Tune in to @piersmorganlive on CNN as he interviews @eddievanhalen and @llcoolj, Friday, May 3rd at 6pm, 9pm and 12am PST.— Eddie Van Halen (@eddievanhalen) May 2, 2013
Tune in to @piersmorganlive on CNN as he interviews @eddievanhalen and @llcoolj, Friday, May 3rd at 6pm, 9pm and 12am PST.— Eddie Van Halen (@eddievanhalen) May 2, 2013
Same ole song and dance...
Finally somebody to straighten out Piers on gun control.
"Nothing gets a yak over a suspension bridge faster than 'Back in the Saddle Again' by Aerosmith" ~ DLR
I currently don't have cable.. I just use Internet. Will have to wait for you guys to post it here.
“Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”
Van Halen `Gun Thing' Behind Him
DAVE LARSEN, Cox News Service
Published 4:00 am, Monday, April 24, 1995
1995-04-24 04:00:00 PDT Chicago -- Eddie Van Halen refers to the incident as "the gun thing." The gun, a loaded .25-caliber Beretta, was found inside the rock guitarist's carry-on luggage on April 7 before he boarded a United Airlines flight in Burbank, Calif., for a performance in Oakland. Van Halen was briefly detained and later charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, a misdemeanor. On Friday, he pleaded no contest to the charge and entered a plea agreement with the Burbank city attorney's office.
"We'd been traveling for a month on our own plane, and I carry a gun with me for protection," Van Halen said from Chicago. "I forgot to take it out of my bag on a commercial flight. It wasn't like I was trying to sneak it on the plane. I just totally spaced and forgot to take it out of my bag."
The guitarist remembered the gun as he sent his bag through the airport security X-ray machine and alerted airport police, "but it was too late, because it was already on the conveyor belt," he said. "If I would have caught it two seconds earlier, I could've have just sent it home and not gotten in trouble for it."
CANCELED CONCERTS
Ironically, when Van Halen arrived in Oakland, he learned singer Sammy Hagar was ill, forcing the band to cancel its three concerts scheduled for that weekend. (The concerts have been rescheduled for May 13 at the Oakland Coliseum, May 14 at the San Jose Arena and May 14 at the Arco Arena.) "So I get arrested for the gun and didn't really even have to go. If Sammy had told me an hour earlier, I wouldn't have had to fly up there."
Van Halen was fined $1,000 and sentenced to one year of probation on April 13. His gun, seized at the airport, was destroyed.
"I don't condone it," Van Halen said. "It was a stupid . . . mistake." However, he makes no apologies for carrying a handgun.
"Just two weeks ago at our house -- there's a van out in front of my house for a week, with people stalking us. It happens all the time. The cops come up, they chase 'em away, they come back in the middle of the night.
"I don't know if they're just nice fans or if they're freaks. I have no idea, and I have to protect my family. So I carry a gun."
Otherwise, Van Halen's life couldn't be better. He's married to actress Valerie Bertinelli, and they have a 4-year-old son, Wolfgang.
"Balance," the latest release by the band that bears his surname, debuted in February at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart and has sold more than 2 million copies.
Perhaps best of all, the guitarist has been sober for nearly seven months.
LEGENDARY PARTYING
Van Halen's reputation for party-hearty excess is the stuff of rock legend. The band's 1978 self- titled debut catapulted the quartet's original lineup -- Holland- born brothers Eddie and Alex Van Halen, bassist Michael Anthony and singer David Lee Roth -- into the limelight, where the young performers reveled in rock's hedonistic lifestyle.
Van Halen's lineup changed in 1985, with Hagar replacing Roth, but the hard drinking did not. "My body started retaliating," said Van Halen, who turned 40 in January. "I'd wake up every morning with the shakes and throwing up, and I would need a six-pack of beer just to feel nor mal. I was a true alcoholic."
Van Halen, who revolutionized the rock guitar with an entirely new language of screeching tremolo dive-bombs and lightning-fast hammer-ons, is the most influential guitarist of his generation. In spite of his heavy intake -- "a couple of shots of vodka and a lot of beer in order to calm my nerves" before getting on stage -- he claims drinking never affected his playing.
"In a positive way, it broke down my inhibitions writing- wise, so things came easy," he said. "Whereas now, I'd say the last six months, I've actually written a few tunes, and I'm starting to get in the groove of learning how to do it without alcohol."
Having emerged from an 18- year fog, as he describes it, Van Halen is playing better than ever. "There's an actual, genuine enthusiasm and excitement about my playing now. For me, myself, anyway."
Still, there's an ingrained association between playing and drinking. "As soon as I walk into the studio or to soundcheck today at the gig, the first thing I do is light up a cigarette and grab a nonalcoholic beer," he said. "But when I'm not in that environment, I don't. It's very strange."
NO THOUGHT OF A DRINK
Yet, when he performed his first show sober in Pensacola, Fla., before MTV cameras and 9,154 fans, the thought of a drink didn't enter his mind. "I know that I just cannot drink anymore," Van Halen said. "I'd either kill myself or my wife would leave me or something would happen. It's just not an option anymore for me.
"After I made it through that show, I said, boom, I'm done with drinking. I know I can do it now without it."
Van Halen has succeeded alone against his drinking where Alcoholics Anonymous and two previous trips to rehabilitation centers failed, but he's yet to overcome his shyness.
"That's why I drank for all those years," he said. "But now I'm just starting to realize that I'm actually not such a bad guy, and I can handle it."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/...#ixzz2S7gdLSb4
Originally Posted by Seshmeister
It's nice that the story has a happy ending.
I'm guessing that trying to get a handgun onto a plane in the US is no longer a $1000 fine misdemeanor?
i wonder what they'll talk about ?
what do they have in common ??
I thought this thread was gonna be Edwad discussing Sesh...
Fuck Piers Morgan...
Why did Va have to fuck with my smilies...
:fupunk:
Fuck u, ELVIS, fuuuuuuuuuck u.
=V V=
ole No.1 The finest
EAT US AND SMILE
What's wrong with it, not moving?
Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee Roth
I can't wait to see this interview.
Ed has a thing for CNN. They also profiled him and Wolfie during the tour showing the holy grail...the infamous "tape room" at 5150.
Originally posted by perilouspete
fryingdutchman you pretty much own everyone.....sick comebacks, well put. top class wit.
Sorry...had to try E's smiley. Moves for me!
Yeah its a little worse now, but you do get an all expense paid trip to an undisclosed location.
And its really not a good idea if your a raging alcoholic.
" You ever notice when I scream I sound like Mr. Bill on acid" DLR
No, I always used
fu punk I mean...
:fupunk:
My smilies are out of memory, you fucked me up...
I wonder why these guys are doing more press?
6 years too late, but why now?
The Power Of The Riff Compels Me
There ya go....No, I always used
Thank you...
Lemme test it...
So did anyone watch it tonite? Not much to it really, Ed talked about doing the solo for Beat It, the thing he did with LL Cool J, was about a 10 minute segment, he did look really healthy though, that's always great to see....
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LOL - "who's going to know if I play on this black kid's record?"
I think a person could do more damage with their fist than a .25 auto. I love how he blames Sam. LOL!
Last edited by Nitro Express; 05-03-2013 at 11:37 PM.
No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!
Now the inept TSA misses the gun because they are too busy shaking down grandma checking for explosives in her Depends.
I saw it. He looked good. And agreed, pretty short segment. Ed jumped in with a couple of jokes to keep it light when it looked LL was getting ready to street preach. I actually listened to the songs again, not bad. Not my thing but I don't hate them and good to see Ed out there doing stuff. And he did give a lot of credit to Wolf in the interview so it's obvious he's a driving force in VH doing anything.
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Some one gonna post the rest
fuck your fucking framing
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Hey Vinnie...is this you shouting in the background around 2:35?
For some reason you just reminded me of this clip, one of the most kickass scenes in the past 40 years.....
With AWESOME guitar work by Randy Hansen!!!
Never get off the fucking boat.....
Last edited by Hardrock69; 05-04-2013 at 12:29 PM.
Thanks for posting video Sesh.
My thoughts...
Eddie, it's rap. It's not diverse....
Hey kudos to Ed for wanting to do something like that. Sounds like it may be interesting, but I reserve judgement until I actually hear some of it.
Prepare to be underwhelmed. The songs are terrible, just dumb. LL sounds like an idiot. The guitar work is OK, but we already knew that.
I given EVH his props for trying anything new,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hes got nuthin to prove to anybody at this point.....except himself
Its too bad that both tunes completely suck. Christ I think Eddies lost it. (He looked bleary eyed anyway).
His guitar riffs on these 2 tunes are no better than what what I could squeeze out of our cat.
At least Beat It's solo was exciting!
LOL!Hey Vinnie...is this you shouting in the background around 2:35?
For some reason you just reminded me of this clip, one of the most kickass scenes in the past 40 years.....
With AWESOME guitar work by Randy Hansen!!!
Never get off the fucking boat.....
Actually I wasn't thinking about that scene.
Hilarious.
Its a good thing this is out in the open (Ed's collaboration with LL).
Otherwise Dave would've heard the song being blasted outside 7-Eleven while saying to himself "that sure sounds like Edward.."
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