Rare Eddie Van Halen Interview To Be Featured In Esquire Magazine

[fourthcoming]

I am such a pussy, I welled up a few times reading the article and the outtakes. A great read!!!!

Then I'm a feline too my friend.

[DLR'sCock]

I don't like the news about the finding of cancer cells though at all.

[guwapo_rocker]

http://www.esquire.com/the-side/musi...w-2012-8147775

ESQ: What are you going to do with all the material that you wrote with Sammy Hagar?

EVH: Oh, I hadn't thought about that. That's some great music. They're just on vacation, maybe.

I do not like that one bit! Nope, not at all!

[DavidLeeNatra]

I do not like that one bit! Nope, not at all!

that's a "high road answer"...what else should he say? "my songwriting sucked for 11 years plus three songs"

that's a good answer...permanent vacation...good thing for this stuff...

[Nigel]

I wonder why Dave would need to be convinced that a double CD might be worth doing. Ed was a little too polite to the Hagar era songs (kids). I hope they're on a permenant vacation!

Dave's too much of a business man to give the fans a 7 course meal all at once. Better to have some hors d'oeuvres, have a few drinks, a smoke and light conversation before
going down on each other. I'm convinced the next one is in the can already. Perhaps Dave realizes that the "scariest" part of the interview is the cancer bit.

The BIG C has a way of winning more times than not. I trust that Dave's business sense and his love for his bandmates will reveal more goodies for us all down the road.

[ZahZoo]

Excellent interview!!

The cancer discussion is concerning...

Ed painted a completely different picture of Wolf's role in the band than in Dave's interviews... Not that either is wrong. sounds like there's Planet Van Halen musically... with Wolfgang in the drivers seat. Then there's Van Halen the band with the singer present and roles shift to the old farts...

[gbranton]

The BIG C has a way of winning more times than not. I trust that Dave's business sense and his love for his bandmates will reveal more goodies for us all down the road.

My parents are 0 - 2 against it in the past 365 days. Frankly that part of the interview frightens me for Ed.

[Mr Walker]

Here's a couple things I took from the interview

- Ed is one bad fight with Janie away from being back on the sauce
- When someone says "I don't even want to drink anymore" it translates to "I'm thinking about drinking"
- His domineering mother (Ed even calls her Hitler) must be the reason that Ed (and I guess to some point Al) always needs a leader in his life (David, Valerie, Scam, Janie and Wolf)... no wonder the whole '1996'/VHIII was such a car crash... no one was steering the car.
- It's never a good thing when a child (Wolf) seems to be parenting the parent (Ed)

Bottom line... the only way this good thing keeps on rolling is by Janie and Wolf keeping Ed on the straight and narrow.

[vandeleur]

Wow man, this is a damn good article. Gives me alot of hope for more VH albums in the future. Fuckin' Wolfie man......god bless that dude.

Wolfie gets why people get vh , not fly by night van Hagar fans , he gets than vh are a rock n roll warts n all kick ass outfit ... Long may it continue

[ZahZoo]

Here's a couple things I took from the interview

- Ed is one bad fight with Janie away from being back on the sauce
- When someone says "I don't even want to drink anymore" it translates to "I'm thinking about drinking"
- His domineering mother (Ed even calls her Hitler) must be the reason that Ed (and I guess to some point Al) always needs a leader in his life (David, Valerie, Scam, Janie and Wolf)... no wonder the whole '1996'/VHIII was such a car crash... no one was steering the car.
- It's never a good thing when a child (Wolf) seems to be parenting the parent (Ed)

Bottom line... the only way this good thing keeps on rolling is by Janie and Wolf keeping Ed on the straight and narrow.

You nailed it Senor Walker... especially your last 2 points!!

[Zing!]

Damn... Best EVH interview ever?

[chi-town324]

I knew the kid was behind the old deep cuts coming out on the tour. I'm convinced that this current lineup, album, and the last 2 tours wouldn't never have happened without Wolfie.. Gotta give big props to the guy!!

[Terry]

I knew the kid was behind the old deep cuts coming out on the tour. I'm convinced that this current lineup, album, and the last 2 tours wouldn't never have happened without Wolfie.. Gotta give big props to the guy!!

I get the feeling Ed is continuing with Van Halen as an active rock band to play with his kid as much as anything else.

Wolf joined the band in 2006. Compare what has happened since then to what happened in the 7 years prior to 2006.

And I got no problem with that being a motivating factor for Ed. Fuck of a lot better than him stumbling around his home studio drunk, tossing off guitar wankery for a half-assed pron flick inbetween hits on his meth pipe.

If Wolf is the one suggesting the band essay deep cuts off of VH2 for their live audiences, the kid DOES indeed clearly get it.

[SunisinuS]

"ESQ: Look at all of those people that did try in the 80s. Where are they now?

EVH: I rest my case. My point being is that I'm not better than them, I am me. You know, Eric Clapton is Eric Clapton. Nobody does Clapton better than him. Nobody does Hendrix better than Hendrix. Music is an individual form of expression and if you start second guessing or trying to be something you're not, this gets back to why our pizza works. You know? Because it's — it's real. We're not trying to be anything other than who we are. You know a lot of people look at Dave, and they trip on him. And they go, "What's up with this guy?" You know? I mean back in '78, we went to Europe, and there were like a bunch of gangsters, and people looked at him like they didn't get it. You know? But eventually they did because he means it. It's not an act. What you see is real. It's not an act. That's who he is."

Man that just brought tears to my eyes.

[NIN1211]

[QUOTE=Terry;1642617]I get the feeling Ed is continuing with Van Halen as an active rock band to play with his kid as much as anything else.

Wolf joined the band in 2006. Compare what has happened since then to what happened in the 7 years prior to 2006.

And I got no problem with that being a motivating factor for Ed. Fuck of a lot better than him stumbling around his home studio drunk, tossing off guitar wankery for a half-assed pron flick inbetween hits on his meth pipe.


True. I think the biggest factor of this present incarnation of VH doing this is Dave telling ED that your son is the shit. Ed has always looked up to Dave as a leader and the fact that Dave believes that Wolf isn't just a name that he shares with the band, but a true talent, has to make ED feel both proud and relevant. At least one more tour and one more album. The Hagar "music" comment.......just a way to say he did some good stuff in the past and perhaps it will be reworked in the future with Wolf singing it on a theater tour while Dave is in the Amazon....Stay Frosty all.