Confirmed! Eddie & Alex Alive And........ Well

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  • indeedido
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    • Feb 2004
    • 2293

    Confirmed! Eddie & Alex Alive And........ Well

    This one is a hoot. From melodicrock.com

    Great to see Eddie and Alex Van Halen out and about last night - nice one chaps! They joined country rocker Kenny Chesney on stage in LA...the same Kenny Chesney that Sammy Hagar has previously jammed with.
    From the LA Times: "The featured drink sold by sponsor Cruzan rum during Kenny Chesney's current tour is the Cruzan Confusion mango- and coconut-flavored liquors mixed with pineapple juice. Judging by the pre-show lines at the Home Depot Center in Carson on Saturday, this potion isn't as popular with the country rocker's fans as is his signature drink, a salty margarita. But enough Confusion was consumed to enhance the group bender caused by Chesney's performance.
    "Every year we've played in Los Angeles, the party's gotten bigger and bigger," declared Chesney (who shared the bill with up-and-comers Carrie Underwood and Dierks Bentley) early in the set. And crazier, no doubt. The moment the tanned and toned showman appeared on a satellite stage near the arena's rear (a trick he's done before), fans started rushing down the aisles. When Chesney hit the main stage two songs in, concert security was overcome by revelers pushing forward to high-five the star as he showered them with newly minted sweat. The mood of dangerous abandon was as intense as at any hip-hop or heavy metal show.
    How could the Academy of Country Music's entertainer of the year, who recently played at the White House and received a pair of eel-skin boots from the president, stimulate more reckless endangerment than Ozzy Osbourne? Chesney reveled in the apparent contradiction at the show's climax, he gloated that this was the largest crowd to ever see a country performance in Southern California, only to welcome onstage Eddie and Alex Van Halen, the brothers behind not a country act but one of heavy metal's most beloved bands. This came after his sometime duet partner Uncle Kracker, a rap-rocker from Detroit, loped onstage in a Run-DMC T-shirt to bust some old-school hip-hop moves. Chesney, rapping and rocking along, never lost his country cool."
    More: www.calendarlive.com.
    This space for rent.
  • binnie
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • May 2006
    • 19145

    #2
    The more I read about this, the more surreal it becomes....
    The Power Of The Riff Compels Me

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    • Roy Munson
      Veteran
      • Feb 2004
      • 1526

      #3
      The more I read about it, the more I feel like I'm about to have an anyuerism.
      Originally posted by ELVIS
      I guess you're right...

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      • binnie
        DIAMOND STATUS
        • May 2006
        • 19145

        #4
        Originally posted by Roy Munson
        The more I read about it, the more I feel like I'm about to have an anyuerism.
        LOL!
        The Power Of The Riff Compels Me

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        • DlocRoth
          ROCKSTAR

          • Jan 2004
          • 5521

          #5
          Sounds like Ed's switching it up to rum to me....

          Nothing more, nothing less.....
          Fuck Scott Weiland. Fucking asshole. I get trashed all the time and still go to work. And my job sucks ass. -ODShowtime

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          • binnie
            DIAMOND STATUS
            • May 2006
            • 19145

            #6
            You're probably right, singing for his supper so to speak...
            The Power Of The Riff Compels Me

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            • Vinnie Velvet
              Full Member Status

              • Feb 2004
              • 4662

              #7
              The brothers are just jealous that Dave has been getting all the publicity lately so they did something like this.
              =V V=
              ole No.1 The finest
              EAT US AND SMILE

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              • light 'em up!
                Foot Soldier
                • Mar 2004
                • 686

                #8
                Originally posted by Vinnie Velvet
                The brothers are just jealous that Dave has been getting all the publicity lately so they did something like this.
                What a couple of losers.

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                • binnie
                  DIAMOND STATUS
                  • May 2006
                  • 19145

                  #9
                  Yep...
                  The Power Of The Riff Compels Me

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                  • rothdaddy
                    Groupie
                    • Sep 2004
                    • 82

                    #10
                    It's nice to see Ed out in public and in front of thousands of people, especially after his mom passing away. Maybe he is testing the waters and seeing how he feels in front of a live crowd. Chesney and The Brothers chose to do a CVH song and not a Van Hagar song.

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                    • binnie
                      DIAMOND STATUS
                      • May 2006
                      • 19145

                      #11
                      Originally posted by rothdaddy
                      It's nice to see Ed out in public and in front of thousands of people, especially after his mom passing away. Maybe he is testing the waters and seeing how he feels in front of a live crowd. Chesney and The Brothers chose to do a CVH song and not a Van Hagar song.
                      I sure hope so, but we don't have any evidence.....

                      It is a surprise to see them after their mom passed away.
                      The Power Of The Riff Compels Me

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                      • Leadsinger777
                        Registered User
                        • Aug 2004
                        • 120

                        #12
                        I dunno... the whole thing looked kind of amateur to me...
                        ... probably just a harsh critic though.

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                        • MAPRamone
                          Head Fluffer
                          • Jun 2006
                          • 460

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Leadsinger777
                          I dunno... the whole thing looked kind of amateur to me...
                          ... probably just a harsh critic though.
                          I thought so too but EVH hasn't been in front of a live crowd in ages. Van Hagar 2004 doesn't count as he obviously didn't give a shit about anything then. The talent is still very much there, he just needs to get some discipline to get it to bloom again.
                          dm/dt=kA (Cs-C)

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                          • jcook11
                            Commando
                            • Sep 2004
                            • 1281

                            #14
                            Didn't Ed and Al used to have a band,I think I read that somewhere

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                            • Coyote
                              ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 8185

                              #15
                              Originally posted by jcook11
                              Didn't Ed and Al used to have a band,I think I read that somewhere
                              Aren't these the guys from REO Speedwagon?
                              Why settle for something you have, if it's not as good as something you're out to get?

                              Originally posted by Seshmeister
                              It's like putting up a YouTube of Bach and playing Chopstix on your Bontempi...

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