Is Eddie Van Halen Retiring?

[Nigel]

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Or, Has Wolfie eaten too many brown M&M's?

[ThatArtGuy]

Man, I couldn't even imagine the trolling he has to put up with...

[vandeleur]

Evh is to lazy to retire

[Kristy]

Evh is to lazy to retire

Too lazy, you pig-fucking limey.

See? This is what limeys are. Can't comprehend their own language.

[vandeleur]

Too lazy, you pig-fucking limey.

See? This is what limeys are. Can't comprehend their own language.

Remember when you had your meltdown when someone corrected your grammar ?

[Kristy]

No. I'm perfect.

Because I'm not a limey.

[vandeleur]

No. I'm perfect.

Because I'm not a limey.

Cool

[Kristy]

Why don't you limeys just leave? By leave, I mean the entire planet.

[Terry]

Evh is to lazy to retire

He has, in essence, been retired for nearly 20 years already. Least in terms of coming up with new music.

For the last ten years, he tours, plays Eruption, collects his paycheck, then buggers back off to his home studio to continue recording thousands of hours of musical ideas that nobody will ever hear.

Since Balance came out in...what...1994 or so, we've gotten 5 new tracks for 2 different greatest hits albums, a full length album with Cherone, and a full length album with Roth of which half the tunes were re-recorded/reworked old demos. That output represents nearly a quarter century of his career. Oh, yeah...I forgot the instrumental and the Van Hagar song he recorded for the Twister soundtrack and his work on that porn flick 11 years back. Sorry. Don't want to undersell Ed's prolific output.

I think it's clear Wolfgang was making a flippant remark. Even so, does it even matter if Ed retires?

[TFM_Dale]

No chatbox anymore? Cheap fuckers.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

He has, in essence, been retired for nearly 20 years already. Least in terms of coming up with new music.

For the last ten years, he tours, plays Eruption, collects his paycheck, then buggers back off to his home studio to continue recording thousands of hours of musical ideas that nobody will ever hear.

Since Balance came out in...what...1994 or so, we've gotten 5 new tracks for 2 different greatest hits albums, a full length album with Cherone, and a full length album with Roth of which half the tunes were re-recorded/reworked old demos. That output represents nearly a quarter century of his career. Oh, yeah...I forgot the instrumental and the Van Hagar song he recorded for the Twister soundtrack and his work on that porn flick 11 years back. Sorry. Don't want to undersell Ed's prolific output.

I think it's clear Wolfgang was making a flippant remark. Even so, does it even matter if Ed retires?

I had no problem with VH exhuming the old studio stuff for ADKOT, especially after dolts like Hagar complained about the lack of originality (like there is a statute of limitations for song-writing)....

But for as much as VH fans constantly heard about the "tons" of shit in the "vaults", there it stays.....

[DLR Bridge]

I had no problem with VH exhuming the old studio stuff for ADKOT, especially after dolts like Hagar complained about the lack of originality (like there is a statute of limitations for song-writing)....

What happened with ADKOT has me wondering why they claimed to not have enough original material at the ready when working on Diver Down and were forced to lace the platter with cover tunes. There are numerous original riffs and melodies from the club days that didn't get touched when this last CD was made. They must have really had a low opinion of the remainder of their work. I also think retooling their originals in '82 would have been less work than researching, learning, then putting their own personal stamp on a fist full of covers. I can think of at least 10 club days original songs that I wished got the Where Were You Last Nite? to Hang'em High treatment.

[Seshmeister]

No chatbox anymore? Cheap fuckers.

We had to take it down for security reasons, it was being attacked by hackers.

Nothing to stop anyone linking to a chatroom elsewhere.

[Seshmeister]

No chatbox anymore? Cheap fuckers.

We had to take it down for security reasons, it was being attacked by hackers.

Nothing to stop anyone linking to a chatroom elsewhere.

[TFM_Dale]

We had to take it down for security reasons, it was being attacked by hackers.

Nothing to stop anyone linking to a chatroom elsewhere.

Gotcha. People have to ruin everything. Was always handy to pop in and BS occasionally.