Originally Posted by
Terry
It's been...what...coming up on three years since Eddie passed?
A live tribute now does seem a bit late. I guess there was some interest from Alex and Dave with that whole Satriani and Newstead thing but that ultimately fizzled out. Maybe some people would have liked to have seen that. I personally wouldn't. Do a live dvd release - or video footage people can stream via purchase or rental - of whatever CVH material is kicking around be it in Dave's/Alex's/Mike's collections...material that either hasn't been seen before or stuff bootlegged for decades that is professionally restored. Pay tribute to Eddie that way rather than trying to pay tribute by having someone else play Ed's licks; the real deal as opposed to someone imitating.
But, yeah, the Van Halens and Dave (and this is an old story) can't seem to get anything together for whatever reasons. Far as a live tribute now, maybe that's for the best anyway.
Hagar would doubtless be up for whatever. But what would be worth hearing from Hagar, Mike and Alex and some other guitar player who isn't Eddie? Drag some Eddie noodlings out of the unreleased recordings at 5150 and have the others try and construct a 'new' song a la The Beatles with Free As A Bird and Real Love in the mid-1990s? I'm sure there are some diehard Eddie fans who would like that...can't say as I would. At least if Alex opts to do nothing Van Halen won't end up like Lynyrd Skynyrd and start picking at the corpse.