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    Eddie helps bring music to schools

    Rock legend Eddie Van Halen helps bring music back to schools

    By Ben Bamsey, CNN

    Updated 0945 GMT (1745 HKT) February 22, 2017





    (CNN)Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Eddie Van Halen credits music with keeping him out of trouble -- and he asks an important question: "Could you imagine a world without music?"
    "It's a must," Van Halen told CNN's John Vause during an interview Tuesday. "It has to be taught."

    In an era when schools are forced to cut budgets, it's often non-essential programs like music that gets the axe. A study compiled by the NAMM foundation found that kids who play instruments get better grades, have higher IQs and lower their chances of drug and alcohol abuse later in life.

    Van Halen learned to play piano when he was six, formed his first band with his brother, Alex, in the 4th grade and went on to become the eighth greatest guitarist of all-time, according to Rolling Stone magazine.

    "My whole life has been music," he told Vause. "I could not imagine anything else."
    "It really hit me when I graduated high school, you sign everybody's yearbook and everybody asks you, 'So what college are you going to?' Uh... 'Hey Al, I think we better stick to what we know.'"
    "It's the gift that keeps on giving"

    Van Halen said music helped him survive and pay the rent ever since.
    He now wants to ensure other children have a similar chance to rock.

    Several years ago, he took 75 guitars from his personal collection and gave them away to public school kids through the nonprofit organization Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation.
    "It's the gift that keeps on giving," the charity's president and CEO Felice Mancini told CNN. "The kids share the guitars, they learn, they graduate and then the instruments stay in the school."

    The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation delivers 1,800 instruments each year to low-income schools, providing more than 10,000 children with a musical education.
    "Our goal is to give kids every tool they can possibly have to succeed. Music is the common denominator," Mancini said. "You put a kid in a music class and it builds community, communication and they find a place. It's a safe haven."

    It's all made possible by donations from people who have an old violin or saxophone in the attic -- and even guitar gods like Van Halen.

    "Music is such a necessity. It touches people's souls," he told CNN. "Music is the universal language to me. It transcends everything."
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    Shenanigans. Looks like lazy millionaire Eddie is looking for a tax write off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kristy View Post
    Shenanigans. Looks like lazy millionaire Eddie is looking for a tax write off.
    You mean Eddie once he kicked the fog of cocaine and booze has a clear enough mind to start thinking about tax write offs?
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    A 75 guitar tax write off. So...yeah.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kristy View Post
    A 75 guitar tax write off. So...yeah.
    Well put yourself in the school kids shoes. They got some guitars to play and pretty cool to have them be from a guitar legend. If Ed assigns a value that he can write off well that's life. Basically he emptied his storage room with stuff he wasn't using and let someone else enjoy what he had.

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    Naw, I'd rather put myself into Eddie's shoes and build myself a nice little off-shore tax shelter.

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    As a tax right off or as a charitable donation or both, $50k(or less) isn't a huge amount for him in the great scheme of things.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    As a tax right off or as a charitable donation or both, $50k(or less) isn't a huge amount for him in the great scheme of things.
    I don't even think it entered his mind. He saw the LA school district needed some help with their music program and he had a bunch of instruments laying around he wasn't using. The wife probably wanted to see them go. Ha! ha!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kristy View Post
    Naw, I'd rather put myself into Eddie's shoes and build myself a nice little off-shore tax shelter.
    Well buy you some EVH All Stars and get practicing. Nobody gave Eddie anything. The guy wasn't exactly born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He put a few hours in to earn what he has.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    As a tax right off or as a charitable donation or both, $50k(or less) isn't a huge amount for him in the great scheme of things.
    Weren't they all Peaveys, and donated after he signed with Fender?
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    Quote Originally Posted by twonabomber View Post
    Weren't they all Peaveys, and donated after he signed with Fender?


    Yup they are Peavey's. If Peavey came out with a different layout they would send one out to Ed to have him check it out and sign off on it. So you are going to have a mix of single coil, hum buckers and different kinds of bridges. I have a Peavey Wolfgang. Out of all the guitars I ever have purchased it has the neatest wiring, Not much to go wrong with one and since the Term doesn't float less tuning issues. Nice necks. Should be good guitars to learn on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nitro Express View Post
    I don't even think it entered his mind. He saw the LA school district needed some help with their music program and he had a bunch of instruments laying around he wasn't using. The wife probably wanted to see them go. Ha! ha!
    He needed to clean the shed and make room for his celebrity dog...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    Rock legend Eddie Van Halen helps bring music back to schools

    By Ben Bamsey, CNN
    ...lower their chances of drug and alcohol abuse later in life.
    ...
    Well, that might not quite be Eddie Van Halen's experience, but good on him for doing this...
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    I don't know...


    Looks like fake news to me.

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