Which musicians has Eddie Van Halen mocked over the years?

[ZahZoo]

Surprised no one has mentioned it here... I recall some story about Ed totally wasted and begging to do a guest appearance back stage with Nirvana. Cobain wouldn't have any of it... Then Ed proceeded to insulting bass player Krist Novoselic by calling him something to the effect of why having a Mexican who can't play in the band.

[VAiN]

Surprised no one has mentioned it here... I recall some story about Ed totally wasted and begging to do a guest appearance back stage with Nirvana. Cobain wouldn't have any of it... Then Ed proceeded to insulting bass player Krist Novoselic by calling him something to the effect of why having a Mexican who can't play in the band.

It wasn't the bass player, it was that loser pat smear. Ed wanted to use his guitar and said something like 'I'll use the Mexicans guitar'..

[envy_me]

Did he ever say anything bad about Mark Knopfler? That, I would frown upon.

[Jack68]

Back when I was picking beans in Guatemala, we used to make fresh coffee, right off the trees I mean. That was good. This is shit but, hey, I'm in a police station.


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[78/84 guy]

i saw jimmy page at newcastle city hall in 1988 .... there is pissed and there is jimmy page, the man had drank a shandy or two ..

I went to see him like a month after the Atlantic record reunion in 88. Me and a buddy watched it and went shit he was mostly terrible ! I almost didn't want to go. He had played great on the Firm tours after his issues the last few Zep tours. But he looked washed up. Not to mention the keyboards didn't get in the mix on t.v. But we went and he killed it. Jason was on drums. It was a great show. So were both the tours with Plant.

[78/84 guy]

Didn't Eddie and Angus young have a little back and forth?

I don't recall that one. To be honest one of the few nice things he every said about a band was AC/DC in a interview in the 90's. He said the were on tour with them in like 78 and he watched them from the side of the stage. I think he said they were a machine. Something close to that anyway. He went after Tom Scholz from Boston in the 70's after a show for playing a solo like him also.

[Yount]

He went after Tom Scholz from Boston in the 70's after a show for playing a solo like him also.

Every guitarist knew they were about to become huge! The instrument just exploded when Eddie showed up. Must have been a lot of bitching and backstabbing and stealing going on between all these guys cos the piece of the pie was so massive at the time. I don't even know what the moneygrabber is these days. Image more than an instrument.

[jhale667]

It's funny reading about or talking to known guitarists of the era, and how they talk about how you pretty much HAD to update your style somewhat in the wake of EVH (and Rhoads) or risk being perceived as a dinosaur playing rudimentary box pentatonic licks. Apparently it had varying degrees of success...lol For example, I was reading a piece on Thin Lizzy where the author said he pretty much hates Scott Gorham's style since he "modernized" his lead-style for lack of a better word in the 80s. Poor Gorham - great guitarist in his own right, but he went from trying to figure out what EVH was doing in '78-'79 to having to try to keep up with John Sykes (who prayed to the altar of Gary Moore) in '80-81...ow.

But yeah, doing Ed's licks note-for-note in your solo? Lame even when you're NOT on tour with them, not surprised he wanted to backhand some people!

[Diamondjimi]

Ed on Hendrix...

"I'm just saying I'm very different than Hendrix because I create stuff. He used so many effects and stuff that I was the complete opposite. I wanted the guitar to do things, but nobody built the guitar that I wanted. Hendrix didn't do things like that. He was an amazing player, but if you ever heard any live bootlegs of him, even some of the Woodstock stuff, it's hard for him to keep that thing even tuned."

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[vandeleur]

I went to see him like a month after the Atlantic record reunion in 88. Me and a buddy watched it and went shit he was mostly terrible ! I almost didn't want to go. He had played great on the Firm tours after his issues the last few Zep tours. But he looked washed up. Not to mention the keyboards didn't get in the mix on t.v. But we went and he killed it. Jason was on drums. It was a great show. So were both the tours with Plant.

Man am surprised , it's a while ago but I remember at the time I was being a guitar Tosser and was all serious and anal about guitar playing ( we all go through it lol ) but I thought he was shit .. He was just a pissed sweaty version of what I had hoped he would be .... I remember he put the final nail in the coffin for stairway he absolutely trashed the arse off it ...
If it helps when he saw me He thought I was shitty to .... I keed I keed

[chefcraig]

I went to see him like a month after the Atlantic record reunion in 88. Me and a buddy watched it and went shit he was mostly terrible ! I almost didn't want to go. He had played great on the Firm tours after his issues the last few Zep tours. But he looked washed up. Not to mention the keyboards didn't get in the mix on t.v. But we went and he killed it. Jason was on drums. It was a great show. So were both the tours with Plant.

To this day, I still hold strongly to the idea the Outrider tour was the best thing Page has done post-Zep. The song list hit on every facet of the guy's career, and the backing musicians were outstanding.

[vandeleur]

Maybe I just caught him on a bad day ... Well a pissed day.

[jpage78]

Jimmy Page had a drinking problem that rivaled Ed's for 20 years after he kicked the heroin/cocaine habit in the early 80's. There are some Page and Plant tours in 1998 where Page is piss drunk, there's actually a show that Page and Plant did in the mid 90's where Jimmy is so incoherently drunk it's laughable...I'll have to find it. I think it was the Denton show they did. Actually, he was perpetually drunk during the Black Crowes tour (allegedly) in 2000. He finally stopped drinking in the early 00's. His playing has actually improved since then.

Addiction transference can be a deadly thing. Page is prone to addiction (obviously) and his drinking only got worse once he finally stopped doing coke and heroin. Although, that reminds me of the story David Coverdale told about Ed barging in to the hotel Coverdale and Page were at in the early 90's in the morning and Ed going straight to the minibar.

Guitar International: Way back, there were rumors of you playing with Eddie Van Halen. Can you elaborate what happened and how they got out of hand?

David Coverdale: Someone on the inside told me and I'm not sure how true it is, that the VAN HALEN camp floated the idea on the Internet. I was so angry about that, as I was semi-retired at the time. I like being my own boss! I haven't spoken to Eddie since he came up to my room in London when I was working with Pagey [Jimmy Page]. He knocked at the hotel door and asked if Jimmy was here. [Laughing] He got on his knees in front of Jimmy Page, asking him how he played this thing and how he played that thing. It was very sweet. He also went straight to my fucking minibar at 10:00 a.m., too!

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=157665

[ashstralia]

yeah, i recall an interview where he said ac⚡dc were the direct frame of reference for 'panama'.

[Seshmeister]

Roth played an ACDC song against Panama on his radio show pointing out that was where it came from but I can't remember which ACDC song it was.