Is this true?

[jsdspif]

Years ago ('84 or so) I read an article with Ed and he was talking about Alan Holdsworth being great . He said he could play anybodies stuff on guitar except for Alan Holdsworth stuff .

[Phil da Stalker]

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Originally posted by JOE THUNDER, LP
who the fuck cares anyway?

..sniffle.. .. ..dis re-MINDS mme aff wen I met Jay RayCUNTal..

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..mmi dreems wer desTROYied t2..sniff..

..i will neva feeeel da sam agin..

..doe-N'''t DREem yoo'llll onLAY wakk up!

[squib]

that was the site I posted above here's the section of the interview

DIAMOND DAVE: Everybody got off easy! Those pencil-weenies all got off easy and they better leave me alone. Beyond that, I'm proud of Van Halen! That was a great and furious team, and of course there's threats of physical violence and great reprimand and harangue and a whole bunch of stuff those pencil-dicks can't even spell! And they know that, and it makes them mad and they can't sleep at night and they fight with their loved ones and their children don't listen to them and their household pets refuse to obey! And all that angst comes out in the music and sells millions of records! And that makes me lucky. If the guitar player would just show up, you and I would be drinking Eurotrash espressos in paper cups backstage at Giants Stadium tomorrow! Voila! Let me send the plane for you, darlin'! We could do that! And it may well be tomorrow, who knows? Eddie Van Halen--and I've said this before because I can't think of any better way to put it--has his own sense of logic, as do all people with some kind of vision, whether it's Eddie Van Halen or the Unabomber. He's using a logic and a program that I don't understand, but then again he leads a very different life than I do. When I was up there [with Van Halen], I was jamming with psychics and therapists and managers and agents and production geeks and somebody's wives. When I joined that band, there were four guys. I think there's a whole lot that has changed in Ed's life, but if it gives him solace and nourishes his very being, then God bless.

[thefive]

Originally posted by squib
that was the site I posted above here's the section of the interview

DIAMOND DAVE: Everybody got off easy! Those pencil-weenies all got off easy and they better leave me alone. Beyond that, I'm proud of Van Halen! That was a great and furious team, and of course there's threats of physical violence and great reprimand and harangue and a whole bunch of stuff those pencil-dicks can't even spell! And they know that, and it makes them mad and they can't sleep at night and they fight with their loved ones and their children don't listen to them and their household pets refuse to obey! And all that angst comes out in the music and sells millions of records! And that makes me lucky. If the guitar player would just show up, you and I would be drinking Eurotrash espressos in paper cups backstage at Giants Stadium tomorrow! Voila! Let me send the plane for you, darlin'! We could do that! And it may well be tomorrow, who knows? Eddie Van Halen--and I've said this before because I can't think of any better way to put it--has his own sense of logic, as do all people with some kind of vision, whether it's Eddie Van Halen or the Unabomber. He's using a logic and a program that I don't understand, but then again he leads a very different life than I do. When I was up there [with Van Halen], I was jamming with psychics and therapists and managers and agents and production geeks and somebody's wives. When I joined that band, there were four guys. I think there's a whole lot that has changed in Ed's life, but if it gives him solace and nourishes his very being, then God bless.

Thanks squib for looking this up. This is in his book right? or not. I thought maybe I read this in his book under the reunion blues.

thefive