Is Eddie Van Halen Retiring?
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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?Scramby eggs and bacon.Comment
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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.....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 RothComment
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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.Comment
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