're over 2,000 posts makes you an overlord of some sort? Nice attitude...seems like you're the one with the sand in your vagina, pal.
Not for nothing...you're really scraping when you have to find some random pic of Ed shopping at Grainger.
Sorry to have gone off topic on your enlightening post, but what was there really to be on topic about?

Spot on, dude.

Frying, you normally come across as a grate poster whit a good head on his shoulders, but that comment about the number of Tojoro's post was completely uncalled for.

Thankfully, this forum has very little of the retardedness of the rest of the internet, but every now & again a post pops up about the member number/number of posts.

Let me stress here once & for all, that that kind of behaviour, along with posting FRIST!!!11!! comments, l33tspeak, & a shitload of other retarded behaviour has contributed fiercely to hijack the internet from its original purpose of spreading free porn around the world & turn it into a cesspool of abhorrent stupidity that completely challenges any sane concept of evolution.

I now address every single member of this forum.

Please.

Don't be a retard.

Cheers! :bottle:

[tojoro]

Look, Dutch...
I said I was sorry...you don't seem to be picking up on that, as you continued to be pretty much condescending to me just because I said you were out of line.
Maybe I should of waited til after lunch to post. I work in a warehouse...along with that, I have to work with folks who look down their nose at me because of my position.
I chose my own career path, and this isn't yours or anyone's problem.
It's obvious I didn't set my sights too high in life, and that's tough shit for me, but it doesn't make me or folks in a position like mine any less of a human...just different.
You're also being a little sensitive yourself.