Where will Eddie be in five years?

[Nitro Express]

Where will Eddie be in 5 years? It all depends if the funeral home cremates his remains or buries them. He could end up in a cemitary like Forrest Lawn or be sprinkled over the Sunset Strip.

[DLR7884]

Originally posted by Wayne L.
Where will Eddie be in five years?

I think the real question is, "where will Wayne L be in 5 years?"

The answer:

Still living with his mother.

DLR7884
You are pathetic.

[rustoffa]

Re: Where will Eddie be in five years?

Originally posted by Wayne L.
Where will Eddie be in five years?

On trial for molesting numerous liquor store owners at his fifty one shitty ranch.

[rucalobe]

I see four employment scenarios for EVH:

1. Working as a porn shop booth attendant;
2. Working as a dishwasher over at Spammy's Cabo Wabo cantina;
3. Playing guitar over at Los Angeles International Airport for scraps;
4. Driving a tour guide van where the route ends over at Dave's house!

EVH is over...that's what he wanted and that's what he got!!!

[cdwillis]

Face it, he's not going to release anymore music unless it involves beer farts and coughing up his lungs. Who would have imagined him like this 25 years ago?

[shaggydoo]

Where will Eddie be in five years?

In five years eddie will finally concede to working with dave ...

... by requiring dave to perform his EMT skills to save his sickly corpse-like body.

[Terry]

Question should be is anybody gonna give a shit about Ed in 5 years?

Can't say Ed putting out a solo album is gonna generate any excitement outside of Guitar Worlds' readership.

Just don't have any use for the guy short of a CVH reunion. Gave all his stuff post-1985 a chance. The guy doesn't have the capability to come up with anything interesting anymore. That's the bottom line. His failing health, relations between past and present VH members, and his longtime addictions are of secondary interest at best.

[vheddyrmv8]

He will be passed out on his couch with a bottle of Smoking Loon in his hand.

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by Terry
Question should be is anybody gonna give a shit about Ed in 5 years?

Can't say Ed putting out a solo album is gonna generate any excitement outside of Guitar Worlds' readership.

Just don't have any use for the guy short of a CVH reunion. Gave all his stuff post-1985 a chance. The guy doesn't have the capability to come up with anything interesting anymore. That's the bottom line. His failing health, relations between past and present VH members, and his longtime addictions are of secondary interest at best.

Nobody gives a shit about Ed now, and that includes the people closest to him - his band.

Alex should never have set up 2004's tour with Sam. Not because of "I hate Sam" bullshit, but simply because Ed obviously was not ready to do it. I really get the strong feeling that Alex strong-armed Ed into the tour (based solely on Ed's outside, and often onstage) behavior during the whole thing. By pretty much all accounts, he didn't look happy and he didn't act happy. A lot of that, I suppose, could be chalked up to the fact that he most likely didn't want to work with Sam again, but overall I think his health is weak and touring (even on the minor scale they did) is a drag on a person.

Mike, of course, is going to do the same thing he's always done - and that's whatever Ed or Al has told him to do. By Ed's own admission, Mike isn't even really close to either one of them, and that point is driven home by Mike's lame-duck excuses whenever he's questioned about Ed ( "Oh, well, Ed's a grown-up, and if he wants to drink/smoke himself into the grave, well, that's his business - but I do want to reiterate that Sammy and I are great friends!" ).

What I have a really hard time understanding is this - Ed is in SERIOUS, serious need of some intervention in his life. He's lost his wife, his son lives with her, he's "recovering" (so we're told) from cancer, his career as a musician is non-existant compared to what it used to be, he can't keep his band together (whoever's in it this week), his personal life is probably in shambles, and he's still smoking and drinking like he's 21 and there's no tomorrow.

Where's Alex? His own brother brings him out of hiding on a tour he probably didn't want to do, and definately wasn't in condition to do? That's his idea of "therapy"?

Where's Sam? For all his professed love of Ed, he finishes up the tour, quits the band and then starts shit-talking Ed, talking about what a miserable human being Ed is? Which is probably the case, but for Christs sake, I wouldn't act that way towards any of my ex bandmates, no matter how much I dislike them and their actions - and I haven't.

Where's Mike? Out on tour with his buddy Sam, blind as a bat, seemingly careless that his bandmate of 30 odd years is driving himself into an early grave.

Jesus Christ, David hasn't been a full time member of the band for 20 years now and he's shown Ed more compassion than either of those 3 fucks has.

If things continue as they are, I'll tell you exactly where Ed's going to be - pushing up daiseys and forgotten by the people who are supposed to be the closest to him.

And other websites wonder why we hate the other guys as much as we do. It should be fucking plain to see.

[Terry]

Originally posted by bueno bob
Nobody gives a shit about Ed now, and that includes the people closest to him - his band.

Alex should never have set up 2004's tour with Sam. Not because of "I hate Sam" bullshit, but simply because Ed obviously was not ready to do it. I really get the strong feeling that Alex strong-armed Ed into the tour (based solely on Ed's outside, and often onstage) behavior during the whole thing. By pretty much all accounts, he didn't look happy and he didn't act happy. A lot of that, I suppose, could be chalked up to the fact that he most likely didn't want to work with Sam again, but overall I think his health is weak and touring (even on the minor scale they did) is a drag on a person.

Mike, of course, is going to do the same thing he's always done - and that's whatever Ed or Al has told him to do. By Ed's own admission, Mike isn't even really close to either one of them, and that point is driven home by Mike's lame-duck excuses whenever he's questioned about Ed ( "Oh, well, Ed's a grown-up, and if he wants to drink/smoke himself into the grave, well, that's his business - but I do want to reiterate that Sammy and I are great friends!" ).

What I have a really hard time understanding is this - Ed is in SERIOUS, serious need of some intervention in his life. He's lost his wife, his son lives with her, he's "recovering" (so we're told) from cancer, his career as a musician is non-existant compared to what it used to be, he can't keep his band together (whoever's in it this week), his personal life is probably in shambles, and he's still smoking and drinking like he's 21 and there's no tomorrow.

Where's Alex? His own brother brings him out of hiding on a tour he probably didn't want to do, and definately wasn't in condition to do? That's his idea of "therapy"?

Where's Sam? For all his professed love of Ed, he finishes up the tour, quits the band and then starts shit-talking Ed, talking about what a miserable human being Ed is? Which is probably the case, but for Christs sake, I wouldn't act that way towards any of my ex bandmates, no matter how much I dislike them and their actions - and I haven't.

Where's Mike? Out on tour with his buddy Sam, blind as a bat, seemingly careless that his bandmate of 30 odd years is driving himself into an early grave.

Jesus Christ, David hasn't been a full time member of the band for 20 years now and he's shown Ed more compassion than either of those 3 fucks has.

If things continue as they are, I'll tell you exactly where Ed's going to be - pushing up daiseys and forgotten by the people who are supposed to be the closest to him.

And other websites wonder why we hate the other guys as much as we do. It should be fucking plain to see.

All of that may well be true.

Obviously, Ed's spiritual/mental/emotional/physical well-being is (or should be) of concern to those who know him and care about him.

I neither know EVH nor care about him, beyond what comes out of his amplifier. Not wishing any ill-will towards him, but if the guy ends up dying drunk and alone a month from now it's not gonna have any impact on my life. It'll be a shame that he kept on smoking and drinking and frittered away his talent out of laziness, for sure. But it won't be a tragedy.

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by Terry
All of that may well be true.

Obviously, Ed's spiritual/mental/emotional/physical well-being is (or should be) of concern to those who know him and care about him.

I neither know EVH nor care about him, beyond what comes out of his amplifier. Not wishing any ill-will towards him, but if the guy ends up dying drunk and alone a month from now it's not gonna have any impact on my life. It'll be a shame that he kept on smoking and drinking and frittered away his talent out of laziness, for sure. But it won't be a tragedy.

I see that. Personally, I don't know Ed either, nor care about him on a personal level per se, but...I was a big fan of his, a huge fan (years and years ago), and it really bothers me that the people who could be helping him seemingly aren't, you know?

[Terry]

Originally posted by bueno bob
I see that. Personally, I don't know Ed either, nor care about him on a personal level per se, but...I was a big fan of his, a huge fan (years and years ago), and it really bothers me that the people who could be helping him seemingly aren't, you know?

I can dig it.

In the end, Ed is a grown man. Gotta help yourself at some point, you know? That's why the view of Ed as a victim (alcoholism/smoking/failed marriage/waning career etc) just doesn't hold any weight with me. Not to minimize whatever shit Ed has went through or is still battling, but all of it comes down to personal choices and individual responsibility in the end. The whole notion of 1996 being scuttled due to Scotty Ross or whatever is just horseshit. Ed made the choice to boot Hagar and work with Dave, then continue with Cherone after the BOV1 bruehaha passed.

Ed knows what he needs to do to bring Van Halen back in the public eye. Ed knows what the record sales are. Ed knows which era of the band people are interested in seeing. If he didn't in 1996, then he sure as fuck did by the time 2004 was over.

Far as EVH goes, the only thing he's gonna do that will retain my interest is to put CVH back together or do something with Dave. Short of that, he's got nothing else to offer.

[johnburrows]

In five years, Eddie will be resting from just finishing a world tour with the classic VH lineup. He'll have already released the solo album with three songs sung by the Diamond Dave. He'll be getting ready to record a new classic VH album.

[Hardrock69]

Yeah, they will take his body out on tour, propped up by a mic stand and some duct tape.

[TOM_5150]

Originally posted by bueno bob
Nobody gives a shit about Ed now, and that includes the people closest to him - his band.

Alex should never have set up 2004's tour with Sam. Not because of "I hate Sam" bullshit, but simply because Ed obviously was not ready to do it. I really get the strong feeling that Alex strong-armed Ed into the tour (based solely on Ed's outside, and often onstage) behavior during the whole thing. By pretty much all accounts, he didn't look happy and he didn't act happy. A lot of that, I suppose, could be chalked up to the fact that he most likely didn't want to work with Sam again, but overall I think his health is weak and touring (even on the minor scale they did) is a drag on a person.

Mike, of course, is going to do the same thing he's always done - and that's whatever Ed or Al has told him to do. By Ed's own admission, Mike isn't even really close to either one of them, and that point is driven home by Mike's lame-duck excuses whenever he's questioned about Ed ( "Oh, well, Ed's a grown-up, and if he wants to drink/smoke himself into the grave, well, that's his business - but I do want to reiterate that Sammy and I are great friends!" ).

What I have a really hard time understanding is this - Ed is in SERIOUS, serious need of some intervention in his life. He's lost his wife, his son lives with her, he's "recovering" (so we're told) from cancer, his career as a musician is non-existant compared to what it used to be, he can't keep his band together (whoever's in it this week), his personal life is probably in shambles, and he's still smoking and drinking like he's 21 and there's no tomorrow.

Where's Alex? His own brother brings him out of hiding on a tour he probably didn't want to do, and definately wasn't in condition to do? That's his idea of "therapy"?

Where's Sam? For all his professed love of Ed, he finishes up the tour, quits the band and then starts shit-talking Ed, talking about what a miserable human being Ed is? Which is probably the case, but for Christs sake, I wouldn't act that way towards any of my ex bandmates, no matter how much I dislike them and their actions - and I haven't.

Where's Mike? Out on tour with his buddy Sam, blind as a bat, seemingly careless that his bandmate of 30 odd years is driving himself into an early grave.

Jesus Christ, David hasn't been a full time member of the band for 20 years now and he's shown Ed more compassion than either of those 3 fucks has.

If things continue as they are, I'll tell you exactly where Ed's going to be - pushing up daiseys and forgotten by the people who are supposed to be the closest to him.

And other websites wonder why we hate the other guys as much as we do. It should be fucking plain to see.

You made some good points about Ed. I saw last year's show in Houston and let me tell you, Ed was smiling a lot. Ed wasn't smiling because he was happy that Spam was temporarily back in the band; he was smiling because he enjoyed playing for the fans. Every time Spam walked by Ed; Ed would just go the other way, it was hilarious. Ed will be back with Dave soon. Ed's playing hasn't suffered either, he smoked through the whole Houston show.